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Or lets your lecturer distribute their own for the $2.50 he claims is all he's actually making on each one.
Keep money per answer out of this. It's amazing what happens when you keep a site like SO working on social norms and avoiding market norms.

To understand how powerful this difference can be, this book is an eye-opener (outlined here):
http://bookoutlines.pbworks.com/Predictably-Irrational
I'm glad to see more attention come to this project. As noted in article, this was originally started by Randy Pausch, known in large part for his "The Last Lecture" lecture and book. He did some amazing things, and this project is carrying on his legacy.
Wow, this is drop-for-drop exactly what i wanted to make for chess, because i wanted to play with friends over email. I went as far as to write the valid chess move logic, I just never set up the web app. Cool stuff, thanks, i've been playing Go for 4 hours!
I'm really glad to hear the guys escaped, even though it was obvious from the premise. However, the final line sounds terribly Orwellian to me:

> “But the idea of a pure openness, a pure democracy, is a naïve one.”
Ha! Me too... and I built the site :)

I actually had to triple check with the various lyrics sites when I was coding it. I kept thinking there was no way these were the correct lyrics.
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Are you involved with Ripple?
Thanks!

Chess like this would be a lot of fun, too. By all means, use whatever of my code is useful to build a similar chess service. (Note, though, that my Go service is under AGPLv3 which is a very restrictive/viral license.) Cheers.
I just noticed this comment and clicked on my Readability bookmark, which formatted it spectacularly.

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

Also, in LA, Ripple is better known as the startup that puts infotainment on LCD screens at Borders, Coffee Bean and Robek's:

http://www.rippletv.com/
Right, except that they keep banning all of the devices that would be convenient to play TV on your couch
I played with your site and it's really nicely done. Following your project on GitHub now. Good to know about this; I've discovered a few other Go+GitHub types in the past few months. Cheers.
Is this a Safari thing or a Webkit thing? I notice it in Chrome too.
No. He's using it for the applications written by developers who are fine with their code not being free because they're given incredible access to millions of people or because they have some of the best developer tools there are. The people coding for the iPhone aren't forced to code for a closed system. They choose to code for it, because they love the operating system; the people who buy their applications love the operating system; everybody wins.

I understand you like free software. You've spent two years reminding people here about how much you love free software; loving free software is awesome and it promotes a lot of good feelings in the programming world. But you have this tendency to jump into arguments and start parading your views no matter how logical the other side seems. I mean, we know the App Store is fucked up, and we complain about it, and we know that to you, the iPhone's being closed is a complete no-no. But you refuse to even admit that the other side has a logical point. This is something like the fifth time this week where you disagree with somebody not by refuting their points, but by implying that the person you're arguing with hasn't got a clue what they're talking about.

Having a contrary viewpoint is awesome. Disagreeing with other people's philosophies is awesome. Getting into protruded debate is awesome. But your occasional tactic of debating with somebody by ignoring everything they're saying and assuming they're ignoramuses is pointless and irritating. Stop.
Keep money per answer out of this. It's amazing what happens when you keep a site like SO working on social norms and avoiding market norms.

Other than money, how do you prevent an expert-exodus as expert users are deluged with simpleton questions? Amidst a deluge of bad questions, there's little value to remain active, as your own questions can rarely be answered, and users aren't providing interesting questions.

Something else is needed to provide a substitute for that value.

Alternatively, you must prevent the exodus by filtering the kinds of interactions/questions that occur. Mailing lists, for instance, have a barrier to entry to serve as a first-pass filter (the subscription), and then a community to enforce community norms.
been there - it is totally worth the trip. this is a great write up as well, makes me want to print it out and go again (if i still lived in scotland...)
Hmm, that's a fair question. I tutored high school kids (14-17) for a while, and I would generally tailor things to their interest.

Basically, I tried to relate the math to solving a real problem they might be interested. Limits to money problems (e.g., could you retire on a Million dollars? Now take into account inflation, interest, etc)., differentials to sports/computer-games (plot the trajectory of the ball), random riddles, etc.

I'm not really sure how well that would translate to younger kids though ... My elementary school aged nephews/nieces tend to enjoy geometry problems (find the pattern ...), 'shortcuts' (FOIL, etc), and morphisms, but I fear my experience with kids that young is too limited to draw any general conclusions.
No. I am more interested in the mathematical description of the system than in actually implementing. To be honest, I don't think this problem is ripe for implementation yet.
I was so intrigued by this title that I went out to buy their style guide (I've been wanting to read it for a while), but I couldn't find it in-store. I'm really interested to see what they say about apostrophies, because they seem to use them pretty liberally (eg. CEO's even when not plural).
I think not using password masking is actually a new usability problem in itself. People think your site isn't secure, or their password isn't secret, without masking.

