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If you don't understand that the thing that is more important than money is trust, then you shouldn't be in business at all. The minute you screw someone, you've lost them as a customer forever and you've ruined your own reputation.
I use a tiling window manager - dwm. Which basically means I have exactly this layout, but easier to manage and control via keyboard. I used to use a mac pro with divvy, sizeup, etc but the workflow is just not as good as when I'm using dwm. Your millage may vary, but I've grown annoyed at the decisions apple takes in OSX to cater to the most common denominator, ie. the common non techy user that likes that their machine looks hip and works how they expect out of the box.
The school I went to (a state university in Michigan) actually taught mainframe programming with RPG and COBOL. It wasn't a standard major program and it wasn't required, but there must be enough of a demand to keep some classes open for a minor focus during a CS degree.
Absolutely. When I was first starting out, I made so many poor design and implementation choices. I like to think I've improved tremendously since then, and I've only done so by putting in thousands upon thousands of hours of programming.
I don't know why they don't open their store to desktop apps. Maybe they have an agreement somewhere which hinders that action.
Because this was a study, the money spent has little to do with the individual subjects. If pollster calls me for a a national opinion poll I would rather be paid 1/1000 of whatever the budget was than answer the questions, but obviously my participation is more helpful overall.

The goal was to identify what actually works, which is something you need to know before improving the situation. Paying a bad teacher more will not make the education provided any better (despite whatever the teacher's union says).
No, it's just copying the bundle.
As long as these PDFs are exposed publicly (and linked to, which a tweet with or without #pdftribute will take care of), they will mostly be indexed by Google Scholar, which does a decent job of extracting metadata using heuristics etc.

Of course, it would be much better if people started embedding machine-readable metadata in PDFs (totally possible, see for example http://code.google.com/p/pdfmeat/), and if there was some agreed-upon format for bibliographic microformats, that could be embedded in websites listing articles.

We also eventually need an open alternative to Google Scholar. GS is great, and I use it every day (and love that you can output BibTex for example), but it has no API (and will never have one because of deals with publishers), actively resists automatic access, is a black-box in terms of how data is gathered, etc. Think of "Open Scholar" to Google Scholar as analogous to OSM vs GMaps. OSM might not look as pretty, or be as consistent in the beginning, but it enables a whole range of applications that GMaps doesn't. (And at least GMaps does have a fairly good API, even if it charges for overuse, GS has nothing).

(These are just some thoughts I've made, as I've been experimenting with an open scholar workflow, trying to share as much of the "byproduct" of the research, including rich notes and summaries, my own bibliography with links to OA pubs where they exist etc: http://reganmian.net/wiki/researchr:start).

Another thing I've found working on my project, where I try to expose OA links to as many pubs as possible, and regularly rescan to see if they are still available (and still OA), is how quickly documents disappear... Hosting on private pages is convenient, but fragile. Ideally, people would upload papers to university repositories, subject repositories like Arxiv.org, etc.
Perhaps they wanted to learn more about the problem after funding the solution.
Except that even those things don't predict later success. Any kid with a family that can afford books will score higher on "can this kid read English". Any kid who's been drilled can learn to multiply two numbers together. Without cognitive skills behind them, though, those are not useful abilities.

The best predictors of future success are self-control, emotional intelligence and a grasp of functional algebra (which I believe, but don't have evidence to support, is because of the importance of computational and systems-level thinking.) Only one of those, self-control, is even indirectly measured by current standardized tests.
Gittip doesn't try to trick you into giving anyone money. It is a completely deliberate action on the part of the donor.
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Nope, no installer script. If a program needs installer script (to install drivers etc.), you get a package installer (like on Windows), however, they are rather rare and I've never seen any crapware in those so far.
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I like the idea. However, I also want to search for a range of days or just anytime in the future. If I limit my search to 1 day, I'm unlikely to get in at a popular restaurants in NYC.
And the iPad. Until the Nexus 10, I don't think anybody managed to sell a high-quality 10" tablet for under $500.
The good news is they have video of good teachers (and bad) at their craft for years. It will take more analysis, but they have all the data at the ready.
You may not control the home life of your engineers, but you presumably have at least some control over who you hire and fire. Even if you don't have the authority to fire someone directly you can still give your subordinates poor evaluations.

Imagine being a situation where not only did you not have any control over which engineers worked on your team - or even whether they were engineers at all, or even basically literate. Now imagine that your whole industry pretty much worked liked that and that changing from one company to another (which most likely worked the same way) always meant moving cities.

