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No he didn't. A memory of the view is what you have, that's for you. The picture taken with the Glass, while nice, can be seen by others. Not everyone is happy with the thought that anything they have ever done could be reviewed by others. They (and I) perceive the Glass to be a step in that direction. It is not always socially acceptable to take a photo and that is why.
It seems like you could keep financial penalties for traffic violations and avoid the corruption that seems to go with them by simply forwarding the revenue on elsewhere - infrastructure, health care, what-have-you. I suppose there may be jurisdictional issues there that I'm not familiar with though.

Separate subject though I suppose.
The thing with Python is that you don't need to know this stuff to use the language effectively. Yes, after a while, you'll want to dive into the innards -- but they're optional for most people during their initial time learning Python.
I thought "Wow, that's a neat trick."

Then I saw AutoCAD, Flight Simulator, and Windows.

Mind = blown.
Most people will find it a bargain to get a 31 year old intern, with lots of experience. I wouldn't worry about it one second.
It's not without hypocrisy, that a company in the educational book publishing industry can complain of unfair business practices, while knowing that the industry is responsible for $200 textbooks. Textbooks that are not only $200, but where publishers have given kickbacks to professors to ensure they require a new version every 2 - 4 years, so generations to come will continue to pay $200.

While this particular publisher, EDC, may only be publishing children's education books and not textbooks, it has to understand the absurdity of such a one-sided argument. I for one applaud Amazon, celebrate Amazon, for making it so I could afford to work myself through college buying cheap used textbooks rather than being forcefully impoverished by the publishing industry's duplicitous actions.
Or the author saw it in a TV show or film. There's an episode of the old show, "My Name is Earl" which shows an art gallery and a urinal mounted on the wall. (Earl's brother Randy uses it and then comments how it doesn't flush.) That episode has been shown on TBS in the past week, so the author might have seen it.
> The NSA works for the President.

While I'm not that well versed in American politics, I find that hard to believe. The President doesn't seem to be some sort of all-controlling, micromanaging dictator, I'd find it more believable that he doesn't directly control the majority of US institutions, especially since most of them operate regardless of the political party in charge.

I mean, the NSA has been operating for 60 years, so obviously there is some continuity, and their activities go beyond the whims of each individual president...
1. Of course.
2. No.
3. No.

To get experience, you could do freelance work.
Sorry I forgot to add enough pluses:

1/4 onion +

1 can of kidney beans +

1/2 tomato +

1/2 lime +

Salt, Pepper, Paprica for taste +

3 cups of cooked rice on the side or mixed in.

Thats one recipe.

The rest of the items can be their own recipe, or eaten separately =)
It's a step in this direction, yes.

But doesn't seem to allow you to do write your own indexing, ranking, and querying algorithms, which is the kind of thing I'm talking about.
How much revenue do you think RapGenius brings Google? Even if it was $10M/qtr that is a drop in the bucket for Google.
That's an old-school C function declaration. Note that the function return type are parameter types are implicitly int. nE is then explicitly declared to be a char pointer pointer.
Its a good strategic move. The way to build support against the NSA among Republicans is to associate it with Obama. "This isn't Reagan's NSA but Obama's NSA." It fits into the party's narrative of Obama being dictatorial. It also is a good way to sway his party, which is otherwise trusting of law enforcement. Someone might trust the NSA in the abstract, but an NSA run by someone who wants to round up gun owners and impose Sharia law (or so the narrative goes)? Associating the spying with Obama personally is the perfect way of creating doubt among conservatives that otherwise reflexively trust government when national security is implicated.
What is this? Python? Why "standardize" Cairo? I can already use Cairo if I want to.

I'd rather they provided some standard template interfaces to all of the common 2D graphics algorithms (simple line clipping, tessellation, polygon clipping, bezier subdivision, etc) and not couple it to a classical scanline rasterizer CPU graphics library. But I don't think that even this belongs in the language standard.

There are a bunch of other opensource libraries they'd need to "standardize" if they want to draw text...
The customer? didn't you mean the developer?

The dumbest customer will guess that a "solution" like that from support can only come from a design that sucks.

If it were a refrigerator instead of a spreadsheet it would be like support telling you that you have to keep petting the door of your refrigerator to keep it cooling.

Who is the crazy there?
I've had colleagues from Nigeria, CER, S.A., and several other countries in Africa.

I don't think you'll find any resistance beyond the intrinsic difficulty of an H1B hire, and that might be complicated by the absence of a bureaucracy in your country that is as mature as some of those in Europe/Asia (Czech Republic, Ukraine, India, China). If you don't have material job experience yet, it's really unlikely that someone will put the expense into that hiring process to bring you on. My (non-expert) advice would be to try to go to school in the US and work under that visa or to build the relevant work experience at home, possibly contract work for US companies. Best of luck.
I think the author misunderstood the lesson his professor was teaching him. He was told to abandon the structure he knew in favor of content, but that doesn't mean that structure is inherently valueless or indeed that the 5 paragraph structure is without value.

