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It would need be a robot that can attach itself to a rat, then de-attach and hunt for a new rat when that one is dead. Because rats have very short life spans.

So what we're really looking for is a rat parasite robot.
Also deploying cheap drones are only possible when you dominate the skies with these expensive, complex, man-powered jets.

Well, drones don't have to be cheap, and could hypothetically be just as capable as fighters in most respects (and much more capable in some respects).
Not really. Those counts include totally unrelated components (like drivers) which you can optionally turn off, and just forget about.

Whereas the total count for the jet code is (I presume) of highly relevant code all around. It's not like it has 100 video drivers code included, and support for 2000 network cards, or several filesystems.
Yes, your comment may get Sarah off the hook, but I'd probably feel even more offended by that comment than by the boss' request.

If she has the courage to display any disdain over your overtly sexism comment though, perhaps the boss would take (mental) note.

At the same time, the boss may not even be aware of the sexism in the initial request--he/she may rationalize the request/decision after-the-fact, even if it were made in a sexist light at a subconscious level. In that case, that comment may end up offending both the boss and Sarah.

(And yes, women in management sometimes are more sexist against female subordinates than male counterparts.)

If you follow up your comment with an apology and an offer to take notes, however, everyone will feel better.
While one may agree or disagree with Sarko, I think the personal history of Mr DSK would ague against this having been a "set-up".
The CIA, MI6 and all the other covert organs can't do someone as heinous as Assad but on the other hand they can at will, just pull framed rapes and crazy whackos killing and terrorizing people to create a desired result?

It reeks of "wanting to believe" as much as a balding man with a hot partner will "want to believe" the partner is not cheating when all the signs out there are signaling cheating.
The way they're beaten is through the people that harbor them, turn the citizens on the terrorists and they won't support them. Support of the population is one of the more important exploits that terrorists use.
http://blog.jgc.org/2012/03/call-yourself-brogrammer-then-ge... is also relevant
The Arab Spring has probably done more to fight terrorism than any war.
For what its worth- my first steps when I come up with a 'killer' idea.

1.) Wait a week- if still excited about it go to 2.

2.) Discuss with my other half. As a non-techy she'll often have a very different view on things which is invaluable.

3.) Find and purchase a domain, and put up a sign up page based on a cheap theme.

4.) Buy some impressions from Adwords - this is enough to give me an idea of if anyone is already looking for what I want to build, and if they are get me some email addresses.

5.) Talk to prospects found in 4.)

6.) If still convinced its a good idea, I might start writing some code.

It is so easy to get going with writing code straight away, rather than thinking about whether you have any customers and how you're can reach them. The above approach has saved me many months of wasted effort, and found me a number of lucrative niches!
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It must have taken careful coordination to get them into the starting position too.

I'd be interested to see videos of solutions they've come up with. They could even try solutions that exist today (variable speed limits, hard shoulder openings, ramps with traffic lights when adding cars, etc.).
Exactly. My first few projects I bought domains and set up google apps for those domains, paid to have logos done, etc. After 3 or 4 failed experiments on different domains I realized how much time I was wasting setting up all this stuff when I should have just started building first.

Although, a component of why I did that was because I had big dreams. I wanted to "play startup" because I didn't actually have any clue how to build one. The obvious thing that you see about every company is their public website and their logo, so it makes sense to start mimicking that first.

The irony is that once you start to understand how to actually build a company you often end up picking a name and incorporating as the LAST thing. In fact, you try to avoid it for as long as you reasonably can because it makes you lose your focus on just simply building an excellent product.
You need to spend less time _reading_ and more time _writing_. And ideally that writing should be programming something useful, not just an exercise.

One of the best learning environments I've seen is the Python framework Web2py. It was developed by a professor originally for teaching purposes. Python is a nice clean language. You should be able to make some effective progress in an afternoon.
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I guess that in some way a lot of companies are taking from open source without giving enough back. Open source is much cheaper than proprietary software to produce, a team of a few guys do the work of what would be a much bigger team in a proprietary software, and there is no need to have a profit, paying the developers is enough, so... if companies using open source would give back even a small amount of money...