I suppose if you mask it after they type it in, that would probably mitigate the problem. The way the iPhone does it, one character at a time, is probably the best compromise.
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I love the fact that when the words "Billie" and "Jean" come up it's always somebody tweeting about the song, often with an MJ-themed icon. I guess it's a tribute to quite how popular the man was that people are still talking about him days later (Farrah who?).
I think this is going in my next essay about OSS vs. proprietary software.

Proprietary software: OK, so technically it both exists and works, but it costs money.

OSS: It has only had one man-week of labor in it. The software is not feature complete. However, if it actually worked, it would be awesome because you'd be able to browse your corporate knowledge base on your Wii. Also, it would support browsers without Javascript, because your office is cool and lets workers change things like that.

Successful open source projects -- the ones you use, the ones you love, the ones you have heard of -- are the exception. Projects like this are the rule.
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The segmentation between 'shared' and 'dedicated' hosting is bizarre -- aren't you paying them not to have to care about that?

Furthermore, it leads me to think poorly of their software -- did they really manage to fuck up something as embarrassingly parallel as responding to HTTP Requests? Maybe it's just that their MS toolchain is ignorant of the possibility...
Eliminate DARPA? The majority of what they fund is really cool, useful technology that just happens to be a little too risky or costly for businesses to fund (especially with capital harder to come by today). Look over their list of projects; you'll find a shortage of "ultimately useless death machines" and an abundance of worthwhile science and engineering. I doubt you could have made a convincing business case for building the ARPANet -- too expensive, and how are you going to earn money from it? -- but it turned out to have been worth doing anyway. Likewise for most of the DARPA projects I've been seeing.
The Kindle just looks more and more like an intermediate form, like MP3-enabled CD players (remember those?) Once you get people comfy with reading books on a screen, I'm not sure it's as big a step to the iPhone or a laptop, even if the (fairly convincing) case laid out for an Apple reader pad doesn't come to pass.

Of course, Amazon can win in distribution on other platforms, they are much better off for creating the Kindle themselves, and the Kindle compares well to AppleTV, a product seemingly far less likely to set the world ablaze. But this article offers some reasonable evidence that the Kindle doesn't seem as much like the iPod for books as the forerunner to it.
You really should explain more about the app on the landing page. Maybe put a link to a screencast on the landing page. And since there is so little text, you should increase the size of the text. Computer monitors are designed to be read from a distance of about 1.5 feet or more and your text is a bit too small to be read comfortably from that distance (I got weak eyes). You should bump up the text size by maybe 2 points.

Also, you should have a longer page where you explain the specifics of the app. Like for example when I click the read more link on the login page, I expect it to take me to a page explaining in detail about the app, and how it can help me with maybe a comparison with similar apps. Instead it takes me back to the landing page, which doesn't really explain too much.
Perhaps OSS is stronger because of this phenomenom: only the best projects survive (the ones worth people spending their own time on). Whereas in propietary software, it's up to the bosses what gets made and developers to get paid.
Welcome to the wonderful world of email, Zed. Self-righteousness won't solve the problem.

I suspect the problem is that the IP in question has been used in the past for nefarious purposes. The whole "It's a new server" argument is moot if the IP address it lives on had been used in the past (and it certainly has).

Get right with RFC Jesus, make sure your DNS resolves both ways, get your SPF records right, and if that still doesn't do it, setup DKIM. If that still doesn't allow mail to go through to Yahoo addresses unimpeded, you'll have to contact them.
http://lifehacker.com/5173441/android-versus-iphone-30-the-s...

less technical, but including webOS:

http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/69907/smartphone-os...
Concerning design, you have got to see the HTC Hero Android phone with HTC's new "Sense" android UI design. It's beautiful. More than the iPhone (although that might be because I've grown a bored of the iPhone UI)

http://gizmodo.com/5301948/htc-debuts-hero-with-fresh-face-f...

http://gizmodo.com/5302637/htc-heros-teflon-coating-makes-th...

http://gizmodo.com/5302323/htc-ceo-says-the-sexy-sense-andro...

http://gizmodo.com/5301955/htc-hero-android-phone-hands+on-w...

So yeah, Apple better watch out design-wise, and allow official downloadable themes for the iPhone via AppStore.
Step 1: file for unemployment immediately.

Step 2: very carefully husband your money. If you have student loans, call them and ask for a deferrment until you start a job again. Likewise, ask your lenders for a deferrment as well.

