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His name is usually taken to be a nod to his father's skill with a bow. You're right about the 'far' part, but the second part I think is different (the Ancient Greek word for man is anēr, andros - the root being andr):

tele means "far away" or "from afar" (think 'television' it sees things from afar).

The mach root comes from a word meaning "fight".

So "Telemachos" is a "far-fighter", i.e. a bowman. Odysseus is primarily famous as an archer (as opposed to Achilles who is primarily famous for fighting with a spear).

I think that etymology is pretty well accepted. It certainly was when I was a student. I'm not sure that there's a completely accepted explanation for how the name fits into his place in the epic. Here's my take: Telemachus must prove that he can grow up into as good a man as his father. He does that throughout the poem, as he goes from being a very immature teenager to eventually fighting alongside his father at the end of the poem. Before the trial of the bow (when all the suitors attempt to string Odysseus's bow and win Penelope), Telemachus tries to string his father's bow himself. Here's a translation of the scene I have in mind by Samuel Butler[1]. The 'he' refers to Telemachus:

> As he spoke he sprang from his seat, threw his crimson cloak from him, and took his sword from his shoulder. First he set the axes in a row, in a long groove which he had dug for them, and had made straight by line. Then he stamped the earth tight round them, and everyone was surprised when they saw him set up so orderly, though he had never seen anything of the kind before. This done, he went on to the pavement to make trial of the bow; thrice did he tug at it, trying with all his might to draw the string, and thrice he had to leave off, though he had hoped to string the bow and shoot through the iron. He was trying for the fourth time, and would have strung it had not Ulysses made a sign to check him in spite of all his eagerness. So he said:

> "Alas! I shall either be always feeble and of no prowess, or I am too young, and have not yet reached my full strength so as to be able to hold my own if any one attacks me. You others, therefore, who are stronger than I, make trial of the bow and get this contest settled."

In that scene, I've always thought that Telemachus proves he is capable of becoming his father (he might have strung the bow), but he is willing - as a good son should - to yield to his father while he is still alive. At the same time, he also proves he is a good liar - like his father - since the little speech he gives at the end helps to encourage the suitors and think he is nobody to fear. When the fighting begins, however, he proves otherwise and he helps his father kill the suitors.

[1]: http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/odyssey.21.xxi.html
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Everything you mention has long design cycle times. Airplane engines and medical devices need certification, which means you can't iterate fast anyway. Chips take 8+ weeks to iterate on the lithography. An efficient consumer electronics operation in China can iterate every day.
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> Yes, but for 1 DTU there are plenty of other Universities aiming only at big numbers of students.

Plenty? There aren't more than a handful of Danish universities in total. The only one that isn't at a high international level is Roskilde, and its student population is the smallest in the country by a wide margin. The two largest by number of students, Aarhus University (where I went) and Copenhagen University, are well into the world's top 50 on international rankings, and climbing. DTU is lower in overall rank but near the top in engineering. Aalborg is still under-ranked internationally, as you can tell by the fact that it's jumped a hundred spots on average each year in the QS rankings for the last several years, but everyone in Denmark knows it's a great school for engineering, rivaling and possibly surpassing DTU in education if not yet in research. SDU is in a solid third place after AU and KU as a well-rounded university; its departments are smaller in size, but many are packed with strong faculty.
I have always been the "extrovert" in my team (PayGuard)..... always passionate and excited to share my ideas. The greatest thing I have ever learned from all our meetings is knowing when to just shut up and listen. I came to the realization that my team members are just as smart or even smarter than I am. I also realized how lucky I am to be working with such people.
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Part of that's due to incentives; like a corporation, universities don't primarily think institutionally about what's in your best interests. Hence you also rarely find companies happy that you left to take a better job, though you might find some individual managers who're supportive of a decision to move on.

For universities, people who leave PhD programs earlyish are a particular negative, because at least in the US, typically universities subsidize the masters portion of your education if you enter into a PhD program, out of research funds or departmental TA funds, whereas students who enter explicitly intending to get a masters have to pay tuition, and don't usually receive a stipend (though a few can land TAships). What they expect in return is that later in your PhD you'll publish a bunch of papers which bring them some prestige, help out on grant applications, etc. So if you enter a PhD program, stay for 2 years for the coursework/masters portion, and then leave, from the university's perspective it's like you're really a masters student who somehow tricked them into treating you as a PhD student for 2 years, and got away without paying tuition--- but without staying long enough to produce the expected ROI in publications. It also hurts the graduation-rate statistics in some ways of calculating them, and as education is getting more metrics/assessment heavy, that can matter too.

