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Nice but you have to program the cells to contain the appearance of the duck the cells should know about and because that is a feature difficult to grasp it does not matter where you start.
First design the beak put it in the cell
Design the webbed feet put it in the cell
Design the head put it in the cell
Construct all cells and enumerate the cell based on the ducks feature
And there you have it bottom up designed DUCK with out worry where to start.
rainbow converts arc lists and hashes to and from java List and Map equivalents.

rainbow also uses 'defcall from anarki so you don't ever have to call java-invoke: you can put your java-object in functional position, followed by the method name, followed by the arguments. For example,

(my-object 'hashCode)

is the equivalent of java's myObject.hashCode(); ... essentially the same number of tokens. I expect to wrap the most popular java libraries behind arc-sounding macros/functions.

rainbow comes with a tetris and a simple arc editor called welder, they both use java's Swing library, take a look if you'd like to see an example of this kind of wrapping. Or try http://www.fnargs.com/2009/01/calling-java-from-arc.html

I think "official arc" still assumes a unix for some functions ... I don't know what PG's final position on this is.
Good solution, I suppose. At least the first part.

To be fair, I'll be first in line to congratulate PGJL on having not named their kid Jeeebo Graham just because the domain name was available.

But I do advise prospective parents to think hard about what the child might think of the name when grown up. Sure, in one sense it would have been awesome, but I'm glad my mother didn't let my father actually name me Luke Skywalker Yudkowsky, Hari Seldon Yudkowsky, or Roderick Frederick Ronald Arnold William MacArthur McBan Yudkowsky.

Or similarly: I was once at a science fiction convention, and I saw a young kid - maybe 8 or so - wearing a nametag that said "Vanyel". I walked up to him and said, "Excuse me, is Vanyel your real name?" He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you named after Vanyel Ashkevron?" He said, "Yes." And I said, "Awesome."

Which, in a sense, it was - it definitely had a high coolness factor. But what I wanted to ask was, "Did your parents think at all about what sort of problems they might be volunteering their child for, by naming him after one of the most famous gay characters in all of fantasy fiction?" But I didn't ask, because I didn't know if they had explained that part to him yet.

Names matter.
Interesting that the iFart author was not just a random lucky hacker. Also, despite all his other accomplishments, he will from now on be known as the iFart author? I hope for his sake that it won't be like that, but I guess there is a lesson in that somewhere...
In Stargate you only see C code, even written by aliens!
The vimeo version of this has already been posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=448676
Manila - Very Cheap, lots of Tech talent. You def dont need a car and you shouldn't if you value your sanity.
Just look at Barack Hussein Obama

Actually for much of his early life he went by Barry. Also Barack and Hussein are very common Arabic names.
Firstly, congratulations on your children. Secondly, congratulations on caring enough to read about how to parent well. Anything by Faber and Mazlish is well worth reading - and it resonates well with Alfie Kohn. Their work covers eliciting co-operation, alternatives to punishment, encouraging autonomy, dealing with feelings, and much else besides.
Any chance we can ooh and aah at a pic of the new family?
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I've had my kindle for about the same amt of time (ordered Dec 2007, got it January-ish, (feb? I forget) 2008).

It just doesn't work for technical books (why that's probably a good thing -- I'll cover in a minute). No monospace font, but also, you read tech books a lot faster than normal text. Pages fly by when they've got code in them (most code in these books are API/language based, which means you usually just care about identifiers), and that hits one of the big weaknesses of the kindle:

Page flip time.

When you're reading a novel or other all-human-text book, the page flip time is barely noticeable, as your eyes are moving to the top-left at the same time. However, if you're scanning a book for a specific section or mention of an identifier, it'll kill you with its slowness.

However, if you're like me and read a lot of technical books, this isn't such a bad thing. The kindle's a great way to get in on reading nontech books, which adds a good dimension to a geek's life. There are mailing lists where publishers give you a new ebook a month, to get you into new authors/genres of sci-fi.

Plenty of 'regular books': novels, biographies, newspapers, etc. It's a wonderful way to richen your life, with amazon's recommendation engine & a good selection of books.

My friend has a sony eReader, and his device is a much nicer piece of hardware. But I win in selection, hands-down. He mostly just reads PDFs on his now, usually datasheets or the like.

As for cases, the original works decently for me. I also just don't care that much about cases -- anything to protect the hardware sufficiently without getting in my way is fine. If you play with the case a bit (a little physical-world hacking), you can make it stay on the device pretty well.
Forgetting '419' was the designation for Nigerian scammers, I thought the title referred to an extremely accurate analysis of current Facebook spammer movements. Oops.
Can the Kindle not read PDFs then? The text of that article (and the Kindle formatted I've seen available for download) would suggest that it can (or at least some un-DRMed or optional-DRMed format)

I agree about the Sony Reader though, much prettier. Although I don't actually use mine at all, too much effort to find and format free books and the real thing is so easy to get and very convenient.

