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I wonder why they didn't use wxHaskell instead for the GUI. Also, what's up with Greek identifiers?
Theory: MS wants to eat into Google's revenues to cut down on their ability to build apps that encroach on their territory. It won't work, but I could see them thinking that.
Wow, this is a great find. I bet whoever wrote it painfully had to swallow his words as the years passed and Google became what it is today. It just shows that with the right strategy and ideas, any startup can unsettled an established field and come out tops.
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Thats pretty freakin' fast. 6 minute miles are fast. I need to learn to run 6 minute miles..that'd be awesome.
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"Windows, on the other hand, he claims is tougher because of its address randomization feature and other security measures. As for Chrome, he says that he has identified a security bug in Google's browser but has been unable to exploit it because the browser's sandboxing feature and the operating system's security"

Sounds like Chrome was saved by not having a version for the extremely vulnerable Mac. Security by obscurity is no security at all.
Programming aside, UI, and design in general, strike me as pretty important.

Just look at what separated early Yahoo and early Google, a confused page of text and links vs. a simple search box. Was this necessarily the reason Google ended up winning out? Maybe not, but it's probably a strong reason for why.
Well, the specific example of using pluralised table names works in English, and completely unworks in many many other languages, for a start.

Hell, it doesn't even completely work in English, either. Not all English words are pluralised simply by adding a trailing 's'.
I don't think it's necessarily a money thing, because I experienced the same effect when I folded up my startup and got a job. And I still had enough cash in the bank to do one, maybe two more startups, and was never in any danger of running out of money.

I think it comes from the sudden lack of responsibility. When you're in a startup, everything you do matters: if you succeed, it's because you rocked, and if you fail, it's because you screwed up. This makes you feel incredibly alive, but it's also incredibly stressful. When you go back to collecting a paycheck and have to grotesquely screw up to get fired, all that stress just evaporates, and it's like coming down off a massive high.

I still wanna try it again, and hopefully end up with a success instead of a failure next time. But I felt like I'd reached the end of my endurance when I gave up: I'd given it my 110% and it still wasn't enough given my current experience level. I wouldn't trade the experience for anything though.
Being students in the CS PhD program at Stanford would have been enough to get them an interview. We don't put that much weight on where people went to college, but grad school admissions are a fairly meaningful test.

We wouldn't have counted it against them that they wanted to take on big companies. That kind of courage is exactly what we look for. When combined with rationality.
that's the case with me too. I can talk sense even while I'm fast asleep.
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> I bet whoever wrote it painfully had to swallow his words...
^^^

her words, that is [it's by Kalpana Mohan]
http://www.kalpanamohan.org/

and she doesn't seem to be particularly ashamed of her words: the article is listed in her list of writing samples:
http://www.kalpanamohan.org/writing_samples.shtml
The downmodding is pretty funny. You guys gripe about Techcrunch all the time being a tabloid. They hire someone who's clearly got better credentials than Mike and you just say they're getting worse. You're not playing fair.
Can anyone supply a link to an article that actually explains the stuff that this article purports to be about? The test of "actually explains" being "explains how to prevent."
Kind of cool. The SACD vs DVD-A war is an interesting one, because effectively they both lost (this article places them in the 1990's).

So now we don't really have a viable high-quality audio format - somehow lossy formats have dominated so much the niche has just vanished. You can probably find more new vinyl than high-quality digital nowadays.
You just spent three days of a teams time over what the designer already knew.
I think there is one clear field that Rails own: attracting the most of douchebags to its community.

Pot? Meet kettle. With folks like you promoting such stereotypes, I could say the same about this site if I thought the same way as you.
Sometimes I, as a Rails developer, forget which is supposed to be pluralized, the model or the table. (Gah!)

Still, Rails' pluralization algorithm is savvy enough to know when it can't just add an 's'. Most of the time, it works.

If you don't like it -- like most things in Rails -- you can just turn it off with one option.

It's the fact that you're allowed to dislike features like that, and make them go away, that makes me wonder how people can hate on it. It's opinionated, but it's not dogmatic.
Wait, even Google was admitting that they were sacrificing short-term revenue for long-term gain. Why should she have to eat her words?

It's very clear that the founders had to be talked into advertising only after the search appliance failed. (I'm almost positive only RedHat actually purchased one of the damn things, which makes sense since PageRank/BackRub isn't going to help you find Word documents in an intranet.)
Which is why you can add inflections in Rails. It even comes with a reasonable set to cover the most common exceptions.
> run a lap in under 1:45

A 1:45 400m is fucking pathetic. I only criticized the absurdity that is long distance running.
You worked at one newspaper...and learned that ALL business sections are ghettos, pumping out thinly veiled display advertising?

one != all

It'd be fair to say that you worked at one place with a lousy business section, making you suspicious of business journalism.

It'd be fair to say you worked at one place with a lousy business section, making you think there are others out there like it, but to crap on ALL of them based on your experience at one?

