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I mean things like 2>&1 or 2>/dev/null (redirecting error stream to stdout etc). This did not work for me last time I tried it. This coupled with significant lag when scrolling/listing huge dir, typing made me quickly abandon it. Terminal app does everything I really need and it's fast and reliable.
Once something is "put into a box", the "box" is just another attribute of that thing. I don't think it matters whether the user is classifying stuff arbitrarily, or the system is implying those attributes.
Regardless, they tend not to go anywhere meaningful professionally.

I wouldn't be surprised if 10-15 years down the line, these mediocre corporate programmers (they can only survive in a large organization, where you don't have to pull your weight nearly as much as on a 10 person team) they become managers from hell.
So any chance of someone developing a similar addon for Chrome and IE? Not that I am suggesting I would use such a thing (lest I be marked by the lovely NSA filter that I'm sure monitors this site among others)...
It's speedy for the first few months, but once I build up a few dozen gigabytes of documents it starts to slow to an absolute crawl. Useful when searching for documents, absolutely, and faster than alternatives. But worthless for applications, which I open far more often than the average document (from a launcher, that is).

But that might be because my .Spotlight folder is > 1 gigabyte. And that's smaller than it has been in the past - my previous hard drive had it larger than 2 gb if I remember correctly, because I had tweaked it to index my source code. On my wife's computer it's only about 400 meg, and it finds applications in about a second (still much slower than Alfred or Quicksilver).
That's not true. It depends on the type of classes and the professors. Some professors and TA would go to great length to show how programming are done, especially the intro classes. Of course there's always some amount of self-learning, as in any discipline you can't be spoonfed for all materials without doing it yourself.

You go further with self motivation and self-learning since there're only so many class hours, and there're a lot more topics in programming.
it's funny to read that people think Google is just being nice paying Mozilla.

Google gets a LOT more money from Mozilla than Mozilla gets from Google! Firefox is not "1%" of the web browsers, its still the major one in many areas, this means billions and billions of Google search uses.

And it does actually please shareholders that such a deal is made. It's a HUGE difference.
The author seems surprised that we don't understand everything.
Feynman: Nature's imagination is greater than your imagination.

A more interesting limit is relationships that cannot be understood in isolation. When these exceed our working memory, we can't perform our usual trick of hierarchical abstraction to look at one part or one aspect at a time.
Perhaps that could be our limit of intuitive understanding, unless we come up with a fundamentally new way of understanding complexity.
Two of the entries have two people in them ;)

They bundled Thomas Korte and Gokul Rajaram since they're the founders of AngelPad and they bundled Gady Nemirovsky and Robert Fanini since they're the founders of Inspiration VC.
More like you can now not drive on the highway. You can drive around in the suburbs (single player) but if you had a house far way (PSN+, XBL Gold) you can't get a refund even though you prepaid a years worth of rent.
Well nobody would have been surprised if Google dropped the Mozilla deal now. Have you seen the zillion articles thinking they actually would?

I dunno what make you think Google is "less evil" than Microsoft in that area. It's just business. Deal profits Google, Google makes deal.
When the balance changes, Google will stop making the deal.
Personally, I think they solved the easy part.. and the hard part is left. Creating a product is easy these days, but getting traction is like black magic.
Why what?

Why is GCC obsolete for iOS/OS X dev? Because Apple will not be updating it in the future to track changes in the Objective-C language, runtime, and iOS and OS X platforms.

Why won't Apple be updating it? Because they've indicated that they are not comfortable with contributing to projects based on the GPL, version 3, and they do not wish to be stuck forever on the last version of GCC released prior to that licensing change.

Why is Clang the future? Because Apple has anointed it as compiler which will be receiving future updates to track changes in the Objective-C language, runtime, and iOS and OS X platforms.

Why should any old projects that haven't already switched seriously consider doing so? Because the divergence between GCC and Clang is only going to increase with time, and code which doesn't make that transition now will face a much costlier transition down the road as new features become Clang-only and as it becomes increasingly impossible to run the old versions of Xcode which use GCC and for said old versions of GCC to build binaries which run on future versions of iOS and OS X.
their "first designer hire" posts often forget that everyone starts somewhere.

