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Eh! Remember they have another software; they explained the reasoning behind different sized menus and buttons.
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Seriously. The email isn't that big of a deal. If this amazes you in any way, get outside more.
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"If we were going to bring LaTeX to the iPad we have would do so such that it would be usable and appealing to the majority of the iOS userbase,"

I think that this assumption is fundamentally flawed. A Latex app only needs to be better than the alternatives in order to appeal to the entire potential user base - a user base which is quite small in relative terms.

In other words, the fundamental feature for the minimum viable product is just getting Latex running on the iPad (or even some meaningful subset). Snappy performance and a gorgeous interface are not critical features of Latex - it has always been about the document for those who have invested the time to learn it.

Of course, slow performance and a clunky experience may not make it through the review process, but a limited implementation would capture most of the potential market.
In both cases, the potential for change is large. It's the adoption of the concept that will decide if it will change everything or remain a niche thing.
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Or you know, you can also just

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2/ think, learn, try on your own instead of reading blogs that are telling you to be superman (cause of course you've the will power for that right?)

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Maybe I'm being overly pessemistic, but projects that don't start with security as one of their primary design goals tend to not have the best security track records. Security isn't really something you can trivially bolt on at a later date.
Am I the only person who finds it creepy that instead of offering evidence that speaks to his specific criticisms, you instead go for the google stalking to discredit him as a whole?

10 months is long enough to have a solid perspective on at least the groups you work in. His quitting is also a sign he takes his principles seriously. If anything I think that credits his criticism.
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First: Are you married now (or have you been) and do you have kids? I'll assume you are married/committed but I'm not sure you are a parent, given your views.

Fair enough. I'm married, second time now. I have two kids. They're around 9-10 years old now so obviously I don't know everything yet, there's another decade to be seen.

This is a tremendously important point to help frame this discussion. I fear you probably won't understand my points at all with out first hand experience.

I tried to guard my post against extreme interpretations but nothing works out perfectly. I did follow up to the original poster, though, for some clarifications. You might want to read that.

I don't fully agree with what you wrote, though. For example, "Ensure the kids are alright (not necessarily that they get their way all the time), ensure your spouse is alright (happy wife, happy life after all) and ensure you are alright in that order, and you have a winning formula." is correct but in my view it goes in the exactly opposite order.

It might be just me but I see awfully many people who put everything else first and theirselves last. And they're bitter, resentful, exhausted, tired, and generally just giving the impression of asking the world go fuck themselves. They might momentarily glow in selfish proudness for doing so much for others but that doesn't last long when they figure out they're left with nothing much to themselves. Then they become martyrs and start fishing for attention, care, and attendance that they could've just provided themselves originally.

Maybe there are people who can just give and give, and think for other people first and genuinely be happy and energetic. I don't know. I've seen many who seem like that but a closer discussion with them reveals some leaks in their identity. Things that aren't working and things that they're not willing to face themselves.

I have a surprisingly good marriage; I'm not always so sure what I've done to deserve one but I can certainly attribute part of it to myself taking care of myself. There are times I have to ignore my wife's needs so that I can attend to them most of the other time. I first ensure I'm well-rested and happy myself before I do things with my kids because only then I can be relaxed and happy spending time with them, too. Otherwise I'll just be frustrated and unhappy and it always shows, and I don't want to give my kids the impression I have to force myself being with them. And there are times we want to do things together with my wife and tell the kids to just find something to do themselves, even if it wasn't exactly the best time to do that. Or if my wife needs me more badly than my kids (who, categorically, always need me if I only give them), then I'll just tell them that I'll be with my wife now as she needs me, and we will listen to the kids too again, but only later.

Only when we feel we're together again with my wife we can actually give something to the kids. And only when I'm whole I can actually give something to her, too.
Did it ever occur to you that 5 questions at a recruitment desk might not be representative of the whole Google hiring process?
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In the foundation interview he did with Kevin Rose (and somewhere on Quora I believe) he mentions that he took some CS classes, but didn't really excel in any of them. So it's probably the influence of Google (where he worked on the Marketing team) and ODEO (which later became twitter) which got him into "side-projecting-with-programming".
Maybe it's because I often use Facebook on behalf of retail businesses and consumer brands, but I've found Facebook's disregard for privacy unnerving for years now? And you haven't?
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Maybe this needs a rethink guys, your asking for a lot of things here. Uni + experience + multiple skills, seems unrealistic to expect that.
Why? If you're reading for leisure, sure, but if you're reading for information or experience, it makes sense you'd want to read as many books as possible, hence as quickly as possible.
In particular, Haskellers worry about maintainability fra more than normal programmers. One of the main advantages of functional programming is that it makes reasoning about the code--including ensuring correctness--much easier.

