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Agreed. Calculus as a bridge to Real Analysis is a fundamental part of a real math curriculum.
I've made a fine living doing just that using Sheeva's and alix's before that and Soekris before that. Corporate IT is completely unprepared to do what it takes to wrangle these little embedded monsters. If it hasn't already got a web gui, they're more or less sunk. $520 is a bargain to (ahem) plug and play.

They're not trying to fool anyone by saying that they've made a magical new product. Its straightforward software, as a service, in a can.
A couple thoughts came to mind
1. How big of a jackass a person would have to be to think it's ok to ask for someones username and password to anything shocks me
2. I don't have a facebook account, so what would happen to people like me? Who would believe me? They might assume I'm a liar and treat me as though I'm being insubordinate
I really hope Congress does somethings fast. Maybe we need a kind of "wall of shame" to report companies that do this in the meantime.
Aragon's "rebuttal" of Lustig is nonsensical.

He completely biffs Lustig's position on fruit (vis a vis Atkins Diet). In that lecture, Lustig says fruit is okay, whereas fruit juice isn't, because the fiber in fruit blocks the fructose from being metabolized, while the glucose gets used.

Lustig may be right or wrong. But criticisms should be about what he actually said.

Since Lustig publishes his research and results, Aragon could step up act like a scientist and either refute or confirm Lustig's data. But sciencificalologeries is hard work, whereas just making shit up is pretty easy.

Further, while I'm on board with Lustig's science, and conclusions, and strategy, I've personally adopted a nutrition somewhere between Eat To Live and Dr Terry Wahls "eat 9 cups of fruit and veggies per day". Works great for me.
One time I showed my 1st commercial web system to a teacher and he was so quick to say 'but this is not CS' it was sad.

I never said it was supposed to be CS, I just showed the system... His response had nothing to do with anything... His words were just a quick self-defense he seemed very used to use, in a pretty destructive way.

It took me some time to know University was doing no good to me, but now I'm past detox and I'm glad I dropped out.

I don't care if 'it is not CS', I learn whatever it takes to build awesome stuff.
It's true that you don't lose weight without caloric deficit. But while a calorie equals a calorie, the body reacts differently to fast calories and slow calories: a steady supply of blood sugar, vs. spikes and troughs. This affects feedback loops of insulin, satiety, etc., prompting people to overeat.

Side note: I'm really looking forward to future biofeedback tech. It'd be interesting to know my blood sugar level and heart rate at all times.
The underlined menu links sure are weird. I suppose they mysteriously bring in more money.
For one, there should be a control. In this case, analyzing another ticket that has not been faked, but preferable he would not know if the control was real or not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_experiment#Double-blind_t...
Another option that might be added is aspire to receive one.
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> C# does have API's like this

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7de1x8cb.aspx
Kenneth has put a lot of work into Requests, and it's really turning into something beautiful.

On a side note, Kenneth is a standup guy who helped propel me into the world of open source. I made a few slight documentation updates on Requests as part of my first pull request ever, and he made me feel like my contribution was so important.
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Well the 'elite' version is ~$750... that's getting pretty ridiculous when I could and have built something similar with openwrt a pelican case for ~$80 + the 45 or so minutes to tear the router apart and flash openwrt on to it.. As an added bonus it comes with a webui
As in all articles that have a question as title, the answer is "no".
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I've done a lot of front end development work but I always wonder about how responsive design will work out. It's not that I think responsive design is no good, it's just that high end web design firms are obsessive about having everything on the page look exactly correct. With a fixed width design, it's possible to get pixel perfect results.

What happens when a $5000 design is stretched out and looks different? Of course it's possible to code things that way, but my question lies with whether or not the bosses of these design firms are going to look at it and say "That looks fine, lets deliver it", or "That looks ugly, lets fixed-width it and design a completely different version for tablet". After all, you can't control what resolution your client will view your work in, and when they are paying that much money you want it to display the "best" way (ie. the same way it looked in Photoshop).

It kind of seems that in the very short term, the money flowing around front end design will be stuck in the past (IE7 support, no responsive design, distrust of css3 fonts, etc.) while the web in general will be moving in another direction.
I imagine it would be hard for renderer to fake all subtle qualities digital camera introduces. Things like "colors too clean", "noise too uniform", "geometric distortion doesn't match any existing lens" would turn up.

In this specific case I think I'd print a fake ticket with dot matrix printer and take photos of it.
Spend some time working through this if you want to learn Rails.

http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book?ve...

