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Like ChuckMcM, do/learn everything. Why? Because once you start learning you will realize how everything seems to look alike. For me front end is a lot like back end in terms of structure and organization. Messy code can exist in both sides. Plus setting up a server is no harder than learning a framework API, it just requires that you do it. That's it. I would also add that you go and learn some embedded stuff like the arduino. It will really open up your mind to hardware and allow you to understand what is behind the software. I started when I was very young (bit younger than you), and wasn't comfortable coding until years had passed. But once I reached a given point in skills I realized that there were no limits as to what I could build. You will achieve the same if you don't quit.

Good luck.
I think you are confusing litigation with legislation
Look at what they have done in the past. See if they've worked hard and smart on getting something. It could be personal projects, getting an internship, cold emailing people etc.
No, I'm serious. The password rule turned me away.
Nice. In particular, given that every email ever "could be considered 'junk mail'", Hotmail now forbids the transmission of email.
Built in Windows support of the zip format can't handle compressed archives over 2GB.
This was covered by http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4583263

I'm cautiously optimistic The $99 board will succeed.
I've always double-checked my Google maps results to make sure they make sense before actually using them. There have been numerous times where it didn't correctly interpret my query and gave me directions to somewhere else. Typical problems include differences between street suffixes like St., Ave., Dr., or directions like E. and W.
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Same thing happened to us. Except they cut us off the 2nd time we got over the minimum payout threshold.

They asked for logs when we were using Google Analytics...
What's the connection between being unable to sync files with invalid filenames (from MSFT's perspective) and trust?
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I call shenanigans.

Google Maps turn-by-turn has, on several occasions, tried to take me the wrong way down a one way street. You cannot just "TRUST" an app and outsource responsibility for your own punctuality and navigation.
Basically all FSF-curated projects ask for contributors to assign copyright to the FSF. Which means the FSF ends up owning the rights to all the code, and can (as the copyright holder) switch to a different license for new versions.
This is hyperbole. A supercomputer in 2012 is a computing platform that can do at least tens or maybe hundreds of Tera FLOPS. What is described here is dual core ARM platform with some sort of vector like co-processor.

Even a huge grid of these probably wouldn't qualify as a supercomputer. Gigabit ethernet has much too high of a latency to be a valid interconnect for coupled parallel problems.

Don't get me wrong, its neat and I'd love to see some benchmarks, but its not a SUPERcomputer.
Why is that impossible? Google has their Founders awards for huge successes.
Google tried this in NSW, and they had to reinstate the account and all th money owing. Helps to have. Strong regulator! http://www.smartcompany.com.au/internet/20120206-meet-the-en...
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There is a big need here waiting to be satisfied. Documentation is very important and a lot of projects are losing traction due not having the basics or it being done poorly. I'm actually working with a new platform by writing their documentation for them. Why would I do that? I have a talent for it, and it allows me to offer a service other full-stack engineers won't even think about doing. Writing documentation as a job is a great way to improve my engineering skills. If I can explain it to people, then I definitely know how something works.
Every week this looks more like a stealth takeover by Google, with Mayer as an advance agent grooming Yahoo for assimilation. Or just some healthy spread of Google cukture across the industry.
Why do I need a free account? What is the purpose of that?

I get a compiler from BSD, which is the source of Apple's code, without needing any account. Apple didn't need an account to get that code from BSD. Apple seems to do a disservice to the notion of the BSD license, which is not to impose restrictions on people (e.g. making them get a developer "account").
I'd actually disagree on this point.

Ubuntu has introduced a number of refinements to the dpkg world that have been pretty good.

Most useful, in my mind, is their set of tools for working with PPAs. They're much simpler to run than setting up an entire new repository of packages.
Selling Bingo Cards is serious business. You make millions. A bingo card salesmen who offered advice would not have to charge money. He would be so wealthy.

"email marketing has been poorly used by slimeballs before"

But never as effectively as we use it! :)

"Make Money Online slime pit"

Indeed you might not find this offer by searching Google. You'll find it linked to from HN. There's more than one way to navigate to the slime pit.

It's always amusing how people, using the internet, sell advice on how to make money using the internet. The best way to make money using the internet is to sell advice on how to make money using the internet. No, this is definitely not multi-level marketing. Huge difference. Those guys are slime. We're different.

Oh, I'm sure you are.
Curious, is this helpful to people building web apps or ios/android mobile apps ?
This should excel in the "computation per joule" metric.

