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> The only goofy thing was that my left monitor showed up on the right side, giving me a choice between physically moving the monitors or changing the default positions in the GUI

You could have switched the cables. Just saying :)
As an avid hot rodder and restorer of vintage 70's mopeds, the tag line lead me to believe someone had brought back a true moped to the market.

For those in California, in street mode this would be classified as a "motorized bicycle" if it went under 20mph. If it went over 20 and below 30 ( as it does in speed mode) it would require registration and a "M2" Moped Motorcycle license. Over 30 would equal a "motor driven cycle" and would essentially be a small motorcycle and would require plating, registration and an M1.

http://www.myronsmopeds.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Laws-...
If you work for people who promote MBA's then it could help get you promoted. Other than that I see little value. I'm a pessimist.

How much will the MBA cost and how much extra money would your promotion bring in? Need the inputs to answer "is it worth it?"
> Well, it costs money for Apple to support development on Windows and Linux platforms

The cost of doing that pales in comparison to what they are making off of iOS. If they can afford to keep developing iTunes for Windows, they can afford to port their other software. For some reason, I don't think Apple will go out of business if they give it a shot.

> How many different types of Windows and Linux configurations are out there?

So target the most prevalent ones. I don't know about all of the various configurations on linux, but it's really not so bad with Windows - just target Windows 7 or higher, and you should be good. Nobody is saying it needs to look nice or even look like a native program; we just want something we can work with, even if it looks like dog shit.
With the new string interpolation syntax you could define config"key": Option{Result] and even config"base/userdata/$user/$key": Option[Result].
Riak has something pretty close to this, and if your table in cassandra looked like:

create bucket.users (
id uuid,
username text,
email text,
phone text,
primary key (uuid, username)
);

That would be exactly how the data was encoded.
And I think that's a dubious proposition, because the advantage Firefox had over both Netscape and IE was simplicity and speed. Can you name a single software product that gets faster, smaller, and simpler over time? I can't think of any; in general, software seems to accrete features, and if it manages to lose them, it usually grows new features in their place. Netscape was replaced by IE, which was replaced by Firefox, which was replaced by Chrome, which is getting replaced by native mobile widgets. In each case, they needed to build off something that started off at an earlier point in their evolutionary line, throwing away all features that had been developed as the software met actual users. Mosaic begat Netscape, then Microsoft started back with the Mosaic code by licensing Spyglass, then Firefox went back to the rewritten Netscape 6 code, then KHTML begat Safari begat Chrome.
Square Opens Girls Coding Camp To High School Students
Where is this happening and what is the penalty?
In response to the Edit/Addendum, the reason it was mentioned was to emphasize on how rare was the chance of me finding an error in the book.

My reasons for buying weren't to win a Knuth reward check. I wasn't even sure of being able to understand the book, let alone find an error.
That's a 300M population...today. Assuming avg US life expectancy of 75 years, that's another 4M in turnover for every year that they have data for, plus I assume records of another ~150-250M records from those that have only stayed in the US temporarily and aren't reflected in census numbers.
I've worked with somebody who came from Acxiom's grid computing division -- who has left after they were sold of to EMC. Essentially they had a fairly advanced grid computing infrastructure (comparable to Map/Reduce or other Scatter/Gather) for what seems like a while before Google has. Compared to what was then (2007) Hadoop's State of the Art (mind you, we were working together at Yahoo) it seemed quite impressive.

Now I wonder if the reason for their sale was prescience about open source grid processing -- which would have been against the grain at the time (this was before Hadoop was universally adopted even at Yahoo).

What's also interesting is that the sale indicated they also believed that they were to have no competitive advantage in further development/deployment/maintenance of data infrastructure. This is unlike the Internet firms I've worked at where even if the entire stack was open source, continued in-house development and operation of the stack was vital to the business. At first that surprised me, but then again compared to, e.g., Internet advertising data their data is never anonymous, much cleaner, and smaller in absolute volume (number web pages each unique client visits in a week -- which is a number greater than each unique individual -- visits vs. number of items each individual purchases from a store in a week).
It's interesting how many more trees there are in 2013. My wife pointed out that it looks the same with pictures of New York from the early 20th century- green space just wasn't a thing we had the desire/means to rate as highly.

OTOH the major infrastructure hasn't changed much (bridges, urban areas, not just the train line which is politically determined). Technological change reshapes how live in a lot of ways in short timespans, but it's interesting to reminded that big, capital intestive stuff like bridges and tunnels and roads are still built with 50+ year expected lifetimes. I can't imagine writing software with anything like that staying power.
Yahoo reveals its new logo
Take on challenging tasks and do good work. Save at least 25% of pre-tax salary and all bonuses. Don't let it all be invested in your employers stock; ideally diversify via an index fund. Given typical bigcorp compensation at the moment, this puts your timeline to financial comfort, if not independence, under 10 years without any hardship in the meantime.
Nada. Zip. Zilch. I know it's a good thing, but kinda disappointing in a way.
No offense, but it looks like shit!
The letters are too thin and don't have beautiful proportions.
What not to do when pitching your startup to the media
> This isn't some giant inconvenience that warrants completely switching a platform.

