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thanks for the suggestion. Yes,its true,English is not my first language. I'll try to find someone to proofread the text hereafter, before sharing them. I used to take short notes while working on a start-up, i just shared those notes. I'll add spaces to make bit more readable.Thanks.
Recursive skeuomorphism.

I love it.
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This post is a follow up on a post I did a year ago:

http://eduardo.cereto.net/the-bugfix-that-could-make-the-int...

That sparked some intersting conversations at HN at the time.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3456760
One for me too, please. Sent you an email. Thanks.
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Clojure isn't an option on iOS. No Java, right?
well if you look at the way the CM team handled this ( http://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/domain-situation-has-been-re... ), at least that was exemplary professional and mature.
I concur, but still, instant teleportation of information? Awesome.

No more lag because of distance, no wires, no radiation... the future is going to be awesome.

I wonder, since this experimented worked on macroscopic scale, it will possible to transmit "energy"?
I did a phone interview once for Facebook and my interviewer used binary search of an array of integers. I think it is a good thing to use for a first filter because even if you don't know it from memory it is pretty obvious from first principles, and it involves both looping (or recursion) and branching and it is only 10 lines of code. Also there are a few twists you can apply afterwards:

1. Turn it into bisect: return the index at which the searched value should be inserted to maintain the sorted list.

2. Allow any type of array member and require a comparison function provided that returns the standard -1,0,1.

3. Point out that binary search can be used for membership testing with O(log(n)) comparisons where n is array length. Then ask for a data-structure that can perform membership testing in constant time (answer: hash table.)

EDIT: the actual programming was in a shared buffer (something like etherpad). I was mock-interviewing a friend and I had him do it on paper and that worked alright too.

EDIT2: The hardest part about discussing FizzBuzz is avoiding derailing the discussion into FizzBuzz code golf.

#!/usr/bin/env python
for i in range(1,101):
print [i,"Fizz","Buzz","FizzBuzz"][(0==i%3)+2*(0==i%5)]
I understand, and agree with you about D templates. Static polymorphism and generic algorithms are too useful to give up, so of course I wouldn’t do away with templates; but there’s little reason for them to be the underpowered, syntactically hairy functional programming language that they’ve become.

In the past I worked on a language where there was no distinction between compiletime and runtime code. You simply asked for something to be evaluated at compiletime without needing to change the source; there was the stipulation that it ought to terminate, though, else your program would never compile. ;)
Who writes these things?

" In 1886, a bottle of Coke cost a nickel. . . . . In 1899, . . . Coke was sold at soda fountains. But the lawyers were interested in this new idea: selling drinks in bottles."

So was Coke sold in bottles in 1886 or not?
From the article:

Trustees at the University of Connecticut’s flagship campus in Storrs, known for its NCAA champion Huskies basketball teams, said last year they were reviewing the level of administrators’ pay. The move followed a controversy over the then campus police chief, who received $256,000 annually -- more than New York City’s police commissioner.

UConn has a $312,000-a-year provost and 13 vice, deputy and associate vice provosts, including one overseeing “engagement” who makes almost $275,000 a year. The university has seven vice presidents and 13 deans. President Susan Herbst, who receives a $500,000 salary, has a $199,000 chief of staff.

Jesus H Christ
Comparing that with the profits from a single opening weekend of iPhone sales (a much larger number), I think we're getting a pretty good deal.
They don't need to hack anything off--Silly Putty or Play-Doh can fool most fingerprint scanners.
How one man tapped into the Web to crowd-source a cure for his cancer
You do typically take a software engineering course in CS, although when I was in school (ten years ago) they basically just taught us Waterfall, "refactoring", etc. I imagine any respectable program teaches TDD now.
>Wow, what a terrible article. The disingenuity is astounding.

Be aware that the person youre replying to is the person who wrote the article.

I do think you're right though, and I'd be interested to hear jgc's response.
Fake account, but I wanted to say that I think Marijuana has been $10/gram for as long as I can remember. People do alter price based on different parameters, but $10/gram has been a long standing unacknowledged truth.
Yeah, that's a real shame. Well, at some point I'll actually be able to buy my N4 and I won't have to worry about this stuff any more.
I'm not saying they should, I'm just curious about the outcome of this round of interviews.

I've interviewed many a "web designer" that were obviously not qualified on the level they claim. Just asking how to make text flow around an image is a simple gotcha that someone who claims to hand code HTML should know. If you're just a designer then that's fine, but don't say you can hand code HTML and not know what a float is or even have creative solution that doesn't involve a float. I've met many who couldn't come up with a reasonable answer. But it's not an immediate "sorry, you should go now" moment for me when they cannot do so. I also look into how they answer and how they handle being told they were wrong.

