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All I am saying is- the definition of a 'complex cognitive task' is highly subjective. And it depends on many other things.

To give you an example. Try writing code in Java these days. With Eclipse very soon(And trust me you will feel this in days) you will realize that you are hardly doing anything that is intellectually heavy lifting. Unless of course you are doing something that is totally new to your area of work. In that case its totally different. Which is the same case with assembly workers too(A totally new product unknown to you will be difficult to assemble).

But imagine doing applications which have nothing more than a DB interaction layer and some business logic. You can do this sort of a job for first 6 months of your programming career, and then you can have your muscle memory built to work with nearly auto completion method out there. Soon you will see that you will be doing nothing other than assembling already well known blocks of code without putting any sort of hard intellectual effort.

Rinse-Repeat this with a few domains/programming languages/architectures. Very soon you will find that you are doing nothing more assembling reusable blocks of logical pieces.

The only difference between hard labor and something like programming is the physical tiredness. This I completely agree with you that physical labor is more demanding to your body.

But other wise there is no reason for us to believe that the nature of our work is any different than anybody else.
This is a fallacy of the 'goods' economy. It goes like this,

"If something is free to reproduce and distribute, the marginal cost for an additional good is zero, so new entrants simply reduce the profit they take until the price of the good stabilizes at its lowest possible price (the bottom)"

The problem with this fallacy is that it doesn't capture the 'cost' of the good which involves creativity and implementation, combined with a system of copyrights. So while it may be true that a generic good like a text editor might reach a price point near the cost of maintenance, something like AngryBirds generates revenue over a longer life cycle. Things that people want, they pay money for if they cannot get value out of a 'free' offering. Capturing that value requires understanding a bit about what the actual user value is and how they weight it, but as we read in another set of comments about people weighing the pros and cons of an app vs plonking down $5 for a cup of coffee without even batting an eye, the market for coffee is mature, people know what they are going to get for their $5 so the value proposition is in the bag, not so with Apps yet, and perhaps not for many years yet. But that education process continues.
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I don't deny that simple 2d operations would be faster nor do I claim this to be a fast solution, I simply wrote the idea as it came to me and I have taken no time to implement it yet nor to compare it with other techniques in any detail. As always, thank you for reading and for your thoughts.
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Not really. When we interview, we look at more than just technical prowess. We want to find people who fit well with the organisation. In fact, being the best possible coder in the world is just unnecessary in what we do. Our interviews reflect that, and I think it would be naive to assume that other organisations don't also tailor their interview process to find the candidates with the best skill set - that means, four our software dev team, coding well but also communicating and presenting well (we have close relationship with our users, seeing them practically daily), writing documentation, training users, writing code that the rest of the team can understand and debug when they are on vacation or sick, without having to disturb them etc. At the end of the day, it isn't just about who can write the most brilliant piece of code....I'll take an average coder with additional skill set over a brilliant coder who grunts in the corner any day.
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>C is the Latin of computer programming. [...]

>C++ is more esoteric, significantly harder to learn, and not as portable....

Does that make C++ the Sanskrit of computer programming, then? :)

On a more serious note, I just found myself upvoting every single post that acknowledged the difference between C and C++. Why? Because they're very different (you can't even say C++ is a superset of C anymore), and using C++ competently requires knowing the differences. It always makes me think these posts that compare the writer's favorite language to this mythical "C/C++" language are written by people who don't know either C or C++ very well.

Edit for clarity: I note that the actual title of the post is "Is C++ worth it?" so the author doesn't seem to be making this mistake, except in one instance where he refers to "C/C++ programmers". In that case, he might actually be referring to "C programmers or C++ programmers," so I can forgive him the abuse of language.
>>Of course IDEs made certain things easier like looking up class/method/function names and their documentation but imho that's not the hardest part about programming.

I would say this is true for programming tasks that are new to your already mastered problem domain.

But please think about this. How many times do we ever face situations where we sit down to do things that are totally new to us?

Vast majority of the programming world really writes repeated patterns of software meant solve repeated patterns of problems. And that perfectly explains why Frameworks, libraries, IDE's are such a religion these days.

