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I just finished Udacity's CS101 (Python). I've been thinking of taking a few more Udacity courses.

Anyone with experience with both -- Udacity and Codecademy -- recommend either one over the other?
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Fair point.

I still find it awkward and counterintuitive for most people as a pre-clickthrough button though.
It's hard to say definitively. I think it's mostly about installing well-groomed successors. Degrees, of course, have almost nothing to do with this; companies need a consistent philosophy to produce consistent results, and a CEO you hire off the street isn't going to do much unless your company is in full automation mode by that time. Apple definitely did the right thing to style Tim Cook as a Jobs protege. I'm not really worried that Apple is just going to lose its material edge overnight, but I think some may perceive things that way, and for Apple, it's all about perception.

Something like McDonalds, Wal-Mart et al was established as a cookie cutter, repeatable thing. People go there because they want consistency; they know what to expect. Their patrons aren't looking to have their minds blown or to become excited about their interactions; the most successful companies in the world are much maligned externally because they're seen as dry and exploitative, but most people still patronize them. It's not cool to like them, but they do very well precisely because of that predictability, that blandness.

Apple, however, lives and dies by its reputation as a visionary, an entity that is constantly breaking new ground. This is because owning a Mac is as much about the cult of Mac as it is about the actual benefits of the product. Apple isn't a cookie-cutter franchise; it needs to bring controversy and produce products that are radically different from the rest of the industry to maintain credibility. If that credibility as a visionary is lost, much of Apple's userbase comes into jeopardy, because believe it or not, it's still less effort for most people to use Windows. That will never change until OS X approaches 50% of the market.

For companies like this, the keystones of their cultural identity are the most important business assets to protect. Unfortunately, Apple chose to heavily exploit "the genius of Steve Jobs" angle while he was around (perhaps because it's much more difficult to propagate a narrative about the vision of a design committee than the vision of one amazing man), and now they're paying a price for it.

Apple may recover, and they have some usable momentum, but it's definitely going to take some oomph out of their sails because Apple's dominance is not based on the superiority of its products, but the culture and attitude around them. I think Cook is well-qualified for the CEO position, but imo the way to put this Jobs stuff to rest is to present Cook as a regularly ordained successor, tutored by Jobs, and to have him assume some very Jobsian habits that would make this externally visible (for instance, give Cook the same veneration and mystery that Jobs received while presenting at Apple conferences, make him the human focal point and the apparent origin of all innovations). To the people closest to Steve Jobs, this may seem a grotesque mockery, but if your whole company is based on the dog and pony show, you have to keep up appearances.
Interestingly, I was the one who lobbied Twitter (more specifically Matt Sanford of the search team) to make '$' a valid stop character for searching on summize/twitter search. You've been able to search $TICKER for 2-3 years now. The only thing Twitter has done now is linkified them like hashtags, and they only link to a twitter search of that ticker... so nothing really interesting yet.

I've also linked $TICKER from TweetGrid for as long, except my links go straight to StockTwits: e.g. http://tweetgrid.com/grid?l=0&q1=%24AAPL
I picked those examples because I figured most people are familiar enough with them. I'm in no way asserting that guerrilla warfare is a perfect method of fighting or that it somehow guarentees success. At best it's 60/40.

That being said, I'm not quite sure what you are arguing. If you are suggesting that the US was victorious in Vietnam you're missing the point. Winning the battle but not the war, as it were.

If you think Vietnam is too unique, feel free to substitute the boer war, the war in Angola, the soviets vs. the afghans, etc etc etc. It's not like there are a lack of examples.
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"The database, he said, has recently been used to investigate civilian deaths in Afghanistan and to judge claims by Iraqi villagers that bombs containing depleted uranium contaminated their water supply."

Wait, how about we have a "hackathon" to figure out ways to stops those bombs from being dropped in the first place! That would be totes awesome!
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#2 it's not that puzzling. Plain and simple most of us want RDBMS not NoSQL.

#2a they _just_ offer this (private/invite beta since last year). And no, I want PostgreSQL ;)

#3 In the past, JAXB doesn't work well, ditto with some of the reflection stuff.

List of unsupported stuff: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/wiki/WillItPlayInJa...