But maybe some global "fund" should be used or something like that, I don't think that giving to the project you use is going to scale (we don't want a few guys rich, and nothing for all the rest, otherwise it's a company). But then bureaucracy starts to be an issue, who selects the right projects? And so forth. Not trivial.

Or maybe the solution is that if you are an enough large company, hire N open source developers. Like charity there should be a non written rule that most tech corps should follow. Like the 1% rule: hire 1% of your work force to write open source (and probably this would end being a largere return about branding than many ADs large companies run for more money than that).
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>Europe .. it's fucked, but it's better than the U.S.

Not when it comes to free speech!
People have complained other than its complexity the single engine is bad if you are over the Arctic and the engine fails, most modern Canadian jets have dual engines.

I wonder if the F-35 has a particularly reliable engine.
"Female coders lighten up" and "Female Coders, lighten up" have two very different meanings, the latter being the actual headline.
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That's a very inflammatory title for a non-controversial blogpost.

Let me ask a question that I've often wondered:

Many women believe that there are clearly serious problems within the IT/programming industry that discourage their participation. Why are male programmers so quick to dismiss and minimize their concerns?
Find blogs that target your audience and ask them to share your app.
> "Seems a bit strange to use ARM in between two PowerPC systems"

It makes perfect sense if they're more concerned about integration with Windows Phone and Windows 8 ARM tablets.

If they're courting those developers and building that ecosystem, uniting the architecture and development platforms would be a big win.
Yeap, something is up with the general whole front-page today; stories with low points from long ago are floating up whilst this and other today stories are disappearing

Flagging might explain disappearing, but does it explain that the front page is all out-of-order?
Wish Google Research would actually give better insight into their approaches or proposed approaches. This paper while interesting is a lot of data analysis. IT's not like anyone out there could go and replicate Youtube.

P.s I understand a company not wanting to give away secret sauce but if they are publishing this info at academic conferences it would be great to get some proper insight.
> How do you model a traffic scenario where certain vehicles introduce more stringent constraints on the vehicles around them that are not purely limited to their physical place on the road?

Would this really qualify as a PhD topic these days? Serious question.
It's a commit message written in the style of a Nigerian 419 scam.

Unleashing my inner autist it's funny because although it's extremely stylistically loyal to the format of the Nigerian scams it's simultaneously true to the facts of the checkin.

The juxtaposition of conflicting style and content was always a recurring technique for the humour in Friends. Less extreme but a great example of this is the episode where Chandler recounts peeing on Monica's leg to relieve the jellyfish sting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2-vYNCCBjo
What is far from reality?

There's everything you need:

Weather balloon:
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10W solar panel:
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Some batteries:
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Raspberry Pi with Wi-Fi:
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Then just install your server on the Pi and let the device scan for open Wi-Fis. Send hundreds of them for capacity and redundancy.
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This political correctness crap must stop. So what if some young dude-bros made a bad joke? Personally, I found the spelling errors were more appalling.

Rather than instituting immature zero-tolerance policies, a better course of action would have been an email to the event organizers. It should have called attention to the offending piece of text (and the gross spelling errors)-- citing reasons why people could find it offensive.

Everyone is up in arms about gender diversity, but no one is saying _WHY_ it is a good thing.

Is it simply diversity for diversity's sake?
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To respond to your bullies bit:

Not "reasoning" with the enemy is absurd--that's how eventually you conclude a conflict. How many wars have ended with the complete annihilation of one side? How many of those victors are regarded with anything other than disgust or shame nowadays?

There is a very concrete point past which the cost of preventing an attack exceeds the damage inflicted by an attack. "Bullies" or "enemies" or whatever you want to call them can trivially exploit this for a civilization that cannot run numbers and face facts.

I believe that I showed in another thread that the TSA alone has wasted human-life-equivalent years equivalent to the 9/11 attacks.

On the schoolyard, in the pub, yes, you should stand up to bullies. But at a national level? As a civilization? You can't reason in the same way.
This sounds like an excellent occasion for the GCC maintainers to consider how revision control software has progressed in the last 25 years, and to re-evaluate the utility of the ChangeLog file; a manually maintained an "undo list" for all commits.
She sat through the rest of the interview like a professional and then came home to unload it. The thought of her continuing to sit through an interview after having that happens is unbelievably infuriating to me even today. If there's ever anything I can do to harm the interests of someone who I know did that, I will (my wife, who often has a cooler head than I, is past this and would disapprove of me providing details about who did this).

