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"git blame" helps too - yes, you know it was you, but that tells you what commit added that line. Now do "git log -p 31dc4a" (or whatever) to see the commit's comments.
Not to mention that the JQ people apparently decided to leave plugin comments as absolutely undifferentiated blocks of text concatenated without the benefit of CSS. In fact, just this one fact has led me to a belief that JQ people are not actually interested in usability. A lot of people talkin', but nobody knows what's going on.
This is very hard for non-nerds. Imagine simply not knowing what Github is, or why you would look there, or having no concept that "Java EE backed by Oracle" is a different beast than "Ruby/Rails in front of PostGres". Imagine if one of your golf buddies knows a guy who knows a guy who is really "good at computers" -- whatever that means -- after all, that guy completely turned around their dot-net application and the seven VB developers in his department.

You've heard of Oracle, right? Microsoft? They're big. You own their stock. You know Linux is hot! Should you take the chance? Ask your nerd friends, like that guy you know who is an MCSE at a "Certified Solutions Provider." He'll know.

Simply knowing who to ask is a matter of chance, I think.
Elefant CMS/web framework hits 1.0, so here's my project rationale
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I wasn't arguing the technical, I was pointing out to the person making the comment about being a little happy about this that doing it out of revenge is not a good thing. Doing it for purely technical reasons is a good reason. Doing it because Linux "won" isn't since it hasn't.
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Also a direct link to the project website:

http://www.elefantcms.com/
That's fine any dandy, but I believe Apple is claiming a design patent specifically on the iPad. If we take the iPod touch as prior art, it still invalidates the iPad patent.
Procrastination shouldn't just suck, it should be unacceptable. Don't tolerate it. No excuses. Not even if it's "just today".

Close everything! Ask yourself why you're not enjoying your work today. If you're not enjoying what you're doing, do something about it. Either finish it, so you can move on to something you enjoy. If that's not the case, talk to someone about how boring your stuff is and fix this problem.

DON'T ACCEPT PROCRASTINATION!
It bears mentioning that this "smart nerds are extremely scarce" perspective doesn't apply nearly as much outside of the SF/NYC/Boston areas.

Here in Orange County, for example, the job market for developers is fairly balanced.
HTC in particular seems to be casting about for a way to stand out in a sea of Android handsets. I wonder if they'll be tempted? But getting webOS up to the level of ICS or iOS 5.0 is going to be a ton of work.
I did twice already. Both times because competitors beat me due to my chronic procrastination.
The Hemingway Trick: Stop in the middle. Never stop working at the natural barriers. They next time you start working, the barrier will be the first thing you encounter, and you won't have the momentum to overcome it. Try to stop writing mid-chapter, or mid-sentence (or mid function). Know how to finish, but stop working. The next time you start, you know exactly what needs to be done. There will even be the urge to start working to finish the unfinished.

Nearing the end of a unproductive day, accept that the day was not productive, start on what you will work on tomorrow, do a little, and stop in the middle.
Try Project Euler (projecteuler.net). It is a site of increasingly difficult math puzzle challenges, most of which require some programming to solve.

I have learned a lot of really great math by solving some of these problems (I haven't solved more than the beginner level so far).

I also had to do quite a bit of outside reading to solve some of them, while others can be solved in a just a few minutes.
Doesn´t work for me. After I get my mind off the issue at hand and do an errand, when I come back I´m at the same position I was before. Sometimes even worse, because of the context switching.
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How charming! Slides for adults! That could never happen in the USA because of fear of litigation.
>After edit: the second reply here asked how a diet higher rather than lower in fruits and vegetables can protect from cancers other than colon cancer. According to what I've read about the research, it's thought that some tendencies of healthy body cells to go into uncontrolled growth (cancer) are made worse by lack of micronutrients, which may be lacking in the diets of people who don't eat varied diets. It's also thought that the evolutionary arms race between plants

antioxidant is keyword here:

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/prevention/anti...
Eh. Yes and no.

You also need the functions of sales, marketing, HR, legal, customer
service, etc. Possibly more, depending on your field. Just having a
product simply will not cut it.

If you are looking to hire a software writer, you need to be prepared
to back up the non-software side significantly. We can all flap good
ideas around like hankies, that's not a problem. Being able to execute
the Human side as opposed to the Tech side, that's what needs to be in
the picture.
I'm not Canadian so I have no idea. I just know some cool things about Canada.
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Thanks, I know what a design patent is. (Not sure why you think patent discussion about icon design is relevant to thinness, though.) Thinness is not still not patentable. That's an integral element. Saying that "thin" is patentable is like saying "has a screen" is patentable. Apple's case hinges on the idea that they can own the very idea of a tablet that doesn't suck.