WRONG. Contacting all 30 of your friends and WAITING for them to give you their device UUIDs and giving them long instructions on how to find it from iTunes if they don't know how? How is that easier than sending an APK to your friends which they can simply download and install? And you seem to just have glossed over how it's a waste of money to sign up for an iOS developer license to build an app that, you find out, nobody wants to use.

> why would you start creating OS specific functionality you know will never work on the other platform. It's completely illogical.

Uhhhhhh, what? What do you mean OS-specific functionality? GPS? File reading and writing? Motion sensors? Buttons and text fields? Are you kidding me? Both Android and iOS have those. Do you even own a smartphone?

If you mean iCloud, why is that a problem? Even if you're developing for iOS, you can use Google Drive. If my startup had something to do with cloud syncing, catering to platform-exclusive cloud services isn't illogical.

> iOS is likely to remain the primary platform for prototyping. Why ? Because it is just so much nicer.

I'm pretty sure a "prototype" doesn't have to be "nice."

> The iOS Simulator "just works" and exactly mirrors your target devices.

Again, WRONG. You're not supposed to rely on the simulator precisely because it DOESN'T exactly mirror your target devices. It doesn't have motion sensors, uses your computer's internet connection as its own, uses your computer's processing power as its own, doesn't give you the same retina iPhone experience, etc.

Gee, have you even tried developing mobile apps?
Its actually a fun read once you start approaching it sequentially. I haven't read all of it yet, but whatever I have read, its been interesting and not that difficult.
Get rid of the 3D depth effect they've put on the letters, and it looks fine.
Wow, they are really trying very hard to come up with silly gimmicks to stay top-of-mind, only way to sell ads these days.
Software is just as difficult to test because there are combinatorially increasing numbers of possible configurations and interactions in complex systems and software can potentially have an astronomically large number of interacting components.

Additionally, software defects can and do kill people and cause billions of dollars in damage. A bug in the software for the Thorac-25 radiation therapy machine killed 5 people, for example. A bug in the engine control software of a Chinook helicopter led to a crash and the deaths of 29 British soldiers.

During the Cold War software and systems errors almost caused the onset of a full-scale nuclear exchange between the US and USSR at least twice.

It's difficult for consequences to get higher than that.
A response to "Should DevOps Do It All?"
I don't understand why they added the bevel, it looks like WordArt :(
Yeap. And the US laws are such that once your details are known to a company in the US jurisdiction, you have basically no rights or recourse for what they can do with your details (ie sell them). I only know this as a friend is in law school researching & writing papers in this area.

(IANAL.)
http://wikileaks.org/static/html/faq.html says

> For this release we are releasing the documents in a gradual manner, reviewing them with the assistance of our media partners.

which doesn't exactly sound "indiscriminate".
Are you saying these people just don't understand and haven't taken the time to learn the details about evolution? Or, do these people understand the science behind evolution and still actively deny that it took place? If the latter, then yes these people aren't "all there". Perhaps calling them stupid is over the line, and counter-productive, but I would be skeptical of any other opinions they hold due to the fact that they are creationists. It shows a severe lack of critical thinking if nothing else.
The bevel only makes it look even more antiquated. At a moment like this you would think they would go for a 'fresher' look.
Fair point. The companies are small and medium-sized. I'm not convinced that those models can't scale, though. One large-ish company that I know of who still does something similar is ThoughtWorks. They have on the order of thousands of employees and their interview process consists of, among other things, a take-home code submission and on-site pair programming.

If you're getting 1000 resumes per day, I think you would be able to weed out a significant number of them just by giving them a coding assignment to work on. Churning out a resume is easy, but sitting down for a few hours and writing well-designed code takes effort.
I think it looks pretty bad, but this was the first time I visited a Yahoo site in years so I guess their plan is working.
Not to derail from the point you are making but Adwords does have a support line.
I love Android. I really only develop for Android. But to say the Android emulators are better than the iOS simulator (or even comparable) is hilarious to me.

The reason everyone tests on hardware is because the emulator is %@$#ing slow. i7 @ 4.2GHz, 12 GB of RAM... the emulator still takes MINUTES to start and runs unusably slow.

The iOS Simulator on the MBP work gave me (mid-2010) runs at basically native speed.

