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Hum, even balance is a subjective view in that case, plus my answer would not probably count as much as I am one of those lazy french.

I would hope that my view is about balance and avoiding extreme, like it was the case in the game industry a few years ago.

About your suggestion, not all of us are willing to do that move ( to "cheaper" country, as we've got anchor in our live, family, friends, cars, house, pet, etc .... ), or got jobs that cannot be done remotely. I have already moved to another country, not because life cost was cheap, but because it was less stressful for me.

I am passionate about my work but I mostly focus that passion on side projects and hobby (that is for free). Not saying that mixing work and passion is bad ( I think, it is great ), but that can easily be abused ( game industry, animation industry ).

I think it is wrong to push people from the start to work on weekends (that was the way I read it), it is the fastest way to burn them out (speak of personal experience here, first company (start-up) I joined payed me ~900$ a month but I didn't care because I was motivated, worked 10am-8pm~1am including some weekends, after 5-6 years of this I was a mess, Apple is hopefully not be the same ).
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I do it on 12". Absolutely no need for any more for development, not even one bit.

Now, design work obviously needs a lot more, but that's offset by the fact that my HP 2730p is also a tablet with stylus, which made me extremely productive in dishing out graphics.
> There is a term for this type of legislative process

In sales and negotiation circles, it's known as the foot-in-the-door technique:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot-in-the-door_technique
Standard size function keys. No media keys, only volume/mute control.

Trackpoint is a must. I can even live without a track/touch pad.
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Isn't cost a problem? I think that these cars have hundreds of thousands of dollars of hardware. Surely mass production can bring costs down, but how far? Are there any solid estimates out there?
Sounds like a bunch of butt hurt emo nerds
> Patents, on the other hand, are excludable and rivalrous only in the tautological sense

Yes, and it's really easy to con people with the tautological definition.

"Of course IP is just property. You can buy it, and sell it, just like a car".

By the same argument, piracy is not theft but license infringement. The whole thing is so abstract, it's easy for people to muddy the waters.
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Why? Do they use it when the laptop is closed? Did they miss a numpad? Did all their keys pop off and the devices are out of warranty? Is it about the "click" feeling?

I haven't seen this so I am curious. The biggest bummer for me about Apple is the lack of a USB external trackpad.
You know, that’s not such an outlandish claim. CSS is accumulating features that seem to me completely out of place in a styling language. Then again, HTML isn’t perfect, nor JavaScript, nor PHP or any language—but we still get stuff done with them, so who am I to complain?
+1 to the NVIDIA requirement with Linux - when looking for a new Linux dev laptop, this was a must since I use an external monitor most of the time when docked - you can trust this will work 110% with NVIDIA - Intel GPU's have been a bit shaky with this in the past. But this might be better with newer Linux kernels/Xorg shipping with distros like Ubuntu 12.04.

In the end, I went for a speced up Thinkpad T420 with i7/NVIDIA/8GB - works really, really well.
I'm making this suggestion because I would personally use this service and I know several others who would as well. I've recently been obsessed with spring cleaning and getting rid of my excess things, but here's the problem: I would love to make some profit off of the stuff I'm already planning to get rid of, but I don't want to put in the time/effort to individually list and ship each item on eBay, Craigslist, Copious, etc. I would love to have someone else do all of this for me and keep 40% or more of the profit. This is kind of like eBay/Craigslist flipping, except your wife wouldn't have to buy the items initially.
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It still doesn't constitute an invasion, any more than it constituted an invasion when China sent troops into North Korea during the Korean war.

I didn't say the people of South Vietnam democratically voted to formally request US involvement, or that the Diem regime was morally legitimate, or even that it was a good idea to get involved in the Vietnam War. Just that there was no actual invasion anywhere in the process.
I am a little shocked by the audacity of this post.

> We’ve put next to no effort into it over the last year…

You get points for honesty, sir, but this is akin to saying "Screw you, our dear 170 miserable paying customers. We have done nothing to make your money worth it, thanks for being suckers for our brand anyway. Oh, and I feel no shame admitting this publicly!"

How would you feel if you were (or are) one of the 170? Are they getting their money's worth?
Conversely, it is the basis for pragmatic advice for companies or non-profits that manage to get someone to subscribe to a newsletter: Don't send a newsletter for the sake of sending one!

Non-profits that send monthly updates that merely highlight a member are particularly infuriating to me. Tell me of a new project when it launches or a big milestone reached. Letters sent for the sake of "just checking in" make me ignore subsequent emails. I get newsletter blindness almost as fast as ad blindness.
They don't need to prove anything.
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In other words: decadence.

