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Studying a good book on data structures would probably cover about 80% of what a practicing programmer really "needs" from a CS degree.
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it would be cool if you implement a readability support :)
Depends on data dependencies and the number of registers, but yes, L1 latency is rarely the bottleneck (more likely to be load/store throughput, in-register shuffles, or arithmetic dependencies for such tight kernels).
Printing for your own use is non-infringing anyway, and a 3d model of an object is effectively a drawing of it and so therefore the creator of the drawing holds the copyright, not the holder of any patent of the object. Copyrights can be infringed, but only where there is copyrighted detail, which is usually only an issue for things like toys and fashion.
As an older guy, I'd feel a little weird using GrubWithUs. Maybe it will one day evolve into something that I would be comfortable using.
The ISS is constantly falling, by about 90 metres a day. They have to periodically boost it back up to a higher orbits. And pretty much everything up there is actually falling all the time and would come down without corrective action.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_station-keeping
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I've been using Clipboard for a long time now, and know several people who built the site. It's an amazing team and they did an amazing job with it. It would be easy to be discouraged with hotness of Pinterest, but they're going at it from a different, very valuable direction.

Best of luck to the Clipboard team!
Good points are covered in this blog post, however what if we would push it even further?

Why would people need to download a package? Why would anybody need to learn a programming language you package designed for (or assume you distribute packages for many programming language)?

When using APIs for integration or mashups, especially in business world, person who know how solution should looks like may not have time to code. So we at http://elastic.io think API could be via visual designer.

We believe it's also a way to make API usage _simpler_ for enduser, even the one who can not, or have no time to code.
How is a mutex lock less expensive than a memory access? Are such things done only in registers nowadays? This doesn't sound right.
Add me to the list of people who are curious and don't agree at all with your claim that people with CS background approach regular problems in a fundamentally different way. The only times when the CS folks' approach differ is when they can reduce the unknown to a known - finding the least wasteful way to cut raw materials(knapsack); modelling problems as graphs/trees and then applying well known, efficient algorithms etc.

From what I have seen, the ratio of non-clever to clever code in a typical software is 80:20(I am being conservative. It's more like 95:5). The 80% doesn't need cleverness - it needs a lot of discipline and proper abstractions. CS doesn't teach you discipline or proper abstractions. Most of the projects in a CS curriculum are small, done in small teams or solo and are thrown away as soon as the course requirements are met. The higher level CS projects exist just to prove a point(research), or doesn't exist at all except in theory.
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depending how big your backup is, can take a while (copying to or from a 2TB disk takes a long time). With that said, probably easier overall as dont have to babysit it at all.
They replace people's second computer, not their first.
Most of the time a dream just like most people, but once in a while I experience being awake in a dream which I also call lucid dreaming. It's very interesting and the level of realism will vary. I find that it varies depending on how I have let my different desires (e.g. lust, hunger, laziness, etc) dictate my behavior during the day. The more control I exercise over them the better the experience is.

But I have also had a complete different kind of experience, one that is more realistic than lucid dreaming. It feels as real as being awake. I believe that this is what many call the astral. I can count the times I had such experiences with one hand. It's very rare for me and it requires such an effort that I fail most of the times. And by effort I mean not acting on the different desires that come during the day and trying to understand what triggers them and dismissing them without emotion.
How the heck did they spend that much money that fast?
I have always considered computer science to be information science and be a part of mathematics and not a separate science. But then again, as a physicist i might be wrong. It's not meant to be diminutive at all (i am after all a programmer) but i consider programming to be a tool, like maths (and consider the two to be inseparable).
So this is like a public-facing Evernote? Crossed with Pinterest?
AND get a high-quality IP-owner-approved professional scan to replace your "rip".

AND get cloud storage of all scanned items.

Yes, you could just scan & copy it yourself. For some of us, $25/yr is cheap assurance all issues are covered and we get a reliable rendition. iThings Match would be a hit.
This is great. There is definitely some friction getting templates into javascript without some sort of compilation step like the Rails asset pipeline.

I'm doing a trigger.io app where I know I'll just want a few simple templates and I don't really want to add anything to the build process right now. This might be perfect.
At the end of the day, propserity and spending are intimately intertwined. Someone has to spend money for me to make money, and I need to spend money for others to make money. Saving and investment are also intimately tied to this - at the end of the day, you need to save money up in order to be able to spend it in larger chunks.

