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Samsung sues Australia's patent commissioner over Apple row
There was recently a company that did a line with the same basic concept: http://weareultra.com/projects/ultra-10/

The idea is that 10 pieces of clothing could mix and match to last you an entire year.
Seems to me they are being hipster - the opposite of true cool. They're grasping at straws - whatever seems to be hot.
I'm interested in how you mastered algebra at 4. Were you already strong at arithmetic when you got the algebra book (and algebra was just a continuation of your already acceleratd progress) or was algebra just very intuitive and the start of a great math career?
Nah, you just a) have to make the call to an authentication function twice (first call sends the old hash hashed again into to the new system, then if that doesn't auth, call the old system), b) set up a migration that inserts the old password hashes into the new system. The new system hashes that data for you.
I learned the hard way that linen trousers, if they're satin lined, are definitely not comfortable on hot days. Doh.

One thing there's still a dearth of in the marketplace is men's trousers with stretch. I had a pair of gray stretch cotton/spandex (~5%) slacks from Banana Republic 8-10yrs ago that were absolutely perfect for anything, but haven't found much else similar since.

Imho, a simple wardrobe is great but being able to execute on the plan depends wholly on one's lifestyle.
Don't forget IE9, the first browser with a dubstep commercial! http://youtu.be/7u2KN_Q0sy8

But, really, cool? Microsoft is trying too hard. Watching their videos is akin to rogue state propaganda. Does anyone really believe that IE9 is the "coolest" or "most beautiful" browser ever? (Let alone that being an important metric at all.) It's unfortunate that Microsoft thinks we'll actually believe this stuff.

On the other hand, props to them. I wouldn't have known about Alex Clare's "Too Close" track without that commercia.
Uh... perhaps since we have huge gender gaps in STEM fields, such a quotation by a female high school student is especially alarming?
Thanks for this. It's not the 90s anymore, that's for sure.

I just tried my age-old adage of doing bit shifts and adds instead of multiplications. Turns out that's slower on an i7!

The cool thing is that llvm-g++ actually recognizes my bad hand-optimization on -O3 and fixes it.

Code at https://gist.github.com/2896137
Yes it's odd how afterwards there were no terrorists, they had been no civil war and yet a few politicians an arms length from the Armalites all got Nobel Prizes for solving a problem that never happened.
I was explaining that the common argument (curved mirrors cause mistakes) doesn't make any sense (because other mirrors also cause mistakes) and how that argument could lead to a law anyway (because people are very used to regular mirrors and the mistakes they cause). You're reading a judgment into that, but I don't think I wrote one.

I don't condemn anyone for taking decisions based on what seems to make sense, when the stakes aren't very high and in the absence of anyone telling them otherwise. We can't expect decisionmakers to be experts in everything and we can't expect them to hire experts for every little detail. As long as things get changed when the facts are presented, I'm not complaining.
It's important to find a reviewer you can trust in an area. I used to like Ben Kuchera's video game reviews at Ars Technica, Anandtech for hardware and Geek Brief (now Geek Beat) for random gadgets.
It's an up-front investment in time that pays off over the long run. I do it all the time in programming, pick the right API's and abstractions ahead of time (spend a good amount of energy and time) so I don't have to spend as much time and energy later. Eventually it pays off--a lot. If you think how you dress doesn't affect how people treat you in the world, you're terribly mistaken. Even more if you are a woman.

This is a nice hack.
My favorite part about the benefits of learning to solve problems rather than memorizing skills for a particular section of a book at a time:

> When they had been at school, their social class, as determined by their parents' jobs, were the same at both schools. But eight years later, the young adults from Phoenix Park were working in more highly skilled or professional jobs than the Amber Hill adults... 65 percent of the Phoenix Park adults were in jobs more professional than their parents, compared with 23 percent of Amber Hill adults. In fact, 52 percent of Amber Hill adults were in less professional jobs than their parents, compared with only 15 percent of the Phoenix Park graduates...

Students at the school that that taught problem solving rather than memorization continued math education in college because they enjoyed it, leading 65% of them to get better jobs than their parents at only 24 years old. On the other hand, the majority of students at the traditional high school avoided math in college, and chose "less professional" jobs than their parents at 24. Over their lifespans, I can only imagine the disparity increased...

> Which statement would give you more pleasure? "Because of good teaching, my child scored 79% on her last math test," or "Because of good teaching, my child has a much better job and leads a far more interesting and rewarding life than me."

The author mentions that even the best students at traditional schools had trouble on tests since they practiced the skill-of-the-day on assignments, leading me to believe they would show remarkable improvement on standardized testing in a new curriculum. Maybe the author believes that testing students after-the-fact is not as good a use of taxpayer money as providing resources and education for teachers to change the curriculum would be.
You probably don't need to deprogram anything.

