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What you "could" have done, and what was actually done are two different things. Both J2ME and Android had this facility for a long time. Apple, like Microsoft, dragged their feet and badmouthed this feature, then finally ended up implementing it. Now we will be told it is amazing and magical. And of course, the usual excuse will be proffered "Apple held back on it until _it could be done right_".

Remember 7inch tablets would need you to file down your fingers to use? Or that "if you see a task manager, they blew it" and low and behold, a task manager appeared on iOS.

I'm all for Apple implementing these features, but I'm tired of them badmouthing things they don't have, only to trot them out as amazing once they do have them.

Microsoft used to badmouth HTML5 Canvas, then when they finally got a great implementation in IE9, all of a sudden, its WebGL that sucks.

Don't badmouth features just because a competitor has them and you don't, badmouth them if they are indeed, bad features.
Yes, but in the process of pacifying the bottom percentile, you risk pacifying kids in the upper percentile.
I'm an android developer and I agree with this comment. The article as a whole paints a really bad picture of Apple's development process when, in honesty, I wish Google would learn a bit from the things Apple does really well. I really hope people don't think it's okay to ship an app with a typo in the title -- that's just lazy and irresponsible. While I wish the $99 fee was only required to publish an app (as opposed to being required to develop one), I'm still waiting for the day when Google can truly compete with iOS on a platform and tools level. In my opinion, Google has a long way to go on that front despite their increasing market share (and all revenue advantages that ensue).
A couple of things need to happen in the kernel first before the VT100 could be deprecated safely in favor of the later VTs. It all starts here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kmscon
Something about it taking a few hours.

Wikipedia apparently has a pretty nice page on calculating the position of the Sun if anybody is interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position_of_the_Sun It's basically a lot of trig and a bunch of constants; pretty neat. Interestingly the information given on that page is only valid for a shorter timeframe than the information given on the USNO page.
Yes. I get that. Except Marathon can do 'cron-like' things too. So can Mason.

Mason manages cluster applications. So does Marathon.

Mason can juggle task resources. So does Marathon.

Mason is a framework. So is Marathon.

Mason has a scheduler. So does Marathon.

The only thing Chronos does, at all, is run jobs on a schedule, distributedly. Which Marathon and Mason can do too.

So can someone please explain to me why you need all three??

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Look, here, at the infographics in the middle of the page: https://github.com/mesosphere/marathon

What they're saying is, Marathon will move your jobs to a new server when one dies. Okay, cool. But Chronos can do that too. And Mesos can do that too!

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I'm pretty sure all these tools are a giant troll by Google to get its competitors to burn R&D time on reinventing tools that already exist and aren't necessary.
Yep, pretty close. We used to offer individual accounts - those folks were hard to convert, hence the large number of free users.
Yes and no. There are a lot of people who are into keyboards and they buy a backlit one because they want to not because they need to.

Source: I'm mechanical keyboard enthusiast :)
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> The question is whether or not merit is the ultimate criteria for admissions.

You didn't read the article either, did you. They specifically explain that by "inclusive" they mean looking more purely at merit in things like math, science and leadership.

Their previous practice was discriminatory in the same way selecting for "prior golfing experience" would favor rich white kids. You want to look for the potential to be a great golfer, not some b.s. high school level experience that is more a reflection of opportunities or peer pressure, not true merit.
I think Docker is great but it's been so overexposed on HN that there's a bit of a backlash.
Hyperbole doesn't really work on the internet... of course it wasn't a conspiracy to have the Queen replaced by a Scottish miner, but it's well documented that Blair and friends did bring in a new wave of civil servants and appointees from the North, and a new attitude towards regions outside the Tory enclaves of Home Counties and Midlands. Which was very welcome and very refreshing (and likely helped acceptance of people like me, sporting a clearly non-UK accent), but was certainly motivated in large part by a desire to advance the careers of regional Labourites, and produced, as collateral damage, a certain ostracism of RP, something that I personally think is detrimental to the country as a whole (or even just to the image of the country, as perceived from abroad). Even a strong "regionalist" like Tony Wilson, wandering the country in his Granada years, had a spotless accent (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCuqKzW6r7M from 1985), whereas most popular broadcasters in their 30s/40s, these days, tend to have a recognisable accent.
Out of curiosity, I went looking for medical error rates from before the max shift lengths were decreased a few years ago and, compared to now. The study I found on it concluded that error rates did not meaningfully change, even though the residents were theoretically better rested.

Upon further examination, they found that error rates due to fatigue had decreased, but that error rates related to patient handoffs had increased by a similar amount. The long shifts, while being a source of fatigue, did provide for good continuity of care, as the same doctor handled the case for longer.

