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RF receivers typically include a very narrow bandpass filter as the first component after the antenna

Historically true, but as ADCs get better (and more important, cheaper), that will be less and less common.

Software-defined radios with broadband front ends don't play by the same IMD rules as conventional radios, anyway.
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Would you rather have them go out of business than get acq-hired?
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Suppose there was a solution where google could spend 10 billion$ on getting guys on mechanical turk to perform microtasks to organize the knowledge graph and make 20 billion worth of knowledge for google in a year's time... would it make sense for google to spend the cash or are the tax laws so weird that it would make sense to still sit over the cash?
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I read it as 'organization'.
This way you have two forks to maintain which is a big headache.

Apple needs to allow app demos so devs can charge higher prices without scaring away customers and they need to allow for paid upgrades. The truth is that it's too hard to make money at app store prices.
A bit incredulous but bemused, I imagine. The world of so-called denimheads can be strange and fetishistic -- at its most extreme, it has a Zoolander Derelicte quality to it, where beat-up raw denim is left unwashed well-past its due date and the goal is to look like a merchant marine from 1920 or a railroad conductor -- but as someone who really loves his jeans, I can tell you that I derive a lot of joy from the fit, detail, style, and comfort of a good pair of raw denim that I've broken in myself.
The last company I worked for was Scribd, and we hired a lot of young engineers and paid them less than 1-2% equity and a decent wage. I guess one could argue there was some value they were losing.

HOWEVER, I can name 5-6 people who started their own YC company as a result of this. If those people had spent 4 years sitting at Google vs 4 years with us, they wouldn't have gained those same skills.

FWIW: I totally agree with the author about working too much. I genuinely don't understand what startup's obsession with working people to the bone is at all.
Why does it have 3 points. It's stale news.
I think the main thing is libraries. I was looking for graphical model software that supported DBNs once, and could only find Matlab ones. There was a python wrapper for one of the Matlab libraries but was not widely supported.
NADS - Non-Authoritative Data Source - a condition where there are multiple sources for the same piece of data, usually manifesting itself via the same data existing in 2 Access files and 3 different Excel files continually emailed around between people over years.
Thanks a ton. That is really helpful. I will see if changing to fixed width is feasible when string length is above a threshold.
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Actually it is not fixed yet, the patch was pushed to 9.3 and Alvaro is still working on it.

It has happened to us too, though it was very easily fixed in our case due to the excellent deadlock reporting. And I can also confirm that the case for Joel (the original reporter) is also a real world case.

Link to talk about it http://www.pgcon.org/2012/schedule/events/483.en.html

Edit: Not sure if I would call it braindead though. Highly annoying, yes. Alvaro has spent a lot of time into solving this, it is much harder than it initially seems.
Doug I know I'm just a silly fanboy -- but I'd be curious about what else you got to see at apple during that era, and any other insights you have on startups...
Also known as any t-shirt with a person's face on it? ;)
> When I purchase a car, I get the car I paid for in that current state, they wont 'update' it for free, nor do we as consumers expect that.

That's not entirely true. I buy a car knowing that if it needs repairs, I can repair it. Or at least go somewhere else to get it repaired. It will cost money, but so be it. I would not buy a car I had to rely on the manufacturer to fix. There are slow attempts at that in the industry, but by and large, cars are much more open than something like Sparrow ever was.

And yes, I consider carefully my choice in software the same way. I don't mind paying for software.

I also consider the business model. Does it make sense what they are doing? Does it make sense in the long term? Will they be around to support their own business?

The App Model doesn't make sense (and so I generally don't invest in it, at least for nothing critical).
Id tried phonegap in a project, completely disaster. Now in a new project for Android, we use the same concept as phonegap, a Javascript interface plus a WebView and JQuery Mobile with only the stuff that we need and we are having better results, although its not like a native app.
We use square for somewhat large (10k-15k) rental transactions. They have always been really accommodating and even when we were newly using them released our funds far faster than anyone else would. Great service.
Just curious - what type of app, and what is the nature of the alleged infringement?
> I'd have to follow a couple hundred blogs/microjournals.