I'm not expecting this to go anywhere. You've made your mind up on this. I'm just trying to point out that the reasoning here doesn't clock.
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I might have used Ruby but I hear Kernighan & McCarthy turning in their graves whenever I type "end" where a bracket would do the job.

Then don't type end, type } instead. Yes, it works.

If you're going to try something and give up before learning syntax, that's great, but trying to speak authoritatively is misleading.
> Why should she have to eat her words?

I didn't say that, the parent of my first comment did:-)
Zealotry on both sides.

Notice how a comment further up that does nothing but call Rails developers "douchebags" has a high vote count, while other posts that proselytize Rails fare similarly.

There are two camps that are happy to vote en masse for comments that validate their worldview.
hrm that post was a good BUI (browsing under the influence) test...it took me about 3 paragraphs before I had to check the date on the article. time for bed I think.
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I thought the comment was funny because I interpreted the OP not as really wanting to know how to get up earlier but rather how to sleep less (otherwise why the comment about sleeping your life away).
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Where by 'forced to take down pics' you of course mean 'chooses to voluntarily remove some pics in response to user feedback'.

When you're taking the Sun, the most notorious tabloid in the anglophone world, and making its headlines less accurate, that's really some achievement. Bravo.
I'm not talking about an all-out 400m, I just said how it's pretty fun to run that fast while not getting out of breath for 6-7 miles.
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Well, I haven't seen a lot of ruby code that uses } instead of end, have you? So using }, although legal, might not be within standard ruby practice.

The fact that it _allows_ 'end' would be enough to turn me off :]

I guess 'end' wasn't the only reason - while I don't actively dislike Ruby, I just prefer scheme or the lisp family. Part of that is the logical consistency of the lisp languages, part of it is purely personal taste.
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Napster was really innovative stuff. We all know what happened to it.
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* It's going to stink for apps.

Apps stunk for the user experience anyway. They were an experiment gone horribly wrong.
I am pretty sure we are remembering the exact same incident, it would have been around this time four years ago. I just asked my roommate about it, and your stories line up:

He saw a picture of an awesome sheep on your site featured as a print, but with no prices. He emailed you about the prints, you referred him to your art dealer, and she quoted him outrageous prices that were totally out of scale with costs. When he went later to download its 'genome', it had been just removed for that sheep specifically. The capriciousness of the whole exchange really pissed us off, and we later ended up ceasing to use electricsheep in the school's CS labs because of it.

I saw the survey, and the whole thing seemed really weird. Of course you're going to get an extremely favorable response when sampling from your hardcore fanbase.

The point about your job at Google was that you don't need to extract a paycheck from electricsheep to get by. Your constant focus on art-world monetization is extremely off-putting -- it's one thing to take the money on the table from patrons, and another to artificially limit the audience for your work. All the 'limited edition' shit seems all the more ridiculous when there's zero opportunity cost.
Paul: There is probably more than a single article's worth in terms of explaining how to prevent, but you could start with Barry Ritholtz' blog http://www.ritholtz.com/blog -- he also has a book coming out that will probably be very illuminating: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470520388/thebigpict... . You might also try nakedcapitalism.com, another well respected blog.
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I see your point about unemployment, but I'm going to play the devil's advocate for a moment anyway.

I didn't distinguish between causes of unemployment in my post because the market doesn't care. Does it?

"all expenditures are another person's income"; We agree here. It is unlikely that the 1/2 of the economy previously paid for in counterfeit bills was all wine and women. The money they earn is spent and flows into other parts of the economy, creating phantom demand in, effectively, all sectors.

A properly functioning market, by definition, knows how to trim the phantom demand from all sectors immediately and reallocate the remaining capital. This is the path of least collateral damage. Government distortion of the market process (in the form of monetary policy and failure to universally enforce existing laws) prevents market participants from perceiving that which will have value going forward from that which will not; when that happens, the only self-preserving course of action available to an individual investor is to take his or her money and go home until the smoke clears. That disorderly pseudo-market behavior is what really causes most of the deflationary collateral damage, because even the most solid players in the strongest sectors get torched.

Read that again -- compare it to the market behavior the past few months. That is the part of the spiral we're in. Until the government enforces existing laws universally and removes it's monetary distortions from the markets, private capital will stay in the proverbial mattress -- which makes all this Keynesian-vs-Austrian monetary policy talk into just a bunch of masturbation.
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This is my first post!

I'm currently an undergrad at UC Irvine and have just started the path to completing a CS degree there. I want to transfer to a school in Northern California to be closer to my girlfriend (technically ex-girlfriend, it's complicated) who goes to UC Berkeley.

I don't have the grades to get into Berkeley, but I could get into other schools in the area, like SF State.

Back to the question, does it really matter where I get my CS degree? Will transferring hurt my chances of getting into a decent Grad School, getting a good job, etc?
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My wife and I went to a flea market a couple of weeks ago, and we purchased about 20 vinyl albums to rip using her new USB turntable.