This was what finally convinced me to become proficient in functional programming. I'm constantly amazed at how stuff just works.
Divorce in itself is not failure, however in a culture with a 50% divorce rate I think this is a symptom of a much bigger problem: such a high divorce rate means that many people are not committed to their marriage or to the concept of family.

Times have changed. Marriage used to be about survival, and that requires a forever committal. These days everyone can survive by himself but marriage is a vehicle for learning and growing in your life through intimately living with someone. Some marriages still last but many break down because either one of the spouses has learned something and moves on in his or her life. The other one doesn't so they don't sing the same song anymore, and there's nothing they can serve really by staying together anymore.
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Your comments about the LGPL are correct, but on the GPL you are mistaken: a GPL "system library" would infect a proprietary application that linked against it, whether statically or dynamically. A GPL application can link against a proprietary system library, but that is quite the opposite situation.
speed reading is fun. it ends up generating people who just tell you a few key sentences or words they have read, genuinely thinking they're saying something smart/that make sense etc.

While they generally don't grasp the meaning, subject, of what they're saying. It's this must-have-read-everything syndrome, but you don't actually gain anything from it. Just like the hundred of news items on HN tbh.
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I would love to run Light Table on a Surface http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en/us/default.aspx Feature request! :-)
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>about graph theory, it's something that is rarely used, if I need to do something I can grab a book and check it, it's strange to remember this stuff when you don't use it a lot.

I don't think you appreciate how pervasively useful a basic understanding of graph theory can be. For example, Google was founded around the idea of viewing the internet as a graph of hyperlinks (and decomposing its adjacency matrix to rank sites relative to each other). All that wacky data on the internet is easier to deal with if you can think about its graph structure.

Social network? Graph. Language model? Graph. Road network? Graph. etc...

This is a tool for thinking, not some particular API you can look up in a reference. You should be able to reason about the sparsity of the graph (and hence what sort of adjacency representation to use), the degree of the vertices (and thus how badly a search algorithm might perform), etc...
Awesome list, I'd add the iTunesU course CS193P (Fall 2011) and Treehouse - with these resources, you're more than set!

Also: +1 for the interest in the apps you released.
I don't know how much effort you put into learning high-level languages, but people coming from C tend to keep writing "C" in scripting languages as well.

While that can work, they miss out on all the cool and more advanced stuff these languages has to offer.
That doesn't change the fact that the headline is incorrect.
Nobody said you don't have to sweat for it. I'm currently in the process of getting one, and I do no crunches (although I'm sure they help). Also, a sixpack has nothing to do with fitness (other than that you incidentally get fit). It's purely for aesthetic reasons.

Me, I was working out anyway, so I figured I'd lose the fat to look lean as well.
Interestingly, that causes an "Aw, snap!" in Chrome (beta channel) for me. (Fresh load of the maze demo; right-click on the only block on the screen, click "add comment".)
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It's almost comedic now, how whenever an article even slightly critical of Google is posted, the same people show up to shout it down.
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This really makes you wonder at what point do you go from calling something "some digital nudging about between nations" to "war".

To me this seems to qualify as terrorism and sabotage on all accounts. I'm pretty sure I know how the US would react if they had been on the receiving end of this sort of attack.
The thing I knew when I was 20 is to take everything with a grain of salt and think it through yourself and refit the lesson in your life. What's true in someone else's life often isn't true in your life. I knew it but I just didn't believe it.

As an adult, I know that's more true than ever and I'm able to believe it, yet only partially. I'm working on it.

When you think things yourself then you're not bound by the limits that other people before you have set. You don't need to be bound by "what's true and what's right": you can rediscover your own life in a very different setting. But it's a courageous path and I'm not always so courageous. I'm working on it.
I am becoming a big fan of the free to play model. I think it serves a lot of players well

Probably, but not me. I'm the grumpy old curmudgeon that prefers to pay a one-time fee for a quality game and compete purely on skill, not on hours spent grinding or real money spent flipping bits in a DB somewhere. And even at $50 a pop even the typical teenager should be able to pay cash down for a game every month or two.

What this is really about is shutting down piracy.
At least the forums are working, http://forum.dlang.org
Well written, but I completely disagree. Behind your reasoning lies the classic libertarian argument about epistemological complexity (not saying you are a libertarian, just that you are using Austrian school reasoning): because we can't know what can potentially save lives, we should just let people do their thing without making any judgments on what should be our collective priorities. I, for one, have no doubt that a doctor saves more lives than a car mechanic. There are a lot of outcomes we can know, be certain about, do something about. If we concentrated as a society on defeating aging, for example, we would perhaps get rid of jobs that could very indirectly help in increasing our longevity, but we would replace them with jobs that do so much more directly and effectively.