And seriously, this doesn't look like the iPad, at least to the same extent that the Galaxy Tab does? Come on.

https://img.skitch.com/20111209-miewsiy6mswhbbnid2ddfmmqbd.j...
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Most "agile" consultants you know start coding from day one? If so, I now understand much better why you dump so much on agile.

I had myself a nice little nerd slap fight on twitter earlier today about this post. "Agile" without up front planning and research is just dangerous.
On both of those, the screen is physically depressed from the bezel like an etch-a-sketch, not flush like an iPad. They also have other extraneous design elements.
I know I'm going to get downvoted for this, but +1
I made the site non-functional. It was getting bombarded with spam.
True enough, but I think it applies to a lot more cities than people might think.

Many of the developers I talk to in Ann Arbor, for example, are working on 2-3 projects in their spare time, and are constantly being asked to work on more. Ann Arbor isn't exactly one of the big 3 web dev cities, but it still is extremely competitive.
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I've found the OSX alternates between being overly childish (the shiny dock) and hiding functionality behind overly complex "shortcuts". You want to copy a section of the screen to the clipboard? Why, that's ⌘^⇧4! Never mind that my keyboard lacks symbols on the keys, so I'm left guessing what rubbish like ⌥ means.
Hopefully BeOS will come along with it.
Less poverty and diseases beats a better version of Microsoft <Product> any day.
> JS/HTML5 on top of QNX would capitalize on their strengths (more responsiveness over Android) and patch over their weaknesses.

We're talking about RIM here, how would web technologies (a game they are still late at) "capitalize on their streights"? Let alone "patch over their weaknesses"?
Exciting. In some ways webOS seems more modern and advanced than iOS and Android because it's using web / cloud paradigms at it's absolute core.

Even though I run iOS, the fact that you can build entire apps in Javascript is cool. Hopefully I can get my hands on a touchpad to try it out
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The point is to not become as good as a smart nerd, because you'll be playing catch up your whole life. The point is that you need to show that you know enough about your idea on the technical side that you can communicate effectively with your partner. Knowing some basic principles of coding goes a long way in that regard, and it also shows that you are willing to become interested in things outside your level of expertise -- even if you aren't willing to become a master at them.

I've sat down with many people who needed a technical person to implement their idea. But as they were talking it should have became immediately clear to anyone with technical knowledge why their idea was flawed in fundamental ways. But these people never delved into that side, so they figured programmers could somehow perform miracles and make it work, and had unrealistic ideas of deadlines, money that would be needed, etc. As a programmer, you don't want to have to deal with correcting many false assumptions someone is making and any others they will make as you build the product, when there are plenty of "technical enough" entrepreneurs who know whats possible and whats not.
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If your headline ends with a question mark you are failing at your job as a journalist.
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Apple has been producing retina displays for their phones for almost 2 years now. And they are able to produce them in large quantities.

Meanwhile, if we consider SUB-pixel density and not just pixel density (because creating that many elements and maintaining quality is going to be hard) then it is not clear that anyone else has the ability to even manufacture a similar screen at any sort of commercial level.
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>From what I understand, she was not in a risk group and didn't yet require periodic exams

Everyone is supposed to do self-exams. There is no consensus on preventative mammograms, some doctors still say to get them, but at different ages. Others say not to do it at all as the risks outweigh the benefits, and mammograms are most useful to diagnose lumps found through normal exams.
I love how each coder has a giant clock right in front of their face.
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Covering millions of acres of land with windmills isn't green to me. At worst windfarms kill wildlife, destroy property values, create noise pollution, create shadow flicker. At best they turn a natural landscape into an industrial zone for the sake of unreliable power that has no immediate future chance of being practical. Ditto for solar. The future is not centralized power generation that eats up vast amounts of land, and then transmitting the power thousands of miles on wires where the majority of it is lost.

Nuclear isn't getting attention because of irrational fear that liberals and the government promote. Gates would have a tough job, but he's someone with the resources to lobby govt, and get trusted and respected people to start taking nuclear seriously.

Perhaps after Gates starts building these reactors in other countries, the green zealots will finally get discredited. Seriously, why is someone with billions of dollars, huge influence and power, and a strong advocate of reducing carbon emissions, why is he NOT building a solar and wind power company? And why is it that the people who are making money off solar and wind seem to get all their profits through government subsidies?

http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/Bill-Ga...
Switching Windows 7 to the classic theme is not fleeing condescension, it’s nostalgia and has little to do with the topic at hand.
Exactly.