I do some development with Cordova. During development I either test on my Android phone or an iOS simulator. Those are the only realistic options.
Python is still a pretty large dependency in itself.
Out of the 30 days of logos, this one looks most similar to day 7 to me -- which according to Survata was the second most popular out of the 30: http://survata.com/blog/yahoo-showed-us-30-days-of-logos/
It is a better shade of purple. The bevel is kind of gross, and I'm just left a bit disappointed. A missed opportunity to do something great.
Yahoo's red logo back in 90s was their best ever. All this purple doesn't look good.
What if the nightmare imagined by George Orwell in 1984 were real?

In the absence or near-absence of Facebook and email and internet browsing and private cars and smart phones, I suspect (in fact I'm certain) that North Koreans have far more privacy from their government than we Americans do.
Yeah, it looks pretty bad. I guess it's just a matter of time unless everyone gets used to it. I think they should spend more time on their services than their branding, however. Playing with a logo is great, but in terms of value it's close to zero.
First Week in the App Store
Anticlimax. The down side about a strategy like this is that it's very unlikely that you'll produce anything OTHER THAN an anticlimactic sense of meh.
I'm 21, and apparently married with an 8 year old daughter. I also drive a truck, own a home that I bought in 05/2008, and have an amex card.

Interesting that my profile is so specific, yet utterly incorrect.
Just remove well-built case and high-quality keyboard from that list and I can buy a laptop with much, much more power for the same price as a Macbook Air.
let me review this... an advertising company wants even more data about me... remind me those anti-virus software... let me scan your computer for free and boom even more spywares .... IP+browser info+SSN+full name+ location....that's gold !!! don't know how many people is going to complete the form but that's a great marketing campaign... scare people to create a sense of urgency...
Ideally you'd like to segment the market geographically like that, but with the doctrine of first sale floating out there (recently upheld in this exact contex[1]), it can be very tricky to pull off. Now pharmaceuticals on the other hand ...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirtsaeng_v._John_Wiley_%26_Son....
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.

To the contrary, history has shown that many things are just plain impossible, and no change of state of mind will do anything to make them possible.
Illinois has more people in it than Belgium or Greece and is larger than Bulgaria. If you compare the U.S. to the E.U., you'll see that many of our states are bigger than your states.

13 U.S. states are bigger than Britain by size.
For comparison, Google's logo also has a bevel and the first letter englarged extending below the baseline.
I would not give this company the last 4 of my SS to see what they know about me. My SS and the confirmation information they are seeking is worth far more to them than any info they will give me.

In fact this whole site reeks of a scam, similar to a "Free personality test" or "Love IQ" test online that is really just a way to gain valuable personal information, except instead of playing off social anxieties to trick people into taking a test they are playing off privacy anxieties to get people to divulge more information...
You people are crazy (to me!). I love Uber in Seattle and couldn't imagine life without it. I guess I moved here and had Uber immediately available, but for someone who has never had to learn:

- how/where to find cabs

- how to signal to them

- how to deal with them (going in circles, not knowing where they're going, etc)

I can't imagine cabbing without Uber. It's a "duh" thing now. Duh, why the fuck wouldn't I use a smartphone to hail my cab. I sound like a damn Uber shill. Ha.
The difference is that all the cells with the same `id` would belong to the same partition and stored together, so you'd be able to write them atomically and read them together cheaply in a single operation.

What marshray suggested would look like this:

create table bucket.users (name text, field text, value text, primary key ((name, field))); - with a composite partition key. Then you'd have two separate single-cell partitions "jbellis:email" : "jbellis@example.com" and "jbellis:phone" : "555-5555". You don't want to do that in either Riak or Cassandra.
Oooh... submodules. Yours is better than mine. Maybe it's time I ditched my own half-baked setup...
Purple and yellow actually go together quite well.

Purple and Yellow are complementary colors.

"When placed next to each other, they create the strongest contrast and reinforce each other. They are widely used in art and design."[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementary_colors
you know what? i like it. for the past month or so i kept thinking "this is such a bad idea on yahoo's part..." but now that the new logo's here, i realized that it is, in fact, a good move. it's sleek, modern yet it still looks 'familiar'. kudos to the yahoo design/marketing team.
Agreed. Though frankly for a company in Yahoo!'s straits, it seems like almost any press is good press.
Does anyone else use RCS [1] for this?

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/rcs/
For reference, full list of higher-res logos by day at: http://www.yahoo.com/dailylogo
It looks like our data on Polar Polls predicted the new logo selection in advance:

http://polarb.com/polls/tags/yahoo30
Perfect! Make sure nobody knows you exist or that you're on trial, make sure you can't run a legal defense fund, etc - that way when the government railroads you, nobody will care and they'll get away with it.

The system works!