Step 3: if you have friends or family that you can move in with, consider doing so.

Step 4: don't be fat. There is a lot of subtle discrimination against obesity, and not-so-subtle discrimination against being old (where old tends to be 35ish).

In 2001, I got laid off like a lot of developers. At that time, I had about 6 months of money in the bank, and I felt that I could ride out the downturn in the economy. I was too proud to file for unemployment at the beginning, and as the money dwindled, I found out that the contract agency that I was hired through had claimed I was employed for 3 months after I got laid off (they did that sort of thing to reduce unemployment insurance premiums). It took months to get that straightened out with the unemployment agency and by the time I got my first unemployment check, I also managed to get hired - 9 months after getting laid off. I ended up losing my car that summer to the repo man, and I couldn't get my mortgage/hoa payments caught up either, so I ended up losing my condo about 5 months after starting a job that was a 40% paycut.

The next time I ended up unemployed for an extended period (2003-4), I ended up using my lifetime benefits for unemployment in FL (if you make what most devs make, you'll hit that cap in about 6 months of unemployment). I moved in with friends, who had a hard time understanding just how bad the economy was, and that strained a friendship that has never recovered.

Back then, I sent out dozens of resumes every day to anything on Monster (or the local news papers) that looked like a job I could do.

In an absolute worst case scenario, talk to an Army recruiter. If they were taking 43 year olds in 2003, I would have enlisted. The army is taking folks that old NOW (marines, navy and air force won't take anyone 30+ without prior experience), but back when we were "winning" the cap was much lower.
On the contrary, this article barely seemed newsworthy, and certainly not befitting of coverage in (still) the most influential newspaper in the world. To me the whole thing seemed like a way of thanking Jimbo Wales and the editors of Wikipedia. Although given the hell that is now going to rain down upon them from the tinfoil-hat crowd, I kind of wonder if this was the best way to go about it :)
Often I am in meetings or talks where someone is giving a presentation with their computer screen hooked to a projector and wants to log in to some site to demonstrate something. Without password masking that would be pretty unsafe. The usability concerns seem pretty silly to me in comparison.
About a year ago I worked in support at a large webhosting company. 99% of the blacklisted email issues we ever had came from Yahoo. Some of the cases were legitimate (or is it illegitemate?) spam being sent out from our servers, but we would always find and eliminate these accounts. Unfortunately, Yahoo would blacklist the entire server IP, so none of the other users on the shared server could send email to yahoo either. This caused obvious problems, and we would spend days contacting support at yahoo to explain and get us un-blacklisted.

I also remember this happening with emailing addresses on the entire AT&T ISP. That effected about 40 shared servers (around 16000 hosting accounts, each with unlimited email). So yeah. Bad news.
Thanks for the link; that talk was brilliant and excellent food for thought to make us think about the "follow your passions" common wisdom around here.
The other devices just have the wrong sort of screen. It's much more comfortable to read for long periods off the e-ink screens designed for it than off a laptop screen.
How was the set of "white-list web2.0 related sites" chosen?
Many teens twitter. (and I'm sure many teens don't.)

In general i think age is become a less and less meaningful way of identifying somebody (Other sub-cultures describe people a bit better), so I feel a bit funny having this conversation either way.

One of the main concepts of the article was pretty right on, that if you're talking about private stuff like what boy you have a crush on, Twitter's not a good place to do it (for adults either), but "Teens Don't Twitter" is a really bad title for that. It should be called "Teens don't send private messages in places where others can see it."

I mean, how does his thesis reconcile with how teens undeniably use Facebook/Myspace? The teen in question is so busy texting that she can't use Twitter? (But can use other sites just fine?)

Part of me just wants to give up on even responding to the weakness of the premise.

But I want to get this out there: Teens use Twitter. I've learned this from YouTube, where I'm in a lot of mixed (age) communities centered around topics that have nothing to do with age, and people of all ages talk about their Twitter handles all the time.

In fact, it's through YouTube that I've discovered that Twitter is very diverse not just with age, but with ethnicity, disability and all sorts of things. YouTube is one of the most diverse social sites I've ever been a part of, and I see lots of YouTube <-> Twitter mingling and integration done by users.