Most of 'What needs to be written' and 'How it needs to be written' is already figured out. Of course this is not true for tasks that are new and require you to think a lot.
Ah, ok. When we are signed in into multiple accounts, it allows us to select a specific account to sign in with.
Can you give an example of where the United States does better?
Too bad for Quora: https://twitter.com/benjamn/status/74191660543778816

> Ben Newman ‏@benjamn

> @yaaang Your sources are stale. We evaluated Scala, yes,

> but we are now 90% committed to Fortress, a modern dialect

> of FORTRAN.
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First of all we should improve our understanding about OsCommerce that Oscommerce is intricate software. So be clear first! Oscommerce is not complicated, not challenging and also not any hard thing. But OsCommerce is online software program for successful online store management which is based on PHP and MySQL and it is an open source software for online solutions.
Sure, but we aren't comparising pricing - we're looking at how easy it is to get started. You can go pretty far with Heroku free plans.
One of the most famous collections/frameworks for development and usage of (traditional) machine learning algorithms is weka [1]. It is written in java, and actively developed by the machine learning group of the University of Waikato. They also seem to have a forum to discuss, which should be a good resource given that a lot of their users are actually researchers.

The very same group is also developing another framework (also in java), MOA [2], that is oriented towards "big data": the algorithms used in there are specifically tailored for huge datasets and/or realtime (streaming) machine learning.

[1] http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/

[2] http://moa.cs.waikato.ac.nz/
On your #2: quite.

The kids here especially may not appreciate how far gay acceptance has come even in just the past 20 years. The progress from the Stonewall Riots (1969, NY City) to today is pretty staggering.
Could some animals have some richer emotions which we don't have? For example, some animals with Tetrachromacy can have a reacher color space than us. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy
I have no idea how it would be implemented (other than "some sort of web server plugin"), and I was thinking from the PoV of a web app, so ssh would (might?) be out of scope.

The concept was just that no request for paths related to logins or passwords would take less than an amount of time, eg. 0.1s or 0.5s. It could even just be a config option.

Configuring it at the firewall/web server side would be an easy way to make life harder for an attacker, without having to fiddle with (or even understand) the internals of a web app.
No. He's a madman because the media can't comprehend any other possible explanation. Breivik isn't a madman because it's Norway, and that's a long way away.

I'm sure the Aurora guy had his "reasons", just like Breivik. It all just relates to how we rationalise a position we don't understand.

I'd call neither of them a madman or terrorist.

To Add: I seem to recall there were media sources calling Breivik a madman (I helped keep the Wikipedia article under control at the time it happened and saw a lot of material go past). But they were less widespread because we could hang him off a political boom; right wing extremism.

But at the end of the day that was just Breivik rationalising what he did, to himself.

Same thing about computer games that came up at the trial; he played FPS's for a year to make him insensitive to killing. And he made a big deal about hating what he did.

Which one part of the media turns into "COMPUTER GAMES INSPIRE KILLER".

The reality of course is that it was pure narcissism; he played the games to desensitise him because, in the movie plot where he is the star, the games desensitise him.

Breivik builds a persona where he is the centre figure. Everything relates to him in some way - and killing those people "hurts" because that is part of the story. He still did it.

Good reading for this is alone's "The Last Psychiatrist" blog. This one is about honor killings but it touches on a lot of the same points: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/07/nobody_will_understan...

Ultimately the Aurora killer will probably boil down to narcissism too. But the media needs a neat word to rationalise his actions; in this case madman. Because he is white and well educated - so they cannot comprehend any other explanation.

If he were exactly the same person, but of muslim descent he would have been a terrorist.
Its not the business model that will change. The business model works, thats why there is so much competition in the gaming industry and lots of money being made. What will change are the types of games themselves. Because as competition increases, acquiring a user becomes more expensive, so the games will have to have different mechanics and be of higher quality to differentiate themselves. Your smartphone is increasingly becoming your new console.
Can I ask everybody here, why is it so prevalent in the Software industry? What other industry accepts crunch mode? I can think of only 2 (military, banking/finance) I mean, do the developers actually like it? Wannabe heroes?
This method leaves the minimum on the table in theory, so I see why you find it attractive.

But it also leads to the situation where people's compensation is mostly based on how good they are at negotiation, not how good they are at their job. I would argue that this is not only unjust, but actually in the long term poisonous to your business.

