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>Likewise, IMO, there will be specific things for specific purposes.

It would do techies a lot of good to realize this is not true for most people. People do not have "specific sites for specific purposes". To most people the web browser is the internet. The distinction between different pages is fuzzy at best. And at this point facebook itself is the internet to a lot people. If facebook offered a compelling X experience (X can be anything here), people absolutely will use it. Do not fool yourself into thinking most internet users compartmentalize their internet usage. They absolutely do not.
That is the power of facebook.
Gah! An hour a month is too much for me.

Thanks for replying.
Exactly. And since not everyone has the luxury of his private workshop, I really support that schools should provide that.

I'm only affraid that in a world where 8 year olds are still forbidden to use real sicorrs you're gonna have a rough ride in order to do so...
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I was about to say the same thing about Valve before I got the comments section :) Also, very much agree with letting the talented do their thing as long as wisdom is also apparent. Allow them to infect each other with their enthusiasm and they will innately work together to build something great. Someone who is chained to something is not going to have that enthusiasm and will typically make that known through their mood and action, if not through complaining. A poor mood is just as infectious as enthusiasm.

My sentiment is that hiring talent and then weighing them down with excessive restrictions and bureacracy is like buying a Ferrari and driving it 55mph during the daily commute. Why waste the money on that HP, when you can get a cheaper vehicle. Let the Ferrari's drive; hire a Civic if that is the kind of work you are going to give it :)
Well our country and economy is already over inflated with debt, so it wouldn't be such a bad thing if discretionary spending halted.

really, would that be such a bad thing to the overall economy? People tightening their spending, instead of recklessly borrowing debt, and buying nice things that ultimately aren't necessary? I guess if you're a company that targets discretionary spenders, you're doomed.
I've played assassins before, which I think is what you're describing. I'm wondering if Underground Assassins is a variation on the game, or just a different name.
As I said, it depends on how restrictive a definition of ethnicity you use.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnicity

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ethnic

> pertaining to or characteristic of a people, especially a group (ethnic group) sharing a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, or the like.

The inhabitants of a city usually share a common and distinctive culture (and the like.) You're using extremely narrow definitions of genocide as well as ethnicity. Both are vague terms.
The problem isn't that Facebook doesn't have earnings, but rather their incredible P/E ratio.

Also, the profit margin doesn't say much about a company that doesn't do much other than its core product, while Google and Apple have their hands in other products as well. If anything the chances for long-term survival look better for companies that diversify successfully and Facebook hasn't demonstrated an ability for that.
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1. Because school districts are not typically comprised of equal-value neighborhoods.

So a 'good' district will inevitably have 'poorer' neighborhoods whose houses are relatively more difficult to sell. It thus behooves realtors to pitch more-heavily on the upside of these houses to parents and would-be parents.

2. Because emotional decisions short-circuit logic.

The default emotional response to a lesser house is that it reflects lesser success on the part of the homeowner.

Saying "better school district" evokes the children and places a positive emotional spin on this: this house doesn't reflect poorly on you, it's a badge of honor that you sacrificed so your children could have the best you could provide.

Saying "on-average richer neighbors", while objectively a suitable proxy for "better school district" evokes a very different emotional response: not only might this house potentially reflect poorly on you, but it's surrounded by people who did better!

For anyone who can get past the emotional baggage, the second part is largely irrelevant. But they're the minority and weren't listening to anything the realtor had to say anyway.
Where's the actual post mortem analysis? I wanted to see a discussion about actual problems encountered developing Tweagle specifically. Instead, this is just another exposition of the generic flames we've all seen done to death. Android apps have lots of screen resolutions (so what did you have to do to manage that?). "Some devices lack WiFi, A-GPS or both." (what is your fallback if the user doesn't have local internet or location services?).

I especially like this one: "Some people “hack” their Google Play app to be able to download incompatible apps and then write 1-star reviews when the app doesn’t work" ... with no discussion about why their app was marked incompatible in the first place.
The Lean Methodology is what small businesses have been doing since companies were created. I assumed that they took it and adapted it to tech business.
In the modern era of more and more families having only one child, I don't think replacing school by online learning at home is a good idea. Children need to be exposed to other children, kids with diverse backgrounds if possible.

Also, there is a time to be free and focus exclusively on what you like, but I'd rather have kids exposed to a variety of disciplines first.

Perhaps more importantly, I would not trust most parents to provide a good learning environment to their children, especially in poor families.