Incidentally, what they did in this study is to measure the value-addition of each teacher, not their raw test scores. Presumably you're not evaluated based on things you have absolutely no control over, as you said - you get judged based on the slice of the pie that you do control.
I believe offering the Ask bloatware is how BitTorrent finally ended up making money. I guess there's not much money in p2p filesharing.
Did you read the article? It didn't use just standardised test scores.
"If you wouldn't install that software on your families (like, the wider network - parents, siblings, grandparents) machines"

Except those people probably would do that.
Just wanted to add my thanks for a great product. We are a pro license holder where I work, I believe.

Not sure if this was your point, but I assume that you are using a lot of MSI and Windows API hooks, in which case this is a great example of the flexibility and integration options of Windows being leveraged for the good, as opposed to the crapware blight, which must be as frustrating for Microsoft as it is for us.
There's a public company in Israel called Babylon whose business model is giving away a popular translator software in exchange for installing spyware. They're huge and are planning an American IPO this year. Some people here are saying that it's all a big stack of cards and investors are going to lose all their money, but the analysts are actually saying that it's a valid business model and the company is underpriced. I'm wondering who is right...

How is this business model of spying on your users different from Google's or Facebook's?
"twice as much experience" is inaccurate. I meant "twice as much time" and I am not twice as much productive.

(1) For the experience, I have more experience than some (maybe not twice as much) for the following criterion:

- documented code/api
- always seeking to improve my coworkers' productivity (via documentation or automation)
- well designed interfaces
- fairly on time for deadlines.

Though the first 3 criterion are not really sought after by other devs.

(2) How can I find out my market value ? What are the criterion ?
That doesn't seem to have happened so far. It's difficult to find free Windows programs that don't come bundled with some crapware these days.

As mentioned elsewhere a lot of these things are actually open source software products that have been rebundled, thus the reputation they are hurting is not their own.

I expect it is partly also a result of Windows devs who start out trying to make money by selling a "pro" version of their software but then find that either enough people are happy with the free version and a good chunk of the remaining users just pirate the pro version anyway.
Why don't you name them? You're doing everyone a disservice by keeping their dirty secret.
My girlfriend works as a retail cashier and she was lamenting her company's switch from an AS/400-based checkout system to a more modern GUI. We're only 20-somethings and she's far from a computer expert, but she recognizes that taking a bit of time to learn keyboard shortcuts and terminal commands ends up being much quicker than using a mouse or even using the tab key to get through forms.

Her company's reason for the switch was making it easier to train new cashiers. I'm expecting they'll see a net decrease in overall cashier speed though.
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Very interesting

And this is 30 year old tech. The 6502, the processor in you cell phone is about 1000x faster than it (and much more capable)

To me the hardest part (apparently) is converting the electronic circuit to the actual chip drawings. Not sure how this is done (how do you route it). And this was done by hand in the 6502, the drawings were done the size of a desk and reduced photographically. (IIRC)
I don't think you can group one's role as a teacher being equal as one's role as a lead engineer.

Why not? Government run education is pathetic. Incentives are all out of whack, there's no competition between teachers or schools that can affect the status quo.

Teachers could use a huge dose of whatever it is that the more competitive business world has to deal with.
Dragging an app into /Applications does just that: it copies a directory (hidden with an .app extension) that contains resources and executable. No script.

Some apps however come with an installer, but that's for apps that do more (e.g. need to install drivers, etc.). However, it's Apple's own installer which I think is provided by Xcode. So, no way to mess with it and install crappy things.
PG: care to comment? Were you involved in this investment decision?
"A few days ago I wanted to install the Partition Magic trial on my Win XP VM"

Windows XP is more than a decade old. The latest release, nearly five.

To generalize about the current state of Windows based upon recent experience with Windows XP is either ignorant, disingenuous, or blindly biased.
Thanks for the response. This really does sound like it could make for a good book. :)
This is a great initiative and I appreciate the effort. Myself, I'm too bad at helping people emotionally, but I wish you success in it. It's needed and useful.
Seems like you are on Linux box? Does dwm available for OS X.

BTW: I've no big issues with Divvy's keyboard shortcuts.
Most OS X applications are usually a folder that behaves like an executable (has a custom icon, will run the app when you double click on it). So no, it's not running an installer script, it's just copying a folder, and the app runs with just what's in the folder, no install process needed.

For things that require changing system components, other apps etc. there is a normal install wizard.
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> Although the company claims it is all “non-personally identifiable data”, according to its website this surprisingly includes not only IP but the globally unique MAC addresses.