I'm in the UK though, if I was in the US the wireless book store thing on the Kindle would probably interest me.
Yikes, I see this is currently at the top of the page. Please downvote me far enough so that it isn't the first thing Paul and Jessica see when they check in. PS: Congratulations Paul and Jessica.
He's badly off for more than that reason: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Duke
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We're based in the UK, about 45 minutes from London. What type of things are you looking into? Do you have (or would you like to gain) any experience with particular languages/frameworks?
I don't see any cheating either, it's probably just called that because it's uncannily good as long as you don't use short words.
Well, yes, that's the point.

Again, think of it as a single global namespace. When this particular fellow was named, the other David Duke hadn't hit the news yet - but when the name "David Duke" did become famous and recognizable, there was a namespace collision. That can happen to anyone, especially if your last name is common.

Google makes names easier to "recognize", and the Internet's vastness increases the total amount of "fame". So in the age of the Internet, you want to pick a name for your child that is likely to be and stay unique.

If you have a common last name, a first name that is very rare but not unique, doesn't look strange, and is easy to spell and pronounce, would be ideal.
Try to move across from BW/BI to Enterprise Portal-type work, anything on the Netweaver side will bring you closer to Java, PHP and Ruby etc. From there you'll find it easier to migrate into a generic dev role.

I got very heavily into SAP security a while back and I understand your situation completely. Your alternative would be to take the Database route, but then you're just swapping one hole for another.
What you look for first is always a unit that functions on its own. Then you program that. For example, a feather could be used in a feather bed, or it could be used in a duck. You can program a feather, test it and make it work, without needing to have designed or modelled a duck yet - of course, you'll have an idea where it belongs, but since it is an enclosed and reusable component, it can be created first without a top down model.
You're an okay guy, but please stop mentioning bingo software constantly in almost every post you make. It's getting quite annoying. We know you write a bingo software, but please stop marketing it all the time. It's like being at a party and there is a mattress salesman who always brings the conversation back to mattresses and how he got started, and how he found good deals and so on. At the party, one can walk away from that guy, here, unfortunately not. So, don't use this forum as a marketing tool for your bingo thing. Just talk normally, and if people want to know more about our product, they click your name.
Do you even need a fixed city these days? I've spent a lot of time on the European high-speed train network lately and I've jokingly been thinking about 'setting up office' in the train. For some reason I'm very creative and productive on trains.

You got wireless, snacks & drinks, relative quiet and if you take one of these all-you-can-travel (Germany: Bahncard 100) deals you just bought yourself an office in every German city for about 3500 euro / year. If you want first-class it'll be 5900 euro.
I'm probably wrong about that (I'm not really up to date on the Kindle). NH wont let me edit the comment but consider this a retraction.

I'm more interested on whether Amazon having a monopoly on the hardware/distribution could allow them to dictate the payment model for example they could continue pay-per-book whereas customers normally prefer subscription based models.

This is already a fairly dysfunctional market where the vast majority of books are out-of-print and will never enter the public domain. There's also some question about what happens to public libraries.

About the sony reader did you use libprs500 (now called calibre) to do the conversion for you? It works on Linux and autoconverts everything I've thrown at it.

Personally I use it for reading trashy SF that I wouldn't otherwise buy (I'd feel like I was wasting paper if nothing else). BAEN is a practically unlimited source of the stuff.
A friend of mine works in the military, and he says that there is good pay on short term contracts at the moment in Iraq. I could get you in contact with him if you're interested. It's much safer than one would think actually.
Some people would say that using a dictionary is cheating -- but really, this is just another demonstration of Norvig's maxim that "more data usually beats better algorithms".

This isn't a very smart hangman-playing program, but it has enough data at its disposal that it really doesn't need to be smart.
He might also be the 1st Viscount St Alban.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon
Motivating Minds (The Economist on why TDD makes you work harder)
Seconded. There are a few hackerspaces [1] there. The Chaos Computer Congress is great. If you're thinking of moving there, knowing German makes things easier, but you can definitely get by without it. The nightlife is definitely one of the best in Europe. As the comment above said it's very cheap. I'm seriously considering moving there once I have a bit of money saved so I can work on my own projects for a few months without burning through cash too quickly.

[1] http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Hacker_Spaces
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Bangkok - great food, good connectivity, close air-wise to Singapore/HK, low cost-of-living, good overhead/underground trains, cheap taxis, tuk-tuks, and motorcycle-taxis.

