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In this film that stars shahid kapur and Ayesha takia in the lead roles.Pathshala is set against the backdrop of the Indian education system and deals with contemporary and socially relevant issues regarding children. The film revolves around kids & is set in a school campus. A perfect mix of emotions, comedy and drama, Paathshala carries a heartfelt message for children, parents and teachers.
> But if anything, I feel superior for having accomplished what I have with graduating from a "no-name-brand" school.

I am motivated to try harder at work because I feel like I'm fighting for all smaller school graduates in a company full of Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, Illinois, Harvard, CMU, and Michigan grads. I also ensure that everybody knows where I came from with a huge Razorback flag on my wall.
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Yes. IMHO the party was started by the second guy.
most of his content is pay-per-post

Funny that people like you call Mike Arrington a troll.
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I'm glad no-one had a camera on me when I was at Glastonbury or Gatecrasher. It may have been called "How to make an Exodus"

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This "lone-dancer-inspires-group-love" is the wet dream of mobile phone advertising companies and will quickly be perverted to their promotional ends.
Are you seriously quibbling on moot points to make the argument that the Pre is not an iPhone knockoff?

Yes, the iPhone has a keyboard. I can type 40 WPM on it.

I didn't say touchscreen; I said multi-touch of which Apple has a patent for. Apple also has patents on the application interface, hardware design and pinch zoom gestures that Palm ripped off from the iPhone. The Pre team is full of ex-Apple engineers. The Pre emulates an iPod so it can sync with iTunes for heaven's sake.

I had the Palm V and it was nothing special.

The Kindle is not a phone. It does not have a color screen which can switch to eInk.

I didn't say Apple dominated the cell market; I said they changed the game. How can you deny this fact when cell manufacturers everywhere have scrambled to clone the iPhone? The Pre is simply another knock-off like the Voyager or the Instinct.

I am not the one using flawed logic. My arguments are sound and I think you missed the point. Palm is not going to beat Apple by copying them.
> I go to a "name brand" college (Carnegie Mellon, you can disagree if you'd like) and there are LOTS of CS majors who don't know anything.

That was my impression of ECE at Purdue University (a top 10 graduate school at the time, unsure of undergrad ranking). Most undergrads were incapable of functioning as engineers. I taught two different senior-level courses while I was there. The top students were excellent, as you would expect. The rest hobbled along. I had seniors who couldn't approximate the gain of an op-amp or make a common-emitter amplifier. Not one of the senior design students bothered to simulate their circuits before building them (and frying them). They had no idea how to test a circuit once they built it.

I actually credit the undergrads' ineptitude to the curriculum. Purdue has lots of classroom instruction but very few labs. I had approximately double the number of labs as an undergrad at the University of Arkansas. Even the worst students were capable of building and testing a circuit, whereas the Purdue students would expect the TA to do their testing for them.
As you mentioned, it's been covered ad nauseum and pg has decided not to implement it for whatever reason. I suppose it's due to the size of the growth of the database if you allow that (thus requiring more hardware) but I have no clue really.
It's license, which covers packages on Pre:
Apache Harmony, joda-time, google-rfc-2445, Fast MD5 implementation in Java, gdata-java-client , Apache Velocity project.
PDF file says "device may contain" so I am not sure if everything listed is on device :)
Yes. But fortunately (for the phyisicists) the Bogdanov brothers were not postmodernist pranksters.
You are missing the point. The Pre is an attempt to clone all the features of the iPhone. The argument is how many features Palm copies from the iPhone, not whether the features were unique to the iPhone.

I was being facetious about the holographic projector. Label me as a fanboy if you think that helps your argument.
?? The way I read it, he/she is submitting a proposal - a request for feedback on an idea. I think the format of the question was fine and I didn't think at all to try to go to the domain.
Thanks for posting the link. I'm surprised that the Economist editors hadn't heard of much earlier questions about the supposed Hawthorne effect. When I brought up what "everyone knows" about the Hawthorne effect in online discussion in the mid-1990s, I was told about much reexamination of the original studies that showed the effect was not as simple as described. Workers DON'T appear to work harder just because they know an experimenter is watching them. Here are some other links:

"The Hawthorne defect: Persistence of a flawed theory"

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~stotts/204/nohawth.html

"The Powerful Placebo and the Wizard of Oz" (.PDF)

http://www.math.princeton.edu/math_alive/placebo_oz.pdf

and others. The most definitive refutation of the usual account of the Hawthorne effect was written by a professor at the University of Wisconsin, although I don't see his article, which I read from the original journal back in the 1990s (the article is older), online via a quick Google search.
Even Bristol probably has issues. When I was choosing Universities I heard that for Bristol, the filtering for remaining places on the medicine course (i.e. for people who didn't make the grades the University asked for) was rumoured to start with these two questions:

1. Did you go to public school? (i.e. privately educated)
2. Was either of your parents a doctor?

If you answered either of those with 'no', then the concensus was you could kiss that place goodbye.
Interesting? Yes. Able to make the proprietor money? Doubtful. I can't figure out who would pay for the site - subscribers or advertisers/sponsors? Who is the target market - MBA students? Enterpreneurs? I'm not sure and, since I don't know who the users are, I don't know how it makes money. If I can't figure out how to make money from it before I launch, I wouldn't launch.