Enough with the scare tactics. A Mac adress is not, in any way, globally unique.
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True =]

We should have spun up some more web servers to handle the load, as an IaaS provider most of the time you are serving little front-end traffic, but lesson learned. :)
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Won't be long before this rule of thumb goes out of the window.

They'll probably make a one by one pixel link that links to the clean download file.
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We have a 45-90 second delay on our front-end firewall, we are also doing a few code deploys right now so it takes a little while to reset.

Our focus is always on ensuring that virtual servers that customers run are unaffected, but its great to get a nice traffic spike to the front-end to also see real world usage and how we should be updating things for the future.
The results of a google search are somewhat independent of OS. I've found exactly the same problem myself, when searching for Windows downloads in Mac OS X, and get similar spammy results in Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8.
The cool thing about Mac applications is they are self contained. Very rarely do you see an actual installer. Uninstallation is usually just deleting the application from the Applications folder.

I wish other operating systems did it that way. It's very convenient.
For someone who has been working on OA and scholarly publications for a few years, it's a bit tricky to enter these kinds of debates. On the one hand, I want to respect Aaron's legacy, and am very touched by the spontaneous and organized moves to honor him. On the other hand, I am very interested in these issues, and love discussing them, seeing how we can do things better.

For smogzer, there is some interesting research on how knowledge from the research literature can be better represented. For example using concept mapping, see this great paper by Simon Buckingham-Shum (who has many others): http://oro.open.ac.uk/6463/1/kmi-04-28.pdf. Anita de Waard has given many presentations on semantic and executable papers, for example http://www.slideshare.net/anitawaard/executing-the-research-....
That was a different situation because the products were being sold far above retail (sort of like all the iPhones bought in the US and shipped back to China). He essentially cut back room deals with some sketchy government types to have a monopoly and require any Apple products are sold through him. Basically a mobster. (Assuming the story checks out, I doubt it does.)
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How can society as a whole ensure that every child gets the best education possible?

Step one, define "best education possible".
Step two, learn to measure whether or not a child is getting one (or the closest you can come to it).
Step three, maximize some aggregate or regionalized version of your measurements through restructuring of school systems, rewards for good schools and teachers, etc.

The study in this article is just gets us to step two. It looks like you're wanting to discuss step three. That's a different can of worms.
He left out an important point: Apple invests marketing dollars that the retailer shares in. When you see Apple products in a weekend flier, Apple paid for that placement (so did other brands). All of this also falls under the banner of "co-op advertising."
and both making MILLIONS! It's like some shadowy movie villian / arms dealer guy with a conspiracy to sell weapons to both sides!
>At most of their keynotes when they release a new product, they often anchor the minds of the press and buyers. Apple do this by showing a price of £X00 and then saying it's actually much less than that. Look at the transcript of the iPad release: "If you listen to the pundits, we’re going to price it at under $1000, which is code for $999. Up on the screen comes a huge $999 price. Then: "I am thrilled to announce to you that the iPad pricing starts not at $999....but at just $499." The much cheaper price now feels like a bargain. It's an excellent sales technique in action.

Indeed, with 2 caveat:

1) Pundits DID predict a $999 price for the iPad.

2) At $499 not only it REALLY was a bargain, but competitors had a hard time for 2-3 years to offer anything as powerful for the same money. Competiting tablets were in the $699 - $899 range.
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Thanks for that link. The article offers another interesting insight:

> Several specialists here and abroad pointed to a surprising explanation for the high incarceration rate in the United States: democracy.

> Most state court judges and prosecutors in the United States are elected and are therefore sensitive to a public that is, according to opinion polls, generally in favor of tough crime policies. In the rest of the world, criminal justice professionals tend to be civil servants who are insulated from popular demands for tough sentencing.

German judges and prosecutors are not elected but appointed. They're not as prone to political pressure and thus more likely to end up making unpopular decisions. The Metzler/Gäfgen [1] case is such an example: The convicted child murderer won a trial against the state because he was threatened with torture during the investigation. The decision was hugely unpopular.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_G%C3%A4fgen
My experience recently was similar. A simple open source installer landed me a like of toolbars, preformance tools, and other assorted crapware. Incredibly obnoxious, and instantly removed any respect I had for the developer.
Job interviews are a good example of a kind of testing that we know doesn't work all that well but we keep around for lack of a better alternative.

The others are not good examples because they are useful in-and-of themselves. Giving good presentations and finding bugs are useful because they are useful, not because they predict something else.