Something like FizzBuzz is a useful tool but I see too many give it too much weight without considering other variables involved in giving the test. Each interviewer has their own style but having a heavy hand on one or two aspects of the interview means you may be passing up a good hire.

If I had followed the "rules" that I've seen many advocate then one of the best hires I had ever seen wouldn't have walked through the door and even then he would have been told to walk right back out. Turned out he was an excellent hire that learned quickly and was excited about his work. That young man just recently started his own development company, granted its just him for now but he's got the work and chops to support it. Makes me wonder if I were a FizzBuzz or nothing kind of interviewer how things might have been different. To be honest I have no idea if he could have coded FizzBuzz, I didn't ask.

But I also understand if you are going through dozens or hundreds of resumes then you have to do something. Just don't be the "I don't hire unlucky people" guy that throws away half the resumes when starting. Too many FizzBuzz advocates get dangerously close to that kind of attitude.
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You can play it here:
http://error.rockpapershotgun.com/

For some reason, I the #content container has a width of zero.
Try running `document.getElementById('content').style.width = null` in the console to fix that.
Apple files a patent to suppress noise created by iPhone 'vibrate' function
Good point. Maybe it's something to do with the fact that Lispers are so used to the whole "Code is Data, Data is Code" concept that you get within the Lisp family of languages? I guess I don't really see too much difference anymore between:
<head>foo</head><body>bar</body> and (:head foo(:body bar))
Except that the 2nd I consider far more flexible for my personal needs. YMMV

The way I separate it out (and keep it sane!) is by trying to stick to a fairly strict MVC style and keep the backend code in separate functions away from the frontend cl-who templates. But this does still require some initial work in translating the initial html templates to my lisp templates, so I'll agree with you there.

And yes, it certainly does make it more difficult when dealing with 3rd party designers. I have to translate all their basic html templates into lisp/cl-who syntax. But I don't find that too much of a hardship tbh and the tradeoffs are worth it.
Thieves Grab 3,600 iPad Minis Worth $1.5M In Airport Heist
Neuroscientist predicted outcome of the US election better than Nate Silver
Shame they didn't link to their annual reports or something../s.

Turns out aggressively developing one of the world's most popular browsers, a mobile browser and a mobile OS costs a lot of money. $100m for software development, $20m for admin and $17m for branding/marketing.

They are non profit so there is no point in keeping money in a box. You might perhaps hope they got a little more done for that kind of money (conservatively 800 full time devs.. main gripe would be a faster JS engine), but i guess large organisations aren't too efficient.

http://static.mozilla.com/moco/en-US/pdf/Mozilla%20Foundatio...
Googling implies this is coming to the web:

http://jiwo.in/pop-web/plans.html
Getting Above The Noise on Launch Day
As far as I understood from previous post, you're using sockjs-tornado and firebase for realtime portion.

Two questions:

1. As sockjs-tornado maintainer I'm very interested in project performance: what is average server load, how memory consumption looks like, etc;

2. Why do you use both Tornado and Firebase and not just one of them?
This is great!

Why is it free?

UPDATE Ah: http://jiwo.in/pop-web/plans.html
How one NYC data center survived Hurricane Sandy
Didn't you know? We are living in a simulated reality: http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html

(Probably)
And of course the Metaverse in Snow Crash.
Google invests $75M in a 50MW wind farm, total $1B to renewable energy sector
im not a fan of that either, but at least for voip i'd be pretty surprised if it was possible to bump into a soft limit without doing something obviously abusive like resale or using the circuit 24/7. Mostly the only thing they're worried about is losing customers to resellers. The worse i'd expect otherwise would be an occasional "mysterious" dropped call to limit calls that lack active participants.
Internet Explorer will start automatically updating.

http://blogs.windows.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2011/12/15/ie-to-st...
Mangoreader hits android play and iTunes store
I hadn't been following this lately, so went to check the status of Clojure on iOS Da Goog turns up one person suggesting ClojureScript which (while nifty) isn't the same thing. Another site suggests compiling Clojure to Scheme (which is going to be clumsy at best) or ActionScript (gaaaaaaaah!).

Of course, good luck on getting anything with a functioning REPL on iOS anyway (even the original package under discussion).
Same will be with me.. If i get in... I will dance like crazy.... and its a 22 hours flight from India.. But its worth it :P
Stross and cletus both say we will never leave the solar system and travel to another star. Never!

