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Sure, maybe Google spent a lot on lobbying in 2011, but you don't know that any of that was smearing Microsoft from behind a sock puppet in the way that they have against Google here. While I don't like lobbying, I accept that Google needs to play the game while the rules are the way they are, and they don't necessarily have to badmouth Microsoft to do that - as you admit, they have presumably focused more on SOPA.

And I don't see the huge problem with the link you present - in fact I don't think I'd call it "lobbying" at all. Google had a potentially legitimate complaint in asking that the court overseeing a convicted monopolist considers a particular part of their behaviour which obviously has the potential to impact on Google. It's up to the court to decide if they're infringing or not.
All the rads I've talked to/worked with hate "screening" MR (or CT! Some morons do CTs for random checkups!) not so much for the cost of the procedure (since they directly or indirectly were getting paid), but because it leads to finding basically insignificant incidental findings which then cause the patient to worry, and/or have unnecessary surgery. The benefits are questionable if anything, but the costs of the unnecessary surgery are high.

A needs-based study based on having MS, sure, but just getting an MRI as part of a routine checkup, probably not.
I wouldn't get too upset over dissenting opinions, that's partly what makes for great conversation here!
It does looks good. I need a BLOG system and have been working on rewiring django-article module to have the twitter-bootstrap and lot of other modifications. After reading the feature list of MZ, I was ready to make the switch but when I tried it out and saw the system missing the features I needed, I decided to stay with what I got.
- writing article in Textile/Markup/restructured text
- thumbnail generation

side-note:
How about a rename to something with django in it? i.e Better Django CMS?

Personally, Mezzanine does not rolls right off my tongue and my brain is just refusing to memorize it.
Look good, but does it work on Windows? It's not on the operating system list.

If it does, I might very well use this in the future.

Edit: Saw it was GPL. Well it looks good at least.
Honest question - how important is a CS degree in silicon valley? I ask because I'm halfway through majors in systems engineering and physics, and I'm now realizing how important CS is and how much I enjoy it, but I figure that my quantitative background with the ability to program is equally marketable as a CS degree.
This pretty much mirrors my experience in college. From 98-00 I took Computer Science (and did well) but eventually switched to MIS. Why? Because I spent two years making terminal-based C++ apps and became so frustrated at not being able to make real-world programs that I just gave up. It was so frustrating to be watching the first web bubble develop and yet be in class learning and writing something that seemed so completely different.

I don't know if it was my fault or their fault for not being able to bridge the gap between theory/learning and practical skills. Probably some of both. If my courses had somehow seemed more relevant or at least had a few web-based projects where I could see the real-world application of what I was learning, my career path would probably be very different today.
While the lack of transparency is a leading cause to the perception of unfairness, I'd say the uneven enforcement is actually unfair.

As long as you can submit apps and not be able to fairly accurately predict how it will be rated it won't just be seemingly unfair, it will be unfair.
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I agree that you may get smart people coming up with great solutions, but the article seemed to be aimed at beginners looking for a way to contribute.

The complexity of TODOs in code depends entirely on the style of the person who put it there. In my case TODOs are usually things that are going to require some refactoring.
It depends what you're doing and where you want to work, but it's competitive: you're going to need a technical degree with a very good grade average to get in the front door at a lot of companies. Systems engineering and physics will probably stand you in very good stead.
Can I use libzdb in my iOS or Mac OS X app?

Yes[...]

Except it's GPLed, so it can't be used in any closed-source apps, or any apps that you want to distribute on the App Store, without an explicit exception.

If you're not married to the license for philosophical reasons (which I would respect, it's your right), I'd suggest a change to something simple like BSD.

This would, of course, allow someone to take your code, change it, and not release their changes, but it would also make it usable to the majority of programmers.
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I can't believe I've never seen that. Very, very cool.
Really? I've got nearly 20,000 karma points and I can't downvote submissions. You don't have 500 karma points, so where did you get your information? It seems to be wrong.

Certainly at about 500 poimts you get to downvote comments, and at some stage you get to flag submissions and similarly to flag comments. There are other things that kick in with karma, such as the ability to creat polls.

But as far as I know you never get to downvote submissions.
To be fair, my throwing in grammar corrections with the note about his site being down was pretty reddit-like.
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I wouldn't be confusing this with early rising, despite the fact that the author has.

If you wake up at 2PM, but first duties are expected from you at 4PM, then you by all means are an early riser -- in the respect of your own day schedule.

