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This isn't an iPhone vs Android ego stroking contest, though. Both companies have market share, it is beneficial to both of them.
I'm mainly playing devil's advocate here. But many, if not all, of google's empire is based around curating other people's IP, including Android.

Much of the IP Google does have is kept server side, safe from competitors.

But the legal issues are real, and I imagine many of the downrates of my previous comment was of either google developers or people within that eco-system.

Why did Microsoft take so long to make Windows Phone, and why does it legally appear safe? And how is that related to Android?

But don't get me wrong, I love Google for search and web apps, just not operating systems that, to at least me, seem slightly trojan in nature.
Fear and Loathing in Debian/Ubuntu (or: who needs /etc/motd)
How about Slashdot?
I guess they didn't A/B a subject line with a comma... ("Merry Christmas, Zack!" vs. the incorrect "Merry Christmas Zack!").
Wow, awesome comment!
More to the point, BMI by itself is not an accurate indication of a person's status with respect to weight.

BMI boils down to a ratio of weight to height. The fact that this definition doesn't include the word "fat" ought to be a clue that it won't be entirely successful as a measure of a person's fatness. In particular, because muscle tissue is significantly denser than fat. Thus, a couch potato and an athlete, each having the same height and girth, will score such that the couch potato will have a better BMI score than the athlete: BMI penalizes exercise to the extent that it generates muscle mass.

A much more informative measurement would be the body fat percentage. But even this falls down. Apparently there are two kinds of fat. Subcutaneous fat poses little health risk. Internal fat, surrounding the organs, is where the potential problems begin.
I appreciate the good wishes. I'm on my 4th job post-digg - some of it has been awesome, some not so much. Currently at Gazehawk, which is awesome.
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To this poster's benefit, I also vaguely remember an article about this, but it was for a specific disease (possibly heart related?). It was only a tiny benefit for the people who are in the first group of overweightness.
The ECB buys souvereign debt incurred by countries that have no option but to borrow money from banks that demand very high interest rates - much higher than the interest rates the ECB charges comercial banks.

The purpose of the European Financial Stability Facility is to prevent german and french banks to go bankrupt in case any of the attacked countries default.

"It's a completely factual statement to say some countries are more solvent".

If by some countries you mean the northern countries, this is false:
Spain had a superavit before the financial crisis - Germany did not.

Do not confuse opinions with facts.
A recent Typesafe blog post was written in response to the last Scala-complaint furor: http://blog.typesafe.com/getting-down-to-work

One of the points mentioned there is binary compatibility. The Typesafe people are working on it, so hopefully we'll see some improvement over the next year or so.
Why so negative looking? All releases except for Honeycomb have been opensourced allowing for a number of custom roms used on millions of devices (cyanogen, miui) which is more than can be said for other platforms. The openness of Android apps allow for applications and innovation not possible on the iphone or other devices (custom lock screens, homescreens, NASA's phonesats). The CarrierIQ debacle involved all major phone developers including Apple (prior to iOS5), BB, Nokia as well.

Granted, that's a generalization. But it makes the point.
? The change I'm advocating is in browser behavior, and would definitely make a difference for any site that complies with HTTP. There's nothing preventing malicious hosts from continuing to serve pages full of ads, but then, there never was.
On that note, why does the Facebook connection ask to access data at anytime and to post on my wall? It seems like all you'd be interested in would be my id and friends ids, which are both public once you have my id.
Agreed on "experiencing as intended" and "supporting" - also, on tech news sites it's of interest to me to know what adverts such sites' advertisers believe their users want.

Plus I've found an extensionless firefox is much less crashy than one with any number installed (and yes, I know chrome exists, but I prefer the way firefox interacts with the high contrast bright-colours-on-black type desktop colour schemes I prefer to use)
* carriers and phone makers began freaking out and saw in Android THE alternative.*

Oh, sure. But my point was that Android being THE alternative was a failing of Nokia and Blackberry over anything else.
"Gee, I wonder what ads arstechnica are showing today!"

That would be solicited.
David carries quite a lot of weight in my book (we use Lift in production). Despite the negative title he makes a very good point and points out that this is entirely solvable. This falls under the "growing pains" category for Scala. I hope we get this right soon.
Why do you think the search volume on mobile is a hockey stick at Google?

I could take a guess.

"Google Exec Testifies Before Senate That Two-Thirds of Mobile Search Happens on iOS Devices"

http://9to5mac.com/2011/09/21/google-23rds-of-our-mobile-sea...
I can confirm this. I was involved in an incident once. The TV news reporters all came out and covered it. That evening, I watched the reports on the same event from 3 channels. They all got the basic facts 100% wrong, and each channel had a different set of those wrong facts.

It wasn't even an issue of bias, or making the story more compelling. It was simply slap-dash, string any-old list of crap together, run it, and move on to the next item.