RSS?
Is it not standard semver? What will node switch to?
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Let’s face it! The latest Google updates have caused hundreds and hundreds of pages lose rank. People are frustrated,
they don’t know which link methods are working for them now!
Many efforts have been spent on testing but none showing good results so far!
Being calm and silent, right after the PANDA 3.5, we have conducted several experiments on link building.
...and robust websites.
> Paying with a credit card at a restaurant always seems to take forever, I'd like to be able to spare some hassle.

I don't think Square is confined geographically, at least within the US, but I have my doubts will help with the "processing at restaurants takes forever" problem. Most restaurants who plan to take cards already have merchant accounts; Square is most helpful if your problem is "I'm a person or small vendor and want to accept credit cards from other people, perhaps even on-the-go."

(Or, if this Quora question is any guide:

http://www.quora.com/Square-Inc-1/Is-Square-an-unpleasant-pl...

if your problem is that you haven't been able to find a workplace environment that's sufficiently uncircumspect about its place in employee's lives and the world.)

I guess Square could be used creatively to solve the processing time problem: a restaurant could hand out mobile devices to all servers and just process customer payments at the table. There might even be incentives to do that: moving people faster means you can server a higher volume of customers. Whether that'd be enough to overcome Good Enough+Inertia is the question.
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Ran into one of these about a month ago. I was working with some sketch PHP that was resulting in a seg fault, when I attached xdebug and stepped through the code, it ran fine.
Because how are people supposed to know you are making a subjective/qualitative judgement? It's too easy to mislead people, and too many people profit from taking advantage of that.

A true argument can stand on its own.
I know that most people who you want to work for - the people that care for you as a professional will check out your website if you have one.

I say throw it all on a website with thumbnails, links and descriptions to each of your projects.

In your resume, put it in as an entry under 'experience'. If you want, make it your top entry - call it 'ongoing projects' if they're ongoing. A short description with what the projects are and the tech used, along with a link to the site.

Also, under your email address in the contact info on your resume, link to your website.

This should pretty much cover your bases.

I hope that helps.
IT hardware doesn't seem to have a good track record in recent history. Elevation threw a lot of money at Palm, Palm delivered an excellent OS and phone (and finally tablet), and yet they weren't able to achieve the market traction they desired.

On the other hand, everyone I know with money outside of Silicon Valley seems to be investing in LED lighting companies.
Why Hackathons?
I manage to-dos using https://www.cosapien.com It also manages what other people have committed to-do for me, with built-in quality control.
They do a lot of research and they push things forward

Indeed, Kaspersky is superb. And if you're in the US, I have another reason to recommend Kaspersky: It is most unlikely that US law enforcement agencies such as the FBI could convince a Russian AV company to whitelist FBI spyware.

Nor will the Russian government cooperate. Can you imagine the Russian government saying to Kaspersky, "Yeah, sure, ignore the FBI's trojan horse, don't flag it".

Of course the Russian government would have leverage to plant its spyware in Russian-made AV. So you would think that buying Russian vs buying American makes no difference. Not so! Think about motivations: If you're an American, the Russian government doesn't care if you cheated on your tax, if you downloaded Hollywood movies, etc.

Buying your security from a different jurisdiction is a way to minimize risk.
"Heisenbug" as a term has been around for a while. It's one of my favorites, too -- despite referring to possibly my least favorite part of programming.

Timing-related errors make the worst heisenbugs. I had one once where pausing through the code caused the code to work, so I cobbled together a quick debug logging facility for it, and that still caused the code to work just fine. Anything that altered the code by more than a few milliseconds of execution time caused it to work OK.

I stared at it for a while and then rewrote the entire block in disgust.
Well, sure, I paid $20 or whatever for Sparrow (twice, actually), and I get the impression that tons of other people did too, but it didn't make much difference, did it?

And it never will -- there are always going to be developers who are in it for the money and will leave you high-and-dry (which is heartbreaking, in a very-small-violen way, but fine).

My own takeaway is if you don't want your apps to disappear, use open source apps.

(Except for some reason, open-source apps seem to tend to be terrible, UI wise. Not sure why this is, though I have a couple half-baked theories.)
... i forgot to add -- it is also useful to me because it integrates to do with our meeting minutes
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I have a bachelors degree in IT (Computer Information Systems). While I love computers I am fascinated with really making things. I have read a couple Arduino books, and built quite a few projects with Arduino, some from instructions some of my own doing.

