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I agree with other comments that this looks like a portfolio site while your USP is teaching.

I tried your tool and I didn't really understand why it taught me anything. It put up a picture, waited for me to draw in your limited drawing tool, then asked me to evaluate myself. I just scribbled and gave myself four stars an everything continued happily.

It seems like the practice engine lacks useful feedback, but maybe that is a feature I would get if I signed in?
Thank you. I enjoyed reading this. Would be nice if you wrote a little blog post on the subject :)
great execution for all the reasons already mentioned.

since it's layout is already simple and modular, a couple of meta tags and @media styles in your CSS would be good to make it collapse down on phones for easier access to the controls
What do you mean by borked? Did it actually cause damage somehow or did it just not run well? I wouldn't expect something so resource intensive to work well on that computer just as I would be amazed if you could smoothly run mountain lion on an 8 year old mac. It's actually a major strength of linux that you can run modern software versions on even extremely outdated hardware; you just need to choose an appropriate desktop environment.
Looks like a noble attempt to remove perl5 and ruby pain in the arse points simultaneously. Wonder if it will ever come to anything ...?
And that's just generic products on Amazon. As you get more specialized, the price at most brick and mortar stores seems to keep increasing more and more, whereas the prices online remain consistently low.

Infrared LED at Radio Shack? They wanted something like $6 per LED. You'll find the same part online for pennies.
The only way I can really see a big-box chain like Best Buy surviving alongside Amazon and the other online retailers is if they were to focus heavily on training their employees to be knowledgeable on all the products they are selling, similar to Apple's "Geniuses". I think the original problem stores like Best Buy were created to solve no longer exists - namely, a _physical_ one-stop shop for all your electronic needs. Amazon is clearly better for this.

Where I see opportunity for Best Buy to differentiate is in customer experience. When the typical consumer decides they want to buy a new laptop, and don't want a mac, they basically have a couple of options. They can either research laptops on their own (through Amazon, Engadget, et al) or they can just drive to a Best Buy store and buy whatever the employee tells them. The thing is, the Best Buy option really isn't much better currently because their average employee isn't very knowledgeable on the laptops they carry.

For this to work, Best Buy would have to both pay employees more and spend more time/money training them. Not to mention the costs associated with re-branding the company as a whole. However, IMHO I think something this drastic needs to be done for them to survive.
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The linked article was transcribed from a famous short story, unfortunately by someone unwilling to proofread his work. It's riddled with typographical errors and missing words. Such a shame, because it's a first-rate story, well worth the read.

I've just surveyed a number of online copies of this story, and all of them have typographical and other errors, just different ones.
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You guys should focus on authentication. Because this thing is practically useless without it. I'm aware of the authentication branch but this update broke it.
If they developed an adaptation to step eating for over a day by associating a dead bird with poisoned food or some other danger, wouldn't a more effective response be to leave for somewhere else? They stop eating for over a day while also calling each other over and gathering together around the dead body. Applying the term "funeral" is a really unscientific and poorly chosen description, but that is an interesting collection of behaviors.

I get an eerie feeling sometimes watching Western scrub jays, gray jays, and Steller's jays and how complex their behavior can seem.
His comment is why American companies cannot compete and poor managers decide to move their workforces to countries where they train their employees up because a larger and larger number of American companies think it is a waste of time and instead look for the Unicorns that do not exist, only to complain, and outsource some more with often terrible results.
For the uninitiated, the subtext of this movie is pondering whether Jiro's son Yoshikazu will be able to successfully take over the restaurant when Jiro retires. It's the age old question of what does it take for apprentice to finally surpass the master; who is a worthy successor to the master, etc.

This is particularly relevant because the valley's succession story du jour is Apple and whether Tim Cook et al can take the reins in the wake of Steve Jobs. The following quote struck me:

"It's not going to be easy for Yoshikazu to succeed his father at the same restaurant. Even if Yoshikazu makes the same level of sushi it will still be seen as inferior. If Yoshikazu makes sushi that's twice as good as Jiro's, only then will they be seen as equal." (32:06)

This is exactly what Apple has been going through in the last year, exacting a level of polish that is on par if not above what they released last year, but still leaving nagging doubts in the hearts of the faithful. The one thing that would silence critics and quell fears would be that something twice as revolutionary as the original iPhone be straight up imagined, developed, and hoisted by the post-Jobs Apple--just to claim par.
jdietrich is my new hero. Well said.
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How would you expect that useful feedback to be implemented?

