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I can't find a Nexus 4 for under $300, which is double the RRP of this phone. The Nexus has a RRP of $799, so I'm sure the Nokia will also be a lot cheaper than $150 in practice.
I used to be a lover of Fantasy Paperbacks ... but had to get rid of most of them when my husband and I sold everything to move to SV. Since then I now keep 90% of my books digital, which I fought against at the time, but appreciate it now! My husband had an even harder time with clearing out RPG hardcovers.

Between us I think we kept about a dozen books; autographed copies of things or gems that we can't get in digital, but that's it.

Programming books we long since switched to digital - those giant tomes were not only a huge waste of space but went out of date way too soon. Yay for O'Reilly.
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The article sent me searching for real science. He's a phenom but if he doesn't get tired why isn't he an Olympian?
That's not true. I lived in Rio de Janeiro for 3 years. I frequently encountered people who spoke perfect English with American accents... and had never left Brazil.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/article-2311199/Britam-Defen...

The emails were faked.
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Newsflash for non north americans.

I got all my smart phones, in a country where they run $800 each, for free with one year contract. And paid less for data. And sms was always included in the voice plan.

And i still complained about how expensive it was.
I updated my profile description with my email address: w.victoryee@gmail.com

Heh, I ended up with this particular username because I forgot to set my email address with a couple previous accounts, then proceeded to forget my password to those accounts.

I don't think I would be able to help more than what I mentioned in my previous comment... All I know about clinical trials are from (relatively basic) courses on the statistical analysis of them; I'm not actually in the clinical trials field myself. If you're looking for someone who is, might I suggest reddit (if you haven't already tried there)? Sorry I'm not of more assistance.
You're right. I'll work on a few basic tutorials to reach MVP status. :-)

If you use tumblr, you can follow my blog in the upper right corner: http://blog.pianouniversity.com/

Thanks!
I know exactly what you mean. I run into the same problems. I have been lucky enough to not been let go from any contract yet and I am the one who had to leave for greener pastures usually at the end of contract even though the client wants to renew. I always wished I could get the current client someone to replace me but it is just so hard to do that.
I agree to some extent. I'd love to have heard how he approaches the sensitive subject of telling someone he can't understand them because they're speaking with an incredibly thick accent or considerably stilted english. I know many people I work with or interview that I would love to convey this to, but I can't think of a way to say it that wouldn't either run afoul of their feelings or Human Resources.
My wife's family comes from the coastal islands off South Carolina.

They speak English, but I just could not understand anything the locals said. The dialect/culture is called Gullah: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gullah
If you have sufficient karma (500, last I knew) you can downvote comments.
Too slow for the command to pass through the usual "X - WM - TE - shell - killall" chain? Try Alt+SysRq+f ; that, in my experience, is waaaaay faster for invoking oom_killer.
The oldest iPhone is still quite a bit more modern than a Series 40 Nokia. You can buy plenty of phones for cheaper.
I don't know what island you're referring to, but there are a lot of claims out there like this - a lot of people claiming they speak the "Queen's English". Every claim I've heard, much like Eskimos and snow, turns out to be a myth:

http://streaming.ohio.edu/cas/lingCALL/ling270/myth9.pdf
My father was threatened by Telecom here in New Zealand for this. They wouldn't provide broadband to him due to him being too far from the exchange and he made a passing comment about using his neighbours. They were rather nasty.
He lives rurally and his neighbour's house comes off a street that is considerably closer to the exchange. It's a rather odd mentality to refuse to provide something and refuse to allow a workaround that will still generate some revenue.
I felt the same way about tech meetups about 18 months ago - myself and my immediate circle of friends just stopped attending them: Watching someone go through the absolute basics of Amazon Web Services or node.js in a real life presentation simply does not provide any value to me, and then to spread it out over a clumsy 35 minute presentation moves it into a "painful" category.

The good parts were in the discussions and questions afterwards but they were often severely truncated because, well, we gotta fit in another half-hour presentation on... unit testing. The "Oh, come talk to me afterwards" rejoinder that genuinely interesting questions got seemed like a cruel tease.

Anyway, recently I took this slightly negative attitude and turned it on its head - what if I ran a tech event with the talk-to-question ratio completely inverted? If the discussions were what we liked, why not create an environment were the talk was simply a quick 5 minute introduction framing an extended, round-table discussion period?

It's still early days, but this has worked extremely well so far. (The result, if anyone's intested, is at: http://www.manytomany.co.uk/)
It's... kinda madness. Just to be clear that we're talking about the same thing, here's the proposed process as I understand it:

1) load your loader script, which has the URLs, fingerprints of the scripts you want to run, and the necessary dependency information (jquery-ui must load after jquery for example). In the best case, this file is being served out by the same server that's hosting the HTML, that way at least you're not adding more attack vectors.

