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This whole internet argument is a sad Fox News style ignorant pundit circus.

No one differentiates between learning how computers work and learning what programming is and learning the craft of software development. There is a huge difference between learning math and becoming a mathematician. They just bounce between both meanings of "learn to code" and assume whichever supports their point at that moment.

No one has mentioned that a lot of people probably can't realistically learn to code. There is actual research on this (start here: http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/). Before you debate something perhaps people should make a small attempt to be not completely ignorant of our current knowledge.

So Zed, I'm a fan, but when you say "I'm proud to say I am the proto-enabler of the meme that everyone can learn to code". You are saying you are proud of propagating bullshit, which doesn't seem like you. It's nice and new agey feel good and everything, but it probably doesn't reflect reality.

So Atwood waffles on the issue making no real point and then Zed attacks a strawman that only vaguely resembles what was actually said if you squint really hard.

Meanwhile no one talks about the actually interesting facts like that there are a lot of people who have serious trouble learning to think in algorithms. Of course there are a whole bunch of learn to code startups who probably left that out of their pitch decks because snake oil sells better so that's not a surprise. If all you read is tech sector marketing material you don't really have a good grasp of reality after a while.

And to those who are worried about an invasion of poorly educated and poorly trained anti-intellectual brogrammers? Firstly: I've only seen this argument from strawmen, not from anyone actually arguing it. Secondly: Well no shit. This is already happening. There is an incredible new technological tool, high rewards for skill with this tool and new methods of training people more quickly and efficiently than ever before. There will be more programmers out there. More programmers means worse programmers on average. This is what happens during booms. Combine that with the increased popularity of an anti-intellectual bent to attitudes about programming and it's awfully reminiscent of the patent medicine / snake oil boom when medicine was the hot new thing.

This has happened to a lot of industries and somehow things end up better at the end of it. I know everyone thought that the tech industry would be the lone historical exception because we're all so damn smart, but that was a stupid thing to think. There is going to be a massive explosion of incompetent (more incompetent?) programmers and a significant lowering in code quality for a few decades, we're only at the beginning of the shitstorm. When it's over we might actually have a mature industry and have learned how to manage software projects which would be nice.
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This is actually a great conceptual list. Well done.

There are many more strategies and it can be refined but as a core set in one place, that's pretty handy.

Personally however I've found great strategy to be, "solve for x".

Where x is some fucking annoying thing day in and day out, and no-one is doing anything about it.
I share the same sentiment, but submitting additional stories just adds to the noise.
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“I don’t really like putting a price-tag on the stuff I do. That’s just like not the point,”

Eight years later he is finally putting a price-tag on it.
On the UDID ban: Tracking devices, users and advertisers
What are you doing when you're at a baseball game?

And yet there are plenty of ads there. Why? How do they work?
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Forbes just reported that Ford and Chrysler are keeping their ad spend on facebook and are very happy with the ads.
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As far as I know, they have yet to disclose the full developer story around WP8. We can certainly speculate, but I doubt they'll do anything too disruptive or they'll risk losing the small amount of market they've worked so hard to gain.
Looks promising, I'll give it a go the first chance I get some spare time! (new baby in the house, so spare time is in short spurts)

Thanks!
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Very cool indeed! Can't wait for my kids to get a little older to enjoy this kind of learning experience. How old is your kid?
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Exactly. Microsoft has been sitting on the smartphone market. For. A. Decade. And they took that commanding lead and had their lunch eaten overnight by iPhone and Android. It took them NEARLY FOUR YEARS to respond to the iPhone with Windows Phone 7.

Yes, WinMo 7 is a good product as far as platforms go, but it may not be good enough to catch up. They still have a lot of catch up to do with the marketplace and the ecosystem and with courting developers and manufacturers to their cause. They need to be making dramatic plays at this point, but they're not. When MS needed to bootstrap the XBOX gaming ecosystem they went out and straight up bought gaming companies, bringing Halo (one of the most popular game franchises in history) to their platform. When Sony needed to rescue the PS3 from a poor game library they bought media molecule and made Little Big Planet an exclusive title, among other purchases they made. Both companies also did a lot more to encourage developers to make games for their platforms. WinMo needs to make the same sort of efforts, but they haven't.

Meanwhile, look at the state of hardware. The best Windows Phone you can buy is 2 to 3 generations behind the state of the art relative to the iPhone or Android. You can't expect to push single core WVGA phones into a market where 300+ dpi screens, dual core CPUs, and a gig of ram is rapidly becoming the norm.

