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OP was quoting the article, about as on topic as you can get!
I am never judgemental of others religious convictions, people are obviously entitled to believe what they want, however I would expect someone with a background in mathematics to teach mathematics, someone with a background in history to teach history, someone with a background in science to teach science and someone with a background in bible theology to teach R.E. (religious education)!
I cant help but wince every time I hear a story about a deeply religious person becoming a teacher to teach biology or history! Especially in america where some already dispute the "theory" of evolution and refuse to teach it in schools!
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It's worth pointing out that the Ace is much closer to the 3Gs vs. the 4 in terms of components; naturally it'll have a price advantage. Not to say price is the only reason for it's success (I presume the 3Gs is on sale there as well), just that we're comparing two different classes of device.
Yep. Even Seagate thinks their products suck. I agree.
That is exactly how you run a business. Business isn't just about products. You need people to buy them. If your brand is tarnished because people don't like you, it doesn't matter how good your products are. If you run something like Pax and people don't want to come because you have a reputation for having a bunch of arrogant a-holes, you will not have a viable business model for long.

Most people miss the human aspect to business. It's one of the most crucial elements that affects marketing, branding, customer service, sales, etc. If people hate you, no matter how much they like your products, you eventually fail.
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I listen to pretty much anything on Pandora when I'm having trouble focusing or I'm not in a quiet place. Music with words doesn't bother me. I've been listening to holiday music lately. My favorite groups to listen to are Coldplay and The White Panda. (White Panda music is all free on their website. They make money from concerts.)

TV is too distracting for me oddly enough.
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It might not be, but still, we have only so much oil around, and many more electricity sources, so in the long run electric is a better option.
"""This claim is clearly false on Mac OS X and X Window platforms, and disputable on Windows, with the increasing share of .NET apps."""

Actually it is not.

On OS X tons of programs, and especially the very largest, most popular ones, are in C++ (think: Photoshop and the Creative Suite, MS Office, and lots of Apple's own: Safari (webkit) is C++, Final Cut and Logic are C++, etc. Don't confuse the front-end UI code (Cocoa) with the backend. C++ is a first class language in XCode, and you can mix it with Obj-C as Objective-C++.

On X Window platforms: besides KDE, some of the most important apps are C++, including Firefox, Thunderbird and Open Office.

On Windows there are almost no .NET apps that people actually use --people as end users, as opposed to corporations. Most of the popular stuff, from games, to office suites, to design suites, to browsers, etc are C++.
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Got it. Good to know
I hate this superset/subset idea -- those are just different languages, with separate philosophies and totally incompatible practice sets. Merging is an equal madness as merging Haskell with Python.

On the other hand, from a fully practical view, even after omitting all incompatibilities a C code compiled with C++ compiler will be bloated with C++ standard lib, and will have screwed symbols.
I dislike monopolies using their monopoly power to eliminate a competitor. Even when the product they come up with is technically superior.
If I understood correctly, those were a predecessor of the current lectures. I had no problems with audio missing.
(but yes quality could have been better)
"This isn't how you run a business."

It absolutely is. If I were running an event like PAX, I wouldn't want someone like that ruining the perception of the quality of my event. Event organizers are on the hook to curate the quality of their associated partners.
This post needs a comparison with CS229a prior to the online courses. Was the course harder before online classes and then got significantly dumbed down? Or was the course easy enough that it was a good candidate for the project?
LOL — killed him.
I think your math is a little off, 100K signed up for the AI class, only 40K actually turned in a HW, guessing that less than 20K actually finished,

guessing none of the classes this spring will have anything close to that enrollment
Late answer here, but that's not the delete contact button. That's in a row of buttons above the contact (in a more... dropdown, to be precise). This button just blanks the name, and is kind of a shortcut alternative to ctrl-a delete.
He means an actual Matrix interface, with operators and all, as opposed to a bunch of functions that just hide the arrays under the carpet.
Apparently it was an idea they had for a charity that never went anywhere:

"David (Kotkin) said it was a LLC for a charity that was never actually created," he said. "He bought the name thinking Paul would be involved, but nothing came of it. The company never actually existed."
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> Nobody sees a problem with this?

I don't see a problem with it -- I assume it's largely a PR move. If it'll produce an overall positive reaction from the public, it's a good move, right? You're not suggesting there's something illegal about canceling their booth, are you?

> What if I wanted to do the same thing, but for a political opinion?

