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Depends somewhat on where (geographically) you want to go, what kind of job you want, and what other portfolio you think you might build up. More prestigious schools do provide a bump, partly due to the actual name, and partly just due to better networking opportunities with things like recruiters showing up to their job/internship fairs. But if you get a good internship and do well in it, that's often more important than where you got your degree.

As for geography, for California specifically, some of the CSUs are actually better regarded than the UCs for some kinds of programming positions: Cal Poly in particular has a reputation for graduating strong programmers familiar with standard software engineering practices, which isn't usually the goal of more academic-CS focused UC departments, and their grads are popular with some employers (especially larger ones). Outside of California, the UC name recognition is probably a bigger factor, though.
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OTOH, being able to easily move your WP7 app to Android or iOS is a disaster for MS. The only portability that interests Microsoft is one-way towards their platforms.
> to incur those fees, you've won the business game and you deserve the profits.

I really despise this mentality. In that case Madoff "deserves" the profits of his actions because he found a lot of really rich suckers.
Let's also remember that it's not incredibly hard to trick a human. (One of my favorite videos related to counterfeit currency is Derren Brown paying for things with blank paper http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vz_YTNLn6w (And if you think he faked it, he's still managed to trick a lot of other people otherwise.))

I wonder how much in total method after method of trying to stay ahead of the Big Money counterfeiters has cost? Mathematical solutions to the problem of forgery have existed for quite a while, I wish there was more a push for those. (And I'm not necessarily talking about bitcoin either, it's just one of many possibilities.) Of course even just going digital for everything would probably solve a lot of problems, and there are math solutions to keeping different types of anonymity as well.
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Netflix will not run on your Linux desktop because Microsoft refuses to issue licenses for its DRM components for Moonlight/Linux desktop. These components run fine on Linux -- look at Boxee et al -- but Microsoft refuses to license the DRM for use on Linux desktops. While I would have thought the spite would run deep enough to encourage a clean room implementation of MS's DRM, I guess most people just don't care since there are so many alternate vehicles that require less work for the same content.
The polymer notes[1] we use in Australia (and also print for several other countries) have been around for about 18 years now and have very low rates of counterfeiting due to the number of security features built in[2].

The notes do cost more to produce, but the extra durability means that they last about 4 times as long (from memory) in circulation, so overall the cost difference is marginal for the government, but is an additional deterrent for counterfeiters.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_banknote
[2] http://www.rba.gov.au/banknotes/counterfeit/index.html
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This is the most awesome thing I've seen here in a while. I'm in serious danger of blowing off the rest of my day to make a video game to stick these into.
Backbone.js huh =) We should get you on the homepage.

Submit a pull req or contact me on GitHub.
"Neither of these are freemium."

Angry Birds is not freemium, but it bears mentioning that the free version of the game is an ad-infested hellpit. The popups are so frequent, and so intrusive, as to render most of the fun from the gameplay. (Alternatively, one can look at dodging popups as an added dimension of challenge! "Fling the blue bird at that green pig over there...but not too close to the red X, or you'll activate the Beanie Baby splash screen!").

The only reason I bring this up is to suggest that ad-supported gaming is not always a lovely alternative to the freemium model.

I, too, do not mind the pay-per-installment (episodic) model. And I find, albeit anecdotally, that developers who employ this model seldom abuse it. Nine times out of ten, when I've paid for an expansion pack, or installment #2, or what have you, I've received my money's worth. Perhaps there's a correlation between devs who use this model and devs who care a great deal about the content they're putting into the marketplace. I don't know. But, as a consumer and gamer, I have no problem whatsoever with paying for incremental content. (So long as that's what I'm paying for; i.e., I am not paying to unlock a feature or level that is fundamental to the basic gameplay).
Interesting that they feel this way. As a Groovy enthusiast, it feels to me like Scala's gotten all the press/mindshare over the last year, while Groovy is potentially doomed to sideline status. Lift gets some praise, and Play! and Roo are the new hotness, while Groovy/Grails doesn't get the love I'd like it to.

