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"Udacity sometimes belabors some really basic points. Coursera never gives me that 'dumbed-down' feeling. It's more like a real, and challenging, college course."

I think this actually may be Udacity's biggest strength. It's a lot more hands on than a college course, which makes it somewhat easier. But do you actually learn less? After thinking about it, I really don't think so.

With your average college CS class they spend a few minutes talking about some problem, and then you spend a week on your own working on it. Whereas with Udacity they actually teach you all the concepts you need to solve the problem, and then you work through it together step by step.

The strength of the traditional college approach is that it teaches you to be resourceful to some extent. But this comes at an enormous cost. You basically spend all week writing shitty code and trying to make it compile just to learn at best one or two concepts. Whereas with Udacity they are actually teaching you how to write quality code, but you still have to do the most challenging parts of the algorithm yourself. (And these aren't trivial, they often take several hours.)

Clearly at some point you do need to learn to fly yourself, but with Udacity at least you can wait until you're up to speed on the basic tools rather than being shoved out of the nest on day one. Even if it seems dumbed down, I'm completely convinced that you're actually learning much more this way than what you learn in the traditional CS classroom. And after all, the measure of a class shouldn't be how hard or easy it is, but rather how much you learn from it.
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Thank you for that link. Yours is the only relevant comment in this thread, and should be read prior to upvoting. The rest is just fud.
The greatest commandment was two parts: what you said + "love your neighbor as yourself". The golden rule is kind of redundant if you follow greatest commandment.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+22&v...

This is the best chapter in the entire Bible IMO. It's funny how many Christian couples think they'll still be married in Heaven.
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> That's like saying taking VC is a mistake as an entrepreneur.

Not quite, but nice try. Though, in a way, even if it did apply, it's still holds water. If you are 100% dependent on VC funding you for your survival and operations, then yeah, mistakes are being made.

Rather, it's like resting your entire business on a single entity, one big customer. If that customer goes away, you lose your funding. Sorry, but if you think being reliant on another businesses for all your funding is smart, you're in for a rude awakening.
Now show me a couple of sites/applications that have at least 100k users and rely solely (ok, mostly) on node.js
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What's the workflow like?

2 years ago I abandoned BlackBerry because of the soul crushing edit/test cycle.

Testing code changes required pushing the new code up to the BB JVM, which required rebooting the emulator.

It ... took ... forever ...
> it was clear that Dan had the mentality and intellect of an A Player. He was young, driven, and extremely intelligent.

Young has nothing to do with mentality or intellect. Nice to hear someone who is in charge of hiring be honest and say it out loud though.
I have a Youtube only account, not linked to any other Google services or their hosted email, and I can up or down vote any of the three videos I just randomly clicked on to check this out.
Presumably they'll be renovating and this is planning artwork from their architect. This is the equivalent of my sending my family concept sketches of my kitchen renovation. I can't imagine what they'd be "hiding".

Edit: this seems to be pretty close to the angle in the picture: http://g.co/maps/xj758
It seems like you are engaging in goalpost moving and/or strawmanning here. I explicitly listed non-empirical axioms about the method, and discussed some examples. You are replying with an example of empirical axiom as if it is the same thing.

I never denied nor tried to refute that there are many empirical axioms associated with science. I only stated that there are also a priori axioms which are structurally dogma.

Please stop changing the subject.
Title is needlessly inflammatory. Their web interface seems to have a bug with the encoding detection.
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> Are you willing to pay 23%[1] more for the convenience of not having to open a window?

Yes. If the choice is between UX and cost, I'll almost always pay more.

Not everyone will, but the people that don't are less profitable customers, as Apple is demonstrating.
Facebook was implemented in PHP, and still is (though now compiled, whatever). Google was, at a time, implemented in Python. Twitter was built on Rails, probably even ran on MRI. Maybe they switched to Java, who knows. Hardly hardcore-optimizable languages.

Not to mention that premature optimization may be bad, but even when you need it, it's better to just write a few algorithms and test them against real data.
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It tells you right on this page exactly how much of a year you'd need to run each instance type to break even on the reservation. https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/reserved-instances/
Understood on the happiness engineering role.