People talk. They compare salaries. If the results are out of whack with perceived contribution, people get upset. If they're the kind of person who wouldn't negotiate a higher salary with you in the first place, they simply leave the company. And you're out a valuable employee because you tried to screw them on the margin for not negotiating.

Not a quick effect, granted, but if you plan to operate your business for longer than a couple years it seems to be very important to me.
>>But then management expects 100% of people to be like that.

All management that I've seen dislikes people with 'distinction', 'rock stars', 'mavericks'... The reason is they make rewards inevitable.

The cult of management likes to believe in comparative rewarding. Its believed if all are same, no one deserves a reward.

Besides I've met a few managers who mark awesome performances as just 'meets expectations' because they expected you to be awesome and you were just that. So no reward for you.

Management survives on averaging and normalizing people efforts to minimize giving away of rewards.
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Whether it's purely emotional or a subconscious economic calculation, there's a big difference between work on something that you own and care about and work done because it's your job.
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>>Do you actually know what assembly line work is?

I know what assembly line work is, I did it once during my engineering college days for a start up. And yes I did it for a small company so we would generally test what we assembled.

>>That will give you a taste of how boring an assembly line is.

Trust me auto generating get/set methods, try/catch blocks, javadocs, mass refactoring, import/package statements, Generating design pattern templates and getting used often used Framework functions(And all this getting autocompleted) sounds very similar to writing 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' many times.

This is true if somebody asks you to check if you are writing 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.' correctly every time.
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Not to single jmillikin out but the fact that people like him work at Google and fail to consider being able to match a name to location (it's not that hard especially for people with a high amount of uniqueness) is what really frightens me.

Similarly with FB, even if we assume for a second that they are not overtly malicious, the fact that there are myriad reasons why using a real name is a bad idea but yet we are constrained by the life experiences of what is usually a pretty young engineer that has limited interaction with bad use cases. Brushing this off as not important as Zuck has is very alarming.
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http://cansend.com/

I've tried posting a Show HN - got 5 points, 1 new user, some feedback on my site's lack of info.

I've submitted it to the mailchimp integrations directory - got listed but no new users.

I've tried pitching it to startup people I know, website owners - I've tried pitching it at startup meetups, events - people think it's a cool idea but no one to actually try it yet.

I've also tried posting to programming groups, forum software groups...

Would be grateful for any good ideas
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Please provide citations for your assertion that solar panels require vast amounts of energy to produce.

When I looked into the question a few years ago, the best sourced estimates I could find put the EROI at less than two years.
> We're in the Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0 era relative to that. The arguments were the same "You can't make any money selling games, its too hard, no one buys them, the market is illusory." But the reality was that the market was developing, and during development early movers get an advantage but they don't necessarily win or even complete the race.

Indeed, the article's conclusion is flawed: the gold rush is not over. We blindfold ourselves with a scenario where a hypothetical gold rush would make every arriver rich, observe that it is currently not the case, and justify not trying our luck by saying that therefore, it's over and there's no use trying.

As long as there are constant or increasing numbers of people "thinking they're going to make $1b by making an app and getting acquired.", there's — by definition — a rush.
Yeah for sure... I just spent about 25 hours in a single weekend coding on my own stuff. And I feel great now. I had that high today, on a Monday! But even though games are somewhat interesting, it wasn't my main passion and I wasn't that good at it, so I got burned out pretty fast.

So bottom line is that it's futile for management to push people that hard. Some people love the problem and they'll put tremendous hours int oit. But you can't force that upon anyone.

On the other hand, perversely, I can see the logic to it. There are 20% of people who are running full stream and being super productive for 14 hours a day. Maybe you just keep everybody in the office so that those people feel like everyone is making a sacrifice too? If you don't care about burning people out, I guess it is rational to keep people in the office if only 20% of people get more work done, if those 20% would leave if everyone wasn't there.
This argument is used a lot and I don't really understand it. If you are really confident that Yahoo's stock will triple but you like Google better you could just buy shares (or options) to hedge that.
Thanks for the answer, yes, there are many factors to take into account, but ascribing the high homicide rate only to racial diversity seems reductive.

Consider this data[0], in the context of Europe: UK[1] has likely more racial diversity than Denmark and Latvia, but firearm homicides/100k people is lower (0.1 vs 0.3 and 0.2, US has 3.0 ).