It was an eye-opening experience for me.
Yet they still haven't addressed cow tipping.
A bit is the smallest unit in computer science. It is either 1 or 0. The unit abbreviation for bit is 'b'.

A byte is the next largest unit in cs. It is equal to 8 bits, so it can have 256 different values. The unit abbreviation for byte is 'B'.

There are two scales for measuring large amounts of bits and bytes. one is the base 10 scale from SI that we know and love, the other is base 2. The prefixes that we use are, in order from smallest to largest: 'kilo' 'mega' 'giga' 'tera' 'peta'..., and the abbreviations are 'K' 'M' 'G' 'T' 'P' ...

When using the SI scale, there is an order of magnitude difference of 1000 or 10^3. Eg, 1 Mega_ is 1000 Kilo_. When using the base 2 scale, the order of magnitude difference is 2^10, or 1024. Eg 1 Mega_ is 1024 Kilo_.

When it is not clear from context what scale is being used, you can specify base-two by replacing the second syllable of the prefix with 'bi', so the scale becomes 'Kibi' 'Mebi' 'Gibi' 'Tebi' 'Pebi' ..., and the abbreviation become 'Ki' 'Mi' 'Gi' 'Ti' 'Pi' ... These abbreiations aren't widely used, however, and there is no way to specify that you mean to use the base 10 scale.

This isn't a huge issue, though, because aside from large scale storage (anything bigger than RAM) and sometimes networking, base 2 is assumed.
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I hear you. Would be tough to maintain "objective" results that way, but can put it in the list of possibile features to add. Note that we don't ask for a lot of permissions at all, the minimum necessary to get your ID. We also let you disconnect with one click in your account section. We absolutely hate shady app access and did everything possible to tread lightly, only purpose was to show you the data and make something fun.
Some online ads are just general brand awareness ads, in the way that the big Pepsi sign at a baseball stadium isn't talking about a new product or trying to get you to buy a Pepsi right now.
I think the Twitter image shown was preceded by this vowel-less version:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/190576959/
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It could be a net gain for Microsoft if the Windows developer community begins to embrace github. As long as the most talented in the community don't leave the Windows platform, it could lead to a more vibrant and productive Windows developer community.
They do comparisons between the height & weight percentiles.
Here's a ludicrous example, a close cousin to domain name squatting:

http://www.chinahearsay.com/coca-cola-plays-it-smart-in-its-...

It would be more useful if other bottles were included in the comparison. It doesn't matter if two brands of water bottle look alike, if all the other water bottles not pictured also look that way.
I think maybe a key mistake economists make regularly is equating an equilibrium with a lack of change.

In nature stability - on average - is often achieved by matching peaks and troughs, not by a lack of change (nature abhors a lack of change)

(see vacuum fluctuations)
They've been updating their status with some more info their blog as well: http://inside.flipboard.com/2011/12/07/the-power-of-flipboar...
Just for my own sanity - is "multimethod" another term for a form of pattern matching? Looking at the clojure code, it strongly reminds me of Haskell:

encounter :: Species -> Species -> Result
encounter (Bunny _) (Lion _) = RunAway
encounter (Lion _) (Bunny _) = Eat

etc. Of course, pseudocode, syntax errors, whatever - but it looks to be the same idea?

edit - formatting
Twitter wasn't even called Twitter when it launched; it was twttr, and it had a pretty hideous logo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/190576959/
I think This Developer's Life is hosted by Rob Conery.
Right, but this still doesn't alleviate the need for "prerendering" specific pages for the crawler, which is the most tedious part of the whole thing. In other words, when a crawler requests /about, it should be getting a fully-formed About page with the content already in place, and not a bare container that ajax'es the content on page load (which is how most of pageless sites work).
Socialcam, you're missing a popular tab. Finding "friends" is like a pain in the ass. The popular tab is basically what made Instagram usable for me.
I doubt JS will ever replace Python and I doubt that is what Armin believes. That doesn't mean it cannot hurt Python significantly in terms of popularity and market share.
Robert from Email Yak here.

Keep things simple for the devs: That's why we chose to put the API key in the URL, for easy authentication, and stick with just GET and POST request with absolutely no headers required on requests.

It may not be the most RESTful API in existence, but I get alot of emails saying that is sure is an easy API to work with.

MIME's? Seriously? Give me a break. I just want to send and receive email, I don't care how it is made! Email Yak doesn't ask for MIME's and doesn't provide them, just send and receive in plain text or html. Easy.

Even the control panel is minimalistic. Few screens. Just keeping it simple.

Focus on receiving email: Receiving email is one of those programmer white whales, it looks alot easier than it actually is. We chose this task to focus on to make it as easy as possible for devs.