I am cautiously hopeful that funding will succeed and I will be using mine in conjunction with a broadband radio from end to simultaneously receive and decode a great number of FM voice channels on a remote, solar powered location with long periods of clouds.

(I have existing ARM boards whose GPU hardware might have been useful, but they are not openly accessible.)
How would this be different in a different concurrency model?

That was actually the point. You have the same space considerations. Being coroutine instead of native thread is just a small constant factor... if this factor is important then you are almost certainly doing it wrong.
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The method he's describing requires no downtime or stalled requests. Connections are drained from some pool in a load balance set if servers. The services is restarted with the new code. The hosts are given traffic again once the are initialized and healthy.

The advantages to this method include being completely platform agnostic, as well as giving you a window to verify successful update without worrying about production traffic.
Really? Can you point to the spec change? Did I miss a working group decision on this somewhere? Last I checked, the discussion on this got nowhere, with WebKit folks claiming this change was needed to optimize stuff and Opera and Mozilla folks claiming that optimizing scrolling worked just fine without this behavior change...
The upshot of the discussion was that this change is not needed to optimize things in non-WebKit UAs as far as anyone can tell. So the discussion sort of petered out, last I checked.
I meant to say "from the perspective of a non-California resident"
I'd wager on "beginning of the end". Shake up large projects until only the smaller, "quick wins" remain, then sell off the assets. It's easier that way from what I hear.
I agree with you on 1 and 3. I have developed and deployed several web apps as a single WAR file dropped on Tomcat. A servlet init method can start up one or more background work threads, and everything lives in one JVM. Tidy.

I disagree on 2.
Very expensive and only purchased by people who cannot afford it == skeevy.
I would say it's for the marketing and a way to see what's the market acceptance.

It's a trend I've been noticing
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Haven't you heard? If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear from a surveillance state in which even your use of a compiler is closely monitored and tagged.
Seriously? You think that PPAs and your other unnamed improvements tower over the apt package management system? Without PPAs apt-get would be yet another kludgy package management system? Sure apt-add-repository is a nice time saver but how hard is:

echo deb http://repo.net/ unstable main >> /etc/apt/sources.list

I think we might be miscommunicating because I can't imagine anyone making this argument. I'm not sure how old you are but I can remember what package management was like on slackware and redhat a decade ago when I switched. Moving to debian was like a scene in a movie when it goes from black and white to full color.
Apple's current C compiler, clang, did not originate in the BSD project, but is primarily developed by Apple itself.
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I signed up oblivious to the fact that they were going to present a forced checkout step midway registration. What a sucky experience. I'm not going to spend $60 on a product I haven't even seen to a company who's policies I don't even know (information is very skimpy).

On second thought I realized that letting a startup deal with my email is the exact opposite of what I want. It already sucks that we have to trust email providers with our communications, let alone let in another 3rd party that's a startup. Sticking with Thunderbird. I would like a better email client though.
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Since the update I've also encountered issues with box-reflect when used in combination with CSS3 transforms or box-shadows.
Discounting Microsoft's long history, if there's this much platform incongruity now, should we trust them to change that with time? If you were forced to place a bet, which service provider would you stake it on?

I've nothing against Microsoft, but I think the grandparent poster has a point.
Will Baxter be the Model T of the robotics industry?
Looking forward to further improvements!
We have a similar saying at the office. "Every programmer hates every other programmer's code. Given enough time, they'll eventually hate their own code."
Especially one you wouldn't have for the next 5 years, given how long average employement terms are.

Yes, I could move across the country for a job (let's say in SF), but then someone wants me to move to Austin or North Dakota or Seattle... Rinse and repeat. Kind of turns me off.
As a rule of thumb, I avoid buying supercomputers from people who state their performance figures in "GHz".
It sounds like you need a reminder that OS X is not based on BSD, it's a different operating system that had a lot of BSD stuff grafted on to the side of it - like Windows, but moreso. Also, BSD doesn't provide a compiler - they use GNU's compiler, and are switching to Apple's compiler.
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It's not portable.

And I have to invest time to learn all the codes.

In the times it takes to learn zsh, I could write the same functionality into small sh scripts which I can run on any machine. Put them in a folder, add it to my PATH and I'm in business.

I can tar up this folder and upload it to some internet-connected machine so I can download it to any other machine with an internet connection.

zsh is wonderful. It is the ultimate "interactive" shell. But it's not portable.

Moreover, the less "interactive" I need to be on the command line the better. If I have short, portable scripts to do certain things, and I can run them on any machine with /bin/sh (no need to install anything; sh is the universal interpreter), that's a nice thing to have. zsh won't give me that.
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Jobs are plenty for both BE or FE.