Probably all "alt.java" tech will remain somewhat fringe, simply due to inertia. And although I wasn't in the Groovy community at the beginning, I do think that Groovy, in some small part, helped further along the "non Java on the JVM" story, giving people solid examples of using alt.java languages without having to leave the JVM altogether.
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Sounds like you've got this parenting thing sorted out. Do you have any kids?
The point is, we can't elect American congressmen, so they aren't necessarily supposed to care if we have jobs or not.
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So to view this video on "denso", video that they've appropriated from another content creator, all I have to do is download the denso app?

Gee, that sounds so much less sketchier than the free mum thing.

*Edit: I was using my iPad. I understand that the Daily Show site doesn't support iOS. Still, this is kind of annoying.
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If ThemeForest uses a split license in the manner you have specified, it falls well within what the Software Freedom Law Center's interpretation of the GPL.

Themes get stolen and copied all over the place. I often have a hard time advising clients to not do that just because it is available. Most of the redistributed versions often contain hidden links and other security issues.

For that and all the points you have mentioned, the price of these themes are nothing compared to the service a good theme developer provides you.
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This subject must be in the air. This article came out, I just blogged on the same general topic (http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2011/12/management-by...), and just a minute ago I got through reading another article on cognitive bias. http://www.american.com/archive/2011/december/the-political-...

It's a great topic, especially for businesses and startups. I think the problem is much, much deeper than correlation != causation. The basic problem is that we don't understand how to deal with statistics, especially aggregate numbers. This is a funny way to make a point, but the problem is waaaay deeper than just confusion about correlation. The errors in scientific studies, for instance, are just one example of the harm caused by these kinds of cognitive blind spots. (I say blind spot instead of lack of math education because I don't believe the root problem is a lack of understanding math. In my opinion, something else is going on.)
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Up vote from me. I thought it was funny. In fact, I might even know some people who would suffer through the cycle you described.
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Cereal boxes spring to mind. If its popular, then pretty soon you could buy up the equipment at some a fire sale when some local advertising shop went under.
I love posterous for this reason. I find email is a natural interface for a lot of things and only wish I could do more just through email (like, I dunno, email social network interface perhaps?)
Related: http://thirdcog.eu/apps/cfxr (aka Cocoa sfxr) better UI than sfxr and bfxr, but simpler than bfxr.

Original project: http://www.drpetter.se/project_sfxr.html
I've been noticing this type of activity on my user-content sites for a couple years now. It'll make it past any human-detection script you throw at it, and it seemingly doesn't care that 99% of it gets blocked by bayesian filters and would have no-follow links on no-index pages even if it made it through.

The only effective solution to human-powered spam is to flip your user-generated content from "public by default" to "probably spam unless proven otherwise by a moderator". Watch your users posting things, approve the non-spam to be publicly visible, mark consistently good users as "trusted" so that you don't have to watch them anymore.

It takes more human intervention, but really that's the only way to make a user-generated content site work these days. (Unless, of course, your userbase is an army of geeks who are willing to upvote good stuff and flag spam for you).

More here: http://expatsoftware.com/articles/2010/03/care-and-feeding-o...
I'm right ahead of you on that one
Agreed. I use the site lots and the most painful part is previewing themes. Need to click each one, then click to load the demo (or screenshots), just to see a rough idea of what it looks like. The preview thumbnails are completely useless since the authors use it as an ad space.
Does anyone know how to manually install themes on TextMate 2?
Again, how do you know the phone is powered off unless you have a flip switch connected to the battery, take the battery out (and at the same time assume there is other smaller battery in there) ?
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>It's kind of misleading that they're making it sound like you're seeing the photons

It was misleading in the way the commentator said we can now watch the photons as they travel through space.

Space is full of photons from stars and galaxies. We only ever see the source of their current direction, which is why space is black, but we see the the bodies within it.
Judges, public officials and many journalists are politically neutral on many if not most issues but that doesn't mean that they are and should be politically neutral on any issue.