At least, that's from an administrative/bean-counter perspective; from a cultural perspective among researchers themselves, attitudes are more varied and have more complicated reasons. In areas where industrial partnerships are important, I think the reaction is often fairly positive, because a former student now working at a large company is a good connection for a lab to have.

Some of the negative reactions I think are just due to people not conceiving that other people could have different preferences/aptitudes. You can also find the reverse, where e.g. the attitudes if you left a startup after two years to pursue grad school can range from confused to "you're throwing away a golden opportunity" type views, to outright derisive ("couldn't make it in the real world"). Unfortunately I think it's pretty common for people to be pretty invested in what they did as the definition of success (whether it's research or entrepreneurship or whatever), and to generalize that to thinking that people who quit that route and try another one are therefore failures.
You can also just play on one board, swapping your opponents pieces for pieces of your color when you take them (obviously you need two sets of pieces). This is called crazyhouse.
Only up to a point - an RSM (CSM) of my aquaintance commented on the use of drinking as a bonding mechanisiam commented "oh and the girls are much worse" :-)

There are far more important issues around Exclusion than liking a beer - how many Black (ie sub sharan descent) or Female programmers have you worked with for example.
We need to own our blogs, our social networks, our email (raise your hand if you're not using Google Mail – see?); at some point even our infrastructure

Shouldn't that include comments on Schnitzelpress blogs, too?
"You are using free code". It's not free. The cost for this "free" code is that I apply the same license to my own code.

Of course the original author can put whatever license on their code. But the license effectively renders the code useless to me. Not because I dislike the GPL, but because I use a different license.

And it's simply very disappointing when I see that someone has already solved a problem I'm struggling with, and advertises their "free" solution, that then turns out to be not free for me.
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And even if this endpoint (defined in the WSDL) was changed to to https there is nothing stopping you from overriding it and pointing it to any other (possibly unsecure) URL.
when I posted my comment the reddit post wasn't edited to say that it's a rate liming bug. Indeed, nobody is going to buy such a thing. Pretty useless for any kind of purposes, black-hat or not.
Interesting but it leaves out one crucial detail: did the dinosaur prefer emacs or vim?
Good article. It's funny to me that HN readers simultaneously deride Groupon for shoddy financial reporting in its IPO yet cheer "crowdfunding" and the JOBS act which removes any audited financial reporting requirement.

Which is it: do you want the true scoop before investing in an IPO or do you not? You can't have it both ways.
So as someone who has played A LOT of bughouse in his day... Bughouse is awesome. Never thought of playing Singles.
Would it be fair to say that the reason Apple has their entire supply chain in China is because those "supply clusters" were already there because of the Japanese consumer tech companies that built them up in the 80's?

(I have no idea when or how exactly, but the "80's" seems to be around the time of the "Japanese Electronic Invasion")

In other words, for a "new" company like Apple, starting out with all their new iDevices, it simply made sense for them to go where the supply was?

It's kind of like Apple "piggybacked" and exploited all the gains made by the Sonys, Sharps & Casios of the world, and beat them at their own game.

I think if we move beyond the analogies of cars and other consumerables, and focus on what Apple is really doing, which is essentially Consumer Tech, then it simply makes sense for them to be where the guy that makes those fancy LCD screens is at?
Yes we will. iOS first and then Android. Do you require video and voice or just voice?
The Awesomebar is one of my main reasons why I never left Firefox. It really is just too great. The ability to use wildcards to narrow my searches is too great. Plus adding keywords for searches is too great, if I want to search Youtube, I type yt <search term>, Wikipedia? wk <search term>, these small features are such great boosts to my browsing experience.
Normaly thers no diference to the shares I own as an employee and as an investor (leaving aside the use of share classes to maitain control eg NI and Google)
I'm surprised by the monolithic all-or-nothing deployments that they have off of the single binary.

I prefer to componentise applications and allow those components to be deployed, released, and rolled back separately.

I also don't agree with the 'rollback is for losers' message as hinted at in the article.

A fast dependable rollback (measured in the seconds) is significantly preferable to getting a developer to implement a fix to some issue under pressure and push it out in a rush. Much better to roll back, take stock, then implement the right fix under the tested process.
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From what you are saying, instead of investing in creating jobs for people with low skills, it would be better to invest more in helping people take the time to get training and education.

Seems like having more educated people that can get higher paying jobs, which give them more disposable income and more free time, would be a much bigger win for our society than simply creating more unskilled labor jobs.
Ah, I didn't think about it that way. Then you're back to Usenet killfiles; just hide the bad stuff (driving away newcomers who haven't learned to killfile yet) instead of getting rid of it.
That's right. the Beer game is one of the first things taught in Operations Management in most b-schools, as an example of Supply Chain Management.
[I was fortunate to have been introduced to the subject by John Sterman]

In general, delays (i.e. lead times) and variations in orders will do that Beer game effect to any supply chain, no matter where it's located.
Apple products are "made in china" because of various reasons -- comparative advantage, business cluster etc.

