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I've spent far more programming hours pair-programming than working alone. It works for me. This fall I decided I wanted to learn Cocoa, so I called up Pivotal Labs and asked if they had any iOS projects I could work on. They paired me with someone who had been working with Cocoa for a year. On day one I was adding value. Within two weeks I was proficient, and within a month I was working as fast or faster than other developers at Pivotal. I wouldn't have been able to do it alone.

Pairing is the fastest way to ramp up in a new language, ecosystem, or codebase. And beyond just ramping up, it continues to teach you long after you reach mastery, because you're constantly exposed to new perspectives and ideas. Pairing is also good for the team... by rotating pairs frequently, you distribute knowledge through the team. It's like a RAID array for your codebase.

People talk about the cost of being interrupted. But what about the cost of having to read through someone's solo-written code when they're home sick and not understanding it? When your team is pairing, you can interrupt one person while the other person keeps coding, maintaining the focus for the pair. If you have a question, ask it. If the team needs to know something, tell them.

Working alone is good, too. I enjoy rocking out with my headphones or working quickly from a gut level understanding and not having to articulate it to a pair in words. But often I find that my solo code improves when I expose it to feedback from a pair. Not a slow asynchronous code review, but a real time back and forth conversation. For me, software is a social activity. Deadly silent offices give me the creeps.
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The only reason manga readers exist at all is because a reasonable alternative does not exist.

If you could download, legally, that sort of thing for a token fee, not like the $0.99 download that finally made online music scales work, the demand would drop quickly.

Why spend hours trying to torrent something when for a nominal fee you can get a legitimate copy in seconds?
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If Google has become so huge that theoretically they cannot enforce the "Do No Evil" motto throughout the whole company, they can remove that motto and publicly admit they are just the same as any other one.
Dangerous in the sense he knows how to break things, but not fix them. It's a common expression for people who are getting past the beginner stage moving on to intermediate.

There's also the dunning-kruger angle. He doesn't yet know what he doesn't know.
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Why spend hours trying to torrent something when for a nominal fee you can get a legitimate copy in seconds?

Actually, web manga readers are some of the most convenient way to read manga online.
I believe I've seen a variant of this with the neck shown. I'll see if I can hunt it down.
I think the current copyright laws are already too overreaching and need to be overhauled. They are basically owning a work forever now, and that's not how copyright was supposed to work. Copyright was supposed to protect the creator for a while, and then release it in the public domain, so other creators can make variations of it, and further enrich the culture, which was actually the ultimate goal of copyright.

Protecting the creator was just a means to an end, not the very end itself, which is how MPAA and RIAA are acting right now - like they own everything and forever (with the perpetual 20 year extensions), and are entitled to laws that further protect it, no matter what other rights they abuse to do that (case in point: SOPA, Internet disconnections, ISP monitoring for piracy, etc).

And no, "intellectual property" is not just like real property. Why? Because you can't just take someone's property and make variations of it, but you can do it with creative works, and it has been done since the beginning of time. And again, this was the ultimate goal of copyright, to allow other people later on to use those works, for the betterment of the whole society:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcvd5JZkUXY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq5D43qAsVg

So don't assume that just because they named it Intellectual Property now, it's exactly the same as real property. It's actually more unlike real property than it is like it. IP is more of a misnomer in this case. It's the same thing with patents. It's probably safe to assume that they changed it to that name exactly because people would think of it as real property, and give them more control over it than they ever should've had.
Just stumbled onto a Codecademy like clone called

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Wonder if these brothers are behind it?
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Here's an analogy: imagine a time before the civil war when slave owners go to Congress to demand draconian measures be enacted to find and repatriate runaway slaves, i.e. "Hey government, people are stealing our property, fucking do something about it" as you say. One can argue against such measures on all sorts of pragmatic and legal grounds, but all of those arguments are strengthened if one questions the underlying premise that humans can legitimately be considered property.

