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Sorry, gnome 2 was hardly 'easy', which is the bar that modern, commercial window managers are setting. 'Not hard' and 'not counter-intuitive' doesn't cut it any more for the bulk of users, who are less savvy than previously.

If there's one thing that Apple and even Microsoft are showing with their window manager and widgets, its that simpler is better, and we've been missing that all these years.
PS3 and Wiimotes would be relatively easy, as both are just Bluetooth devices and the OUYA has that built in.

Xbox 360 controllers would require either wired or the RF adapter that MS sells for PC use.
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Random, uncached reads on the same dataset as the 90/10 - 1.6M/sec, limited by SSD throughput. Cached reads (from the same dataset, with a different distribution of read keys) you can see on our website at 3.2 M/sec. I should mention that the test clients also run on the same cluster, and in that workload they are a significant fraction of CPU.

Read requests come to a storage server with a specific version number attached, so the storage server can reply authoritatively without any further communications. Starting a transaction requires selecting a version number for the read snapshot, and that incurs some latency to deal with the concerns you mention (but scales fine).
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Another fine example of an IMPLEMENTATION, not an INVENTION that should not receive any patents whatsoever.

Good work, of course, but, if you tasked any capable team of engineers to build a DC brushless motor as a retrofit into a car wheel this is what you would get. In fact, there are thousands of teams all over the world that could do this inside of six to twelve months with equal results.
> anybody who makes a living on the streets of the internet knows that Google is the most dangerous and rapacious company on the net.

I make a living on the streets of the internet, and could not disagree more with your conclusion.

You don't speak for everyone, because you certainly don't speak for me.
Or it may be just that it is worth criticizing?
I personally found Khan Academy lessons of very poor quality.
The point is it doesn't save overall bandwidth used, it saves bandwidth on shared/contended resources. If you have, eg a switch with 10 1Gb ports[1], and 1 1Gb uplink, and 4 of those are doing something intensive enough to saturate that uplink, someone who requests say, a full download of the gmail client, then it could go strictly across the switch to one of the other 6 local google boxes that has a cache of that, and at a lower latency and impact on other people than going to through the uplink to the nearest cache.

Now, this could also be done in the switch closet, you are right. However, since this would have to also go through either the uplink, or every switch would need a port dedicated to a cache network/box, it would start getting expensive at switching points. Each would start looking like a mini-data (micro? nano?) center. At that point, you could just eat that cost, or say "what are alternatives that cost the same or less in capex and opex?" Perhaps with Google's network-fu, they have solved similar problems in data centers already, and said "we can use our caching/routing stuff here, and put a small capex increase each customer box, which we also need no matter what, and decrease switching point capex, and since it is a simpler network, reduce opex too".

Essentially, it is a similar problem to the one bittorrent solves, just at a different scale/locality. It also starts to look like solutions some vendors/ISPs looked into at one point for bittorrent - instead of stopping bittorrent, keep a map of local people seeing segments and reroute requests for those segments to the local network rather than across the uplink.

[1] assume a decent switch with a full mesh backplane. Also assume real switches will be used with real numbers, not my exemplary ones - the analysis will be the same, but the numbers will of course be different.
I believe most of the poles are not AT&T's, but rather owned by the county and it's Board of public utilities. The combined power and communication poles have a standard fee for attachment. Google got a special deal to use the power area of the pole for free as part of their enticement. Labor cost is higher for the power area of the pole.

The AT&T deal is probably for just the odd pole where the communications approaches a building from a different path.
What kind of web dev experience do you have?
Actually there are also dedicated PS3 USB and Xbox USB controllers, most commonly used in tournament fight sticks.
To quote The Big Bang Theory:

Ex-Roommate: Run away dude!
Leonard : What?
Ex-Roommate: Run fast, Run far!

-- Series 3 Episode 22:
"The Staircase Implementation"

Between them they are asking for effectively all of the cash to be spent in a year (or less - "incidentals" add up quickly) at the end of which they can just walk away?

How much runway do you need? Much, much more than you think, and if you're getting 250K+ then you certainly will need more than 12 months.
On the Help page:

How long will the Free Internet service be free?

The Free Internet service will be free of a monthly service charge for at least seven years. At the end of seven years, we will begin charging the market price for comparable speeds—which, if Google Fiber is successful, will be $0.
Formatting for print? I assume you aren't talking about /actual/ printing on paper... the whole point of my question is that we need a new typesetting system for active and web-enabled electronic documents which provides as much control over the reader experience as PDF does, but is not tied to the print format and has new features which are now possible.
re: lottery, ha, I need to use that! He brings quite a few key contacts, however of course they're just as risky for not pulling through as the next. We feel that where we are today, we're not ready for hard sales anyhow.

