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The short, glib answer is that if you have to ask why you would want to pay for a dictionary, then you aren't the kind of person who needs to pay for a dictionary.

The long answer is that good dictionaries, such as American Heritage Dictionary, the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, and the OED itself, are produced by scholars and experts, guided by editorial panels comprised of scholars and experts, require a great deal of work to produce (the first edition of the OED took something like 71 years to complete!), and contain more data (i.e., more words and more definitions per word) and generally higher quality data than free dictionaries. You're probably willing to pay $50 for software that solves your problems, because you probably make software yourself, and you know that it costs money to create software; an analogy can be made here. But if a barebones dictionary works for you, then it works for you, and don't worry about it.

So what is a good dictionary? Here's a tentative answer. A good dictionary provides pithy, useful definitions that reflect the words' differing meanings over time and differing contexts. Most good dictionaries also provide style and usage guidelines (e.g., "When should I use 'lie' and when should I use 'lay'?"), and a good dictionary will also provide a word's etymology. Many free dictionary apps use data from WordNet, which is an amazing resource, but its focus is on tagging words with taxonomic properties (sorry, a better phrase isn't coming to me right now) and defining the relationships between those words, all of which is very useful for general linguistics and NLP research. The quality of the definitions fall short, and you should be able to confirm this by comparing just about any WordNet definition to a definition from a good dictionary at your library.

I was hoping to find a better example, but to give yourself an idea of the research problems that can be solved with a good dictionary, consider reading this brief student's guide to using the OED:

http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~wcd/oedguide.htm
This may work among programmers, software developers, etc. But in other more structured environments [management consulting, public accounting, I-banking, etc] a 40 hour work week will almost never be the norm. Sure, more resources could be added to the project, but the budget doesn't support that, so... you're hosed.
> I give you money, you put my name on a list, as phones come in, you ship them in the order of the names on the list. Problem solved.

This is open to abuse; if something's that heavily in demand, fake buyers will put their names down en masse and then resell them elsewhere and make a profit while honest consumers lose out.
> Poor white kids, for example, have this bad habit of out-scoring black children from the highest income brackets on the SATs

Wow, I didn't believe this until I looked it up.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/2999198

> In 1997, black students from families with incomes between $80,000 and $100,000 did in fact score lower on the SAT test than did students from white families with income less than $10,000.
Not to mention: if you're doing it right, you really don't have to think about whether you have two keys; you just naturally kind of do. It's the systems where you consciously have to handle two different keys that you have to worry about, because they're probably not keying themselves safely to begin with.
Computers may be able to automate the task of charging for a product but they can't automate away the realities of manufacturing, especially if the initial demand was beyond Google's predictions or supply chain.

Even right now I bet Google is scrambling to find enough chip vendors for another production run of the phones as well as trying to scramble up the transportation and labor for putting them together.
They monitor traffic, I assume. I have historically used both PDAnet and FoxFi among others...all get shut down within a few minutes, and I receive a text telling me to sign up for tethering service. I'll try it again after rooting the phone, to rule out simply detecting all the common tethering apps, but I'm guessing they're detecting NATted traffic or similar.

I'm considering picking up a Nexus 4, rather than bothering with rooting and re-imaging the Sensation. I don't really like the Sensation, though all the problems I have with it could be due to software. It's a custom build with Sense, which I really don't like.

Anyway, it's a new phenomenon. I was tethering on T-Mobile for years without trouble. About two months ago, they started shutting it down after a few minutes of use, and redirecting all traffic to their T-Mobile site upgrade page.
You are at an early stage in your startup. A name change would not impact you negatively. In fact, this can be turned into a brilliant PR move if you play your cards right. I love this sort of scenarios, they are just amazing marketing opportunites. Much more for such a great product.
I'm guessing I'm the "readership for such things", as I don't know much about options, but also don't plan on doing much with options in the near future, either.

I'm curious to know, though, what you think I should know before looking into options?
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Not if by performance you mean "in comparison to everyone else". In that case education is zero-sum.

If you measure to an absolute standard it may be easier, but education goals move all the time, and calibrating between them leaves these metrics open to statistical abuse, just like we're seeing here.
> If your work is sufficiently varied, I don't see how 60-80h/wk is unsustainable at at least 1.5x the work you'd accomplish in 40h, if (and only if) the other hassles of life are taken care of for you -- no cleaning, commute time, etc.