2) from the loader script, initiate ajax requests for each of the remote files you need

3) as you get each one back, validate that its signature matches those that are expected, raise an exception if it does not (ideally also displaying something to the user), and evaluating it if its signature matches and we've loaded all of its dependencies.

So, why is this madness?

1) Most of the time the reason that you're letting a third party host these files is for speed. They've got a CDN, and hopefully the file will already be cached by your user. Grabbing resources with javascript that you could load directly in the html will slow down your page's loading time, as the browser's html parser isn't able to look ahead and fetch resources that are likely to be needed before the renderer has asked (HTML has a defined rendering order that can be kinda strict sometimes, this is the same reason why you don't put your <script> elements in the <head>).

2) Another reason for using a CDN for your JS libraries is convenience, which this process also wipes out.

3) The whole thing won't work at all unless the third party server sends back cooperative CORS headers, as you can't do an ajax request to a third party site without their cooperation.

Finally though – and this is the big one – it's more convenient for the developers, strictly safer, and faster for the end user if you just compile all of the JS and serve from the same domain that's serving your HTML. As stated above, if that server is compromised, you're toast anyways (barring a browser extension or similar). If you really want some more security, look into SSL (and actually look into it, there's definitely much better and much worse ways of doing it).
That post is a great, poetic allegory. But ultimately, I think the analogy presents a bad idea. The allegory makes the point that we could entirely avoid OOM errors by engineering a system such that resources are never overcommitted. This is true; we could do that.

However it would be bad.

Under-committing resources (thus removing the need for an OOM killer) will NOT lead to a net gain compared to over-committing resources (and thus requiring an OOM killer of some sort).

If we are unwilling to overcommit resources then it would be woefully uneconomical to run algorithms that have bad worst-case performance (because to avoid over committing you would necessarily need to assume the worst case is encountered every time).

It's just not feasible to avoid algorithms that have bad worst-case performance. Rather, we need to develop better abstractions for dealing with components (e.g. computations, programs, processes, threads, actors, functions etc.) that go over budget. Here's my attempt at developing a better abstraction for web servers: mikegagnon.com/beergarden

Ultimately, we need to treat every system like a soft real-time system, because at the end of the day every program has timeliness requirements and has resource constraints. The current POSIX model does not provide such abstractions and I think that's why we have these debates about OOM killers.
An undirected graph is equivalent to a directed graph with doubled edges.

The only efficient way to implement an undirected graph is as a directed graph with doubled edges.

You want to list friends of Alice. Directed: query all friend(Alice, X). Undirected: query all friend(Alice, X) OR friend(X, Alice). Finding all friend(X, Alice) will be very slow without an index of all friend relationships with Alice in the second position. Storing this is harder than just storing friend(Alice, X) and friend(X, Alice).
> The rest is politics.

Really. No reality check? Spinning a wheel doesn't cause anything in particular, unless it meets the road.

Now I am not saying what you are saying is totally false. The truth is more nuanced, or say, more qualified.

The qualification comes from achieving something in the real world. If you can achieve something by talking to someone instead of writing code to work around it, both are equally valid.

I think of it like this. A pure function does not do any real work.
The real work comes from the side effect it causes, the global variable it sets, the file it writes to, the program it talks to on the other end.

So yeah. You can cocoon yourself saying lalalalala, but you don't want to be the thread that spawned, did something to its local variables and exited. Whats the point of such a life anyways?
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The "source" was a german hacker:

http://web.archive.org/web/20130507122447/http://www.cyberwa...
No, it ends up being far cheaper than a Nexus 4. For many people, the point of a dumbphone like this is that you can save hundreds of dollars on data plans, or even more with prepaid.

Right now, I pay roughly $10 a month for my phone, and I'm reasonably happy with that (the reception is a bit weak, perhaps because the phone is so cheap, or perhaps because Tracfone is bad in my area).The problem is that my phone itself is terrible. The UI and the physical design are both atrocious.

I'd gladly drop $100 on a device that was pleasant to use. I've even contemplated shelling out a few hundred for a no-contract smartphone (I have wifi at work, wifi at home, etc...)
I love re-interpreting existing tools or ideas as practice and fun, like how an artist does studies of master artists' work to improve their technical skills or just to gain some perspective.

So perhaps if you can't think of something new, try re-inventing something that exists, in a new language or one you already know and like?

Though I'm partial to people building doodads with things like Arduinos and Raspberry Pis. :)
Because he's 51?
These days, we can also have our calculators keep track of the units associated with a quantity, which helps greatly with sanity-checking. If the units come out wrong or mis-match anywhere in the calculation, you'll know immediately.
>I wasn't in the best condition anyway as I had just suffered three or four days food poisoning from a horrible meat and potato pie.