The self-rating system currently in place in meant as a guide for the spaced repetition system. If you give yourself unrealistic ratings, it will only result in a less optimized learning experience...
GNU's sed is probably portable to every platform that glibc is ported to (and if somehow it isn't, it is almost certainly trivial to fix; I've never had problems compiling sed for systems I work with). I thereby fail to see the reason to burn even a single extra neuron on behalf of the people having to maintain the glibc build system to deal with possible incompatibilities that might come up between different versions of sed at build time.
No, if Apple's policy is not to sell the drone app, and (let's assume) Google's policy is to sell the drone app, these are not the same policy by definition.

(Therefore you cannot claim that all stores have the same policy. This stuff is high-school level logic and I don't understand why you have difficulty with it.)

In which case I am perfectly free to find Apple's policy horrid, and find the hypothetical Android store policy commendable.
Cuz Apple "didnt build that"
You have 2 courses. The first prominently displays $2.00 price, and then says "$2.00 (one session free!)". The second is free.

But when I scanned it, all I saw was "$2.00", not the freebies.

Maybe style the buttons, so they display what is free?
Agreed. It sounded boring at first, I'm not very interested in sushi. But when I realized it was about honing your craft and becoming good at something, I realized the lessons in this movie could apply to any field, and it became very fascinating.
I think you meant OpenID.

BrowserID is new, and awesome. My fear is that a good universal login needs to support both Mobile Safari and Google Chrome on Android, and due to their childish fighting, it's unlikely anything client side can work on both, to the detriment of users and Internet security as a whole.

Desktop browsers are a lot easier (extensions, and browser choice), but mobile/tablets makes this all a lot harder than it was a few years ago. :(
It would be nice if his flippant and biased opinion was backed up with any sort of supporting evidence whatsoever.
Even better in next paragraph: "LG's new Digital iPad comes with..."
A more prominent, colorful "free!" label? Most definitely a good idea. Thank you!
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No. I feel like we both probably dodged a bullet here.
> I get an eerie feeling sometimes watching Western scrub jays, gray jays, and Steller's jays and how complex their behavior can seem.

All members of the family Corvidae (along with crows and ravens), and all quite intelligent -- so intelligent that the meant-to-be-critical phrase "bird-brain" seems too wide of the mark.

I just discovered that Corvids pass the mirror test. I've always known them to be very smart, but this is a new twist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvidae

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test
You sound surprised? BranchOut is based on milking the LinkedIn social graph using FB as a viral spam host.

http://www.switched.com/2011/01/11/branchout-helps-you-land-...

They took a nice page out of the FB playbook, ie import as much data from your competitors before they cut you off. I've never understood why LinkedIn gave them access to the API to begin with.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/01/linkedin-cuts-off-api-acces...

Now, is there anyone here who fell for their spammy messages and actually USES BranchOut?
I think we have a responsibility to hold ourselves to higher standards than that of a wolf or cheetah. Given our intellectual capacity to do so.

Suffering is bad. The fact that it occurs in nature is irrelevant.
Its (sadly) quite common for news organizations to copy verbatim parts of a press release as part of an article. Not to say BranchOut aren't being dishonest here, but I wouldn't be surprised if this 'quote' was actually printed in the Wall Street Journal in some form or other - probably in some filler article like 'top 10 web startups' or somesuch...
I'll be the dissenter here-- I was not a fan of the movie. It was a boring piece about a man obsessed to the point of craziness about sushi. His kids said to the mother: "Mommy, who is the strange man in our house?"

The man was Jiro, their father. Is that the childhood you want your children to live? For me, the mastery of a craft is not worth this price.
One potential problem with that approach - a lot of people would utilize more knowledgeable salespeople like they currently utilize brick and mortar stores: Do the research there, then buy online to save money. This is fine for Apple, since most of the products they are educating people on are their own.
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Sure, critical systems have round-the-clock coverage, but pushing big changes before the weekend is still not optimal. If there is an emergency, you'd rather have most of your workforce available, awake, and at work.
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because requiring a user to find and install an external project just to avoid thinking about possible incompatibilities in what is almost certainly a set of simple uses of a standard tool is a waste of his time.
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It might look noisy - but it is just easier to parse in your head when you know what is a variable and what is a function or a keyword. I have came to believe that much of the 'Perl is ugly' notion comes from the fact that the $ character does not have nice typefaces (http://perlalchemy.blogspot.com/2011/01/is-responsible-for-u...).
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>Android provides a platform where both Free libraries and closed source apps proliferate - and are very inexpensive. All the failures of desktop GNU/Linux have been solved, or are not relevant, in mobile GNU/Linux.