A problem that you are motivated to solve is a good idea. Because it provides clear motivation. If such a thing isn't forthcoming, maybe think of understanding the concepts as the problem to solve (which is pretty wishy-washy, but it is likely going to be a difficult task if it isn't providing any satisfaction).
Hummm, that does look pretty similar, and they're charging a fortune! Weird.
A hoodie? In my book that is _very_ casual. I would only wear one on a fishing trip or some other private activity where the risk of bumping into work associates is minimal. A cardigan would seem like a better common denominator between dress codes.
> I though everyone with respectable opinions thought it was handled exactly like proper scientists should have handled it.

Not all criticism towards science comes from people with respectable opinions. In fact, most criticism towards the scientific community comes from people who have nothing but the most tenuous grasp on what science actually is and, more often than not, to defend a specific agenda.
I like the 'classics' section in the Hacker Newsletter especially when I'm working on new projects that are related.
Exactly! You were fortunate enough to realize this during your course itself. But a vast majority of students never stumble upon this revealation and treat Maths as another chore that needs to be done with.

The insight you described is what Math classes should be about, not practicing problem after problem without any knowing what or why.
You probably weren't around in the 90's and didn't see the damage done to the market by Microsoft. It's not about Microsoft "being sued" or making a "closed platform". It was their pushing IE4 as part of OS updates to kill Netscape. It was about cutting a sweetheart, loss-leader deal with AOL to replace the browser in the biggest ISP in the world. It was about shipping a mostly compliant Java 1.1 implementation and then refusing to update it, basically breaking Java in the browser by default (applets written for the Sun plugin would run and fail). And after achieving market dominance in browsers, it was about sitting on the technology for years, providing minimal updates and no standards work while competing browsers struggled vainly to move the technology forward (all done to try to kill off the "web" as a platform, of course). It's about releasing a completely worthless "XML" document format based on undocumented binary legacy stuff, and attempting to bribe and cajole multiple standards bodies into endorsing it.

MS is not a nice company. But they've maneuvered themselves into a position where they are no longer dominant, and are having to compete on technology. So they certainly seem nice enough now (and they did in the early 80's too). But I don't trust them; the culture is broken and evil.

(Edit, because some of the responses are conflating the issues: to be clear, I don't think Apple is a "nice company" either. But their position and dominance today isn't nearly as damaging as MS's was in the 90's. I worried for a while that it would be, maybe 2 years ago, but the truth is iOS has very robust competition, and is actually losing market share slowly. I'm not worried. Let Apple be evil as long as it's within their own universe and not affecting the market.)
It sounds like this is more of a tarrif issue attempting to balance trade issues more than a straight tax. As such my hunch is this isn't going anywhere.
And isn't it that countries would be allowed by the UN to tax US companies to fund network build-outs? That is VERY different from the UN taxing anyone.
I'm working on this too but more from the puthison.com dressed-up angle.
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I was hoping you'd find the secret to time travel.
Is this something new? Microsoft has almost always supported popular platforms other than their own if they think they can make a few bucks off them. There are a whole bunch of examples for this including Office for Mac, IE for Mac, Hyper-V support for Linux, OneNote, Bing, On{x} for Android.

Of course you can ask why is there no Office for Linux? I believe the answer is more simple than "EVIL M$'. It takes a huge amount of effort to port Office to a new platform(remember how Chrome faced a bunch of issues with Desktop Linux), and MS probably believes it is not cost effective since some of Linux' users want nothing to do with Office or any MS product anyway. If Linux breaks 10% of user share, maybe you'll see Office for it. There are very strong rumors that MS is going to launch Office for iPad at the same they're going to release Windows 8 and Windows RT tablets with Office, which is going to one less reason for users to buy a Windows RT tablet over the iPad.
Yes, but those guys are losing the eyeballs of the masses with the borderline-fake SEO-oriented reviews. As the OP states, if the trend continues they will disappear.
The GSM Galaxy Nexus I've seen had a 1900 mAh battery.
Vint Cerf usually wears a three piece suit as well. It's a bit of personal branding, plus he just likes wearing them. More importantly, perhaps, the look helped him in the past when dealing with (D)ARPA, military and congressional types, etc., allowing him to propose radical things. He wouldn't have been able to get away with that unless he looked sober, conservative, and respectful.
also, apparently the whole goal of this is so that you don't have to stress about clothing. I don't wear the same thing every day, and reading that blog post was the probably most i've ever thought about clothing in my life.
Stupid...for the last 15 years I've worn a black tshirt and pair of jeans every day....every 6 months or so I replace the tshirts and buy a new pair of jeans...
Mainstream Apple Computer. MAC.
Thanks for the feedback, I've reduced the height of the maps.
Microsoft has been working towards cool for a few years. All they need for me to never move away is a native POSIX shell.
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I love chinos and a good pair of Levis. Great recommendations.
But... Did the first officer concurr???
I have improving the search interface high up on my list of things to improve. You can search by word and an advantage of our system over other more general marketplaces is that you can specify your vehicle which returns results that are only applicable to your vehicle so you're not browsing through hundreds of parts for Civics.