ParsedData: We split each reply in the email thread. That makes it easy to work with the most-recent reply or any individual one.

Sandbox Playground: You can do everything from the UI that you can from the API. So you can see the exact request you need to send to the API and the responses you will get back.

No POP / IMAP: Again, we want to do one thing well and keep things simple, so no need to muddy the waters with these protocols.

If you guys have any questions, shoot me an email at robert@emailyak.com
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LinkedIn Translation: What's in a Name?
It figures it out on its own.

You can see the entire tree at http://cord-sa.appspot.com/dumpDT
FYI "simplistic" is pejorative
Both Scott Hanselman and Rob Conery collaborate on This Developer's Life.
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It's plausible, but Yudkowsky has argued against this kind of lying in other contexts. I can't find the reference, but he said something along the lines of:

> If you'd lie when the fate of the world is on the line, that's precisely the time at which your promises become worthless.
In the followup article it's revealed that all his degrees are in education: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/reveal...

That does not bode well for him having a lick of intelligence
Another option is "Beef TACO", a Firefox add-on that generates cookies to opt-out of tracking for known ad networks without blocking the ads themselves.
I agree, a lot of people take offense to being sidelined for the purpose of "not offending anyone". So ironic.
As another reply said, being heavier than the average kid need not be a problem, e.g. When your kid also is taller than normal.

Your logic is broken (or you do not present all of it) in a different way: a quick google gives me the impression that for kids in the USA, the 75th percentile is about the edge case, but you need extra data to convert percentiles to 'being too heavy'. In the extreme, if everybody is overweight, even the lightest percent of kids will be overweight).
Fair question. The data at anytime is to keep your friends list up to date. The post on your wall is now required to offer the Facebook share button (bogus IMHO). However, you can remove both of those permissions in Facebook>Account Settings>Apps>Early Nerd.
If Android is illegal, then so is Apple (Good artists copy, great artists steal) and Microsoft (embrace, extend, extinguish).

If your product contains software, then chances are that it infringes on many patents.
Kevin wasn't around enough to know what was going on with the company. We probably saw him 1-2 days a month at the office and that was because he needed a place to park his Porsche 911.
I'm not sure that is a good example. I have no insider knowledge of Facebook so I may not be correct, but as I understand it, they switched to using their own interpreter and translate the code to C++ for production. The only remaining ties being the syntax and at least some of the API.

If the author of this article had the dependencies and resources of Facebook, building their own Flex-based environment independent of Adobe is an option they may have considered as well.

In this case, it was more cost effective to just rewrite the application in another language. Facebook found it cheaper to rewrite the environment. But the end result of breaking ties with a third party appears to be the same.
It is simply because they failed to notice that this year both Christmas and the New Year fall on the weekends, so there are no holidays.
This is true to a degree, and I think few would argue against it. The question is, what is the right amount of consequences?

Should the party at fault have to pay exactly the damages actually caused to make those injured whole (in other words, actual damages?)

Should the party pay a portion of the damages caused so as to partially compensate others while not being ruinous to a party that behaved with reasonable, but insufficient, precautions (a large part of the justification for "proximate cause "is to achieve this, see for isntance "Wagon Mound (No. 1)" and "Wagon Mount (No. 2)", and contributory negligence also plays a similar role)?

Or should the party at fault pay far more than damage caused to discourage improper behaviour (in other words, punitive damages)?

These are decisions best made on a case by case basis, but the doctrines we lay out for deciding which case falls where affect how willing to take or not takes risks a society becomes. And most of the biggest advancements in human society came through enormous risk, so I for one think we should not encourage society to be too risk adverse.

Here, I think the grandparent post makes a good argument that there should be consequences, but they should be exactly actual damages and nothing more.
It's only a scam if you pay too much for it.

At $2200 a semester (before scholarship), I'm paying roughly $100 a week to use campus facilities and have access to my professors time. Considering I spend 10 hours in class and my professors all have 5 or so office hours each week, I think I'm getting a pretty good bargain.

Although, BYU is an exception. Most other schools aren't really the same bang for your buck.
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I was expecting something more lightweight. The dependency on Ruby and HAML is a buzz killer.
People were arguing with each other and creating deeply nested comments, ignoring all other discussion. The delay exists to give them a chance to cool down and reconsider the wisdom of arguing.

The site will permit one to reply after a bit of time. If it is delaying you, it's probably best to use that time to improve your comment by citing sources or editing it to be clearer and more concise, rather than using the cheat to post straightaway.
Maybe you should consider transferring then? College is there to increase your breadth of knowledge. Ask yourself how many of your friends who never went to college critically analyze the world around them or have well thought out discussions about things bigger than themselves (cosmos, patterns in the world, science, etc). Remember, SA is the exception!

