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It's especially frustrating for me because i remember all the times i crashed in a simulator due to stall until i understood what was happening. I don't even remember the name of the simulator, i'm not even an amateur-pilot - but that makes that report almost unbelievable, that something like this happened in a real flight to a real pilot.
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I know most things can be found on Google, but how far along can you guys get without it?

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To me, absolutely, but it depends on your interest area and expertise/writing level. I would say that this book would be more valuable to an entrepreneur who actively communicates with customers or investors, or performs marketing activities. It is less relevant to, say, someone who is interested in politics. It has plenty of examples of crafty word twisting from politicians, but it is not a book about politics, which I think disappointed some of those Amazon reviewers.

I am a fairly beginning app developer and wanted to learn more about copywriting and communication. After reading this book I looked over my past e-mails to customers and realized that my sentences were either outright confusing or communicated that my software is buggy.

One take on the message: you must understand your audience well enough to adjust your words to the most common denominator. Otherwise, people will misunderstand your message and it will confuse or backfire.
Make owning your own car a luxury and tax it to hell :)

I hope they do that AFTER the driverless cars gain traction (not before as here in Uruguay where the president thinks that choosing not to use the mediocre public transportation is a "luxury").
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Very similar experience here.

> Finishing the MVP is Priority #1. At all times. Anything else is a distraction: hackernews, twitter, food, sleep, gmail, friends. Saying no is hard (...)

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Can't up-vote you enough. If we quit doing anything, because it's been done already... I don't event want to start imagining where we'd be right now.
Maybe, but I suspect that the order of adoption might change that. I agree that there will probably always be a segment of personal cars, but that segment will be small and shrinking. Speaking from the other side of the fence: if I still lived in a zipcar city, I'd be rid of my car in a heartbeat. I always considered my lack of car ownership as a positive status symbol.

One sort of person who buys prestige cars* would be the same sort of person to be an early adopter of personally owned driverless cars, after all, being equipped with the latest magical technology is one of the things that confers prestige. Once that has happened, membership of an exclusive car-sharing club might become desirable, offering the opportunity to network and do business on the move. After all, people do buy first-class tickets on trains, despite the massive expense, regardless of the fact that it gets you there at the same time as standard class.

I could also envisage a future in which personal car ownership is often seen in the same light as the ownership of certain models of car (e.g. porsche boxster) are today - i.e. a gauche attempt at a status-symbol by a nouveau riche oik.

*(The other kind, who wouldn't go driverless, are the kind of petrolhead who relishes the man-machine hybrid that they become when they get behind the wheel, but they will eventually be restricted to racetracks)
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I think that's the whole point of these types of problems: the first step is always to parse the question, find out what's the actual problem and which data is relevant. You know, just like in real life. (Granted, those particular examples may be especially contrived, but that's a different problem...)
I agree it's difficult to understand. I think a combination of confusion, distrust in the instruments and and a belief that the airplane would not stall must have contributed.

The PNF acknowledges "alternate law", if he had only made the PF aware of the implications of that, maybe he would have "snapped out of it" and stopped pulling up.

At some point during your training or flying career you'll probably have situations where in hindsight you'll try to understand why you acted a certain way despite knowing better. I've certainly encountered situations like that.

I think most commercial pilots today in a way have to be enthusiasts, or at least start out as one. The job market is simply too uncertain and cost of education so high that you really have like flying to go through with it. But keeping the enthusiasm in a job with a busy schedule and demanding family life might not be so easy. That's one reason why I don't plan on flying for a living.
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Yes, we have done this.

Doesn't help that precisely 0% of people appreciate getting an automatic form letter over a personal reply.
Yes I think the biggest risk in that case is that the verification contains a bug, which the AI discovers while reasoning at a much higher level (which we cannot even conceive). How secure can we really make things?
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I'm not buying that last point... Having a maid or not is more to do with relative wealth.
Speaking from experience, this kind of thing might - just - also be a clerical error. Not so long ago, a place I used to work for got one of these notices because the Tax Department didn't agree with how we had calculated tax. Accounts did manage to sort it out, in the end.
First and foremost, congrats on shipping your mvp (even though it went a little late by your original timeline), I hope it sustains well. Like others have said, the video is great and design is consistent and appealing - great work and thanks for sharing your story.

A few thoughts I had while perusing eval.me:

1. There doesn't seem to be information about what charities you partnered with on the anonymous site pages. I suppose this could be contractual, but it was one of the first questions I had.

2. I was confused by the use of "Sign Up" and "Sign In" together; at first glance I thought there was an issue with your site and there were two Sign Up buttons. Maybe "Sign Up" and "Login" or "Register" and "Sign In"?

3. I haven't investigated thoroughly, but wouldn't a charitable incentive inherently skew your survey pool? Although upon consideration, a product-based incentive may do the same thing - just in a different direction.
I have had options in three startups and have never seen a penny. I am now convinced that options are a con trick.

Founders would make far better hiring choices if they had to give real stock. Employees, too, would make far better hiring choices if each new employee diluted their stock (especially if all employee stock came from one significant pool,say, 25%): do you dilute to complete or work even harder to keep your share?