"We understand that- they just didn't start here- or anywhere else that is hiring, for that matter..."
How were they in the US in the first place?
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That's not something that will happen.
Mozilla is not there to monetize stuff that way.

They want this stuff to reach everyone. That means free.

If a non-user-impacting thing can bring money (such as the search deal), then great. If its feature that is only available for subscribers - no way - will never happen.
I love this approach!: SOPA? DeSOPA, MF! Yes, run circles around these idiots.

Tamer, you also do a great job of explaining in passionately clear, objective terms, the SOPA agenda, the weaknesses of its assuptions and it's dire consequences.

However, I strongly take issue with your own assumptions about the value of today's internet services.

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I've read about eddy currents in textbooks. But seeing them work is simply fascinating.

Maybe one day space rockets can land on planets using this principle.
I would argue that a good CS curriculum makes you a good Computer Scientist. I started really programming my senior year of high school. My code has been steadily improving since then. However if it was not for my CS courses I would't be able to tell the difference between a binary tree and a stack.

Programmers are artists. You can't teach art.
Computer scientists are mathematics. Math must be learned.

The two together are Engineers.
I was referring to javascript, I think in that regard it would fit the others as front-end development.
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Interesting... I had a professor who spent a ton of time looking at my code. I almost didn't like asking him a question, because before he'd answer it, he'd insist on reviewing at my code and making me refactor it, and it was always at least a half hour, often well over an hour, before we'd actually get to my question. It was good for me, though, and I knew it - I did ask him to be my senior thesis advisor.

Interestingly, this guy was a math professor, not a CS professor. But he was very particular about code.
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sortable tables in HTML are nearly impossible to implement.

This is definitely a solvable (and solved) problem.

and where do you sort? front end or back end? how much data are processing?

If you have all the data loaded clientside, sort it there. Otherwise, just make a call to the server to query for data compliant with the new sort order. Both methods are fairly low cost.
Yeah, so how that's fundamentally different of any other company?
Do you really think that if Chrome would get 90% of the market share the web would be a better place?

It'll be just as closed. It would still have some remains of open source, but the technologies wouldn't work with anything non-Google.

Which essentially is the same thing.

Heh, Mozilla should start MozillaSearch :P
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The graph of daily activations is pretty amazing. Based on current growth rates, they should pass 1 million daily activations some time in 2012.
I recently made the jump from doing freelance web development work with most of my clients coming from craigslist to being the Director of User Experience at a software startup developing algorithmic trading software and doing UI/UX consulting for another company.

Right now I am working in C#/WPF for one company and Sencha (ExtJS) for the other.
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Err Chrome's global budget is several magnitudes higher than 100M.

I wouldn't be surprised if the dev alone would cost slightly over 100M. (And Mozilla runs the whole company on that, not just Firefox's dev)
>> the article sounds to me like a troll post

I read it as no one knows everything, always proceed with caution.
I wrote a *nix kernel and shell for my OS class in 1997 in three nights. I also failed Intro to Philosophy, and got an A in 3D calc after sleeping thru the final.

I am still struggling with these issues to this day. We should try to figure out how to help ourselves and others like us manage these issues.

It's not 'bipolar disorder', specifically... It's not anything specific in terms of psychological disorders, so far as I have been able to determine. It's what is described in this article, to a tee.
Not very interesting if you don't tell me how it's done...
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Fair enough -- I was thinking more along the lines of a Groupon type coupon.
I hope you two will have some fun browsing the code and just messing around. Might be a well-motivated introduction to programming.
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Found out a method that might work in less than 10 minutes and try it out and find that it works? Possibly I could do that. (I've made 2 comments, Took about 10 minutes). I'm not sure I own the proper drivers to do it, I don't know enough about the video format to know what is required to decode it. I know my Grandmother, youngest half sister, step-mother, and many aunts would be nonplussed to do it (as I was arguing how valuable the media was to everyone, not to me; I pointed out YOU assumed EVERYONE had your abilities).

It was illegal until 2010, and I haven't owned DVD's since Xmas 2009. So yes, no inclination personally either. But I know that list of people has much better things to do than to learn to do all that stuff.