Likewise, all of the pragmatic and legal arguments against SOPA are strengthened if one does not tacitly accept the premise that intellectual property has the same legal standing as other kinds of property.
Please forgive me if I'm missing something, but doesn't Article 29, Section 3 make the Universal Declaration of Human Rights kind of a joke? The right to enjoy the arts doesn't really have teeth if the UN can just say it's contrary to its principles.

http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
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You've certainly identified the problem, but I don't know if your proposed solution make people like me switch off of spamming one's inbox. I've already tried to switch off to RememberTheMilk, but email was just too easily accessible and too ubiquitous, something I look at all the time. I'd need a whole separate screen just to keep track of what I want to do in RTM.
Look up the term "security theater". That's exactly what they are doing.

Well, that and buying extremely expensive machinery from a company partially owned by the very man, Michael Chertoff, who co-wrote the PATRIOT act and jump-started this whole stupid thing. Talk about revolving-door politics and corruption. That bothers me more than any pat-downs.
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And Google copied the search engine from many others before it.

Ebay wasn't the first Auction site. Amazon wasn't the first site to sell books. etc. etc.

So Andrew Dumont, let me get something straight.

It's not alright for sites to copy ideas but it is perfectly alright for you to copy images/tables from the economist, put them on your site/blog and pass them off as your own?

Link to original economist article;
http://www.economist.com/node/21525394
Did you change the company's name/logo as well?

Can you elaborate please?
I know things like that are mired in a mixture of indifferent publishers, Japan tending to be quite insular, and licensing restrictions.

It's not a technical problem you can solve with copyright enforcement. It's a supply problem caused by vendors not being in the right channels.

That there's a web reader that works should prove there's demand.
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I think this guy has it exactly backwards. These kids are going to Greenland, which is to say, the real world, and hanging out with the Eskimos (who, by the way, do not actually call themselves Eskimos, which is one of the many things this guy would have known had he actually gone and hung out with them). It's the kids going to college who are browsing the Burberry catalogs. They come out with their shiny diplomas and their sparkling academic records, which make them look very presentable at interviews, but render them largely useless on the ice.
Maybe it's the Google employees on here trying to make excuses for their employer?
For reference, Haskell's version of that is called Either.

You also sometimes use ErrorT which is a way to slap an Either on any other Monad. The T just denotes that it's a monad transformer.

Coincidentally, I agree wholeheartedly about how practical programming like this is--this sort of error handling is at once easier and more explicit than exceptions.
Sure, but Java doesn't have that. =) Some of the Java.next languages (Scala among them) do, though.
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"Patriot Act" is the so-called "popular" title. The "official title" is "To deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world, to enhance law enforcement investigatory tools, and for other purposes."

If I had to guess, "and for other purposes" is basically a catch-all for anything not explicitly named.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:HR03162:@@@T
I have done some GUI work with QT. I found their documentation to be very good. All in all it was pretty easy to pickup.
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Yup, and I'm just adding something to consider when interpreting it.
Awesome, can we get the same done for NDAA?
Routing is heavily based in graph theory, as far as I know, and so is actually fairly mathematical.

Memory management can also require a good bit of math. A perfect example would be taking an existing algorithm and optimizing it to use fewer memory accesses. We covered this sort of optimization in my recent algorithms class (for some algorithms) and it figuring out how to do required a good bit of math.

Really, the issue is that a programmer who doesn't use math is much less likely to see how math would be applicable to any particular situation. This is just like the programmer who does not know about, say, hash maps--he would not realize what he is missing.
If it was theater only for those who want to feel more secure, I'd be less aggravated with it. But my forced participation into such theatrics, such as removing shoes, no water bottles, seems that it will only lead to more annoying machinations in the future. Furthermore, this theater only makes the people we are trying to protect against, more creative.
It is too bad our country doesn't care about education. All I hear about on the morning news in California is Jerry Brown making cuts to public spending on education. My wife and I put a lot of time into tutoring our daughter (1st grade) and it would be nice to know that by the time she reached the secondary education level that an option like a Software Engineering focus was available to her. I will try to stay positive and vote for government officials who support creative and proactive educational systems like this.
I was wondering this myself; does Apple include their VAT information in EU? They are a company in Luxemburg and Ireland; which one sends the checks and does it include their EU VAT number if it's the Luxemburg SARL? Basically in the EU if you do business with a company, you don't have to pay VAT.