For back-end, read an overview of Python/Django and Ruby/Rails syntax and how these work and then analyse which one you can understand intuitively.

Whichever language/framework you choose get in to the lower level details and you will master the things.

For FE, after HTML/CSS start with Graphic/Logo designing(With Photoshop/GIMP or wait for thanksgiving and you will get lots of deals on Adobe products) and UX principles.Again see if these things come to you naturally.

After doing little bit of both you should be able to decide yourself which one(FE/BE) is better for you.

All the best!!
No they didn't find a "streambed". They found a bunch of clasts, with pebbles that wind couldn't move. Perhaps they were moved by something solid rather than liquid. Perhaps that was some kind of ice.

It's tiresome hearing of the "piling evidence" for water on Mars. Find some damn water. Prove it by melting it then boiling it on camera in a container with a thermometer.
I would hardly call the front-end of OS X streamlined. Metro is streamlined and user-friendly, OS X is, despite (or increasingly because of) the few tacked-on iOS-esque elements, a train wreck for usability. Apple needs to face the fact that small tweaks will not get you the best of both worlds. A comprehensive rethink a la Metro is essential.
Surprised no one has nailed you for the gas gouging example. During a shortage, raising prices gets the gas to where it is needed most. Raising gas during an emergency ("value prcing") when there is no shortage, is a different matter.
It's a bit more complicated. Mesh predates SkyDrive (and Dropbox for that matter). It was in beta since before Vista, if I'm not mistaken. It was truly visionary product. Then something happened and it never got released properly, instead FolderShare or Live Sync came up, which was a far cry from the original vision. Mesh beta continued to exist. The Live Mesh release appeared in 2010: functionally it became closer to the original beta, but very toned down (did you know that there was an idea of "Mesh apps"?). And then SkyDrive started to gain steam and recently its app was released. This app dropped shared folder sync and remote desktop features. Mesh is and was a superset of both SkyDrive and Live Sync apps.
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Not much of a rebuttal, but certainly a counter to oh-my-zsh: https://github.com/revans/bash-it (which includes fasd).
It's IE that doesn't support WebGL. Safari is missing a few things but otherwise supports it just fine.
This bit me in our "golden file" checking portion of our product's test suite. I moved the golden file checking regex to a Perl script. Apple's obsession with removing GNU utilities has been annoying but I suppose the test suite should have taken grep portability problems into account.
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When testing, never use IE as a reference. You can never trust IE to do ANYTHING right. What IE does, does not matter.
In my practical experience with SOA, at it's core what it really means is discrete codebases for discrete functionality within your application. So while you CAN operate in separated environments, you don't necessarily have to. Although the article seems to approach SOA only via web services, that's not the only way to do it and there's no reason why the service can't be consumed as a library. When it comes time to scale, it's trivial to prop that API up behind a web service interface.

There is nothing wrong with scaling the entire application to meet the demands of one specific module / bottleneck, however, this isn't always a cost effective option. I've found that scaling entire monolithic applications often means throwing more hardware at the problem whereas scaling a service may mean only configuring your server environment to better meet the technical problems of that specific service (example: picking a data store that matches the storage, reliability, and I/O requirements of the specific service which may vastly differ from other components in the application).

I agree with your third point. Having many small parts makes the individual modules and functions simpler to understand, but it does not make your system easier to understand as a whole.

SOA is a great approach when you have a defined set of requirements that you know will not be changing significantly so you can create interfaces that can remain as concrete as possible over time. This is why SOA is a great solution for the enterprise. The advantage of a monolithic application allows for rapid prototyping because the individual components can be built quicker -- it's much easier to test if a component is a benefit to the actual business objective that it's serving.

In the handful of applications I've been in charge of developing that have matured and grown over the years, they've all started as a monolithic application that slowly grow into a SOA-type approach. As specific components run into problems, they get refactored into their own independent services that the "monolithic" app either calls via a web service or as a library API. Eventually the "monolithic" app exists only as the web frontend with all the heavy lifting being done by services.
This is a good point. Although that word "primarily" is interesting.

Is Clang BSD-licensed?
Doesn't Ubuntu have apt as well though? Ubuntu's package management may have come from Debian, but that doesn't make it inferior.