I'm assuming in their favor that they really believe $480k would be fair deal - which means they've simply lost touch with reality and can no longer discern how much of their revenue stems from the brand and how much from actual product value.

The rational move would be to hire an admin for $100k (remember we're in alternate reality), tell him to keep the site up, go about his life and not call. And collect the remaining $100k until the product fizzles out.

Btw, I'd volunteer to take that admin-role when your sale fails. $100k may not mean much to 37signals anymore. For me it would be a lot of money. I promise to not call you ever, you can just forget that site after you handed it over. I will guarantee 100% uptime (yes 100%, via anycast, at my expense, included with the 100k).
>I'm not sure what you mean by "on a small window such that this isn't really applicable"

FFT is very useful on a small window, but algorithms that improve the asymptotic efficiency are unlikely to be useful at that scale. With n=100 the asymptote doesn't matter. We'll still be using the FFT forever, I'm just skeptical that the frontiers of technology will be advanced by a faster FFT, since it seems like the coolest stuff is happening elsewhere. It's increasingly becoming the quick-and-dirty counterpart to the sophisticated-but-slow methods.
I like this... but I like driving too :(
Really curious as to how you're implementing the fax feature. Is it an in-house solution, or are you guys using somebody's API?
While robotic cars have very little reason to crash into each other, there will still always be some non-robotic things on the roads -- wildlife and drunken pedestrians for one.

But while some cutback in safety features would be possible, I honestly think that the society will take the other option. Robots have no trouble making driving reasonably safe at much faster speeds than humans can. The advantages to society for raising normal road speeds past 200mph vastly eclipse that of reducing the cost of manufacturing the cars. So I think the future will perhaps see even sturdier cars than today, just to be able to survive hitting a deer (or even a cat) at high speed.
When the "auto" mobiles first came out, you had to have someone in front waving a flag to alert those on horses and in carriages that you were coming. I figure this is the modern day equivalent (and about as useful).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_flag_laws
Just a note: the name comes from the Japanese word 「歓談」(also pronounced "kandan"), meaning "chat."
I'm not sure I understand your point. "SOPA sucks. Just like PHP/Java" is a useless statement, since the only thing the two have in common is "sucking."

The Bible is an alternative theory of the origin and purpose of existence, and is directly analogous to the matter of this thread.
I think you're right about insurance companies playing a big role, we've already seen 20% discounts for having Adaptive Cruise Control in Europe. But I don't think this will be a quick change.

First, people take awhile to replace their cars. I don't know the stats for this, but 10-year old vehicles don't seem atypical. The good news is that gives a chance for reducing costs. It was back-of-the-envelope calculation based on parts only, but one article I read estimated 5-10k would be added to Cadillac's self driving car if they introduced it by 2015. [1]

Second, there are still some hard problems to solve. According to Thrun, they don't have a solution for snowy roads that block the car's vision of the lane markers, and Cadillac's vehicle has the same problem. That'll also be a problem in areas of construction where line markers aren't accurately marking the road.

There's also some major regional challenges. In Pittsburgh, per a convention known as the Pittsburgh Left, a driver stopped at a red light will pause after the light turns green to allow the “first driver in the oncoming traffic... to make a left turn.” Thrun's team is working on collecting massive amounts of data to overcome niche issues like that, but is that something every car manufacturer will have access to?

I think we can also expect some legal barriers to be a problem. I don't have the best grasp on this, but from a RAND report I read it sounds like state tort law, combined with the complete lack of state or federal laws concerning autonomous cars, could create liability issues for manufacturers. Maybe that would necessitate some lobbying and court battles before manufacturers risk masses of autonomous cars? It's hard for me to tell how important these issues are because the biggest player, Google, isn't focused on the market now.

Ultimately you're clearly right, autonomous cars are definitely the future, but I'm feeling more of a gradual shift as problems are ironed out and the prices of sensors are reduced.

[1]http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/126841-cadillac-promises-...
That feels a little heavy handed and like you are projecting of your own values onto the situation to me. The 170 customers are paying right?

If the site works and is providing those 170 people what they want then what exactly is wrong with that? If its not providing them what they want why are they still paying $99 per month for it?
In house solution--well, bundling together a couple of different open source libs (QR code detection, openCV).
There's a big difference between a construction project and a software project, though. With no formal plumbing experience, a layman can walk into a newly installed bathroom and can tell, for example, whether it has any large holes in the walls; whether the materials used in the construction seem solid; whether, when the toilet is flushed, the waste actually appears to go away into the sewage system; whether the contractor got carried away and installed an industrial air extraction unit when all that was needed was a small vent fan.