Deficit spending lets that get turned upside down a bit, though. A line of credit lets you spend the money first, but in return you have to promise to save it plus some extra later. That's great when the loan is being used to make a good investment. A good investment being one that increases your future purchasing power, thereby meaning you can pay the loan back, plus interest, and still have more left over. In other words you're using the loan to become more prosperous, because you're making money you couldn't have made without it. And the lender is becoming more prosperous too, because they're earning interest on the money rather than just stuffing it under a mattress and letting it slowly deflate.

That's less good when you just use it to make a purchase. Then you're just agreeing to pay someone else money in return for agreeing to enable your impatience. Over the long run your purchasing power goes down because there's nothing counterbalancing those interest payments, and your own prosperity decreases.

It's downright bad when you take out a loan and use it to make a purchase that you've fooled yourself into believing was an investment. Which is a lot of what folks have been doing over the past decade. Then you become less prosperous because you wasted all the money, and the lender is likely to also become less prosperous when you ultimately default on the loan.

It's like a kitchen knife: You can use it to make delicious food, or you can drop it on your foot.
This is how Microsoft got to be one of the richest
companies on the planet and IBM and Apple did not.

Isn't Apple now worth more than Microsoft based on selling hardware devices?
It does seem to be true for javascript though:

> profile = function(fn) { var start = Date.now(); fn(); return Date.now() - start; }
> cmp = function() { for (var i=0; i < 1000000000; i++) { var z = 'odd' === 'even'; } }
> mod = function() { for (var i=0; i < 1000000000; i++) { var z = 101 % 2; } }
> prof(cmp)
20329
> prof(mod)
40792

Whether you think those 20 nanoseconds per test are worth saving is, I guess, an open question. :) I can imagine it being useful for game programming, for example.
My problem with the memorization approach is that the technology is still moving quickly enough that the orders of magnitude still "wiggle," particularly in the middle numbers.

For example, at a glance, the disk seek numbers are off by orders of magnitude for SSD drives. And the 1MB of RAM read numbers appear not to have used the SSE streaming load/store instructions. I don't know anything about datacenters, but I'd certainly want to measure that one myself before building a system assuming that number was in its correct place in the hierarchy.
This is what refactoring is for. Start out simple (maybe a primitive is all you need) and then, if and when the need arises, refactor and introduce a value object. That's where the failure is in this story.

I've seen a lot of premature abstraculation blow up the opposite way: incomprehensible, elaborate object models attempting to be The Best Abstraction Evar around fundamentally simple concepts. These things can be hard to work with and change, contribute difficult to discern complexity to applications and cause huge performance headaches.

You aren't gonna need it, worse is better, simplicity of implementation above all else.
I wonder, once every piece of motherboards are shipped with MS key, how much CPU time would be needed to factor the private key and sign anything? Some distributed piece of software running on thousands of anonymous machines should solve the problem in weeks I think, or not?
Splashdown at 10:42 CT, 15:42 UTC.

Dragon is in the water.

Two minutes early ...
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Not a serious comment, but that image of Sergey reminds me a lot of the Bill Gates "borg" icon that Slashdot liked to use. How ironic is that?
"Dragon is in the water."
Mathematics ("the systematic study of quantity, structure, space, and change") and computer science are both formal sciences (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_science). You can always broaden the definition of mathematics to encompass all formal sciences but it's useful in practice to be able to differentiate them: a mathematician is a different thing from a computer scientist, even if they both spend all day pushing symbols around inside imaginary formal systems instead of predicting and measuring the physical universe.
I think of this as more of Patent Law's 3d Printing Morass.
That should probably get a domain-specific tool regardless; Generalizing the command line UI is probably going to end up getting too hairy for the common case.
Whoops. We reskinned the blog late last night and missed this. Thanks for the tip, I've already updated the blog.
Amazing or Disappointing? My answer is Prototype. I have been interested in a wearable computer for many, many years. I look forward to seeing Glass evolve from a proof of concept into an actual product. I'll reserve my amazement and/or disappointment for when that time comes. Until then... it is just a prototype.
No, they say things like "I need a SinoLogic 16, Sogo-7 Datagloves, a GPL stealth module, one Burdine Intelligent Translator, and Thompson eyephones."

When all else fails, make shit up.
I tried...but xAuth gave me a lot of trouble!