If something threatens the basic rules our society is build upon such as the constitution of the country you live in or human rights, as I believe SOPA does, political neutrality stops being worth maintaining, in fact I think it is actively harmful.
> until they start offering Linux nodes, which will, in all certainty, never happen.

I wouldn't be too sure - it is a serious gap in their offering, and MS can be pragmatic if it's to their advantage.

> How does it deal with autoscaling?

It doesn't, you've to do it yourself. What they do is make it (relatively) easy to spin-up new instances. There are also tools/frameworks that automate some of the tasks.
My general feeling is that there is a business-model problem in the tech industry.
The most important technolgies are underfunded. They are created by smart people in their free time, or by companies who do not have enough money.
For example I've looked at Scala's Eclipse plugin: it was a horror. It is just question of money (hiring a bunch of good developers) to create IDE support which is not totally buggy and not horribly slow.

If 1/100th of the VC money going into social startups would go into actual technology companies, if it were an accpeted business model to sell (maybe read-only open source) technology for money, then the tech landscape would be totally different.

TL;DR: to replace Java, a lot of directed professional development effort would be needed: money would help a lot.
Well, yes. Once WP7 has a larger market share than Android and iOS they'll want to plug that gap.

That should happen about fifteen minutes after never.
I'm curious - many people here often express the belief that corporations should not have "free speech rights" [1].

Will those individuals now come out and apply the same reasoning in defense of a SOPA-like law, but one which only applies to corporate websites? I doubt I'd agree with such arguments, but they would certainly be intellectually interesting.

[1] Courts have not ruled that corporations have free speech rights, but that the owners of corporations have the right to use their property in the furtherance of speech. But regardless, there is a certain set of rights that many here oppose.
This study showed that people who DO watch (one particular) channel of news are LESS informed than those who don't watch or read news at all:
http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/11/21/fairleigh_dickinso...
Given the amount of comments on Scala (positive or negative, that's irrelevant) I'm not so sure it will be a fringe language for long. It must be somehow relevant for so many people to spend so much time talking about it...
Indeed. I created a system that worked like this in 2003.

(it looks well done and it's interesting, but it's not a 'new kind of editing interface')
I can TOTALLY relate! I'm in pretty much the same position with a depression that grows stronger with every day I'm not doing something to break out of the situation. Making things worse is the fact that I've solely been doing Perl web development for the last 12(!) years at the same company. When I started web development in 99, it was all fun and play. I had the feeling I was at the forefront of technology and only few people could do what I did. Then I got stuck with Perl and had to see it going out of fashion (nevertheless, I seriously still think it's a wonderful language that gets the job done and with the Modern Perl tools available in a very maintainable way as well, but I digress). Years passed, and here I am. A Perl developer in a country where Perl has completely vanished off the surface. I'd never go so far as to call myself a Perl expert either. Neither have I written a couple of frameworks or libraries (like the pros you mention) nor have I poked around in the internals of the interpreter. I'm just a web guy, who is equally good at front- and backend development, but neither a rockstar in one of them. Jack of all trades, master of none fits my person best. Once sought-after in the internet hay days, nowadays replaced by an army of experts and specialists.

I'm thinking about leaving development as well, but what are the alternatives? Going into management? I don't have the experience to apply for such a position at another company and I don't see this happening at my current employer because we're rather small. Similar to you, I lost my motivation over the years and find it hard to justify learning new stuff (like Ruby, Rails, Python, node.js, maybe Cocoa development, etc.) because it'll go out of fashion soon again anyway and takes me considerably more time to digest than those prodigy developers the internet seems to be full of. But maybe, things aren't like they appear. What's the percentage of rockstar developers among all developers? It's most certainly not close to 90% as the internet and all the cool blogs make us think ...

Sorry I couldn't be of more help, just wanted to let you know that there are others out there in pretty much the same situation. All the best!
Backends don't need to be RDFa-compatible in any other sense than being able to contain the RDFa attributes in their HTML templates.
Isn't this the conditioned "everything's going to be alright now" effect?
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An analogy they repeat three times. And its just plain false every time. In fact, I'm not sure at all what the analogy is supposed to help us understand. We're not seeing a photon as it moves through space; so why say we are? We're seeing light reflected off of an object; what makes this different from any other camera that does the same thing? Its faster? Then say something to help me understand how that changes things.
Typically with Create we simply don't make "generated" content editable, so in this case the truncated body text would not be available in the editing UI.

