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I didn't really think you did. But again, I'm just posting what I read and what I find especially interesting. Yeah, sometimes that includes politics (like you posting FT's endorsement of Obama). That's where I'm thankful for the community, and editors, killing things. Fuzzy is okay because, if necessary, it becomes categorical.

Still, just disagreeing on the facts, I find a 6% failure rate to be acceptable and much less than "some" or "plenty" imply. It's a small minority if you recognize your own solipsism. The community says me and my interests belong!
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Yeah, old good guy CPAN rocks, also Perl5 does.
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Yup. No point in limiting yourself to just one set of tools ;).
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As a student who is in that dataset, I think it makes sense. Basically, UVa is a pretty preppy school and Macs are really trendy right now. From my friends and what I see on grounds, I'm surprised that the Mac ownership is not numerically higher. We also focus on the liberal arts, which helps Mac. Linux is a real pain to get to work on the network. The decline in "other" is probably in a large part the result of Mac OS providing a very decent Unix/programming environment. I do see CS professors pretty split between Mac and Linux.

I'd imagine that schools that are more engineering focused schools would probably use more Linux, but I would not be surprised if Mac has converted a lot of them as well.

For the record, I had three computers windows, linux, and mac for most of last year, and I was one of the 8 "others" on that chart.
IKEA.

And if you don't think it was disruptive and tectonic shifting, you're kidding yourself.
Another myth, even among doctors, is that this is a condition of children who run up walls and across ceilings. Not so. It afflicts adults who are not hyperactive. It is characterized by periods of intense concentration and other periods of complete inability to focus. It is pretty easily treatable with amphetamine type prescription drugs, which help them to calm down and concentrate, exactly the opposite effect from most of us. Unfortunately it is harder to diagnose in high IQ adults, because they are better at disguising the symptoms.
a PC doesn't have analog inputs, cant do PWM outputs, struggles with protocols like i2c, isnt realtime. but it is: loud, hard to enclose nicely, costs more and requires maintenance.
Adderall helps a lot. I have family members with ADD. One says it helps a lot with insomnia, as well as concentration. (Apologies, I accidentally hit the downmod button.)
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You should really look into using PDO: http://php.net/pdo

It's got real prepared statements (or a reasonable facsimile thereof for databases that don't support them), and it lets you iterate directly over result sets. All sorts of handy stuff.
Totally biased toward the iPhone. Nothing about Android and Java, being that there are nearly as many Java developers as JavaScript developers. This may as well have been an Apple press release.
I'll admit that, originally, I was in favor of the strict review process. I expected it to be used to keep out crap (like farting apps) that delegitimize the platform, while showcasing apps like Things, Tweetie, Flight Control and Eucalyptus. Basically re-create the kind of indie dev culture we see on the Mac.

Instead, they've become Victorian-era censors, discouraging real development on the platform, and wracking up dumb controversies. Especially considering Apple's market, hardly the most socially conservative group, it makes almost no sense.
Doesn't work for me. I click go and nothing happens.
yes, and I highly recommend reading André LaMothe's books (xgamestation's sole creator) and his posts on the xgamestation forum (user necron). He's an highly skilled hacker and entrepreneur.
There's a big split between animators who couldn't imagine using Flex and programmers who can't stomach Flash Authoring. Flex and "traditional" Flash have little in common other than using the same runtime.

Looking at JavaFX, it's not clear which audience Sun is targeting. It looks like it's oriented towards programmers, but the language also has things like built-in animation.
Also, now that I am reading focusing on your words and not trying to figure out what you mean, a lexicon is a collection of words, not a collection of characters. The concepts overlap somewhat in the case of Chinese, but katakana, for instance, is certainly not a lexicon.

(apologies for replying again, but the time for editing has passed)
"It isn't too hard to build your own PIC or AVR programmer on a veroboard and start hacking. "

Actually, it is. People who are 'starting hacking' dont know how to hack, so they dont clock, power or wire their chips correctly. They don't have a scope so its impossible to debug, especially when there are multiple unknowns (power, clock, wiring, programmer, progammer driver, programming software, compiler, code)

"I find the BeagleBoard to be a lot more promising/interesting given the amount of raw processing power you get on a tiny 3"x3" board."