>"It turned out it was the Queen Elizabeth II, which had altered its course from America to stand station with us in response to the mayday. But because it was so formal, we'd assumed it was the Queen. Then the message came 'sorry boys, wrong lady'."

This is why I love reading/listening to the BBC.
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And yet, AirBnb was tricking people into using their service by proxying machine generated emails through fake female personalities to bootstrap their service.

I think the real trick is to dark pattern in a way that isn't offensive/egregiously negative to the customer.
Well if you have a 3.0 you probably won't get an interview with Goldman Sachs. I think grades do matter especially with the bigger firms.
Thanks for the kind wishes!
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That link says:
"Allocates memory charges (from the overall size of memory and the paging files on disk) for the specified reserved memory pages."

It does count against the total memory allowed. My laptop has 8GB of RAM and 1GB page, giving me a 9GB overall commit limit. If I spawn a process that eats up 1GB at a time, even Task Manager can clearly show me going up and hitting 8/9GB, then I'll get OOM in my process.

Windows won't commit memory that a process can't use. You can't overcommit, although you might end up in the pagefile. Without the odd concept of fork, you don't end up with processes having huge "committed" address spaces that aren't ever going to be used.

The note about physical pages is just saying it's not mapping it, not that it's not guaranteeing it.
Yes I can do an import, but here in Brazil, each import value above $ 50 gives the government the right to add a charge of 60% to the IRS and a rate of 30% of state revenue! Doing the calculations the product is twice more expensive.

$ 1500 = R $ 3,571.80
+ 60% = R $ 5,714.88
+ 30% = R $ 6,786.42

R $ 6,786.42 = $ 2,850.00 !!!
:/
Kids are forced to go to school. Are you suggesting they should not be forced?
"for ever" is consistent with British English usage. It's a UK site.

Edited to add: Sure it's on the "US" section of the Guardian but they don't appear to change any other spellings to match US English.
Customer research brings it up.. if anyone is listening.
I'm one of the few that REALLY liked the movie Unbreakable.

This guy reminds me of that movie.

And if so, then I am his Mr. Glass. I pretty much hit my threshold for running when I finish tying my running shoes' laces.
No. I despise turn by turn navigation. With the passion of 1000 suns. and sometimes I'm not driving, sometimes I'm just walking around a city looking for the nearest subway station. Granted, paper maps will get me 70% of the way there, and I do look at googles turn by turn readout, and view the entire route on a map. But I refuse to succumb to those shitty navigation systems. I want to look at a map, a suggested route, and make my own decisions on what course to take. Also without fumbling around for 20 min just trying to plug in a specific address when all I have is a general idea of the area I'm trying to get to. I don't even need gps on a phone, I usually know the general area I'm in, or I just use cell tower triangulation.
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Reading about ultrarunners is quite fascinating. The angle of the story which is that Dean Karnazes has some kind of magical DNA which lets him do these things effortlessly definitely seems like a misrepresentation.

These guys are amazing athletes but they experience fear and doubt just like everyone else, and don't run these distances effortlessly. Imagine the discipline required to push yourself to your limits for hours or days at a time.

That it is such a taxing endeavor both physically and mentally is what makes it all the more incredible. One of my favorite stories about ultrarunners is the time Scott Jurek ran the Badwater Ultramarathon for the first time.

There were a bunch of reasons it was objectively a terrible idea. Half way through he collapsed vomited and seriously considered giving up. He managed to keep going though and made up a ton of time in the second half of the race and ended up winning and set a course record despite being behind at the half way point:
http://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/Seattle-man-amazes-e...
Easier doesn't mean better. You learned risk aversion and prioritization skills from your mothers habits. The fact is that you don't need to employ that aversion at the moment, but its a tool you have if you do need it.

The number of people I see who blow though heroic gobs of money astonishes me sometimes. I realize that my metric is entirely variable, but I'm talking about paying 2-3x for a similar good simply because its closer at hand, or offers some entirely minor benefit. This behavior isn't an issue when the wind is at your back, but I've had the unfortunate experience of helping, and eventually just watching, people that had a bad turn that just got worse because they didn't know how to stop their bad spending habits when they couldn't support them anymore.

Your mother gave you a gift. Its a gift with a mental toll, but in the long run its a fine price to pay for it.
It's less risky to not to provide an explanation than provide the one that will blow up in your face in court.
Sadly we can't do this. Each person coming back from another country has an limit in dollars to buy. If this limit is overpassed, a lot of taxes will be setted in each product, increasing the price.
Maybe this is bad to say, but whenever it comes to "me needing a book" the first thing I do is google "$BOOK_NAME pdf" and check it out.