The structure of writing is not really about ranks or levels. A Pulitzer prize winner can choose to write a 5 paragraph essay without lowering himself to a 'high school level' of writing. You don't level up in college, you learn a variety of structures and skills. This doesn't mean that the skills you developed in high school are lessened. It just means that you have more tools to choose from, and are probably better at deciding between them.
I mean, C++ is the de facto standard for graphics drawing so it kind of makes sense. It's kind of similar to how Go has a HTTP library as a part of the standard library.
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AGG is pretty nasty to use and has worse performance than Cairo on basics like alpha blends and copies (bitblts).
I agree that keeping the audience in mind is an important aspect of writing, but for me the relative speed of speaking is the more important aspect.

When I write, I tend to think too much and follow too many of my associations so the writing process becomes and endless start-and-stop of new ideas with a "branching factor" of 4-5. I often have to backtrack when I get too off topic. Think wikipedia browsing binge....

When I speak, I don't have the time to have so associations so the thoughts become more linear and follow logically one from the other.

Interestingly, I find handwriting (like real pen and paper) can also be good: in this case the pace is slower than typing, but I have enough time to make good sentences because my mind has the time to process things in the background as I'm writing out the words. Think look-ahead optimization...
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Oh get off that pedestal. OP was talking about the Tenderloin. Have you ever walked through the Tenderloin? A large fraction of the homeless people there clearly have severe psychological or drug issues. They're not there because of the economy.
One nice option is KeepNote (http://keepnote.org). It's written in PyGTK and is portable across Linux, Windows, and OS X. It stores things in HTML. It's pretty flexible and has a handy screenshot tool built-in. It's not sexy, but it's flexible and does the job.
Google has amassed the most enormous, capable data system on the planet. They have more knowledge about the world, places, people and information than anyone. They have continually demonstrated a computer engineering excellence that is simply unmatched.

If you lack the creativity to understand the opportunity ahead of them (or how the lack of these things has hurt companies like Apple), you should disengage from the conversation. Simply trotting out the tired, nonsensical "hurp durp ads" rejoinder adds nothing to the conversation but demonstrates a bit of tiring flag waving.

And by your very analysis, what is DaringFireball's "product"? It is ad (and t-shirt) supported, therefore the product is ads and t-shirts?
On my old 486 or first Pentium, when the computer would slow down and start trashing/swapping, the screensaver would enable itself while I waited... further crashing the computer. So moving the mouse did indeed make the computer faster ;)

Later I became lazy and just pressed the ctrl or shift key. I still do it when watching movies with mplayer or in something browser-based (that does not disable the screenlock automatically).
I think idioms are kind of hard too. The little things can get annoying quickly. For instance I frequently am told I write my java in C# (and amusingly vice versa). The idiomatic way of capitalizing is different between the two. Similarly when doing C++ stuff I tend to name things in C. And so on.
You could try Objective-C. It's proper OOP with messages, and you can write normal C style stuff. None of C++ stupidity (like cout<<"Hello World", yuck).
I agree. However I wonder if they mask the real issue of bad design. Median barriers on busy roads, bike lanes that are separate, good pedestrian walkways and streets that make speeding hard and wrong feeling. Changing what is already built is hard, but once it is done it presumably not too different to maintaining normal infrastructure.
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The comments here about building search engines that viably compete with Google in terms of quality are hilariously wrong. Hilariously wrong.

The dominating cost is not hiring smart people to work on the problem, it's hiring enough smart people to work on the problem.

Consider. Here at Microsoft, we employ a search relevance staff of -- what, 20% the size of Google's? And Google's engineers are rock solid. MS might be able to make up a small margin, but our search relevance staff -- good though they are -- cannot compete with a brilliant workforce that is 5 times larger than them. If we are going to actually compete with Google, the problem is not hiring smart people, it's hiring 5 times the current number of smart people employed for this task at MS.

Never mind buying such a team. MS can afford that. How do you even find that many people in 2-3 years?

When you consider the rest of the data, the case for building something like Google really begins to look grim. For example, how much does it really cost to build a search engine? We've poured at least tens of millions of dollars into just search relevance (I'm not even counting infrastructure). That's good mileage, considering that this way is littered with the corpses of companies like Cuil, who made investments in this area and failed miserably. Still, while this has been a great deal for us, we're still not there yet, and it's not clear we will be in the very near future. And so it's worth wondering: if MS can't buy something like that, realistically, who can? DDG? lol no.