And online learning might be the most efficient for some students but I expect that other students benefit a lot from the personal contact with a teacher. Ideally we should be able to give each student what works best for her.
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Enterprise java these days is like Germany after the wall came down I.e. A much better place. agile is still Auschwitz.
Shameless plug: I collected a bunch of resources for learning Ruby, Rails, and general programming on Rake Routes a couple months ago: http://rakeroutes.com/blog/learning-ruby-rails-and-programmi...

On the article, I strongly disagree that vim requires plugins to be viable for Ruby development. The Janus plugin should especially be carefully considered as it wraps up a lot of magic that could prevent the new vim user from effectively learning vim itself.
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Good news is I'm not terrifically upset about it.

I did carefully leave "standardized" out of my comment. I have a problem with the whole process of present->practice->see what stuck. It has been the most practical method for teaching large groups of people for a long time, but I think there is a lot of potential in using adaptive testing to mechanize the evaluation and tracking of what students understand, which hopefully leads to students getting more and better personal attention.
Prop 13 does inhibit construction.

A landlord who has owned a building continuously since 1985 is paying tax on its assessed value as of 1985. A landlord entering the market today pays based on the value today. This is an obvious subsidy for the incumbent landlord. A building built or purchased today is strictly less valuable than an identical one held for years.
What you’re saying is that it is possible to answer the question while staring bewildered at a device you have never seen or interacted with.

Based on my life experience so far; this is one of the most important skills to learn.

What I’m saying is that it is much easier to answer the question if you have hands-on experience.

Of course; but that isn't the point of the test.

And I think what the author is saying is that we should spend more time giving kids microscopes and testing what they see with them.

Yes, but again this test is not about that. And if the author is arguing that practical experience should entirely supplant this sort of critical thinking then I entirely disagree.

Critical thinking is taught from a young age, in very subtle ways. The ability to approach a topic you know nothing about, dissemble it, and answer a question (either posed to you, or by you) is fundamental to all of our lives.
Well, I highly suspect Google won't be the same as it is now by 2020 either. That isn't saying much. Part of reaching a so-called technological singularity involves very fast changes.
honestly, as a poorly informed IT manager, i'd be more afraid that java costs money to use, and would end up either wasting a lot of time researching licensing information or straight up trying to move away from java

FUD is the only kind of bad publicity.
Uh, another good post on sharing the joy/pain of learning Ruby. Thanks for sharing.

I have spent the past three weeks getting my head into Ruby (on the hopeful way to understanding Rails). With so many different languages and stacks, it makes the early stages extremely daunting for a beginner.

I have found comfort in the following resources:

1) The only website I found that actually visualized how everything sits together:
http://techiferous.com/2010/07/roadmap-for-learning-rails/

2) I persevered with a Ruby programming book:
Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional (by Peter Cooper)

3) Spent a few days on a zero install Ruby tutorial:
http://tryruby.org

I plan to write some blog posts on the journey however may wait until I get passed the basics before sharing too much.
Empty string is true. Who here hasn't banged their head over that one?
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I've always found HTTP and HTML limiting. I know that might be blasphemy to say, but it seems like we've only put duct tape on duct tape, even with advancements like HTML5.
I quit my last job on account of them moving to an agile process, but not before my company had spent thousands of dollars being trained on the process. Snake oil.
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Summary: Around the world, our present education system was set up to meet the needs of the industrial revolution, it does not meet our current needs, and certainly won't meet our future needs.
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You're getting downvoted, but not being told why.

Asperger's is a lot more complex than just "being a dick". Unfortunately some people use it as an excuse for undesirable behaviors. Regardless, that does not extend to all sufferers. Sometimes it manifests as intense, uncontrollable interest in certain narrow topics and a sensitivity to certain sounds, foods, smells, etc, and a shy or awkward disposition. That isn't being a dick by any means.

I'm sorry if you had a bad experience. It may stem from the fact if you've interacted with people who were diagnosed at a young age, they tend to be on the very far end of the spectrum and as a result may exhibit more extreme symptoms. There are a lot of people who have Asperger's who simply don't disclose it and have developed coping mechanisms that help them blend in. There might be many around you, but they might never have come out as such.
Unless, of course, web apps are the native apps (e.g. Boot to Gecko).
> On a few occasions, someone may suggest that I check out a project that could use my help, but nobody tells me what to do.

> I quickly learned that if I can’t get anyone else interested in the project that I want to work on, then either I poorly articulated my vision, or more likely, it does not benefit the company.

These appear to be the main points, so there is a kind of pressure to work on things that benefit the company.