I'd highly recommend a good reading of systems dynamics (and business dynamics) for those looking for more info.

For those interested, two recommended books:

* "Clock Speed" by Charles Fine (MIT)

* "Business Dynamics" by John Sterman (also of MIT, and a great professor): http://goo.gl/K4OG (Amazon.com link)
I also believe one day is too short to measure anything here. If everyone in your office disappeared for exactly one day, would anything really be different when you got back the next morning? It happens all the time on company holidays.

Have those O2 employees work from home for a whole week and let's see where it goes.
The Mao isolation was just a continuation of centuries of Ming isolation, and, emphatically, yes.

I think the GP meant modern protectionism in the sense of "Buy American/British/etc" movements.
Facebook's testing practices and culture of developer accountability help to prevent serious bugs from being rolled out in production code. When a developer's code disrupts the website and necessitates a post-deployment fix, the incident is tracked and factored into Facebook's assessment of the developer's job performance.

[...]

Employees with low karma can regain their lost points over time by performing well—though some also try to help their odds by bringing Rossi goodies. Booze and cupcakes are Rossi's preferred currency of redemption; the release engineering team has an impressive supply of booze on hand, some of which was supplied by developers looking to restore their tarnished karma.

This sounds like Facebook strongly rewards developers who work on trivial, low-risk features rather than larger, more important features. Also, it sounds like bribery factors into your overall job performance rating.
Sounds like I have approached this the wrong way/order. I have built a very early prototype (early MVP). I was going to try promote this and gain feedback. What I should have done earlier is test 1 and 2. I have found getting attention and finding people online difficult. Is face to face better for initial evaluation? Is gaining traction easier once you know your target market?
"When you are ready, the teacher will appear" - Buddhist saying. Getting through a PhD is easier and more fun if your mind is into it. Yours is clearly not, so why try to swim upstream? Go where your mind and soul are telling you that you belong. If you ever decide the PhD is the right move for you, you can re-open that chapter and go for it.

I'm getting ready for a change in career, and for the exact same reasons.
Yeah it's just unfortunate. It's effectively like attempting to distribute a broken library. People simply can't use it, and even though it may have had the workings of a good solution for many people, you're just not going to get any users/contributors. shrug
I'm doing a Masters in theoretical physics and I've got to ask, is it common to first go work a few years before going into academia? It surprises me how little we are informed of these things.

Being locked in is my biggest fear for going for a PhD. I don't want to spend the rest of my life on a single topic, perhaps I don't even want to stay in theoretical physics.
Russ is one of the best technical writers I've read. I've only gotten through half of this book, but I've read his design patterns book cover to cover and it is fantastic.

He recently did an appearance on Ruby Rogues for their book club episode on Eloquent Ruby:
http://rubyrogues.com/033-rr-book-club-eloquent-ruby/

That's definitely a good primer if you on the fence about purchasing this book.
Yes. 1st restriction above is more for business reasons, so that there are no ways to circumvent the app store, while 2nd is a technical restriction on 3rd party apps for security purposes. Apple apps (like Safari) can obviously do JIT compilation.

However, I speculate even the 2nd restriction is partly for business reasons because it prevents some third-party toolkits (such as those compiling to LLVM) from achieving high performance. You might remember that Adobe was compiling Flash to LLVM to allow devs to port their Flash apps to iOS, but since LLVM cannot do proper JIT compilation on iOS, it will reduce performance.

FWIW: WinRT imposes both the restrictions above. Android technically doesn't impose either for sideloaded apps. But if you want to distribute app through Google Play, the 1st restriction is indeed imposed.
I would love to see this data compared to other countries.

I find it interesting that despite everything to do with health care, we're only spending approximately 4% more on medical care than we were in 1949.

That we are generally buying larger houses is no surprise, but that we're spending a substantially larger portion of our incomes to do so is, while not surprising, certainly interesting in the sense that this binds us to our income streams more than generations past.

I don't know the data, so perhaps someone could enlighten me as to whether or not this is because houses are just more expensive than they used to be, or because we just like buying larger houses (possibly for status) than we used to, or whether we just have more income available to spend on houses since we're spending so much less on food and clothing?
Coding is intrinsically leet. Knuth said only one person in 50 has the brain wiring for it.
Except that the GPL linking exception exists because of the taint that can be introduced by using GPL'd code.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL_linking_exception
That's true. They are also in my deck ;)
That's interesting. Sorry for not getting it right away. It's making more sense on second reading. :)

Now I'm curious how you'd encode subroutine calls. Your example was completely inlined but the call-sequence will be critical in determining how compact the code ends up.