It depends how unpopular that opinion is. If you choose to exclude someone who's a vocal Nazi, it'd probably be smart move to publicly distance yourself. If it's someone who just disagrees with you on tax policy, it'd probably do you more harm than good to try to exclude them on those grounds.
It's going to depend on which building code you're dealing with, of course, but that certainly sounds plausible.

I don't think I'd want to place any bets on how often that particular requirement actually gets satisfied, though.
I disagree. Someone else boiled it down better: are OSS projects immune to criticism merely because you can fix them, given enough time? No. Doesn't matter whether you can argue it pleasantly or not.
Works very well. And nice touch on the auto-updating pagination.
Absolutely, as I said I outsource all storing of credit card information to Authorize.net. Storing them myself is not a responsibility that I would take lightly and I'm sure they'll do a better job than me.

For passwords, while I do not force users to have secure passwords, I of course allow complex passwords (including 32 characters with any symbols and so on) because this is what I use and if there's one thing I hate, it's websites like my bank that force me to only use 6 numbers for the password.
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If you're looking for feature ideas, it might be interesting to be able to tell how deeply buried each link is from the homepage. I have some sites with a ton of content and I'd love to know how easily reached different pages are.
Website =/= web service

Large saas, social media, and rich media delivery services have many times more complex factors than a simple content site. Why do you think Netflix, Facebook, many major banks and loan servicing institutions and most financial portals have chosen the web app strategy. It's not just because they are idiots and don't get it, it's that theyve recognized the unsupportable nature of multiple mobile platforms with such limited penetration.
Try building a thief assassin with illusion mastered and then you'll tell me if you don't need spells. You are playing a very very little part of skyrim if you don't need magic.
He's talking about raw ore, and you're citing articles about concentrated/refined/treated metals and construction lumber.
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Ask HN: I feel like im getting close to hitting a wall.
Some back story,

5 years ago I was in a slump, I had stopped school for personal reasons and I became borderline depressed. My whole family suffers from bipolar disorder so its something I am used to. I digress..

I was never a good student in school, high school I barely attended and I really had no business being in college when I did go. Luckily I have always had a passion for computers.

About 4 years ago I got sick of wasting my life, started going to the gym and being motivated. I had my father who works in the finance industry see if he could get me an internship somewhere in tech. I was offered a job about 6months in because they were happy with my work and how fast I picked everything up.

I have been working with perl and mysql for nearly 3 years now. Perl was the first language I learned, I dabbled in others (C++/Java/Lua/JS). I am 100% self taught and very motivated. I have some modules out, nothing too crazy.

Perl is a very awesome language to those who use it. Unfortunately all the places that look like a blast to work at are mostly python/ruby. I currently support my girlfriend who is a full time student, rent, misc bills. I cant afford to just quit and learn a new language. I also have two start ups one a mobile app with another developer and another whom gave me an equity stake to keep me. I work close to 85hrs some weeks. I cant even afford a vacation.

I really don't know what to do, am I to just accept this as my life and be a Perl developer? I know I can do other projects in other languages, but when all you do is get projects in a single language how can I become anything better than proficient.

Do any of you have similar situations or any advice you can offer me? I just feel like i'm losing my passion that used to keep me up 24hrs a day writing code. I'm only 26 so this is scaring me. What will happen when i'm 30?
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[Fixed above]

While I understand that I risked the ire of grammar (and spelling) nazis by invoking an argument for professionalism in communication, let's be honest: a small typo is a far cry from a seemingly near complete inability to articulate a coherent thought.

To put it more plainly: picking apart a small typo here is gratuitous.
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Looks good & works well, based on a couple of sites-- unsure on the doctor image. It's funny but it might prevent some people from taking the site seriously.

-- remove "example.com" from search box when gets focus?

-- rather than blacklist certain domains, maybe you could cap the number of link checks? With utilities like this I always try a popular site to see how it works, before entering one of my own sites. I was unable to do that, which was a little frustrating at first.

-- add a quick description of service on main page? Not sure if "check your website's links" would be obvious to everyone.
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Using those gift cards - Best Books List
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Exactly. Penny Arcade knows who their customers are -- the gaming population at large.

Those customers not only buy branded merchandise, but are also the reason that PAX is profitable, because those gamers buy tickets to PAX, and then go to the convention and buy gaming-related goods.

The vendors are not the customer. They're important, but secondary to the gamers by a wide margin.