Would I contribute? No, because I would get no value from the site. I have to wonder whether it would be faster for me to google+read your wiki than to just visit the company's homepage when I want to figure out their business model. Like many entrepreneurs here, I can eyeball a site and figure out the basics of their business model fairly quickly. Adding a layer of, "What was that site again that lets me look at a company's business model?" just doesn't help. Besides, if it's a wiki then you've got all sorts of editorial stuff to deal with that a non-wiki site wouldn't have (i.e. lawsuits of confidentiality breaches, trade secrets, etc).
Why is this "Ask HN"? This is just submitting an article.
Wow, I never realised there used to be a physical book. Was this basically the WHOIS data in print form? Just DNS or IP ranges too?
In the case of Derrida, I'd recommend you take a look at Arkady Plotnitsky's article "But It Is Above All Not True": Derrida, Relativity, and the "Science Wars", in the journal "Postmodern Culture" (unfortunately now behind a paywall at MUSE).

The short version: Sokal (and those who follow in his footsteps) cherry-pick their quotes, and then refuse to read them in any kind of context whatsoever. To think that this has anything to do with forming an informed opinion of a philosopher (or other thinker) is ludicrous.
The companies will pay your hourly rate or you won't work for them. That's how freelancing works. This is especially important for freelancing considering that you have to pay self employment taxes, you have zero benefits with the company and there is no long term commitment.

You don't even need for your client to know that you are a student unless you are handing them a resume / coverletter. My clients almost never require these things though.

As a student, likely the worst thing you have working against you is a lack of experience. Still, your rates shouldn't be that low though. I would rather work for free in a really good environment, but if you really need the money then you may not have that luxury.

Ultimately, you may have to take what you can get. But there are other options. I don't know anything about the desktop software market but web development gigs are pretty easy to get and they are everywhere.

One place to start is sites like Elance and Odesk. Sure there are a lot of silly jobs posted there and equally silly developers responding, but if you take the time to look you will find good opportunities. Once you start building some experience and a client base, you can start raising your rates.

Good Luck!
I disagree fully. You acknowledge that happy employees are more productive. You should also realize that unhappy employees equals no employees at all. When you install machines to prove your distrust in your staff's work ethic, you will create a poor atmosphere never mind dehumanize your staff. I will treat my staff as human beings before I will ensure they perform as machines.
The internet yellow pages was much like the current yellow pages, you navigate to a category and then it lists all the domains and a small description that are in that category. Some larger sites would receive a half a page or more describing them.
Building experience with a company is good, but the marketing and business management side of your own freelance business is good as well. Finding gigs for $50 / hr when you are currently being offered $8 / hr is also important experience. That's being able to sell!
The Ronald McDonald House has nothing to do with McDonald's other than sponsorship in exchange for the name, so this message is totally appropriate.

I know this because my mom was the first manager of the Minneapolis RMH that opened in 1979. In fact I grew up in the house from 1979 to 1989. It no longer exists but you can see the photo at http://www.rmhtwincities.org/history.html
He just couldn't let Dvorak have all the (inane, gasbag, technically incorrect) fun?
Why would we all aspire to leadership?

Leadership might not necessarily entail leading a group of people. Leadership as the way they use it seems to be more synonymous with excellence. There are so many areas of life and all of them are important. Even the cleaner down the street is a future leader for she can vote, she can chose our prime minister, she can grow children and educate them properly, etc. What they mean is that soon we will have their occupations and do with the world what we like and that thought is quite exciting.
What if someone needs information on sex (something which is so natural to human beings)

instead of "To get results, change your search terms." I should at least be given a wikipedia link or pages with information on safe sex, etc..

"To get results, change your search terms." and no option to turn the filter off -- bad user experience

sex isn't pornography right!
Why would you want a classless society? Isn't that communism?
This was my initial reaction too: Mike's comments were phrased as an attack as I heard them.