No JMX, JMS, JAX-WS (server), iText (PDF generation). Various libraries seem to require little "tweaks" here and there, no, I want to get it from Maven and be done with it.

The problem is keeping up to date with the latest spec fast enough.

I'm not looking for perfect though, I'm looking for standard JavaEE stuff.
To vastly (over?) simplify:

Interactive proofs can be used to prove you have a secret without divulging it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_knowledge_proofs) hence their mentioning of crypto.

These systems can be attacked in various ways, one of which is to use quantum entanglement. Edited to add: since the interactive proofs rely on probabilistically estimating the likelihood respondents can still be lying, quantum effects can be used to reduce the accuracy of these estimates. In this case, entanglement is used as a means of collusion between supposedly independent respondents.

What these researchers did was take an interactive proof that was already created to be resilient against these quantum attacks , and have demonstrated that it is in fact resilient against them.
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If Facebook has developed a culture of rampant ad-clicking to further some other cause unrelated to your advertising then those ads should be valued accordingly.

Imagine if in some Zynga game they had ads but rewarded users for clicking on them. Not interacting with, but simply clicking. Would you find much value in advertising there at all?
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But if the CDN is serving your static assets, your origin webserver only has to generate them once[1] to populate the CDN. It almost doesn't matter how long this takes. And this works well enough that you don't need to bother setting up an Nginx or Apache instance at all. And furthermore, you don't have to copy your static files anywhere -- just use your framework's built-in webserver for everything!

This greatly simplifies your production deployments and in my books that's a huge win.

[1] well... that fudges it a bit, since each POP needs to make its own fetch, and the assets can theoretically drop out of the CDN's cache; so the truth is actually "a handful of times" instead of "once".
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A perhaps too simple explanation that hopefully clears up a few things: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4315894
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The outage came shortly after pg retweeted (https://twitter.com/davidstamm/status/229926404333129728):

@davidstamm: In the hour of your death, you will not warmly recall the many hours you spent engaging in vitriolic debates on Hacker News.

So I just assumed the downtime was a social experiment. Maybe even a new circuit-breaker: when global thread sentiments get a bit too snippy, the entire site goes dark for a short period.
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You're still making the mistake of equating Computer Science as a college major with software engineering as a profession. The two are not entirely distinct, but very different. Their overlap is not large, and mostly consists of "coding".

Filtering for autodidact programmers will certainly find you people who've more strongly focused on programming, possibly on software engineering, than on computing science.

However, when you need someone to tell you how to build a filesystem that's redundant to the Nth degree or when to use a decision tree construction algorithm instead of a naive Bayesian filter for data classification.... you'll need a computer scientist, and you'll damn well call for someone with a degree.
Even then I find Chrome still caches. I've gotten in the habit of doing cmnd-shift-delete, which takes you straight to the clear cache settings. Sadly the equivalent command in Windows (Ctrl-shift-delete) does not work.

I still feel Chrome is the best browser, but that's more to do with the lousy competition than Chrome's own quality as of late.
If your entire business is based on searching another company's already searchable set of data by using the apparently ingenious method of prepending a "$" to search terms, and you've raised $8.6 million knowing full well that at any time said company who owns this data could implement such a trivial feature, then you're taking a stupidly ridiculous risk.

You can turn your feature/plugin into a company, but more than most startups, you should be incredibly wary of the prospects of those you're piggy-backing to duplicate your product. I had similar criticisms for Rapportive – Google could've "hijacked" their idea at any time. They made it out nicely, but the odds were really, really slim, and still are for anyone wanting to do the same.

I'm not saying don't go for it; just don't be surprised if and when your idea is copied.
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Imagine if in some Zynga game they had ads but rewarded users for clicking on them. Not interacting with, but simply clicking. Would you find much value in advertising there at all?

You've actually brought up a very valid point; I kind of hinted on this in my OP but it deserves some clarification: has Facebook proven so far that these ad clicks are in some way spurious? Granted, knowing what motivated the clicks is an impossibly tall order; however I don't see much difference in what you've proposed versus the many Pages that encourage users to promote more followers in promise of some sort of a rebate/discount/incentive with a brick and mortar establishment.