Although driving may also tap into it, the issue is mental burnout. Cleaning or eating doesn't take mental capacity, thinking does and that is in short supply (as the article notes, study show there's about 6h of good thinking per day in an average individual). Yeah might be able to "productively" work 80h/week if half that was cleaning the toilet... why?

> I could certainly do my primary job for 40-60h/wk productively and then spend 20h/wk doing meetings with users, conferences, etc.

No, you might think you do.
I only used them for development but at least I never had to worry about the application server and the git workflow worked perfectly. Didn't use their shared database, which didn't support stored procedures etc, but it was easy to connect RDS. They came out with their own "dedicated DB" product but it was just RDS with a 100% markup and no other advantage. Not that I blame them for trying to monetize since it sounds like it they weren't making money off the basic stuff.
Yup, as the deleted poster explained, I just used stomach to describe the general area. Belly would perhaps have been more precise. I try my best but I am a foreigner, and that has its price (I suck at commas as well).
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Just because the food is available doesn't necessarily mean the producers will be willing to give it to those without means to pay for it.
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though still very far off the mark of paying employees according to the value that they produce

Employees aren't really compensated for increases in output that are achieved through standard business practices, technology, automation, etc.

That's because their relative input remains the same.

Same input, same salaries.

If I'm starting a business mass-producing widgets and I fund the machinery, process development, and software to produce that -- why should I pay extra for the employee who really only has to push the big red button to start the machines going every morning?

Just because a lot of value is produced when he pushes that red button doesn't mean that he should be highly compensated.
This is the whole problem Keyczar and Nacl were designed to solve.
This seems fairly limited in what you can add. I personally like Andromo since it offers so many 'activities' but I guess this one could be fine for simple event apps.
Well that seems simple enough to fix.

The average GPA is now 4.

Here, go to all the interviews you want.
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In a sufficiently supply-constrained field, assuming performance can be measured, your reward can be fairly closely correlated with the value you contribute.

The lack of correlation is primarily due to inability to measure contributions vs. an effort by employers to selectively screw high achieving employees. If you had perfect visibility into the current and future contributions of employees, it actually would make sense to pay the 10x employee 10x more than the 1x employee (and arguably being able to make a team of 5 x 10x employees would be worth way more than the equivalent salaries of 50 regular employees, since a 50 person team would be so large as to have 2-3 layers of management, much higher support costs, etc., so just paying the smaller team 10x as much would be a bargain.)

For a variety of reasons this isn't really done directly with cash compensation (taxes, measurement, supply shortage, envy of other employees, politics with managers, etc.), but rather by the 10x teams being startups which may get purchased.
Pretty happy with the prospect of unlocked phones becoming a market norm. I've been very happy with my Nexuses in the past: super convenient to be able to just throw in a new SIM when I'm travelling.
Agree. FWIW, our startup went through a similar early-stage name-change too. The backstory is here: http://willgrant.org/settle-is-now-droplet/
Hey man, would love any ideas on how to get the word out!
Thanks! Using options conservatively - buying small amounts, or only writing covered options - can be a great way to mitigate the risk involved in trading just stocks.

You're right that writing naked options, or using more advanced strategies, is a great way to lose a lot of money, but commercial brokers usually stop people from doing that unless they have a good reason for it (or at least know what they're getting into).
Taken to court for exercising their free speech rights? Even if it's "crap some other donkey is saying on the Internet", it's still protected by law in a lot of jurisdictions. And I'm thankful for that.
You should throw HN somewhere on there as well. ;)
This is my thinking as well. When I was teaching and had students which performed below our expected outcomes, we didn't sit around and ponder their ethnicity or socioeconomic status, we simply worked hard to figure out how best to get that particular student caught up (or closer to their peers than before).

In my estimation, the best way to break away from this ridiculous tendency to group people it to treat everyone like an individual.
Few employers are open to ideas like this. At the end of the day, they might make a concession to keep you happy if you're valuable, but few businesses want to structure themselves to operate in this fashion.

However, you can accomplish something similar. If you only want half your salary, work full time for a year while saving half your salary, then fund a year long sabbatical for yourself. If at the end of that sabbatical you've done something interesting (created a new open source project, bootstrapped a business), then applying for a job at the end of that year will be easy. Rinse/repeat as desired.
Even if your company offers it, you should be careful about taking it. There are a few downsides:

- Your advancement and promotion chances are basically zero in such a position. Not due to some conspiracy, but just because you're not around for half of the conversations people are having about the direction of the product/team.