Well, mobile is not for productivity, or even for typing a long email. How many people you know that haven't got a laptop or desktop, except grandmas? What kind of programs do typical people use on millions of Android phones?

>Regarding the tablet segment of mobile, one could argue that GNU/Linux will seize the low end and gradually gain market share at the expense of iPad, leaving no room for Microsoft.

What? Android tablets are not selling very well and are getting crushed by the iPad. Meanwhile, Surface seems to be the only device ready to take on the iPad by the horns, the rest are cheap imitations of the iPad but really cheap since Apple has a tight supply chain. Not to mention that a 7" iPad will take away some of the low end market you're talking about. So that's a rather silly argument to make.

>The only reason I care about desktop OS at all is to develop for mobile or back-end server.

What about laptops? Are they "mobile"? You're pretty much ignoring them.
I think $1.99 could serve the mass market. But by and large musicians are used to shelling out some serious cash for audio apps that have a lot of features. A desktop or more full-featured version could easily sell around $30-50 I think, especially if you find ways to integrate it into other tools, e.g., export as Apple Logic project (if that's even possible).
My argument is more that GUI software available for linux was not revolutionary in the way web apps have been, rather it was full of "lower-quality" windows applications. A better package manager wouldn't have solved that problem in my opinion.
TreVisor and TRESOR are some of the most amazing things going on. Combine that with QUBES out of Invisible Things, and you could conceivably trust a computer built of untrustworthy hardware operated by your worst adversary, as long as you trust a tiny subset of it -- potentially just the Intel CPU.

The nice thing about trusting just a latest-edition Intel CPU is that they're so far ahead of everyone else in process that most attacks would be technically difficult for anyone except Intel, NSA, etc. Chris Tarnovsky isn't going to be able to extract keys out of Intel E5 CPUs in 6 hours with even a 10x bigger than $1.5mm lab, so as long as you deal with a machine which disappears faster than 6h (rotating keys, releasing the hounds, etc.), you should be safe.

One of the few things (along with the takeover of mobile OSes vs. legacy crappy desktop OSes) which makes me hopeful for security.
IMO, most comments & takeaways around the documentary focused on being passionate and loving your work. But the documentary does make you ponder over whether it is worth the price of not being there for your children.

On a separate note, the scenes of the fish market shows the ugly side of over fishing our seas.
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Still takes attention away from your site. Customers get distracted and you lose http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSUXXzN26zg
Also, a "first session free" label. Maybe CSS style the button? Though patio can tell you horror stories about "great" changes like this which decreased sales, as he didn't test on IE (which simply didn't show his button).
I would pay for quality counselling in store. What I get instead is highly pressured, commission driven employees who have low level knowledge of their products.

I must admit that I could buy it for cheaper online anyway, but there is currently a negative incentive to go to those shops
This issue is much easier to resolve than by way of the thousands of words the article's author used.

What a layman calls "skepticism", a scientist called the "null hypothesis." The null hypothesis says that an idea with no supporting evidence is assumed to be false. So in science, and to a skeptic, until there's evidence, there's no justification for taking an idea seriously.

To someone not trained in science (the "sheep"), an idea is true until there's contrary evidence. To a scientist (the "goat") by contrast, an idea is false util there's supporting evidence.

A sheep believes in Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, and UFO visitations only because these ideas haven't been disproven, but they cannot be disproven -- that would require proof of a negative, an impossible evidentiary burden. This explains most of the really weird things people believe.

The remedy is skepticism, a healthy intellectual posture that awaits evidence. That's why I'm still a skeptic.
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What gets you through the day at work? Does it enhance your ability to perform? E.g., coffee. Or more exotic chemicals. Foods? I'm curious.
Thank you so much man, you saved me and my team a bunch of development next week. ABSOLUTELY PERFECT TIMING!! We used the iframe trick, but it sucked. This is MUCH, MUCH, MUCH better, thank you!!!!
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So, a small snippet from a build file from busybox's mailing list from 2004 hit the front page of hacker news?