Now I own no (non-computer) DVDs. Why buy some? Why learn to do anything to them? I don't have any of the media.

I'd not even look at buying the DVD. Just like I don't look at buying the record, or the 8-track, or the floppy disc/betamax combo pack.
I ran Chrome for 4 years (yeah) and closed it today after this news.
Started Firefox Aurora and it crashed at opening.

Damn. Oh and this is my 3rd post.
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There's no infringement here, the pigs look different and there doesn't seem to be any stolen art or something. So Rovio probably couldn't do anything anyway.
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One common thread I noticed is AngelList. It's hard to overstate the important role AngelList has these days in connecting early startups with valuable mentors and investors.
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This may then mean that a matching Javascript VNC server is not far away? I've been looking into non-flash Desktop sharing options and found this recently which is a peer-to-peer screensharing service over WebSockets: https://labs.ericsson.com/developer-community/blog/screen-sh...
According to the linked presentation the app sends data by opening URLs in the web browser (which is obvious to the user unless the device is locked). It receives data by having the browser open URLs using a custom URL scheme (which can apparently be registered without any permissions).
Chrome may compete with Firefox, but Mozilla isn't a competitor for Google's profits or its core business.

As an analogy, consider Apple and Best Buy. Apple owns its own retail stores, and those stores are competition for Best Buy. But Apple isn't really in the business of retail; they have no reason to stop you from buying Macs and iPads at Best Buy. Retail is just a channel for Apple's real business, and its to their advantage to push their product through the channels they own and the channels they don't.

The browser is a channel for Google's core business of search advertising. Like Apple, they get some benefits from building and controlling a distribution channel of their own. But they have no motivation to stop pushing their core product to users of other browsers too.
Having it right on top of the playing field caused me to accidentally click it when trying to move around a block, taking me completely out of the game.

But possibly earning some cash if it is cost per tap. I sometimes think people who show advertising on their websites and/or apps must love tablets and phones because it is so easy to accidentally tap on an ad. I've done so many times, even though I'd normally never click an ad.
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If you own 11 Android devices, you're probably in the top 10% of earners in this country. Smartphones as a whole aren't near 50% of cell phones in the US; the plans are still prohibitively expensive. I think the case of a single person owning more than one Android device is a very rare one.
>Once you go Android, you tend to stay there

Interesting, I've heard the opposite. My brother knows several people who started out on Android, but switched to iphone. He ended up switching from learning to do Android apps to iPhone apps.
What was that python reverse program and if that's running then the device is in debug mode (since it's an emulator maybe it's always in debug mode?). So I'm left wondering what does this prove?
Sorry if I came off that way. I am confident in my abilities to create awesome interfaces but I still have a lot to learn and a lot of time/practice to put in. My original comment was meant to be from the viewpoint of a "desingineer".

I know the article is probably referring to someone who is equally talented in development as they are design, able to create the backend along with the frontend, but I feel that being able to implement my designs in Windows Presentation Foundation, ExtJS, JQueryUI, Wordpress, etc make me a desingineer as well.
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getting a screen extender to stitch together all eleven devices (don't forget the five tablets) would be amazing.
Yes, the RHEL5 kernel is obsolete in that it lacks the barrier support necessary to implement proper behavior with decent performance. The fact that obsolete ext3 runs better on also-obsolete 2.6.18 kernels doesn't really tell us much except that sometimes two pieces of software evolve together, and sometimes versions that were developed together work better than versions that were not.
So there's a way to establish two-way communication with an Android device, without enabling any permissions. But it's a very obvious system (works by launching intents, just like every other Android function), so it's hardly something that would work in any kind of stealth mode. Interesting hack, but not really as serious a vulnerability as the name might suggest.
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The word kiwi is unmistakeable, short, cool and indigenous to our country. We know what it means, and have invested in the "brand" if you like for over a hundred years. With things like seriously disproportionate losses in two world wars. Yes those fighting men were Kiwis. If someone wants to wrongly use it to refer to a fruit, that's their problem.