- If it isn't standard practice for the whole team, they all start to slightly hate you, no matter the pay difference. Need drewb's input? Oh, it's Tuesday; that will have to wait until Thursday when special-boy is back in the office. I've seen this over and over (including on my own teams) with people who had been granted special work accommodations, and there's nothing you can really do about it, even as a manager.

If you want more time to yourself, I would much more highly recommend attempting to negotiate regular unpaid leaves of absence for a couple of months. Travel the world; really unplug from work; etc. It's both easier to fit into your career and your company's plans.

Or just go into consulting and only take n-month contracts that fit your lifestyle needs.
Awesome, reading now. Love the new name.
Totally worth a T-shirt

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It's most definitely both of those things.
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I had the worst experience with appfog/phpfog. They ignore emails and state things on their hp that are clearly not true (like they would support .NET which they are not).

Should have been warned whem some time ago a 15year old hacked their system and controlled all their servers.
As someone who boths owns and rents physical servers, I can tell you that owning is 1/10th the cost of renting, but that the rental price includes remote hands and other overhead, so call it 1/5th the price.
Yes..this is exactly what I mean. If you don't want to be spammed from liking something, then don't allow the brands to reach out to users who liked their products. You can only do this with "follow."

By this definition, brands won't tell people to "like" their pages anymore, they will just say "follow" them. FB blurred the links and now no one knows what "like" or "follow" will do.

I can follow a brand and still not get all the information from that brand. This is ridiculous.
You can always download android and build/flash it yourself. The Nexus S 4g has downloads for binary drivers through Android 4.1.2, the rest is the regular source download.
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Obviously, one's mileage may vary. As a developer in the country I live in, the only positions are salaried positions.
It's not waved off as impossible, it's waved off as unprovable. For something to be scientific, it has to be possible to be disproven.
Im sure the PR machines are involved too. "iPhone sells out" always hits the headlines (online and otherwise) in a big way, stoking demand (if it's sold out it must be good - and if I get one faster than everyone else I'll be able to show it off)

Put it this way - I'm sure it won't remain "sold out" (inaccessible to purchase) for long...
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I'm very sorry to hear about your experience with our support team over the past few weeks. While there have been some changes to live chat we are still available via phone during business hours depending on volume and are highly responsive with tickets (hours turnaround if not quicker on average).

Was there a particular ticket I can review for you to see what happened? I want to make sure we don't drop the ball here.
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Not only does overtime not give you a linear increase in performance, but in my personal experience overtime it decreases overall performance.

I work at a small programming company where gratuitous overtime is the norm as a project closes. By the time things calm down again, we're so stressed out that our productivity probably falls by 50% or more for weeks to come. And the cumulative effect after years of this is even worse. I don't think the boss (also an overworked programmer) has yet to come to appreciate this daunting reality.
There's no need to "bring back manufacturing". China didn't pass the USA as the world's largest producer of manufactured goods until last year. And contrary to popular belief, the reason why the USA shed so many manufacturing jobs over the previous few decades has little to do with Chinese competition, and a whole lot to do with the USA's rapid adoption of robotics in factories.

The real causes for the USA's trade deficit have less to do with its ability to manufacture goods and more to do with macroeconomic conditions such as its strong currency, relatively low domestic savings rate, and relatively high rate of foreign investment.

Theoretically, it should eventually sort itself out due to normal market forces. For example, domestic savings should increase and foreign investment should decrease as Americans begin to quit living on credit and start refilling their bank accounts. Incidentally, this sort of thing happened a few years ago, and was accompanied by a huge drop in the size of the trade deficit.
Interesting, I'm admittedly a few years out of date, the last time I used the book heavily was about 10 years ago... I'll have to pick up this new(er) book.
Buying options is a great way to derisk your portfolio, as your risks are much smaller than trading real stocks for a given position for most thing.

Now SELLING Them, that's a different story. Selling positions when you do not have the stock as security to hand over is pretty risky.
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I made this with my classmate from Edinburgh Uni. Thanks for submitting it!
I feel like totally different people use Twitter compared to FB, with some intersection. I x-post everything.
Right, it was a Personal Digital Assistant -- the emphasis was on handwriting recognition; much of the Newton's pop-culture legacy is how ceaseless the lampooning of this features' flaws were at the time (regarding which, I had a MessagePad 130 and it was all more or less true).