The primary and most obvious difference here is that there isn't a cost simply for putting up a Fan page. However and ultimately, my original premise I think deserves just as much consideration as incentivizing ad clicks to boost leads: unless Facebook can show that these clicks originated from a source and can sufficiently extrapolate evidence that these sources are motivated to disrupt the platform, I do not understand the author's complaint.
Out of curiosity, I just went back to a campaign I ran last year with Facebook to see if I was affected. I spent $2k on CPC advertisements with a filter targeting people related to phones, Cydia, Apple, etc.; the result was that I caught enough people that some smaller blogs reported on my ads.

http://www.givememind.com/saurik-advertises-cydia-tweak-on-f...

So, this campaign lasted one day, just over a year ago, on July 22nd. During this time, Facebook claims I got 5229 clicks. According to Google Analytics (which will only log users whom have JavaScript working and enabled), I got 5057 hits to that landing page.

Finally, working from logs, I have managed to find 5643 total requests for the URL. If I filter for those that explicitly sent a referer from facebook.com/ajax, I see 4644; of course, many people have browsers that do not send referers due to various reasons.

Therefore, I feel safe concluding that, for my website, a year ago, I was not having "80% of ad clicks from bots". I present this evidence in order to help people attempting to understand this issue to provide the possible clue that this is either "user-specific" or "changed in the last year".
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There's a flaw in this bit, which leads to the 530 million account estimate:

"The highest Twitter user id when I started the experiment was around 637M (found by trial and error). I figured there would be gaps in user ids mostly because of massive deletions of spammer accounts, and a quick sample estimated the gaps to be on the order of 20%. So I generated 1.25M unique user ids in the range 0-637M, and tried to fetch the profile details for them.

[...]

After fetching the 12,500 batches I was left with 1,039,556 Twitter profiles. This means that there must exist approximately 530 million Twitter accounts: 83% of 637M."

The problem is that Twitter account IDs used to be sequential - every integer would correspond to an account, unless that account had been deleted. Then in 2011 Twitter introduced the Snowflake update https://dev.twitter.com/docs/twitter-ids-json-and-snowflake which changed the way IDs were generated (for scaling reasons - it's much better to have separate machines able to deal out IDs rather than rely on a single point of failure).

This means that if you were to create a pool of random IDs between 1 and 637,000,000 you'll find that the IDs below a certain number (the highest ID at the time snowflake kicked in) almost all correspond to an account, whereas the IDs above that number have a much higher number of misses.
We need LINT! (LINT Is Not Twitter) Any other resource recommendations besides the Winer article?
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I think that Udemy has a better chance of being big. Coursera is a limited platform and only allows universities to make courses.

Udemy allows any expert to do this and allows them to charge for courses. This is awesome because it'll attract more attention from experts and it will give experts incentive to make free courses to increase their reputation.
> L. John Doerr, a venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers who is well-known in Silicon Valley, attended the cookout, and said he is an enthusiastic supporter of the effort (he's also on its board of directors).

He has a financial stake in seeing it become as big as Google so take with grain of salt.
It does follow. If you're hiring people who are equally attractive to you, and one is attractive in part because of the degree, then for them to be equally attractive they must be worse on your other desired qualifications - such as demonstrated competence. My claim is that demonstrated competence is more important than the degree. Therefore of those two candidates, the one without the degree usually turns out to be better.

This is actually true about any discriminated against group (which people without degrees are). On average the discriminated against group may be worse (for whatever historical reasons), but the ones who are good enough to become seriously considered despite that are actually better than the ones you would consider equally desirable. Therefore if you're on the fence about a decision, you should prefer the one who lacks the most obvious signals like degrees, etc.

This may sound like an abstract and weird hypothesis. But it is a testable one. For example see http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6498.html for evidence that being willing to hire women into management in a culture where women are discriminated against results in better financial returns for the company that is willing to do so.

As for your hypothesis that people with a degree are more likely to have the required skills, that depends heavily on the job. Certainly if you're going to hire someone to work on a compiler, you'd prefer people who know how compilers work. Which gives a big edge to CS grads. But for general software development I'd prefer someone who can quote Code Complete back at me than an average CS grad.

