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While the basic line of reasoning is valid, it is absurd in the context of the rangeCheck function.

There might be a nine line function that takes a day or two to get right, but for even a bad programmer, rangeCheck would take a few minutes. With thorough tests, maybe ten minutes. I've barely touched Java code in over a decade, but I could write that function -- with tests -- in less than two minutes.

RangeCheck is the kind of function you'd get on a quiz in your first week of your first CS class in college.
> 5GB of 3G

This by itself would now be difficult for me. I have an unlimited (grandfathered) data plan from Verizon with 4G. I know several people who have it now, and they would never go back to 3G. Any MVNO that Google creates is going to have to support the latest technology.

There have been rumors of Apple creating their own cellular company - now would be the right time. Create a 4G-only cellular company that provides unlimited (HD) voice, texts, and data for one flat rate, Apple-style, with no contracts.
I suspect Googlebot may be replaying a sequence of requests recorded with the Google Toolbar.
Man Loses $22,000 In New 'Policing For Profit' Case
In what way is he not paying back the society that enabled him? He's paying the designated rate, which will be hundreds of millions of dollars, on the present value of the what he's earned.

What would be satisfactory? That he paid based on the ipo price? What the stock is worth at the end of ipo day (likely inflated)? What it's worth a year from now? 5 years? 10 years? What would be fair?
The problem with this article is that Jeff is confusing what would ideally be the case with how people should behave in the present reality. I bet no one would disagree that it would be fantastic if people didn't have to code to solve problems. However, in countless numbers of cases the solution to the problem is, with the absence an easier solution, to code it out. Therefore, if a person is in that position, it would be better if they knew how to code than not. Moreover, it would generally be good if more people were able to apply an engineering mindset to appropriate problems in order to find a solution (which programming helps you attain). Therefore, the more people who know how to code, the better.
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The thing is, people consider coding to be "programming".

Many people who write code in C, Ada, Pascal, etc. call themselves programmers.

But if they were tasked with writing machine instructions or even assembly they could not do it.

And how do we know throwaway63-90 himself can even do it.

Show us throwaway63-90's machine code and let's have a look.

It's probably full of security holes.
I've downloaded it at least 10 times over the years ...
Actually, I don't think I agree. It's quite fascinating but the friend I mentioned is not very good at telling the easily automatable tasks apart from those that aren't.

On a later occasion the friend came to me again with a different problem to solve, but this time it involved spotting dead cells in a mix of cells, images taken with a microscope. They had to count the ratio of dead cells. The difference involved properties of texture and size that could be easily explained and I could do it with near perfect accuracy with little training, and yet it would be much much harder to automate this task. The cells were tightly packed, there were scratches and noise on the image, brightness and contrast variations, distortions,... It would involve training a model, computing features, cross-validations, etc. That did not seem obvious at all to them and it took a while to explain. I'm not even sure if they got it. After all, both tasks are very repetitive and boring, what's the difference?

To address your point, you're right in that I wouldn't expect my friend to did what I did if they only read a "learn how to program in x days!", or even several similar books over few months, or if they knew how to write simple scripts in python or something. But what I would at least hope for is that they realize that this kind of task is very easily automated, and have a very basic understanding of what it would involve. Perhaps labs should come with computer scientist hacker floater technicians?
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I've seen the number, it converts far, far better than average ads. On the order of 10X, for the campaigns I've seen. That's partially because clickthrough rates overall keep dropping, but still, they're really effective.

Yes, it's annoying if you're in the 95% of customers who won't actually convert. But it only has to be effective about 1 out of 20 times to be a huge improvement (and that 1 might even be you, but you're mostly annoyed by the other 19 times.)
Why would cooling off cause problems? Stories like this make me feel as far removed from my computing ancestors as I feel from my farming grandparents.
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He's actually paying as if he sold it all at the time his citizenship was revoked. It's the "exit tax" all the stories on this mention.
Neither of your point disproves the fact that it's ridiculous. It's not
about whether you want to run your own applications or not, it's about
having that choice whenever you want to. On every computing device. This
is - or should be - a fundamental Freedom, one which you should not be able
to sign away, not even by an "informed choice".

Citing examples like feature phones and gaming consoles isn't helpful, either.
Just because nobody complained in the past doesn't make it okay. Also,
as the quite active homebrew scene around most consoles proves, there
is value in being able to run your own stuff on gaming consoles. You might
remember the deep shit that Sony got themselves into when they decided to
turn off OtherOS on the PS3 for no reason whatsoever.

Anyways, I think consoles - while owning quite a few myself - are a thing
of the past. They're eventually going to die. The coming next generation might be
the last we see.
With Excel, I'm not sure. But if customers who are getting increasingly greater exposure to UNIX, through various channels, learn about UNIX alternatives to Active Directory and Exchange that work as well or better, but which cost less, it may well come to pass.
General Motors was the number one selling auto company in the world in 2011 with 9.025 million units sold, outselling second place by a full million.

I know plenty of people that will never buy a GM, regardless of their advertising. However, advertising is crucially important to GM success.
The plot thickens: Searching CNN for "facebook" returns no results... http://www.cnn.com/search/?query=facebook&sortBy=date

I tried several other keywords without encountering any problems.
Google has been fighting spammers, scrapers, black-hatters, and thinking about all kinds of search problems for over a decade.