Once the study team started addressing some of the problems in handoffs, such as going through the patients alphabetically instead of by severity, they began to see the error rates decrease.
I think you wanted to say "on an EC2 machine", instead of "dedicated machine".
Otherwise, people might think you're referring to physical hardware.
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This service would likely just make it easier, and it would happen more often, is my point
I believe big companies are a good route for most devs early in their careers but most of the bullet points about why big companies are helpful are only applicable for senior team members. For junior people almost all of these would be faster/easier to accomplish at a startup where you've negotiated for more salary/less equity.
Couldn't agree with this more. I worked at startups first, and I think I would have been much better off getting a decent amount of experience under my belt first.
Mesos cannot do "cron-like" things. Mesos is a resource manager for your cluster. You need a framework to actually schedule tasks. Marathon / Chronos are both frameworks.
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Thanks, that was a bit vague. I have lots of backend and frontend experience with the LAMP stack and I work a lot with Django, Javascript, AppEngine, EC2, Python ML packages (scikit-learn, nltk) and many Apache projects (Hadoop, HBase, Mahout, Solr)
Don't let the page numbering ruin these books for you as the contents will provide you enjoyment for the rest of your life. Its great that you were able to get your own copy of them. At university in New Zealand TAOCP was on the recommended reading list for CompSci but the library only had one of each volume. You could only get them out for _3 hours_ at a time. Years later I was in a bookstore with my girlfriend a the time and I saw the 3 volume set for _$NZ 500_. She secretly went back the next day and brought them for me for my birthday. We are now married.
This really resonated with me, I was one of those cocky, over-achieving kids who thought I could start a company fresh out of college.

Instead, I've worked in Product for 26 months and learnt some really good skills: how to write real requirements, how to manage expectations (up and down), how to negotiate, how to measure and to focus on moving the needle, how to build a GTM plan and execute against it, how to deal with fireman issues, how to develop with a SOA, the list goes on.

And picked up a bunch of payments industry expertise along the way.

I'm still determined to start my own business, but definitely a hell-of-a-lot more confident in my chances of success.
The article opens with the question:

> “Should I join Microsoft or a startup?”

but really seems to answer the question:

> "Should I join Microsoft or start a startup"

which is really very different.
This is clearly from a business perspective.

But if you're an engineer, I personally think that working for a big _software_ company early in your career is important. It's just plain easy to work on software in a small company because you don't have legacy code, existing products, existing customers, existing practices. Also you have no real way to judge whether your code is good or bad until its come under the glare of experienced engineers.

Also, people shouldn't take any of Robert Scoble's advice.
Great article, but as usual I'm put off by how the headline frames this as universal advice, a practice that's reached epidemic proportions in blogging. If this comment were a post on my blog, I might call it "Shooting people who frame their advice as universal and why you need to do it"
"Because that's the only reason I would want one, and obviously anyone who thinks differently from me is wrong."
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Yeah, I was a bit confused by what the author meant.

I can see it not being a good idea to start your own startup super early for the reasons the author lists. I don't think there's anything wrong with joining a growing startup early on, though.
Exactly
I suggest to change the title cause it is misleading.
There's grey zone and there's being obtuse. We're not talking about fancy tricks here - the clearest way to retrieve the truth value of a boolean variable is to refer to it directly, not comparing it for equality against a constant.
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People's stated preferences may be totally uncorrelated with what Yahoo really cares about which is how their logo affects people's use of Yahoo properties vs their competitors.

So while I agree with the statement "test don't guess" wholeheartedly, it isn't clear that what was tested matters or that the results are actionable. People often respond to things they would subjectively describe as ugly in very positive ways wrt key conversions such as signups, sharing, long term engagement.
Not only that but it's a guy who has used more then just the default Dell and Apple keyboard that their computer came with.
You can't argue with the aesthetics of backlit keyboards, though.
Considering I have no idea what he may or may not have said in another comment, either before or after my comment. I still don't think that his comment made any claims that it was representative.
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There's been a lot of scientific research and animal experimentation on sleep the past several decades. Michel Jouvet[1] forced cats to stay awake until they drowned. Most cats survived for 35 days.[2]

Tony Schwartz in his book "The Way We're Working Isn't Working" also mentioned a study on laboratory mice. They were deprived of ever sleeping until they died.

From this Tony Schwatz advises we have a daily nap.

I'm sure there are countless other hellish and inhumane experiments animals are going through to better our understanding of sleep. But it seems like we still don't know much.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Jouvet
[2] http://psychology4a.com/sleep8.htm
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time spent in school and money spent per child are not solving the problem.