Currently we have our POC for demos, pitch, etc. Enough to turn heads but not open wallets. Next stage is immediate ramping up on dev to get MVP sorted and do an official beta launch + be prepped for hosting, legal, IP and doing things at the right time. My fear is we'll run out of cash before we can get to that point. Thanks for the note varelse.
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From the article:

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"“I think frankly, the best way to do it is you put stuff out there and you see how people react to it; and we have exercises on our site too, so we see whether they’re able to see how they react to it anecdotally.”

Khan will put the video out there and see how people react to it. He perceives this to be a better approach than incorporating results of quality research projects into his instructional decisions. In the age of No Child Left Behind and its mandate for “scientifically based research” as the foundation for classroom instruction, this seems lazy."
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I was agreed with the author until I read those lines. In my opinion they are disingenuous at the very least.

Every teacher, even those ones with a high knowledge on PCK, have to adapt their content every year. They try with an explanation on a topic and see how students react and based on that improve the content for the next year.

That's exactly what Khan said he is doing, publish and see how people react to those videos. It might be harder for him to measure the content in comparison with an on site teacher. But saying that "Sal Khan is on record as dismissing this research" seems an overstatement to me in the best case.
Appreciate you're possibly joking, but the problem is that it is not possible to support the entire world in this manner.

Assuming we all share the goal of a famine free world, with its people living lives of relative equality, then the excessive consumption of meat in the west is a problem which needs to be addressed.

As the parent suggests, treat high quality meat like the luxury it is, and enjoy other foods instead. It's better for you, and better for your fellow humans.

I see a future where lab grown meat, and meat substitutes make up the majority of our consumption, and hand-reared, high quality meat is saved for special occasions.
You aren't giving enough details to make a reasoned decision.

What are the equity stakes? Does the CEO improve your chances of success far enough to compensate for the expense? If because of the CEO you can turn around and raise $250M, then yes the salary is justified. If he brings nothing, then its worthless.
it's a worthwhile goal, but feel if we're in the business of making fake food, why not make it as nutritious as possible too? Environmentally friendly should be secondary.
One could exploit the continuity of the image regions. (The similarity of neighbors in intensity and colors). Also the output is an image with the same histogram ...
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I'm in the same boat as ozataman, go feels like a huge step backwards to me because I use haskell. My interest in programming languages is roughly 0% academic in nature. I use haskell primarily for web development (also random stuff like parsing log files, automating deployments, etc). I use it for these things because the practical benefits of such a high level language are so good, using anything else is painful.
Gary Taubes, of course. This article says nothing about "killing" your organs. It simply mentions excess consumption raises your insulin resistance, which will be the case with overconsumption of ANY carbohydrates.
But just "putting the video out there and seeing how people react to it" isn't "scientific research." Science involves testable hypotheses and controlled experiments. Just throwing things against the wall and seeing which ones stick is something different.
I never understand this.

Why is sane defaults and hidden options a lousy user experience?
Would you invest in a startup where the CEO salary was that much? It's not the right thing to do by your current investors, and in my opinion it would completely put off any potential future investors.
Unless this person is amazing, I'd say quit your job and be the CEO, and pay yourself what you need. You're dev productivity will suffer as you're distracted by business activities, but it will likely be no worse than your current plan of being part-time.
I never said factory meat was good :)
there will be letters. and yes, O, U, Y, A.
http://cdn2.sbnation.com/entry_photo_images/4547820/ouya2_ga...
Also, unless you/re eating organic most modern meats could be considered highly processed. Chicken for example used to be a healthy meat, but now most of the chicken you'll find in supermarkets is a high fat food.
I don't think the fiber runs all the way to the TV box (someone correct me if I'm wrong). I have FiOS where I live and the way it works is Verizon installed an ONT (Optical Network Terminal) in my basement and then plugged the coax cabling into that box. It would be very expensive to rewire the home with fiber or even ethernet. Presumably if Google was building a CDN they wouldn't want to be reliant on standard wiring in their customers' homes. Also that sleek-looking TV box would probably have to be much larger if it doubled as an ONT (the one in my basement is huge). Seems a little impractical if my assumptions are correct.