Also, bugger recruiters, what do they know? Talking to a recruiter usually means there are at least two people between you and anyone actually on the product team. Real experience in the trenches really getting things done is valuable. You can always learn another language, framework, library, whatever you need.
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Biomedical Science, and a minor in CS. I did well in my medical science degree, but a lot of it seemed like a waste of time. I wish I'd majored in SE instead.
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You're right of course. Finding alternatives like these should never be a long term solution, but only a temporary solution. Because if we treat it like a technical problem and not a political one, then it will only be a matter of time before they find ways to make those solutions illegal, or to monitor and breach them through the Government's agencies.
CodeIgniter was released after Rails and at that time the developer listed Rails as being an inspiration. Zend Framework was released after CodeIgniter. I don't know the history of CakePHP and Symfony but Wikipedia shows they were each released in 2005, which was before CodeIgniter but after Rails. That's why I mentioned that Rails was an inspiration for a lot of the PHP frameworks which came out after Rails. Again, there were already PHP web frameworks available, but nothing really took off until after Rails hit the scene.
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What about Python 3? Other than the async submodule (due to the missing gevent dep), requests already supports Python 3, but Werkzeug does not. Is part of the plan for the combined effort to change this, or will requests lose Python 3 support again? (This seems unlikely, but I thought I better ask.)
This is a great library, and Kenneth has worked really hard to improve it over time. I love Requests.
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You're correct that NT3.5 was out before Win95. That said, checking Wikipedia, OS/2 was out before either of them (April '87) whereas WinNT 3.5 was July '93 and Win95 was August '95.

Sidestepping chronology that is dating us massive, the productivity win of having minicomputer/workstation OS features available for microcomputers in both OS/2 and WinNT I just cannot overstate. Teh suck of rebooting a DOS machine multiple times a day just to do work is a memory best long forgotten.
<philosophical>

I don't believe productivity directly leads to happiness

I don't believe anything leads directly to happiness. But I believe being productive is a pretty important part of getting there.

Socializing with other people is the surest means of acquiring happiness

That seems kind of shallow. Sure, relationships with others are another indirect part of happiness.

I don't claim to know the answers, here, but I've been pondering these things a lot lately.

and "fanboy-ism" is inherently anti-social

Sharing closely held values (e.g. a particular OS or programming language) is a really important part of socializing, IMO, and there's nothing wrong with that. Being a fanboy isn't the problem; the problem arises if you try to hard to share that passion with others, and fail.

</philosophical>
This. There is a difference between learning to use today's cutting edge technology, and learning the principles that will enable you to build tomorrow's.
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Seems win-win to simply use chromeframe. Given this is a web app which presumably customers are already invested in using (since they're paying for it), requiring a 60s one-time install seems like the best course of action for everyone involved.

Slow speed of execution in IE might well be considered a vast improvement compared to the current state of affairs

Unfortunately the general public doesn't think like that. To the average Joe your site is slow therefore it sucks.
Multiple CS degrees, and whether having more than one has helped.
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I've done pen testing in the past and I've made similar 'plugs' like this. It's quite simple to make one of these, all you need is a router that can run openwrt and a case of some sort (pelican cases work nicely), tear it apart, flash it, paint the case and that's about it - total cost was about ~$100 + 2 hours of time and as an added bonus openwrt comes with a webui. Maybe this offers more...
All of these changes are targeted at Python 2.6–3.x.

A rewrite of many parts of Werkzeug is required to support Python 3. Might as well kill two birds with one stone :)
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Are you selling it?
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Whenever other people stop needing web pages that save to a database. Until then, we'll continue learning better (as in quicker and easier rather than "new") ways to lazily create what people need.
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"most of them are useless" Would you care to elaborate what constitutes useful? In my little bubble, there are a lot of useful people without degrees.
It's really hard. You can tell that job adds are written by people that don't know WTF they are talking about. The number of people that are specialists in more than 1 or 2 areas are rare. And expert? What does that really mean.

The problem is, in order for recruiters to justify their 30k+ fee, they have to ensure that their recruits are worth it...and the perfect person for the job. Which is to be expected when you are selling yourself to a non-technical startup CEO. But really, there isn't a single engineer that will pass on the right talent b/c of zero tolerance for a learning curve.

These days, having an exit under your belt is a big deal. Get back into the startup community, if that's where you want to be. I do think you should pick one new technology and crack it open. However, don't be afraid to learn on your prior works.

You should start some side projects, or if you worked on a few things over the years, say so.

But, use linkedin. Reach out to CEOs / higher-ups at the companies you'd like to work for. Talk to them. They'll appreciate your history. Just get out there and flaunt it.

BTW, there is very little new under the sun, the same is true in tech. There are new packaged, frameworks and the like, but if you learned it once, you can again...and faster the second time.
Golly, I am sorry. I thought you might like to know that you have a pervasive bias that is distorting your understanding so badly that it would cause you to argue for police powers on an Orwellian magnitude. But, since I am not interested in rearranging the deck chairs of specific arguments on your moral and ethical Titanic, I'll leave you alone with your thoughts.
I've used the techniques described here for as long as I can remember (over 30 years: man, how the years have passed!) and here's how I'd summarize my experience:

1) The techniques work well to impress your friends and family (you look like a genius weaving that magic) but better still, they work wonders for examinations that require lots of memorization (think history, biology, geography, chemistry, literature and so on.) In a world where we all agree memorization is not the best way to go, our education system can't seem to avoid it. These memory techniques help you to "tape" the facts and spit them out appropriately - no thinking, no stress. They've allowed me to get done with the memorization quickly, and move on to where logic and analysis is actually required. A double win.

