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seriously, I can't figure out how this isn't a commercial post
Well, HTTP GET and POST still work. No one seems to mind sending and receiving data that way when they're wrapped in AJAX calls.
I've added unit tests to an existing legacy product, and it would have been simpler and faster to just re-write the application with TDD. The problem is that a project not written with TDD in mind often is very very difficult to decouple, and you end up either having essential sections without sufficient coverage, or you have to come up with come pretty abstract and fragile methods to test with. It's a mess.
I doubt that party would be able to beat out a socially conservative alternative; there are likely more religious/morality-driven voters than libertarians in support of the GOP. Maybe if the DNC were to implode at the same time.

As the security apparatus becomes increasingly intrusive, perhaps a new party could be swept in with the promise of dismantling it.
I'd say it's much better to use things like Presenter Mode as a crutch, where you see the private notes, current and next slides and a clock on your own screen. That way you can focus on delivery, not on memorization, but your audience doesn't have to be distracted by it.

However, ideally, your presentation should flow well enough that you can remember the whole thing as you go through it. If it's too complicated for you, who knows it intimately, your audience definitely will get lost.
Could you expand on this?

Why are too many interconnected components or a complex AI algorithm a valid reason not to test or use test driven development?

My view is that in a complex system, only by having confidence in the units can you have confidence in the integrated whole.

You might be able to build a house that stands and looks nice, but if the timbers, the bricks, the foundations etc are all flawed in their own small ways, sooner or later those problems are going to combine and you will end up squashed.

I can't think of a single example where automated testing couldn't potentially improve what you deliver and the process of working on it. Even the hackiest throwaway script could likely be produced faster and easier with a little automated driver.
Failure to adapt leads to extinction. Which, ironically, is a theory the GOP tends to spurn.
Is there a list anywhere of Coursera courses that have a self-study option? Unless there's something I'm misunderstanding about what that option means, these are the only Coursera classes I'm ever likely to use, because of my schedule. It seems odd that they don't appear to differentiate them.
"The irony is, I really enjoyed the original post. Upon reflection, I believe there is something to be learnt there." -- Care to expand on that a tad?

I wholeheartedly agree with the part of the original post about love and ownership, but not so much about sex and intimacy.

Regarding vomiting - I'm not entirely convinced it's always from a complete lack of thinking on the poster's part. I feel like people are genuinely afraid of putting themselves out there, though they want to, and so try to be cryptic and vague. Perhaps that's from a lack of introspection, but I don't think that's always the case.
Portal's physics engine rebuilt in 25KB - on a TI-83 graphing calculator
Apple computers are definitely not made in America.

EDIT: Whoops, nevermind! Hadn't seen the news.
You can still make a public post not in the group with +Audi or #Audi and it will function the same way Twitter does.
The more relevant and current that comparison becomes, the less of a joke it is.
The Little Books of R
This is why you don't see any janitors on the Enterprise.
You don't start an application by having a finished product on the first day. Let Apple run with this, and we can check in in a year and see where they intend to take this. It's premature for us to glean anything off of this right now.
wait, so what prevents you from +mentioning someone or #tagging a post in G+? Communities are completely independent and orthogonal to those already existing features
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Copyright hawk here:

Content is a $100Bn industry. Technology is 5-6x bigger, but the tech companies trying to disrupt content are an insignificant fraction of that industry.

Meanwhile, set aside whether you believe in the reforms proposed in the Khanna memo --- reducing statutory damages, increasing cost of enforcement, reducing copyright terms. Ask instead, "was this a politically effective policy memo?" Were its goals in the 113th congress realistic? Were its arguments persuasive? Something like 35% of all congresspeople are lawyers, and this memo starts out with a highly dubious argument about the meaning of the copyright clause.

It seems to me (and I am prepared to hear smart people tell me how wrong I am about this) that a reasonable short-term goal would have been to reduce the term of copyright, ratcheting it back to where it was, say, before Sonny Bono. Instead, this "RSC" memo proposed beyond that a gift basket of what seem like mostly not-useful policy trinkets for Redditors: expanded fair use for DJ culture (really? spend political capital to modify regulations on a $100bn industry for... DJs?), lower statutory caps for damages (the MPAA and RIAA already sue for a tiny fraction of the likely liability for many infringers), and punishing false copyright claims (the claims studios take to court are overwhelmingly not false; penalizing bogus DMCA takedowns wouldn't move the dials at all).

The real copyright reform is probably something like reduced term and compulsory licensing. What was the value to the RSC of trolling the Content industry for reforms that had no chance of happening, that wouldn't have actually kept people from being bankrupted by lawsuits, that wouldn't make it easier to launch tech companies, and that at the same time manage to almost uniformly enrage rightsholders?

