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The ranking is a bit disingenious. FTA

A main factor in this machine's metrics is the fact that every Windows installation on it is clean. With PC manufacturers loading so much crapware on new laptops, this is a bit of an unfair competition. But, on the other hand, PC makers should look at this data and aspire to ship PCs that perform just as well as a cleanly installed MacBook Pro.
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Yelp doesn't have sales offices in Oregon. They do in California and Arizona.
You seem to have a lot of knowledge about this. If I wanted to acquire similar knowledge, where would I go? I know embarrassingly little about networks.
quite frankly i stopped using yelp for reviews

I have too. My preferred method of searching for "good" restaurants is:

1) Viewing reviews on Opentable when making reservations (to discover which dishes are good)

2) Looking at the Zagat rating when clicking on a restaurant in Google maps (which is more analogous to a hotel's star rating and is more objective)
Lmao this article is epic funny.
I agree with most of what you say, but this is vastly overstated: "There are tens of thousands of businesses being called by Yelp sales reps every day."

If they call 30K businesses a day, they would call every single business in the US in 3 years.

http://www.census.gov/econ/smallbus.html
> Do you have a screenshot?

His screenshot on your screen will just show you what you always see. It's not going to show you what his screen displays.

EDIT: Here are some poor camera phone photos. The ads are clearly marked as ads, but at a normal viewing angle the background is almost invisible. This is on an uncalibrated old Lenovo thinkpad monitor.

(http://imgur.com/a/BKY4w#qcXWJdc)

Google should assume that people have shitty monitors and have no idea about calibration and make ads very clear. This is a complaint that was made when Google first started putting ads at the top of search.

Of course, they're free to not do that and carry on as they are, but they're likely to find regulatory interference increases in the EU.
Sadly it's essential because everyone does it. So when you have no reviews as a new business you look really suspicious because you're outside of an artificial norm.
I guess I'd have to see it. Unity has never struck me as slow. I run it on a pretty modern desktop; maybe in a laptop it would be more of a benefit.
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I feel like this would be a really interesting point to get Mr Hennessey's response to, but since he has comments disabled on his blog, I guess that's unlikely.
In case anyone is interested in reading more about mine-detecting rats, you can check out an organization called Apopo. They're pretty cool, and you can even adopt your own rat!

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I love that one, such a simple yet profound commentary on the life of an engineer.
It's terrible advice no matter what they're selling. Don't work without a contract. Contracts do more than help ensure you'll get paid; they also protect you from other bad things.
> Since we know that Ethernet operates at 10Mbps or 10,000,000 bits per second

I'm trying to figure out if this essay was written in the late 80s or the early 90s.
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So who is responsible for what Yelp's representatives say? Are they just a force of nature?
Well said Anonymous Angel! I do agree that business culture has eroded over the past several years. Do I think we all need to start wearing suits again, maybe not all the time. But respect on both sides of the equation, especially with investors who seem to have become more full of themselves as of late, will go a long way.
Yup, and parens also allow comments.
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Teaching / mentoring / coaching is good for you as well. Trying to teach others forces you to learn your subject even better than you already know it. Additionally, the questions and counter-points and feedback you get from students / people you're mentoring /etc. will expose you to new ideas and new ways of thinking, which you can then integrate and synthesize around.

I don't know if I'd be able to do much "one on one" mentoring, as time is awfully limited right now. But I have a lecture/class or two in mind that I'll probably offer to teach somewhere in the RTP area later this year. I have learned enough about market research to do a useful one or two night session on the topic.

No, I'm not an expert on it, but what I've learned in the past 2 years would possibly be beneficial to the people who are now, where I was two years ago. I figure if I can help shorten someone else's learning curve, that's a good thing. And, inevitably, if I do the class, I'll learn a lot from the process itself.

So yeah, if you have some useful knowledge you've accumulated (and you probably do) teach a class, or take on a pupil to mentor. It's a win-win for everybody.
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Dell features many machines on the top 10. Lenovo only has one, at the bottom of the list, and it's their ultrabook. It's a commonly believed statement that Lenovos are some of the most reliable laptops, and Dells are closer to the bottom.

Does this result disprove that? Or does common knowledge show these results are based on inaccurate information? Or is it just that Thinkpad users are less likely to install Soluto?
False, and it's opinions like these that let people justify their own dishonesty.
This is good, the problem is "and hopefully vice versa". ICANN can break this by grabbing contested names and counting on the fact that 99% of users will see what they want them to.
If you ever asked "How can I trap as many hackers as possible in a confined space of unclear legal jurisdiction?"