Your legitimate options in this case are, as I understand it:

(a) Instantly acknowledge that you will never in a million years work for a team where this could happen and then passively coast through the rest of the interview and get out as fast as you can, and/or

(b) Document everything that happened and provide it to the manager of whoever interviewed you (in Erin's case: no such manager!) --- incidentally, having stuff like this happen in an interview creates a radioactive statutory liability which any employer with a general counsel will probably fire the interviewer over. or

(c) Out them publicly to take a stand. Be sure you're right.

Option (c) has a lot of benefits to the community; option (b) is the direct response that will have the most immediate impact to the situation; option (a) is (unfortunately) usually the most coldly rational.
I flagged it because I don't think anything useful comes out of those sexism threads. It's effectively trolling. Not saying it is not a problem, just that it won't be solved by flamewars on HN.
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If a company makes bad software, and it comes out to poor sales and poor reviews. But the concept is good.Wouldn't the company read the reviews and fix what reviewers complain about in preparation for the next version?
Like if your chat program is said to suck because A B and C...Wouldn't you just provide A, B, C and D next time?
How can any software company just continue like this?
"Never Ruin an Apology With an Excuse!"

The best advice I ever read... from a readers digest about 15 years ago.
I can play this game too: you know what the software industry was like before Microsoft and Apple? EVERYTHING was open source. When you bought a program (if they didn't throw it in for free with the bloody expensive hardware) you ALWAYS got source code. People still sell open source software; I've never understood why people think that commercial software is incompatible with open source. It isn't.
One of those papers mentioned in the article described "negative traffic" as the gaps in an otherwise saturated segment of road. Vehicles travelling behind the gap tended to have smoother acceleration curves.

I've used this idea to great effect when stuck in traffic by moving into the far left lane, building up a nice gap in front of me, and then cruising at a steady 2-3mph instead of stop-and-go. I've noticed that people generally recognize this as a net-positive and will "follow the leader" with only one or two cheaters (cars which pass me and move into the gap) -- usually the cars immediately behind me.

In order to pull this off, the lane leader needs to maintain a variable length buffer of gap-space in order to prevent their velocity from falling to zero ("stopping").

As the traffic density drops, the gap increases, and you can speed up which ups the average velocity of all of the cars in the lane. Eventually, traffic density will drop down to "normal" conditions at which point cars begin to cheat with increasing frequency until a normal traffic equilibrium is reached (e.g. "not in traffic").

I would love to see an interactive model of this strategy, specifically to figure out the optimum number of lane leaders; less than the total number of lanes, I suspect.
Yes, but shouldn't some portability be sacrificed? Google Chrome, for example, has the same interface on OS X and Windows, but is fast and has a native feel on both platforms.
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From what I've heard, the Mozilla source-map repo is your best bet on "how to create source maps":
https://github.com/mozilla/source-map

It's what Traceur (Google's ES6/ES.Next transpiler) uses under the hood.
The only one I've used so far on my Galaxy Nexus is FareBot: http://codebutler.github.com/farebot/ It can read the data off my Clipper transit fare card here in the Bay Area.
The right way to fight terrorism is to educate the people in the countries they come from, by giving them schools and positive paths for their future.

How many poor teenagers do you think would join terrorists if they had better options and understood more about the world than the limited view they are purposely given?

Why do you think the first thing they do is destroy schools and ban women from attending them?
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Funnily enough I am completely the opposite way round.

I always wanted to start writing the code first, but then started realising that was a waste of time if there was no-one to sell it to.

So now I always start with trying to find customers, via a simple sign-up page or similar, before I even think about writing code.

Not saying that either approach is right, but interesting that we've come at it from opposite angles, and both ended up changing our opinions completely!
It's more than just the $10, though.

I'm, admittedly, a miser when it comes to paying for apps - I've only bought a small few. Consequently, I weigh the decision to drop $10 on an app pretty heavily.

