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I've used it. Its actually one of the nicer APIs, but since you can't republish market data from it, you're stuck with only giving derivations and projections. That will satisfy some people, but there's definitely a group of traders who always want to compare your results to the raw data points on site and not jump between their own data source and your algos output.
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Right. In my proposal on the topic, I proposed dividing a freshman CS class into two groups. One group would use spaced repetition, the second wouldn't.

To compare the groups, I proposed using a few common metrics (SLOC, cyclomatic complexity, Halstead's metrics) to get a gauge of the different size of solutions. My guess was that a more "fluent" student would write shorter and simpler programs simply by not needing to reinvent.
I don't see use when learning to program but if I memorised, say, the PHP standard library with all its warts, it would make me far, far more efficient at work. Whenever I write in PHP, there's always going to be a lookup for something in the standard lib, whether it's the signature of a function, how it should be used or whether it exists at all.
If all the initscripts and kernel updates break Arch, then you probably made a mistake or two in some conf file installing it. (eg not having /boot correctly in the fstab will break you on every kerenl update, for example)
I'm inclined to agree with the author.

There are a few parallels here with the logo for the London 2012 Olympics. When the brand was announced in 2007, it was slated.

80% of the public gave it the lowest possible rating, people were outraged about the cost, newspapers ran competitions for their readers to create their own logos, and an animated version of the logo was reported to cause epileptic seizures.

The officials in charge stuck to their guns, and five years down the line I think it's fair to say the branding was a huge success. High impact, instantly memorable, and yet hugely versatile.

As the author of this article points out, the logo was just a small part of a much larger branding strategy.
This looks really neat. Nice work!
Short answer: no. Long answer: they're working on it.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2025377
It is worth pointing out that Tolkien was a phonologist--a linguist specializing in how words sounded--and his stated goal for the entire Middle-Earth universe was to provide a mythic backstory for England.

These two facts converge to make claims of originality very strange and difficult, because the derivations themselves are examples of original work.
will face animosity from others

There is a difference between "animosity from others" and outright hatred, violence and oppression. There is a difference between "animoisity" and being denied many of your rights and being locked up in a mental institution ( 11 yr old trans girl institutionalised: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/01/31/german-trans-girl-to-be... ).

Banning people they disagree with from a rather public forum like a subreddit, for example, only hurts their cause and their reputation.

I disagree. I think there is empirical evidence that the LGBT or Trans rights groups have benefited from having safe spaces. Trans rights and LGB rights & politics have increased over the last two decades, in part I think due to more trans & LGB people coming out because they have safe spaces to explore themselves.
What really struck me about that lecture is that he only uses one blackboard throughout the entire talk, and he doesn't start writing on it until 20 minutes in. I wish more lectures and talks were like that.
Given that the Judge threw the lawsuit out, it seems fairly difficult not to argue against it.

But even if he had not, I would still argue against it, as it shows an extreme lack of morals on the part of the francishers.
Thus far I feel that, if any language was ever going to replace C, it's probably Go. In a way I sympathize with Go. I like it for the compactness and simplicity. Those are two design decision which seem to be unique among modern languages and exactly the two things I like most about C.
Alternately all the important bits of pacman output are in /var/log/pacman.log and everything that _requires_ manual intervention is posted on the archlinux.org site. You should not update before checking the arch news.
> 2. Google cutting EAS support.

As others pointed out already, android manufacturers are chased by Microsoft for patent royalty to support this proprietary thing (ironic?). It's costly and of no merit, thinking of standard IMAP protocol.

http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/en/us/intellectualprope...

> 3. Google explicitly stating they are not going to support Windows Phone 8.

by app, period. Why bother?

> 4. FRAND patents against XBox.

You can read the story behind this via http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130104031515319. It's Microsoft's lawyers fxxked up and got backfire.

IMHO, google/motorola is on the defensive, in good faith.
If you wear a belt, get a belt case for the phone. No more pocket troubles.
I'm going to give it a try. There are certain programming languages that I use rather unfrequently like python or bash script. But when it comes to the point that I need to use them, I allways realize that I tend to forget so many useful commands and API calls, so I have to look'em up once again and again.
My point to this phenomenon is, that when I'v just looked up a (in my eyes) complicated unix command e.g., that at this very moment I know that I won't remember it two or three days later. This tool might be a good help to note them down and help me to memorize them.
I hope so. Corporate personhood gets a bad rep, but without the ability to form corporations to shield us from liability much of what we enjoy today would not be possible.
Elves are totally mentioned in Genesis 6. JRR Tolkien merely gender flipped it.