I imagine that "black poor/uneducated/mistreated people are responsible for most killings", is actually the same as saying "poor/uneducated/mistreated people are responsible for most killing", it just so happens that (at this point in time) in the US this poor are black, while in other countries the social segregation goes around different lines (e.g. gipsies in eastern europe).

Decades of persecution may or may not matter, but those also seem a minor issue, as most countries have had high criminality among poor/uneducated/mistreated people before (e.g. italian immigrants in US beginning of 1900, "wops") even without a history of repression.

[0] http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/homicide.htm... I'm reading the 2010 or most recent column
[1] data for england+wales, not northern ireland, not sure why not scotland
I interviewed for an APM role in 2010, but didn't get the offer. So at least in terms of selecting people, I think the process is pretty standard.
There's gotta be a business here to lend immediately successful groupon victims money at a high rate before they go bankrupt for cash-flow issues.

I know it often "seems too good to be true" if a business tells you that it just needs a little working capital - but in this case they even have the collateral of the groupon money that will be coming in, which they can send proof of.

cash flow problems are situations where potentially an annual 200% interest rate is something a business would jump on: in two months that's only 33% interest rate with the alternative of losing everything due to their "great" campaign, and in this case they already have the money in accounts receivable from groupon.

a good article push with "how to survive a successful groupon campaign" that promotes the service ought to get some traffic.

on 'our' side, I need to point out that the high interest rate is not fleecing - really - as there is incredibly high immediate risk here, which is why the businesses can't simply get a bank loan. The point is that these are all-or-nothing situations that depend on cash-flow, and businesses have demonstrably nothing they can do. This market is not being served - there are no 200% interest rate loans for businesses that desperately need working capital at pretty much any cost.

so, the niche here is that a bank wouldn't look at the collateral of imminent groupon checks, but we can, since we understand the extent of the problem.

why not? is this a real market? doable? thoughts?
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Par for the course for the opinion/editorial pages of the WSJ. If they are this sloppy and dishonest on subjects one knows about, how can they be trusted on any subject.
> sparrow was able to become so popular because it's iPhone interface was so much nicer to use than both Google's and Apple's free alternatives.

Sparrow became popular way before the iPhone version. Anyway, how is making an app more convenient supposed not to be an improvement worth at least a couple of bucks?

BTW, "All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less."
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Customers are not screwed at all, Groupon will give them a full refund.

It's a shame he's putting the entire Blame on groupon and not taking any ownership of the issue. I wonder what he was actually expecting of the campaign.
ac.uk addresses are recognised now so I set a 'free forever' course up, added a YouTube video for students to see, created a couple of dummy students, and am now awaiting the confirmation emails for the dummy students so they know how to log on. The system accepts non ac.uk emails for students so I have used a gmail account, I hope this has not simply dropped into a black hole.

I started with a blank course because I learn by randomly clicking around and working out how to add things. Others may like the 'sample content' course with one of everything.

Some comments

- Fresh bright and nice looking pages, younger students will like it. As soon as I can get a dummy student account activated, I'll have a look at it on my phone, which is how teenagers access Web content on their own time (PCs are strictly College things, office appliances)

- Clicking on the YouTube button brings up a search box. There appears to be no place to put a direct link. I had to think of search terms to find my own YouTube videos! If there is a way of simply adding a 'share' link, can that be pointed out?

- email validation for younger students may slow things down a bit, teenagers don't do email much now, and they all seem to have hotmail accounts which get blocked &c. Our own Moodle server allows us to simply create the accounts and then give the student a link, username and password.

Has potential.

PS Free forever because no member of staff can commit the institution to any kind of liability without a lot of form filling.
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Maybe i'm out of the loop on this, but i've often wondered why people often take issue with Jeff Atwood. He has a pretty entertaining and well written blog, and helped put together Stack Overflow.
I don't think I trust any web site in that regard, though. I could even see Google yanking the floor out from under me as a consumer of one of their URL schema.
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The dutch government auth service (Digi-D) runs on it. So that's like 17MM people who have ID's there and login to do their taxes etc.
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Why? Fortress is open source (BSD-licensed). It'll continue to be available forever and as long as anyone is using it and interested it'll keep getting fixes and features.