But so while it wasn't called a tablet and differed a bit from the near-Platonic contemporary tablet form, it's pretty close to a tablet in terms of UX, use-case, obvious apps...
At a minimum, know exactly what the worst case scenario is with each trade. Make sure this isn't more than you can lose.

There aren't always market makers in options, so bear in mind that you can buy a lot of options and not be able to sell them later. Worse, you can short a lot of options and not be able to cover your position, so you really do need to be comfortable with the worst-case scenario.

You should also look into the details of how your broker deals with options if you hold them until expiration - otherwise you might end up with a lot of stock you don't want (or vice versa).

edit: corrected based on chollida1's response
Which has a pretty low limit on the database (100mb), no dedicated database, no persistent file system (there goes a large portion of PHP downloadable software), no monitoring and you have to retool the way your database works, using json, in a way that no other hosting service does.
"From H, with L" maybe?
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"I think it's horrible to think that just because someone started off behind, they're too incompetent to produce the same quality of work as another student that started off with an advantage."

People who start off behind tend to not spontaneously catch up. And yes, it is horrible. "incompetent" is a bit of a loaded term to describe their current levels of understanding, however.
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In our practice, password reset tokens and encrypted
session cookies continue to be the top source of
exploitable crypto vulnerabilities in web applications.
You don't need encryption to build either of these
features; send 128 bit random numbers that key a database
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That's what I wanted to hear - thank you.
I've only used them for a couple non-professional sites, so I can't really say much for their performance. But they pretty much sold me on their admin interface and design.
President Bush may or may not have been an idiot, but his speechwriter coined a useful phrase, "the soft bigotry of low expectations".
No, affirmative action is this: when two candidates are approximately equally qualified but one was raised black in the inner city and the other white, then it's best practice to choose the black candidate.
You nailed it. Lots of great arguments for both sides, but FB owns the platform and all the toys. All big brands know the risks of making big bets to sell stuff in another guy's yard. In a free market FB can move the goalposts all they want,but the reach is still worth the risk until the cost of doing business with them makes the roi equal to or less than other big reach platforms.
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Of course, your Mum also requires a car that can drive > 100 miles between fill ups.

The most "power user" cars in the world, Formula One, can only go around 60 miles between fill ups.

Large amounts of data doesn't make someone a power user, and lack of data doesn't make someone not a power user.
I wish the media instead started spinning the notion of selling out as negative. This headline could have also read "Google fails to forecast demand for Nexus 4. Runs out of stock"
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I've done it, though not to such a big extent. I work four days a week instead of five, due to a combination of less technical work available and wanting to explore other opportunities. Having a day off mid-week is also incredibly useful if you want to get things done like visiting the bank, which is always packed at the weekend.

Even on five days a week though, I was working less than 40 hours. Most people I know work 37.5 hours (if you exclude lunch), and the Working Time Directive places restrictions on the number of hours you can be asked to work if you're in the EU.
Correction, absolutely do not use OpenSSL.
Sooner or later, we'll have to in order to compete with other nations. The problem is that it will eliminate jobs, which is unpopular. We seem stuck on preserving jobs in certain industries, regardless of whether the economy is better off with those jobs or not.

The question is: How do we create jobs for people with manufacturing skills in other industries that are more needed in our economy? We need to figure out a way to transition workers to jobs that are better for the economy, not keep on subsidizing industries in the name of creating jobs.
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Hyperbole. It depends on what you are doing, what you are encryting for and what you do with the data.
You shouldn't.

You should push that button yourself in the morning, and save the salary entirely.

Consequences are left as an exercise for the student.
We can. This was, if I'm not mistaken, the fundamental idea behind NCLB. Schools had been hiding behind average test scores that obscured the fact that some kids were excelling while others were being shuffled along. So you test every student and grade schools on the absolute fraction that are hitting desired progress toward grade-level competency, not on averages or relative rates for different subgroups.

But schools and teachers hated the added testing, and hated being labeled as "failing" when they failed to get a substantial fraction of their students up to grade level. Parents hated their schools being labeled "failing" (and feared the corresponding property value hit) while their children were doing just fine.

So now we have waivers from NCLB and we're unsurprisingly back to the "soft bigotry of low expectations".

Sorry to sound cynical about this. Really, I wish the Federal government would get out of the local education business entirely, besides making sure civil rights aren't being violated. But if they're going to be involved, they should be pushing for exactly the kind of student-by-student accountability that NCLB (no doubt with many imperfections) tried to impose.