Elrond is not pleased.
Does your N7 feel a lot more sluggish after updating to 4.2? The N7 was my first new Android device since the Nexus One so perhaps it's just that massive upgrade slowly wearing off but I too felt my N4 was a lot more fluid than the N7 when I got it.
I know more people in my age/location cohort who got married due to OKC (far and away #1) or Craigslist (#2) or IRC (dear god) or Erowid than Match.com+eHarm+etc. combined. I've never even met a Plenty of Fish user.
For my day job I program in Java doing enterprise stuff, at home I enjoy dabbling in Go, D, Haskell and Clojure for personal projects.

Mainly because in my opinion it's a huge PITA to do command line stuff in Java and distributing class files/jars to other systems is a real pain especially when other instances have varying versions of the JVM running.

With Go I can just compile something on my machine and send the executable to another (running the same/similar OS) and I can be pretty sure it runs fine.

Java is great for large, long running applications like web apps and servers, but I don't think you can be as productive when knocking out one-off scripts/rough and ready prototypes.
It is not as long as you pay attention and know what you want.

There is always a tradeoff between 'works as _I_ want' and 'how much time _I_ have to spend on maintenance'. It is always your choice, and if you want an OS that you can craft exactly to your needs Arch is currently the best (in most cases, of course).
Total garbage, never heard anything more stupid in my life.

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to decry intolerance when they're the victims, only to turn around and deliver intolerance to some other group of people. It's hypocritical, and it's counterproductive.

These groups do not "decry intolerance in all forms", but instead decry intolerance against people of different gender & sexual identities. Many (all?) of these groups have no problem not tolerating people who don't tolerate gender & sexual minorities. There is nothing hypocritical here.

Instead of banning the detractors, they should try welcoming them into the community, and maybe even try to understand them and their viewpoints better.

"detractors"? Are we talking about the same thing? This isn't some technical mailing list where the discussion is whether the programme should have lots of defaults or have lots of options for power users. The "detractors" want to kill LGB people. The "detractors" think that trans people can be assaulted and killed if (for example) a straight cis man finds a trans woman attractive.

These "detractors" do not come into the community to learn more. They aren't "detractors", they are haters. They come in with hatred, hostility with the goal to destroy the community.

And you think things would be better if these haters were allowed to say whatever they want in these communities?!
What makes Cheddar stand out for me is how well crafted the experience is. Good luck with the sale.
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It seems bbc did not link the company's website: http://www.yotaphone.com/

I always wondered why a concept like this never made it to a device -- e-ink displays are pretty incredible with battery life, and my phones usually last quite a long time without the screen turned on. The specs look quite compatible to current-generation top end phones, so it'll be interesting to see this device in action.

I also recall Pixel QI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_Qi) working on a hybrid e-ink and lcd display, hybrid in the sense that they used current lcd manufacturing technology to have a display operate in two power modes, with and without the backlight on, with different resolutions too, but I haven't seen any of their displays make it to a really main-stream product yet.
From my experience if you're running Linux on your local machine and Linux on your server then you can distribute a Go binary to your server and it will run fine. Even if they are different distros.

If you have differing operating systems then you have problems, but that's be a build process problem rather than a problem with Go.
Maybe it would also be interesting to have phones with e-ink displays on its sides, for things such as notifications, weather conditions and phone status.
I've spent a couple of hours a few times a year having to maintain my OS so far. I vastly prefer this to Ubuntu, where pretty much everything broke every 6 months.

The tradeoff is that you get new and shiny software continually.
I love the x220 keyboard, but the chiclet is getting a lot of praise. The spring keyboards are somewhat fragile and get messy, so it might even be an upgrade.
I agree. I was excited to hear we were getting Thinkpads at work, since I have an X220 at home. But alas, they were consumer-grade laptops designed for watching TV, not a patch on their higher-end devices. They shouldn't share a brand.
I found the Ainulindale to be one of my preferred parts, but I'm also the kind of person who would enjoy reading Hesiod or the Bhagavad Gita as well. I enjoy religious literature without the bother of agreeing with it; it has a different quality that mercilessly bends the strict fiction/non-fiction line we like to pretend exists.

I actually read it while I was young and hadn't the money to buy my own books: I got it as a single, enormous Word document from a friend and read it by CRT display.
I would love to have one of those! Right now, on the back of my phone, I have a camera and a quick stand; the rest is a waste of space.
What content would you like to see on your phone/tablet e-Ink backscreen?

The video shows a weather app as an example. It implies we would leave our phone the e-Ink screen up. I find it interesting because it changes the way we are using our devices today.
To tell you the truth, I didn't miss it, but I thought it was worth pointing out that without including the comparison against colleagues, it would be a different situation. You are of course right that it's not right to treat colleagues differently, especially if some of them are also 'well-calibrated'. An incentive program would've been a better solution that a penalty system, perhaps.
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The biggest gain is coroutines which are easy to add to your application. No imports, no convoluted thread initialisation just

go myMethod()
"The value that the company provides as a service to internet users is vast and perhaps unmeasurable."