When you go in to inspect a software system someone has constructed for you, though, you just don't know. It could have a gaping security hole; it may be dreadfully underpowered for your needs - or ridiculously overpowered. And you just can't tell.

And while, if you need repairs on your bathroom, you can get in any plumber and, even though he may criticise the original installer's technique, he can pretty reliably open things up and expect to find things he understands - pipes, for example, rather than, say a system of motorized buckets. But if you get in someone to look at software you've had built then who knows what the original developer will have constructed.

And as a customer of a bathroom installer, you can (hopefully) understand why you can't just have the showerhead suspended in midair with no pipes to feed it; that you can't have an electrical outlet installed actually in the bathtub; that the bathroom is only 8 by 12 so there isn't room to include a hottub. But no such immediate understanding is available to someone commissioning software.

The physicality of real things renders them much more readily comprehended by the user, which means they have a chance to grasp what goes into creating them. But software's complete lack of physical existence means that it is virtually impossible for anyone except its creators to fully comprehend.
LOL.

A bit of revisionist history never hurt anyone.
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Agree, the copy on the landing page doesn't seem to read "hey teachers, this is for you!", it comes off a bit more of "hey tech guys check out this SAAS app we made for teachers".

Regardless Kite looks absolutely brilliant and likely will be a real game changer for countless teachers. Awesome work
I didn't support IE until, much to my chagrin, I discovered about 30% of my hits were from IE. Fortunately, simply putting the !doctype meta-tag (or whatever it is) fixed almost all my issues (at least for IE 8+)
Thanks! Yeah. Going to rework that. Lots of great feedback here.
There was an article recently (one version at http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/04/27/self_driv...) that talked about a study asking folks if they wanted a self-driving vehicle if it cost $3K more - which supposedly was based on Ford and GM estimates of what it would add to the cost of a mass-produced model. Personally I'd pay twice as much to have it today, but I appear to be in the minority...
I was hoping this was written by machine.
That's a bit unfair. Oracle objected to two candidate jurors with software experience, yes, but at least not officially "for that very reason".

One candidate was an HP employee and Oracle objected on the ground that Oracle has a separate suit with HP. When asked of opinions about patents, the other candidate said he has his strong opinion about patents. I mean, we all do... But I think objections were justified.

Don't you agree that if you think software patents should be abolished, you should not be a juror in a software patent case?
Exactly, that is why I asked.

I guess by your reasoning, then yes, he is implying that, otherwise the implication is always true and there's no logic to assuming a false P.

Thus: I fear for the worst. API's may be copyrightable according to this ruling. I assume Google's teams are all over this right this minute.
The last time I remember this discussed, I believe the main points in favor of chiclet keyboards were:

- looks stylish

- very cheap to manufacture

Obviously the manufacturers wouldn't switch arbitrarily, but I wouldn't be surprised if those two reasons alone weren't enough to drive the switch.
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Thats what it feels like to be a female programmer. only, when you ask for help you hear things like "that's okay, your a girl" or "why would you need to know that?". So you stop asking your stupid questions, and your self esteem is ruined forever.
Very wise. This post is by no means a prescription for everybody. We're lucky that our demographic tend to use stronger browsers. Actually, when I exclude blog traffic the IE percentage drops further. :)
I don't care if my industry is more or less sexist or racist than average. I care if it's sexist or racist at all.

Also, whether or not you notice mistreatment of others is not the best metric. Try asking people in those groups.

If you'd like to see an interesting analysis of the relative scarcity of female computer scientists, this is a classic: http://people.mills.edu/spertus/Gender/why.html
At my last company, I've worked as solo flash game developer. Within 2 years of active development, I've became one of the best in the region. Most of my interactions with other developers at the company (all Ruby guys) was about trying to explain to them that unit testing is absolutely not neccesary in my line of work (small games in impossible deadlines).

Now, this might sound contrary to the proposition in the title of article but it really isn't. I don't code alone. I do it with the entire cyberspace behind me. No beer with fellow coders competes with that.
Most modern copiers offer scan-and-email functionality. This might be much simpler than faxing.
Doing deals with OEMs actually seems like a better strategy today than it was even just a few years ago when Canonical did their original deal with Dell.

For one thing, Ubuntu has (for better or worse) made significant progress toward their UI vision. Unity has been polarizing, but many users (especially the "normal" people who are likely to buy an Inspiron or similar) seem to like it.