Time doesn't exist. Time is just a way of how we humans learnt to include the concept of movement of objects in space, into our non-linear memory, so that we can use it in reasoning. (Earth has rotated by 180 degrees - now who said it took "12" "hours" and where exactly can these "12 hours" be found, tangibly? In our head only, and non tangibly. That is, if every human on earth lost their memory in this very second, those "12 hours" would stop to exist entirely, until a similar interpretation of Earth's rotation would be devised again.)

Good morning from GMT+2 btw.
I've programmed an Atmel microcontroller from scratch. It wasn't fun adding all those components together just to bootstrap myself. Luckily I messed with Arduinos before, so at least I knew what I was doing and was getting to barebones of embedded systems.

Still, I would prefer to develop with the Arduino. It's just, such a fun way to get started with microcontrollers.
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I understand the sentiment, but it can't work that way. What you're authorizing for access is an anonymous unsigned Chrome extension, not the website streak.com. If they allowed the extension to define its own name so that you'd see "streak.com", then you'd see malware masquerading as safe-sounding names in the authorization dialog.
I had this Toontastic App idea. It is platform which lets kids to become more imaginative and unleashes creativity. Many more apps should come like this for kids.
Indeed, I was excited until I saw the GPL. It really makes the library quite useless, unfortunately. :(
That's right, And even putting aside the preprocessor, prior to C89, C was a mess portability-wise. (Actually, even after C89, portability was still frustrated by the problem of the varying size of ints.) Ritchie designed C to get above the assembly level so that portability would be possible. But it was certainly not attained until much later.
Readibility is working on an Android app (1). Marco, on the other hand, has repeatedly said he isn't interested in any other platforms besides iOS.

(1) Readability app for iOS and Android 'coming soon' | The Verge http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/14/2797042/readability-app-io...
> You have to have gone to the publisher's site in the first place and seen all of the ads

Not entirely correct, there's an integrated API which lets third-party applications add articles to Instapaper. Many applications (Reeder for instance, or quite a few Twitter clients) have this feature.
Just build something. The easiest way to learn is to do. In fact I personally find fixing other people's bugs to be a terrible idea for someone wanting to learn how to build things and learn more about the general field of software development. It's a quick way to burn someone out, or make them lose interest in the whole thing before they're even started.

Choose an idea, preferably something personally useful to you (don't spend too much time on this part because ultimately it's the process itself that matters) then build it. You'll need to pick a language/framework and build something with it, so go with whatever you're most familiar with, or pick something you're interested in learning.

In the process of building something, not only will you learn the general foundations but you will inevitably create your own bugs and rabbit-holes you'll need to learn to fix anyway.

At that point I would say it's a good idea to start contributing to open source projects, fixing bugs, extending features, etc. But not before you've reached some low-hanging fruit and built some self-confidence in building new software.
I disagree with most of the OP's points, but...

You do realize that Google doesn't have a datacenter in Australia, right?

Our searches go to California, so I think the OP's point about the round trip time to Mountain View are reasonable.

I'm not in Perth (which - to be fair to Google - is the most isolated city in the world), but from Adelaide my timings look like this:

GET http://www.google.com.au/s?hl=en...

Waiting: 205ms

Receiving: 218ms

Total: 423ms

Having said that, I usually get results before I can press Enter.
Nice! thanks dangrossman.
Kids some how like super powers. They always need a hero who saves everyone from evil. My son always asks bedtime stories which has got evils, Thieves,dragons etc and ultimately a hero rescues everyone from these with arrows, guns and some tricks.
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I thought about it, and I think I found the reason it makes me sad: an uncooperative attitude.

Yeah, the article is pretty scattered and whimsical, so I may be deciphering it wrong, but it is my guess that part of the author's disdain for CS degrees and most of his concern about making others rich rest on a lack of appreciation for division of labour.

Yes, there are still opportunities where one person can have an idea (shit or not) and make money by implementing it.

However, much more potent and myriad are opportunities requiring multiple collaborators each with their own domain of knowledge. Bioinformatics wouldn't get off the ground without a computer scientist and a biologist. Yes, as the article points out, the bioligist might just learn to code because it's hard to get a computer scientist to work with you. (This is the story of how tools like R and Mathematica came to be: statisticians and physicists dissatisfied with their computational tools set out to build their own.) But author is endorsing this problem!

As for the autodidact elitism and the importance of CS degrees, the article misses out on the fact that the ability to 1) study philosophy 2) learn to code and 3) make money with some cool idea, relies on computer scientists studying the deepest depths of computing to make step 2 possible. And like it or not, advancements in specialized CS areas mostly happen in academia thanks to people with CS degrees.
I will definitely use this for throw away services that ask for email and you know you are never going to touch it again.