Also, were you thinking of using a cross-compiler and keeping the dictionary out of the DCPU-16s memory? Let me know if you create a public repo. I'd be interested to see what you come up with!
The beer game is also mentioned in Peter Senge's The Fifth Disciple, where he suggests it originated from MIT in the 1960s. I think he had one less link in the chain (3 players not 4) but still the effect was the same.

btw, His book is a good intro to the way small changes effect integrated systems, particularly in business.
Yup, SP will at some point -- hopefully not too far into the future -- host its own comments/likes/links/feedback. Right now I'm trying to figure out how do this right.
It's not very complicated to modify the logic to start buffering on a second error (the first one is sent immediately), and then flush errors to the server and repeat this logic every X seconds... it's just a matter of an extra flag in the error handler
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Who knows, but I'd say very doubtful. (Not a lawyer)

See you have this THING...it's called the Bill of Rights. They kind of guarantee some other THINGS. It might look like the Bill of Rights has been trampled on but believe me, the core parts haven't, and won't be.
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a side note - after such experiment, if any worker comes back and say he feels more productive at office than at home, write down his name and pay attention to his work: he is either a pretentious corporate ladder climber trying to impress his boss, or if he is a developer or engineer, with great work ethic.
I don't play chess but what does Jason do at the 2:02 mark?
I took the same route, "mastering out", and that cultural perception that "leaving your PhD is failing at life" was my biggest hurdle. I knew I could get a job, knew that I could probably find something interesting, but the looks of pity and disgust from my colleagues were not so easy to ignore. I think the comment I heard most often was, "what a waste."

Until I was actually out. Then I started getting furtive emails asking me questions like, "how do you write a resume?", "is the pay ok?", and most often, "are you happy?"

I still think a PhD is absolutely worth it in many cases, and trains you to be a scientist better than any other path. But it's a long hard road, and there are many people out there (me included) who do it because it's presented as the default path. If you're interested in physics, or biology, or any other science, it's just what comes next after undergrad. And that's not a good enough reason.

Edit: 'You know, most Ph.D.ers are smart and successful people. Hence they have a difficulty in saying “This is not for me”. They instead say “I’ve been successful all my life, and I finished everything I started, so I should finish this as well”. By saying that, they choose to hang in there for many years in a depressed state.

This.
This tech talk video from Chuck Rossi on the same topic also has a lot of really interesting information https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10100259101684977
They were, but not on the same nodes as the data was on. They were in a different AWS security zone with different ssh keys/access privileges.
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Nah, that was something doctored up by a designer. Don't think you can get that without doing some manual popup window manipulation, which is really ugly in its own right.
I recall when Appboy (mentioned in the article) launched it was some sort of app developer marketplace, then a social network, looks like they made a pretty substantial pivot now into mobile app marketing infrastructure.

Its rare that independent first time entrepreneurs are given a lot of runway for a prolonged period of successive pivots, I think thats one thing that someone of means probably has at their advantage
Have you sent this issue to the Firefox team? :)
Why is this newsworthy? A user upgraded a user-upgradable laptop.

And it still takes 20 seconds to boot! Is this a Mac problem?
Benson's patent was for a particular algorithm, not an abstract concept, yet it was found invalid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottschalk_v._Benson

The RSA patent didn't make it through the patent system by claiming a particular algorithm; it made it through by including the hardware: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(algorithm)

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman-Walter-Abele_Test
meh, another risk-adverse culture. hidi-ho.
a patent on homophobic encryption? patent lawyers are shameless!
You only chose to respond to a portion of what I wrote or didn't read the first sentence so I've italicized it for clarification: they just might not be able to produce 100% of their products there [in Fremont]. Maybe you're not familiar with guitars either, but Fender American made are substantially more expensive but they are in definitely in demand. There is also demand for a cheaper entry level product--both products serve a need. Why do you think it has to be one or the other?

What you're talking about sounds like Ayn Rand's objectivism--basing your argument 100% on cost. I think you're wrong about this--Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Red Wing Shoes, and local coop growth shows that people do care where they get their products from when given a choice.

Also, please stop making assumptions about me: rather than to people who are superficially "like me".

Where did I say this and where do you come off being so vitriolic? Personally I come to HN for an intellectual discussion and don't appreciate your condescending attitude, or mischaracterization of my comments, or lack of intellectual integrity, or your argument by fallacy. You responded to your own strawman argument because it was easier than responding to what I actually said. You argue like a bully--if I disagree with you I am 'nationalistic and superficial'? That seems like an elevated discussion.
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