Same could have been said of Yahoo and other search engines before Google.
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I hope Google's response was "First year CS students have to implement more complex functions than rangeCheck on daily quizes within the first week or two."
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Ironically, yes, definitely. I almost never watch TV, but I would have gone straight to the Pirate Bay if I were to watch it myself, because I doubted that and cable channel except Comedy Central would allow me to watch something streaming on demand from their site. TBH, when she said she had watched it on CBS' site I was skeptical.

I know illegitimate streaming sites exist out there, but I kind of assume they are ad riddled and provide a poorer experience than torrents.

I guess you could say it's one spin on the curse of knowledge.
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Another important question apart from whether Oracle has a case, is whether Oracle should have a case when the results of that case are taken in the context of the entire software industry. In other words, is the law giving Oracle a valid claim against Google worth the potential damage caused to software development outside of Oracle and Google?
Yeah, I'm sure there are lots of people who have no idea that their free tethering wasn't intentional (or, if intentional, that intentions had changed).

If you want ICS anyway, CM9 and AOKP are coming along reasonably well for the Sensation (including the T-Mobile variant), but that's only a temporary solution, of course.
I'd be direct.

An interview runs two ways, your both assessing and weighing up each other.
Ask HN -  As a programmer, how would you feel if everyone became one?
We've seen this movement, urging everyone to become a programmer / understand / write code.

As a professional programmer, how does that make you feel?

Will you be happy that more people will be able to relate to your experiences, good or bad?

Or will you feel threatened that your livelihood may come under 'threat'? After all, if everyone can write code, your skills aren't that special.

:-)
What exactly comprises 'Documentation'?
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Did you think about about getting the international edition vs the T-Mobile variant? If so, I'd love to hear your view of the pros and cons of each.
I wonder if this would have worked for your assignment.

http://www.random.org/integers/
I'm not sure general brand awareness efforts are as financially valuable as interactions with customers that are in "I'm about to buy something" mode. When someone intends to move money, getting a piece of the action is more valuable and I think search engines are where people go to find reviews, prices etc (this also includes commerce sites that rely on a search interface--Amazon, Ebay, Craigslist).

On the other hand, I would assume that people performing any sort of search to are likely to be more focused and less open to extraneous ads--so I think things like issue/political/awareness ads probably are better suited to facebook. I'm just very skeptical that the amount of revenue facebook could extract routinely from these could top what someone sitting at a search engine can extract (it's easier to skim off an impending financial transaction). Another thing depressing the value of issue/political ads on social networks is the "viral" vector for spreading a message where people freely share things they believe with their communities. I'm more likely to attend to things actually shared with me by my friends than ads thrown in the mix.

So, in the end I'm not startled that GM finds paid ads on facebook aren't too cost effective--cars aren't impulse buys (ad viewers will hit a search engine before they actually make a decision) and there are cheaper (i.e. nearly free) ways to raise brand awareness.
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The whole point of the "Turing Machine" is that code is data is code, so... In effect, "automation" is code, just bad code, brainless code in a way, as the other poster says way too easy.

The guy in blitzlang (something) does programs as XML that only convert to text as a "view", so you can see the same "code" as a variety of syntaxes just as you can, say, change icon size in a file manager.

The very word is tricky: Code. Like in cypher? Like in codex (book)? Like in instruction code?

Once you take algorithm out of the hardware realm, then how can we really say which code is script and which is real? Every single thing that ends up in github has been algorithmically transformed. Isn't a config file a Domain Specific Language? Why not? And could we not say an endless stream of mouse-pointer coordinates together with clicks is just as code: Non-executable data that has somehow to be "compiled"?

Just random musings...
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What useless data points, totally subjective and boil down to popularity almost immediately.
That's true, but given that Netflix and iTunes have libraries of similar size (~10k), the comparison is meaningful. For subscription services, there's a lot publicised about the number of titles they offer for their fee/month, sometimes incorrectly.

http://www.fastcompany.com/1830524/the-juiced-misleading-siz...

The point is, even if Netflix did offer 100,000 titles, would they offer any more of the most popular films? I'll be running the numbers against Amazon prime and Lovefilm soon, so we'll see how they compare.
This doesn't quite follow... The objection I thought of is that if you have a populace where most members believe they know a subject well enough, perhaps because they "went over the fundamentals for a couple weeks in a college course", actual experts are less able to influence policy in an actually effective way since "everyone is an expert" and there will be disagreements; people won't see their ignorance as mountainous but merely as "a weekend of study would catch me up". There are plenty of good arguments for a broadly-but-shallowly educated populace, but I don't think this is really one of them.
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Very simple- the international edition doesn't work with T-Mo's 3G bands, as far as I know.
A rate is not the same thing as a value. 15% of $1B is a hell of a lot more than 15% of $50K.
There are only two countries in the world that tax non-residents: America and Eritrea.

http://renunciationguide.com/Citizenship-Based-Taxation-Inte...