Was this memo really "shockingly sensible"? A lot of smart people say it was. But I wonder whether they're more shocked that any conversation could have happened at all, and not really looking closely at the content of the memo itself.
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+1 Idan is a terrific speaker. That, together with gorgeous slides, is just unfair to the rest of us.
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It depends on your personal priorities and values. The issues you are pointing to are mostly social factors. If it comes down to the voting booth I am quite certain that issues like gay marriage or choice are far less dominant than supporting competition and less government intervention, that (a long time in the past) have been core issues to the GOP.

Even I, being very dovish on foreign policy, am beginning to question this point when I see for example the current negotiations on the ITU Internet regulations. All this does for me is demonstrate, that values such as free speech and individual liberties are worldwide under attack, and almost entirely depending on America's strenth.
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Steve thought on 10 year timeframes.

Tim thinks in 1 year timeframes.
Awesome! This clears up stats and speaking statistics a lot for me. Thank you.
Google+ also has hashtags, e.g... https://plus.google.com/s/%23ThorsDay/posts

And apparently you can search for anything and you'll get a realtime stream: https://plus.google.com/s/Santa%20Claus/posts
SVN to Git is going backwards. At least go to another distributed vc.

If your interns got confused on their own, they could use some direction. As interns.

I still get tense when I think about SVN merging.
The 'younger members' you reference were kicked out since they voted against the Paul Ryan budget because it did not cut spending enough. They were further to the right than Paul Ryan, and Republican leadership is trying to build support for some kind of budget deal.

http://www.politicususa.com/fireboehner-hashtag-trends-war-e...
Hmm.... I'm not sure I understand this thread, then. Do you view the predominant advice of this article as really only relevant for somewhat "informal" talks? Because, pretty much every presentation I've ever had to give was fairly dense in information.

(Also, I think if you are just doing an image for the whole slide, that isn't too tough in beamer. Just switch to the default theme and don't provide a title for the slide. Right?)
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A switch-mode DC/DC converter obtains the same result as an AC transformer with efficiency approaching that of a well-designed AC transformer. It is a solved problem.
Agreed -- channel sales work where you don't have that expertise (ie - government, oil-gas, etc). However, my points addresses direct-to-individuals is where this model works well.

I think you read more into my comment that was really there. We certainly are not a fit for every manufacturer out there. But this much is true - Like it or not, the internet beat a path to the manufacturers' door. Many of them are still not prepared to handle that. It never fit their model. That is where we fit in.

If the customer is already st your door, then why not capture the sale? Why send them off to a re-seller? That is a bad consumer experience.
Mapping research excellence
I'm hoping that Github and DDG convince more websites to have some kind of command interface, as it's really my favorite mode of interaction.

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I get that the current look is the stereotypical "hacker" style terminal, but none of my terminals have such a small font or high contrast coloring :(

Ctrl + doesn't seem to increase the font size, either.
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I never thought I'd see verilog-mode, haskell-mode and scala-mode in one person's dot emacs file.

I'm in telecom semi and I know companies like Huawei are using a model where they have 100s of engineers in China with less than one year experience with senior engineers in other countries teaching them.
I'm wondering if it would be cost-feasible (eventually) to incorporate pure sine wave inverters at the "last mile point" and do AC to the premises.

Does anyone know?
No. It's too bad the link didn't go straight to the press release, because it answers that question and links to more information about seeking damages.

From http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-12-1317_en.htm :

"Any person or firm affected by anti-competitive behaviour as described in this case may bring the matter before the courts of the Member States and seek damages. The case law of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and the Antitrust Regulation (Council Regulation 1/2003) both confirm that in cases before national courts, a Commission decision is binding proof that the behaviour took place and was illegal. Even though the Commission has fined the companies concerned, damages may be awarded without these being reduced on account of the Commission fine."

In other words, people can sue for damages and use this ruling as proof. That europa.eu pages has a little more information and some links.
Works fine for my Google Apps domain. Are you sure it isn't disabled in your Apps control panel?
http://i.imgur.com/emsHH.png

This setting is at: https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/DOMAIN.TLD/CPanelHome#Organi...
The Plight of the Alpha Female
In the 2000's (I cannot find the figures for this last election), the Democrats were the party of big donors and the Republicans had more total donors each donating smaller amounts (avg was around $50). In other words, if you removed the over $1,000 donors the Democrats would be hurt more than the Republicans.

The GOP leadership seems to have forgotten that this week with its shuffle of budget committee members.
Toca Hair Salon 2 for iOS and Android is built in Unity3D
Already fielded: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaman_K-MAX#Unmanned_remote_con... I presume the difference is that the K-Max is not doing terrain avoidance using laser ranging (undoubtedly it has a preprogrammed 3D flight profile).