Pilot's licenses, like driver's licenses are based on tests where you more or less do the thing that you're being tested on. The test and the thing that it's supposed to measure are very similar and we can therefore use it to predict performance. In cases like that "teaching to the test" doesn't exist because practicing for the activity and for the test is the same thing.

I'm not denying that educational testing is useful to quantify progress but such tests are often different enough from the underlying activity they're intended to measure that effort spent preparing for the test has little other purpose.
Well jeeeeeez! RTFA?

Testing is just one part of a three-pronged approach that the foundation is recommending. The other prongs involve classroom evaluations and student feedback.
You do however get to control who your engineers are. It's rather difficult for a teacher to "fire" a student.
If they offered a sentence of four months (via a withdrawable plea cap?) why the insistence on pleading to all 13 counts? It surely wasn't for the $100 special assessment per count. How did the US Attorney's office propose binding the PSI? Would they stipulate to a value less than $5 million? That was the indictment's estimate of the cost and their estimate of the appropriate guideline.
Something else was going on here, something that has not yet been reported. This was a political case and someone wanted Swartz' head on a pike.
An important thing to remember, is that many journals already permit self-archiving of publications (ie. uploading a pre-print to a personal server or an institutional repository). In fact, about 70% of large publishers automatically allow some form of self-archiving, and for the others, many have been successful including a copyright addendum with the copyright-transfer document, retaining some rights (http://scholars.sciencecommons.org/). FAQ on self-archiving (http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/self-faq/).

At my university, we keep running workshops, there are student staff in the library willing to help upload articles to the repository if you just e-mail them, etc, but still, most academics won't take the five minutes to do this, even if they have the right.

This doesn't mean that the academic publishing system shouldn't change, it absolutely should. And there's also a lot of value in "liberating" academic publications that would otherwise not be free. But I hope people would become more aware of what is already possible, and legal!
Why not Final Fantasy 7? :(
Interesting analogy, it's certainly true that there is some sense of "community" for both Linux and Mac users in that people will generally choose these platforms because they have certain beliefs about how things should work and won't tolerate things that fall outside of this.

Windows on the other hand has no community and is kind of an multi-cultural wasteland where everything goes thus will tolerate more BS.

Not sure I agree with Gruber's conclusion though, if Mac had a large uptake in market share then that community would become diluted.

As it stands the random Grandma that uses a Mac without understanding computers gets a sort of herd immunity because there is a larger percentage of more nerdy and vocal users who won't tolerate BS.

If grandmas become the overwhelming majority of Mac users they lose some of that because the crapware vendors know that grandma is very unlikely to read the blogposts condemning their software.
There's nothing stopping the devs/company from putting in keyboard shortcuts as well. However, most people, when building GUI apps, overlook this step.
The expert witness that was working with the defense states that JSTOR did not require passwords from computers on MITs network:

http://unhandled.com/2013/01/12/the-truth-about-aaron-swartz...

Attaching serious criminal charges to the act of feeding an automated system input that the automated system does nothing to verify is crazy (that is, it isn't wire fraud to use a variety of email addresses on a system that does nothing other than note the address that was input).

The indictment uses language like "Although a MAC address is intended to be a permanent and globally unique identification". And yet nobody serious about security has any expectation that a MAC address is permanent or globally unique (it is well understood that they aren't particularly useful for authentication).

If the government wants to attach serious charges to accessing computer systems, there should at least be some sort of notification that the provider of the system considers the system to be protected under federal law, not this running backwards to say that accepting an email address or having the capability to block a MAC address somehow makes a network 'protected'.

To be perfectly clear, I'd be entirely fine with a broadly applicable lesser charge that applied more generally to computer tampering, for cases where the prosecutor wanted to argue that a user exceeded intended access and such.
Isn't a MAC address supposed to be unique, though?
It's just illustrative, to understand how you give the information needed to run one of the algorithms.

May be we can think of a better example, will try :)
Here's the funny thing about SSD in RAID:

If they are the same model and age, they tend to fail at the same time.

You get more than a single drive failing at the same time = data loss.

(the 100 pushups is darn impressive though)
Isn't this what they're doing about it? http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/apps
I absolutely expect the same response with our transition. We're not going to have any choice but to recreate the IBM 3270[1] keybindings as exactly as we can in a web browser. And guess which browser appears to be the only one that allows web pages to capture the function keys? It's Safari! I suppose it's fortunate that most of the company is still on Windows XP...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3270