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> Karate does not teach you that

That largely depends on your teacher. Some schools teach karate as a sport, others - as a discipline or self-defense. Different people see different ways of karate.
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EasyWeb4J is an open-source web application stack for Java. It significantly reduces time to market and development cost for Java web applications.

It is very simple to get started with. Try out the tutorial, you'd love it. Use the forums if you face any trouble while getting started with it.
The whole idea/execution riff is reductionist.
Some ideas are more or less obvious. Twitter is a great example: there was basically no idea, it was all execution and marketing.
But other ideas are huge. Larry and Sergey's idea of how to index the web was genuinely novel. The best team in the world could have executed on pre-Google search tech and would have got nowhere.

It all depends on the idea: some are just so much better than others...
A simpler and less biased way IMHO is that if two teams will end with a result of, for instance, 30, but one team was able to find two or more strings, this is the winner.
Wouldn't 99% of this stuff be cleared up by the compiler anyway?
It is not in the self-interest of a university, company, or a VC to value ideas publicly although they may do so privately.

Companies want you to implement things based on ideas that are not your own. So it is in their self-interest to tell you that ideas are not important.

A university education is all about teaching students to implement stuff because: (1) this is what companies want; and (2) it is easier to do so than to try to get students to come up with compelling ideas.

Finally, VCs fund very small companies and it makes sense for them to worry about whether a small team is capable of great execution. No matter how good the founders' idea, VCs don't want to lose on their investments.
Man, I love gongs. I think more companies should seriously implement #5 - it'd make work a lot more fun, raising morale.
I hate the new feature to the core. I don't really care if someone down in new mexico likes what I'm currently reading. Plus, why do they feel like promoting the new feature straight in your face (it's just downright annoying). and to add salt to the wound, i've actually spent a few minutes googling how to disable it (apparently there's no way you can disable it, easily, yet). so I'm actually glad people seem to hate it.
Or a "chartoon", as Tufte calls them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YslQ2625TR4
Yes. But it's a HARD and fascinating subject. Sadly we're not close to that, I consider 20 years or so to be "close".
An idea for web 2.0 logos (symbols archive)
Interesting. I'm very much against the use of jamming and tend to agree with the CTIA stance on the matter. There are benefits to allowing the staff of prisons to carry cell phones and those benefits would be gone.

In addition, there's always the possibility that the deployment of jamming equipment results in nearby areas suffering degraded signals. It's not like putting up a concrete wall.

Detection alone wouldn't be sufficient, and an authenticated system seems like it would be very tricky to sort out since the prison is going to be sharing cell towers with non-prison areas.

In all three cases, I don't think it will eliminate the problem, but like most security issues, it's best to throw everything you can at it so if one component fails there's three backing you up.
Journalist is listed as one of the better than average jobs... problem is, those jobs are rapidly disappearing as newspapers go under. Lots of journalists are looking to change to another career now.
The medium doesn't make the message. Twitter provides wonderful control over what you see, and thus, it is what you make of it. Follow people that use it in a way that you, yourself, find useful.
I don't think he has been holding anger on his classmates for 20 years. But you see, it's rather disturbing when people who were making you miserable for years suddenly act towards you like if you're old friends. You were never friends with them in the first place, rather the contrary.
From the article:

Though it had been expected that LRO would be able to resolve the remnants of the Apollo mission, these first images came before the spacecraft reached its final mapping orbit. Future LROC images from these sites will have two to three times greater resolution.
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You are not just wrong, but obviously totally wrong. Obesity is up worldwide. Why would this happen if human bodies just discarded unnecessary calories?
I think the coolest of these is the Apollo 14 image with the footprint trail. Sure, after 30 years we'd expect the landers to still be there, but now we know that the footprints and other scuff marks are still there too. Neat.
Microsoft and Yahoo near ad deal: report
"This is similar to how heroin is sold."
Ok, so according to that he wasn't an insider since he didn't own over 10%, only 6,2%. Thanks.
In that essay (and I think, in other places) you've mentioned Wufoo as being a very unique and exceptional case - what, besides being based in Tampa, is so unique about them? I've never met the founders, so this isn't meant as a challenge, just curiousity.
Ask HN: is anybody using ShareThis?
I wonder if anybody is using ShareThis widget? Do you think having one icon for users to share is more effective than having multiple icons (Facebook, twitter, digg, email)?
> One known fact is that Goldman was pulling down USD $100,000,000 per DAY in profits from their automated trading systems. That's a hundred million dollars. A day.

I don't think that is a "known fact" at all.