In the end, this is the true dominating cost of building a search engine: people capital. Other bottlenecks, like engineering debt, politics, etc. pale against the sheer, awe-inspiring investment of Google in people capital.
An interesting claim in the article is that Amazon isn't doing its fair share of helping people discover books. The primary source of the research doesn't appear to be public. An excerpt from a July 2013 Salon article:

According to survey research by the Codex Group, roughly
60 percent of book sales — print and digital — now occur
online. But buyers first discover their books online only
about 17 percent of the time. Internet booksellers
specifically, including Amazon, account for just 6
percent of discoveries. Where do readers learn about the
titles they end up adding to the cart on Amazon? In many
cases, at bookstores.

Why couldn't we be told what percentage of books are discovered in physical bookstores? The idea that 83% of books are not discovered online seems wild. Who did the Codex Group survey?

http://www.salon.com/2013/07/19/amazon_could_be_a_victim_of_...
Curious: author makes it sound as though he's leaving a company where he had health insurance. Why not apply for Cobra? Off-topic, perhaps, but worth pointing out for others in a similar position.
"Effortlessly"? snicker
Although having put a bunch of effort into Haskell, I encounterd golang and thought "Oh cool - C with typeclasses!".
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> As for the contention that Gruber will argue history is relevant when it suits him and irrelevant when it doesn't, well, we all do that

Agreed. But tossing out an analogy and claiming it applies is the lowest form of that. I think to make a real contribution you have to make some attempt to justify why the analogical bits are more relevant than the contradicting bits.

I'm not saying Gruber is wrong, or that he doesn't have a point to make. Just that he's "phoning it in" with this post. The points you make, in detail, make for much better analysis.
Your assumption at first sentence is wrong.

He told employees. That means completely different with just people. Employees are fully informed of it, and even already have it for free. (further, they are being paid for it)

If someone doesn't want to use a product which s/he already have, and knows very well, isn't it enough to think that's a crap?
Yeah, the only gotcha I've ever had with Go was being confused about why I couldn't pass a pointer to an interface. Then I grokked what interfaces are in Go (a pointer to an implementation satisfies an interface, a pointer to an interface is nonsensical), and was good to go.
But COM has been adopted by Linux world too, and renamed to Bonobo. In fact, if you throw away all VB-specific stuff, COM and its C++ implementation is a great programming exercise and is imho quite elegant.
For OSX Lion / Mountain Lion:

OS X Lion

In Lion, holding down a key won't repeat it, but will instead show a popup menu to select between character variations. This doesn't work well with command mode, so you may want to disable it. This can be done via entering this at the terminal:

defaults write com.sublimetext.2 ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
[1] Reification vs Abstraction;
[2] E-prime vs Evaluation;
[3] Active Voice vs Passive Voice;
[4] Germanic vs Latin;
[5] Specific Diction vs Concatenated Adverbs;

Here's a list of the writing ideas (in no particular order) which I've found most helpful. Eveything has its time and place. But as a heuristic, left-side items are better than right-side items. A few explanatory links off the top of my head:

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/k7/original_seeing/

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime

[3] http://www.towson.edu/ows/activepass.htm

[4] https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm

[5] "Adverb are weak. They modify modifiers. Instead, use more specific verbs." - my English teacher
I think they need to rethink the design to make something more along the lines of conventional eyewear. For instance if they teamed up with Oakley and had some useful actual glass in front of the eyes then - in an instant - the sports market would be not just interested in the product but able to find new applications.

For instance, I would not mind an overlay 'head up display' on a cycle commute with cadence, an idea if I was on time relative to my normal journey and generally better 'telemetry' than available with the glorified digital watches that pass for cycle computers. If I could also use Glass to communicate with other riders on the road then I would be able to find more uses, e.g. if cycling with a friend and not wanting to shout whilst riding two abreast. Just having decent eyewear - the part an Oakley could bring to the table - might be the reason I would wear the things.

The rise of Oakley - starting way back in the 80's when their cycling goggles looked like ski glasses - is something I think the Google Glass team can learn from.
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So here's something I just learned recently: be polarizing.

By that, I don't mean be controversial for controversies sake (that's cheap). I mean that good writing has a point, and if you have a strong point people will be polarized by it, and that's actually a good thing. The worst writing I read (especially from myself) is writing that tries to hedge so it doesn't offend people. People SHOULD be offended. That's why you wrote the damn thing. If everyone already agrees, then you're not saying something worthwhile.
> third party applications that can convert from HTML into a number of other formats, so we're relying on that

You should fix that. Skip RTF, DOC, whatever. Just plain text is fine. Everything else can handle it.