As there is no representative for American citizens abroad (they can vote in Federal elections, but the district is based on place of last residence), this is essentially taxation without representation.

Saverin has lived in Singapore since 2009. He renounced his citizenship in 2011.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Saverin

Given the situation, I don't see why he would keep American citizenship.
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lol, overreact much? People change citizenship all the time for various reasons, finance, marriage, lifestyle, work etc. it would be crazy to block people from returning. Personally I'd take Singapore over the US any day of the week if I was choosing somewhere to live and had that kind of money(Singapore is an expensive place to live).
Yep it's money. It's a pretty well known quote by Adam Smith. Money, fiat or otherwise, only works as long as people believe they can conduct their next transaction with it.
It could also be titled "A summary of the GM/Facebook article's HN comments from earlier today"
Courier looked extremely promising and I'm saying that as an OSX,iPhone,iPad user. How they could kill that thing off still blows my mind. Then again we have only ever seen an interface mockup, haven't we? Maybe the software / device they had didn't work. Still no excuse to just let this idea go, I still think that a booklet style tablet with pen, capacitive touchscreen and these GUI ideas would be great for many usecases. What's MS's thought process here? "Yeah no, we don't think specialized solutions like these are great for us, let's instead keep smashing on Win32 until it fits unto smartphones and tablets and serve one huge shit sausage."

I wait with pleasure for the business user reactions once Windows' most useful and perfected feature, the start menu, is gone and replaced with a touch optimized fullscreen window with gigantic whitespaces and huge mouse paths for achieving anything. It is going to be beautiful.
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> Note that it isn't just the carriers that suck, it's the manufacturers too

Carriers have absolute control over the consumer sales channels, and that gives them all the power. The carriers demand extreme control over the hardware and software pushed through those sales channels, and the manufacturers (other than Apple) have no choice but to give them that control because that is how you win in this business. Just ask Samsung, who made $5 billion last quarter selling devices running outdated Android 2.x. Or ask HTC, who got crushed by the carriers after offering devices with unlocked Android bootloaders.

If you're a manufacturer, you win by being the one who makes the carriers the most money per customer per month.

So how does ICS help Samsung make more money for Verizon? How does upgrading old devices to ICS help Samsung make more money for Verizon? If you're Samsung, that's the only question you're trying to answer.

The reality is that ICS does not help Samsung or any other manufacturer make more money for Verizon, and that's why ICS adoption has been so low.

The problem is that the manufacturers (other than Apple) have little desire to change this business model. If (and when) Samsung begins to defy the carriers, LG and Motorola and HTC will trip over themselves to take Samsung's place and become the next darling of the carriers.
Apple's 'Numbers' is actually quite good for most use cases, it's quite a bit more elegant as Excel anyway. The problem with Apple is their lack of experience in business support and their shortcomings in Q&A in the mac department lately. But windows 8 will definitely open up opportunities for contenders like Apple and Google in the business world.
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I'm a system administrator primarily into web application servers and web application support. Which are career path/positions that I can pursue and the technologies that are needed?

Since there are too many technologies, it is very confusing to select any specific path or technology to be a specialist.
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You could not type that function and tests 2 minutes.
Yes I should. The new Thinkpad keyboard is virtually indistinguishable from the old Thinkpad keyboard in terms of how it feels except for the different layout. The different location of certain function keys is something you quickly get used to if you decide not to be butthurt about it. To have your productivity affected by the switch to the new Thinkpad keyboard really does require some sort of mental disorder.

(The current Thinkpad keyboard on the T420 and friends isn't an "authentic" Thinkpad keyboard experience anyway.)
Oh, you're right! Last year, HTC was including T-Mobile's band on their high-end devices (Sensation, Flyer, etc.), but this year they've moved towards AT&T bands (unsurprisingly, I suppose - especially since T-Mobile is refarming 1900MHz and dialing back the 1700 MHz network soon).
A more to-the-point explanation: http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/15/nvidia-tailors-its-graphic...
I have idea overflow so finding something to work on isn't my problem, but I once wondered if browsing Twitter for #firstworldproblems might reveal some ideas. Turns out it doesn't really. Just thought I'd save everyone the time!

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It's almost certainly willful ignorance. Boies is a very talented litigator and one important skill for a litigator is quickly achieving a fluency in the subject matter of the litigation. Boies has done quite a bit of software work, so he almost certainly gets the gist of what it is like to program.
You certainly weren't alone there re: the over-the-top narcissism, and seems like massive disrespect to everyone involved in languages research for the last 40 years, which has attempted to make programming easier and more accessible. Alan Kay would be rolling in his grave if he were dead.
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> Or ask HTC, who got crushed by the carriers after offering devices with unlocked Android bootloaders.

I generally agree with you about the power of carriers, but this HTC bootloader thing is an irritating myth. Samsung's devices have been consistently more hackable than HTC's for the entire period in question, not to mention that they topped it off by hiring cyanogen. HTC has had their issues (too-large device portfolio, not matching the SGS2, etc.), but bootloaders were a blip, either way.
The C type conversions I know of seem quite trivial. Can you give an example of something non-trivial? And I don't mean something like the float f = some_integer / some_other_integer trap, those should be obvious.
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