The digitized diagrams can be done, and I've seen it from a few dealers. But I believe the diagrams themselves come from the manufacturers, I'm unsure if it's available to third parties. I'd like to look into this in the future though.

My marketing plan for integrating with the forums is mostly a direct selling process at the moment. I'm talking with a few forum owners, have relationships with a few others and I am attending ForumCon next week to learn more about the community. I posted the link below but here it is again, this explains the integration itself a little better: http://partners.styckyd.com
I don't see how SEO is to blame for this. Shitty publications will always write inaccurate, linkbait headlines...or "eye-bait", before the Internet existed.

This gives an opening to sites that put real work into their editorial content. Unless I'm trying to get a gauge of some random non-heavily-promoted product (like earphones) that I find on sale...I will always go to a trusted site for review. Life is too short to parse through random reviews from untrusted parties as it is, even if none of them are "fake" reviews.

EDIT:

Here's an example. DPReview is almost always the last major reviewer to cover a camera. Yet they are at the top of the search results for pretty much every camera they review

https://www.google.com/search?sugexp=chrome,mod=0&source...
How does static typing help that?
Have you tried PowerShell? That's exactly what it's meant to do
Well, provided that this doesn't need to be highly secured. You could base invite keys on some property of the verification code. For example, you could design a system where a code is valid if the sum of the first five digits is equal to the product of the next three digits.

A system like that is easy to code and requires no database. The downside is that your would be relying on security by obscurity. For something like an invite system that may perfectly acceptable.
I was just doing a write up on swapping auth back ends to gain more security http://schneems.com/post/24678036532/zomg-my-passwords-are-i....
>Really I just think this is a knee-jerk reaction. I think Microsoft is really trying and people are just gonna hate

I'm really having trouble crying any tears of sympathy here. When you behave in a harmful and unacceptable manner, you have to be on your best behavior for a long time before people can trust you again. That's just how it works.

>P.S. I still can't dual boot android on my iPhone, so why is Apple any better? Apple is a closed system, more so than Microsoft.

Who said anything about Apple? Why do people always bring up Apple when anyone says something bad about Microsoft? Yes, Apple is hurting the software world with their practices. That has no bearing on whether Microsoft is too.
Not sure what's going on with you but I didn't have to login again.
As far as you know.... but how do you know?
Well, definitely real-world tasks with focus on usefulness and other practical concerns. Ideas would be:

- Implement a parser for some protocol/data with testing, etc.
- Implement a communication protocol/framework/driver/API
- Implement a sophisticated-enough simulation for a real-world question you're trying to address certainly with some calculations inside.
- Implement a game AI as defined by some spec
- ...
> Perhaps I just am not familiar enough with what they've done to harm OSS.

That is probably the case. They've done a lot of harm to OSS and the technical community in general:

- OOXML vote stacking,

- Patent suit threats chilling effects against virtualdub

- Vague FUD claims against Linux infringing on intellectual property, never substantiated

- Extortion of fees from handset producers for using Android

- Disallowing dual boot on Win8 ARMS (and that goes some 15 years back - and was one of the ways they killed BeOS)

- Refusing to support ISO standards (like C99) and IETF standards (until they were forced to by dwindling market share)

It is my impression that Microsoft has repeatedly shown they will not act antisocially only when they have no other choice.
90% of this equation was that the dude knew science and math. When an app on my iphone can tell me when and where and how to stand and setup my gear, I'll hand over the reigns to it being the hardware that made this photo happen.
Solid advice
He lives in Austin as far as I know. So, yeah...not sure how he does it in August, or May for that matter (though this May was nice).

I love my city but two things I can never defend: the heat and the traffic. Aside from that it is heaven on earth.
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Or maybe just "malign" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/malign#Adjective
I'm always amazed that a country which refuses to properly educate its people in math and science is able to pull off technological feats such as jamming GPS and distributing malware.
I've Silvanus sitting in my shelf, but am yet to look into it yet.

A couple of recommendations (not specific to just Calculus):

- What is Mathematics? (Courant http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Elementary-Approach-Ideas-...)

- Calculus (Apostle http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Vol-One-Variable-Introduction...).

- Mathematics from the Birth of Numbers (http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Birth-Numbers-Jan-Gullberg...) This book was written by a Swedish surgeon without any background in Mathematics. He started working on this when his son started attending university. A recommended read.