Even if we were to accept the notion that Windows Phone was the best mobile OS on the market the overall experience of using a Windows Phone (which is heavily influenced by the apps and games available, the speed and quality of the hardware, the quality of the screen, etc.) is not even remotely the best. Similarly, while Google and Apple have been adding new capabilities, better performance, and new features to their phones by leaps and bounds with each release, the Windows Phone has comparatively stagnated.

And there's every indication that each one of those gaps will continue to grow wider over time. Microsoft managed to catch up just barely by putting forth a concerted effort, but if it takes such a diving-catch sort of effort to continue to catch up at every step in the future then they will invariably miss on a few occasions and fall behind for good.
Facebook also has tremendously greater adoption, especially among the non-tech savvy, than MySpace ever had. Don't get me wrong, I don't think there is unalterable inertia here, but at its peak MySpace was constantly broken, had far less adoption, and had far less interesting and integrated ways to collaborate than Facebook has established today. Anyone could have looked at MySpace and said "a smart, driven undergrad could build a system that could beat this on one power-weekend with a bunch of redbull"
DNA is still an open debate. Are you telling me a fact of law? Are we interpreting this question in the same way?

I'm talking about music as a expressed through a markup language. So I'm thinking the "concept" of a concept album can be copyrighted IF APIs are copyrightable. What kind of metadata would it possess? Does the author of the music have the ability to extend that metadata?
"pointer-events: none;"

WTF? When did that get implemented?
I often include such columns during ad-hoc analytics, because it is one valid example of the data being grouped. In particular, when COUNT(*) is 1 the value in that column is THE value, and thanks to including it in the query, I already have it. It's very convenient with very low cost.

For queries that are part of a formal process or application it's harder to find a use case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Peer_Discovery
Down in Brazil... using proxy
Or, you know... just NOT have a facebook acount. Ever.

(I have never had one, never plan to have one either)
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> For most things to appear on BT or elsewhere, someone has to buy them first, too. Your argument, therefore, is invalid.

The difference is that the book still only exists as one copy that is transferred from one entity to another. This is fair use. That is the same reason it is ok to give/sell your cd to someone else. You have relinquished ownership of it and passed it to someone else. That is how the used goods market works. That does not include making copies of something to distribute. My argument about books is not invalid.

It was my mistake to use the word "creator" instead of "source". Yes, the creator generally does not benefit as such. That is between him and the label/distributor/etc. How noble of you to stick up for the underpaid content creator by not paying for the result of his work at all. I applaud you, sir.

For everything else you said... heard it before. Don't buy it. It is all just rationalizing the behavior.
Interesting bit of counter-astroturfing here. If you can't make yourself look better, use pseudonymous sockpuppets to drag them down with you.

I'll keep an eye out for use of this tactic in the future. Bookmarking for future reference.
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Correctly? Hardly. They've executed competently on some aspects. But if they hope to be a serious competitor they have to do better.
what about social adsense?

also, don't forget that 90% of the ads budget is spent on creating intent not satisfying it.
I think Hollywood should try one of the following:

1.) Limited, free, online streaming of films (a la NPR doing previews of new music releases).

2.) Seed torrents of films that are heavily advertised. Essentially, give consumers the whole film, but overlay ads during it or edit in commercial breaks.

3.) Post the first :30 minutes of new films as torrents/streaming and offer a few bucks off your movie ticket if you check it out in theaters.

Any of these could easily be attempted for a new major release. Pick a film that's almost guaranteed to be a hit and try one of the above. You're bound to get some interesting data either way.
You realise that you're not supposed to reply at all to your own thread if you're trolling right?
By that definition, websites that advertise are themselves malware.

If I make a toolbar that, I dunno, provides human-edited translations of Wikipedia articles that's active when you're on Wikipedia.com, and I monetize that by putting ads on the page, and a user downloaded and installed the app (as opposed to me paying to bundle it with another app) that is not malware.

Look, to the generally-non-technical audience that the original Wikipedia article had to write for, I think it's fair to cast a wide net and name all offending apps malware.

But here, amongst professionals in this industry, it's absurd to me to not see the nuance.
Hi,

The way I look at it is that a database, much like Linux, is a platform. I very seldom look at the source code for either for day to day programming.

As popular platforms they have in common that they are very well tested through everyday use, and are likely to operate as documented for ordinary configurations.

When you can rely on the correct operation of the system, the code of the underlying implementation is irrelevant. What you care about is how well the system supports your requirements, and what performance you can get by tweaking the available knobs.

Contrast this with your average 1000 line script. It has simplicity on its side, but when something breaks, that script is a suspect, and the source code of your DB probably isn't.

> Consider Prevayler, for example [...]

I'm not really sure what you're saying here. That an in-process in-memory object persistence framework without indexing can be faster than a heavy-duty relational database? That's not just "less code", that's "less features". Or "different features", at any rate; they're not the same species. I'm just going to assume what you mean to say is, "Not everyone needs a relational database".