2) The other great fear in life - public speaking - is also neatly handled. Among other things public speaking combines the recalling of the content of a story, and the presentation of that story. We fear we will forget on the one hand, and that we will screw up delivery on the other. These memorization techniques make the recalling a breeze, and allow you to focus on the presentation. Worth it's weight in gold.

3) Finally, on the questioning of the value of the "junk associations" connected with these techniques. As others have pointed out, the reality is our human mind creates mostly junk associations anyway. We remember what we remember only because those mostly junk associations are vivid. These memory techniques teach you how to make vivid whatever junk association you use via heightened or over exaggerated imagery.

What I've found is that while the short-term benefit is better short-term memory, in the long-term the exercise of such vivid imagery has made me much more creative in the way I see things. Sometimes crazy but mostly creative, and lots of non sequiturs that bring out a crazy sense of humor that keeps you chuckling along to better ideas.
I have a traditional, theoretical-focused CS degree, which I followed up with a more practical CS master's and half a PhD in natural language processing. I dropped out of the PhD to do a startup.

I do not currently program for my job - I'm a product manager - so this is a counterpoint to the "no CS degree but I rock at programming" responses. I'm actually a mediocre programmer, but an excellent improviser and duct-taper.

However, I absolutely loved studying CS, especially the more theoretical parts, and even nearly ten years later, there are odd things that turn up that make me happy I studied CS rather than sticking with my original plan of maths. (for example a recent foray into compiler design, and a sidetracked conversation about memory, both of which were topics I hadn't touched as hobbies since my undergraduate years but which I had some base, stored-away knowledge of).

Perhaps I took the shortcut and self-teaching would have resulted in the same long-term results (except the whole immigration process, which was greatly expedited by my career-relevant Master's). I do wonder, however, if lack of role models and environment would have become an issue if I were slogging it alone. At university I had a fantastic mentor and a great environment where I could delight in logic and systems without worrying about anything else - employability, chromosomes, the real world.. ultimately, that latter was the downfall of my PhD.
I'm thinking of building a simple game like this(but not with shooting stuff) using node on the server side since it's the cool thing to do now.
But idk how many players a server could sustain or if the browser client might slow down when rendering many players on the screen.

Anybody want to help? Should just take about a week to build something playable i think.
It's possible to print notes not easily detected as counterfeit in the field with a lot of today's currencies. It's not very practical on a large scale in the long term because the government is intent on preventing introduction of meaningfully large amounts of fakes and has teams tracking these bills.

So bitcoin can't be devalued by "printing" fake "bills." That's a good prerequisite, but it's not a practical improvement for me over the current currencies.
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Possibly related interesting answer by sivers on his speed limit thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3761713 (good post and thread in general)
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I'd argue in a lot of cases the new methods are not significantly better, just significantly different.

I cynically believe that this is what happens when you ask a reasonably intelligent programmer to connect forms to databases. They will get bored and invent alternate techniques and want to use 'new' tools to pretty much achieve the same thing.

I'm guilty of doing this myself, but I now see the pattern and I'm over it. There is more interesting things to learn than the 'next hot thing' in web tech and there's also something to be said about maintainability.

I've had to troubleshoot bugs in years old Rails applications on Ruby 1.8.7 in Rails 2.1 that were jam packed full of the current trendy plugins of the time. I'm telling you I'd prefer debugging and maintaining a boring old PHP app with hand-rolled SQL statements over it any day. To be fair these apps are still around because they generate income, but they don't generate enough income to justify a 3-6 month long error-prone 'upgrade' project to get it inline with the tech of the day.

I think this is why big-co standardise on years old tech, because building every new thing in every new tech with 1000 programmers is a recipe for disaster. Yes we need to try new tools, new techniques, but when overwhelmingly the corporate world have chosen the safe route I suspect it's not because they're old and boring themselves, just they've seen through the smoke and mirrors and no longer buy it.

It takes a number of years working in a few environments to see this for yourself (try telling this to an 18 year old hot-shot and they'll think you're an old fuddy duddy). I believe there's merit when an old greybeard is yelling at all the younguns because they left out not null constraints and omitted foreign keys. They know (and have dealt with) the impact a few years down the track.
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My mom still wants me to finish a degree someday, but at almost 32 years old my work experience is worth a lot more, and I'm pretty sure any company that wouldn't hire me due to lack of a degree is not a place I'd be very happy at anyway.
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It's far better than the trendy Jared Diamond writing. IMHO, Jared Diamond's collapse is a book written from end to beginning, much like Guns, Germs and Steel to simply reconfirm existing left of center ideas by torturing and cherry picking the data to ignore anything that doesn't reconfirm accepted and popular political narratives.
Sounds good. Thanks!

Edit: As a bonus link to make this post more interesting, the other day I caused the Python 3 version of requests to be packaged for Fedora 16 and 17: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807525
> and Windows v.next peak grows (which it will as it always does)

What is v.next?
I've always used alt+F2 to launch apps that I already know are installed on my system. I find menus are great for browsing/scanning applications that I don't know. And they are quick to use.

Whereas the app menus in Gnome 3, are really hard on my head. The icons, just don't really add anything for me, it feels cluttered.