This is your answer.
Forgive my ignorance, but how did they secure the .bit TLD in the first place? Is this part of the whole slew of new TLDs that are coming out? They must have had a benefactor to make this happen.

Er no it doesn't even seem to be on the list. http://www.newtlds.com/applications
I suspect it can't improve much more without a paradigm shift. That could be OEMs shipping Linux pre-installed along with working hardware and the necessary drivers. Or it could be having a better abstraction so that Nvidia & ATI can keep parts of their drivers closed without the regular version mismatches with the open source world. I think that's part of Canonical's plans for Mir.
What kind of setup was this? I've had a 34 Mbit dish based connection going for a few years through all kinds of weather and never so much as hickup. The thing that I was mostly worried about was frying some hapless bird :)
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Whats a good book to pickup the notation used in the stack overflow link?
This is live. Idea is this: Everything represented as text, discovery and interaction/sharing with the content in one place via drag-and-drop. Updates. Night mode. I have a few Invitecodes, if you like. What do you think about the concept? Do you want?
I am, actually. Of course my EULA will have some clause to the effect of "If you do this, you implicitly accept to go three rounds with me at a time and place of my choosing, including your house". I'll be sure to bring a ref along, of course.
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"Turnover is meaningless if more business decreases your profitability" -- So basic, yet so frequently overlooked.

You can't just "make it up on volume."
Considering that they're trying to sell to every business in the US, 3 years actually seems like a very long time.
According to a "Soluto Score" so it's as meaningful as how much you trust whoever those guys are.

I get so tired of these rankings that purport to be objective. The only opinion that matters when you are buying a computer for you to use is yours. Insert biggest "Duh." in history here.
Generally speaking its a bad idea to outsource "critical infrastructure", and that seems doubly true for a software product. Imagine if the chinese government had an office set up in the Huawei office, and "conspired" to inject a backdoor into their base stations. There's the potential to completely commandeer our cellular network or worse to silently use it as a method to ease drop on conversations from government or business executives. According to news reports, these fears aren't as farfetched as they sound either.
I haven't though about this carefully but I wonder what the shortcomings of the following would be: when a domain 'owner' wants to update their DNS entry, they just push out a PGP-signed (or similar) message of their new IP onto a P2P swarm, which will only propagate your message if their message verifies with their public key, from which you can then grab the entry (and verify it again for extra security). Then, registering your domain would just consist of getting the swarm to accept your public key. Of course, this could be first-come first-serve, or it could be regulated in some way. This way you could have multiple swarms, and each swarm is only governed by their own decisions.

And I suppose on a smaller scale, TPB could create their own swarm right away, and have people use it parallel to existing DNS infrastructure. Then other censored domains could jump onto their swarm.
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Your superficial impressions are very persuasive.

Many of the best con artists are sincere. So if they do not recognize their own ignorance, why should you? If there was an important gap in their knowledge they were aware of, would they be confessing that to you, a non-doctor?

As for my evidence, our HMO is run by doctors. My wife's clearly reasoned decision to not get a mammogram before 50, based on her own reading of the medical literature, has proven unpersuasive to her gynecologist or the people who set the policies that "provide" the harassing phone calls.
This might be a common problem. Forums that, while ostensibly democratic, are actually tailored to suit the forum-owner's agenda.

It's done by selective promotion, censorship, filtering, etc. "Boing Boing" is one famous culprit if I recall correctly.

The owners argue "it's my forum so I have the right; and besides I'm not censoring I'm unpublishing" or some such nonsense.

I'm sure it can get very sneaky. fake democracy.
There are couple of reasons, one stated in the article, but second is a little bit more subtle, only advanced users will buy Mac and then install Windows on it. Those users generally don't execute everything they see on the web, free or crapware etc.

Another one from the article:
"A main factor in this machine's metrics is the fact that every Windows installation on it is clean. With PC manufacturers loading so much crapware on new laptops, this is a bit of an unfair competition. But, on the other hand, PC makers should look at this data and aspire to ship PCs that perform just as well as a cleanly installed MacBook Pro."
'"Yelp spokeswoman Kristen Whisenand denied that the reviews depend on whether businesses buy ads. "I don't know the exact script people use when they sell advertising," she said. "But there's no amount of money anyone can pay Yelp to manipulate reviews."'