However, in my most recent project I feel like I have started to reach the end of basic electronics knowledge. I know that many people spend their entire academic career studying electrical engineering and that it isn't something I can teach myself overnight.

That being said can any EE's out there recommend a good primer on the basics (beyond just circuits and the other super basic stuff) of electrical engineering? Whether it be books, web resources, online classes, or anything else I would be very interested, and greatly appreciative.

Any other electronics/Arduino hackers out there? How did you teach yourself and bootstrap your projects? I'm interested in any and all information.
in some ways, a perpetual unrestricted license is better than an unpatented algorithm. The big excuse for not adopting webm was "uncertainty" about the patent situation. If skype has the patents and is giving free licenses, there isn't any uncertainty here, you know that microsoft has no basis to ever sue.
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This is more of a general thought rather than a specific comment on the article.

It occurred to me that other day that one of the best things Apple could do for both developers and end-users is to do away with the whole business of "Lite" apps.

What I mean by this is that iOS users should be able to download and use any app prior to purchasing it. The developer would determine the trial period. The developer would also decide if you get to try it on both an iPhone and an iPad or if you just get to check it out on a single device. The OS would enforce the mechanism and keep everyone honest.

Once the trial period expires you have to pay for the app or it auto-removes itself. Of course, you can always go back to the app store and purchase the app to get it back.

What I would hope this might do is create a situation where one could price apps at a higher level right from the start. There are lots of apps that are not even worth $0.99. I've certainly purchased a number of them. At the same time, there are apps that are grossly under-priced. The problem is that it is tough to get people to spend money on some of these apps, particularly if they've been burned by paid apps that are crappy. An OS-enforced trial-period mechanism might allow developers to do quality apps and charge accordingly. It would also allow users to really explore and find exactly what they want without having to waste money.

Having said that, my gut feeling is that Apple makes a ton of money from crap apps that go for $0.99. People buy them to try them out and, because they are cheap, don't really get too worked-up about them afterwards.
I think this is a pretty good summary of what Hackathons are all about. Sometimes they are crappy and draining, but when they work out, they are absolutely awesome. Those awesome times more than make up for the bad ones (If you get the chance to have one).
I don't have a particularly strong opinion on this one way or another, but I lean towards the side of less strict moderation, and I think that very metaphor fits my reason why:

For me, one of the biggest advantages of the college classroom over the high school one was that digressions, side topics, and open-ended discussion occured far more frequently in my college classrooms than in my high school classrooms. Think of it as the difference between being taught to a test and just learning things. There still needs to be some moderation so that things stay focused overall, but often those side trails spark some really interesting, useful discussions. Education doesn't have to be narrow.
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Was the intent ever not to get talent acquired?

I'm very confused by all of the anger at Google and Facebook for acquiring these companies. The companies look like they were designed to get talent acquired in the first place! They both have very small teams (2--5), Sparrow at least appears to have taken very small amounts of funding (just seed a year or two ago), and I can't name a consumer desktop application (especially a really generic one like mail with tons of free competitors) that has become a major $1bn+ (or even $100m+) business in the last several years. There probably aren't enough eyeballs for ads, and App Stores have made consumer software cost expectations too cheap. What's more, Sparrow is pretty much designed to make Google's offering better.

Is this interpretation wrong? Could these small teams have built independent companies (rather than attractive teams for talent acquisition) on Mac desktop software in 2012?
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No more updates, it could stop working anytime (like next week) when there is a new OS release.
Actually Larry and Sergey tried to sell to yahoo. They declined.
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1. Whether a product sells out or not means very little. It could be really popular. It could be bad sales forecasting.

2. The Nexus 7 is only reducing number of Kindle Fires from 14 to 12 million. Not that huge of an impact.
A lot of the job postings to me from YC startups seem absurd, since a lot of them seem to be looking for "expert"-level roles. For example, a lot of them are looking for a "growth engineer." My interpretation is that they're basically saying, "We have a cool product and anyone that hears about us seems to like us, so we need someone that can write code that will help more people hear about us."

Or, more generalized: "We have some huge thing we want to do, and can't do it ourselves, so we're looking for someone that can pretty much just come in and do it for us."

And all the postings offer in terms of describing/selling why such a immensely talented individual would work for them is: "We're reinventing the future of everything, we work hard and play hard, we can offer competitive salary and equity."