This question would motivate staff as much as it would motivate founders not only to create a successful company but to hire the kind of people who would see it through. It would also show a level of trust that, generally, would be repaid.

If people did leave, keeping the stock, you may have made a hiring mistake (or some bad luck) but you will still have a champion who will help bring goodwill, customers and new staff.
He talks about that too around the 20 minute mark here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgaw9qe7DEE
The ability to plug in an Android device into any computer with an USB port and be able to access all data and put new things on it instantly without any sync software overhead is a killer feature for me. There are others, like better hardware, better displays especially (Samsung S II here).
I looked over one of the example tests, and spent about 10 minutes going over 6 of the questions. I missed one because I had flipped the fraction on a question regarding the slope of a line - not having had to worry about slopes for a good 10 years or more, I'm not too upset about having missed that one. Similarly, I saw a simple geometry questions that I probably would have had to make an educated guess at because it's been even longer since I've worried about the definition of a rhombus.

So I think it's ok to expect that you may not be able to answer all of the questions that a high school student should be able to answer, but for an "educated" person to claim that he was only able to answer 10 of 60 questions, and those 10 were answered by guessing is stupid. There's no excuse for not being able to answer the basic algebra questions or the questions regarding finding areas of shapes when the equations for finding areas are given to you.
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As someone who lived in Malaysia, you have to understand the political climate there.

University places are allocated based on racial quotas. Therefore, the people who are most concerned by this legislation are ethnic Chinese, who are more likely find themselves disqualified from doing certain work due to their inability to access higher education places.

Alternatively, businesses may be forced to hire degree'd people to sign off work as theirs even if these people didn't do any of the programming.
In one of Malcolm Gladwell's books he talks about air crash scenarios, citing several cases where copilots were 'scared' of pointing out errors that they thought were being made by their captains. I think it was Korean airlines that lost a few planes this way, essentially through a lack of communication.

They brought in some guy to retrain the pilots and they never had the problem again.
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Why do you believe that there will be a single certification?
I wonder if GPS could be used to estimate the air speed by means of a permanently refining mathematical model? E.g. If I know I have heading X, ground speed Y, weight Z, thrust A, you should be able to work out your predicted ground speed. Any variation in real ground speed and estimated ground speed is got to me made up of wind direction and velocity right??? Just a thought.

(Disclaimer: I know nothing about aerodynamics so this may be nonsense)
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On the other hand, if it has only one very narrow communication channel with the world, how would it even go about replicating me and all my experiences ? I would probably regard it as a hollow treat in that case. If it had access to many measurements about me (or brain scans) it'd be different.
Driverless cars would be awesome simply for the increase in drunk driving. This is a really good point actually, you could go out for the night and still drive home.

Drink driving laws have had a huge negative impact on country living in rural Ireland, where the main social outlet is the local pub, and there isn't a taxi in the village.
Sorry. I was literally sitting in the BoF typing while Kev was talking. I've updated the article with the link to the proposal. Thanks!
Regulation isn't always good. I'd say it's mostly bad. For example - in my country for more important contracts (like selling house, etc) there is a requirement, that apart from both sides signs, that "notariusz" (dictionary says it's notary public) will sign this contract.

"Notariusz" is regulated job, there is constant amount of them (you have to pass very hard exam to become one, and mostly being a notariusz goes from father to son ,because others won't pass exams somehow). People are required to hire a notariusz to check important contracts, and notariusz gets percentage of contract worth for a work, that any intelligent people will do anyway (like checking ground register before buying a house, etc).

I do think they are sometimes usefull, but why regulate them? Why are they mandatory? People that want to risk should be able to risk, people that want to be safe can pay more to be safe. In IT various schools and certificates exists, so people can prove, that they are good enough to do some job. There are bad schools and better schools and certificates, why do you think state will be better at assesing people qualifications than private company (which sole buisness model will depend on being good at that). Why is state always trying to do others work?

I'd much prefer free market in such matters. The same goes for engineers, architects, etc. Just make sure people are responsible for their errors, and there would be cheap but risky architects, and expansive but safe ones. And insurance companies would require you to hire these with respectable certificates.

No need for state to mess with this.
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I used such "tactic" for those subjects where I didn't know the answer.

Like what color is allowed for such case? White, Very-light-red, Light-red. Because it is not very easy to distinguish red colors, obviously both red are incorrect.

On the other side, fuzzy calculation (and extra data) are very important:

"Black box with core i7, 256GB ram and intel SSD falls down from a roof of a concrete building, built 300 years ago when slavery was still popular. The building height is 100m, length is 200m and area is 4000 square meters. What is the speed of a black box just in a moment it hits the ground?"

Than just provide 10 answers with all this numbers used there and see the result. In a real life sometimes you have (with a google assistance) a lot of data, but knowing how to use them is a key ability.
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Yes, I understand what you mean and when I wrote this I knew that someone would comment on it :)

This is how I see it:

Pure JavaScript + JQuery = Very easy to get started but very hard to maintain when the code base grows if you don't know JavaScript very well.