Pretty impressive implementation also.

I'm sure you have spotted, but there is a spelling mistake "recived" => "received".

What are you running in the backend for mail pickup? SendGrid, MailGun?
> The ability to hit ` on any webpage is awesome.

What does that do?

> I am also a click away from saving the article.

So're you in Instapaper? Depending on the browser you're using anyway, I guess. There's an official bookmarklet (1-click in browsers which still have bookmarks bars) and there is probably a chrome/button extension for your browser (I see a dozen or two on the Chrome extensions site)
Thanks, changed the welcome text to be shorter and dropped the spelling mistake :-)

Uses Haraka for the backend (based on node.js)
> Just build something.

Experience is important, but there's sometimes an important distinction between meaningful experience and masturbation.

For the beginner, hacking or re-implementing something you find interesting is a good place to start.

Applying useful constraints to "something" as you grow in experience can be challenging for many people.
> Make sure to have some kind of online portfolio (github is fine), a place to write about your experiences (a simple blog), and make sure to talk about the difficulties you had (plus how you solved them).

I think the critical thing is to document your experiences for your own use. It doesn't have to be in any particular form.

Online portfolios, open source, blogs, etc. can work very well - but they're just modes of expression. Some people take to them very well and use them very effectively, and that's great. But not everyone needs to have a coding blog. It's just one arrow in the quiver, and you should focus your time and attention wherever it will give optimal results for you.
I was really hoping to see a thorium[1] reactor in this list. Apparently, several government labs are working on a small, portable thorium reactor that would be great for this type of thing. The SSTAR[2] (small, sealed, transportable, autonomous reactor) system will produce 10 to 100 megawatts electric and can be safely transported on ship or by a heavy-haul transport truck. Perfect!

1:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium

2:http://www.thorium.tv/en/thorium_reactor/thorium_reactor_1.p...
It's not that there are no alternatives..

http://gcc.gnu.org/

http://clang.llvm.org/

http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-sdp-home/

http://www.pathscale.com/ekopath-compiler-suite
It doesn't have to be an unknown number. Certainly in the UK, it's pretty easy to send an SMS with any name (text or number) you want in place of the phone number. And I suspect that most people aren't that tech-smart to realise that a text claiming to be from T-Mobile isn't actually from them.
More important if you're going through HR. Less important if you're networking.

Also, I know and know of gobs of people in CS who were educated in physics.
> High health care spending is yet another way the US subsidizes other countries.

Look at the US's trade deficit and dollar devaluations of the past 50 years to see who is subsidizing who. But that's beside the point.

Look at it less nationalistic and rather as corporations vs. consumers. American consumers are "subsidizing" large corporations in an oligopolic market.
"You should [work] to satisfy your own thirst for absolute perfection."
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people forget that efficient markets hypothesis requires perfect information and it seems that hiding information about costs is standard business practice.
There's also the Python plugin for KDevelop, which probably offers the most sophisticated semantic support for the language today, now beating Wing and MS in its level of type inference abilities, type tracking through containers, etc. So yes, a Python IDE using Qt is nothing new. But IDLE is simple and bundled with Python, so it serves a special role. I see it more as a teaching tool than a production-grade environment. It's just that having to work with the crummy Tk toolkit when hacking on it is a major turn-off.
I have tried many of them on my blog, including MixPanel, Google Analytics, Clicky and Lijit. They all have their pros and cons, but they also require you to include a script on your pages, which can be slow at times.

I'm currently fairly happy with Google Analytics, but I'd move to a better server-based log analysis tool (AWStats on steroids, maybe?), if I found one.
I've tried DDG a few days but was disappointed by search speed and search results.

I've found https://startpage.com/ much better in terms of search results and speed. It's basically just proxy'ing to google (which is great, imo).
What's the software service or app or tool that you most want to have, that would make the hair on the back of your neck stand up when you say "I built that?"

Build that. Or build a small piece of it. Or build a prototype of a small piece of it.

In other words, build something, anything, that makes you want to get up in the morning and skip school to work on it all day. (But don't skip school.)
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You might like reading these (I certainly did..) [1][2]

[1] http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/01/the-5-best-toys-of-all-...

[2] http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/12/6th-best-toy/
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I'd suggest going over the Django docs a bit more.

Mezzanine 1.0 makes full use of Django's staticfiles app. With DEBUG enabled, all your static content will be served dynamically from within each app's static directory. Once DEBUG is off, as you'd do for production, you need to run the collectstatic command to move all those files into a single static directory, which you then alias to in your web server's config, be it Apache, NGINX or something else.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static-files/

As for your database settings, simply define those in your project's settings module. Mezzanine will create a local_settings module for you with the SQLite settings defined for development. This shouldn't be checked into version control, as it will be different per environment.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#database...