Unmeasurable? Seriously? Isn't there already a word for this? Oh yeah, immeasurable. You know why your spell checker was highlighting that word, Mr. Kosner? It's not because the computer is stupid and you are so smart. It's because it's not a word.

And that quote... “If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.” We're going to attribute that to a MeFi post from 2010? Really? Ever read a book? Even in digital form? Please for love of all that can ever possibly be right with the world, stop writing.
> Once you get past the surface, pop culture is typically hollow.

I'll be pedantic and take issue with that.

Pop culture is unable to stand on its own, but once you get past the surface, it's really more of a guidebook to the nature of culture which can rapidly become a very deep exploration if you have the stomach for it.

Art tends to be able to stand on its own outside of the culture it came from.
I don't think that's the issue. The issue is that if a community is represented by a few key figures that share traits that you do not enjoy or seek in a community (in this particular case; generating a lot of drama), it's very hard to overlook. It's like getting a bad first impression, only a bit more continuous.
Have you checked out Sublime Text 2? Building an IDE is a tremendous amount of work, good luck!
What is the "Ruby community", exactly? The set of programmers whose language of choice in certain cases (the web, scripting) is Ruby?

Once you ascribe cult-like groupthink and behavior to a diverse and disconnected group of people who happen to write code in the same language, "leaders" of the cult will emerge from the noise. If you think DHH is some worshipped leader of Ruby programmers, you should read the GitHub comment threads on some of his changes to Rails.
I've been reading a book on Irish Mythology (Lady Gregory's compilation) and it reads a lot like LoTR

Tolkien came up with new stories and characters, but the style is similar (and of course with sources from Norse Mythology and others, that mixed and grew apart, etc)
At the very least, you can now have a new rear cover wallpaper whenever you want. Other than that - I could definitely imagine games that involve switching between the two sides to solve puzzles. Flash card apps would be fun!
I totally agree with you there, but wouldn't it be even better if we limit the amount of new stuff we haven't tried yet to a size small enough to keep it in our heads? This way, we can eliminate the need for specs; discussing ideas though speech.
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Is it possible to direct the notification to bluetooth headset? Some bluetooth stereo headset can vibrate.

I've been thinking about the same thing for iPad mini (talkatone instead of GrooveIP), but worried about the notification.
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It may seem crazy, but I often read on my phone, I'd be way happier to have an eink screen there.
"The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing"

He is wrong but it certainly looks like that.

You don't have to care for the commercialization of the stuff and Happy Meals with Hobbit toys. The aesthetics and philosophy are still there.
Go is a bit like C but it has GC so it depends on how much you value the fine degree of control of memory allocation that you get with C.

Personally I think Go has a lot cleaner syntax than C and the tools give a lot more "friendly" error messages when compiling your applications.

You do still get nullpointerexception runtime errors though but that's an inherent problem with the nil/null type.
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This is the classic example of the seller mixing price (cost) with value.

You are totally right when you say "There's even more ways to spend $125k to make $18k/year" - there are plenty of corporate bonds paying a yield of 10% vs Cheddar's gross yield of 14%.

Subtract from that 14% your time, additional investment to grow user base, taxes and salary; your are left with nothing and $125k less in the bank.

Good luck to the seller, but it's a tough sale.
I wonder if you can send them a takedown request?

Googling "Copywriting for geeks" shows scribd link as third result - it is quite likely to have a significant negative effect on your sales.
...so it's one of those "someone has to do it to prove it can be done" or "someone has to first make it work to prove it's useful" problems?

Hopefully there are a few madmen to start working at it and they will be wise enough to do it all "in the open": open source code and publication of all developments, "blog stye", instead of the "talking about only after you've really understood it" approach. I would throw a helping hand on the programming side and maybe devops, even throw a few bucks at it if one were to crowd-source and crowd-fund such an effort ...just because I find it "so cool". And I'm sure there are others that would help any group of "brilliant madmen" trying to do this, even without any imaginable profitable applications. But for now, I'm trying to wrap my head around what the QED project was trying to do and what it did... thanks for the directions to them!
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When I went into the comment section of the article, all I can see is namecalling of liberals, conservatives, scientists and newspaper writers.

I am not really sure if the comments are meant as irony or not.

My brain is melting.
> Nothing against China or it's people but if we keep building it up while it buys all our debt, this will end very very badly.