My question is, how does overall strategy get set then? There are probably 1,000 things you could do to benefit the company, but only a small number of them have a huge effect, some of them require coordination to really help, and some of them might be diametrically opposed to each other.

Who makes these decisions, when there are multiple viable ways of going forward, but someone just has to put their foot down and decide which one?
Let's be honest, the clue stick beatings probabally came later in life.
My HN friend, my argument was that the writer isn’t daft, and neither is his complaint, and I stand by that. My argument is that the writer raises interesting and useful questions, and I stand by that too.

As to the fact that the question doesn’t test internal modelling, of course it does. If you made it a question about something nobody has ever seen before, then it wouldn’t test knowledge of microscopes. But it does ask about microscopes.

Perhaps, in aggregate, the test covers enough subject areas that the students tested will be exposed to a roughly equal mix of things they have experience with and things they don’t. But as I noted elsewhere, the fact that it’s possible to answer this question from the text alone in no way changes the fact that it’s easier to answer the question with prior experience. And from that, I think it’s perfectly reasonable to ask whether this is a good question.
I think Facebook's isn't stable income. I think they've got ads and their credits system. They have had stable revenues with a pretty consistent 25% margin. I feel FB is a large and stable company.

Facebooks issue is one of perception - one they help perpetuate. They've continually been thrust into the top-tier of tech companies (Apple, Amazon, Google, MS) and the Facebook "problem" is that right now they not. They have the lowest market cap today of any of these companies, (besides having the largest P/E outside of Amazon). And what they don't have a is clear path to how they're going to grow revenues in a manner which will keep them on pace with a Google or Apple.

Building a 25-50 (I think FB is going to continue to slide) billion dollar company in 8 years is an unbelievable achievement and is why people will continue to invest heavily in early stage tech. I think the effect on startups is that VC's and later stage investors have always assumed that users == money. Twitter and Facebook have both raised billions of dollars using this formula. I think this belief is going to be shaken a bit by Facebook's trouble's monetizing their user base. But maybe thats just a reality check that Silicon Valley needs.
Again the same discussion. I did not buy the wrong book. I knew exactly what I wanted

Don't get me wrong, your reply is kind of abstract and philosophical. I explained why this book just failed and should not be recommended (mainly the style and really, really awkward, wacky examples) and I face abstract replies. Sometimes I think these comments and Amazon reviews are all faked by SEO/Webspam people driving the book's sale (no offence, but because of guys like you recommending a totally weak book over and over without the slightest criticism I bought this crappy book and it's a really bad and frustrating experience). And again: I am not dumb or do not know what I wanted or bought (btw this is bad discussion style to implicitly question the buyer intent or skills, it was very indirect but still there).
As a heavy Ruby user who is also regularly hiring:

In my experience it is still vastly harder to hire someone with any degree of Ruby exposure vs. PHP developers, for example.

Ruby is still a niche language.
At least mathematicas notebook-format and matlabs .m is plain text and in worst case readable enough to convert to another language.

Not being plain text is usually my biggest gripe with proprietary software, they don't cooperate with source control systems and are completely useless without the software.
Wow... Chinese people seem to be able to manipulate their market at will. I'd say the government has a bigger problem than a few people knowing about what happened 23 years ago.

What sane investor would put his or her money in such a market? They can make it change whenever they want... to whatever they want. Crazy.
This is just a transcription of a Google+ post. Is that really what ZDNet has come to? Can't even email the guy to get a quote first and pretend to be doing journalism?

(edit: fixed link:)
https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/UkoAaLDp...

FWIW: I'm using Gnome 3 and don't hate it. It's thrown lots of stuff out the window, but I find many of the new idioms pretty nice -- the vertically stacked automatically expanding virtual desktops are amazingly great, for example. And the things that don't work (the app launcher basically sucks, "app" switching instead of "window" switching with Alt-Tab is a total fail when you have a dozen console windows open, nautilus doesn't manage icons on the desktop...) are easy enough to configure around or ignore. The biggest specific complaint seems to be the very poor multiple monitor support, but I use a laptop screen full time and am not affected.
Counter example: Apple. Got through the last recession very well, exactly by focusing on building what people wanted.
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Update: there was actually a web font rendering issue on my machine. No web fonts would render at all.

Clearing the font cache as instructed here solved the problem.

