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You've mis-understood my comment. It probably wasn't clear enough. I'm talking about Apple's motivation to bring the case in the first place. It wasn't because of individual technical violations of patents -- lots of other phones violate the patents and Apple hasn't sued. It was the spirit and totality of the copying. But once you decide to sue, you have to pick out the particular patents that will be the legal basis for the suit.

I'm not trying to argue that the patents should have been grated, or that they are a good thing. I'm just saying that they were the particular tools that Apple used to punish a form of copying that went beyond the patents in question.
You indent by 8 characters.... I wanted to read your code but this will make my eyes bleed.

From pep 8:
"Use 4 spaces per indentation level."
I do like the idea of an internship!

Real-world experience can not be overvalued. That being said, I'm still working with the parameters in my original post. Small. Liberal Arts. College.
This isn't a huge program, I've consistently had between 12 and 20 students in the major, of all grade levels and wide differences in skill levels, experience, exposure, and mathematical prowess.

I know it may be hard for others to understand what my student landscape looks like, but after more than a decade, I feel I understand them. But a year of strictly theoretical CS, and I'm looking at 2 to 7 students in the major, and filling out my teaching schedule with writing classes.

Looking at a newly built house, you see that all levels of craftsmanship have been employed. If every contractor is a framer, because it's the fundamentals of building, your interiors look pretty basic, and let's not even mention plumbing made out of lumber!

What I'm trying to say is that I've tried my own version of CS snobbery and highmindedness, and it isn't working. I'm looking to design a computing major that isn't producing only framers.

I appreciate your input, please reread this post and my original post, and try to put yourself in my position, then send me some more suggestions!!
Hi, author here. I am new to Lisp (about 4 months in) and I've been a happy Vim user for many years, so I'm not finding the transition to Emacs very easy. I am trying, though.
And this is exactly why I'm predicting a crash in the mobile games market. People are going to figure out sooner or later that they're being exploited and not actually having much fun and the whole house of cards is going to come tumbling down. It's actually worse than that because games make up the bulk of the app stores' revenue.

Zynga was just the bellwether here.
> I'm also still not convinced having the 'old desktop' on a tablet really is what people are going to want

Just a note that ARM tablets running WinRT will not have the desktop, except for few Microsoft programs, specifically office. So, we really don't need to worry too much about the old desktop on a tablet problem. For tablets like the surface pro, running Win8 x86, I don't see why using a mouse would be a big deal if you are power user-y enough to specifically get the not ARM version of the tablet.
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This is the same response that several business development people I know would give. "NLP" is treated as a black box that turns words into useful output, hooray!

It's kind of sad that the two comments asking about how this works under the hood are at the bottom. A bag-of-words model -- any n-gram model, by extension -- is an entry-level approach: it has decent performance but won't win any awards for how it handles complex language structures (and you'd be surprised at how complex 140 characters can be). Hence most commenters are praising the UI.

Good luck moving forward with this. If your model learns to handle negation intelligently or starts to use morpho-syntactic features, I'd be glad to chat with you.
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Got it, thanks for the info and pointers everyone.
You don't need Gnome-Do when running in Unity, right?
> There's a bunch of folks who have said that you have to "swipe up" or "slide away" from the Login or Lock screen to log in. Some websites have even suggested you disable the lock screen. That is stupid and wrong cough NBCNews cough and you shouldn't turn off the lock screen. Just press any key. Or just start typing. Or click the mouse. Or ANYTHING. You don't have to "swipe up" to log in just click or press anything.

What happened to affordances? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance

All these people aren't stupid. They're coming up with these crazy ideas because they don't know what else to do.

One task of good design is to make it obvious what I can do and how I can do it. No one likes to discover, 3 months later, that you could do a 3 finger pinch with a middle finger wiggle gesture to do what you wanted. I shouldn't have to sit there and try all the combos of what I can do.
Nope. Not even close. Anoto dot pattern is a special, unique to every page pattern that allows digitizing pens like the Livescribe to follow handwriting with their cameras.

The Moleskin/Evernote dot pattern is merely alignment marks to help unskew photos taken with the iPhone. Not sure why that's even necessary as many iPhone apps which take photos do this automatically.
Thanks for the tip. I didn't realize numbers with the same value could be different to eq.
The leaks were eventually fixed, and from the inside it's nothing remarkable, although it is a cut above more soulless institutional architecture.
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To somebody who isn't familiar with the recent issues concerning Twitter this post doesn't teach you anything.
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Given that it takes about 3 years for patents to be issued now, that 5 year window is comical.