The OP seems to feel this is borne out of some sort of maliciousness, but I really think this is mostly just cluelessness. When you get a little bit of traction and you have a little bit of money in the bank, and you're trying to go even faster and you have 20 major initiatives you want to do and you can only work on like 2 at a time, it's easy to conclude, "We need to hire! We love our company, this is so much better than working at some corporate stuffy job, why wouldn't anyone think the same?"

Most of these companies would probably just be better served forgetting about hiring and building out the core product until they have more product-market fit, so they have enough revenue/funding to compensate employees closer to their talent level, and have a "popular" brand that people would want to actively work for.

Unfortunately this would mean delaying that 3rd party API, or porting your applcation to iOS, or started using SEO/SEM to drive some traffic, which all have huge learning curves that are tough to navigate while you have a ton of other things to do. But if they were THAT critical, I would suggest those startups prioritize them over those other things and doing it themselves.
To some (significant) degree, but you never know that no one else has patents on a technology. That's exactly what is so messed up with software patents.
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What about buying it for what it "should be"? Sparrow for Mac has some annoying bugs that now will never get fixed.
I am definitely happy for them. Because, after all, we all work for making impacts. While sparrow is already making an impact on people using Mac and iOS devices. It is only a subset of people that can be benefit from their effort. But joining Google, maybe they get to improve the Gmail experience for everybody. I think this is the most logical thing to do.
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In just a month or so I've already found myself developing an almost habitual response to Kickstarter software things posted here. Like you say, there seems to be a pattern of trying to cash in.

I see an interesting title on HN. I visit it and start reading. I start reading the copy and see some interesting screenshots/mockups, keep scrolling, and then realize a bit later that there isn't actually anything ready for me to try out, but they want me to give them some money.

Then I close the tab.

Very few of the software projects I've seen linked there have seemed interesting or novel enough for me to care to put up some cash up front. There are tools that cost hundreds of dollars out there that will let me try them, fully-featured, for free. These guys want $50 for beta access or $100 for a full license for something that doesn't exist yet?

It's probably somewhat irrational, but I'm even more annoyed by the ones with real slick demo videos and such. Why not put the time spent making that towards making a product I can actually try?
This was one of the most incoherent articles I've read for a while.

Basically all he has said is that iCloud doesn't work and Amazon/Google does. But with no specifics or evidence to back it up. iCloud comprises quite a lot of parts e.g. mail, calendar, contacts, photos, safari etc. So all of them don't work ? Because pretty sure a LOT of users would be complaining if they didn't.
How Google and Facebook turn cool startups into toast.
I'm aware this is a very meta comment only tangentially related to the article, but the font used is terrible. Who though having humongous descenders on 'f's and 'f's only was a good idea?
isaac likes semver - so probably that
How long until they buy Collections or RocketDocs?
Well it's good that these developers have you to plan their financial futures. It'd be a shame if nobody was looking out for their interests.
Critical bug? You are running a beta version of iOS which you shouldn't use todo real work - its hardly critical if the software isn't finished yet!
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"Yet - Google and plenty of other big firms have done a terrible job at harnessing the talent that young entrepreneurs have."

The biggest blocker is scale.
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I hope it's not an Old Boy network. 15 years imprisonment in a shitty hotel room is more than I can handle.
You don't? You don't get to abandon your users? Not without repercussions? What repercussions would those be, angry anonymous message board guy? Are you never ever nerver nenver neva-neva-nen going to hire them or buy their products again?

"Free market BS". Because I think a $9.99 mail client sale doesn't make a developer your indentured servant.

I think they'll be fine.
... and I can't name a consumer desktop application (especially a really generic one like mail with tons of free competitors) that has become a major $1bn+ (or even $100m+) business in the last several years.

Exactly. An "exit" can mean a lot of different things depending on the company, situation, financials etc.
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"Thanks to all who helped on our jorney" is a good one too.
Honestly, I feel like I got burnt for paying for Sparrow. I finally bought the desktop and iPhone app in an effort to fund a great product, but then Google swoops in and essentially killed it.

Its really ashamed to see such a promising product get sucked inside the bowels of Google.
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Let me know if you can read this?
Yes. Operation Fast and Furious.
When they say perceptually lossless, by whose perception do they mean? Some definition of the average human?
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