The implication that a 'fair trial' is only possible when the public is ignorant is kind of insane in this scenario, where the government is obviously trying to silence detractors.
The "Bomber" electric bike by Stealth Electric Bike offers a lot more speed: http://www.stealthelectricbikes.com.au/bomber.html
I would think they would need more than anybody right now to broadcast a fresh and youthful design. This doesn't seem to be either. Odd...
Agreed. This is an unprecedented level of detail compared to the snippets and vague "sources say" rumors you hear otherwise. Probably intentionally leaked by one or both of the parties, but can't imagine why.
This logo looks great in the "white on background" flavor, but I have to shake my head at its "purple with bevel" iteration. A win and a loss, in the same small reveal.
I don't believe that it's enlarged, rather most lower curves aside from Os cross the baseline, especially capital letters, in most typefaces.
BTW - there is an opera company that's actually in Silicon Valley that also has financial problems: http://operasj.org/
The bevel looks pretty bad. I really liked what they day 10 and day 1.
This is somewhat off topic, but this page has incredible visuals. One of the hardest parts for me of writing technical information online is including the accompanying visuals needed to make it digestible. I think it's hard for me to do that because I'm forced to either context switch between writing and doing screen captures/cropping, or go back after the fact and create visuals which is very time consuming.
I'm in the same boat as byoung2 but would go further to say it applies to everything I watch, including movies in the theater. I have found that more than half the time, I strongly disagree with friends on whether a movie was good or not or how good it was to begin with. Alternatively, reviews don't really do much for me. Instead I watch trailers or get a basic understanding of what the movie is about and decide whether or not it looks interesting.
The 'hiring religion' of Paul English at Kayak is an interesting contrast to the Google process, especially with regard to English's "7 day rule":

http://paulenglish.com/hiring.html
> Don't really bother with Frats / Sororities / Bars.

Food for thought: Data seems to indicate that those who drink more, earn more. It is thought that the uninhibited random connections you make at those kind of social functions may open up opportunities to find better jobs.

This may explain why people who go to college, and are exposed to the stereotypical party scene, also statistically earn more. If you stick to parties with with a close nit group of friends, you may actually set yourself back career-wise, statistically speaking.

Of course there is a lot more to college than just finding a future career, but your opening statement seems to imply that focus.
I'm not going to sign up to opt out. I have a feeling it is going to trick me to give my personal data myself.
It works very well in inner-city schools. See The Lives of Children: The Story of the First Street School by Dennison.

I can't imagine that this article was supposed to add value to the public-school debate. Here are two non-controversial goals that children should achieve while growing up:
1. They should build durable cognitive connections.
2. And they should flourish (which has a psychological meaning).
The public schools address neither goal. They can't. They actively work against both goals. Most children would be better off without school (since public school is a massive opportunity cost).
What are all those chrome.exe processes for?
seems like you got tricked :(
Really Cool site for all the sports fanatics out there!! Many people of my age would just die for something like this. Nice work Playerify!!
I agree. Yahoo! logo is red. That's it. This change is equal to Facebook changing the corporate color to green.
If you watch the video the logo looks fantastic from 0:25 to about 0:33. And then everything goes to shit.
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Comparing World of Warcraft to Second Life is like comparing Monopoly (the board game) to Lego blocks. The former has definite, artificial rules and objectives, the latter is an open-ended kit. To put it another way, the former is like living in someone else's imagination, the latter encourages you to use your own imagination. Or:

WoW = paint by numbers

SL = paints and a blank canvas

It seems clear why WoW has more users: most people believe they have no creative ability (sadly).
Did Yahoo! need a new logo, or is this some kind of "look at us, we're re-inventing ourselves!" theater?
Your comment is almost void of content. Maybe the poster has a more international perspective as one can judge the wickedness of a country by stepping outside the border. The Germans of Nazi Germany thought their country was great, it was the oppressed internal people and occupied countries that saw Germany as wicked. But I know, as long as you see yourself having it good or better than elsewhere is all that matters.
They probably can scale up to a point. Thoughtworks has 2100 employees. Google has 45,000.

How would you grade/score ~1000 code submissions per day, though? You could conceivably do Coursera/Topcoder-type automated grading, but that can only get you so far and can't distinguish good code vs. bad code vs. "copied from Glassdoor" code. It might be useful as an initial filter, though. You'd have to constantly be implementing new questions w/ associated grading scripts, though, as the problems would inevitably leak.
Hacktivity - a webcomic about a group of hackers taking on the NSA and the FBI
So who decides what the "real education" is? I believe, as a parent, that "real education" for my kids is determined by me. If there are parents that want to teach their kids mythology painted as facts then so be it. In this day and age those kids will reach an age of reason like everyone else and they will have direct access to an amazing amount of knowledge via the internet. I'm less and less worried about dogma going forward. What you are suggesting is to remove any innovation and entrepreneurship from the educational system.
I agree with everything except the 'next segway' bit. The segway had it's day partly due to the novelty, but this is just a fancy (and heavy!) electric mo-ped. Mo-peds have been around a long time.

Nothing to see here.
And what is going on with the exclamation mark by the search bar when you visit this page?
http://www.yahoo.com/dailylogo
sigh...