I am a developer and I have lots of friends that are also developers that have trouble executing ideas.

I think many developers focus too much on the beauty of the code (and perfection) rather than the functionality of the app.
I've been through 3 start ups from fruition to close, with the highs and lows in-between playing merry hell with my blood pressure.

At this point in my life I'd kill for a smart business man. Nerds, I do not need. I'm a nerd, I know plenty of other nerds, and if I needed to I know where to go to hire nerds and how to evaluate their performance.

What I need is a good business man. I need someone who is an absolute genius at PR, brilliant at direct selling, and knows how to wheedle her way into the appointment book of a Big-Co CEO when we need to make a product deal.

Where can I find that?
"disease or germ..." Yes. I thought of mold growing on a lump of yogurt. Yogurt cultures.
3. Infiltrate regulatory agency.

It's sad, but members of an industry are usually the most qualified people to be in a regulatory agency for that industry. Their expertise makes them good for the job, but the conflict of interest is easy to see. The solution is not.
> So the question might be how confident are Motorola that they might want to line them up for damages equating to iPhone / iPad Christmas sales?

And, if anything, i'd expect Apple Germany's Christmas sales to go up. Better get your iDevice now before they're forced to withdraw it from market!

(Or, erm, just buy it from a legit source in a neighbouring country.)
...and could be today except CBS pulled the tricorder app.

http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/cbs-demands-removal-of-m...
Professional: Become a coder from my current (largely) non-technical status. Have a game plan of material I want to worth through over the next year to become a (hopefully well versed in the foundations) junior developer.

Personal: Meet a woman I want to spend my life with. Or a bunch of one night stands. Whichever comes first.
Ethanol subsidies are terrible. We need to stop holding presidential primaries in Iowa.
> Imagine if xerox had invented the mouse.

Indeed. It was invented by Douglas Englebart at UC Berkeley in the 60s.
I think its characteristic of people to devalue a different expert's contribution to a project. I am definitely typecast "nerd" and take on projects that have a huge weight on my shoulders. I look at what encompasses a successful project and consider the construction/design the most important part while degrading the marketing aspect of things and feel that this is a dangerous outlook to maintain.

The author writes the article saying that any idea or project is worthless without a strong foundation of workers to erect it from the ground up. As "hackers" most of us look at the problem and say that we could build it ourselves and other work is less crucial. What I want to do is stretch the analogy further and say that hackers can build a wonderful monument but if we're short sighted enough to build it on a deserted island its equally useless. Projects take more than the simple questions of what and how and require strong answers to when, where and why to be successful.

What I'm really saying is we lift ourselves up above others unnecessarily sometimes. The work of a person pitching ideas or marketing the product can be just as critical to the success as is the construction of the product. When evaluating ideas for their potential don't focus entirely on how its built without considering everything else, its easy to do that as hackers when you over-value your contribution to the entire life-cycle.
let's not forget about energy http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/12/07/technolog... and since it's also still in the tech dept., I fail to see how comming back to run desktop/mobile OS business could be an attractive option to him.
Looks good. Just a couple questions:

From a quick look over the documentation I could see this is built with postgres and python/django, but I didn't notice which versions (nor a roadmap to see if there would be a future transition to python3). Is there any chance you could clarify?

Also, considering its geographic focus, maps seem to be an important part, but I didn't notice any maps in the Davis install. Is there already, or planned, integration with Open Street Maps? From a quick search I found there is a django module for OSM[1], so I was just curious what the plans are in that regard.

[1]https://bitbucket.org/ikks/django-cms-osm
I'm a/b testing a few of these. I'll add your suggestions to the mix.
" Who is playing offense and who is playing defense depends on how well you remember the timeline and which "team" you side with."

At this level - All the major players try and license on FRAND terms first and foremost - limits your risk, and keeps your legal bills down - but Nokia was asking for more than Apple was willing to play - so they go to court.

All the players are looking at this from a Game Theoretic position, and, at the end of the day, Patent holders _have_ to send some of their negotiations to court, if only to make it clear their FRAND values would be held up.

Apple is somewhat unique, in that they aren't as keen on getting license value for their patents as their competitors are - and, FRAND values on a design patent is a lot more "mushy" than a radio chip function.
You really shouldn't have to 'learn' anything to do routine tasks on a computer - it should be intuitive.

