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Obama showed in the election that he understood the web. He was a professor. Now he's hiring a physicist. Could he be a nerd? Is that possible?
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And that department does some of the best work on alternative energy out there, so he knows how to attract (and presumably manage) talent. Wonderful
TRS-80 was good enough for me, should be fine for today's kids.
Probably because you're more likely to be unhappy with the state of things if you understand them well.
At least Windows GUI is written in Delphi, that is Object Pascal.

Edit: also, there are many new Delphi/Pascal projects, just check out http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/ the "True Death" is highly exaggerated.
Delegation of responsibilities is difficult to do and even harder to stick with, but the rewards are worth it.
Man, someone take this down. Its not news, its valleywag
The term exists to delineate between a subset of the general populace and the rest. Just like dentist. Dentists are the subset of the population that you see when your tooth aches, and scientists (especially a few specializations) are the ones you ask when you want to know why the glaciers are melting.

When someone say scientists agree on global warming, its like saying dentists agree on the causes of cavities. It's useful because it's talking about people in the know who are more apt to make such conclusions.

That's why you apologists try to demean the term. If nobody is a scientist then nobody has any more valid opinion than yours.
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"What Bill Gates can't deny is providing the following nugget of perspicacity to the 2004 World Economic Forum. "Two years from now," the father of modern information technology said, "spam will be solved". As anyone with an email account can testify, the avalanche shows no sign of receding."

Spam may not be solved... but in some ways - and for me - it is. I don't think I've seen a single spam message in the two or three years since I've started using gMail, and I am always quite amused when my family talks about how much spam it gets... (Nor do gmail filters mark things I want as spam).
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Man, I wish I was in Chicago long enough to go to this. I went out with Sachin a few days before and his actions were similarly hilarious.

The last line is the only thing that matters:

We’d like to note that in spite of all the fun, Mr. Agarwal worked very hard and raised a lot of money for the kids.
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Although web software companies can easily grow with small investments, hardware companies are a different story. Saas can make it easily with no help but if we are looking for an apple, a super android phone, a new sidekick or another AMD VCs better keep writing big checks.
At first I interpreted this as wishful thinking, but there may be a bit of truth to it. To some extent intelligence can breed disillusionment and along with that depression. I don't think that I need to convince anyone in this crowd that smart creative types tend to be stifled and frustrated in most of today's institutions; school, office jobs. The associated depression can easily manifest itself as a drinking problem.

The concept of emotional intelligence, while buzzwordy and overused, goes a long way to explain this as well. IQ doesn't correlate with or slightly negatively correlates with EQ. Self control is supposed to be an element of EQ. Higher IQ students can often coast though school without developing self-control and healthy coping mechanisms needed in later life.
actually i agree.. if you want a UI that is consistent and easy to build, flex has a few hands up over ajax...

ive been using flex builder for linux for a while... and frankly after trying out the windows (fully functional) trial version, i felt the windows version did not justify the price... sure there are a couple of superficial things the windows version has (like the design view - which is "ok")..

only gripe is the linux version is still in alpha so feel a bit jibbed and not to mention hesitant paying full price for it...

the real issue for me is they are leveraging so much of the eclipse framework to build an IDE, they should have more of an obligation to give it away for free, unlike MS (with its VS products)
That's like saying "doctor" is a magic word. There are all sorts of doctors. Heart Surgeons, pediatricians, ER doctors. They all specialize in very different things.

But they all have a very strong base level of training in medicine. You could ask a psychiatrist about your back problem, and while he's clearly not an orthopedic surgeon, he can probably give you useful feedback. And if he put a little time into research, he could tell you a lot. That's because he's highly trained to do so.

It's the same with scientists. Sure someone with a PhD in physics might not be as knowledgeable about global warming as a geologist. But they're still pretty capable of figuring out, especially with a little effort. Their opinion is considerably more useful than a lay person, which is why people are fascinated with their thoughts on the topic of global warming.
I'm glad that I'm a funny drunk. Pek just called me the "Tara Reid of the startup world" because I get smashed at every event. Here's Pek's whole flickr set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gleentea/sets/72157610933344159...
Terminal is nice, spaces is nice, expose is great. Having an OS that can suspend/resume is really nice.

But it's just not Windows. My favourite apps aren't here, I don't know my way around the filesystem, all the Windows-specific tools I know are meaningless. When I stray too far outside Safari, it's pretty bleak.
Ha. I guess that's if you get the solid state drive.
Im surprised no one has mentioned OpenID.

It has pretty much failed at this point, but it was sort of an attempt to fix this problem.
yeah, but it's not valley - it's more like midwestwag
A lot of great QBs got their starts when the superstar they were behind got injured. Steve Young for instance.
Dawdle CEO dawdling around before losing himself?
oh great ... no one bailed out the piano industry (http://mises.org/story/3253), so why the car industry now???
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> say scientists agree on global warming, its like saying dentists agree on the causes of cavities

Not even close. I really hope you can stop and think about this analogy and see how both the professional labels and the questions differ dramatically.

