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I disagree.

One of my top concerns if I'm interviewing for a company is, "Are these people going to be sufficiently competent to be fun to work with?" If the interview doesn't provide a good enough filter for incompetence, then I am going to not want to interview there.

If my first experience demonstrates that only competent people will get through, then that is going to improve the company in my eyes.

That said, it will slow hiring down. If you want to hire a bunch of people, you can't put a restrictive filter like that up. But if you just need a few, it can work out in your favor.
> slope represents rate of change

You may as well say it represents a tangent. (Pun not entirely intended.)
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The complaint is that teenagers are being told the only way you'll be a member of the middle class is that you must go to a four year university. People were saying that going into a trade or getting "just" an Associates degree would leave you in the dust of everyone else.
Does anyone know what hardware companies they are using for their network?

Are customers going to have an optical transceiver in their house?
You shouldn't pull your users into business/political battles like that. These are billion dollar companies fighting.
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Thanks for this reply. I will be taking on an API documentation project for my team so I was particularly interested in this article, and thought the How To sections were a great idea. In my case, I don't have to support multiple languages, so that won't be an issue, but the additional insight into explaining concepts is helpful.
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Culturally we make no distinction between religious marriage and civil marriage. The majority of people aren't even really aware of the difference.

So long as this is the case there will be opposition to any legally allowed civil marriage that doesn't follow the traditional definition.

Do you want to have this fight every time a new type of union wants the legal protections of marriage?

My solution is a compromise, the alternative is to have this fight for the next few years, and then a few years later start it all over again for poly-marriages.

>There's no reason to change the name of the legal agreement known as "marriage" to "civil union" other than to pacify the superstitious.

Since the "superstitious" make up a large percent of the country you might want to find a way to "pacify" them.

If we can compromise so that the majority of people are happy and no one's rights are violated, where's the problem?
Unless you just don't want to "pacify" the "superstitious" out of spite.
Soon enough you're going to need a nuke if you keep follow that reasoning.
When you pickle a function, you get a reference to the function, not the actual function code.

Right - that's usually what I want. (I've used pickle to store tests against game assets, e.g. that a model has all of its textures checked into perforce, or that a texture for a model does not exceed 128x128, unless otherwise specified). Marshalling functions is usually a non-starter for this, since a) it's complicated to analyse the call graph before execution, and b) native functions can't be marshalled - an awful lot of code executed against this asset pipeline is thin bindings over native/Java/C# code. Maybe I have found the 1% of the Python use-cases where lambdas suck a bit and everywhere else it's fine--it would be great if my experience was exceptional and no-one else had ever had a similar problem doing something else.
Wow, while some of these questions are fair, others are not.

* All ISPs can do DPI on their customers broadband, some do it to greater extent than others

* Calling this "luxury broadband" is perhaps a stretch since the lowest tier offered is slightly faster than low-end DSL, while being priced similarly ( if you base it on the $25/mo for the first year)

* I'm sure if any of Google's competitors wanted to run fibre and make KC a central part of a major fibre launch event, they could have gotten similar subsidies;

* Yeah, lets bring up the wifi street view case just because it makes google look bad, and see if we can try to make it pertain to this article

As far as subsidies go, I have some sympathy as I'm not a huge fan of it (though I might go after stadium deals first, as IMO infrastructure is a better investment than sports teams). However, time and time again has shown that the easiest way to get higher speed broadband is to start a municipal FTTH project in your city. I don't know how many times (DSL, next gen DSL, DOCSIS 3, FioS) has been "1 year away" for multiple years in places I've lived. However, cities that get past the early stages of planning municipal fibre end up with the newest stuff PDQ.
I am actually usability testing our tutorials now, asking them to read and think aloud. It has been really helpful to see people charge off down the wrong alley if the wording is just slightly off. I've re-written the tutorials 4 times already as a result. Also because we are supporting all 7 programming languages, watching a .NET developer vs. a Ruby developer has brought up some fascinating differences of interpretation.
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I no longer keep a single scratch text file for snippets like this. For each new thing, I simply create a new text document in a BBEdit window I have dedicated to scratch. Ever since Lion's autosave feature, I no longer have to worry about persisting anything.
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I tested increasing prices without touching anything else and it resulted in significant revenue increase but I hit a local maximum as the segmenting was off and value communication needed to be improved. The right branding with the wrong pricing can actually hurt so it's extremely important to get both pricing and value messaging (including the qualitative stuff) right.
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Have "other" people hedge it for you. This is how the big boys do it on Wall Street.
That approach could have some random unintended consequences. I shuffle my playlist and listen to a few tracks. One comes on that I don't like or doesn't match my mood, so I peek at the playlist to find on that does match my mood and double click it to start it playing. Unbeknownst to me, iTunes triggers a reshuffle when I do that, and the very next track to play is the one I was trying to get away from.