Will try to add both readability and pocket in the next version.
Why wouldn't they get an ipad with icloud? For $20 more you can get a referb ipad2 from apple.com This has a battery, is portable, big screen, etc
We've been thinking about how to make some of the curriculum available online as well. If you're interested, sign up for our mailing list and we'll keep you updated.

That said, we believe that you will benefit significantly from the class experience, so do join us if possible.
Have you consulted http://charmhq.com/ about the similarity between your logos?
Also, these numbers don't mean much on their own. E.g. L2 Cache is faster than main memory, but that doesn't help you if you don't know how big your L2 Cache is. Same for main memory vs. disc.

E.g. I optimized a computer vision algorithm for using L2 and L3 caches properly (trying to reuse images or parts of images still in the caches). Started off with an Intel Xeon: 256KB L2 Cache, 12MB L3 Cache. Moved on to an AMD Opteron: 512KB L2 Cache (yay), 6MB L3 Cache (damn).

Also, the concept of the L2 Cache has changed. Before multi-cores it was bigger and the last-level-cache. Now it has become smaller and the L3 Cache is the last-level-cache, but has some extra issues due to the sharing with other cores.

The important concepts every programmer should know are memory hierarchy and network latency. The individual numbers can be looked up on a case-by-case basis.
Birmingham has good links. Not a beach in sight.
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Happily purchased! I love what you did with the icon; it looks great.

I'm using it on the ipad now; it's a great UI, I like how you made and used a cascading UI for it. My only suggestion would be to make the news list not as cramped. But, then again, that maintains some style from the current web version :)
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The 4S packs both GSM and CDMA modems, however.
I now know how I like Web APIs to work: Give me the URL and let me go at it with cURL and some scripts to parse the your JSON.

[Been using the Salesforce REST API recently, and apart from the process of getting your OAuth token, it's really rather good].
> I can't talk for the parent, but one significant way I expect people with formal training and people without it to differ is in how the knowledge of data structures and algorithms affects their work.

And how often in your experience you stumble upon these kind of problems? In my experience, the clever parts are about 5% to 20%. Of course, there can be projects where the clever parts outnumber the non-clever parts, but we are talking about norms, and as you said, exceptions don't prove rules.
One movie I saw get this right is Office Space, where Peter's computer has to do 69 different things before finally quitting.

True, it exits from a Mac-like GUI to a DOS prompt, but I loved the depiction of office software as finicky, time-consuming, and frustrating.
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Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that FOSS was neccessarily optimised at all, I just meant the programs that were.
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From the other end though, this can result in a lot of cargo-cult programming. "this is how to do it" can create a ton of redundancy (the bad kind) if the underlying mechanisms are not understood sufficiently.
Thanks! Seems DP++ can do regular DP, HDMI, DVI, and VGA, which is pretty awesome!
Dragon has successfully achieved splashdown
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Smugg.com.

Critic review aggregator for consumer electronics.
I admit the progress of this project has been very slow, mostly due to me learning how to code properly this time while also developing this site. However in this time, gdgt.com shifted their focus to same area of critic reviews aggregation. They have done an excellent job with the team and money they have and I now wonder if it leaves any space for me to keep going.

So please do let me know what you think.
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It's absurdly simple to email writers directly. Unless you need some sort of direct access to traditional media, PR firms don't make sense for a startup.
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I don't think they dumb down on purpose, I think more often they just don't bother to talk to anyone knowledgeable.
As watching the mission control center of SpaceX: where are the computers? Are they running thin clients? I just see a lot of monitors and 1 or 2 two laptops but no actual PCs.
I thought that as well.

Might be worth pointing out that before the rise of manufacturing in large scale with assembly lines &c casual work was normal. Not much in the way of benefits or security.
Heh, I did read the article (which personally speaking, I think misunderstands the law)!

My only point was from a factual perspective, it would be interesting to compare the two designs, rather than making assertions that Valenty was on 'very safe grounds'. That may of course very well be the case, however in the absence of the side-by-side comparison, I can't say either way.

In terms of similarity, there will obviously be a sliding scale where at some point, the level of similarity will be sufficient to constitute an infringement (certainly this is the case under EU copyright/design right law, and I believe would be the case under the test you refer to). If infringement could take place only where there was identity, this would obviously leave it wide open for third parties to add capricious additions to get around the test.
Extra details:

- I admit the progress of this project has been very slow, mostly due to me learning how to code properly this time while also developing this site. However in this time, gdgt.com shifted their focus to same area of critic reviews aggregation. They have done an excellent job with the team and money they have and I now wonder if it leaves any space for me to keep going. So please do let me know what you think.