"In December 2010 NAVAIR awarded a $46 million contract to Kaman for two aircraft, and in 2011 they completed a five-day Quick Reaction Assessment.

In December 2011 an unmanned K-Max was reported to be at work in Afghanistan. [...]

On July 31, 2012, Lockheed announced a second service extension for the K-MAX in Afghanistan for the Marines. This extends operation time to the end of March 2013, with the option to extend through to the end of September 2013. As of July 31, 2012, Lockheed reports the K-MAX has completed 485 sorties, 525 flight hours, and delivered over 1.6 million pounds of cargo since its deployment in November 2011"
I'd suggest getting to one good slide. One slide with a beautiful font, one line of text and a complementary background image/color. This template is already 90% the work of making the presentation aesthetically pleasing. And take it from there.
"A long personal essay with a moving anecdote on why surviving cancer is more important than building a startup"

"Why you should always validate your first $100M in sales with a mockup, before writing a single line of code"

"How we can implement Ayn Rand's ideas on success to solve world hunger with crowdsourced electronics"

"What is success, anyway?"
I love that it was submitted by "nodejs4eva"
I hope you respond this same way on every post about Google's autonomous car since this is also a demo of a autonomous transport vehicle.
If you paid cash for the cash you received in the mail, it wouldn't be income either, would it? (though it makes little sense.)

Most people earning income in bitcoin probably aren't doing it by mining, especially after ASIC arrives. Just to point out that mining is only one of many ways to earn bitcoin income.
That's a good idea. SLOC might be a nice objective way to do it - it would certainly let you get some idea of complexity at a glance from the list.
T-Mobile USA Getting Some Apple Mobile Products Next Year
Is it just me, or is SkyNet's rational intelligence less scary than the people who will actually end up controlling these machines?

edit: I mean no disrespect to soldiers - I refer to the politicians.
Android app to help keep a close eye on spouse/kids for relief on your part.
>Maybe if the DNC were to implode at the same time.

Right? It seems that's why neither party will ever lessen. It's like an arms race in which parties will never intentionally weaken their numbers by any means. It's led to piecemeal parties that would probably be better as separate-but-aligned than being a small voice in a large party.

I just can't imagine anything to begin such a split at the same time. If, say, fiscal conservative/social liberal people all actually made the jump to Libertarian (or another party), maybe a further left liberal faction of Democrats party might follow, but probably not. I just can't imagine anything that would incite a sizable group to give up that balance.

Shame. If large enough, and they pulled a few members from the other side, there's the potential they would become king-makers.
I do wonder what happens these fines.

The US govmt are pursuing lots of banks (suspiciously lots of foreign ones) and applying massive fines with little hope of recourse or application of due process. And It is not clear if this money goes anywhere at all.
I can totally vouch for Brett at DunkTank. He's an awesome dude who will help you create an awesome product video.

Also, sweet hack Brett.
The Pythagorean Theorem is Equivalent to the Parallel Postulate
In my experience, the way to approach this is to start writing tests for any bug fixes or new features added. Over time, coverage increases and the product becomes much more solid.
I agree, the terms are insane, and I hope they don't keep extending them. I'm pretty sure every single person who worked on the original Disney movie Snow White is dead now, lets get that into public domain, the point of copyright isn't to have an income stream for one's family forever.
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Thanks a ton!

And no I don't think so, as they claim "Amara gives individuals, communities, and larger organizations the power to overcome accessibility and language barriers for online video."
You just helped me watch a course that was posted for free online. Isn't that the point of this? :)
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Heh that's interesting, I just watched 106A yesterday to get an idea of how the programming introduction course is compared to my university (utwente.nl).

I actually was a bit disappointed to see that it is very much like our introduction course, except that this teacher is a bit more enthousiastic, and perhaps the course starts at an even more basic level I think.

I think for real CS enthousiasts 6.001 at MIT is much more interesting (and fun) to watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Op3QLzMgSY

(it teaches scheme and the lecturer has an awesome way of explaining it)
Well, if my choice of senator or congressperson helps make the difference between a land war in Iran or not, I'm going to have a hard time factoring in that legislator's support for copyright reform.

The bigger issue here though, the reason I'll go out on a limb and call copyright reform a fringe issue, is that it's supported by crazy people. For instance, in the "purported reasonableness" camp in the house, you have Darrell Issa, who has generally been a source of supported nods towards copyright reasonableness. Sounds great, right? But Issa is also a crazy hard anti-abortion crusader who has chaired panels in the house on funding for contraception and, recently, to give a new hearing to the vaccine-autism connection.