There is a catch though.. if I find the book a good asset, then I make sure to buy it, but otherwise it just doesn't make sense to gamble $20+ on a book that will be outdated in a year, unlike literature.
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Jacalata -- I did look into dis-enrolling students, and was told it was a non-starter.

And I have to say that it is already a huge problem at Berkeley to simply get enrolled into a CS class. There are simply not enough resources to go around. That's why this class has a huge waitlist.

By the way, this problem is also occurring in other classes, but they are scheduled as Monday-Wednesday classes. My class is Tuesday-Thursday -- the first day of classes at Berkeley was 8/29. Monday is Labor Day holiday at Berkeley, so those other classes will have to deal with their situations on 9/4. (However, their TA deficits are not quite as large as those that we have in CS 161).
I am elitist against people who judge ideas on the scale of which one is most politically correct.

I don't understand how they get anything done in life without giving their brain room to think. For example, a founder having trouble raising funds could consider Paul Graham's advice on accents and see if it applies to him, but not if he censors his own mind to avoid it.
Thank you! Grouping songs like Songza seems like a great idea.
Really amusing, but there is a deeper interesting point here: people are susceptible to the "Rhetoric of Data". Apart from simple mistakes, it seems clear that people are getting utility that is not related to the information presented out of these graphics, and I hypothesize that utility has everything to do with the rhetorical utility of fancy looking graphics, bright colors, and lots of numbers. "Oh," the audience thinks, "I don't understand this but it looks complicated, so the speaker must be very smart and the point they are making very profound."

This is why skepticism is only second to honesty as the most important quality in an organization. Some organizations punish skeptics as being disruptive, but the simple fact is that many times people don't know what the fuck they are talking about, and skeptics are an organization's immune-system. If someone is presenting on something complicated and there are not probing questions, then something is terribly wrong.
Cable providers have been the worst with this in my experience. No matter what you do it takes an ungodly amount of time to cancel service.

There was a great Behavioral Economics course on Coursera taught by Dan Ariely that touched on methods like these, as well as subtler ones. I think the slide on Organ Donation was from him. https://class.coursera.org/behavioralecon-001/class
I love this blog's UI. Did you make it yourself?

I like the idea of the doorman but what if you could somehow pass back useful math to the client? Of course, then you'd have to disregard that useful work yourself or double check it negating the energy savings. Or, perhaps return a map of traveling sales man type problem (maybe a map of metadata and their traversal cost), and they could navigate that map depending on exactly what kind of data they really want, thus reducing your load for valid, heavy requests and if they return a path with lots of nodes, you know to de-prioritize it or drop the request.
One unnamed reason for Sinclair Radionics' falling apart was their digital watch, Black Watch, which was the ultimate example of Sinclair's infamous cost cutting and lack of quality control. http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/other/blackwatch.htm
I really wish more smartphones had some of the dumbphones' features: better battery life, better casing, etc. As much as I love my Nexus 4, the battery life isn't great and I'm always worried that I will drop it and the whole thing will shatter.
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In the wired article he gives some advice:

"10. PROMOTE THE HELL OUT OF YOURSELF
Before he became Superman, Karnazes was the Clark Kent of the PR world: a humdrum marketing executive at a pharmaceutical company. But in the past three years, he's published a memoir, nabbed a sponsorship from the North Face, appeared on Late Show With David Letterman, and gotten himself on the cover of a handful of magazines. The book and the North Face contract generate enough money to support his family, and the high profile translates into maximum motivation: Failure is scarier when the family income is on the line."

- http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/ultraman.html
GoDaddy and VistaPrint also come to mind.
>> If his unique feature is that he doesn't have a lactate threshold, wouldn't that mean he'd be an ideal sprinter

They never said he was fast
The Nexus 4 8GB is on the Google Play (U.S.) store right now for $199, and 16GB for $249. Where did you get $800 from? It was never 800.
The hockey stick myth
This is a problem with metrics in general.

Short-term metrics are easy but long-term metrics are hard because of complexity.

Also, quantifying human emotion (UX) is also hard.

It seems like great companies have to rely on ethics, company culture and vision to make due in the absence of long-term metrics.
Simon Marlow said on reddit this morning that some of the technology is getting merged upstream into GHC 7.8. So we'll all benefit from it.
I understand your point, but I have a different view. Sometimes there are MANY comments on a thread, and looking at the Karma can help you decide which comment you want to take a look at.

Besides, it would be nice to test this feature and see how it works, no?
I guess this is one of those cases where I wish that the commenter would submit a link to their blog, instead of posting an interesting-yet-not-really-on-topic-way-too-long comment. [1]

[1] To refresh everyone's memory, pg's essay is about what happens when founders have trouble making themselves understood, while tokenadult's comment is about how to learn a foreign language.