All I've found is "more than $100 million in trading revenue on a record 34 separate days during the first three months of 2009" (http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/goldman-sachss-1...). That's firmwide revenue, from all their trading activities, not just automated trading. And it's not "every day".
If you have awesome execution over a long period of time without new ideas your product/service/whatever will stagnate. On the flip-side if you only have good ideas with poor execution nothing will get off the ground. Both are equally as important from my point-of-view and shouldn't be viewed as zero-sum.

And no, I read the headline and skimmed the article.
Twitter's idea is not obvious. Why would restricting blog entries to 140 characters result in a new and very interesting phenomenon?

Larry and Sergey's PageRank isn't a new application level idea (as search engines already existed) but rather a better implementation of an existing application level idea.
The enterprise program lets you issue a provisioning profile that's not tied to UUIDs. Translation: you can have as many app users as you want.

On the other hand... there's no easy way to charge. The provisioning profile is all that's needed to run the app.

Also, these profiles are intended for "internal distribution" (inside a company). I'm sure Apple will blow up your certificate if you try public distribution.
I joined the wrestling team my freshman year of high school, and it did wonders. All of your practice is against real people, so when you try to do a particular move, you really know how to perform it.

The best part of it is that it is generally non-violent. The last real fight I had was the month before I started wrestling. Every other "fight" after that consisted of them throwing a punch and then me getting them into a headlock until they cooled off and backed down. No bloody noses.

I'd consider it perfect for anyone seeking real, effective methods of self defense- especially in school, where even if you fight back and end up breaking a nose you can be punished.
old news, poorly written with a big anti-M$ slant. steer clear. (bad title too)
Wait a second, who the hell does this site think it is? I thought this was a pretty good article and all, but then I started reading the one they linked to at the top - the one whose success prompted this article - and in the comments, I started recognizing little bits of text. They stole content from their commenters! WTF!
Autism encompasses a whole spectrum of possible symptoms. Only a small subset of people with autism are ones that might be suited to computer related work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism_spectrum
I glad you posted because I'm human and it's a great story. Just get better and write some more.
Correct.

The problem here is, I didn't have a web page embedded in my app. Nor a browser. Nada.

Greg Yardley of PinchMedia asked earlier - Does this mean that any app that displays advertising w/ a built in browser should be rated 17+? In my opinion: absolutely.
Hint: if you're doing BJJ and you go against a wrestler (a number of guys here are former wrestlers) start on the ground. You basically will not get the take down. On the other hand, once both of you are on the ground, its a fair fight ;)
Great execution without new ideas over a long period of time describes a large portion of the Fortune 1000. Some industries are not driven by innovation.
I am glad I went to a math and science high school. I learned a ton, I was never bullied, and I have lots of friends that I am in regular contact with.

(I went to a regular high school for my first year. While nobody broke my fingers, it was not particularly enjoyable. I also went to a regular high school in Tokyo for a year. Not quite as nice as the math and science school, but for a "normal" school it was pretty nice. I am not sure why the US has such poor schools.)
Part of the reason the whole 'ideas don't matter' meme is BS is because the word 'idea' has more than one definition.

1) idea: A mental model of the way something works, has worked, or could work in the future. (e.g. page rank)

2) idea: A plan. (e.g. Twitter sponsoring SxSw)

(I realize the two senses of the word are related, but for our purposes they are functionally distinct.)

Anyway, good ideas of both types can create value, but they do so in completely different ways and require completely different resources, strategies, and tactics to execute.

In any case the entire concept of starting a business around an idea is stupid to begin with. Twitter and Google aren't the result of a good idea, they're the result of thousands of good ideas, a sufficient quantity of which were executed well enough to keep the lights on. Real business people don't start with a business idea, they start with an asset they want to capture, and then come up with several dozen ideas for capturing that asset and then pick the best ones to push through the dip.
No kidding - it sounds like House MD was on the case. She was lucky to survive.

It is interesting that she had cardiac surgery as an infant. It does remind me of the situation of an acquaintance where the patient had cardiac problems as an infant/toddler that were fixed and then essentially moved on until they suddenly dropped dead (while apparently fit and healthy) in their early twenties. One one hand you'd think gee, maybe if you had such a rough start they would follow you up with a super-duper checkup every few years or so. On the other hand, I guess when the invincibility of youth sets in, no apparently healthy person wants to go to the doctor and relive their past.

Edit: sorry - s/she/you, didn't realise the HN comment was by the original author.
Yes, and 2003's "modern" style is what we call "bad" style these days. A lot has changed in 6 years.
Citigroup and BoA "profits" are really multi-billion losses
The future of scholarship? Harvard goes digital with Scribd
One of his rules says "Good results should go up on the Y axis. This means that if you're charting weight loss, don't chart "how much I weigh" because good results would go down. Instead, chart "percentage of goal" or "how much I lost." "

A graph that needs to track weight loss should chart weight loss, but imo it isn't a good idea to say that good results should always go up on the y axis.