Don't get me wrong, I think you can give yourselves any title you want, but when listing job postings you're just creating barriers by using non-descriptive, non-standard titles. Your potential applicants have to check the job description for "Account Engineer" to see if this is something they would be interested in (for most it won't be), if someone was actually looking for a client/account director role they might not notice this one because of the "engineer" part, and if someone was looking for a blended support/coding role they might miss "Happiness Engineer" while scrolling down the page.
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Sometimes I forget that services I use everyday have login pages. I cant remember the last time I logged in to facebook.
Oracle Releases Java 7
I'm not sure that beating the traditional university is the objective or that it's even necessary. Remember that the essence of a disruptive product is that it's a little bit worse and (at least) a little bit cheaper than the incumbent product. The question, then, for disruptive education plays (of which my company is one) is: which part of the traditional experience are you going to take away in order to achieve scale? Most .edu startups are taking away instructor interaction and emphasizing lectures, which is exactly the opposite of what most students actually need.
Gosling: Fears Over Consequences of Possible Oracle Trial Win Overblown
You can reverse engineer anything that you can reverse engineer. "Supposed" really doesn't come into it. If you buy a copy of osx and reverse engineer some libraries, then publish a description of their behaviour, so what?
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Well, the more fundamental problem is this business of Apple taking 30% of everything. I am not disputing their right to set the rules within their own ecosystem. No issues whatsoever there. It's their product and they deserve to do as they wish.

Having said that, that is not to say that I agree with their decision. For almost any business 30% is a huge percentage of gross. In most cases the margin is dangerously close to or lower than this number. What this means is that there are a whole host of goods and services that cannot be offered through the platform due to their fee structure.

Then again, it's their sandbox and their rules.

This is somewhere where companies such as Microsoft could make a significant dent if they keep their paws off the content creator's revenue stream (or take a very small bite). In my opinion a 5% "finder's fee" is reasonable. If they handle the financial transaction then there's the customary credit-card billing stuff.

Two things that iOS does not offer that someone could offer:

1- Less intrusive cut taken from revenues, as discussed above.

2- Open access to I/O, file system and various resources that Apple locks down tight.

As an example, if I wanted to design a general purpose iPhone to RS-232 serial cable, well, it's impossible. You can make one married to a specific application but you can't make one that's a plain-old open-to-all serial port converter. There are tons of applications in industry that could use such a cable, but Apple chokes the hardware side so tight that even something that simple is impossible.

Another example is the choke-hold on proprietary Bluetooth. I'd love to create apps for kids to use to control their Lego Mindstorms with an iPhone/iPod. Mindstorm blocks have built-in Bluetooth. Apple's version of Bluetooth, for various technical reasons, is not compatible with "normal" Bluetooth. The only way to do it is to purchase Apple-approved Bluetooth chips and get permission to build a device subject to their approval...but you can't build a generic device. In other words, you are building a specific speaker that uses this chip and these codes to identify you and the app. Period.

I feel that companies trying to compete with Apple are not seeing the elephant in the room: Closed vs. Open.
The problem is, changing to a different fuel source is a decades-long engineering problem, while building public transit just requires the doing and reducing sprawl is a natural consequence of lowered real estate prices and heightened fuel prices.

Or we could try switching to pixie dust and oracles, and when that doesn't solve the problem we could do what we were supposed to do from the outset.
Some more statistics:

- Active Facebook users: 800,000,000
- Price per user at current valuation: $125/user
- Annual profit per user: $1.20

The late 1990s saw enormous growth in the tech industry, as have the past several years. But in contrast to what the article's author would like to believe, growth and bubble are not mutually exclusive conditions. In fact, growth begets bubble: One easy way for businesses in a sector to become overvalued is as a result of the hype that tends to accompany periods of growth.
Ask HN: Why can't I login to HN using Lynx?
When trying to login to HN using Lynx, I get a "Post request without Content-Length." error response.

Lynx does support POST requests, so what could cause that error?
Whoa there. The quote can be interpreted two ways; the way you read it ("young, driven, intelligent" = "mentality and intellect of an A Player") and the way I read it ("mentality and intellect of an A Player. In addition, he was young, driven...")
Gosling: "Despite my well-known opinions on Oracle, they wouldn't do any of the nightmare scenarios that some have imagined: such a meltdown would not be in their own self interest. They have actually been unexpectedly good stewards of Java (although less so of Solaris)."
There seem to be non-trivial possible legal landmines though which are likely to multiply internationally.
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No, its not. Decompiled binary just need for reversing. Open source clone of skype is Epycs(reverse enginered skype). https://github.com/skypeopensource/epycs
Since it's possible to earn a degree online today, I'm not sure this is the case. Top-tier universities are faced with a significant innovator's dilemma problem here: they want to enforce their duopoly on the granting of degrees and they don't want online programs (which can deliver comparable content to students in a more scalable way at a fraction of the cost) to cut into their tuition revenue.
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If by competition you mean the walled data silos each company builds in order to prevent users from leaving their platform, I would much rather prefer cooperation.
Who knows 10 people who have a Blackberry?