I'm trying to show that notion is dead wrong. I didn't say it was a solved problem, if you mean in the sense of the engineering is basically done and we're launching something tomorrow. But certainly it is very reasonable to think that within with 150 years we will have both the technological and economic advancement to do a mission to another star. We know how we'd do it, and it uses real physics and engineering, materials, etc. that already exist.

The main reason Stross is wrong though, is he says we'd need free energy to do it. He's right that the limiting factor is the cost of energy, but he's overlooking what you get for 150 years of economic growth. World GDP has grown at an average annual rate of 3.5% over the last 100 years. World GDP is currently at about $80 trillion. If it grows at 3.5% for another 150 years, it will be $14,000 trillion. You can buy a lot of energy with that. And a lot of spaceships.
Open Device Lab opens in Wales, UK: Nearly 100 devices for testing
[Article author here!] Reg is right. The purpose of the FizzBuzz test was to weed out anyone who couldn't program at all and not punish anyone who forgot a semicolon, used = when they should've used == or some similar error. I was completely prepared to discuss the result if someone got close to a working solution.

To my surprise, the candidates' solutions were either bang-on or way off. The guy who asked "Do you think I should use a loop?" had to be cut off at the ten-minute mark, and his paper had only the start of a C-syntax for loop and a lot fo scratched-out lines.
Interactive story books on Google play. provide feedback please
To nitpick: yes. It was and is the default on Ubuntu desktop and other Linux distributions. Admittedly by market share desktop Linux might as well be a rounding error.
Show HN: Making an iOS app for HN from scratch (day 1)
Mobile Game Developers: How Can We Help You?
Hi, my name is Stan Idesis and I just started playerful with
my co-founder Stoyan Gaydarov. We're both ex-Zynga and our
goal as a startup is to make mobile gaming better and we're
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We want to meet you guys and get an idea of what you struggle
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Please share your projects with us or more specifically,
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Well done, this is great.

So much more sense to use an existing layer on the tech stack (paper & pencil) rather than inventing yet another way of putting black lines on a white background.

Nothing to stop you sketching out your menus (and other repeating fragments) on smaller pieces of paper and collaging them together either.
Previous knowledge of FizzBuzz doesn't necessarily indicate competency. They could have easily just read a blog about "The 10 Most Common Programming Interview Tests" and memorized a popular, simple way of creating the code.

To be honest, I seriously doubt the knowledge of FizzBuzz will be a common thing. I was seriously coding for a year or so before I had ever heard of it. When I first saw the question I had what I felt was a responsible block of code that worked. Since then I've tweaked it to be more efficient as my skill level increased. But I've never been asked in an interview to code FizzBuzz or anything like it.
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Engineers suck at finding the right jobs
Why be an entrepreneur? Because ships weren't built for harbors
Am I the only one who finds this incredibly sleazy? Basically he makes money by tricking people to click on ads disguised as content.
I have a rework station but almost never use it for SMT. I find a good pair of tweezers and chip quik makes working SMT easy and fast.

http://www.digikey.ca/product-detail/en/EROPAASA/EROPAASA-ND...
http://www.digikey.ca/product-detail/en/SMD4.5NL/SMD4.5NL-ND...
This makes no sense, those two things have nothing in common, might as well compare their annual expenses to apples and oranges sales in the year.
This looks fantastic!

Unfortunately, the app is not compatible with my HTC Evo on Sprint. :(
The collision detection on the 3D view is strange. When you hit an object, the zoom level is decreased until you clear the object (in this case the top of a building).
I think this misses the point. I'm not sure about Windows phone, but iOS has Chrome and Opera already. While they are not default browsers, they still have an offering available for download.

I think when he says they can't, I think it is more about their code base/engine requirements than anything else.
The mission would leave in 150 years. It would last for 20-30 years one way.

The laser (a bank of lasers, more likely) would need to consume energy at a rate approximately equal to the world's entire current electricity production, basically continuously for the duration of the mission.

That seems absurd of course. But again, you can't underestimate compounded interest applied to GDP growth (see above comment). In 150 years time, the cost to do the mission could easily be the same percentage of US GDP as the Apollo mission was in the 1960's.

Of course if the assumption of continuous future economic growth doesn't hold up, this isn't going to happen. But in that case the world will have much bigger problems... this will be something of a non-issue.
CS grad here and I mostly agree with you.

The main thing I think I got from the degree is that it took away all of my fear of The Stack. In Operating Systems class they just sat us (a bunch of barely Java programming ninnies) down and said "OK, you're going to write a MINIX clone in C and assembly. First assignment is boot." And you do it. It'll take putting your heads together with friends, dragging tips out of the professor, and lots of trial and error, but you do it. There's a support structure there so that you struggle, but you make progress.

