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I found a better source arguing that iOS is ahead (at least in February of 2011):

http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2011/4/A...

This is now 3 sources claiming iOS has greater share than Android, and even if they are a bit outdated, it's proof that the 60% share vs 15% share cited in many articles refers only to the phone wars (most articles I've seen eventually mentions the words "smartphone").
The author is proposing semantics for instruction sets and languages that don't exist.

He could have said "`!(x is iNaN)`", or "`!isINAN(x)`" instead of "`x != iNaN`", but he didn't. Maybe he should have, I'm sure he didn't give it much thought.

Nowhere does he say that the semantics of his `iNaN` are exactly analogous to the those of existing floating-point NaNs, though. Implying that he did so that you have one more nit to pick damages the tone of conversation.
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"It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to be sexists." -- Neil Stephenson, Snow Crash
Hah. Don't like that, huh?

The question was, "How often do we have vehicle bombs in the US?"

What do backscatter vans have to do with this? Want to know my position? Fine: I'm against the arbitrary deployment of rolling scanners.

Don't put words in my mouth. If you want to be snarky, you had better be willing to get it back.
1) regehr isn't saying that he doesn't like two's complement, he's saying that he doesn't like two's complement wraparound. He's saying that it would probably make sense for integers to operate linearly or fail if they get to a point where they will become non-linear.

2) Arguing to keep a local optimum seems silly to me. Why not reach for the global optimum?

3) He's not arguing for a change in the order of evaluation, he's identifying a situation that would work with integers that operate linearly and showing that it doesn't work when integers behave non-linearly (ie: around INT_MAX and INT_MIN).
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What's wrong with self promotion? Who else is going to promote you for free?
Buying a domain and slapping together a one-page website hardly qualifies as working your ass off. This whole thing is childish on both ends and a crappy website just illustrates this overall immaturity.
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It is generally considered a bad thing to buy things that you don't intend to use, add no value, and sell them at a markup merely due to the fact that they are scarce (artificially, because you bought so many and are controlling the market).

It is considered to be good to buy things that you don't intend to use to resell them if you are adding some kind of value in the reselling; for instance, people who have a local retail store, who are adding the value of being close and convenient, rather than having to go all the way to the producer.

Domain squatters are adding no value. If you just buy a whole ton of domains speculatively, and then sell them off at high markup because so many domains are gone that it's impossible to find good ones, you are adding no value, you are only taking advantage of an artificial scarcity for your own profit.

We have plenty of other negative words for this kind of behavior in other domains. Ever heard of a scalper? There is really no significant difference between a domain squatter and a scalper; they are just people who induce artificial scarcity and use that to run a profit without actually adding any real value.
I'm not sure if you'd find this interesting or not, but your server performance can actually depend on your memory configuration.

For example, you should definitely populate the dual channel, tri channel, or quad channel recommended. However, if you populate the second set of DIMMs on an Intel platform you'll get slower memory performance. So your 1333 MHz memory will end up being 1066, or your 1066 will be 800. You'll notice this resultant speed of course, but you won't realize it's bad until you have a second server with a slightly different memory configuration.

Additionally, there are situations where a hex core will have reduced throughput over a similarly clocked quad core, particularly if it's IO constrained for either memory (see #1) or disk.

If your check this on your servers and swap out the memory, and application speeds up because of this tidbit, please let me know :) I think this qualifies as non-intuitive because unless you're a sysadmin you wouldn't think to optimize this part of your hardware in your stack.
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> It's pretty clear, given that, that your picks for "scary label" are nonsense and evidence failed comprehension, or refused comprehension. Witches are not on the upside of a power gap, seeking to continue their witchy abuses while avoiding the label "witch". Sexists are.

"My witch-hunt is just, because in my case, the witches actually exist and really do secretly control society."

The real problem is that complicated issues like this turn into exercises of identity. It happens on both sides; your side is filled with self-identified feminists immediately siding with anyone who makes an accusation of sexism. Straightforward statements pointing out that no sexism has actually been demonstrated or that it's rhetorically unfair to shield oneself from criticism for being emotional are themselves taken as expressions of sexism, in much the same way that anyone calling for moderation or pacifism was, in the Cold War, accused of being in cahoots with the communists.