If I was in school, out of work or otherwise had a lot of free time on my hands I might take a stab at it. It would be low risk. There probably isn't much competition out there so it would be easy to get noticed if you're quick to market. Maybe you could scrape together $1000 in sales. I can't help but think it will lead to quick and dirty, low quality apps and sloppy ports, if anything at all.

For anyone who has to make a more difficult choice about how to spend their time I can't see how this platform is even remotely appealing. The handsets are crap. The OS is old and busted. You can't even depend on consistent input methods between handsets. There's absolutely no buzz around anything RIM does these days. The only time I ever see them mentioned in the news it's another story about layoffs, how far they've fallen or both.

WP7 looks much more appealing than this. There are some slick looking phones, a mostly nice looking OS and I've actually seen them out in the wild. Still, even WP7 is a distant third place behind iOS and Android.

RIM would be irresponsible not to try this. They have to at least show a willingness to try to stay in business. They desperately need developers and they still have some cash. I can't think of a better way to entice developers. Unfortunately, this is too little too late. The time for this was back when Blackberry App World was first released.
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As an example: ActiveX is dead. If this was done in ActiveX, it wouldn't have gotten any upvotes at all if it was even submitted in the first place, and most wouldn't have seen it or bothered to point out ActiveX is dead.
Naming names in these "Why we didn't hire this person" always comes across as showy posturing. If you want to talk about insight gained in the hiring process, you don't need names. You only need names if you want people to be impressed by all the famous people you turned down.
I'd keep it anonymous... you want people answering honestly and not worrying what the instructor might think. I'm thinking polls like:

okay class, we just went over big-O. here is an algorithm... what do you think the big-O of this is: O(n), O(n^2), etc...

Nothing that you'd have to keep track of the answers for longer than the length of the class.

Plus, if you added logins, that would just make it that much more of a setup / hassle to get classes going.
Can you give any advice in becoming a volunteer emt? I've wanted to do this, but have no idea how to start...
> This means that, if Oracle loses on the verdict, its copcyright case is dead. If it wins, then and only then will the judge need to address the ultimate legal question of whether the SSO can be protected by copyright at all.

Isn't this bizarre though? I'm not a lawyer so I guess I am ignorant of how US courts work, but shouldn't it be clear whether there is even a relevant law for something before a jury is asked to make the effort of figuring out if a law applies in a particular case? It won't be just a matter of SSO is copyrightable yes/no, it will be more complicated. But the jury won't hear any of that before saying yes or no.

Shouldn't what the law is be first determined, and only then whether it applies to a particular case?
Jerrya, you are right. I am changing this.
You are wrong. Decompiling is just allowing research deeper in skype-black-box. Project itself is here https://github.com/skypeopensource/epycs
I'm guessing the 10 year plan is they're going to start competing with orbitz, travelocity, priceline, tripadvisor, flightcaster, hipmunk, everyone in the travel space basically.

Let's not forget about cars, trucks, bikes, why not start competing with zipcar, Hertz, Budget, Enterprise? Sometimes you need a car when you travel, right?

Commercial REITs are getting into the rental space as well, they might have some sort of deal lined up with large players. Let's also not forget about coworking spaces for when you want to get work done on the road...

Airbnb for play, airbnb for work, airbnb for commercial real estate, airbnb for wheels, airbnb for...
I went to a small college too... In a class of 10-20, it was pretty easy for the professors to know when we were confused since she was looking at each of us.
I would also argue that PPC can be used extremely early for A/B testing landing pages (and other testing uses), as well as, for customer acquisition if your product has the right market fit (cost per acquisition less than profit per sale).
Obsequious omphaloskepsis.
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So, to make some people happy, Google would have to allow you to have a separate Google account, Google+ account, and YouTube account.

To make other people happy, it would be completely optional to link those accounts together - but keep them separate, for some reason.

To make other people happy, they should be able to use one account to do all of the those things.

Finally, to make other people happy, Google should just be a search engine with 10 blue links.
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The point isn't so much to think about optimizing assembler, but rather making higher-level algorithmic choices that mesh with your platform. Even if you don't sift through the Ruby bytecode, you can still apply some knowledge about what kind of data structure will be better in which kind of situation.