If I were interested in tracking weight, I'd rather have a graph track the actual "weight" instead of some other convoluted metric like "how much I lost". Weight going up may be a "bad" result for some users and it may be a "good" result for other users. So it wouldn't make sense for a weight-tracking for a graph to categorize it as good or bad

http://blog.CascadeSoft.net/2009/07/05/product-ui-design-why... also addresses this topic.
Is there such a thing as execution without ideas ... about execution? A lot of the genius of a great tech is stuff that isn't really visible. I don't mean code, I mean subtle choices about how to create the experience that excites users, or how to build architecture on the idea such that it can have a platform play later. Etc. So the spark is definitely to be recognized, yet the daily building of something is no less requiring of innovation or "genius".

Did I just restate and reword the obvious? Did I execute? Eh.
I'm kinda disappointed, I thought by the title it would be some Faraday cage solution. After all these people are already contained.
Uh... they say that's where the points came from right at the top of the article:

"So, to further the conversation and discussion, I decided to collect, edit and share some of the fantastic insights from reader comments.

Thanks to all of those that contributed such great insights. Sorry I could not include them all."
Better than you think: "Stay-at-Home Parent"

I have to disagree with this one. My wife has been a domestic engineer almost since we were married. I wouldn't do her job (actually, I would if she died and I had to).

She does everything around the house. She makes all of the baby food, cooks all of the breakfasts, lunches and dinners and educates our children who -- at their young age -- have three settings: histeric laughter/screaming and yelling.

She doesn't have to commute, but in order to keep the children sleeping through the night, she has a more rigid schedule than I do.

When the kids are older, I'm sure it gets easier, but it's no picnic when you have two under age three.
Twitter's key insight was to extend a blogging platform to mobile phones (hence the 140 limit). It was definitely innovative and smart, but not the kind of thing they give out Nobel prizes for. I think the Google boys' idea went much deeper, and their indexing methods were completely novel at the time, hence much more relevant results.
This somewhat reminds me of the nature vs. nurture argument. It's a false dichotomy.

Also, at least as important as the idea itself, is the ability to recognize a good idea. Most people who try have plenty of ideas, and most of these ideas just aren't that good.
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Uh I don't think EY offers a cloud solution that would make this easy... so I am doubtful that was their goal.

It seems that their goal (by having defined a specific dictionary) was to have lots of people tweeting those dictionary words to @engineyard.... sort of a way to get better twitter-driven pagerank.
It's an Ice Breaker. It's social. It's Human Interaction at it's finest. It's not what did u just say... a "Mere coincidental colocation ten years ago"??? Really?
Wild claims brought on my late night coding. Enthusiasm can sometimes blind our better sense of wisdom
Because the government has no way of forcing the third party to do its bidding. If the government were to pass a law saying "Newspapers should not print any op-eds critical of the government", for example, then it becomes a first amendment issue and the newspaper can sue for the right to print such things. (Which has happened, BTW.) But if the newspaper decides on its own not to print such op-eds, it's perfectly within its rights and there's no first amendment issue.

Similarly, the government can pass a law allowing copyright holders to protect their intellectual property - say, the DMCA. But it's then up to the copyright holders to bring lawsuits against people who publish their work - the government can't force them to do so, and they're completely within their rights to release their work under the GPL or Creative Commons. No free speech issue - it's a property issue.

IANAL, but listen to the law student above. His comments basically square with my understanding from lawyer friends and civics classes and occasional reading of court cases.

From a political philosophy perspective, you could look at it as libertarianism vs. anarchy. The libertarian POV is "You can do anything you want, as long as it hurts no-one." The anarchist POV is "You can do anything you want." The Bill of Rights is intended to protect libertarian ideals, not anarchist ones. It does not give you license to say anything you want, it prevents the government from arbitrarily restricting what you can say. The government can and should still make laws preventing your speech from hurting others.
I know Mary outside of cyberville and shes a wonderful, talented person, who's been part of this community for a long time. Hope you recover quickly and get back to those crazy start-up ideas!
I'm terribly sorry to hear about your friend.

I have had cardiac check-ups at least once a year for my whole life. In several instances, new problems were found at one of the check-ups and the wheels were set in motion to mend things. Further, when I was in hospital for the cardiac arrest, the bulge in my aorta was discovered by accident.