The result of this is that you alienate thoughtful people. On several occasions I've spoken out on HN against genuine sexism and in favor of genuine feminist interests. But I'm not interested in getting caught up in a tribalist ideological groupthink, and I have thoughtful criticism for dishonest rhetoric, and so you read me as "sexist", in the classic "you're either with us or against us" mindset (rephrased by contemporary leftists as "you're either part of the solution or part of the problem").
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Have you considered that God doesn't fall into the same category as an invisible unicorn?

The IPU is a poor analogy for disproving the existence of God because it gives up too much ground.

God is in the same category as a square circle. Something that is self-contradictory and therefore cannot exist.
It seems that, neither then nor now, would I have been accepted to Harvard.
First you must stop making offensive blanket generalizations about techies. Even if you're a techie yourself, that doesn't give you license.

But honestly, to me it doesn't sound like you're a techie. Or maybe you're just not very self-aware? Because you're exhibiting a very familiar thought pattern: "bluuuuh, those guys over there think they're so smart, let's whoop them". Every nerd who's ever been bullied for being a nerd can recognize this sort of person from a mile away. One of the dreams of the original nerd community was to get away from people like you, yet here you are, fresh as ever.
Why single out India? Sure, it's become a bit of a byword for "outsource" but I think you'd find the same were you to outsource to any country - even within your own country.

The problems pointed out largely surrounding happen due to the difficulty of communicating with a remote team. Having the product owner and the development team geographically distant make everything ten times harder; doesn't matter if they're in India or on the other side of the same country.
Very tough for Kodak to recover. What's amazing is how ahead of the game they were. Digital cameras in 1975. Fischer was also ahead of the game, and they scaled back because their short term earnings suffered. In a way they remind me of another aging Rochester company - Xerox.

Regarding other comments about the town... If you're a specialist in a small or medium sized city, and not willing to move, you are at risk. This is true if you are branding specialist in Cincinnati, a Russian literature specialist in Albuquerque, an also if you're an imaging specialist in Rochester. The idea that a company can protect you because it is large is obsolete. By encouraging that thinking, they are making their demise all the more likely.
If you have a look at, e.g., Plan 9 and Inferno, I think you might be surprised at how expressive a file-based API can be.

For a trivial example, webfs supports REST quite handily without a loss of expressive power (and REST itself is a simple but powerful abstraction), and because things need not be piped through curl, you can, for example, point your image editor at what it believes to just be another file on the filesystem, rather than requiring the image editor to support HTTP.

The other half of this is that abstractions can and are built atop this. The Limbo programming language, for example, provides typed channels (which, as I understand it, also made it into Go) and its standard library provides functions for treating arbitrary files as typed channels. So, the OS need only concern itself with "files" (really, in Plan 9 and Inferno, these are less like files and more like names in the processes' respective namespaces), and whatever complex objects the language concerns itself with are easy to ship around between a process and the outside world without hacks (unless marshalling objects is considered a hack).
And at which date did the major powers stop engaging in mercantilism?
The great majority of Christians that I have met would not be particularly focused on or attached to the idea of the devil taking on a physical incarnation (i.e., becoming physically 'real' like people in Germany and Poland). But if you brought it up, they might agree with the idea that the acts of the Nazis were influenced/encouraged/sponsored by evil spiritual forces to cause mass suffering of humanity.
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"That said, you come off as a needy manipulative little shithead."

He was supposed to be 14 at the time, no? It could be an honest appraisal of amateur Macchiaveli-ism, no?
Yeah but others would. And I really doubt anyone is trying to convince people to use IE besides the makers of that piece of crapware.
Well, I'm curious enough to want to see them give it a shot.
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I kid, I kid...
Not seasoned, but, any time I ask someone for money, I try to...

1) Put myself in their shoes, and talk in their terms.

2) Understand their niche. (Seed? Early Stage? Late stage? Software? Hardware? Energy?)

3) Be authentic. The money comes with strings based on what you promise. If you lie about your project, product or person, you will have to keep it up indefinitely, and that's a recipe for failure.