For example, if posed with the question presented here, if you realize it will not be as fast as you might hope, maybe you can make the choice to build a data structure with much less depth- maybe you can fit it all in a hash table?- and achieve huge performance wins without once touching assembler. (With a 27-deep tree, you need to make 27 reads from memory to find your data; reducing the depth reduces the required reads)

(I am not a computer scientist, and I am not an expert in algorithms, but hopefully I'm not too far off here.)
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Big difference between upvoting a video on YouTube for other people on YouTube and giving a +1 to a video that could possibly go on your Google+ wall (if that even exists), influence your search results in ways you don't want, or show up awkwardly in other strange ways while using other Google products like Gmail. The real problem is the effects are unknown and upvoting is no longer a contained action with a specific social purpose. That little upvote is a commodity that Google will exploit however it can to "bring the social" or whatever they're calling it nowadays.

I think users innately understand this and are shying away from Google+ because they can sniff where all this is heading - my boss reading that I "liked" a LOLcats video while at work or my wife seeing that I "plussed" a review of Avengers by a woman in lingerie or something. If users don't know what their actions will produce (especially socially) they are going to avoid it!
Amen. Sacrificing pragmatism on the altar of perfectionism is also an anti-pattern.
Caution is certainly warranted but assuming that they did wrong rather than asking if they did right is generally a bad way to go.
Because its an overdone cliche? I think we've all heard this story 1000 times. I believe there was also recently a movie made about this story (or something like it. In the movie, it was an old man who was suicidal).

Not to discount it, just saying that not making you cry is t that bizarre.
You are wrong. You eyes are blind by hating. Stop. Listen the Nature.

Skype-open-source code here: https://github.com/skypeopensource/epycs

repo was closed because i host in download section deobfuscated skype5.5 binary, my fault.
Yikes, fixing how it looks in ie9+ will be added to my todo list.
Do you live in an area served by a volunteer agency?

In my case, I'm actually a volunteer firefighter/EMT with my local fire department, which also runs the ambulance.

The first step would simply be to call your local agency.
There was deobfuscated version of skype 5.5 in downloads section of project. Not in repo.

Code in repo contains reimplementation of skype protocol (RC4 chiper, 41 and 42 encoders) and sample tool capable of sending IM to skype peer.

There also was some tools for extracting user certificate from skype profile.
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That's not unusual--PayPal was in the same boat and they made billions.
Yeah but let's compare two relatively popular solutions for authentication in each frameworks: Rails has devise, Node.js has passportjs. They both support numerous 'strategies' (local, facebook twitter, openid...). They also both support the login/logout functionality. They are both ok documented too (there's always room for improvement there).

As far as passportjs goes, that's pretty much it.

On the other hand, devise handles A-Z when it comes to auth: it sets up models, routes, views, validation, different built in plugins like remember me, different encryption types, retry limits on failed logins,...

Googling for tutorials also reveals the true situation. There are like 2-3 good tutorials on passportjs. On the other hand there's hundreds of articles/posts on how to use devise, how to implement it, how to use it with omniauth...

I could make a comparison like this for almost every gem/module and I bet 95% of times, rails gems will win over npm modules in terms od popularity, completeness, community support and in-the-wild usage.

I'm not trying to bash node.js here. It's a wonderful tool and I use it. almost on a daily basis. But only where it makes sense to me.

Oh and about the 'magic'. You have two options:

1: start with bare language and proceed to magic as you
learn

2: start with magic and dig into nitty gritty as you learn :)

Which of the two produces results faster? To me it's 2.
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Exactly. Deobfuscated version just comfortable to debugging.
"Airbnb has partnered up with the world-famous Gensler Architects (same folks who renovated Terminal 2) to design the space. The building is also going to seek LEED Silver certification"

Obviously, the picture is what the building will look like after renovations are done.
Pick: the best defination for your trade
Entrepreneurship is the
pursuit of opportunity
without regard to
resources currently
controlled.
- by Howard Stevenson, Breakthrough Entrepreneurship. Scripted 37 years ago in his interview - inc.com/eric-schurenberg/the-best-definition-of-entepreneurship.html

Opportunity is the only real resource you have, is the best and clear defination I have encountered.

If you like to wear yourself, you would need a real line (on my table-top)
"I like what I believe."
My Defination prerogative in this tag, simply the chance and opportunity with an iterative process. In building. A clear and definitive action as the author's. What do you say?

Welcome suggestions to this end - mjux.tumblr.com/post/22264778605/opportunity-the-only-resource-you-have
The only people who seem to use it here on the East Coast in the USA are government contractors and people who leave government contractors to go to work in the private sector.
IME, this isn't only applicable to start-ups. The same considerations need to be taken into account when filling a senior professional or mid-level management role within a large enterprise. Doers verus Thinkers.
> Volta Volare says low maintenance costs will be a big attraction.

That was my first thought -- would it extend the mileage achievable before needing an inspection/overhaul (for a/the combustion engine)?

Still, vaporware until I can buy one.