I live in the UK. Perhaps the NHS are more will to keep tabs on people than private health services in other countries.
blush Awww, thanks, Kem.
I disagree. Most Fortune 1000 companies innovate indirectly in their products or services. You need "good ideas" to develop, manufacture, and distribute goods globally. That's why I don't look at "good ideas" and execution separately; ultimately you need good ideas to feed into the execution of a product.
Maybe they didn't foresee what this would do if they were concerned mostly about mobile phones at the time.

Perhaps you could say that twitter is an accidental success that is much more interesting than the original vision.
that seems backwards.

At this point you still control the majority of the company + the board. If the VC's money is gone, so is their negotiation position, since the only way for them to get their money back is for you to succeed.

As long as you control 51% of the company, you aren't required to play along in planning your down fall
I've rolled with many wrestlers - including Division I wrestlers and those who were competitive at the state level. In my experience, their advantages are mental toughness, grappling strength and a relentless top game.
Okay, I'll concede that. What I won't ever believe is that Goldman made 100 million dollars in profit trading securities and commodities only for customers in this current economic climate.
Prejudiced users could vote their way into threads in order to support the particular details and rebuttals to which they subscribed.

Then you could use the data from the results to morph it into a dating site. Particularly twisted members could opt for the 'opposites' option. Or you could make it random. You don't know until you turn up for coffee - mwuhahahah!

People said that the internet would make the human race more open and tolerant. I have other ideas.
Nice library, as a Java developer it's one more thing I'm jealous of. Anyways, reading through the api documentation, he references three types of trees: Materialized Path, Adjacency List, and Nested Sets and the following books, http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/70... and http://www.rampant-books.com/book_0601_sql_coding_styles.htm.

Wonder if it would be feasible to re-implement in Java?
How are reads not particularly efficient? If you use rooted paths in your lookup, then even a "LIKE '/a/b/c%'" query for all decedents will effectively utilize the index. I think that this would be good for deeply nested trees also. As Zach implied, the down side of this approach is moving subtrees. Unless you have a very volatile tree structure, this should be perfect for most uses.
In a case where "harboring resentment" concretely means "not going to his high school reunion with people who committed violence against him".

Most children of abusive parents still harbor resentment, even if they become healthy enough to move past it in their everyday life. You're expecting someone who was surrounded by an abusive peer group (and an utterly apathetic group of adult "supervisors", who are all but guilty of criminal neglect) not to have negative feelings about his experiences when his former tormenters invite him to a reunion?
It's funny feeling like the doc has you open in gdb or something. I had my aortic root and a valve replaced a few years ago. However, I had been monitored for years prior, so I avoided the surprise you got. Anyways, glad you came through ok. The trauma of surgery becomes just another inconvenience from the past with a year or two of hindsight.
I'm not so sure about inefficiency; in particular, most databases that I've seen can use an index for string-prefix queries, which means its performance ought to remain acceptable even for large datasets. (Assumption: subtree queries are the ones you care about making fast.)

Also: inserts are practically free compared to the linked article, where they require updating the left and right numbering for every following node!

Another nice property: if you make entries in the materialized tree column constant-width (e.g. by zero-padding), an alphabetical sort by that column will give you a depth-first dump of the tree -- the exact order you'd like for, say, a comment thread or a table of contents.

When I've implemented materialized paths in the past, I have run into issues with the maximum allowed length of indexable string types (which limits the tree depth), but this was in the long ago late 90s. :) I think it's a very nice albeit imperfect way of storing certain types of trees, especially ones that are mostly insert+query-only.
It would depend on how fancy you can get with engineering custom [transfer RNAs] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_RNA), which are the bridge between the genetic code and the proteins that get made at ribosomes.

Within the limits of the chemistry one could get to work I see no a priori reason why something other than amino-acids (the building blocks of proteins) couldn't be attached to the tRNAs.

Proteins have the additional very valuable property of being essentially self-assembling - the 3D structures or proteins form inherently from their linear sequence of amino acids. That is one of the key reasons why a linear genetic code works to produce all the many varied proteins in living things.
Great point. I meant to mention this in my list of cons but it slipped my mind.
Of course they've moved on. They had very little to more on from

All of them? Do you think he was the only one bullied? Do you think only bullied kids grow to succeed? Do you think all bullied kids hold on to their anger as adults?
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We used to use the AddThis widget but, once they switched it over to being a Flash-based widget, we dropped them. I don't think anyone used it @ http://www.learnitfirst.com though.
Facebook sez, "Don't mind us, we're just whoring out your photos"
Proteins have the additional very valuable property of being essentially self-assembling

Chaperone proteins? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaperone_(protein)
Amazon deletes purchased copies of 1984 from Kindle
IE6 Must Die (along with 7 and 8)
A lot of universities are already doing this, most so probably MIT, youtube has a index of all the universities that post different types of educational content, http://www.youtube.com/edu/