I like the BB too. But am puzzled as to why people compare it to Arduino. They are completely different things (computer vs microcontroller dev board)
I can't think of any projects that really intersect between the two. BB can't do even the most basic things that an Arduino does, like blink LEDs or drive a servo. And of course, an Arduino cant do real time video processing
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Those are all cool boards, but they are dramatically more expensive 3-10x and harder to get started with. I've used BASIC Stamp as well and so am not "making this up either". When I was first getting started with physical computing stuff, I tried to use BASIC Stamp and ran into quite a large number of difficulties. While the BASIC language is relatively straightforward, the installation/first run story is full of bad pitfalls. And BASIC Stamp also forces you to know a lot more about [edit: PIC not AVR] architecture in order to accomplish the basic things. Again, these obstacles aren't that big for programmers/more experienced EE-types, but for regular people they are deal breakers.
Thanks to you and to the other participants for your replies. I see a real opportunity here to further advance the psychology of human mental abilities by further investigating the distinction Keith Stanovich

http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=97803001238...

http://www.amazon.com/What-Intelligence-Tests-Miss-Psycholog...

draw between "intelligence" (I would say "IQ," but his terminology is standard) and "rationality." There are various forms of human cognition, and IQ tests miss many of them. Stanovich reports that there are mental tests that would reliably show, among adults with high IQ, who has executive function problems and who does not.
I'm going to have to strongly disagree with you and say that this doesn't cater at all to the facebook/tween crowd. It's not even to appease egos. No one puts up facebook fan pages or youtube videos to promote themselves. This would be perfect for a company trying to establish a web presence or a band utilizing social media to gain a following. And because of that, monetization will be rather easy. Companies/musicians/etc would definitely pay for a service like this, imo.
Ladyada, I think the reason that people compare it to Arduino is not so much because it's in the same category (which it's obviously not), but because it seems to be bringing the "Arduino philosophy" to the low-level ARM/embedded Linux sphere. As someone who went from zero embedded device hacking to some fluency because of Arduino, the Beagle Board seems exciting because it has the chance of opening up that related space to me as well.
"I once accidentally dropped a feeler gauge down into the crankcase of a Kawasaki Ninja that was practically brand new, while performing its first scheduled valve adjustment. I escaped a complete tear-down of the motor only through an operation that involved the use of a stethoscope, another pair of trusted hands and the sort of concentration we associate with a bomb squad. When finally I laid my fingers on that feeler gauge, I felt as if I had cheated death. I don’t remember ever feeling so alive as in the hours that followed."

Was I the only who smiled when they read this?
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If Lisp wasn't compelling enough because of the perceived lack of libraries, then Arc is the last way to come back to Lisp as it has NIL.

I think you've misunderstood this sentence, which explains why you don't understand the logic.

He is dismissing Lisp because [library pain] is not alleviated by [compelling language features]. For him, in Arc, [compelling language features] do alleviate [library pain], so he is happy to use Arc. This logic is fine even if the [library pain] in Arc is actually worse than the [library pain] he experienced in Lisp, because [compelling language features] differs too.

So, no hypocrisy. You could still argue that he should have experienced less library pain in Lisp than he did experience, or that Lisp might have compelling features that he overlooked, or even that library pain cannot in principle be alleviated by language features, though I won't comment there.
"It is characterized by periods of intense concentration and other periods of complete inability to focus."

"They tended to procrastinate and be forgetful and had difficulty in harnessing their talent to complete many daily tasks"

Crap, I guess I really might have ADHD. Would effective and safe is the prescription medication?
Re-read that:

"The reason I ask is not because I disagree with your demands for higher quality." (emphasis mine)
Does anyone have any recommendations for what to plug into to munge images?

ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/) has worked well for us. There are bindings out there for many languages, including Common Lisp (http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-magick/); you might want to look there for inspiration.
I seemed to have a similar problem a few months ago. I think there is also confusion as to the "location" settings -- there doesn't seem to be one setting that turns off all location querying ability, so you can have "use wireless networks" on, and "enable GPS satellites" off, and it still works, but the application calls it GPS (and the icon looks like a satellite).

I think it cleared up for me when I turned on both location settings (use wireless networks and enable GPS satellites). I have not noticed a significant drain on the battery due to having both on, but I rarely use location based apps anyway.
I don't disagree with that either, but this is something I've been thinking about a lot recently.

Perhaps it is impossible to change the structure of these organizations, but I think there is going to be fundamental disconnect between designers and the organizations they serve until one group at least learns to speak the other's language and address the problems they face.