The world needs to wake up and realize plain text is the alpha and the omega of language. Do that right first and make sure it's the last thing to fail.
It's also really off putting for beginners that try to learn the language. Python 3 is being served as the main download when you search for it. And while you search for tutorials, most of them are in python 2 - and 80% of them DO NOT state whether they are for python 2 or python 3 ( because most were made during the python 2 times? ).

So people try to learn to code with python 3.x and get frustrated because simplest things don't work.

They should seriously rethink the whole 3.x thing. I must say, introducing it probably did more harm than good for the future of this language.
FWIW I didn't downvote you, and upvoted you to undo that a little. If people disagree, let them use words instead of buttons, geez...

> I hardly think it's inherent to men only to vent their frustrations or thoughts about a person

Or their disrespect, for that matter. What gets me the most is the difference between "public face" and "bro face" I've seen with some, it can be quite the abyss. Sure it's just anecdotal, but my anecdotes are what they are. As a woman on reddit put it: some men are gorillas wearing men suits, and women, once burned, have to make super extra sure to confirm they're not dealing with one of those before making themselves vulnerable.

I know to a degree this is true the other way around, too... like, I once had a SO who basically wanted to marry me, have kids, and sleep around behind my back (this is not speculation either, she basically ended up admitting as much), and I know another woman who stopped taking the pill because she wanted a baby from her SO, who didn't want one. Not cool at all, and that the child turned out great and they both love it, though they're not together anymore, doesn't change that. But still, for every one such story I know, I know 3 about things like cigarette burns or rape. Still anecdotal, sure, but those anecdotes do irk me.

Ask women close to you about this. Hopefully they will tell you I am full of shit. But maybe, just maybe, they will relate some things to you that will make your toenails curl up.

> And in the case of male speaking about females, I suspect (correct me if I'm wrong) that you're in general referring to sexually-undertoned comments about their appearances?

No, I was thinking of more vicious things as that, more like something akin to racist jokes. Though reducing people to their sexuality sucks too, I guess that can go both ways. The power differential however, and the smugness and cruelty it results in for some men, doesn't, not really.

> I don't think anything will be able to take that away, since we are, as men, by nature (unless you're homosexual of course, but I'd say it's fair to call that a minority) attracted to women and vice verse...

I'm not talking about being attracted to, I'm talking about looking down upon, and seeking to control and use. And NEVER would I say "all men do this" -- but enough, too many men, did/do this around me, and the more intelligent a person is, the more subtle and convoluted it gets. Sometimes it's "just" a friendly, but condescending attitude.. not as bad as other things, but still not good enough.
It has always been an interesting discussion as to which was better, wide reach or focused sales. If you get an MBA you'll spend a few weeks talking about the pros and cons.

In the case of an established vendor, with an accessible set of target buyers, controlling the channel is generally considered the right choice, and when you can't easily talk to all of your potential customers, generally a wider sales channel is merited.

"baby books" (which is the market here) are actually mostly sold to pre-schools and other child care facilities so its pretty straight forward to sell them one on one. Contrast that with programming books where your choices are a programming class, or Amazon.

The other shoe is of course going to be tablet books. Which we'll have to see where those land. I've not seen them yet but I expect at some point one of these $39 tablet vendors is going to try a largely indestructible tablet which can be used to entertain/educate toddlers. Something with that plastic e-ink display technology which was show with a person slamming a shoe on it while it worked. Something like that is going to hurt Edubooks if they can survive longer than the paper/cardboard form for a lower net cost.
You could start with remote job (Elance/Odesk) - I see African developers there from time to time (Kenya comes to mind at least).

No paperwork needed to get started, you'll get real experience and some good contacts/references in the West if you've done a good job.
Hopefully they will add some similar flair to other Android apps within Google.
At the point where you start suggesting that Matt Cutts was bribed [or accepted a favor], you know you've left the land of rationality and entered into wholesale speculation. Your argument is on the face ridiculous, but just to be clear: 1) Matt Cutts is very wealthy and doesn't need any favors. 2) Matt Cutts once penalized Google's own Chome site for improper links. If there were ever any conflict of interest that ever existed, that would be it, yet Matt went ahead with the penalty.

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With ((x | y) % 7) != 0), I get this result in Processing:
http://i.imgur.com/K35xxI7.png

I think I know what I'll do for the rest of the evening.
I wouldn't call Go's typing "very weak". It's not Haskell, but it's still a fairly typical manifestly-typed language like C# or Java (minus contra- and/or covariance), and you certainly can't just slop values around without thinking about their type. "Very weak" I'd reserve for Perl, Javascript, or (I think) PHP, with their propensity to turn "anything" into a string or a number out from underneath you.

It is generally stronger than C's, in that C lets you be quite... creative... in how you cast values. Go qua Go does not let you do that, though it does have an escape hatch via the unsafe package that lets you do anything C can, mostly used for interfacing with C.
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