On the other side, for the buyers the 'invoice' contains nothing about VAT and their have been lively discussions if there is VAT, should be VAT and if there is how freelancers/companies can get that VAT back (again, company-company payments don't have to pay VAT, but getting it back across borders can be quite hard, especially when it is unclear if there is any).
I don't know. But even if it's true, and even assuming we can develop a vaccine, how do you propose to go out and vaccinate every nine-banded armadillo, not missing even one population large enough to harbor the disease? This isn't an endangered species - they're all over the southeastern US.
Allowing companies to exactly clone other companies is not necessarily good for the market, and I tend to think it's a net negative, especially if it has a chilling effect on innovation.

For an example - at one point in the past, I thought about making a Facebook game, but then I thought "If it succeeds, Zynga will just clone it immediately and pour millions of dollars into marketing theirs, making mine seem like the knockoff". So, I said screw that and I started something else that wasn't a Facebook game. In this case, this sort of effect helps Zynga develop a monopoly.

In making something, making the right set of design decisions is vastly harder than implementing it once those decisions are made. Back when implementation was also extremely difficult, this was probably less of a problem, but now that you can outsource your infrastructure, this is potentially a very real problem.
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A huge difference at a cafe (or library, or beach villa patio ...) is that the people around you don't have any say in your activity. Other than, perhaps, the cafe manager who could kick you out for hogging the table.

But, generally, the people there are strangers (or casual aquaintences), not workplace bosses, subordinates, rivals, or even true collaborators. So what they do has a lot less influence on you than would be the case at an office (or a home environment for those who work at home with roommates or family).

Not only does this reduce interruptions (other than someone with low social awareness or boundaries, you're not likely to get interrupted), but the conversations and activities at other tables don't concern you. While you might casually observe or evesdrop as a diversion, you've got no stake in the outcome of a given conversation or interaction.

Similarly, you can flirt with the boy or girl at the next table without worrying about it turning into an HR issue.

This is much less the case in an office. Particularly one with any sort of disfunctional relationships.

Online collaborative projects (including Free Software projects) typically operate similarly. People participate because they're interested and are capable. You can't be fire (OTOH: you're often not being paid), but in a sense this is a good thing as it disintermediates work and work product from concerns over how that product is received.
Get real Tnuc. There is a big, big different from using a small image from another site, and coping a whole site, it's layout, colour scheme, functionality, and even using a similar domain/brand name.
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I have actually done this a few times in several different markets. For instance, I used to buy domains in the GoDaddy Auctions for $x and resell them for $xxx+ instantly to other webmasters/domainers. I actually ended up giving the method out for free including the core details and the services used to find the domains which would give the biggest ROI. The method still works today.
I believe the point is that within the past month Google's "Do no evil" has jumped the shark. It no longer exists. But some people still trust them for some reason that I dont understand. Maybe because Matt Cutts seems like a nice guy or they are just hanging on to google's past. In addition to this Mocality deal, what stands out is their blatant favoritism of Google+ in their search results.

Google has been preaching for years about relevancy and unbiased search results. Even testifying in DC - http://searchengineland.com/mr-cutts-goes-to-washington-6123... - Google’s results are determined by an algorithm and not tweaked to get particular sites ranking well. - Yet they now have tweaked their results in order to place their Google+ brand above results that are much more relevant than theirs.

Some might argue, "hey, it is Google's website - they can do what they want." I used to think like this too, but the reality is that this behavior is bad for consumers and bad for businesses. Especially smaller businesses. This isn't just about Facebook and Twitter... there are hundreds of smaller niche content players that will be pushed aside by this. And as Google has to grow to keep shareholders happy, they will have to move into more and more content. If this still seems like a stretch see the example below.

What if there were only 2 companies that owned land in San Francisco and New York? One of them was named Google and they owned 70% of San Francisco and 90% of New York. In the beginning Google allowed anyone to rent their land for retail stores. So you had all different kind of companies providing different kinds of products in their stores. Hundreds of different businesses. Then all of the sudden Google decided to take over those retail locations and sell their own goods. They also sold other company's goods, but they were way back in the store. Hidden away. So if you were walking down the street in New York, 90% of the time a store would be owned by Google and 90% of the time you would only see marginal Google products. Now would that be good for business? Who would go into business? It would be so hard to compete. Would that be good for the consumer?