The better solution (at least from my perspective) is to not pretend that shuffle is a setting, but an action. Simply have a button that says something like "Shuffle this Playlist" or more explicitly "Re-Shuffle this Playlist". Play, stop, forward, back all would work normally within the existing order (straight or shuffled), and if you wanted a new order, you click the "Re-Shuffle" button.
No, have a skim of the top-level comments on this post or others. It's not simple time-based ordering, popular comments get pushed to the top. Freshness is a factor, else all new comments would be near the bottom with un point, but as all things age it becomes nearly all score. The source for the forum used to be available in the Arc language tar file, perhaps it still is.
I agree that this is the real question. As a commenter in the original article pointed out, Dropbox is a stand alone product and Google Drive is a feature (much like iCloud).

I may be old fashioned but I prefer applications like Dropbox that focus on doing one thing well. I feel Dropbox still does cross platform sync the best.
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I don't know what mathematical purity has to do with anything, I was just thinking Principle of Least Surprise, which is a user experience plus. Of course, I'm just going by what I would find least surprising and most useful, but I've heard lots of people express confusion about the behavior described in the StackOverflow question, so it does seem like there's room for improvement here.
The sneakernet returns! I predict that this trend will only increase with time.
Simulate cool stuff. Predict business failures/successes, make an n-gram Markov chain text generator, etc. Or something even cooler: a six degrees of separation simulation!
My electric bicycle wheel works the same way.

Electric motors are great at low speed torque which is why it helps the gas milage so much with city driving. I bet it also can take a chunk out of the 0-60 time.

The next step is to add power regeneration during braking.

If this is practical, I am sure the big car manufacturers will just do an end-run around any patent with their own tweaks and then it will just be a lawsuit battle.
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I'll say that you can have good times for a while with the "Big G" but there will come a day when they need to post better numbers for their investors and they decide the little bit of margin from their ecosystem belongs to them.

Back in the 1990's, venture capitalists wouldn't fund any company that competed with Microsoft. For quite a long time, there's been no funding for companies that compete with Google. Thus, there's a "lost generation" of companies that have never gotten off the ground since to Google's dominance of the web landscape.
I'm aware of that, but that's not the perception read my response up top for a more thorough explanation.
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The way the video describes the controller in the trunk, I believe it is not interfaced directly to the car. I kind of assumed it uses an accelerometer to notice the car is moving forward and engages the DC motors. If this is true, I would imagine that the same accelerometer could notice that the car is braking.
Because a distributed service would take longer to build and probably not get built?
Can you be more specific about what the gay community has done to this person that forced him to stand up for his views in public? I am genuinely ignorant here and would like some information.
Where do they live on your hard drive? Do you ever have the need to look at your scratch files from the past?
If that's the case, then there's also a bit of a UI issue. The current shuffle button is a toggle, not a "click once each time you want to shuffle" button.
Love that talk, thanks. I do have some ideas for tests I want to run in the future when I get back into optimization mode.
> Step one is to realize that being homophobic doesn't make you "terrible people". Three hundred years ago pretty much everyone was racist, sexist, and homophobic, but were in general as decent people as we are today; they just had some terrible beliefs, and terrible behaviors that came along with those beliefs.

Are they really decent if they were racist/sexist/homophobic? Just because people were nice to others that didn't fit into their hatepool, I do not feel that makes them generally "decent". No matter what time period you look at, there were people that didn't agree with these "social norms". I would call the such occurrences "decent people".

I understand your message about party differences/etc. but I feel there is a line that can get crossed between differing perspectives and hateful behavior. The latter should not be tolerated, in my opinion.
How will it get future funding for upkeep etc?
> “These illicit sites are among the culprits behind the music industry’s more than 50 percent decline in revenues during the last decade, resulting in 15,000 layoffs and fewer resources to invest in new bands,” wrote RIAA CEO Cary Sherman in a New York Times piece last year.

If we assume that the average salary of the 15,000 laid off employees was $67k-100k, so that means they saved $1-1.5 billion a year with these lay-offs?
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I wonder how many of the applicants had well-written cover letters and resumes (good sentence structure, interesting content, devoid of massive typos and grammatical errors). I would bet that it's no more than 20%, and all of a sudden, things aren't so dismal anymore.
>It looks like there's a lack of experienced developers in London

Because anyone with half a brain has left the UK and come to SF/NYC, where they pay ~3 times as much. If I was in the UK, I'd be on some measly 26K salary and living above a chop shop in Tooting.
Don't take it the wrong way, but you're trying to squeeze your users into the rigid frame of your preconceived notions about who they are. Changing people is a very difficult job. I understand you put a lot of effort into your product and feel entitled to steer it as you see fit, but it's far more productive to do what the topic post suggests - ask the users who they are and what they care about. In other words, reconsider your decision not to segment.
I thought with more vectoring your latency continues to jump?