> If nobody is a scientist then nobody has any more valid opinion than yours

Nobody is a "scientist" because there's no such thing. There are etymologists and geologists and chemists and so on, just as there are plumbers and linguists, each qualified in their domains. As best I can tell all that unifies the "scientific professions" is that the paychecks are mostly from academia, because the work isn't commercially viable. That's not a slight at all, it's just to throw light on how ridiculous the distinction is. Any high IQ job involves problem solving and theory.
You are wrong that it can only predict static and unchanging behaviour. It might just be that there isn't enough data to draw any relevant conclusions about Napoleon dynamite.
why are people "cobbling out applications if it is so hard?" - shame for one. I think many people feel ashamed to abandon the hard path and take the easy path. But, open standards aside (which should be the real reason), if something fits well (both as a solution and with adoption) why not?
I become wary of top 10, 8, 5, 52 lists of anything when you see more and more of them. It becomes fluff reading...like the enquirer for hackers.
"No magic question will let a random unskilled person effectively interview for a technical position."

Exactly! Maybe pilots should interview pilots about the nuances of piloting (and once that talk is over, probably ask him to fly with the interviewer in teh copilot role) and leave out the "where do you see yourself in five years" type questions?
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I agree so much with the "Log files are where data goes to die" that it hurts. Here's what I spent half an hour investigating this morning.

The general flavor, with more than a few details fictionalized: picture your standard credit card order form.

First Name: Elaine Smith who teaches in 6th grade at George Washington Middle

Last Name: School

Now, in a real comedy of unlikely events, everybody just passed that transaction along to the next step of the chain.

My app: Paypal collects billing details, let them worry about the correctness of them.

Paypal: She's got a username and password and a Paypal balance? Transaction authorized!

Payment processor: A transaction from Paypal? OK, email straight to her spam folder, hit the script on Patrick's site to record transaction.

Script: First name, please? Hurk. writes error message to log file

Customer: Where's my stuff?

Me: checks records That's funny, I can't find a record of this transaction anywhere in the database... Why don't I spend thirty minutes fruitlessly searching for variations of her name? Oh, no dice, hmm, one last thing to try: sudo grep "George Washington" production.log... Oh crud.

New feature as of this evening: any hits on the sale notification script which do not result in a successful save to the database are going to displayed on my web dashboard in Blaze Orange.
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To a certain extent I have to agree with you that doctor IS another magic word. It's a title of prestige that doesn't necessarily carry a lot of meaning.

> You could ask a psychiatrist about your back problem, and while he's clearly not an orthopedic surgeon, he can probably give you useful feedback.

This is flat out untrue. Most doctors do not know very much outside their specialties. Many do not even know the state of the art within their specialty. I have professional experience in dealing with this through the pharmaceutical industry. For a huge chunk of medical problems an intelligent person is going to do betterl consulting the CDMT and merck manuals than by going to a randomly picked doctor.

> PhD in physics ... geologist

What about a sociologist or a working industry economist? Plenty of modeling and stat experience. How about one of those high falutin research farmers? He's probably just as smart, too.

Again, who said anything about lay people? You're attacking a strawman.

I was making a little tangential one-off point and this whole discussion is in fact moot, because "scientists" do not in fact agree on the issue of global warming.
Interesting article on DS piracy
"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House-passed bill represented "tough love" for U.S. auto companies"

14 Billion dollars of tough love.
"... even mediocre developers will make sure to come to the interview with a list of criticisms of their favorite language."

Which is fine if, when pressed, they can back up what they say. The question (like most good interview questions) is largely an excuse to help guide a conversation and some exploration to avoid canned responses.
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Thanks. Do you know why the two views are different?

On a related note, I've been growing in popularity at a similar rate.

http://www.google.com/views?q=I+view%3Atimeline&vwdr=Jan...
What great, thoughtful friends. Only a jackass becomes an impromptu paparazzo.
> Smart people are drunks

And you don't understand correlation and causation.
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Not an owner of a network of car dealerships in Texas? I'd forgotten this sort of thing was even possible.
It's funny that I had it set to Dec. 3rd and the app still showed up at Nov. 20th. After repeatedly telling Apple this, they refused to fix the problem.
Do they offer courses in English? If so, can you please give me your email? Mine is rolf.oltmans@Google'smail
Luckily I like traveling and met with a friend out in SF so I guess still a good experience.