What Mike has done is to show, in a very concrete way, that he will stand up for his customers, and in any business, that's a solid move.
Absolutely it is user content that make them successful. But Google doesn't "need" to do anything unless users force them to need to. Meaning, if their complaints aren't answered, leave.
Google certainly has the right to do this, I think OP wasn't arguing with that.

That doesn't mean we have a) not talk about it or b) not like it
I think it's entirely appropriate to determine that you do not want to have a _terrible_ business person occupying an official booth, as long as that determination is based on decisions and actions that person made in a business setting. Particularly a business setting that is in your industry or very close to home.

It's not "one bad email," it is a series of emails demonstrating a pattern of ridiculous and entirely unacceptable behavior. Behavior that is unbecoming of any businessperson, and not someone I personally would associate myself with if possible.
Regarding the hype of this app -- this is a response from a friend who is a journalist and has covered this kid's app :

"unfortunately the kid is pretty good at marketing himself, and a 16 year old app developer makes a good story"
So, all we're going to do is nerdrage about C vs. C++ here. There will be diehard architecture astronauts on the one side, and crufty neckbeards on the other. We've all seen this thread before.

~

Instead, let's talk about things that C++ got right that aren't super obvious! :)

For me, one of the coolest things about C++ is having destructors. The neat thing about them is that they are based on the scope of an object, and tie directly into when the object leaves scope in the language (as determined at compile time). Any code there gets run when the object is deleted or leaves scope, and this is guaranteed to happen immediately.

So, I know exactly when an object is no longer "needed", and if I'm careful I can use things like smart pointers and reference counting to guarantee that a shared resource gets removed when it needs to. I can also override new/delete and do some magic to have a reliable "hey, come free me from the heap later" behavior--when the destructor is called, have the class append itself to a list of things to be GC'ed when the time is right.

Java, for example, doesn't do this--a request to finalize may be fulfilled, one day, when the VM feels like it. This makes smart handling of things like system resources really clunky, and can force me to write C-ish code like freeSystemResources() or something. Having an ability to explicitly know when lexical scope has been left is pretty cool.

What other cool things have you seen in C++ (or C)?
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Mos' def, however I occasionally wish there was a simple line on the left hand side gutter showing only the level of nesting currently active.
The service is a good MVP - now it's time to beef up the features.

I have a friend who is working on a very similar product - it will be launched sometime in the next few weeks... keep an eye out for competition ;)
The thing about accessories is the profit margins are so incredibly fat you can make all sorts of demands and most accessories makers will acquiesce. When I was working at BB most accessories were in the 10x cost range.

This is the first time I've seen an accessories maker push back. But this is the first time I've seen a retailer try to get a commission retroactively. I can probably imagine this came from an over eager Amazon exec trying to squeeze a little extra into his quarterly reports. I can't imagine even Walmart trying something that brash.
Just because somebody believes in religion does not mean that they do not believe in science. And because someone believes that God created everything does not mean they do not believe in evolution. It is perfectly fine to believe in both.
You have no idea of their business, infrastructure, needs, etc.

You shouldn't advise one platform against the other.
When PG mentioned that SOPA supporters were no longer invited to YC demo days did you bring up the same argument?
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Bravo. That reminded me of gruberesque translated PR-speak :)
How is this different from Taskrabbit?
I had the opposite reaction: I lost faith in the book's analytical process only ten pages in, when Hofstadter claimed that Bach's canon was a "strange loop" simply because it modulates to a higher key. Sure, if you keep doing this you can get to the same key, an octave higher, but that's only because pitch itself is periodic, repeating the same notes every octave. There's nothing unique or mysterious about Bach's canon in this regard; anything that modulates up a step has the same property (for example, the chorus to "Mandy" by Barry Manilow).

I think the far more interesting observation is that octaves in music work this way, where we as humans somehow perceive frequencies in a 2:1 ratio as "the same, but different." A 440 and A 880 aren't the same pitch, and we can clearly perceive the difference between them, and yet the seem "the same" to the point that we give them the same letter and think of them as the same. I find that very interesting and slightly mysterious.