Edit: I don't mean to dismiss your idea about the value of Google reserving some space on the disk for their own purposes. Cable & satellite operators already do that today. Technology exists for example that allows the operators to cache household-targeted TV ads on the disk. These deployments are still small scale but I think it's highly likely Google is thinking about such things as a way of monetizing their new network. If you're curious about this topic do a quick search on Google's investment in Invidi and on their partnership with Echostar.
If it breeds misconception, can you really call it education?
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That's the issue, he does not. He would start on this fulltime, but we fear he doesn't understand that Hustling with Angel $ to get to MVP != Hustling to close a Series B with positive cashflow. Case in point why we're unsure of intent.
I don't doubt it. They are probably just taking simple soy proteins and cooking them with whatever, just like we would cook meat. Not produced in some lab. I have nothing against this and appreciate it.
As*le are dime a dozen, why bother?
The author isn't Valerie Strauss.

"Decimals" is (in the US at least) a common way of referring to decimal fractions (that is, numbers represented like: 12.345) vs the whole number or integer representation that the students would already be familiar with (like 12) or other fractional notations like 6 7/10.
Appreciate it, thanks jgilliam
So who is making the site that will deliver more personalized instruction? Where is the research that site will use, telling all about which kinds of personalization are proven and how much effect they will have?
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One more anecdote for you... I'd been a content (if not exactly thrilled) user of Gnome for a decade or so. Then, I bought a new laptop, which prompted me to install Fedora 15, which was my first exposure to Gnome3, as my old laptop was running a really old Fedora version which had Gnome2.

So... after 2-3 hours of Gnome3, I had had more than enough to prompt me to bite the bullet and switch to KDE. There is nothing good I can say about Gnome3... trying to use it was painful in about every way I could imagine. Nothing works the way I expect, and nothing was intuitive at all.

KDE, on the other hand, has been a pleasant surprise. I'd dabbled with it 10+ years ago, but never made the permanent switch... and given that they had gone through their own "change everything and piss off all the users" thing a while back, I wasn't sure what to expect. But after using it a couple of days, I couldn't be happier. It took a few minutes to figure out some of the new approaches they've adopted but - by and large - a little trail and error, some exploration, and intuition, and I was back to productive work almost immediately.

I have no hard feelings towards the Gnome team or anything, but they're just trying to go in a direction that I'm not interested in. Best of luck to Gnome, but KDE is a clearly superior choice for me right now, and I'm thrilled to have made the switch.
This almost sounds too good to be true. I wish they would release more nutritional information about the "chicken." And give it a good name.
If they have all of that money for hiring qualified Linux talent, but they are unable to find it readily... why don't they start an apprenticeship style program? I know in the highly regulated nuclear operator field, companies setup schools, where students are paid to attend classes and if they can get their license, they have a paid position waiting. Why not something similar for Linux professionals?

I have been in IT for nearly 20 years and it is downright shameful how companies these days are willing to claim they will pay whatever it takes to get IT talent that doesn't actually exist, but would rather shoot themselves in the face before investing in training.
This could be because we have such low expectations of what actually counts as meat. For example, Jamie Oliver on how chicken nuggets are made (in the US) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2OK6xDd7Hs
I agree 200%. It also has a number of other nice side effects such as teaching teamwork/collaboration, etc.
I don't see how an individual teacher has the advantage. Most classes have a huge range in ability and any lesson must be suitable for all. A centralised system could (in my dreams) deliver more than one version of each lesson and determine (from their enormous amounts of data) which lesson each child will benefit most from.

Of course if I'm dreaming that much I should point out that with each child able to learn at their own pace a single physical classroom could hold many different levels of the same subject at once, with children from different schools working together...
Khan Academy is not the only game in town for math videos
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Web layout is nowhere near the kind of typesetting required for professional quality documents and books.

I am aware of mathjax, which is useful for embedding snippets, but this is still far from what I am talking about, which is a complete publishing system such as latex, as is used by publishers for all kinds of documents, but for electronic active documents with features that go beyond those of books and PDF.
No you can't. Facebook is still growing and still innovating. They have more user data and more user engagement then anyone and they're sinking their hooks ever wider via social widgets and authentication services. They haven't hit a wall yet, and there are still many potential areas they are well positioned to expand into.

Everyone is concerned that they are plateauing, but that's just because of the tremendous numbers they have. Just because they're running up against the limitations of human population at this time doesn't mean the product has plateaued.
Apart from having built my project's site, which was not a great deal, I'm working on an automation system on Rails 3.1 with a MySQL backend. I've also set up Redis as cache, but I'm planning to use it as a secondary storage as well.
This BPA system integrates with Google AdWords API to report statistics about ad campaigns (reporting is one of the app's primary functions), as well as APIs provided by our local Russian ad gateways. Front-end is on jQuery and SCSS.
In my university years I've been working on a task tracking system on Rails 2.0 with Prototype, but I eventually abandoned it, not having enough free time.
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Can the JavaScript elite please get together and make a decision on Backbone.Events vs. EventEmitter vs. EventTarget?