CoffeeScript + JQuery + Backbone.js = Harder to get started but the code becomes easier to maintain when the codebase is big.

I know that JQuery is not about organizing code.
I'm Malaysian. I was going to setup a development team in Malaysia.

Now, I'm thinking twice.

After reading the draft Act, the people responsible for this are still leaps and bounds behind the curve, by the sheer fact that something like this can even reach a "draft" stage.
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Yes, but when groundspeed with a slight lag is all that's available is it really that much worse than nothing, which seems to be the failure mode at present?

I stress I'm not a pilot and I'm sure you'd want to have a Big Flashing Warning Light telling you that ground speed <> air speed, but there'd seem to be some benefit over nothing at all.
Not quite PyMOTW, but still interesting.
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You could just use adsweep, which loads them, but then hides them.
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Yes, because the Android emulator is actually an emulator. The iOS "emulator" is a simulator. It doesn't emulate the ARM instructions or run an actual OS instance. The Android emulator does.

Of course, the best option is to connect your Android device and test/debug on the device itself.
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Indeed - I don't think this happens very often. I was a small beneficiary of this kind of deal, and even at the time it struck me as an excellent deal. Mind you, I attributed it to working with really good VCs and founders.
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I didn't find the scaffolding that difficult to understand, because I've used CakePHP before, but what gets me in Rails is the magic helper keywords. For instance: ActiveRecord.find_by_columnname(value), {controller}_path, {controller}_url.

I'm fairly certain that's not all of them, but I don't even know what those things are called to look for them. Those 3 are covered in a lot of tutorials without really explaining the full list of stuff Rails does for you automatically.
>A comment below tickled my interest and I did some quick googling.

You should be downvoted to hell for this stupid comment. You did "some quick googling" and now feel qualified to talk over people who were actually there? This kind of behavior is the plague of the internet. Someone who was actually present takes a back seat to a nerd reading the internet about it.
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Ok, i apologize if i have misjudged your intentions, that you weren't trying to insult me. I went a little overboard there, i'm sure your friends and you are competent people deserving of your statuses.

Yes, you are correct, I have come to a viewpoint that all problems can be solved by throwing enough computers and data at it. This was informed by arguments in ai. See for example, jurgen schmidhuber's website, or genetic programming at john koza's website.

I agree, many problems are in a sense "easy", and human's can solve them. However, my belief is that those are the problems that have already been solved. The difficult problems, the ones that have not yet been solved, might well be too difficult for humans to comprehend. Computation is cheap enough now that it should be the default first step to try to brute force a solution. Even in high school, teach students how to describe problems as an optimization. Don't bother teaching them equation solving. Analytical solutions are sometimes needed, let that be a specialization for advanced undergraduates or even graduate school.

This is kind of like the reductionism vs non-reductionism argument. In physics simple laws were discovered, however, in biology this will not be possible.
That's the difference between TDD and BDD, if you're practicing BDD then your tests will be documenting how to use your code, not how it's implementation works.
You wallet is linked up to your iPhone which auto-tweets once the wallet is emptied.

Jokes aside, if you have daily contact with someone and they don't answer your calls / don't show up, you know where to look.
I'm an Indian, and a smart 8th grade kid could probably get a perfect score on this test. How on earth did Mr. Roach pass out of high school, let alone earn two degrees?
It's not that long ago that people were wondering how to "define 'qualified' when it comes to medicine", and even less when it comes to architecture.

Just because something is difficult does not in and of itself make that thing not worth doing.
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This is great feedback. Thank you.

1. Somebody else had mentioned this and I am working on it. Currently, the list of charities will show up when you create the survey and you have to select 5 of 20 charities.

2. This is a great suggestion. I wil A/B test whether Register or Sign Up gets more sign ups to be able to decide which is better.

3. Product based incentives are a great idea. I am not entirely sure how I would implement that though.

As for skewing the survey pool, I would argue the pool is already skewed towards people who either love or hate your product.

I think the charity component skews it less because the act of giving your time and opinion is very similar to the act of giving to charity. Hence, more of your customers can connect with that charitable act than say, entering a drawing for a prize.
Hey, Julian. #1 with a bullet. Cool.

Thanks for the correction.
I've been using git & git-svn for all my c# projects and for committing to Lucene.Net. The msys version of git has come a long ways. I also prefer using github when possible. Some of us do branch out and embrace outside Microsoft technologies.

Its possible to sway the windows developer community to branch out and hopefully more people in the community will take initiative to sway others to do so.
It occurred to me while interviewing the other day--web development is not really for beginners anymore. To do web development without endangering customer passwords, data security and credit card numbers now takes very substantial knowledge, and it is knowledge that some beginners won't realize they need.

If you don't understand how to prevent sql injection attacks, cross site scripting, why SSL by default for web apps is needed, and whole host of things, you should probably stay away from anything more serious than flat html.
The description says 'launch sale: 40% off', so the normal price would be what? $0.17?
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