They're not answering the concern. Manipulating a review isn't what they're being accused of - they're being accused of manipulating which reviews are shown / used for calculating an overall rating - as far as I can tell.
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I love the intention of this site, which is to clarify when something is placed into the public domain, even though their carefree approach is legally risky for anyone to depend on.

However, I've never seen cognitive dissonance on such as scale as when people discuss copying and copyright, which makes most discussions useless. Rarely are arguments supported by scholarly evidence or appeals to utilitarianism, and the political statements on the above site are no exception.

Fundamentally, people like copying things, and some forms of copying are restricted by law. So either the law is bad, or they are a bad person. Nobody thinks they are a bad person (an pillar of ego which will never be shaken), and people hate being lectured, so it's the law that breaks, often with the flimsiest of excuses and fallacies ranging from the moral to the theoretical.

- In some cases, copying is beneficial to the copyright holder (usually through advertising, network effects, or market segmentation), ergo, all copying must be beneficial

- Some authors are against copyright, ergo all authors are against copyright

- It's copying is okay if one's motives are pure (end justifies the means)

- If something is easy to do, and preventing it hard, then it must be right (naturalistic fallacy)

- Copying is the natural state of the universe, so it must be right (moralistic fallacy)

- A copyright holder doesn't deserve protection because they're evil ("behaved in a selfish way") stupid ("doesn't understand technology") or stubborn ("won't change business models")

- Copyrights restrict personal freedom, which is a natural and inalienable right of man, even though personal freedoms are always restricted at conflict points to ensure societal harmony ("thou shall not kill")

- Copyrights are based on property rights, but information is not property for reason "x", ergo copyrights are invalid on a technicality. In reality, many laws are enacted because of utilitarian value and need only require group consensus ("always stop at a stop sign; person on right goes first.")

- I paid money in return for "x", therefore I can do whatever I want with "x" (refusal to honor contractual agreements and/or acknowledge exceptions to property rights, which are ubiquitous)

- Copying is good for society because information sharing has no marginal cost (sophomoric application of economics)

- Because some people create without expectation of monetary reward, all people or corporations will still invest in creative works even when the return on investment decreases, or is non-existent

- Some people or corporations could, and thus all should, make money in secondary markets (personal appearances, product endorsements) rather than by selling copyrighted works directly

I would give my right arm for a rational discussion on this topic.
Yeah, I don't think "string" is a thing in Java. Maybe he was comparing it to a data type from another language?
To go to an event with the mindset of being a mentor to other people when you're just another guy trying to get a startup off the ground would definitely put me off.

Why? You don't believe he may have learned some useful stuff from the process of "trying to get a startup off the ground"? Some "stuff" that could be useful to someone who is earlier in their own journey than the OP? If so, why wouldn't he share?

And as far as that goes... I don't know about you, but I subscribe to the belief that "everybody can learn something from pretty much everybody else".

There's also something to be said for the old saw about how an expert's mind is full and closed to new possibilities, while a beginner doesn't know what is "not possible" and can therefore discover new things more easily.
You speak of culture like it's some sort of sports competition. Curious mindset.
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They test things like Windows crashes, hangs, and BSOD's per week. I assume Macs have much lower occurrences of these because most of the time spent on them is in OSX rather than Windows.

My personal Mac is better than any of these. I has 0 Windows errors per week because I don't run Windows on it.

Not exactly an objective measure.
I'm guessing you have not really looked into Rust. The idea is to also take a "do it right" approach rather then "à la carte". Keep in mind, the focus in in a different domain. Not really sure what basis you have for the "even more bloated" comment.

There has been a lot of movement this past year around features and syntax in Rust... but the language is very much still in development.

The main difference with Rust is the focus is on trying to make memory management safe yet applicable to lower level and performance critical programming. (A domain a lot of people are currently using (and getting bitten by) C++ for, hence why Rust is aimed at replacing it.)

In regards to 'thinking more', this is in comparison to higher level languages. Things are way better compared to C++ on the other hand. Don't forget that replacing C++ is the target market for the language, not Java/Go/Etc.

Anyhow, no reason to have a flame war on the subject. Rust isn't a hammer and neither is Go. :)
Well my example was meant to support how programming languages can create a cognitive dissonance between what the programmer thinks will be executed vs. what is actually executed.

One area where I think there is a high dissonance is in how C uses the same syntax for defining arrays, indexing into arrays, and referencing pointer offsets. Other examples are the array decomposition rules, array function parameters, etc. Even experienced programmers get tripped up by them:

http://c-faq.com/~scs/cgi-bin/faqcat.cgi?sec=aryptr
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So is clicking on an email link.
Sign that you will have a successful career and will get things done: you didn't listen or care what the list was.