4) Respect their time. Be assertive without being aggressive.

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I'm guessing that India was singled out because the Author had 3 previous experiences dealing with companies from that country.

I agree with you that the problems he has faced would probably be similar when outsourcing to most companies no matter where they are.
Automatic, cooperative routing also has great benefits over greedy time-minimising routing. In addition to the micro-level benefits (no stopping at traffic lights, fewer traffic waves) there are network-level benefits because the Nash equilibrium of user-optimal routing can be really crappy.

I highly recommend reading about Braess' Network Paradox for a great illustration of this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox
AC systems are an example of a dumb, expensive device that do come with an API... in the form of the built-in wiring for a thermostat. The thesis is that all your dumb, expensive devices should have something similar (preferably wireless rather than wired). Today you just connect it to a thermostat; in 10 years you might still have the same AC/heater and connect it to something smarter.
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Android is too chaotic for my tastes. The conservative simplicity of iOS just works better for me. I would be more inclined to give WP7 a chance than another Android device at this point.
Good lord, just making bicycling safe for everyone and there's your magic bullet.
? The link above goes right to the google plus post also. (Did it originally not?)
Interesting article, but I'm no closer after reading it to understanding what a lens is or why I should care. The linked Stanford notes do a much better job of that.
Tech talent in other countries isn't the issue.

Demonizing / downplaying foreigners to feel better about ourselves doesn't really solve it either.

Take a look at who decides to send work overseas to increase their profitability. Business owners and management.

Threatened people are usually those who aren't moving. I'm not saying you're not moving. If you're ahead... stay ahead. :)

If we don't feel threatened today and sit cozy, if developers elsewhere (even in North America) keep improving, they will eventually catchup and get ahead.
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This looks way harder than the SATs, or rather any standardized test for college admissions that's in use today.
But if Science tells me to stop eating eggs, its ok, even if 10 years later it will tell me to start eating eggs again...
What is the difference?
With all due respect, there is no reason that folks in India will not learn the same stuff the author learnt. They would (and probably are) on hacker news - learning the same subset of things.

And, they live in a country where $2 still buys you a decent meal. I don't see why they wont be able to do a good job, for less.
You make good points. But...

You mention, "Nobody wants to believe there's sexism in
their industry." If true, we're irrational men whose
emotional wants strongly determine our beliefs.

That's probably true to an extent. Most people are irrational at least in some areast. In this case, I don't think they're letting their desires determine their beliefs, just demanding better evidence in this case before they allow themselves to believe the unpleasant thought, in particular, before they accept the author's claim of being wronged. Perhaps I, too, am being too generous.
The someone with 73 followers made a racist comment. Calling a competitor "indian cowbows" does reflect poorly on the intellectual ability of the person making the judgment.

Don't throw all the blame on the Freshdesk people. Everyone is responsible for what they say - and it appears to me that you're eager to let the 'someone with 73 followers' off the hook.
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That wasn't a quote from the article; it was a quote from the wikipedia page.
The Latin and Greek parts aside, even the Geography portion is quite difficult, and I have a degree in Geography.
There's insufficient evidence both ways. Lack of evidence plus emotional topic equals lots of vehement criticism. I'm not saying it's right, just that you shouldn't be so shocked.
I am Greek and had to do six years of Ancient Greek. I don't understand how you got to that conclusion. The test is asking questions on ancient Greek grammar and only. It has nothing to do with religion or what so ever, New Testament Greek is very close but also very different from Ancient Greek -it has some idiosyncrasies of it's own.

I really want to know how you concluded that this has something to do with religion...
Hours of outsourcing companies are largely about milking the most overall money possible. Sadly North American companies have taken this hook, line and sinker and they over pay for too many hours. First they fell for the empire builders in their own offices, and now they fall for it with strangers.

I outsource and I don't tolerate a 20-30% overage in time at any rate. Surprisingly 100 hour quotes can come down to 30-40 because there was a "mis-understanding in scope".

Another thing I've found is a "Senior" person overseas has 3-5 years, which is maybe $20-25/hour in North America.