Of course I don't remember a damn detail about what we did, but for a brief period in 2000 I felt like burgeoning kernel hacker.

In Programming Languages they're like "ok, you're going to write a program in ML". And you do it. PROLOG too. You just have the experience over and over of "that is some bizarre shit... oh, but now I learned it."

I went in thinking "I can hack together some HTML files and I can write some stuff in QBasic" and I left four years later thinking "I can attack problems at any level of the stack".

Now, you can definitely get the same experience outside of school. That's where I agree with you. You just have to self motivate. I will say, I don't know a whole lot of 18 year olds who really have the skills to self-motivate themselves to dig all the way down to Assembly. But those who do: I'm super impressed.

And of course, being fearless about the full software/hardware stack isn't everything. You really only need to understand a couple levels above and below your wheelhouse. But I do think it's a legit, valuable thing, that self-taught developers are more likely to miss.

And, of course, some of my classmates never got past The Fear either! They just retreated with passing grades back to Javaland and at this point are surely better paid than my broke bootstrapping ass.
I suspect the support person may have been partly typing his responses and partly pasting prefab support snippets. Not sure though.
The question is how often. Adopting the firefox 2/3 model (albeit less nagging a-la-chrome) is a great step forward from the IE6 one we have had up to now, but they really need to match the rapid release schedules of mozilla and google today. At a minimum quarterly updates (features/engine updates, not just security fixes) to stop hindering the web.
Cool. I modified the logout process of one of my services just now after reading this.
Yikes! The expression problem is a small deal and has been solved many different ways (I wrote a paper on this in 2001, I debated this point with Wadler in 2002, this is so old news). My favorite way today is to use traits and type members in Scala, but any language that supports open classes would be even more elegant. Also, its a non-issue in dynamically typed languages.

We are only arguing pedantically about what OOP "means," and everyone has their own definition. Useless. My own definition associates OOP with object thinking, the deconstruction of your problem into interacting objects, and then the use of plumbing in your language that help you realize this deconstruction in a solution. What that plumbing is can vary greatly and involves some combination of methods, messaging, classes, interfaces traits, prototypes, constraints, behaviors, reactions, reflexes, patterns (beta style), state encapsulation, etc...

I like the idea of MOP, its like focusing on one aspect of the plumbing and fixating around it; I could never write a program using messages alone in my domain (like I couldn't really write a compiler using actors!). MOP and OOP are not orthogonal, they are describe completely different granularity.
My email is in the profile. Could I have one too? Thanks.
Well, should a normal user have an urge to do so in that situation ? I mean, I understand why it is detrimental on the long term, but should people have had to use something else than ie6 back when it was superior to the competition ? I don't really think so.
mictro@gmail.com, thanks alot!
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when was the dinner?
Hence why the 4-lb. bag of sugar seems to have become the norm around where I live, and what used to be a pound of coffee in a can is now around 11 oz.
Hey, man -- I'm not going to shit on you for advertising. But I am curious why my zip code, 06840, is not in the list of affected zip codes. We were fucking whalloped. We're in CT, right next to Norwalk (listed), Darien (listed), and Stamford (listed).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but iOS does not have Chrome or Opera because the only browser allowed is Safari/UIWebView. It has an app called "Chrome" that runs UIWebView and has features like tab/bookmark sharing.
I would be interested to know what an actual engineer or physicist thinks of the details -- they're useless to me.
I'm working on building a service for music discovery actually (http://beathound.com) - it's not a problem that's been solved yet. I use whatever I can get my hands on.
First one that's shown promise.
Oh, please.

Stop saying "Americans" as if we are each just a part of a collective with nothing but a collective will. That is the core tenet of Fascism: that the individual does not for all political or practical purposes exist, just the collective.

Every person who voted for a Republican intended to elect that Republican. Every person who voted for a Democrat intended to elect that Democrat.
Ask HN: Can you provide a disappearingromney.com style chart for TelAviv & Gaza?
Sirens going off in Tel Aviv. Rockets falling, so I figured this would be an interesting site to see.

3 days ago ptrwtts posted this: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ptrwtts

It would be awesome to see the same charts about Tel Aviv and also for Gaza. This could probably be done with Twitter data as well like #Hamas #Gaza #TelAviv #Israel.

Besides that, I'm here in Tel Aviv at my startup and things are back to normal, as much as it could be.
Today's the first time a pro soccer ref will swap pen and paper for a smartphone
Yep, found this too http://popapp.in/w#!/projects/509f4907f24f5ec734000001/previ...
My whole visit on this website I spent looking for the resulting prototype I could play with. If the product of your app is something interactive, why not show it off?
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