Even more importantly, a significant number of users today (in any case, more than there were back then) basically only care about having a web browser installed. This means they are less likely to care about having MS Windows (FF and Chrome run on all three "major" platforms).
Ten years ago you were an elite web developer if your site worked well in browsers other than IE. Today you're an elite web developer if you can make your site work well even in IE.
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Better option (IMNSHO), if someone wants to read the email they don't REALLY care if it's as an email. So a reader application that parses the DL'd file so that you can do rudimentary search, find what you want, and then copy/paste as necessary.
Network effect means that the more people use a service, the more useful it becomes. That doesn't seem to be the case here.

But there is the built-in marketing aspect since every user must send a lot of people around them to Gumroad in order to benefit from it.
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You are correct! And they can be faxed to us as well. We just don't publicize it (yet).
Keep in mind that the reason for 55mph speed limits is not about safety so much as it is about energy efficiency (set during the oil crises of the 70s, never raised again in many places). Going faster increases energy loss due to drag with the cube of the speed, so I don't think we're going to see 200 MPH speed limits until we get something much more energy efficient.

This could make some of the political problems with upping the speed limit that much go away, though.
I don't see how this could be done if they are PCI compliant.
To wit:

Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 18:01:40 +0000 (UTC)
From: Codecademy Team <contact@codecademy.com>
Subject: Get started with programming!

It appears these will be arriving weekly. Thanks for rewarding my early interest, Codecademy!
you are really super fast! I just got 80 WPM with mechanical keyboard (The Cheat CMA)
Nobody wants the damn thing.
The theory is based in observable reality (since there is nothing else to base a theory on,) so when it projects something that does not explain or seem compatible with observable reality, it calls itself into question.

There is being open-minded, and there is intellectual masturbation. If you observe something in the sky that is flying in quick irregular movements, you can derive all sorts of interesting, possible, perhaps even correct theories about new NSA drones, perhaps based on massive amounts of "inside information" and other evidence. There is some fun and value in this, and on rare occasions such thinking may be correct. It's not wrong to speculate wildly, but it's also not likely to yield the answer unless you constrain your answer to something with reasonable implications - such as that you are not on the Truman Show, because while that may be true, I think most of us agree it's less likely than other theories. Most of us would conclude it's probably a bird, or a plastic bag, and most of the time we'd be right.

All scientific theories are based at some level on observable reality, and an infinite number of theories could be derived from a given observable reality. Evolution and solar orbit had the benefit of providing simple explanations with observable and provable implications. Boltzmann wants us to believe that every possible reality exists simply because it is the logical result of some of the leading theories of the day. That does more for me to disprove the theories than prove their implication.

If one has two theories: theory A implies all possibilities exist in infinite time, theory B implies one reality exists in a single universe - all other things being equal, which one would you find more likely to be true?

I'd say we need a theory B.
but if I own a fleet of taxi cabs, then $3K sounds like a great price for replacing my drivers.
It depends on what kind of game dev you want to be; there are plenty of great options. Have more info? do you want to write console games? triple A pc games? mobile games? web games? If you purely want to get the concepts down first, picking any thing would work..
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I doubt we'll see road speeds increase any time soon. For one, a car that travels at 200 mph will wear down significantly faster, and get drastically reduced fuel efficiency. Imagine a tire blowout at 200 mph. There are also still human drivers on the road, and it might be difficult to enforce (or even pass) a law that says "human drivers must drive slower than robot drivers".

Excellent point about the non robotic obstacles. I really would just like to add mechanical failure. A perfect robot driver with a working car is one thing, but can that driver handle hydroplaning/tire blowouts/transmission failures?
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Google should work with Tesla Motors to implement it in one of their models at least. I figure people who are the early adopters for all-electric vehicles might be early adopters for self-driving cars, too.
Push the scantron-less grading. That's your biggest selling point, hands down. A pack of 500 forms (see link below) retails for $60; you'd be saving school districts literally tens of thousands of dollars per year.

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Also, I can't seem to get my PDFs to generate. Anyone else experiencing this?
I never saw any app or website that would have a that low percentage of IE usage.

Anyway, if you have been working with html&css for more than 1 or 2 years it should not be hard to at least degrade gracefully on ie8+.

Personally I don't even think it is a choice, ie is still 30% of world average, supporting it is a must.
This would have been interesting news in 2007 when ~70% of the internet was using IE and the versions that people used were hard to support. Now, it just seems like silly bragging. I can understand silently not supporting IE because of the features that aren't present, but shouting that you don't support IE in 2012 and calling it a feature just comes off as arrogant. My first reaction is, "so what?"
Getting the vast majority of sites working in IE9 is trivial (no changes required). IE8 some changes, but not a major hassle. I don't support IE7 or before. If you use a lot of HTML5 features it is hit or miss on all browsers.