(Disclaimer, I have a masters in math, and almost finished my PhD. If you are looking to hire me, and you have an alternate candidate without my academic qualifications who you think is a tossup compared to me, then yes, I am saying that you should hire them instead.)
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Pretty neat app. tried the "capIt" feature that displays the TV shows's live images ready for captioning and posting to social media sites. Also, neat is a feature to fuzzy match a song, something that Shazam can't do.
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Can you elaborate on your experience with Udacity?

I've taken the Codecademy javascript course, and while I came out of it with the absolute basic fundamentals, enough to where I could play around with the language myself, I wish they'd gone over a bit more of the theory behind the code. At times I felt as if I was simply going through the motions to get to the next challenge. I thought Codecademy was just a bit too simple, which is why I'm interested in the Udacity courses. Still a great starting point.
Pretty neat app. tried the "capIt" feature that displays the TV shows's live images ready for captioning and posting to social media sites. Also, neat is a feature to fuzzy match a song, something that Shazam can't do.
Do you mean from ycombinator-funded founders becoming more productive or by giving reddit more ad revenue from the HN crowd?
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unbounce hosts your pages for you (no outside hosting costs). Premise 2.0 is awesome, but you have to install a wordpress site (takes about 5 seconds) and have your own hosting (which, if you've got a few projects already, you should have).

I find premise a bit easier than unbounce and it's a one-time fee (unbounce is recurring), but either way you can't really go wrong. It just depends on what's right for your situation...
This kind of comment, on a forum full of engineers, is so ridiculously insulting to all the Apple people who worked their asses off to make the products a succes.

Giving 1 person 100% credit for such a range of great inventions is just, well, off the mark.
I suspect at least some of these "booklicant" users are people attempting to build up fake profiles that look real.

They do this by liking a lot of advertisers, which makes their profile look more populated.
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Many companies favor short-term win or Money over Technicality because there aren't many people who have the skill to put the numbers on Excel spreadsheet the amount of money the company can save had we done things "Right" at the first time during the meeting between Business and Tech team (Product Manager, CEO vs Team Lead/Dev Manager).

Basically it comes down to quantifying these quality works over developing new features.

I had the pleasure to work in a very small tight-knit team where you have to have the bulldog to bark at people when they're slowing down their defense (i.e.: writing unit-tests, making sure build script is up to date).

Results: on-time, within-budget, 1 Saturday, 1 Statutory holiday, 2 days OT until 10.30PM (all re-imburse afterwards) for a rather ambitious project to be shipped in 6 months from zero to live in 2 months afterwards.

Oh, and we have 1 performance bug after the release (easy one to solve) and 1 requirement bug 3 months after release. The rest (been live for about a year) was as smooth as the baby skin. We rotate the BB phone (on-call) but we never had it buzzed.

Our saving graces were:

0) Management Support

1) Continuous Integration

2) Unit-Testing

We use these unit-tests as REPL mostly, so we don't have to re-compile and re-deploy the _whole_ app to GlassFish.
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Why do you say that? Steve used to take all the credit for them.
He's just mad that Twitter didn't acquire his company
That is a great pointer which needs to be taken care of first. Though getting 1000 buyers for product X is as equally important as getting a discounted supply, inquiring the supplier(or it's competitor) will save a bunch of time and give an idea whether the business idea is good to start with or not.
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Because we haven’t put any resources into it. Everything was sucked up by that goddamn stupid human spaceflight.

There could have been so many Cassinis, so many Spirits, so many Opportunities. But, no. Stupid humans in space.
Maybe add some monitoring such NewRelic and ServerDensity.
no that would be you.

Point I was making is that pulling out process's/servers/cables is all fine (aka pissing on your server) but it is not a ideal way to test. It is better IMHO to test out on what you could call weak hardware, as in realy throttled CPU/disc/network etc and see were things break as these emulate what potentual peak bottlenecks you will get. This approach is better as you get to test out a single process system as apposed to only being able to test cloud based approaches as this does.
I never see these accounts when using the Twitter website, but always when I'm using Tweetbot.

I'm guessing there's a layer in between that clears it up for Twitter's own tools, and the third-party tools are left to clean up the stream themselves.

(On the other hand, Tweetbot has no in-stream ads, which mean both of these things are happening in the same "post-processing" layer.)
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