Creativity comes from limits (and knowledge). In art schools, students are told to only use certain materials for a reason. Why do you think we have coding competitions where the winner has the fewest lines of code or can do the most in 48 hours?

While I can understand your viewpoint, it just sounds like you need to either change your major or school or both. I went to a university where we had to co-op (read lots of internships that didn't involve getting coffee) and my core classes depended on mostly group projects solving problems. It is precisely because of this education and my breadth of knowledge that I have ideas connecting completely unrelated ideas.
This is great news for .NET devs- the Windows GitHub client (and VS integration) is not great.

This is awful news for .NET devs- ASP.NET MVC is the best thing that's happened to ASP.NET since it began. Losing the lead guy on that project is worrying.
Using a Jenkins server with continuous integration makes Py3K testing pretty painless.

I really don't want projects to go back to maintaining two source trees, that was a disaster.
I also have had exactly the same experience.

Now if only the vim plugin could be made a little less buggy (not jetbrains fault)
Here is a direct link to a tutorial that shows off graphics in the Racket REPL: http://docs.racket-lang.org/quick/index.html
I think the reason why we want to be startup founders is because it offers optimal balance of "direct implementation" vs. "impact."

At a certain scale, it's impossible to directly implement anything anymore. You can have tremendous impact but the more layers in between what's in your head and what's produced can only increase. Bill Gates wrote code that shipping in Microsoft products until the late 1980s[0]. At a certain point, he had to trade off having a bigger and bigger impact by managing the implementers instead of implementing himself.

Except somewhere along the line when you become the guy managing ten engineering departments with ten people each that help ten people write code, then you're not doing anything anymore. You're just enabling people to do things. And it becomes more and more likely they may do things in a way that's not in your head. So you trade implementation for impact, but then eventually the impact you get may not be that impactful to you because it's no longer what you did but what other people did.

In a startup, you have the best of both worlds. Impact and implementation. Eventually you fail because you didn't make enough of an impact, or you stop implementing because it's impossible for you to scale with the impact you're making. But I imagine the ride to that point is extremely fulfilling.

[0] http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/billg/speeches/1997/...
Nice!

How big is the pool of variables it can choose from?

Any insight on why it choose 'region' and 'browserHeight' first?
SF Scala Meetup with Martin Odersky at IGN Entertainment on 12/08
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Do not under any circumstance hire a social media expert. That's what top users are for! Hire someone who is already doing everything you want a community manager to do in your community. Just make them official, start paying them, and make them full time.
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Private intelligence?[1] They tend to put a much larger emphasis on delivering good information over writing an engaging story. They do focus almost entirely on geopolitical news, though.

Stratfor and KGS both offer free access to a limited set of their analysis.[2,3]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_intelligence_agency
[2] http://www.stratfor.com/
[3] http://www.kforcegov.com/Services/IS/NightWatch.aspx
Most of these (e.g. Twitter, Flickr) are inaccurate since they're simply using the Wayback Machine which often misses css and images, completely changing the appearance.
Thanks for the feedback. The only reason it's used, so we can refresh your connections and thus your score if someone else comes back to your page. Maybe not a critical feature...
Petty back-and-forths that don't add any value for everyone else.
Definitely. I was very disappointed when I clicked one of the images and was rewarded with a page with a smaller version. Who does that?
I set up a new Windows machine the other day, using Chrome as my primary browser. Within five minutes of sitting down to do some browsing, I had loaded a page with a Flash video ad, with sound, that started playing automatically.

Sorry internet, but a few obnoxiously bad apples spoil the bunch. Websites I visit frequently I subscribe to (e.g. Ars Technica), but the massive amount of poor, distracting, or annoying ads, the poor layouts that are 60% ads and 40% content, and the pages that take literally 10-20 times longer to load because of all the (slow) external resources? Not worth it.
I've always been a fan of Good.is' - http://www.good.is/43253453rtgesrgs4
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That's not just simple operator overloading. What mitsuhiko refers to is that iter() can iterate over an object not just when you implement __iter__() but also when you implement __getitem__() and __len__(), bool() has similar semantics as do several other functions and operators.
> 2) Don't give free content. Make me pay for it. If I like it I would.

Nice in theory, but there are many markets where only 1 company will win, and it WILL be the ad-supported model. That's just how the math works.
Scientists say free will probably doesn’t exist, but urge: Don’t stop believing
I don't read that as declaring the other side completely wrong. That study was for people a little bit overweight, while the apparent delusion of parents extends into the very overweight. Even the phrasing of "aren't the only ones with distorted perceptions" suggests that both sides have their failures.
"The (Mis)behavior of Markets" is a great read on the subject, by Mr. Mandelbrot himself.
‘Whether you like Android or not, you will support that platform’
Completely agree...plus knowing who is running what where keeps me on top of my game.