At the very minimum, it sounds like there is an opportunity to weed out inefficiency (somehow) and find newer, better ways to organize people and their interests.
But it's hard to say to workers who've spent their entire lives developing skills particular to an industry that they should just go and find a job in an industry that needs more workers. Retraining is hard. Relocating is hard. People are a lot less mobile than capital.

Is this a worthwhile justification to keep investing in the old industry at the expense of the new?

It is hard to say people need to go learn new skills, but it is harder for me to say that the main reason we aren't adopting something new is because the long-term benefits of adoption are outweighed by the relatively short-term pain of a group of displaced laborers. The people who experience the short-term pain may themselves benefit from this new technology being adopted.

I get the sense a part of this is due to the sentiment that I've noticed that employers owe continuing retention to their employees. It is why layoffs carry such a social stigma. It created this sense the people should not have to retrain, and that they should not have to relocate. At the extreme, they shouldn't even have to change employers to do the same task. It would suck for me to have to do the same. I see it as a risk of living in an economy based on always pushing technology forward, which is what capitalism will tend to do. I've realized that no one else is responsible for making my life easier, whatever the expense.

There is also this sentiment that skills do not cross-pollinate at all, and that current skills are all that matter. This is perhaps a broken bias on the part of the employer that skill set X now matters more than the ability to learn skill set Y,Z quickly in the future. This may be a product of thinking of oneself as an "X specialist" foremost, rather than identifying what conceptual basis one draws on to become an "X specialist".

As for tearing down immigration laws, that only solves part of the problem. You still have to train someone, picking from a pool of people who have not been trained in the industry that came before will be just as hard, if not harder, because they don't have the prior skills to draw connections from.
A lot of advertisements claim to require a college degree even if the company is perfectly willing to hire qualified applicants without one. They do this to cut down the number of applications they have to wade through. The type of dropout that they're actually willing to hire will probably apply anyway, regardless of what the ad says, and it weeds out a lot of chaff that isn't qualified and is just looking for a job, any job.
Are you related to this Stanovich guy, or do you just like repeating yourself?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=536558

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=565842

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=588797

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=518828

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=559054

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=514086

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=480331

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=497733

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=483771

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=514856

This is just from a quick Google search. I'm sure there are more.
Really? I thought the idea of Han Unification was that the duplicated characters between the CJK languages all map to the same unicode codepoints.
A friend of mine got perfect math SATs at 12 and started taking college math at 13. He never got past freshman year to graduate, just jumped from school to school repeating freshman year, dropping in and out of college. I think he had trouble with anything that required long-term logical reasoning that could not be done in 1 shot.

He constantly rocked back and forth and could never sit still, even into his 20s. His eyes always darted back and forth when talking with people. I don't know what he's doing now -- he seemed to be overclocked with very little cache and ram. Wonder what became of him.
Sorry-- I didn't mean to imply that you were making anything up. I was saying that I was speaking from experience.

By performance/price, I mean the ratio of performance to price. You're right that the boards I cite are 3-10x more expensive, but they're also more powerful by a similar factor.

When did Parallax switch to the AVR architecture? Last time I used a Basic Stamp, it was a PIC.
I had to explain to my neurologist yesterday, that it was the old model for ADD where it just 'went away' and that the new model for ADHD is that it often persists until adulthood, and that even though I'm almost 30 I most definitely need to take amphetamine salts daily to accomplish meaningful work with computers.

Even doctors don't understand.
I love Adderall. Without it, I can't even take the trash out. With it, I can plan months and years in advance.
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Everyone is that way to some extent, but if you have ADHD its severe. Treatment is effective for most people, and its completely safe for adults. Occasional concern for children.
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"It is characterized by periods of intense concentration and other periods of complete inability to focus."

"They tended to procrastinate and be forgetful and had difficulty in harnessing their talent to complete many daily tasks"

What's scary for parents is that a lot of that sounds like "teenage boy," and I'm not sure how well I understand differential diagnosis of ADD as contrasted with adolescent brain restructuring. I know young people whose parents have told me that the young people have ADD, and some of those young people are BRILLIANT. Some other young people I know seem every bit as disorganized, but who am I to diagnose someone, even my own child, without a lot of clinical experience?
Mono is something weird. I confess I fail to understand what drives clever people to hand over the design goals of their open-source project to Microsoft. They are clever people doing an extraordinarily stupid thing. And .NET apps are as much Windows apps as Java or Squeak apps are - they happen to run on Windows and, if you care enough, you may be able to run them elsewhere - and many do.