I hate to be the guy who says "hacker news we need to talk", but uh... yeah, we do.
As an iOS app developer I found this to be a very interesting read if and how sustainable iOS app development is possible.

It seems for an (independent) iOS app developer to be successful one needs to:

1. Create a great app that provides value to customers
2. Solve the problem of visibility somehow (I find myself and my app in this stage)
3. Pivot to a sustainable business model
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>That can't happen until you can distribute Linux on a PC without making some back room deal with Microsoft.

Why not? That ended back in the antitrust days. E.g. See http://webapps.ubuntu.com/partners/oem/

The reason that Linux PCs didn't take off is manifold. First, they're unfamiliar to the user so the return rate is high when they find after taking it home that it won't run some app they need. Second, the price is the same or even more because the OEMs get paid a pretty penny for the preinstalled adware and bloatware. And all the support and the separate software tooling make it tough for the OEM to turn a buck. Not to mention that they're wary of showing it prominently on their site because in the past that lead to a lot of uninformed people buying them and returning them.

>No, it's because no matter how awesome Linux is, you can't distribute it without paying.

You're needlessly getting angry for nothing. What's stopping anyone from selling PCs with Linux? You can start a company today that does that, and Microsoft won't come near you until you're making hundreds of millions of dollars.

E.g. See https://www.system76.com/

Are they paying Microsoft? Linux on the desktop is suffering precisely because of the points outlined in the article. If Linux was awesome, less people would've switched to OS X.
In what universe is it difficult to install sed? It is so simple to do you could automate it, which is why it is already automated on the systems these people are discussing, such as FreeBSD: just port install gsed. We are talking about build time here: if you are building a project and are unwilling to do the braindead task of installing dependencies then very very honestly you shouldn't be installing glibc in the first place, as busybox comes with its own libc that can be used instead, and there is already a libc on every one of these other systems, so by your logic someone else is already wasting your time.
"That’s because context is key for social networks, Cohen says. Students don’t want to 'friend' their professors on Facebook (or connect with them on LinkedIn in any significant capacity) and they don’t want to broadcast photos from last night’s party to the world of family members and grandmas on Facebook."

Hasn't Google+ essentially solved a generalization of this problem with Circles? Creating a whole new account just to keep your networks separate seems very clunky (and highly inelegant) by comparison.
Yes, I've read that (and didn't consider it very enlightening); however, the argument in that article would actually argue against the notion that there needs to be a million versions of sed in the first place, and that the hacks required to maintain compatibility with a million different versions of sed is actually a design debt that was caused by the bazaar's lack of central organization sufficiently intelligent enough to standardize on one version of sed.
I've found that electronics stores which employ really smart people have no problem finding business (e.g., Fry's, MicroCenter). A lot of people need computer guidance from smart store employees. Even as a tech savvy developer, I am confused by hardware a lot. Like, what hard drive will fit in my Mac Mini?
Near the end of the documentary it is said by Jiro that his son (Yoshikazu) was the one making the sushi when it was being graded for the three Michelin stars and that being the head chef is the easy job because all the hard preparation work is done by the people under him. I think this somewhat applies to Apple as well — while Jobs was an excellent curator of sorts, he was supported by excellent people like Sir Jonathan Ive and others. So I wouldn't be surprised if they continue to create highly innovative products.
This has turned into an argument over the definitions of words, instead of an argument over anything in reality. Is it "kind" to subject spinal cord injury patients to short-term misery in order to give them longer-term relief from their injuries? Or would "kindness" flinch away from this and try to minimize their short-term pain? You're using the former definition of kindness, and jdietrich and the article are using the latter. Both are useful concepts.
Yes, though it depends how you hit the ground.
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>Big box stores killed the mom & pops.

I think the internet will kill big box stores and bring back mom & pops. There's no point in going to Best Buy/Walmart/etc. to buy something I can get on Amazon for a fraction of the price, but I will browse local stores for unique and interesting goods that are harder to find online if you're not looking for them.

It will bring back browsing as a legitimate activity, something which big box stores completely killed imo.
It's currently streaming on Netflix (in the US at least): http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/70181716
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