However, if you could get a software patent in, say, 6 months, then that 5 year window would make a lot more sense.
Algorithms and mechanical diagrams are both math in the same way that the Pythagorean Theorem and a picture of some triangles are both math.
How likely are people using a professional workstation/content creation setup to use metro? Until their creation/development/productivity apps are developed and optimized for the type of machines they use (large monitors, etc..) as metro apps, they'll continue to use them in the desktop as they always have. I think the only time I really see the metro/start screen when I'm in windows 8 is when I'm developing metro apps, everything else I see in the desktop.
It's worth noting that this isn't the addition of an honor code. Prior to this, every student already agrees to an honor code when they visit the active class page for the first time. The new part is that they're adding a click-through reminder about the honor code when you submit an essay for grading.
I find it very hard to believe that the patent system, broken though it is, is anything other than a HUGE net positive for innovation. I'm talking about the patent system across all industries, but I suspect the same would be true for the tech industry specifically.

The Economist (hardly a bastion of the free software movement) quoted a 2008 study showing:

A study in 2008 found that American public companies' total profits from patents (excluding pharmaceuticals) in 1999 were about $4 billion—but that the associated litigation costs were $14 billion.[1]

Clearly the litigation costs have grown significantly since 1999. It is unclear to me if the profits have kept pace, but even if they have that still would mean patents cost over 3-times the financial benefit they bring.

[1] http://www.economist.com/node/21526370
I am absolutely baffled that in-app purchases are so popular. For me, I would rather pay a one time fee for an excellent game than be "nagged" to move myself ahead in the game. I play Tetris occasionally on Facebook, and I get so annoyed with the constant spam for extra coins, dollars, armor, line speed upgrades, etc. I'd rather pay $40 and get the game in pristine finished form.

I don't know what to make of it, really. I'm usually decent at predicting what will be popular, but this time I completely missed the boat.

It really makes me kind of sad. I remember when I was little I would get a game like Zelda for GameBoy for $30. That game obviously had tons of work put into it and gave me endless hours of enjoyment. Games for phones seem to lack this kind of depth.
“A large part of the plagiarism arises from lack of understanding of the expected standards of behavior in U.S. academic institutions"

Or maybe it arises from perfect understanding of the standard of behaviors in US academic institutions. As article notes, 43% in the US admit to cheating. Truth is probably even higher. I'm not faulting Coursera for doing what they think will work to curb cheating, but this idea that cheaters are the "other" from countries where they don't know any better is ridiculous.
I wasn't trying to write it in less than 600 lines, that's just what the OP used for an interesting title, I guess.

It's just a fun project I did to learn a bit of CL. I translated the code from a Python game, so it's not in pure functional style. Now that you mention it, though, I feel like I should try that.
I think the best way to give negative feedback is to indicate how the person is failing to achieve their goals, preferably in fairly objective terms, and how they would benefit if they improved. Preferably the improvement needs to be genuine (i.e. you'll be more effective and happier) rather than artificial (i.e. this matters for political reasons).

People don't want to listen to you if you're sniping at them for how they failed to serve you, but if you can indicate to someone a way they could more effectively pursue their own interests, you become a mentor and leader rather than a slavedriver, because you're showing them how to more effectively pursue what they already know they want.

For example, I knew someone who was trying to get his team to come in at 9:00 because the rest of the business was in at that time. If he put it in the right terms, e.g. "coming in at 9:00 will improve the image of our group and serve us better in getting promotions", he could have gotten what he wanted. But he pulled the "because I say so" / "fuck you, I'm your boss" card and flopped. If you manage from authority rather than leadership, the good ones leave you and the bad ones bring you down through incompetence if not outright sabotage.
The only thing I ever remember was the ability to get additnal lives/plays by inserting more coins.
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I've been building out free-to-play games that are purely ad-supported, with unobtrusive banners only, no interstitials. It's not as profitable as IAP or in-your-face ad-based games, but it seems to appeal to my target market.