Beyond that, I have very much a "learner" personality. I've created many an app just to play around with something new. I've yet to build anything that interacts with the Heroku API, so creating an app that does so allures me. The joy of learning and experimenting outweighs what my time is theoretically worth.

Granted, this is just how I see things. Others probably have very different valuations of the app vs their time. I agree that my previous argument isn't really valid from a purely "I'll build it so I don't have to pay for it" perspective.
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I'd like to see the app before i decide to register. I was intrigued by your premise, but i dont want to sign up. At least not right now.
The thing about drones is you can build them cheaply enough that it cost the enemy more to shoot them down than it costs to build more of them. Instead the military has decided to simply make fighter planes that don't need pilots but that's a separate issue.
And when your principles, in practice, serve only to make more "bullies" and "enemies"?
Yeah, I agree. In fact, I've recently switched back to FF as my primary browser.

The thing that pushed me over the edge was the way chrome insists I log in to my google account.

Granted, it doesn't force you to log in, but the version I recently installed on my Ubuntu based netbook kept popping up a dialog at launch, nagging me to do so. The options on the dialog were to log in or wait until later (no option for never).

I just looked now, and it appears that if I go in and manually disconnect my google account, it no longer bugs me. Hmm ... I could swear I tried that before switching back to FF.
So....is this an apology or a design like whoa marketing scheme??
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I have been using Nook and 10.1 Tab for over a year now. It has become a painful experience to carry 'dead-tree' magazines or book. Some vendors just scan and upload copies of their magazines in a poorly designed pdf readers. This diminishes the quality of reading. A dedicated app would be a better idea. It will save bandwidth and provide better experience.

One of the biggest problem with blogging is unlimited availability of space. Blogging does not has to be supported by credible organization. They serve you blog with thousands of ads.
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Deliverable-based consultants always have a high hourly rate, because they are rarely fully booked. A freelancer is often 50% or less utilized, especially if they do short engagements. So in reality, they are making ($100k-taxes-insurance-overhead) per year.

The whole point of hiring a consultant is to get someone who knows what he is doing to do specific work and leave. The alternative is paying an employee $40/hr to learn, do work and take care of overhead activities, and keep that employee around for an extended period.

Offshoring has overhead costs too -- depending on what you are doing, the "total cost of ownership" for an offshore developer may or may not justify taking that route.
Awesome; thanks for the feedback.
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Some excellent snooping and calculations there!
How do you feel about the East German medical system? Could you design other things that way?

The current American system is not an example of free-market medicine, it's a strawman of free-market medicine. It's pretty hard to have a free-market system with a central price-fixing committee. Does the term "RVU" mean anything to you? See under:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialty_Society_Relative_Valu...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosplan

For a non-strawman, you'd need a system in which fee for service, catastrophic insurance (ie, actual insurance - the correct solution to your "risk pools"), and charity care were all separated. Look at any Anglosphere country before 1940, and add modern technology.

The separation of charity and paid care (universal before 1940) is the absolutely essential reform, and it's so politically incorrect that no one on either side can even mention it. (Even the word "charity" is almost illegal.)

For instance, the Canadian system is a reasonably good charity health system extended to the entire population. But Canada has to make private medicine illegal, to prevent the middle class from inventing it. As it is they just resort to the United States.

And I haven't even mentioned medical innovation, which has ground to a giant flaming fscked-up halt. No, if you were designing something that you didn't want to suck, you wouldn't start with any of the existing solutions.
I think the perception is that Apple is driving this innovation, rather than taking advantage of the technology trends everyone else is also aware of.

It seems what happens is while every systems vendor is aware of new technology developments and all are, to one extent or another, preparing ways to take advantage of new technology availability, the perception is that Apple know what technology to hop on and take to market successfully --the other vendors appear to always be caught flat footed.

The others also have products (in the lab, at least) and are not "behind" technologically, but are behind applying the technology successfully in their product portfolio.
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I'm interested in the step 4. I am curious to understand what kind of budget do you put in Advertising to get the first 50 leads to talk to.

Can you give me more details?
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How do you know if it's cheaper?
AMD cards still outperform on price and raw performance 5TFlops > 3TFlops.
Ah, my mistake. It was late, and looking at it again, I mis-read it.

So, great example!