I was absolutely astounded at how much better the audio quality was than the usual web streaming/CD quality stuff. It's really hard to beat good old fashioned analog audio.
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I have just billed for less hours than I worked in scenarios like this, without telling the client (so that they don't feel entitled in the future).
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Sony Walkman also didn't solve any problem people knew they have at the time. "Solving a problem" is a good approximation of something people want, but it's not a perfect substitute.
For anyone who still doesn't understand whats going on. Check out http://crisisofcredit.com/ (already been posted).
Henry Ford said something along the lines of "people just wanting a faster horse".
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The only suitable option I've seen so far was faxaway.com, but I can't tell if they're still in operation. I tried signing up online and was hit with the weirdest catch-22 I've ever seen: they wanted me to print out the application and fax it in.
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Entertainment is important.

If that's not up your alley, there's medical imaging, data visualization, novel HCI stuff (eg, Johnny Lee's work at CMU).

CG has practical value - much of what is currently displayed on your screen (windowing systems, anti-aliased font rendering) is a result of CG research.
I was pretty convinced this was the dumbest guy on earth, or a fellow suffering from traumatic brain injury with a bad editor, until I checked the date.
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It's good that these people get to know how life sucks with restrictions...
I downloaded free natural sound recordings from emusic.com as part of their trial. I loop around 8 hours of soothing ocean waves :)
Google clearly has a visual design lead. Her name has always been Marissa Miller.

That's her quite distinctive style stamped across all those Google properties, and she makes no bones about it.
I'll give you some advice you won't listen to: don't transfer to another college just for a girl. It's really not worth it. If you were married or have a kid together that is a different story. But if she's not even your girlfriend anymore, then definitely no. There are plenty of fish in the sea.

While grad schools do put some emphasis on the school you graduate from, the most important thing (I'm assuming you're talking about a PhD) is showing you can do good research and getting good recommendations by your professors. Getting decent grades probably wouldn't hurt either.

As far as getting a job is concerned, it really depends on what you want to do. If you want to go work in consulting or at an investment bank, then yeah, the school is very important and going to a good school will open a lot of doors. If you want to work at a startup, being able to get things done is much more important.
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I've heard a lot of talk about unemployment recently in the news, but I don't know too many people that are struggling to find work here in the Valley. Maybe I'm in a weird pocket, but even the consultants around me seem pretty busy.

I'm interested in hearing tales from the trenches. How's the job market treating you?
They had text-based ads back then, they even mention it in the article.

The critique the author was leveling was that they were resisting /banner/ ads, and therefore putting their scruples ahead of good sense. Definitely seems silly in hindsight.
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It depends. But you will notice a huge difference in the reaction of someone who learns you went to Berkeley than if they learned you went to SF State or Irvine. Doesn't mean those schools are bad, people are just biased.

A Computer Science degree is kind of a benchmark. It's really what you do that matters. If you make a significant contribution to the linux kernel, you could have gone to community college and astute employers would still be impressed. Or you could distinguish yourself by publishing research papers as an undergraduate.

When it comes down to it, though, if you are just looking to get a job then experience is the key. Getting internships programming in popular languages is a good idea. There is a list on the web somewhere that contains languages used by employers in percentages.
Yes - this might be a problem when trying to view US regional DVDs on a PC in the UK but a UK purchased DVD player will have no such problems - there all DVD players must be capable of playing DVDs with any regional setting. One of the few consumer oriented regulations that has had a real impact upon such outdated and outmoded restrictions.
Actually, not so... Most DVD players you buy here in the UK are locked to Region 2. You can buy multi-region players or remove the region lock with a code on certain players, but the mainstream are R2 only. Which is a pain.

Indeed, simple region flipping on a PC could have seen Brown sitting down with Citizen Kane (or whatever other 'American classics') quite happily...
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You're right. But it isn't hard to learn with a deliberate effort to do so. You have to treat it like learning a new programming language. When you do that, and read a book on it ( i like http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Editor-Nutshell-Linda-Lamb/dp... ) then it comes together and you start to really feel like a maestro.
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Isn't address randomization a form of security by obscurity?
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I don't think anyone does. It's an enigma.
I have several friends who have recently been laid off from their software development jobs (most, but not all in silicon valley); but with the possible exception of one person I'm not sure about, they all found new positions within a few weeks.

I suspect that -- like in other economic downturns -- most of the people who lose their jobs and stay unemployed for an extended period of time will be people who never should have had a job in the first place.
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I don't have a problem with what she wrote. She acknowledged that Google was successful in terms of market share.

She was just questioning their refusal to run certain ads. Adwords had been implemented, but Google was making more money off of customizing intrasite search tools for large corporations.

Sure, you can blame her for not seeing adwords as being disruptive and predicting a potential for huge profits. But it is so much easier to discern a disruptive technology as being successful once it starts making large amounts of money.
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Better is the enemy of good for sure. Classic prisoner's dilemma : they could not compromise, they all stand to lose now.
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