The problem is that to remain competitive, I'm feeling pushed to build an IAP game :-\
Do you have any examples of this? I'd love to see it.
Yes: an environment called life, where you have a career object and you fork it.
Groan. You mean like, any language with class methods in which "Process" is a class? Like, say, Ruby?
Thanks for your support! I totally agree with you - I put the code up on Github because I figured someone like me might want to improve it or take it in another direction.
I would think so. I've just been using gnome-do for a long time before unity came along, so gnome-classic + gnome-do is all I need. :)
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Free to Play is certainly popular now, but I'd be shocked if it were still popular in a year. It is exactly the sort of model that IME works while it is semi-novel but creates a model fatigue in customers that results in eventual backlash of even those who accept it at first. So, he's right, but F2P model will also eventually "fall".
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I came here to post this same thing… Except for a couple of holdouts like Square Enix, the notion of paying more for something non-consumable vs. consumable seems to be at an end in the software space.
Then make the stink when they do. Honestly, as an Apple "fan" who has no plan to switch from MacBook/OSX/iPhone/iPad, if they decide to just sue others for infringing one or to non-important patents I'll stop using their products and devote my time renouncing them.

But that's not happening, and I seriously doubt that would ever happen. We all "know" that Samsung copied Apple in almost every thing. Home screen icons, packaging, UI elements, icons, USB charger, the "Mac mini" clone (which is almost identical to a Mac mini) they made recently, showing App Store icon and icons of iOS-only apps in their booth at a conference, audaciously cloning "Smart Cover", and hundreds of other little things. Their own lawyer failed to distinguish between a Tab and the iPad! They're suing over just these petty patents because they can't sue them over a hundred un-patentable ideas that make a product great and they (Apple) has spent billions of dollars of R&D on researching them.

Every one of these was a "fuck you" to Apple. I'd do the same if I were Tim Cook or Jobs and would want to teach Samsung a lesson.
10.8.1 improved things a little bit, but running time is still short of where it was in Lion.

We only have one Mac in our test suite that can support it, but we're going to try to test the 2011 MBP with Snow Leopard and compare that to the results on the same machine for Lion and Mountain Lion.
>low quality high volume manufacturer
Wait til you find out that Samsung is one of Apple's main suppliers for the parts of the iPhone, you're gonna feel so silly.
I'm always surprised at how many of my non-techie friends struggle with keyboard shortcuts; it seems to be deeply counterintuitive to me, some of the contortions that people go through because, cognitively, they wont or can't devote space to the shortcuts. I have a sneaking suspicion that the sort of fearful respect with which they treat computers is the norm. Anything that makes using a computer simpler is IMHO a good thing; if it increases the utility f computers for the 99% at the cost of messing with the expectations of the 1%, well that seems like a reasonable trade off to make.
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I'll bite - what parts of the patent can't be done with bog-standard techniques? I took a look and it seems obvious in retrospect, though so many things do.
I was planning to write about my experience writing this, so I'll keep you posted.

It's really not elegant or special code at all, though, just something I used to learn some more about Lisp.
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Yes, and for completeness I'd like to point out that this doesn't just apply to the right-hand side of the equation you gave. The "=" is just syntactic sugar to let you do variable assignment using infix notation:

In[1]:= FullForm[Hold[a={1,2,3}]]

Out[1]//FullForm= Hold[Set[a,List[1,2,3]]]
No, I would rather say as app games market evolve, the developers are moving to where the money is being made: on inapp purchases. Now, while most app games users will not like this idea and do not like in app purchases-based games, to the developers the 1 or 10 or whatever % of those who make purchases counts the most, and those are the ones who they will target their products to.

I wouldnt say it will crash the mobile games market; I would rather say the ratio of all the games designed in ".99 cents" a pop scheme will be on rapid decline...
It's not just you. I've very glad I got the hack/slash/upgrade/repeat cycle out of my system with Diablo II many years ago, before publishers figured out how to rent Skinner boxes.
In which case you're not calling it on an instance, are you? Also, in ruby Process is a module, which kinda proves my point.

The only reason I point it out is that I find it difficult to take anyone who posts titles like this seriously.
AFAIK that is an emoticon based thing, not real sentiment analysis.
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I'm curious why people seemed to love and/or idolize Team Fortress 2 going free to play, but there seems to be a negative vibe surrounding it for mobile gaming...

One of many mentions on their 12x revenue increase from F2P:
http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/03/08/2148224/valve-switc...
Then there are the "social games", which to me is really an abuse of the word "game", since they are nothing more (IMHO) than exercises in feeding addiction and inducing compulsive behaviour. There is no element of skill. It's simply who can purchase the most.

A game that markets itself through a social network is not intrinsically social. It's just parasitic. Zynga is Facebook's tapeworm. Games, for over 5000 years, have been a lot more social than Fartville. This Zynga shit is alienating. It's about as "social" as playing the lottery is intellectual because it involves numbers.