Short term profits vs long term vision. You've got it 100% right, this will end very very badly unless a reverse trend sets in. The question is which CEOs will have the balls to forego short-term profits? It appears Apple is moving in this direction but that may just be a PR feint to appeal to a 'made in America' feeling.
It can be used for saving battery also. Minimum functionality like calling, messaging can be provided on on e-ink screen and you can have battery life of around 30 days something.
I think it was about 30 seconds or so, as it was long enough to realise that I was conscious and try everything to realise that I couldn't move. My experience of it in dreams doesn't seem to be sleep paralysis, as it was normally part of a bad scenario (i.e. the old hollywood thing of you being taken to cooking in a pot by canibals) where my paralysis made sense to the situation, but was part of a full dream that had lead to that point. I could be wrong, but that's the way I've interpretted it.
Everything seems to deteriorate to a fight between parties. Rational argumentation that contributes to the presented subject becomes rare. Instead you see the pro/con, fanboy/hateboy 'debates' with low signal to noise ratio. I guess the political system (government vs. opposition, left vs. right, ...) has had a negative influence on public discussion in general. People increasingly think that public discussion means the clash of parties that fight against each other until there is a winner and a loser. The popular TV debates are based on that format.
No chance of success I'd say, at least here in the UK. The physical location of the corporate entity would be the companies registered address, that place where, statutorily, communications are mandated. If he was driving to that companies registered address, then to succeed he would need to show firstly that it's possible for the corporate entity, a thing indivisible by nature of its personhood, could be both in his car and legally placed locationally with his destination at the same time.

Perhaps he could say that that it was a baby person, not being fully incorporated yet. But I doubt he had a baby seat in the car with him, so I'm not sure that would work either.
Sigh. iPad keyboard... :-(
Note the wrong date also. We are in 2013 now...
Isn't it statistically most often the woman who breaks up? I suspect that might be because it is easier for women to find new partners.
You've probably heard this counterargument, so I'm just putting it out there for the sake of completeness:

If Jackson hadn't done those things, there was no way he could have culled the story down to 3 3-hour segments.

That said, I do agree. I was disappointed that Bombadil and his immunity to the Ring didn't show, for instance. But while the Scouring of the Shire was immensely critical to the books, it was also profoundly anticlimactic: it would have broken the simpler narrative of the movies to pull in those more complex themes to have a second climax.

As it was, Jackson only barely managed to hang the two main plotlines together. They didn't need a connection in the books, but it's much more challenging in a movie format. It might have been worth it to split The Two Towers into two films in order to give each its room. (Frodo and Sam from the Breaking to the escape from Cirith Ungol in Film 2; Aragorn and Gandalf's contests with Theoden, Saruman, and Denethor as a very long Film 3; and twisting the two back together in 4 with room for the Scouring.) Nolan managed it in The Dark Knight, where after the Joker was beaten, there was one final emotional explosion. So it can be done. I don't know if Jackson could have done it.
My startup is www.parkuik.com.

It's all about a collaborative work between all of us to find the best parking spots in all the paces you could ever imagine.

In a few days it ll have an Android app too to find them wherever you want.

Hope I can be listed in your blog!
I blogged about this ~4 years ago :) http://www.codelord.net/2009/02/26/sending-sms-using-google-...
The link is about a Video Search engine?? Turns out we are doing the same thing :)
Argh. Always get proof, conjecture and theorem mixed about. I'm a baby mathematician - literally starting from scratch because I've realised that I missed a lot of concepts at school.
The use cases / problems the device solves as mentioned by the CEO are multiple in nature. But I'm not sure which will realistically be the one that gets consumers to buy.

For me a phone with e-ink is amazing because it allows me to read stuff with hurting my eyes. You can also use it in the sunlight.

What does everyone else think?
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I think it sounds like a great idea, and its awesome to see a small upstart challenging the big players with something really fresh.
Maybe peeps don't know that GMO == Genetically Modified Organisms, "GMO" isn't so eye catching!
Most of what I do on a phone could be done with e-ink.

Calling/skype, various messaging apps, podcasts, music, weather, bus app, email, calendar, chess clock. There are some things that wouldn't work (games, video). These are fairly low priority for me. Some things that might sorta work, especially if they were re-made for e-ink (eg maps/navigation apps). These I want on my phone.

An e-ink phone might not be a bad idea if it could carry other advantages too. A $200 smartphone with 3 day batteries that runs 80% of apps might be appealing to a lot of people.
Well, there's a difference between holding-a-grad-degree level, and being a grad student. On the other hand if the implication was that undergrad degrees teach your relatively little in comparison to what they should, then yes.
When I ask myself what curiosity leads to, the first thing that pops into my head is the 80s commercial for The National Enquirer:

"Inquiring minds want to know!"

Which probably has the lowest correlation to entrepreneurial success as anything else. Curiosity about business or how the world works is different from curiosity about gossip. Gossip is unactionable to any positive outcome.