Plus, it's easy for even totally unattractive social misfits to obtain intimate companionship, with no strings attached.

;>
My point is that people like yourself are the exception.
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Something funky going on with the right-to-left unicode text there. Not sure if it can be at all fixed in markup/css at all, the direction: property doesn't seem to help. In any case, SPAM.
'spreading the word'

should be replaced with

'demonstrating the utility'

The former is a religious expression. The latter is a pragmatic one.
It's easy if your mind thinks in CSS but if you still think in tables (a habit that I find surprisingly difficult to undo) then yes, it's a bit of a mess. I'm happy CSS frameworks & their browser resets exist so I can think about more important things.
The headline refers to the 1999 movie The Talented Mr. Ripley about a young psychopath who manages to fool everyone into believing he's the son of a millionaire and eventually becomes a murderer.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134119/
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This micro-article tells us nothing about "Gates's Next Big Thing," but only offers a thin sketch of what we all know about Bill's current work.
Unfortunately, even the link to reading Bill's "Annual Letter" (inspired by Warren Buffet's) at GatesFoundation just allows you to "sign up" (leaving your email) to receive the Letter (once available in 'early 2009').
A disappointing article, symptomatic of a slow news day.
Sorry that's obvious in retrospect.

My problem with your argument is that words are "easy to spell and pronounce" because they are common and people have experienced them before.

When I said people are unable to recognise names they haven't heard before I mean that literally. They try to coerce it into one they've heard before and either succeed and call you something random or require you to repeat it 3 times before they are convinced they're not just miss-hearing it.

The only way to get something easy to spell and pronounce that is rare would be to compound common forms. Frankly this is exactly what the middle name does.

That said JoHadRon is globally unique (at least according to google) and has useful short forms. I may change my name.
The reviews of Atwood's new "Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth" at Amazon sound like it'll be an interesting layman's take on the systemic problems that have left us in the current burst bubble.
Unfortunately, this brief little piece in the NY Times tells us little of it. The Washington Post review at amazon ( http://www.amazon.com/Payback-Shadow-Wealth-Massey-Lectures/... ) gives a much better feel of how far Atwood is able to take this analysis of social and economic trends that set us up for such debacles.
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Atlanta is not in a part of the US where people traditionally care much about things like being able to walk places, from what I've seen. My best experience with public transport has been in Portland, Oregon. In the US, at least - pretty much anyplace in Europe is better.
" a popular movement of violent fanatics with just a little discrete encouragement from the right people inside the government -- a speech here, a blind eye towards a beating there, a conveniently unlocked weapons locker yonder -- now that has some potential." You're describing the chinese cultural revolution as I understand it (admittedly the encouragement was not very discrete)...
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Read both of these, and soon, since they describe things which become fixed after age three or so:

Meaningful Differences In The Everyday Experiences Of Young American Children

Emotional Intelligence

There are other books you can read once the kid gets to school age, but I think these two are the most important for the cognitive and emotional development of the infant.

edit: Kohn is also one of my all time favorite authors.
I use monit and munin with capistrano tasks to install, update and configure them. Right now I'm monitoring a couple hundred of containers and hosts at work, mostly mail servers.
Here are a couple of ideas:

* Like other people said, start doing some projects in interesting languages. Preferably, they should be open source projects so that you can get feedback about what you're doing, and meet other people.

* If you want to do something that's not too far from SAP, is open source, and could use some good hackers, OFBiz is an interesting project: http://ofbiz.apache.org/
montreal, canada. There's foulab.org (a hackerspace), also FreeHackers meetups, lots of tech user groups (scheme/ruby/python/php...), one of the cheapest cost of living in North America, great friendly people, culture too (it's bilingual, active art scene). For connectivity, there's IleSansFil around the city, which provides free wireless in bars and coffee shops
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This is where startups will be strong next year.

The focus of the last couple of years - especially YC type startups - has been on social - which is pretty much saturated now (I laughed/cried at some of the content on that dreamitventures site that was posted yesterday).

We're in a recession now that means big opportunity for replacing established business software apps - because existing apps have grown bloated and carry huge costs - which gives a massive attack surface - a startup can do take an existing app and do the key features better, cheaper and simpler - and instantly bite in to some revenue.

New startups need to be taking on salesforce.com not trying to be the next Facebook or Twitter.

2010 will be all about revenue not unique visitors.
Man, you're really reaching.
Forget it, you win.
The bottom line is that monads are not practical without some kind of syntactic sugar like do-notation. Without that, you have to write operations as a chain of nested lambdas, which becomes very ugly very quickly.