So yeah, teens are on Twitter, as well as lots of folks that are not your standard members of cubicle nation.
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PS: Don't forget to open source it.
Perhaps the only way you can accomplish this is to destroy the data on the drive after first use, but then it still can be copied before first use, and if you do destroy files after first use, nobody is going to be pleased. Your better off letting people copy it.
I might just do that... some day...
StackExchange is a product of Fog Creek. The end-user sites (SO, serverfault.com and superuser.com) are a joint venture. I assume the deal was that Fog Creek got rights to the hosted version in exchange for funding the development of the end-user sites.
Exactly what I was going to say. Very likely, the IP of this guy's server is the same IP that an old spamming server used to have. It's happened to me more than once, and that's very likely the case here.
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People write novels about being kidnapped and threatened, not about having your edits revised and whining.
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I wouldn't be surprised if the "pi" trend correlates well with vacation times in academia.
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I've never been able to grasp how falsificationism is incompatible with or different from induction.
The problem is that you can resell hard copy books. I usually spend ~$250/semester on used text books at the beginning of each semester (I'll buy them online), and get about $100 from selling them back (usually to the campus book store, although sometimes online if I feel I'm being ripped off too badly).

Net, I'm only paying $150/semester for books whose retail price is closer to $500. I don't think that publishers will be willing to price electronic books at 70% off retail like they would need to (since there is no resale of electronic books).

Ideally, they should 'rent' me the book for a semester for a huge discount (~80% off retail, say), and I have the option of 'upgrading' my rental to a purchase at the end of the semester (with no penalty over having just bought it outright upfront) if I decide I want to keep it.

That's basically what happens now on the secondary market. I get to 'rent' a book for a semester for the cost of the bid/offer spread, with the option to not the rental and just pay the original price.
Is the joke the fact that the image doesn't load? If so, I got to rework my sense of humor I guess.
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It was a PSD(photoshop) disguised as PNG.
So technically it loaded just fine, it's your browser that couldn't display it.
I managed to download the original before it got replaced.
We'll never know whether this error was part of the joke.
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Firefox only required the reboot due to an OS limitation by the sounds of it though, I didn't have to reboot my linux box or my macbook.
As a top-tier CS student originally from the midwest, I'm so happy to see this cartoon.

People of moderate wealth and/or intelligent love to look at everyone else as an idiot. I've never heard a brilliant person complain about the common man, only people who wished they were brilliant.

edit: I feel douche-ish for saying top-tier CS student. I was just trying to reflect that it's the opinion of most of the people there (whether justified or not)
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Talk about first mover's advantage. Also this guys do a lot of infomercial.
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Sure, but are school curricula really that well coordinated across the english-speaking world? I'm kind of surprised that the graphs match so well:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=natural+logarithm%2Cbase+10%2...

http://www.google.com/trends?q=hamlet%2Csocrates%2Ctruman
What they don't say in the article is that the canals allow a really nice bike trip across Scotland (Edinburgh-Glasgow). Just get on a morning train and cycle back. There is no way you'll miss the Falkirk Wheel.
Seems like any reasonably intelligent kidnapper would take a peek at the edit history of the article and see all the edits and reverts, which would be even more suspicious.
Parent said 'dystopian novels', where information is censored or altered. Such is the case with 1984 at least.
It would be slick if it figured out their approximate Kyu/Dan from watching them play. Not sure how you'd do that.
When teens text, they are transmitting secrets. "I like billy. Will you ask him if he likes me?" If they weren't secrets, they would twitter them, put them on myspace or facebook, etc.

When adults tweet, they are making public statements.

That is why twitter is not popular with teens: they already make public statements on facebook/myspace, they don't mind the clutter there, and they have no interest in another platform to make public statements.

In time, teens may begin to make their public statements on twitter, because network communities are intensely fashion driven, but as twitter is content oriented - and teens are lite on good content - I doubt it will be as popular for them. Teens like flare.

If twitter had more flare, teens might like it more. But the rest of us would not.
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The site is gorgeous but the hidden navigation sucks it really needs some hints.

I thought the underlining for email was decorative until I read the comments here and fiddled about looking for Twitter options.

Some kind of tool tip might help perhaps?
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I looked up the causes of tinnitus to see if they were cyclical too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinnitus#Causes_of_subjective_t...

"Ear infection" has a similar pattern.
Although there I'm baffled by the huge spike exactly at Christmas followed by nothing in January.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=ear+infection&ctab=0&...

Tinnitus is sometimes caused by depression. Depression can be seasonal, and there's another vaguely cyclical graph that follows the seasons of the Northern Hemisphere. Spiking in the months after Christmas (bills) and another big one in late spring / early summer (student exams?) and then the onset of winter. There's a big reduction over the summer, and interestingly, a negative spike right at Christmas. Lately, there might be some confounding searches for economic depression -- at least that's how I interpret the latter half of 2008.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=depression&ctab=0&geo...