I believe in free enterprise, but only to a certain extent. There is a reason why antitrust laws exist. If they didn't, companies like Google never would have existed. We would all be working for Rockefeller.
I thought this was the point of the Sectera Edge, which has been around for a long time.
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Both universities and Thiel are exploiting a resource: the young and naive.

Universities extract from them tuition.

But the price Thiel extracts is much more than financial.

These kids are sacraficing a time in their lives they will never get back... to produce a return a potential return for VC. It's a time they could be spending in the pursuit of knowledge (for nothing other than the joy of such curiosity), with their peers, instead of trying to make a buck for some VC.

But that's their choice.

You have your whole life to make money.

But you only get one year to be 19 and impressionable.

Universities are businesses, sure, but they are also environments ideally suited to impressionable 19 years olds.
Can we say the same for Silicon Valley?
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A seductive idea, but ultimately of stunningly limited use in software engineering. By far the most costly defects in software creation are due to incorrect requirements or poor systems design. Knowing with mathematical certainty that your software component does exactly what you have specified it to do helps little when what it does is still the wrong thing.

And that doesn't even touch on the fact that crafting components is but a tiny part of the work required to produce software.
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Though I'm thinking I've seen similar styles before. It's vaguely reminiscent of some of the 1960s/1970s psychedelic comics such as R. Crumb. Not really my forte though.
Indeed. In a far far distant past I started out as freelancer for that reason. I have never argued (and verbally fought) so much and coded so little in my life. But I kind of like that aspect as well; I was a 'want to only code', but I apparently like doing sales as well, and account management, and project management. Only thing I detest are taxes/money related matters. That always messes up my month; I always celebrate the moment one of my companies reaches the 'now we can hire someone to do the money crap' moment.
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This is an important point. I am reading a lot of defence on here for google and there is little to back it up. This isn't a minor oversight executed by a small team, rather the precise opposite.

I would say Google's reply has been a lie(dare I say "utter bullshit") - an idea like this doesn't accidentally become implemented. It wasn't even implemented in a small way, both being executed from inside google and google finding it worthwhile to pay a separate company to expand the program for them. (A company doing exactly what google has asked of them, to the point of google having to approve the scripts used by callers.)

This is incredibly bad of them, and while "HQ" might not have fully understood the methods being used they wouldn't have not known nothing about it. It's about on par with News Corp executives pretending they didn't know about voicemail-hacking.
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Why is it easier? That's just doing the monad transformation by hand instead of letting a compiler take care of that for you (in the case of EitherT and do-notation the compiler takes care of the intraprocedural transformation for you). It's rather in the same category as Node.js programmers doing CPS transform by hand.
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It's a shame he used Corona. We made that mistake for our first two games. Don't get me wrong, I really like LUA, but Corona, to me is a scam. And here is why: LUA allows you to quite straightforward plug in 3rd party libs (DLLs/SOs), but they intentionally crippled this in Corona; it's not possible with the 'normal version' (you pay 100s of $ for; http://www.anscamobile.com/pricing/). You need to buy an enterprise support 'thing' (it's not a license, it's a one-off) which costs, and I kid you not, $40.000 per 'feature' you need added. So we started porting our games as this kind of crippling, to me, is just lock-in-and-steal. If you wrote a significantly large game in Corona and you need something from iOS/Android which is not in there yet, you are going to pony up $40k (multiple times maybe).

And yes, we could've known this upfront obviously. But I think quite a lot of Indie guys skip over this point at first.
I'm not talking about certainty. I'm saying that humans are impossibly bad at figuring out the first two variables in that equation, and only slightly better at figuring out the cost of learning.

And the opportunity cost of not knowing things can be staggering.

If you just want to maximize your wealth, maybe that approach is workable, since there are more tangible numbers involved, but if you're optimizing for happiness, it's much, much harder.