- As I am new to programming and still very much learning, I have used wordpress as the foundation for the MVP and customised it by programming new plugins.

- At the moment aggregating is completely manual, so I am still establishing a formal process which allows an uninterrupted flow of publishing products.

- The scoring follows a very similar method to metacritics. However at the moment the only adjustment made during scoring is ‘weighting’, which allows publishers who consistently produce well written and in-depth reviews to have a more prominent part in the final score calculation
Oh wow, totally forgot about that. It's covered in a couple of pages in section 11...good to know.
It has accelerated considerably in the last 10 years, though. I was in grad school in 1999-2000, I started putting my apps on the web, but the infrastructure wasn't quite as sophisticated or inexpensive as it is now. I considered my apps "demos" to show interested people and hopefully gain some interest, but not something that could be "real".

In retrospect, I realize now that they absolutely could have been "real", I just didn't quite get it. This simple realization is also a huge factor, and more young people seem to be realizing it than ever before. I remember pg pointed out in an essay that when you open the cage door to an animal that has been in captivity for a long time, it takes a while for it to realize it can come and go.

I'd say both technology and pure social adjustment to change have both been factors in the last 10 years. While I could have gotten server space and made my apps real in 2000 (and plenty of people certainly did!), it is easier now from a technical and cost perspective than it was a 10-15 years ago.

But the biggest change may be social and just have a lot to do with latency - a higher percentage of young graduate people with very little to lose are now aware that they don't need permission to create and release an app simply because it takes a while for social patterns to shift after a technical breakthrough (and this sort of thing can spread like a (benign!) virus, really picking up steam). This, combined with a considerable drop in price and increase of availability, could qualify a kind of paradigm shift, even if the technology has only changed by degree.
I can't remember there being a Tech centre there. Is this new(ish)? Coventry isn't all bad. There's some beautiful countryside around there. And it used to be fortified - an independent! It's just a shame they went all concrete jungle on the place.
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I was just happy to see SQL used at all.
No, I'd say it goes twice as fast.
Interesting. Can you give us a description of what would make a $50/hr skilled labourer versus a $10/hr unskilled one in your industry?
Interestingly, I pretty much expected this answer. Yes, politicians are, in the
end, humans, too. They make errors and we need to acknowledge that. However,
being held accountable for what you do does not exclude that. The point is not
to punish for every little error, it's to be able to differentiate the small
errors from major fuck-ups, deliberate deception and corruption - which is of
course, as I said, not in the interest of a lot of politicians.

I don't think this is creepy, either. If you decide to become a politician,
this should just be part of what you sign up for - either accept that you will
be held fully accountable for everything you do and say, or don't become a
politician.
I love this essay... I feel the same pain when I realize that the future we predicted in the past will not see the light at least until I am alive... But I really blame the current trend in innovation... There is immense growth in computer science but all in wrong direction. Instead of working on real world problems, we (esp. talented folks out of stanford, mit) are working on social networking and photo sharing apps and calling it as innovation. Robotics, AI and ML are the real tech innovations that we need to focus on.
> If you view 3D printing as a baby-step to Trek-like replicator technology^, then you may see that its more of a moral imperative that 3D printing technology become as cheap and elaborate as possible, as quickly as possible.

Nah, that's faith-speak. We don't have any idea if this technology will go much further beyond what is currently possible. This could be the "flying car" of the next 100 years that never fulfills its promise.

While you declare it a "moral imperative" and we bend all laws and societal rules to accomodate it, what suffers? What great technologies and solutions are killed because you (and other true believers) have decided that this is the thing we should all worship and sacrifice everything to achieve? What of our liberties go away because you have a vision?

3D printing is very cool and I see great things coming from it, but it's not Star Trek. It's not Star Wars. It's not the Matrix. It is what it is and we'll see where it goes. In the meantime, my interest is in protecting the free market principles that have consistently created the greatest good for the most people. That means respecting some level of Intellectual Property rights in other markets and not just steam-rolling some game-making company because a guy with a 3D printer wants to use this humanity-saving tool to print out some versions of legally trademarked action figures.
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Did I just now get that SolarOS was just a pun on Solaris?
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This is an awesome opportunity!