- The Calculus Lifesaver (Adrian Banner). This book is supposed to be a guide for students to crack their exams. But I found the book surprisingly informative. http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8351.html

- Godel Escher Bach. I've read only the first couple of chapters. My interest in mathematics was rekindled to a great degree by Godel and the Incompleteness Theorem. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_G%C3%B6del#The_Incompleten...)

- http://us.metamath.org/. The concept alone makes me happy! Metamath is a collection of machine verifiable proofs. It uses ZFG to use prove complicated proofs by breaking it down to the most basic axioms. The fundamental idea is substitution - take a complicated proof, substitute it with valid expressions from a lower level and keep at it. It introduced me to ZFG and after wondering why 'Sets' were being taught repeatedly over the course of years when the only useful thing I found was Venn diagrams and calculating intersection and union counts, I finally understood that Set theory underpins Mathematical logic and vaguely how.

- The Philosophy of Mathematics. From the wiki: studies the philosophical assumptions, foundations, and implications of mathematics. It helped me understand how Mathematics is a science of abstractions. It finally validated the science as something that could be interesting and creative. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philosophy-mathematics/

I think the Philosophy of Mathematics should be taught during undergraduate courses that has Maths. It helps the students understand the nature of mathematics (at least the debates about it), which is usually pretty fuzzy for everyone.
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Oh interesting, from memory I thought the GSM had a slightly smaller battery and I pulled those numbers from Wikipedia (they could of course be wrong).
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Ankit Ranka and I built this for ourselves and it was kind of useful, so we decided to package it up and see if others find it useful too.

Ankit is an avid reader, but never new what book to read on the weekend. I'm always trying to find a new movie on Friday night to unwind. I usually end up spending 30-45 minutes looking for a movie, and by the time I find one I don't feel like watching a movie anymore!

We built ScoutFeed to monitor our Twitter feeds and help us find books and movies that people we follow tweet about. It turns out people recommend apps and songs on twitter too, so we decided to include those as well.

Check it out if you have a second. We'd love to hear your thoughts on the project and look forward to your feedback after you get your first email.
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Well, if the author had tied that point into the article in some way, that would be fine. But he didn't.
For me personally, I found the way that math was taught in school to be completely disconnected with its purpose. There would be times where material was applied, but more often not. No other subject can get away with this. Music - instruments, scale and training. Art - painting, modelling and theory. English – writing, reading & comprehension. Science - hypothesis, experiments, conclusion. Most subjects have an execution factor.

If science fair projects or English class writing assignments count as "execution" then certainly solving word problems counts as "execution." None of those things have real-world value, except in the very rare cases of extremely talented students who write a publishable story or produce valuable scientific results. The purpose of English class is to develop skills that will be applied outside English class, just like math.

What I personally saw in high school was that teachers were pedagogically obsessed with application in context, exactly what you call execution, but were at a loss as to how to apply the principle in practice. A project to create "context" for solving math problems could take many hours of class time and result in students using math only a handful of times. Solving a particular math problem is rather like hitting a curveball or playing a piece on the piano. You have relatively few chances to execute in a meaningful context -- a few dozen times per year, if you're lucky. Those natural contexts are just not sufficient for developing skill. So skills are developed in artificial contexts: hundreds of swings in batting practice, hours of practice alone at the piano, and many, many math problems with no real context.

It's easy to provide imaginary context, of course. I'm solving for the side of this triangle because I'm building a bridge and people could die (or I could get fired) unless I can figure out how long this side is. People don't find that very compelling, and that isn't unique to math. Kids taking batting practice or playing etudes aren't immersed in vivid major league or concert fantasies every time they swing or strike a key -- a lot of the time, they're fighting with their minds to fully engage with the task. But they take it for granted that they have to practice to succeed, while in math we have almost reached an attitude that practice is inimical to understanding. It's time we admitted that math is just the same as any other skill: little understanding can exist without competence, practice deepens understanding, and the mind is not freed to combine basic skills fluently until the basic skills become second nature.

It would be nice if it were possible to create a compelling context for every practice problem, but it isn't, not any more than you can create a compelling artistic context for every musical scale or writing exercise.
Apple is fast becoming the new Microsoft. Unfortunately, we still have the Microsoft being the old Microsoft.

Don't get me wrong, I'm happy for the MS employees that they get to use git instead of svn/perforce/whatev...
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For those who have been inspired by this post and want to check out Apostol's excellent book, note that it is spelled that way. (It is a shortening of a Greek surname--Apostolopoulus, I think.)
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This is so true. Surrounding yourself with people who are making things happen is a sure fire way to get motivated. Not to mention, these are definitely the type of people you want to have around you when building a team. Very good post.