Also, I recommend everyone read TJ Holowaychuck's latest blog post[1] and lets start distributing these types of things as components instead of "frameworks".

[1]http://tjholowaychuk.com/post/27984551477/components
Good episode.

Correct on your math, my original co-founder who helped with the idea is only taking enough to focus full time. I don't need anything while I can manage, again to bank as much as possible. We're keeping costs to an absolute low to have as much dev $ as possible. My fear is obviously at that rate we'll be out of money before we can launch a product to sell. Thanks Colin!
Of course you can. But the poor support for lambdas and higher-order-functions makes comprehensions a worse-is-better solution, because you can e.g. pickle comprehension expressions (which you can't do for lambdas), and you don't need to import a module for reduce (in 3.x). I gave up on using them when I realized they were just too frictive (or that they were "un-Pythonic", if you prefer).
I don't get what your point is. This sounds like a ton of hand-waving with out any kind of science. Your argument is essentially "since it's not natural, it's not good". Google "naturalistic fallacy".

I am not claiming processed foods are good, they're just not bad. Someone who eats nothing but coke and snickers all day will be unhealthy, but that's more because of what he wasn't eating than what he was eating. It's not like eating processed food somehow destroys nutrients in your body.

Obesity is an issue because of overconsumption of food, period. Granted, a lot of the food we overconsume is processed foods. They're cheap and available everywhere. Corn is heavily subsidized which makes HFCS incredibly cheap.
Procrastination means absolutely nothing if there is good output. If you are not on the floor of some factory sweatshop, it isn't necessary to have continuous even output.

Procrastination can be managed. One can procrastinate on one task by carrying out another.

If I do not work for an hour and then make the perfect change, that's better than floundering for six hours.
Derek Muller of the YouTube science channel Veritasium did a TED audition wherein he discussed this: http://talentsearch.ted.com/video/Derek-Muller-The-key-to-ef...

He found that just showing a video of the laws of motion made people more confident of their answers on a physics quiz, but just as wrong. They would actually have false memories of the video confirming their prior knowledge. What worked was first debunking misconceptions and then replacing them with the truth, even though those videos were rated much more confusing.

We're not teaching blank slates, and if you teach as if you are, you end up with what you (and Derek) described.
You picked Go for the wrong reason then. Go is not about parallel programming, which SIMD and GPGPU programming is. Go is about concurrency and that is a completely different beast.

What Go is good for is a different thing. It is good for writing a webserver, which you won't really like to do in SIMD or on a GPGPU. The reason is that a webserver requires you to handle independent activity where things are inherently uncoordinated: while one client is connecting, the other is being sent data.

Vice versa, where Go is bad, is when you want to handle massive parallel computation where each computation is the same and you have to wait until all computation is done before you can continue. This means that you have a sequential program, you have to wait, but not a serial one, since all the computations could be executed on SIMD or a GPGPU in parallel.
"I can't believe it's not Chicken"(R)
They will pay whatever it takes* to get IT talent that does actually exist, at other companies.
So an article on the Washington Post site based upon a for-profit founder's nit-picking of Khan's materials is representative of the right way to go about improving what Khan himself says is an effort to supplement other educational methods?

There's a difference between constructive criticism that's effectively administered vs a publicly-rendered smear attempt that tries to hide behind pedantry.
Interesting point. Personally I think the challenge would open my eyes to a different way of doing things, however my other co-founder could easily lead us until needed as well. What I don't want is to be distracted more than needed to accomplish dev goals, as without a product to sell, we're not going anywhere..
Any potential CEO who asks for that kind of salary from a startup that may raise $250k soon is politely saying "No, you can't afford me."
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C is boring too, in all the right ways. I think Go could be what we've been waiting for: C 2.0.
Buy on bad news it says.
Every time i see such a huge drop for the FB stock i think to myself: Should i buy now - i never did.
And every time i see the next rock bottom i am glad i didn't.

I do believe though that FB has the potential for a lot more revenue just because they own the channel to their gazillion users. They just haven't figured out a good way, yet.
Get away from this kind of "Gold Digger"...you can't afford a 180k CEO even when you raise 500k.
Why is it so important to hire a CEO now? Just use your current resources until you get to a point where hiring a CEO makes sense.

You also should be careful from holding your day job - many employment contracts suggest that anything that you do while emplyeed can belong to your employer. (especially when you use your employer's HW/SW to create your own thing)