If the normals can do everything they want with their computers while still 'knowing nothing', that's a success, not something to grouse about.
This works extremely well for me. I wouldn't recommend stopping mid-sentence but leaving an implementation incomplete (eg. just have to fill out another method and everything fits together) allows me to start the next day running.
This sounds a lot like the advice given in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance on how to overcome writer's block. In the book, the narrator is teaching a writing course, and a student says she doesn't know what to write about. So he suggests that she pick a building, but not just a building, start with a single brick and describe that, then the next one and so on. She ends up writing voluminously.

This advice of breaking down the problem to its smallest domain of attack has been around for a long time.
I think my irony meter just hit 11.
I think we are in agreement here. My greatest strength as the "idea" guy comes from the fact that I was a developer at one point. I am technical enough to ground my ideas in reality.

The advice I did give to one person who asked me was to go get a job at a tech company. You don't have to code, but you have to know how technical products come together so that you can have an intelligent conversation with your future technical cofounder.
I wonder if there'd be a way to create an interop mode, which might look something similar to the way they are handling the lexical vs dynamic scoping.

That way authors could transition from elisp to common lisp.
I think you would find subclinical psychopathy and related disorders among any sampling of the people humanity elevates to high leadership positions in any field: political, religious, economic, even academic.
The only intuitive interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned. We should be making it easy for the users to learn, rather than forcing them into a stilted, toy-like environment.
The more modern gcc handling is with "#pragma once":

I've considered switching to this, but in the interest of maximum hypothetical portability, I've decided to stick with the #ifndef include guard. I've just checked the C1X standard draft I have, and #pragma once is still not in the standard (6.10.6.1 in the version I have).

As for your other points, I agree with the notion that a header file should include its dependencies, but no more. I suppose my thinking on this is influenced by the dependency tracking of Linux package managers such as apt.
That command has been around since OS 9 and probably before. Have similar commands with the same level of utility (copying a selectable section of the screen) and the same keystroke been around in Windows/X11 for that length of time?

Would you also suggest that vi change it's commands so that they're easier to use?

Historical inertia matters, especially with muscle memory things like key combos.
Is it a bad thing if you don't need to know anything?

The article's comment about the Ribbon in Office/Windows 8 "assuming [you] don't know how to use a menu, a key command, or a honest-to-goodness toolbar" is silly. Menus and toolbars make things more hidden, more modal, less discoverable, and key commands are still there. What's the problem?
The red one is clearly inset, but I don't agree with you about the silver one. That one appears flush to me.

Maybe you can find another image of it or something and prove me wrong, but I can't seen an inset there.
Let me guess:

Motorola abusing a patent for an underlying radio standard and preventing Apple from using standardized radio technology: Totally legit.

Apple complaining about design and UI elements? APPLE IS THE MOST EVIL, LITIGIOUS COMPANY IN THE WORLD.

This kills me every time.

Can't wait for the next round of lawsuits against Apple, in which disingenuous tech companies sue Apple with patents they bought wholesale off a patent troll or shifted around amongst themselves as if they were nothing more than useful assets in a political game.

It makes it all that more hilarious when Apple sues using patents with Steve Jobs name on it.

One has to wonder how many CEO's at those other companies have their names on the patents they're suing over.

Or if their companies even had anything to do with the innovation the patent protects...
Ouch. From the biopsy onwards it just makes me shudder.
May be problematic if you want people to type it or say it.
Sounds like just a ploy to get discount/bribe from Microsoft to switch to Win8.
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That's..... really not much of a silver lining in this situation.

I would have gone with caught early, modern medicine, etc, but A for effort.
I have to kind of wonder if Apple is buffering touch events on their controller and then sending them onward to the UI as postprocessed events and gestures.

Maybe I'm the only one left with a boggy 3G running iOS4, but when the system lags down I can usually keep typing and the keystrokes will catch up. Does the same thing happen on Android?

If gesture processing is being done on the controller side, that would take a lot of perceived bog out of the UI.
It's built atop Django + GeoDjango, so we'll likely transition to Python3 when most of Django marches there. There's a development site here with some more information: https://dev.localwiki.org

The DavisWiki is running our old software, not LocalWiki. We'll transition it over soon. The Denton site is a good example of what LocalWiki looks like: https://dentonwiki.org

We're using OSM base data for the map tiles (rendered via cloudmade). We'll likely do our own map tile rendering soon, probably running an open tile server for any localwiki install to point at. Not sure about further OSM integration - got any ideas?