> Also, your 15 MLOC for Linux is a bit of a red herring. [...]

All the more reason that the LOC count by itself is a meaningless metric.
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Using flash will only work if you can control what window mode the embed is set to. If wmode is set to opaque or transparent compositing will be up to the browser.
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1. Directly put keyboard protector on the computer keyboard.
CloudFoundry's PHP support is also official. While it's not yet available through cloudfoundry.com, you can use it now with AppFog (http://appfog.com).

Disclaimer: I work at AppFog and contributed to the initial version of PHP support for the CloudFoundry open source project at https://github.com/cloudfoundry.
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Either they're doing it wrong. (likely)

Or their customer is difficult to target on FB.

We (a quickly growing clothing company) see an amazing ROI from FB ads. We also have around 350k Likes. We advertise to friends of friends, and target similar companies, fashion companies etc.

I am betting they simply haven't found the best tactic.
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Make something less annoying to do, or help make your customers more money. Make sure the person keying in the card is using a business credit card.

Then profit.
Programming is praised as a must-have life skill by... programmers. Comparison of programming with plumbing draws fierce condemnation as elitism. News at 11.
Google bot now appears to emulate users interacting with the site
> So, with that in mind, children learn that one calorie is the amount of energy needed to raise 1 g of water by 1 degree c.

I find this to be wonderfully ironic, because the nutritional calorie is 1000x larger than the physics calorie. In nutrition, one calorie is the amount of energy needed to raise 1kg of water by 1 degree C. So yes, it's entirely possible that this fellow didn't know what a "calorie" was in the realm of nutrition.
Well, for that (and similar facebook-like clickjacking) Facebook implemented some kind of "protection".
If there are too many unlikes shortly after Like button is pressed, new users that click on Like button will be presented with confirmation, something like "Are you sure you want to like this page?"
years ago, in SVG. As far as support in HTML elements...Since early 2009 in webkit, mid 2010 in firefox, still not in IE.

Edit : Yep -

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380573

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11395
back up 200 years and replace plumbing with reading...

Your argument isn't evidence for anything at all. There's a big difference between reading and coding: reading is a very useful method of communication. Everyone should be literate just like everyone should be able to speak. Coding, on the other hand, is much more along the lines of plumbing than language.
it'll be interesting to see if other big co.'s follow GM's move
The click-jacking ability has been known for over a year now: http://robertnyman.com/2010/03/22/css-pointer-events-to-allo...
I know that, but it’s highly incidental to my point, as I’m sure you’re aware. It’s obviously true that (foo - bar) is legal, as is (foo-bar), as is (foo - bar + bash), as is (foo-bar + bash) and so on, but they’re still much less likely to be mistaken for foo-bar in an infix language.

I’m sure you knew perfectly well that I meant you never type foo - bar meaning foo subtract bar :-)
Technically you may be right, if one is in a debate club perhaps. In a real world debate the close position of two elements, especially when one is composed of emotional content, draws a strong implied link between the two points even if they are separate. It's not a compelling defense to say that everyone should be an expert at logical debate and should know to ignore the insults one heaps on one's opponents.
It sorta feels like we broke the web when it became the norm to stay logged-in everywhere all the time.

Oops!
Not the same thing, but Android Police put together a decent histogram of Platform Versions: http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/04/27/the-big-android-char...
The problem with being earlier in the purchasing decision process is that generally, it's harder to get credit for generating the final purchase. Generally it's the last ad for a product that the user sees before making the purchase that will get the biggest credit for the conversion.
Half of Americans think Facebook is a fad
> Exactly, and the algorithm used is, as I said, attributed to Levenshtein.

I cited Levenshtein by name in my original comment. I'm guessing you didn't read everything what I wrote, because I don't understand why you would think there's an issue otherwise.

> Expressing it as a ratio is hardly novel.

The whole reason I linked to Alex Martelli's post is because it's his work, not mine, novel or otherwise. I just cited the resourced I used.
Yes, it is indeed quite difficult to go wrong with having oats in your diet. :)

Hulled rice and quinoa are wonderful too.

Russet potatoes are typically unnecessary.
Cool I find this somewhat useful at work.
It is down for me as well. USA here.

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/thepiratebay.se also says it's up.

Not sure what's going on. Possibly an ISP level block?
One direction I could see Facebook going is becoming a proxy for real life. While it already contains all social transactions, evolving that idea into a platform for purchases that is simpler to use than Amazon or Ebay (and the respective company websites) means that they have a ready made audience, with social information to target specific purchases rather than just advertisements.
I've learned this the hard way. Your production environment is probably going to be Linux, so you will need to know that setup & have deployment tools regardless. Setting up Windows (or even OS X in certain respects) is just an additional hassle which will never quite match production.
> I got a great model for Facebook.