Agreed. Finland v USA and comparative achievement. Etc.

The only thing that'll help improve education in the USA is addressing poverty and inequity.

Here's a recent first hand account:

"I taught at the worst school in Texas"
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/25/i_taught_at_the_worst_school...

You can guess the story, but TL;DR: Teachers and schools cannot mitigate all the bad stuff happening to their students.

Back to the money. While more likely won't help, I would note the giant sucking sound of our tax dollars being diverted to cronies, via standardized tests, text books, charter schools, whatever.
I loved the overall site. I'm talking specifically about the text at the very bottom of the page, the small print section.
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Sure, sure, but how many have your kids fought, dated, and/or slept with?

There's an entire other side to the socialization we find in schools.
if you aren't willing to take risk right out of college, not even a midlife crisis will be enough to motivate you to build something great
Interestingly the opposite is true in our case. We are a small startup that has apps available both in Apple and Android. But because it is hard to develop and deploy a successful app in iOS than in android, it keeps competition at bay. In Android, lot of half baked apps pollute the store (and the fake ratings and review destroy any sort of app discovery) that it is simply not worth it.

While we have had our share of frusturation with the apple app store process (weird rejections that had to be explained etc), I don't see Android as an alternative to iOS appstore for startups. Once the iOS app is up running, we develop the android (and since we believe android users are used to seeing incomplete apps), we take our time adding functions to the app as well! (Yes I know, it is a cynical view, but we simply match expectation)
Seems like this is a case study for "Android is for startups" http://blog.audobox.com/android-is-for-startups/
That's probably the one I was thinking of when I mentioned people going without water being allowed to bathe. There's quite a few red flags there - just one researcher doing the experiments (despite offers from other teams and noted skeptics like Sanal Edamaraku to investigate), the research never being published in a journal, the fact that he noticeably lost weight over just ten days, the CCTV coverage being incomplete... The "Reactions" section of the article covers a lot of them, enough to say that the studies are pretty much worthless.

In a case like this, it's up to the ones making the extraordinary claim to provide the evidence, not up to anyone else to debunk it.
Typical real-world GPS accuracy is on the order of 10m, so that means that the error in the time differences cannot be more than about 30ns typically.

To see anything close to a 0.1ms/300km offset, you'd need every signal to be shifted by almost the same amount. To maintain 10m position accuracy while suffering from 300km time error, all of the signals would have to be delayed to within 0.003% of each other. That's an extremely tall order for a natural phenomenon, considering that the satellites are positioned such that signals can come from any direction in the sky.

It's vastly more plausible that this is simply a result of troublesome hardware after the core GPS clock hardware gets done doing its thing.
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The chief scientist, Sudhir Shah, was the same each time and you're right that he is "an ardent proponent of Jain philosophy" according to his wikipedia page.

However, both tests were done with other researchers (in 2010, with "a team of 35 researchers from the Indian Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences (DIPAS) as well as other organizations") in the largest hospital chain in one of the most industrialized states in India.

So, still very believable to my mind, despite the reaction of the scientific community at large. Many are quick to say "impossible", citing what they know based on their own observations. It saddens me that modern scientists are such cynics. History has proven that "impossible" is just a point of view and that many things widely believed to be impossible in the past are completely doable.
You do learn lots of good things at companies, but you can also learn bad habits -- you can acquire a predilection for long meetings, acquire a taste for political point-scoring over (more difficult, less fun) compromise, and a default position of creating process over improving communication. Those things are survival skills at a big company, but very bad for small ones. The trick is to identify which of the skills you're picking up are good or bad and using them appropriately when you strike out on your own.
I just want to say that as soon as I opened this page, and started reading tokenadult's comment (without noticing the author), I thought: this should be tokenadult. And I was right!!!

I have read this same thing a few days ago, and today I have experienced it for the first time.

And of course I mean a lot of good things by saying this.

Kudos.
Oh, of course. The biggest part of the problem is that there is a disconnect between residents paying exorbitant amounts of money per child on education and teachers having to try and cover the cost of their own classroom supplies. It makes taxpayers really, really angry when teachers ask for more money, because I don't think many people understand how little money the teachers are actually seeing (though I would also contend that, like other public sector workers, there is a benefits disconnect for teachers that needs to be corrected).
It's the most similar to the old logo, IMO.
>In what way is homeschooling to suit a parent's utter stupidity not a prison?

Have you considered the case where the parent is not 'stupid'?
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Someone who comes up with reasons for things but doesn't think they're good is automatically narrow minded?