I'd also suggest, with respect, that the label "Wisconsinite" is a rather lame and unattractive one. Let's imagine you came from another state, with a much cooler alternate name for proud natives. Imagine you were a Hoosier. Now do you think you'd be so thrilled if some website decided a Hoosier wasn't what you thought it was, instead it was some view of your twitter feeds (or something) ?
Amazing! Are you planning to opensource this extension? It's very interesting to look inside.
Programming needs lots of training, for which self motivation, self teaching is important.

But to say that all programmers are self-taught is a little short sighted. Beyond the basic syntax, there are difficult concepts and idioms in many languages or programming paradigms that can be quite hard for a person (who is not familiar with such concepts, idioms, paradigms) to discover by him/herself. These things include pointers in C, reasoning about correctness of programs, recursive techniques (dynamic programming, etc.), and many functional programming concepts. Good teachers can make these things a lot easier to learn.
Ah, that's unfortunate.

I'll be implementing lthread_compute during the holidays. Keep an eye on that. :)
How are they tracking unique activations? IMEI numbers seems the most likely possibility to me, but I wouldn't think Google would keep a list of all the numbers on their servers.
To nitpick, Pfizer, Merck et. al. don't actually do science. What they do is more akin to spraying buckshot into the bushes and hoping to hit a furry animal hiding somewhere inside.

Not that this is a particularly bad approach. It worked amazingly well for the last few decades and has churned out a lot of blockbuster drugs.

It is, however, starting to fall apart as all the low hanging fruit has been picked. It's time for the big pharma's to start doing science again. The problem is that big pharma is thoroughly infatuated with quarterly stock prices and not developing new drugs. They are cannibalizing themselves in an effort to keep stock prices up and profits growing.

It's better to think of big pharma as remarkably successful marketing engines, not medical science companies.

For instance, I know of many scientists that work for big pharma companies which do not have access to any of the scientific literature (past the freely available abstracts). Management will not allow them to purchase these articles.

Consider that for a moment. The companies producing your drugs are not even remotely up to speed on cutting edge biological knowledge.

*Obligatory "I'm in biology so I'm not making this stuff up" disclaimer.
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I'm definitely not doing the same. I know that different people think differently, and responses to the same stimuli will be all over the map. This is why there's no such thing as Utopia, and why I take any one-size-fits-all solution with a mountain of salt.
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That sounded way too high. But then, holy crap: 1 billion people buying a device once every 3 years is ~ 1 million a day.

Wow.
That's quite inspiring. I would like to be where you are at, skill wise, in a few months time. Overcoming the inertia (and finding time after 12 hour work days), is proving quite the challenge.

How many hours did you spend per day, roughly, and how many all told?
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The've since added a link http://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-18/dc-18-presentations/L... to a presentation describing many of the basic ideas, for how apps can do things that they haven't been granted explicit permission to do.

The basic problem is that the permissions model is very leaky; there are lots of ways to work around it, by sending intents to other apps that have more permissions, by relying on certain OS services to call you in a more privileged way, by providing custom notifications that display on top of everything, and so on.

For instance, even if you don't request internet permissions, you can still open a URL, with whatever data you want to send encoded in the URL; and you can even do this in sneaky ways that the user can't detect if you're careful (only doing so when the screen is off, for instance, and redirecting to Google so they don't see anything odd when you turn the screen back on). And you can register a URL handler, that the page can redirect to, to communicate back to your app.
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Thanks, it's now in the post.
How can you possibly disagree?

If we accept the initial premise that designers who are also engineers are as rare as ninja-unicorns, then surely the logical thing to do is to turn them into managers?
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Great stuff, am a user.

Is that graph is cumulative tasks done?

Do you have a chart of daily active users? Would be a better indication of momentum, given each user may do several daily tasks.
IMEI most likely. They can transmit the number as a non-reversible hash (MD5 or similar), that way the number never gets sent or stored as plain text.
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Are you sure you're not? The thread pretty much looked like this when I posted that:

"This won't work because people will react the way I think."

"No, it will work because people will react the way I think."

"You can't just assume everyone will think the same way as you. Here's some anecdata to prove everyone thinks the same way I do."

Please help me here, because I'm failing to see the difference. (Granted, I think in both cases it's not so much "everyone thinks the way I do" as it is "sufficiently many people think the same way I do", but all the same.)