Who is your provider? I don't recall anyone advertising that kind of speed on a real ADSL or VDSL line. You must be sitting on top of the local DSL drop either way to get that kind of transmission speeds.

All I know is that I tried U-Verse (which is a VDSL product) and they couldn't consistently even keep me at 19.2, from which TV has to come out of that as well. I'm not even that far from the "central office" drop either.
Do you want to go back and rewrite all of that?

You know that's pretty easy to fix, right?

There may be other problems with his proposed solution, but it's trivial for a legislature to say "where we said BAR in the past, we also mean BAZ."
It's easier to get more money on better terms if you have an MVP and can show some traction.

I'm not suggesting to squeeze every penny, but you have leverage in discussions when you can do it that way.
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Here's a fun game: if you start at the beginning of this blog's archive[1] and browse forward, you can spot the exact moment when Google's support for net neutrality landed it on the blogger's enemies list. At first, the anti-Google posts are entirely about net neutrality[2], but in 2007 they start to shift towards more general complaints. Interestingly, the blog started mixing in pro-Microsoft posts at the same time (previously, it was pro-Verizon). By 2010 the blogger had started writing most of his posts about Google, and was now being funded directly by Microsoft[3].

2011 and 2012 saw the addition of pro-AT&T and anti-Netflix posts, with a sudden surge of pro-SOPA posts starting in late 2011. After SOPA failed, the posts changed again to become almost exclusively anti-Google or pro-Verizon (with the occasional anti-Netflix thrown in). The pro-AT&T posts seem to have tapered off.

[1] http://precursorblog.com/archive/200605

[2] http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Scott-Cleland-Google-Usin...

[3] http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2009/06/google-crit...
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Oh, ok. I don't know how Python could pickle a reference to an anonymous function, 'though.
What's the problem with iTunes, or Amazon MP3? Instant downloads, DRM-free, reasonably high bitrate, standard formats. Seems to meet your requirements.
Thanks for the heads up vhf, we'll look into it
Thanks roto; surely speeds up the process
That doesn't have to happen. Even though the conversation has barely begun, most of the people who are behind this are already concentrating on federation with Twitter. That's how the reach problem will be solved.
"Putting the video out there" is an experiment. It's not rigorously controlled, but it's about as controlled as a website is likely to get. So they put something out there, see how well it works, and maybe tweak it.

That's the very essence of scientific experiments. You don't always need a "hypothesis" to do science. (Or, if you like, the hypothesis is "This video will teach students to do X.")
Disclaimer: I'm part of Khan Academy. Not going to chime in w/ my deeper disagreement w/ the original critic and the other article on the frontpage.

I would like to correct a persistent misconception or two.

Persistent misconception: "...we suggest that Khan Academy desperately needs voices of teaching experience. Khan could tap into any number of existing networks..."

Truth: We have four ex-teachers as full-time employees. We have two high school math teachers as consultants. One Harvard Doctoral candidate in Education and one post-doc in neuroscience at Stanford are in residence. One UPenn Professor is also likely to begin a sabbatical with us. We have a 3 person team dedicated to working with and getting feedback from our 50 pilot classrooms and the 15,000 teachers actively using KA in classrooms.

Persistent misconception: "...it certainly requires more than just “two minutes of research on Google,” which is how Khan describes his own pre-lesson routine."

Truth: Go read Sal's AMA response (includes the sentence "When I did organic chemistry, I spent 2 weeks immersing myself in the subject before making the first video") before taking one of these "two minute" snipped quotes at face value: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ntsco/i_am_salman_khan.... I've seen Sal's face light up when he gets an unwieldy new shipment of textbooks to start studying in preparation for his videos. Does he dive right into some videos? Absolutely. Is claiming that his "pre-lesson routine" can always be dismissed as two minutes of Googling disingenuous and patently false? Absolutely.
Checking out some open source django projects and seeing how they work sounds like a good idea.
Yes, Renoise is definitely a music program every geek should check out :D
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it's client based, so if you have any kind of browser plugin that disables connections to other sites (eg disconnect, which i switched to allow for this site and, as i write this, is showing 300 connections...) then it gives that error.

once it works, it's actually pretty neat. i don't think i would use it personally, but it seems like a decent implementation of the idea (cross-site search) (i searched for "olympic opening" and got a nice variety of results)
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It's frivolous, but I've got to admit it's something I'll use.
Interestingly, raising or lowering prices for iPhone apps have not changed my revenue in the slightest. I wonder if that tells us anything about the iOS app market?
It would be nice if it were that Godwinningly simple.