Seriously, these lists mean nothing. This list is some guy sitting behind a computer who may or may not even be a good developer (I didn't check though), and telling you how you know if you are a good developer based on some arbitrary lists that are his own opinion. Listen to yourself, constantly improve and have a thirst for knowledge and you will be a good anything, not just developer. And if you are not a great developer, there are tons of developers that make huge amounts of cash that are probably not that great at actually designing and writing code, but they can get the job done. Who cares if some list says you are a good/bad/terrible develop, you do you and you'll be just fine.
If you are measuring "crashes per week" rather than "crashes per hour of runtime" you are going to get results that favour laptops which are not used much.
Apple really does a good job with this conference. Food is great, sessions are great, and the people are excellent.

Is it worth it? Overwhelmingly yes. First, the labs are the most useful thing you can get out of the conference if utilized. I cant tell you how many issues have been solved and bug reports have been filed because of WWDC labs. If you do find a bug, Apple Engineers really like the challenge of finding a workaround using public API's.

The best part about the conference is the motivation-boost that you and your dev team will get after attending. It can bring so much more productivity to your team just by spending a week with thousands of people, all who challenge you on an intellectual level.
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It seems there isn't. There is only one `String' datatype in Java, instance of class String, and no primivite `string' type. String literals represent instances of class String, as per http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-4.html#...

Perhaps author meant JavaScript, which does have primitive `string' type, distinct from instances of class `String'?
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> I agree, and I was astounded when I found out they had never done an end to end study of how people use Visual Studio while I was at MSFT.

As someone who uses Visual Studio everyday, I am not surprised by this at all. Don't get me wrong, Visual Studio is one of the best IDE's out there, but sometimes it's inspite of itself.

Like removing functionality from the Text Explorer in VS 2012, which they have finally been patching back in. Dumb, dumb, dumb. If they HAD end-to-end user testing, they never would've remove the functionality in the first place.
I used any random cables to build network at one location. It worked very well, except when you turned lights on, there switch disco. Digital communication works, until it doesn't. Without testing it's hard to say if it works or not. Cable, environment, connections and network adapters, switches all affect the overall result. Working doesn't mean it would be required to follow specs.
"How to hire people exactly like yourself"

There are many different kinds of programmers.
Sadly I don't know the exact hardware spec we had back then and now I'm not even able to obtain it. We had no cap so in certain hours we got up to ridiculously amazing speeds :) but crappy weather was sometimes a problem, and well, it's something that happens around here :D Maybe it was an installation problem, I don't know.
That's probably the best point in the whole thing. All of the crapware installed with Windows makes for a big performance hit.
You mean "Signs that you're the world's greatest programmer but don't have a life".
<---------- Go ahead.

Here's another arrow for you to click. If it gives you that much pleasure, I'll give you as many arrows as you'd like.

Whatever you do, don't reply to my actual comment with actual logic. Has your argument been completely invalidated by me? I had better pay for that. Teach me a lesson. Witty enough?
The CAPTCHA is probably to prevent people from scraping unfiltered reviews and using unfiltered reviews to attempt to reverse engineer the algorithm.
I use to be an account exec at Yelp, we had a goal of calling 300 businesses per day. I don't know how big the sales team is now, but we had a class of 30. And there would be a new class every month. And that was just in the SF office. They have a whole sales team in AZ and NY. 30k doesn't seem far fetched.
It sounds to me like you never got over the hump. At some point, there is an inflection point where you simply become fluent in the syntax of a language, and the relationships between your modules takes shape in your head.

Someday, I do think there will be tools that let non-programmers create things that only programmers can create today, but by that time, I think there will also be _other_ tools that let the "real" programmers still do the most powerful stuff. Maybe no typing though.
He might be referring to Integer versus int and Long versus long.
This list reads like a cringe-worthy case study in myopia.

Why is an active Wikipedia account better than an active MDN or StackOverflow account?

Why does it matter if someone knows what Arduino is?

What if "eager to fix what isn't broken" means you get caught up in hip and new technologies that cripple your businesses utility?

ThinkGeek toys? Obscure books and songs?

> Has a habit of boring people to tears explaining something tangentially related to the news, such as the cockpit layout of the Airbus 330

No. Just no, please stop.

I'd take "Good interpersonal skills and a disinclination towards generalizing people" over this list any day.