Single-issue voting is a great way to empower crazy people.
You imply that "the community" changed opinions... but "the community" is not a person. It's not necessarily minds that change rather than the people. The readers of HN are the teenagers of yesterday, who have never stopped disliking Apple.
I don't know if Google announced this earlier, but this post just released more granular active (I assume monthly) user numbers for G+ than I've seen:

"More than 500 million people have upgraded, 235 million are active across Google (+1'ing apps in Google Play, hanging out in Gmail, connecting with friends in Search...), and 135 million are active in just the stream."
Agreed this was completely pointless. Bottom line is not every line of code needs testing, and TDD alone does not have an impact on code quality. There is nothing I hate more than bad code covered by even worse test code.

Here is a talk for anyone who is wondering why TDD doesn't make sense as a default mode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeVvj4HENOQ

Bottom line is that writing TDD style unit tests won't make crap code better any more than removing them makes good code worse. TDD is a tool, nothing more, nothing less.
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Reading the team git log like a newsfeed every morning
Plenty of free market people believe that people and companies have a right to control the products of their own labor or of labor that they financed.

The GOP is no more likely to move away from being the party of social conservatism than the Democrats are to move away from being the party of public school teachers.

(Fair warning: I'm a casual browser of libertarian policy positions, but I am most definitely not a libertarian. My libertarian friends would call me a liberal statist.)
I am not trying to troll you; I mean this question honestly: Why do you care so much about being happy? I know that is the default goal of most people, but it seems rather like chasing gold at the end of the rainbow when you have no reason to think that the gold exists. Do you know of anyone anywhere ever who has spent the majority of their time 100% or even 80% happy? Was this person a holder of a medical marijuana card?

I think we would look down on someone who spent their life stoned. I do not see why this method of achieving the "happy" feeling as any less admirable than any other method. In the end, you are just striving to be chemically stoned, though one method uses outside chemicals to achieve this feeling and the other uses activities and experiences of a non-chemical nature. In the end you are just striving to put and to keep your brain in some chemical state. Does not seem like much to me.

Christopher Hitchens -- who has been on my mind much as the first anniversary of his death is in nine days -- once said that if offered a stress-free and blissful life, he would not want it, that he likes the feeling of burning the candle at both ends and the stress of things. Do not make the mistake of saying that he has redefined happiness for himself to mean the state of stress, because that is not what we are talking about when people talk about wanting to "be happy". They mean they want to feel good and joyous. Hitchens did not say that being stressed and attenuated through effort gave him joy, he only said that he preferred this state to anything else. I sympathize with him on this point and take it from me, this is not the same as the "happiness" that most people are talking about. It is more like a state of satisfaction with occasional blimps of good humor mixed in with a great deal of unpleasant emotions. But, stiff upper lip and all that.

I think anyone who imagines that if they start a startup and strike it rich that, like a Sim, all their need meters will max out at green and they will feel permanently joyous is completely kidding themselves. This just is not how life goes. Life does not plateau at joy. It is a constant moving wave.
I just tried SwiftKey and one thing Swype does a lot better: when it gets the word wrong swype lets you horizontally "scroll" through a list of ~10-15 possible matches. SwiftKey only gives you the top 3 matches to choose from. Often the word I wanted was not in the top 3 closest words that either program thought it was -- and with Swype I can scroll right and pick the correct word.
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"I can't think of a single example where automated testing couldn't potentially improve what you deliver and the process of working on it.

Not engaging with the above argument, just trying to clarify an ambiguity. Just saying (and trying hard to keep tone neutral).

automated testing != test driven development.

The former has been in use for decades. The latter is a relatively new methodology/practice which emphasizes writing tests first and using tests to drive development.
My CS teacher also used the gezinta/gezouta box example, even though we were on the West Coast. I didn't understand that he meant goes into, goes out of for a while!
Even ChiSukwa?
"They simply avoid the problem in the first place, so not knowing is irrelevant."

I always see this as a quality that I'm missing compared to other coworkers. They'll go for the simple implementation with the complicated usage pattern while I always aim for the complicated implementation with the simple usage pattern (to a point).

We've had a lot of discussion of your simplicity-is-not-simple article which did a great job articulating the trade-offs.

http://raganwald.posterous.com/simplicity-is-not-a-simple-co...
What items are being price fixed these days?
Best Buy is priced in the market in part based on their margins.
That seems true, but it could be that Jobs was speaking at a time when changes were happening that are coming to fruition now. For example New York state has invested heavily in semiconductor fabs upstate
What extent of the production will be here though? Are they just assembling motherboards, chassis, and displays all together that have came from overseas? I don't think Apple would be so willing to give up the advantage of having all of the tightly knit infrastructure available in China just for political reasons.
Cloudant seems interesting, never heard of them before. The pricing is intriguing. (https://cloudant.com/pricing/) From what I understand, it's free for most small projects but could get very pricey very fast, but then, handling millions of customers is far from being trivial to handle so I'm sure it's worth the price. Thoughts about the Cloudant pricing versus in-house solution (or vps)?