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My point addressed the individual the parent quoted, who seems completely dismissive of the massive support structure created around her, by people she holds in contempt, that she calls "socialites". She claims that people without Aspergers are incapable of innovating, which is clearly arrogant nonsense.
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Right... that's what this seems to be. An organized collection of plugins. Or do I misunderstand it?
It's all fun until someone loses an eye.

What if i look at your API output and assume it's json (only got unique items) but it's rjson? Or whatever?

The most important thing when adding another layer to a protocol is identification.

So, please, put the whole altered object into a rjson root node so it's clear what we're dealing with.
I spend so much time arguing and thinking critically about things that I've made a decision: I'm just not going to question Paul Graham. It's not worth my time, he's right enough where it's probably not dangerous and let's be honest: we all need something solid to lean on. I've realized I've leaned so heavily on his advice up to this point, so I'm just going all in.
I work with David and he is totally awesome. He's giving a talk at the NYC.rb meetup on June 12 called "The Well-Grounded Nuby" which is an intro tour to Ruby. Here's the meetup link. http://www.meetup.com/NYC-rb/events/57344932/
Hugely disappointed that India is not among the countries Braintree is expanding to. People in other areas(like europe) have at least one half decent payment gateway provider. In India we have NONE.

This is the biggest payment gateway in India - http://www.ccavenue.com/content/pricing.jsp
they charge 3-7% and they suck. API docs suck, payments get timed out etc. There is an annual "maintenance" charge!

Developers (and users) are really fed up with the low quality of payment providers in India. - have a look at these

http://hackerstreet.in/item?id=9565

http://hackerstreet.in/item?id=14592

http://hackerstreet.in/item?id=6727
haha. Way better than saying I did a typo :)
My grandfather was a welder and had a workshop in the back of his house. He took pride in being able to build anything and not buy it from the store, if anything he owned ever broke he would hack it himself.

When I was a youngin, about 12, I used to watch him work for a few hours during the day then sneak back to the workshop in the middle of the night while everyone was sleeping. I would fire up the torch and start experimenting with all the scrap metals. Playing with a plasma torch at midnight with no supervision was probably very dangerous but it taught met the importance of being a builder in world of consumers.
Fact 1: Elon Musk helped found PayPal

Fact 2: Elon Musk is developing rockets, with hopes of one day sending people to Mars.

It is clear that Elon Musk is only trying to corner the mobile payments market on Mars. Don't assume Elon is too dumb to realize the market potential of an entirely new planet!
Also see http://oldcomputers.net/compaqi.html

Compaq couldn't just copy IBM's BIOS to make their new machine guaranteed IBM compatible, this would be illegal, and easily proven by IBM.

Solution: Reverse-engineer IBM's BIOS. Compaq used two sets of programmers - one group analyzed the original code and made notes of exactly how it responded.

The second group took these notes, and wrote their own BIOS that performed exactly the same.
Interestingly, that article is from January 2011. Off the top of my head, at least, I can't think of any apps that seem related to Google's reported mobile-app hiring spree.
On a slightly related note: Kudos to Linux Mint for showing the way forward. Thanks a bunch guys and keep up the good work.
I saw the inflation calculation in the Wiki tables. You could even argue that inflation calculation is low, and that inflation has been far worse given the price of gold / oil / housing over the last 30 years.

My point was: NASA is doing just fine. They're fortunate to still be getting that much money year in year out. It's a lot of money.
33million for async video chat color2.0 anyone?
Consumers don't buy SaaS products that cost more than $10 / month. Businesses regularly pay $30+ / month for things, it's way cheaper for them. But in the consumer land, cost is king 99% of the time.

Consumers buy Netflix for $9 / month, or Dropbox for $10 / month. Consumers don't buy $30 / month SaaS Internet services. Heck, the only "service" most consumers pay for that costs more than that is cable TV / high speed internet. They're entrenched with high prices, everyone accepts them. Newspapers have always been cheap, making them expensive now is not acceptable unless I'm really getting more of what I want.
I use Gnome 3 daily, and I have to say that some of the points do have validity.

However, it's only a matter of time until these minor issues are fixed, and I happen to think that the general design is excellent.
Well startupguild.net tried to be a community for startup founders but it doesn't always work. Yammer's platform creates to much noise and is constantly pestering you for attention.
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You have sufficient social acumen to understand that this comment is critical of you. Many people with Asperger's don't.
Good info, thank you both.
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> As I said, it depends on how restrictive
> a definition of ethnicity you use.

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in a rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean --- neither more nor less."

You appear to be choosing definitions that don't match those in dictionaries, but I'm sure they're perfectly cromulent.