I was at Google during the Real Games battle, and inadvertently became somewhat of a lightning rod for it. I'll skip over the whole history but just say this: if decisions had been made on merit rather than rank, Google+ Games could have been something, and if it had, Google+ would have become an actual contender in the social space. I saw first-hand the damage that Zyngaism can do to a potentially major product.

I think all of this Zyngarbage is an attempt to emulate the success of Magic: the Gathering and its iterative pay-to-keep-current mechanism, but without the insight and work that made Magic (in spite of its annoying pricing model) great.

There will be a flight-to-quality in the gaming space (Zyngarbage will always exist, just as third-rate porn always will, but it will become a low-margin commodity) but I have no idea when it will be and what it will do to the current cottage industry.
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Cool! (Core member of ServiceStack here :)

For those interested I used F# on OSX/Mono for this post. Since F# is quite terse, I prefer to use a POTE (Plain Old Text Editor) to develop with it on OSX. You can configure Sublime Text to work with F# with these instructions (inc REPL in comments):
http://onorioc.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/configuring-sublime-...

ServiceStack runs on .NET and Mono, even our http://www.servicestack.net website (inc. all live demos) have always run on Linux/Nginx + Mono/FastCGI for years.

We've got a wiki page on how you can run a self-hosted ServiceStack as a Linux daemon here:
https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/wiki/Run-Servic.... Also includes instructions on how to configure and run it behind a Apache + Nginx reverse proxy.

You can also run ServiceStack inside an ASP.NET host which you can host in Apache (with mod_proxy) or in Nginx (with Mono/FastCGI) - some configuration on both of these configurations is here:
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If it helps here are the Nginx Mono/FastCgi server conf files for servicestack.net:
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Thank you for doing exactly what I suggested that you not.
>>You continue to innovate. You do a better job at understanding your customer's needs and fulfilling them. You do a better job at marketing, positioning, and advertising. You give better customer service. There's tons of ways to compete, other than raw product uniqueness.

How exactly do you do a better job at marketing, positioning, advertising, customer service, etc. as a small business? The implication of being a small business is that you are resource-constrained and cannot do those things as well as the big players can, which is why you need patent protection for your innovations.
Hmm, I guess the difference here is that the few people who will pick up on garbage query strings would likely miss an altered path, if it was made carefully.
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Hadn't heard about Hyper-V support getting added. Goodbye VirtualBox.
> Sometimes people do awful things for simple and awful reasons. But I believe that's rare. I believe some people are forced to do awful things that they would never otherwise do given the option. I think in this case people didn't want to know, or perhaps didn't care to know why it happened. They just wanted to blame someone.

This is the essence of many of the problems in our lives.

When somebody does something awful, usually there is a reason other than that they are a 'bad person', there are complex reasons, maybe wrong reasons, but there are reasons why they did what they did, and is important to understand those reasons before criticizing.

Some times an awful thing is the best you can do, because the alternatives are even worse. Those decisions are the most difficult and painful to make, and rarely anyone appreciates it.
It is only prohibitively expensive if you have a pre-existing condition. I have an excellent PPO for which I pay $200 a month, has a $1,000 deductible, and $20 copays. I'm in my mid-thirties and was a smoker for 18 years. If I had lied about my smoking, it would've been $150. My fiancee, her policy is $240 a month for the same. Now, if we had children? Yes, covering the children would be quite a bit more - as they tend to use more healthcare than we do.
Same goes for Berlin (where I live), plus our Apple store opens in a few months, we will be a Lufthansa hub shortly, and Amazon works well here. There are also tons of hackers and startup events here!
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Mine is at https://github.com/hbcdev/Netflix in C++, got to the top 500. It runs just inside my 8GB PC :)
He's wondering why Gruber, who supported the "losing" side in Apple vs Microsoft (as measured over any timeframe besides the last 12 months or so) had such a damascene conversion. I doubt he'd have any issue with a weirdo that consistently supported the most profitable corporation in any market. It woukd still be weird, but at least consistently weird.
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> people are going to figure out sooner or later that they're being exploited and not actually having much fun

The same could be said for Casino's, if the visitors looked at it rationally. But humans often don't make decisions rationally. Especially when it comes to entertainment and escape from reality.
Actually, you can even get around the need for shortcut keys for admin tools if you really need to. Admin tools can be added to the start screen from the settings menu on the home screen: Settings -> Tiles -> "Show administrative tools".For other applications, if you don't want to interact with the tiles, you can hit the Win key and just start typing to search for applications, just as you could in Win7.