In this situation user would need to go to the article page to edit the actual contents.
That reminds me of a similar experience I had with a bag of Portuguese Men of War I collected and then set free. We must never hoard Nature, no matter who gets stung.
That is exactly the plan: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/decoupling_content_management/

But first you have to have one nice editing interface as a carrot so CMSs start supporting the needed features.
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Here are a couple of details about programming at Google. First, every commit requires a code review. Secondly, in addition to writing your own tests and testing tools, there is a separate set of developers that do nothing but write testing infrastructure, ensuring that it's as easy as possible to test everything as it's written.

Bugs still happen, of course, but they're going to be of the more obscure variety. My chromium 14.0.835.202 has never crashed. Always good to get a backtrace and read the code nearby, and if nothing makes sense, run memtest86.
I disagree that the positive/negative is irrelevant. Much of the discussion around Scala has been around how complicated it is, and ensuing discussions about how the person who thinks it's confusing is not smart enough, and how Scala is the "right way" to do things, because it's elegant, etc.

Having a lot of those sorts of comments I don't think will guarantee future success.
Again, Scala is just another tool it's evolving and it's a very nice tool to know...

Of course Java will always be around because it's easy to learn(I earn my money with it BTW) and it protects you from all kinds of stupid errors that newcomers could do in C , C++ or Javascript (memory management, Static Typed, etc...) but Scala provides a very flexible way to code a way that most Java devs are not used to, and therefor it takes a while to learn, but when you do learn it's a Joy I am a proof of that I really like coding in Scala while java is like my work horse, scala is what I use for my fun coding.

BUT... as an young language it have some major drawbacks, like lack of a proper IDE, slow compiling time, lack of Frameworks, lack of documentation and so on... but I am really happy to see Typesafe writing the problems down and fixing them when possible, it will take a while but when it's done it's going to be a very good language to know, and they are slowly I agree but fixing it.
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I think TacoEdit had this too,
Nice! Seems indeed very similar. Linked to the Create README: https://github.com/bergie/create/commit/75eb91919423471eb6e7...

Maybe Etch you also run with VIE's Backbone models? http://viejs.org/

Then you could basically swap between Etch and Create with the same mark-up and server-side implementation.
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A lot of people spent a lot of time talking about Lisp machines, 4GL, web portals, push technologies... the list goes on.
Great article. Makes me want to re-think how seriously I take the Daily show now. I always knew it was a "fake news show" but I also always knew that they had an agenda to push just like everyone else. I kind of was hoping this agenda was at least an honest effort to educate their audience. I can distance myself from clips shown out of context and just laugh at the content but stuff like this, where they go out of their way to make a point that isn't there, makes me uneasy about the Daily show all together now. Sure it is funny but I guess I got my hopes up that the show also was trying to do some good.
> MS can be pragmatic if it's to their advantage.

That's one point. I can't imagine any circumstance in which this would be advantageous to them.

> What they do is make it (relatively) easy to spin-up new instances.

Cool. Sometimes you are gifted with an application that will only run on Windows and nothing else.

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It's Groovy still, like, slower than Ruby? That was always the big attraction with Scala - all the fun stuff, but less than a 5% performance penalty over vanilla java.
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Groovy is still pretty slow, but last I checked the Groovy++ compiler can take unchanged Groovy code and compile it so that it is often as fast as Java.
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It gives the impression that your website was not designed by you, but instead designed by another company. Is cwpStudios you? Or a company you work for?
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Yeah, I think once you pass the $50,000 mark maybe it's time to switch to your own distribution channel.
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But they can't make it so that you can view the source without loading the page -_-
I don't really know much about Scala or its ecosystem but I'm curious, what do they mean by:

"Ridicule about parallel collections in 2.9 (one of its major new features)"
They should use this to demystify the double-slit experiment.