No, you don't.
from the forums:
(00:52:52) MagicalTux: we have written consent from Dwolla, basically now Dwolla has "normal" merchant accounts, and "special" merchant accounts with extra requirements
Tell HN: Please downvote linkbaity headlines
I can't believe how many "Please do/n't..." headlines I read today, and I didn't learn anything.
Mostly brand awareness, which is famously inefficient and only works for products with extremely wide mass appeal, like Coke.
Wait, what? That would be one kilocalorie. And that's what's listed on most food?
How does that old saying go, 'If you have to ask, then the answer is probably no'. It's shocking the number of people that show up on this site and ask, 'Should I quit my job and create a startup?'. Probably not. Should you drop out of college? Don't. Should you learn to code? Not really.

The amount of learning resources we have in this day and age due to the Internet makes the question 'Should I learn (blank)' egregious. If curiosity hasn't compelled you to look up an intro tutorial/book, then just forget about it. The first question you ask on the internet should not be 'Should I learn to code?', it should be 'Why won't my hello-world program run?'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis
Thank you for the clarifacation. The service sounds interesting.

How are you keeping the free plan going now though? Who's paying for it? RedHat doesn't exactly strike me as the kind of company that's wallowing in spare cash.
Thanks, I'll take a second look. Nothing's set in stone.
i see a small portion of the button not hidden by the div (firefox 12)
I don't see how that's even possible. As soon as you start adding friends and "liking" things, there's no way to do that and be "private".
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It's odd to see a story being broken on reddit only. The speed at which large amounts of people are able to locate a primary source is outpacing the speed at which media outlets are able to write up stories based off the primary sources. Distressing.
Each running instance of me is a separate, alive, person. Forget about the memories for the moment. If you kill that person, they are dead. It doesn't matter who is the copy. I could be a clone for all I care. Doesn't matter. If you kill this body--the one I'm IN then my stream of thoughts ends. Other similar streams of thought offer me no comfort.
Thanks. Cheers!
This is a reasonably good blog post, especially the part about Google.
However the title is inaccurate. It should be
"Facebook's lack of a business model"
if someone else is having problems launching their Java Applet, but you have Java installed, download the jar from:
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then run the following command:

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I didn't mean it as a criticism - it's easy to overlook what we take for granted, and I'm no exception.

But where I live, I notice very clearly the difficulties and disadvantages that not knowing English has, and even being able to read is not enough: my parents, for example, are certainly not uneducated people, yet they're not able to fully understand much of spoken English, which means they're restricted to subtitled content - fewer films, no free university lectures, no Khan Academy, almost no podcasts, etc.

And I'm in an European country!
All this will be moot when Facebook launches its search engine in couple years.
My preference would be to cleanly separate the API levels such that Android "compliance" requires the ability to update core components. But that's a software engineering problem, because right now the frameworks are evolving alongside driver and middleware stacks such that you can't just drop an "ICS" OS stack on top of a "Gingerbread" kernel and drivers and expect it to work.

Apple's answer, of course, is "... or else you won't get the next iPhone."
$79 for a digital copy or $59 for a physical copy of Diablo 3?
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Life was hard 200 years ago. Taking the time to learn to read would have been a major hardship for some people, and many (most of whom could not afford books) may not have used the skill much.

I think it was reasonable for some people not to learn to read 200 years ago.
It has been pointed out since the beginning that Dwolla's original business model (pretending that reversible ACHs are irreversible) was untenable when combined with Bitcoin. Then they decided to pass all the risk on to the Bitcoin exchanges, which made it mostly pointless for the exchanges to use Dwolla anyway. Now they're just cleaning up loose ends.

I can't verify whether this is accurate, but: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=77605.msg868108#msg8...
Kodak kept a secret nuclear reactor underground for over 30 years
Does anymore still use the Internet without AdBlock?
Comparatively speaking, Apple has done much better in consumer electronics.
Also, I should note that as the copyright holder for a book I wrote, I believe it would benefit me (creator) if I ever found my work being distributed without my consent. I don't see it as the most harmful idea mankind ever allowed to happen. Does it get abused? sure it does. But so does BitTorrent, no?
Can VMware draw developers, developers, developers?
Yeah, I looked at the PDF, and it's in-line with what I and my peers are paid. I am an engineer.
That's a contributory infringement lawsuit begging to get filed. Google is clearly profiting by driving users to illegal content.
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For every bug on Launchpad, 67 iPads are sold
Naw it was the ads overlaying the videos that made YouTube the win win experience it is.