You don't have to commit genocide to be racist, you don't have to commit rape to be sexist, you don't have to engage in oppression to be homophobic.

People are complicated. No one is perfect. Everyone has good and bad qualities.
> Wow. Bit of an anti-union, anti-government agenda there?

Absolutely. They are both responsible for a lot of what ails us today in the US. Government is incompetent and is only concerned with remaining in power through selling out to special interests. Unions are massively destructive of industries through, effectively, extorting pay and benefits that ultimately kill the goose. Check out what is going on in California with cities filing bankruptcy to a large extent due to ridiculous union worker pensions. No business person would pay any worker 70, 80 or 90% of their annual pay for life unless: a) union extortion by force of strikes and other activities or; b) government stuffing their own pockets and pandering to private and government unions by granting contracts, pay and benefits to government union workers that make no arithmetic sense in any universe.

I have seen massive solar projects done in my town. The costs are staggering. The labor is fully unionized. The money is handed down purely through political party channels.

The panels are all Chinese (so the "American Reinvestment Act" is really a "Let's shovel money to China Act".

These projects are luxurious beyond belief. A couple of them covered entire school parking lots with solar cells. Another entailed the same sort of thing with the addition of refurbishing and redoing the entire electrical system of the attached government building where, maybe, two hundred people work.

This building was brand-new before they started. They shoveled money into it and created something that no private enterprise would even consider building due to the, again, basic arithmetic or the deal: There is no possible way to recover the investment in our lifetime. If going construction / T.I. costs are in the order of $200 per square foot, these people (our government) probably spent $1,000 per square foot on this one project. This is down-right criminal.
> It's not a design limitation.

Of course it is. The ergonomics of controller design are profoundly based on gripping the device with both palms while pushing buttons with the thumbs. The buttons are too small and too close together to rest several fingers on, while the button groups are spaced too close together to fit both hands over. There are buttons on either side of the device, and big paddle-shaped appendages that vibrate.

Is it the only way it's physically possible to hold it? No, and the very fact that competitive players need to hold it in a way it wasn't designed for indicates the fact that the design is limiting.

> Hell, this guy (Brolylegs) was a top bracket player in Street Fighter in EVO and he uses his face on a gamepad to play a game that requires directional control and six buttons to play properly.

Hey, don't get me wrong, consoles are great for accessibility. The same design tradeoffs that make them approachable and comfortable to gamers in general mean it's relatively easy to use assistive devices without sacrificing too much performance.

By contrast, the keyboard-mouse setup which is designed to wring as much speed and accuracy as possible out of the human hands is much less accessible.

> So "hey, I can use a device designed for text entry as a game controller" isn't like a PHP hammer?

It might be if there were something better. We're in the second decade of gaming keyboard design, but it's pretty hard to beat having a couple of buttons under every finger. The keyboard was designed, back in the day, to let you push a large number of different buttons quasi-arbitrarily and very, very quickly. It's hardly random that they work well for video games.

But, again, don't get me wrong. You don't always want to play a really serious video game. Most people never do. Consoles were designed this way on purpose, because most people just want to hang out on the couch and have a good time. There's nothing wrong with that at all.
There's certainly some downside, but the compromise can be worth it for packaging reasons, and there are a few mitigating factors.

For one motor torque scales with the square of radius, so a relatively light pancake motor can have quite high torque. You can also downsize the friction brakes thanks to regenerative braking. Finally you can distribute your motors across all the wheels.

In exchange you get a drivetrain with one moving part per wheel (yes, leaving aside bearing needles, you pedant!).

I don't foresee this making its way into sports cars, but I could see the minivan of the future having a drivetrain like this.
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True, but most people gravitate to a few large providers in each space anyway. Gmail, Blogger/Wordpress/Tumblr, and AIM/MSN/Yahoo.
They work and behave a lot differently than they do here.
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They don't wish any ill will on them, they just want to deny them a civil right. You know, no big deal.
Yeah, or if nothing else install a button for the driver to engage regenerative braking when he knows he's going down a hill or coasting to a stop. Have the regenerative braking turn off if the driver touches the real brakes.

It seems like you'd still get 50% of the benefit and have no potential to interfere with the brakes.
Government projects.