At least until the next broad Microsoft patent-infringment lawsuit. Mono is toxic in that regard - Microsoft may decide to start a FUD campaign anytime they want and Mono just gives them a huge stick. If that's not a dumb thing to do, I am not sure what would qualify.

As for the compilers, I am quite sure you cannot obtain any Microsoft compiler that is sold as part of VS without at least some part of VS. You can run them from the command line (if you could call cmd.exe a command-line) and you can download them from Microsoft for free, but saying that they are available "elsewhere" is a bit of an overstatement.
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For high level abstract, symbolic reasoning, low cache and ram is a critical impairment. At that level SAT math really means nothing. In fact, college math at 13 doesn't even seem that impressive -- I believe after Kumon level J you get into calculus and plenty of grade-school kids take this.

It could have been a genuine problem for him, but even with the best drugs, I wouldn't expect some kind of "unlocking your potential" moment.

I remember reading a study that found the biggest difference between high-performers and their peers precisely that of attention control. It involved looking at lights moving in a particular pattern. When the pattern was detected, normal people showed increased brain activity. High-performing individuals showed decreasing brain activity, presumably because they optimized the pattern recognition process, and focused all the resources there.
I'm sure I'll get downmodded for even mentioning this, but in the natural health community we don't believe that ADHD is really a brain disorder, certainly not to the extent the APA maintains. I find it absurd that close to 1/4th of school age children in some schools supposedly need to be on brain altering pharmaceuticals. Why don't we see this in other countries?

Some dietary triggers for the ADHD like behavior commonly mentioned are artificial colors, sugar, MSG, and processed grains (and a lack of sufficient nutrition in general.)

For instance, there was a segment in the movie SuperSize Me describing a school for behaviorally problematic children. The staff found they could improve things by changing only the school lunch selection.
I'll be watching this with interest. We're working on something with similar goals, although a very different approach - more info at http://dshbrd.com/about .
Years ago, when I was a phd student, I had been to the psychologist at the university health center because I was unable to concentrate on anything. I had filled the ADHD diagnosis survey they gave me beforehand, and I was convinced I had ADHD. The psychologist discarded the survey and focused on a personal problem I had that time (my dad has been in a very bad accident). She told me there is nothing wrong with me, except that I was having a bad time. Her evidence was that I had a brilliant academic record (best student researcher, my GPA was not that good though). After all, when I am really interested in something I could concentrate very intensely for a couple of hours on that thing. She asked me if I would like to have some help with time management and organization techniques. I told her that I had read so many books on that, that I could give a seminar on it myself.

I was actually very relieved with her diagnosis, because, well, it sounded good, and I dislike the idea of medicating myself. But my problems came back frequently to haunt me. There have been numerous days when I couldn't get myself to do a simple task such as paying bills (just the physical act of writing checks and mailing). It sounds weird, but when I have many things to do, my brain shuts off and reacts by refusing to do anything at all. I know about getting things done and every conceivable productivity technique, but I never can get myself to put these in practice. I am very disorganized, and this costs me a lot. I am doing considerably good in my academic career, but doing awful in taking care of trivia.

I always took pride in doing OK without having to take any medication, but I guess I could do much better with medication. It hurts sometimes to endure these symptoms, but I have been able to carry on so far, so good. I don't know, after reading this article, I think maybe I should be seeing a psyciatrist this time, and get a second opinion.
I'm sorry but this seems an aggressive comment to me. CatDancer did mention the preference of simple macros over MzScheme's more complicated hygienic macros. Beyond that, Arc is different from Scheme and everyone knows it. The differences are documented and they are the reason why Arc is not Scheme. You do not have to challenge the piece just because you don't particularly like the changes Arc made in comparison to Scheme.
These boards are not as much competitors to the Arduino, they are upgrades. And they're quite hard to use if you've never done any electronics. Which is why you'll see everyone start with Arduino and then eventually move up.

Besides, if someone's going to fry their first board (and they will), it should probably cost $30, not $100+
The $30 price point is a major bonus that overrides performance/price.

* or one can replace the processor for <$5
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