Do you have better ones?
It seems like he can only name three mechanical keyboard manufacturers and doesn't even know anything specifically about Cherry. Hardly a keyboard snob, and hardly an appropriate review for today's keyboard market. From ABS keycaps to plastic (and ABS to top that) casing, the CODE is far from worth the hype it's getting.
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In general test behavior, not opinions if you can. People lie to themselves and pollsters constantly. This is an awesome article about how the Obama campaign used testing to design their email campaign:

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-29/the-science-...

Big takeaway: you have no idea what is going to work, measure behavior not opinions.
Because some may not know the "There is no speed limit" reference: http://sivers.org/kimo. It's a great article.
Well I don't know about you, but I use my eyes to figure out where to put my fingers before I start typing, even though I can then carry on with my eyes closed ;) - backlit keyboards are great for this. Particularly handy as it starts to become dark, or if you're working in a shaded area.

(Positioning your hands by sight may not be that uncommon among people who learned to type before the F and J markers became commonplace on computers. I was in my late teens before I first encountered them, and I had to have their purpose explained to me.)
I'm more than happy to pay money for a good product than waste my time suffering though shitty free ones that throw ads at you.

I've always thought Google's greatest achievement was to convince people that they are getting free services..
>You are very right and I dont see how they might have foreseen this.

as it was already mentioned this architect had already built death ray building in Las Vegas

>It is quite unusual for the windows on a building to start melting cars, especially in a mild climate like London.

Sun's potential energy flux on the Earth's surface, be it Las Vegas or London, is 1KWt per m2 of the surface _perpendicular_ to the flux. So given clear day and good angle (close to perpendicular) of a building to the Sun's light, the building will be beaming back significant part of that 1KWt/m2.
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And what's a stackoverse ?

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is that even a theory ?
My point was that in India, the authorities don't preserve justice even when serious crimes have been committed, so its doubtful that they would care about things as insignificant as false-advertising.

If a society's legal system is demonstrably corrupt, the rest of the society is bound to follow.

You could argue that the same thing applies to the United States, and I would agree. Right now, however, I feel that the stage the U.S. justice system is in is that of the functional alcoholic. Its still working for the most part, but it could completely fall apart at any time.

>Is that your final conclusion?

Yes. It is a shitty place to live, unless you come from a privileged family. It obviously doesn't have to be, and it might not always be but as of today, it is. If you took a hundred random people and asked them which country they would rather live in(Out of the two), probably at least 75 (And this is generous) would say the United States, even though we are in the middle of a downward spiral. If you asked them which country they would rather live in as a lower-middle class citizen, only an imbecile (or perhaps someone with family in India) would choose to live in India.

The United States botches rape trials on a regular basis, but still, in spite of our own corrupt system, it's significantly better than what's going on in India. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that you are correct, and that the per-capita rape statistics are similar. However, in the United States, you have a much better chance of bringing the perpetrator to justice.
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We are working on a solution for this. It is an horizontal layout application were you can create boards (like sections) and drag the tabs to bookmark directly from your synced browser. You can check it out here: http://listboard.it/
their dumbphones were superb too. the nokia 1100 is probably the most usable phone i've ever had, in terms of being a phone (voice calls and sms). comfortable to hold, comfortable buttons, nigh indestructible, and an insanely long battery life.
I actually have yet to meet someone who genuinely prefers Cherry MX Clears. I love ergo-clears which use the lighter springs from any of red, blue, or brown Cherry MX switches.

Just because it's a new solid board outside of the custom market doesn't make it a selling point.
Razer makes some nice mechanical keyboards (BlackWidow series) with optional backlight, Cherry MX Blue or Brown switches, extra macro keys (that can be bound to any action), along with keyboard mapping software that works very well on Win/OSX.

For $50-70 less than this, depending on if you buy on sale.

I'm failing to see why this is a good option.
I'm a Linux and Android user. My Android phone wasn't any cheaper than an iPhone and I can most certainly afford any Apple hardware I want. I also don't use Linux because I'm cheap, I use Linux because I love it. The hardware was exactly what I wanted too.

I don't develop for iOS because I don't want to own a Mac. I (as a long-time Linux user) find OS X incredibly frustrating.

There's also absolutely no reason to force developers to use a particular brand of hardware or a particular operating system to develop for a particular phone.
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Excellent point - I find the long meetings aren't such a difficult thing to avoid - but certainly politics and unnecessary process have no place in a startup.

The other big lesson I learnt, the hidden cost of complexity, and importance of keeping things simple (I don't think you can get this until you meet the real world): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6331082 (just submitted to HN, realised it hadn't been shared yet)