Anyway, since music is my area of expertise (as opposed to the other things described in the book) I lost faith that his explanations of the other subject material wouldn't have similarly sloppy thinking. The impression I got was that, in an effort to weave an interesting and engaging narrative, he was too quick to see things as instances of these fanciful concepts like "strange loops."
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PAX is already known (and generally praised for) for being opinionated on the quality of booths. For example, they make a point to ban "booth babes". Kicking out companies that act like jerks to customers sounds like a good business plan to me.
I believe a mistake of omission is different from being unable to distinguish a period and an apostrophe. Also, we are commenting online with each other, not responding in an official capacity to customer service inquiries.
CS229a didn't exist prior to the online courses.
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It is abundantly clear Google is trying to build a community with Google+. Namely, they are trying to build Facebook's community. Real names, clean content, and so on. Siegler's prominent, so if he crossed the line, he is going to get slapped. You can argue if Google should do that (obviously no, but whatever) or the reasons for why they are doing that, but it is what they are doing. What interests me is if it will work. Facebook got their community somewhat naturally. Yes, there has been policing, but for the most part college students liked their own little club and felt safe when it started. They wanted to put their real names on there and wanted to keep the place somewhat clean (mostly cause Facebook was practically a dating site to many). So will it work for Google+? Sadly, I think yes. There will be a blogfit over this, a bunch of tech geeks will post flipping the bird shots on Google+, but the sense that Google+ is a place with decorum will probably prevail. But it is much more artificial and forced, which I think is the real problem behind all of Google+. There is a certain intangible that makes social networks tick, and places like Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter found it. Google+ is more like a place that ticks cause there is a team of doctors heavily monitoring a pacemaker more than anything.
Reminds me of a quote from the Office that I thought was rather poignant: "Business is always personal. It's the most personal thing in the world."
I feel as though the victim may be the target here. If you've dealt with customers in any way shape or form you'll see a huge percentage of them need to be put into the corner with the dunce hat on.

Him telling them how it is doesn't change anything. Its as if he has committed a crime for saying what every customer facing worker thinks on a daily basis.
tl;dr "His parents are rich and I'm incredibly jealous".

He was given a macbook age 9. What's the point of your sarcastic jab "And I'm sure his parents had nothing to do with his funding arrangements, of course."? Of course they did, but why does it matter?

I hate to talk about privilege, and this kid is clearly smart, but the smell of upper class is hardly bearable, sorry.

He's smart and you hate to talk about class but you can't bear hearing about his text summarization software because of the contents of his parent's bank account or because he has access to more stuff than you? What?
That's quite a lovely album (and also one of my favorites to listen to while working). You might also like Yo-Yo Ma's recent album which has a surprisingly similar feel even though it features different performers -- http://www.npr.org/event/music/142242654/yo-yo-ma-edgar-meye....
My degree is in Fine Art, and I thought the class was pointlessly easy. Fix the class in two easy steps:

Lecture live, record the lectures. EVERY speaker is more effective when they have the feedback of their audience's faces.

Expect the members of the public to meet the class' standard, don't shrivel the curriculum to match the public. An applied CS course that doesn't demand programming is bizarre. Flunk everyone if you have to. Grades should perhaps reflect understanding?
It's been over twenty years since I finished college. Last year I did a "certificate in quantitative finance" at UW which -- like the Stanford classes -- were both online and seemingly aimed at working professionals. It's interesting to compare these on three fronts:

1) The amount of rigor and work required for the Stanford classes was significantly less than the UW classes. I spent as much as 10 hours per week on the UW homework in addition to the 3-4 hours of video lectures. That's against about an hour for the Stanford homework and another 60-90 minutes for the lectures. I agree with the OP's description of the ML homework as starting out at a decent level of difficulty and quickly becoming trivially easy.

2) I found the format of the Stanford lectures considerably easier to follow. By making a canned recording, there's a huge amount of dead time which can simply be edited out of the lecture. That plus the ability to watch at 1.5x speed meant that I was rarely tempted to do something else at the same time as watching the lecture -- something which frequently caused me trouble with the UW classes.

3) The UW classes were something like $3500/course. If my employer hadn't been willing to reimburse me, I wouldn't have taken them.

All-in-all, I think the Stanford classes are great experiments in which I'm happy to participate. I'm planning to take five of them in Jan-Mar.
I havent looked at your previous version but here are my thoughts for improvement:

Login Register page resets all the fields if something is wrong in the form

Login and Create Free account buttons flow over the background image in Chrome

The menu buttons are not very clear... Keeping it simple with not a lot of graphics will server better

On the landing page the bottom half font is not pretty try using a different font.

Video Demo, About, Blog links are out of place... try bottom left

Try browser testing on different browsers

Overall text fonts can be improved

Default user image broken.

The map navigation speed is good

Actually the website looks better in IE, all the comments above are for chrome (my default).. I would suggest you guys use Reset.css so that browser specific UI settings are cleared.
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