Although it didnt come across as 100% deliberate to me. I think how it was phrased vindicates Leo's reaction because it sounds like an attack, it's somewhat Arrington's style and TC are up in arms over the pre a bit but I dont think it should come back on Mike as hard as it seems to have.

To be honest though I would have expected some form of comment... so..... he fails there really.

EDIT: I never thought I'd say this but Arrington had a point. Hell BBC Radio 4 presenters make worse attacks than this on politicians et all on the morning news shows. And you know what: that makes dfamn good journalism.
Postmodernism is the most embarassing thing we have to show to the archeologists of the future.
Unfortunately, Proposition 13 is a lot broader than merely allowing retirees to stay in their homes. The tax breaks can be passed on to children if they take over the house, essentially creating a privileged and heritable class of homeowners. And it also applies to properties owned by companies, which has nothing to do with people being able to stay in their homes.

If property taxes on residences are too high, they should be lowered across the board. Of course, this means that either spending will need to be lowered, or the money will need to be gained through some other form of taxation.
It probably has more to do with the ability of computer scientists to create a paper generator than with CS in particular. There are people who can neither think nor write in every branch of science. The remarkable thing about postmodernism is that there are no other people in it.
What point in history do you refer to?
I have a friend who recently bought a house and his property taxes are like rent, it is just that expensive.

Yes, his property taxes are probably higher than they would be without Proposition 13, because he's subsidizing those around him who have owned their homes for twenty or thirty years, and aren't paying their fair share.
Thank you for your feedback.
My main motivation behind this project is learning, thus I'm not expecting this site to be a direct cashflow of any kind. I suspect, that information gathered systematically to answer the aforementioned questions could be of great public service.

Regarding the content, there is so much more to learn about each individual business, than superficial eyeballing. If you start a systematical approach, writing down, for example the top 1K alexa sites, and their respective business model, for any given concept you've got hundreds of sites; not even differentiators defines businesses that sharply. I suspect, that behind each successful business, there's a mix of differentiators, perspective, and way of thinking/measuring; grabbing, and noting these less tangible insights would be the main focus of the site.

I don't really consider lawsuits to be a threat -most of the stuff can be figured out by a combination of public announcements + general available info on the net + business logic.

> Would I contribute? No, because I would get no value from the site.

Your answer presumes, that user contribution is a function of value received from the site; in my experience, this is not so. Yes, there are good-intentioned hippies, but most people are just pushing their own agenda, wrapped in a marketing blanket, which sometimes happen to be aligned with things like "building a global encyclopedia".

So, to re-iterate the original question: do you think there are people who's business agenda would align with the creation of aforementioned wiki?
I think in many instances it is more appropriate to call those reasons social rather than cultural. It is the social class which determines the culture, if you are poor, then you reap all the benefits that come with that, i.e. no inspiration from your parents, no due care etc. if you are middle class and upper class the social background sort of determines your aspirations and achievements. On the other hand, the same social class acts as a barrier to mobility for if a kid from a poor background mingles only with other kids from poor backgrounds then he may never find out the different way of thinking or perceiving that kids from middle background have. Therefore, perhaps, there should be a "cultural" education for all children. The truth is that we do live in a class society and the sooner children learn it perhaps the better.
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I feel superior for not following the system and even going to college to rack up debt to get a piece of paper.

People rarely ask what college you went to. A name-brand degree is just a pissing match that doesn't matter.

4 years of outdated assignments won't much of a difference further out in your life. The value of the paper you went into debt to get is going down every day.
All young people think their ideas are unique and valuable. As you grow older you learn that other people have the same ideas and what makes them succeed is hard work. In case of science this is called research. Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein did not write about his stroke of genius, he wrote about the years he spent working out the equations. Postmodernism is the language of a group of lazy intellectuals, who thereby fail to become scientists.
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A title of nobility that is granted. I do not know about Harvard, but Oxford which I will assume is not so much different, has most of its graduates from private schools, especially Eton college seems to be their favoured. These kids, due to having the badge of Oxford are quite favoured in the highest ranks of law, politics, etc. I kind of wonder how much different is the teaching in oxford from any other university and if it is so different then why do other universities not adopt their system.

Very few people from other backgrounds go to oxford, therefore it is quite a good analogy i'd suggest.
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Books are not supposed to contribute at all. They are supposed to be an overarching view of the knowledge and ideas that exist in the area of interest. His books were meant to educate the public about evolution through natural selection.

For contributions to the field please refer to his journal publications. A partial list is given in:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_publications_by_Richard...
Dude, I was just teasing you. You'll notice I didn't even reply to that thread. I'm the last person to be bothered by harsh online feedback (which would be hypocritical considering I dish out a fair bit of it myself).