If you hit any other things like these, please feel free to post to the mailing list where I and others will be only too happy to guide you.

http://groups.google.com/group/mezzanine-users
But these things are encapsulated; if you work with haxe a lot, you'll have libs which, besides maybe a config setting per platform, are code compatible...
How would you react in this situation:

1. You negotiate and have a handshake deal with a company for a round of funding.

2. The company gets an offer for a higher valuation from someone who wants in on the round.

3. The CEO asks you whether to take them or not, but basically leaves it up to you?

In other words, assuming the CEO didn't "backstab" you but rather sought your advice, would you be upset that he's even considering a different deal? Would you tell him he should take it, assuming the deal is still worthwhile for you? How would you react?
It's feedback from the community, to help you be more useful to the community. You get more karma when someone upvotes your comments and submissions; you get less karma when someone downvotes you. Downvotes tell you "this comment did not help the discussion."
Google Plus is still a very strange place.

Here you have an exceedingly technical thread with some of OSS brightest minds working on a little puzzle and it's interspersed with litter. You have the sincere (yet misplaced) thank you for working on OSS, the clueless guy, and the isn't it cool we're talking about such hardcore topics guy. Every one of those comments makes me cringe a little.

This is why geeks have yet to give up mailing lists. The hurdle they put up is actually an effective barrier for the unmotivated. Some conversations are meant to be had in a quiet place amongst people who are similarly inclined. Google misleads you into thinking that Plus is that place, but it just isn't. Perhaps if there was a way for the community to sort the relevant from the irrelevant, it's just too tempting of a megaphone for people to jump in front of. Sometimes adding a little friction to the 'Post' button is a good thing.
There's a third party app that integrates Markdown into Mezzanine: https://bitbucket.org/onelson/mezzanine-mdown

Mezzanine also contains automated thumbnailing for any images at the template level: http://mezzanine.jupo.org/docs/packages.html#mezzanine.core....

Can't help you out with the project name however, sorry :-)
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It doesn't have to be BSD, but at least relaxing the license to LGPL would be fine.
Damn - something's wrong with Google Translate. Usually it pops up at the top of foreign language websites.

"Oh stewardess - I speak Jive!"
"Oh good."
Completely agree, its sad what the G homepage has become since MM was moved. Loading, waiting, starting to type, missing the first characters, loading previews for the last few chars, trying to delete the incomplete input, etc. happens to me all the time, quite annoying. Main reason I mostly switched to DDG by now. Not concerned about privacy, only hate GOOG's slow loading/render.
Nice illustration of the problems associated with naive Bayesian classifiers.
> "... was there a handshake deal?"

Well put but it raises a (possibly naive) question. At what point can one assume that a 'handshake deal' has taken place, and is that point really the same for both parties? e.g Is it literally a handshake and the words "We're going ahead with this!" Or could it be more vague where one party thinks there's a deal but the other's not so sure.

You've said that deals exist to fall through and that "The key to closing deals is never to stop pursuing alternatives ... don't believe it till you get the check." [1] From my point of view, I'd want to spend as little time as possible in 'handshake-limbo' and get something signed. The deal might still fall through but the intent to close is more explicit.

Aside: Mark says "... so I thought they should take the deal", which implied to me that not taking the deal was still a valid option. i.e. no handshake.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/startupfunding.html)
While learning piano, no one wants to sit in a room playing scales over and over. They want to play Claire De Lune. Programming is similar in that it can be an art but it is first and foremost a skill. You need to struggle with boring parts until you figure out that you can actually make very cool things...but first you need to learn about loops and variables.
Hey, just curious... did you buy one of those really expensive tech passes to go to SXSW? Because I'm currently going to school here but definitely can't afford one of those passes but still want to try and experience it (this is my last semester). Any tips?
The only glasses-free 3D tech I know of works by restricting the viewing angle of each of the two sets of pixels to such a small area that each eye gets a different set.

That would make the viable "invisible" view positions even more constrained than with the technique shown in the video.
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"When I’m an old man, I think most people will have the ability to program."

I keep hearing this on hacker news and I'm not sure why people think this. There are a lot of people who can't form abstractions or pay enough attention to detail to be able to program. People either get it (and can become great at it) or they don't (they will fail their programming classes and/or give up). As a CS student, I remember in the lower division classes half the people scored in the B+ to A range, and the other half nearly failed and had to drop the class and switch majors. This brought me to the conclusion that CS is not for everyone..
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