This is probably why monads haven't taken off in any language beside Haskell.
I've become jaded to such articles. The way I see it is, moderate and controlled consumption of most natural food is alright. (Note: The previous statement is not scientifically backed ;) )

I drink about 1-2 cups of coffee a day and I love it. I eat red meat nearly ever week, but I also eat fish, chicken, and pork too. I don't take any form of drugs (e.g Tylenol) and stick to a pretty natural routine of foods and vitamins.

The way I see it is, I'll probably live longer because I'm eating natural foods and not food that has been loaded with preservatives, packed into boxes, and sold to me as an healthy alternative.

...And, if I die early because I drank too much coffee or had to much red meat then well, atleast I died with a happy stomach.
Ivan Illich: Deschooling Society.

Read it.

This is exactly the sort of technological revolution that is required before we can achieve true universal education.
I'm actually working on a podcast aggregator/recommender site right now, it will launch within 1-2 weeks, as soon as I finish it.
I have plans for how to make money from it and my reason for creating it is, there are loads of podcast-sites out there but very few(or none) helps you to actually find the good ones.

In the meantime check out:
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for very good podcasts about software, I think the guys doing it are german but their english is good.
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I think you've answered your question :) None wants to do it, so the companies have to pay a lot of money.

Now, you might ask, none wants to be the garbage man, and their salay is crap. But it's a low barrier job to entry, and its employer doesn't have a lot of money, plus there's no specialization or the applicants don't can't receive better job offers elsewhere.

On a related note, COBOL programmers are well paid these days, but none wants to program in COBOL anymore. Kinda the same situation.
You can TDD at the functional level. I don't see what the big deal is.
Now, yes. But back then, why?
Interview situation: "What do you want to do/what are you passionate about? What motivated you to apply to this job?"

"It's not SAP, and I don't like doing SAP, so I was very happy to apply for any non-SAP job."

Fail. (Keep reading please; there's some non-LOLcats level of discussion below)

This is an industry where lots of non-traditional backgrounds can succeed. (My degree is in mechanical engineering; I haven't made enough from working as a Mech E to buy a cup of coffee.) I've worked with or currently have people on my team with non-technical degrees, college dropouts, and one that never finished high school.

Assuming OP wants to code, the solution is not going back to school, but rather finding a job as a not-quite entry level non-SAP coder. But I know what we pay our SAP consultants, and in this economy, you're looking at a steep decline in take-home to go from 3-4 years SAP experience to entry-level coder in Foo language. That may very well be the more significant hurdle, esp if you've built a life around a relatively high level of income.

In sharp agreement with azanar though, I think the best people I've worked with are generalists over time and specialists in the moment. I've had the luxury of working with a great team that's been (with additions and deletions to the group, and mergers/acquisitions/voluntary move to new startups) working a 4 different companies over the span of 12 years. Along the way, we've gone from Tcl and C++ on Solaris, through C++/COM/COM+/DCOM using DB2 and mainframe DBs, and now to an all MSFT .Net/MS-SQL (with a little MySQL at the edges) platform. None of us have had substantial issues moving from one platform to the next, so in that sense you could say we're generalists. But in each position, we spend 3-5 years deeply specializing and getting to know all the corners of the platform.

Our sales pitch applying to the current place back in 2003 wasn't "We hate our current gig consulting and we're only here because Merrill Lynch has clicked on golden handcuffs that just unlocked. They want us to stay, we can't imagine having our souls crushed one more day, so please get us out!" All of that was true, but the focus wasn't on what CurrentCo could do for us, it was about what we could do for CurrentCo. 6 years later (with an IPO along the way), both sides are very happy about the situation!
Hmm... I thought this was going to be about dynamic programming based on the title.
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I would guess they pay more attention to what works and what doesn't than to psychological theory or conjecture. It's easy for anyone to monitor what kind of ads perform better than others, and since ads are much of Yahoo's bread and butter, you can be sure they are paying attention.
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Like a GUID?
How large is your sample? The heroes of the field, Gauss, Euler, John von Neumann, Feynman etc, were certainly drawn to practial questions.
Looks interesting that we might have an opportunity of transparency in government.
I am trying to get VC through my school (UIC) they have a competition where you can win 20k if you compete.
There is great potential here but how are they going to get around the regulatory challenges.

A similar site (which charged interest) recently shut down - http://prosperlending.blogspot.com/2009/01/fynanz-halts-p2p-...
I'm sure there are a few! Get in touch if you head over here for a combined hacking-holiday or sth!
Congrats!
OT: According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilo- it's "k".
Heh, I wonder how many hipsters will be trading in their iPhones now :-)
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