You also completely misinterpret Maslow's hierarchy. It's not a prescriptive, but a descriptive one. An individual who has to struggle daily to survive usually does not have time for poetry.
Well, I imagine one reason is that there are exactly zero static call sites in Python. Everything is called by name, and monkey-patching is, for better or worse, an accepted and widely used tactic. I have seen projects that use Python's source code introspection facility to rewrite code inside decorators. You can even define new keywords in this way.

Decorators in general are a widely used tactic to execute arbitrarily Python code with potentially unknown runtime state to transform the Python code you just parsed into a totally new function.

There is just very little you can learn from parsing Python code, you need runtime state to understand some functions. It is potentially as difficult as Lisp, and with a much larger set of primitives to cover.

And if you take the approach that you aren't going to just parse, you are going to implicitly execute the Python that is being written, then you need to sandbox the whole of Python. It's not like a REPL where everything is explicit and if a programmer writes subprocess.call(['rm', '-rf', '/']) they want their filesystem to blow up. You can't just go around implicitly executing WIP code.

Now, a reasonable approach might be to punt on the whole issue and say, "If your code doesn't execute in a vacuum, with standard python libraries and no funny business with decorators and monkey-patching, then we won't touch it" but I think the reality is that there is a lot of important Python code that can't be correct in such a vacuum.

It's not a total lost cause, but I do think there are many good reasons why a Python Light Table is very hard.
Apple kind of tried that with the iPod and gave up and went to USB in the end. Can you imagine the customer confusion chaos along the lines of "can I plug the iPhone into my computer"?

The current connector might have an usual form factor device-side but the other end of the cable can plug into and work with 95% of computers. Making it a Thunderbolt-only connection would be a huge departure from "it just works."
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Does anyone have info as to why Microsoft decided to go with an all caps menu?
"Perhaps if people bothered to learn a fraction of what is available in just the computer science or engineering departments of their university we wouldn't see the same old 50 year old technologies being reinvented again and again."

The problem is that for most people (be it salaryman or enterpreneur) knowing a lot of computer science (and other academic stuff) is irrelevant. I mean knowing the basics is good, but learning a lot of it is irrelevant compared to other things (connections, social skills, dealing with pressure, dealing with boredom, capacity to see through complex systems, luck, experience, talent (in fact different kinds of talents)). Even the companies which seem to prefer academic kind of knowledge in fact prefer (and test for) raw talent of some kind.

Of course if your goal is to do research, academy is extremely important. Otherwise (for example if your goal is financial independence) not that much (beyond the basics, but talented people learn the basics pretty quickly).
This whole discussion is getting out of hand. Light Table is on Kickstarter, because an awful lot of people screamed for it being funded, when they saw the first prototype of this thing.

Now it is on there and all I see everytime it get's up here is people complaining, saying they won't fund because of xyz or don't think it will succeed without blurb. Even better: Some get destructive and say how much better Eclipse or the likes are.

Please stop this shit, don't fund, don't use, don't complain and please don't raise such shitstorms on every single Light Table discussion. Can we probably focus a little on being constructive about projects like this?
The fact that 80% of the time the approach is not important to get the desired result because the task only operates over small n or similar does not mean that the approaches are equal.
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo also uses OpenOffice which I thought was cool:
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What call graphs? Everything in python is call-by-name. `globals()['foo']` isn't exactly a very strong reference, and anyone can change it.
The bp editor has similar features (code bubbles), though dynamic evaluation and code bubble workspaces are still in development. And I'm pretty sure it won't cost me 300k to finish it.
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Do you really never use relative URLs?
This is not an opposite take, if you write, you found yourself are a royal prick.

This confirms the 0.1% rule of the op.
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If you're trying to gain information and experience then it is silly to try to optimise for "How many pages have I looked at?"

You need to come to terms with what the author is claiming, critically evaluate the argument used to support those claims, and then decide the relevance of this new perspective on the world (eg, how will you implement it in your life?)

This all takes time.
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Yes, FILE is less identifiable than file. All the letters are the same height and have similar shapes with all-caps, whereas lowercase letters have more variety and your brain can recognise the shape of words rather than looking at every single letter.

The Wikipedia page for word recognition has some useful links:

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Don't blame it on Haskell. Everyone has to learn the fundamentals. Haskell is suited for making games, it's just not the mainstream language for that. See http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Frag . Yes, 3D games have lots of tricky state handling and OpenGL doesn't map well to Haskell. But doing a point-and-click adventure in Haskell is not harder than doing it in C++.

I really doubt your classes were stupid and boring. Maybe you were the one who was stupid and boring :P
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