Paying $14-17/hour overseas is hilarious for the disconnect in time, assuming you know how to write clear enough specs that it works how clearly communicated and understood.
Amazing how curriculum focus has changed--in no small part due to the invention of the computer. These topics have almost nothing to do with what most Harvard students study today. There's been so much new knowledge generated since then...
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Based on previous experience working with an outsourcing firm in India, and on what I know/hear from friends back home, here's what I've observed:

- Although the raw number of 'programmers' in India is large, the percentage of good programmers is smaller than that in the US (anecdotal, as observed by me over ~10 years). So essentially, you get what you pay for because the good programmers can command (and deserve) salaries close to what their American/international counterparts make. Many of these better programmers are snagged by the Amazon/Microsoft/Google of world who have development centers in India.

- A lot (most?) of firms in India that employ programmers do not invest in educating/developing their employees' skills. This is partly the result of employees jumping ship very often (hence making the investment in their development not worth it), and partly the result of the business (they do one-time contracts and paid by the hour, so delivery == success. Quality/sustainability isn't as much of a concern).

- For a large percentage of programmers, career development is defined by a larger paycheck, not necessarily stronger experiences/skills. Therefore, their motivation is to switch jobs very often and do the same caliber/quality work, and yet make more money with each switch. So they too aren't motivated to excel.
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I fixed the title for you. Next time try and avoid generalizing entire countries.
In fact there are people, who are trying to implement similar system:
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It is not MagLev, but the basic idea is same.
The 'occupywallst' project's description reads: 'Stomping out capitalism, one line of code at a time'. Is that truly the goal; to eradicate capitalism?
It's weird that most of the article consisted of "android doesn't suck as much as it used to"
Five Stars (YC W11) has really challenging technology problems.
We're a 10-month old Y-Combinator funded startup. Here's a list of some challenging problems we've solved in the last 3 months:

1. Cross-platform Python software and GUI that works in Windows 95/98/2000+, Linux, OS X

2. Auto-updating our software remotely, across previously mentioned platforms, and in Python

3. Hooking and interfacing into a USB hardware plugin across multiple platforms

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* Who we need *

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+ Generalists

+ Individuals who are incredibly driven and are self motivated enough to operate very independently

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+ Slight perfectionist (and maybe even a tad OCD)

+ Want to build something millions of people want and use

+ The thought of working in a cubicle kills you

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+ Python, Python, Python

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Where is the modern history? Where are the questions on governments?

Worse, this test doesn't call for much analysis; it's mainly regurgitation of memorized trivia and the most mechanical arithmetical techniques.
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Since you're meeting VCs, I will assume you're raising money.

1.) Properly communicate how much money you are raising and why. Understand how much money they normally invest in a startup (don't ask for $5k from someone that normally invests $100k). Figure out how much money you need to operate for 12-18 months or more. This should be primarily based on expected team size & team growth. $10k per head per month is a good estimate (on the low end). A team of six needs approximately $750k for a year.

2.) Focus on the team if you're seed stage

3.) Have a prototype of what you're building

4.) Understand your market well
Decent Indian Outsourcing Companies charge 50$/hrs. Authors friend was willing to pay 12$/hr and he got what he payed for.

Outsourcing or not, if you want cheap, you will get cheap.
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> i'm sorry, i don't understand who is competing or how
> this hurts Path.
>
> all i've seen are people being inspired by Path, saying
> as much, then cleverly recreating the effect for
> themselves. these same people turn around and share
> their own code with the rest of the world via blog post
> or GitHub.

Looking at this from the perspective of Path, who have probably spent a fair amount of time thinking and conceiving the menu widget. Not just in how to implement it, but actually coming up with the idea, creating mock ups / wire frames, iterating on those mock ups, designing the icons, the animations, etc. All this for the sole purpose to give the user experience something new, and also to add a bit of delight to an app which could have easily become "yet another social networking app".

Then someone comes along and copied all their hard work (without figuring out the concept, the design, the animation, etc) and (as if to rub salt into the wounds) released it for free for everyone to use.

Honestly, if I were Path I'd be rather frustrated that this has happened though as a developer I love the fact that someone has done this and shared their work :)
Only because it demands regurgitation of specific facts you don't happen to have memorized.
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