You can imagine we didn't come up with this name without some thought, and we did do some testing of it before releasing it. Yes, some people will have an immediate adverse reaction to it, but they're a tiny minority, from what we observed. Most are puzzled by the name, but they don't care that much. One advantage we get from this name is that it sounds different from the competition, and so people remember us.

It's all about trade-offs.

Anyway, the above point was just a tease, I'm fine with feedback in all its forms.
I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain.

I'm forever going to imagine you riding on an old bus, looking out an open window.
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This essay by Stove is a very interesting read too: http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/wrongthoughts.html
I know it's cliche by now, and definitely a minor nitpick, but mentioning iTunes as the result of a perfectionist super-critic sounds like madness to anyone who isn't on a Mac. I would argue the Windows-port is the worst (yet successful) software ever engineered, and the only reason I have it, is because I need it for my iPhone (which I agree is a fine product).

That said, the general idea conveyed trough the article is interesting. So far people has accepted computers and programs as is with a "That's just how computers work" defeatist mentality, but that seems to be changing rapidly these days.
Now regardless of the lack of meaningful content, I would like to urge writers to learn how to write a proper introduction and conclusion on long articles, which together summarize its contents. See it as a service to your reader.
Not at all. You can be a happy capitalist with lots of money without being different in a "qualitative" way from your poorer neighbors. At least in principle.
Thank you for providing data to back up the assertion. I wish that were a social norm on HN.
30 to 40 years ago? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luce_Irigaray
I would have thought there'd be more startups looking for funding: "I can't get a job elsewhere so I'll start my own company."
That's the first use of a macro I can wrap my head around, but it can also be done elegantly without macros - each function that acts on a row or column of data will have a "list of values" argument that could either be a list of column values from a row or a list or row values from a column.
It's also interesting he tries to pass the Facebook friend as a typical reason for the fire TC is under...

I won't say "not worth it", but TC has to be taken with a lot of salt. More, in fact, than my doctor will allow me to. ;-)
Except for hillsdale college in Michigan which makes a point of taking zero government dollars for anything, including scholarships. Not huge, but truly private. http://www.hillsdale.edu/support/default.asp
Upmod, but you should feel inferior for not thinking, not for not coding. You are not a code monkey, but a thinking problem solver, whatever your label is (engineer, scientist, technician, CEO, whatever).

That remembers me Sir Popper wrote a book "All of Life is Problem Solving." Got to read it some time...
Using magical thinking to reason about scientific phenomena sounds just as out of place as using the scientific method to judge art.
This headline is unsupported. The link goes to a download page with no source code, vcs, or mention of an open source license.

I think it would be better titled "released", in which case it's a dupe.
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In my opinion they have stopped making games like these and the only ones that escape are the exception to the rule. It's not like i am a hardcore oldies fanatic, i still play games, although less frequently compared to 10 years ago.
I can find two reasons that led to this situation.

First, the transformation of the game business to the game industry. Unlike the previous generation of game producers/studios today's dominant publishers are thinking strictly with economic terms. It used to be that someone would have a cool idea and he went ahead and make it reality. Just because he enjoyed it and thought it would be fun. The profit incentive probably was there, but it wasn't his main motivation. Today this is the main reason behind making a game. Take for example the number of mmo's, which are a very lucrative game type, that come out. They are a textbook example of a system designed specifically to hook the players into constantly spending money for their leisure. The same case is with sequels. Take the same proved recipe for success, rearrange/change a few elements in it and relaunch it as a (seemingly) new concept.

The second reason is that the gamers community and culture has changed. It went mainstream a few years ago and that changed it forever. When I first noticed that I felt sorry for the majority of new players who, influenced by the gaming related media, started focusing more on graphics, short term and easy satisfaction that on the game as a whole (storyline and gameplay included). Today's gamers don't like to think that hard and even if they do, virtually they have no choice. It's all about getting a quick fix of adrenaline/enjoyment, Hollywood action film-like, compared to having that feeling of satisfaction when you finish a good book. The fist is simple, short term, and essentially you gain nothing from it. The second one, although it requires more dedication, engages your mind and makes you actually investigate/ponder it's arguments, ideas etc. If you can't relate to that think of the quality of posts included here compared to those on reddit. (Although i am a relatively new member here i am able to make the comparison).

Just my two cents on the matter.
(Sorry if some of my points aren't clear enough, English is not my primary language)
As a programmer it does make me rethink the interface design concept. I really liked the whole timed button idea where you need to leave the mouse pointer on a button for a few seconds while a progress bars slowly activate the button. That could be a step towards elimanating spam or drunk emails.
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