It sounds to me like you're trying to make a different argument: that Debian's package management was a bigger deal, in some sense, than Ubuntu's incremental improvements on it.
I've been asked to do this before, but I just went and did some work instead. If they'd asked about it, I would have just said, "Oh, I was too busy ____ing to mess around on Facebook" -- but they didn't actually check up.
Due to an appeals court decision, NSL gag orders have been challengable since 2008 -- and it's very simple to do.

But the thing is, companies rarely care to fight for their users.

In 2010, the FBI admitted that the gag order has been challenged only 4 times, with a 50% success rate.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/nsl-challenges/

So yes, that would be a fine clause for companies to sign onto as well.
Jobs knew one thing: Quality is job one. If it wasn't quality, it wasn't included. Maybe this helps them remember that.
Not gonna read all the comments to see if this has been said but you need to set a max velocity for the player.

Hold down up and right from the start of the game and watch as you break the game :)
I didn't know it had a point at all besides surviving for as long as possible. I made my little 4 pixel bubble survive for almost ten minutes purely out of curiosity, to see just how massive this one bubble would get. Then I accidentally hit a blue one and, surprise, it makes me bigger.
Yes, I did need that reminder. Memory is failing today. But... does it change my question? GNU gives me a compiler without making me sign up for an "account".

OSX is not BSD, but there's no way it could even think about calling itself "UNIX" and getting certified as such without all the BSD code they took.

What else is OS X? It's a kernel from CMU. And whiz bang graphics. And lots of annoyances.
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Also if you shoot before you move you shrink yourself. Intended?
Looks like I omitted a word in my original post, I meant to say that the fallout from maps wasn't that bad. People can still replace their maps app with google or bing or whoever's map application. The problems with the iOS maps aren't a showstopper for the entire platform like the antenna issues were. There were a lot more people angry over the antenna issues than over the maps issues, so I don't really see how the apology was warranted.
Why are Gaussian Distributions Great?
With respect to PPAs, I'm not speaking from a user perspective, but from that of a sysadmin having to maintain mirrors. PPAs are just easier than setting up all the key signing and mirror infrastructure.

Yeah, apt and dpkg are great compared to what else was available a decade ago. But that doesn't mean that Ubuntu's additions, however incremental, are worthless or somehow inferior to Debian. Incremental gains are still gains.
Eww. I suddenly appreciate my elementary school so much more.
> It means that if you have connections, a staggering initial capital ...

You're thinking of Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Mark Zuckerberg, and Steve Jobs (with whom I worked), yes? In fact, none of them meet your description, and all of them started with virtually nothing except a desire to succeed. All of them started in a literal or figurative garage.

This is not to disparage the worth of a college education, only to put it in perspective, at a time when tuition rates are rising much faster than inflation.

It's too easy to assign successful people to a category after the fact, even if the fact contradicts the myth.
Okay great. Where does the energy come from?
Extract CO2 and H2 from seawater, react to form hydrocarbons of varying lengths, then refine. Presumably all powered by the nuclear reactors.

initial studies predict that jet fuel from seawater would cost in the range of $3 to $6 per gallon to produce
To clarify, our target is 30k not 4k. However our goal with Kickstarter is primarily to build a community of positive, supportive users that are interested in helping us shape the product.
> If anyone sent me an .rar these days, it would go straight into the Trash.

So, a customer sends you a RAR file and it goes straight to the trash? You sound like a swell guy.
The grandparent of my comment, for instance.
True that Outlook has excellent task management functionality, but not when you want to interact with non-outlook users, or even simply across corporate networks.
http://jetstrap.com is a GUI for building pages with backbone components and getting html generated for you
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The problem was timing. Palm didn't make a webOS SDK generally available until something like two months after the first webOS phone (the Pre) was launched. This meant that they couldn't tap into developer interest during the big pre-launch hype cycle, which in the case of the Pre was massive, thanks to a hugely successful introduction of the device at CES earlier that year (see http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2338482,00.asp, http://www.cnet.com/8301-19167_1-10139851-100.html for a sample of the reception it got there).

Then by the time the SDK was available, the Pre had already proven less successful in the marketplace than Palm had hoped it would be, so developer interest had cooled. Nobody wants to write apps for a phone that's a flop.
If it's an aircraft carrier, probably the nuclear power plant on board.
From my perspective, JS is more more enjoyable to use when writing UIs. Java's strictness is not nearly as useful for UI work than it might be for other domains, and Javascript's first-class functions greatly simplify event-based work (which is much of what happens in a UI). Also, JSON is painless to use in JS, while Java will again get bogged down in its type system -- if you use JSON as a transport format then yet another plus for JS. Java is great for the server, but I would never want to write a UI using it.
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