After that they referred me to YouTube (is that where they send the second class programmers?) I had one phone interview and he asked me to come up with an algorithm to do something tricky (forget exact question) but it turns out I can't program in my head over the phone. I emailed him the solution later but I guess it didn't help.
My wish that will never come true for bailouts like this (aside from them not happening in the first place): no executive bonuses until every dollar is paid back, with interest.
They're unproductive. For example, engineers in India (as opposed to Indian engineers) have made approximately zero of the top web startups.
If it makes you feel better his startup his failing badly.
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Together at last:

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"SQLAlchemy: How is it inaccessible? Are you referring to the docs which even after a year of using I find frustrating? "

If you have significant experience with Hibernate, you can pick up SQLAlchemy very fast. One of my friends wanted to switch from Django ORM to SQLAlchemy but was being frustrated by lack of SA documents. I had him build a couple of throwaway systems (just domain model and databse - no web framework gymnastics - which are very painful in Java) with Hibernate and also read through Martin Fowler's "Enterprise Patterns" book to pick up some of the terminology (e.g:- Unit Of Work). This seemed to work. Just throwing it out there, fwiw.
Zoho? Not sure if it is a "top web app" ...
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1 spam a month in my inbox with gmail (if that).
(maybe about the same in a corporate Lotus/Domino environment)
Gmail does very occasionally mark some random email list I sign up for as spam - this isn't a concern - as to be honest - it's usually the stuff that I don't want anyway.

To me that's solved in terms of email.
A poor omen for the direction of western society.
"Don’t just do programming. Computing is always computing something. Become acquainted with something that requires your software development skills: Mediaeval history, car engine design, rocket science, medical blood analysis, image processing, computational geometry, biological modeling, whatever seems interesting. "

This is the "magic key". Knowing a domain and being a good programmer makes you infinitely more valuable than just the latter.
Where do you see causality implied in that title?

Have you been drinking? :-)
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actually thanks guys for the great link... going deeper found this paper by Walder (one of the big gurus behind monads).. certainly a great read... was wondering why non-terminating progs would terminate till I read this paper (though thinking about it common sense would explain why)...

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/deforest/defores...
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Jason, as great of a guy you are...
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There's an old story about a guy calling in a plumber to have a look at his washing machine which he said. "It just stopped working....."

The plumber looked over the the washing machine, pulled it out fro the wall a little, peered down the back, lifted the lid and took a peek inside then closed it, turned it on then off then back on again then paused thinking a little. He then proceeded to dive into his tool bag, bringing out a soft faced rubber mallet and gave the washing machine a firm tap somewhere on it's behind. It then proceeded to start filling with water and going through a cycle. This all took about 8 minutes.

The bloke who called him was pleased until he got the bill.
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Old story (and in many guises floating around the net) but a goodie.

If you save someone $10000 with an hours work - technically if they paid you up to $9999 then they would be better off. If you're good - then you may always be on the low side.
oh come on, this predictions are just the tip of the iceberg. they address a system obviously in a downward trajectory, but fail to assume the system itself could go out the window.

we are at the end of a multi-decade global experiment in massive debt and abuse of fiat currency. printing paper is fine but it has to be checked by the creation of real value in the economy. we threw that out the window years ago...there is ONE HALF A QUADRILLION dollars in global debt outstanding (all public, private, govt debts). there is no government or any other body that has any real power to address this massive imbalance. what do they do? if they repudiate their currencies, the governments are essentially committing suicide. if they try to monetize all the debt, they create zimbabwe-like inflation everywhere. if they let asset prices deflate, you get a twenty year ultra-recession.

its too late for policy fixes now. the time for that was 1982. when (not if) the US debt hits twenty trillion or so (at our current rate, will happen before 2018), its game over. no more USA. the dollar will become worthless. by the way, unless all the baby boomers die tomorrow, you are already on the hook for at least fifty trillion (US govts own estimates) for their healthcare and social security by 2030. so in reality your kids may see the US debt go to $100 trillion. when (not if) the dollar becomes worthless, the world economy is done, over.

before 2020, people in the USA will be shooting each other with guns in order to obtain food and water. the deed to your house will be your ability to defend your property with a gun. like russia after the bolsheviks, you will come home to find three families squatting in your living room. if they have more guns, its their house. don't believe me? get out of your browser and go drive to areas of detroit or other relics of the rust belt, they are already looking like eastern europe after the fall of the soviets. its already started folks. don't feel too comfy in california, the state is essentially broke already.

if you think this is a freakshow rant, go read up on the french revolution. you know what caused it? DEBT. they simply refused to believe that they could go into so much debt that their society would actually fall apart

or why not look at weimar germany? look at who pulled them out of their currency catastrophe?

an american stalin will emerge before 2025, if the US hasn't already engaged in a civil war in which americans use atomic weapons on other americans

i am open to even one cogent response as to how the US and world can realistically hope to even slow down the ultimate debt meltdown. obama is going to throw another trillion on to the debt in his first three months with his massive stimulus plan, so don't tell me he is going to fix it
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Ha! A wonderful example of why we have laws regarding unfair contract terms. I can't believe they found a lawyer either ignorant or optimistic enough to put this in. The remedy is out of all proportion with the injury (which, as far as I can tell is non-existent) so the contract is unenforceable.
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I don't think thats true. Nostrademons, for example, was just hired there, and he has a degree in physics. If you can somehow demonstrate competence, even if its just from self-study, you should be fine.
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No, Germany should be actually.
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