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That's pretty awesome. The fascinating thing is how his life changed just because of his interest in a second language. What if he had learned just french or spanish?. I think taking a different path than others sometimes pays off well.
Also reminds me that luck favors the one who is well prepared.
so this has been downvoted for pointing out that the headline is incorrect and that people should look at the facts ?

anyway, I'll say it again. Apple has not said that it expects devs to pay refunds out of pocket. The headline is incorrect. If you disagree, please make the case for your argument instead of anonymous downvoting.
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Following the blogspam chain, we get to
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7998931.stm, which is much more interesting and informative. I would still like to read the original paper.
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I thought it was interesting. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it should be killed.
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Yeah, we might as well cut straight to the Sapir-Whorf chase

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
I think you are misinformed. Some people read the developer agreement this way and trumpeted loudly, and it is a fair interpretation, but as I understand it Apple only retrieves the 70% they paid the developers from the developers.

See http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10205293-37.html and skip down to the "Updated 4:00 p.m." at the bottom of the article where the journalist adds the response from Apple's representative.

Are there sources where developers document being charged 100%?
Does anyone actually document Apple keeping 30%? It is my understanding that this is from a 3rd party interpretation of the contract and that Apple only retrieves the 70% they paid the developers.
> By pre-1990 standards about 20% of the students should have been failed.

Interesting, I find that number quite low.

The failure rates for most CS courses at my BSc/MSc university (VU Amsterdam) usually hovered around 50% in the post-00s era, especially for the hard-line courses such as computer networks, finite fields and data structures. We were allowed to do an unlimited number of retrials (6 months in between), but still over a third of the students would drop out before completing their BSc.

When I started my PhD at a British university I was obliged to do some MSc courses. Basically every course started with: No one will fail this course. At first that seemed like a comfortable idea since I didn't want to be distracted from my research. Soon I learned that actually means the course is going to be boring as hell.

I don't believe the Dutch system works better than the British one. We've had our share of choice fanatics. Despite Andy Tanenbaum raking in millions, my current department is also a whole lot better funded than the VU.

I think it has more to do with attitude than politics. Tanenbaum basically created the department with his bare hands, writing Minix and his well-known books in the process. He's no longer actively involved in teaching, but he created a culture of outstanding education. There's still an enormous amount of attention on making courses more interesting, challenging and up-to-date. It's easy to get lazy and lower your standards, but not impossible to say no and become a better university.
I can see the context appearing that way, but I wouldn't call Richard O'Keefe a Lisper -- he's the author of The Craft of Prolog.
This is the result of the university becoming more of a business than anything else. If you start flunking people out, you lose revenue.
Tim Bray put it well:
"The big problem is this: I don’t wanna be a sharecropper on Massa Steve’s plantation."
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/07/18/Mobile-Net...
So no, I'm waiting to see how things shake out.
This would be true if the business were selling degrees.

If the business were selling an education, then it would actually result in increased revenue, since students would have to stay around longer to learn required materials.

Lots of business sell education instead of certifications. The problem here is the government stepping in and mucking around with standards, creating financial incentives that looked good in theory but don't work in the real world.

This happens a lot with well-meaning politicians trying to "help"
Flunking out means you get kicked out. You don't get to stay around longer.

With that said, it really doesn't matter to me. I think we let too many people into the university system.
The real failure here is the words "instead of". It's really not hard to learn both and especially good to learn when to use which.
To anyone considering a second language, I would recommend choosing one that is widely spoken somewhere where you can't get by with English - it will unlock a whole new part of the world for you.

You might also consider studying a non-Indo-European language. It will take more time, but the experience is the linguistic equivalent to discovering functional programming after a lifetime of seeing procedural code.
This is just disgusting.
Don't worry - it looks like there's an educational/non-profit discount of 40%. So generous!

If only my work were valued at 50¢/word...
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check the 'new' page then... 18 links in a row by the same submitter.
I'm always reminded of an anecdote my father told me.

Once, when he was working abroad in Australia, a faxed document arrived in French, which no one else on site could read. So he translated it to English.

This prompted a coworker to comment "How nice, you speak two languages!" So he reminded this person that he was, in fact, Dutch - he could speak that as well.

"Oh, that doesn't count, it's your native language!"

....
chances are there is an AP article that has "This is just disgusting" in it...you are lucky you only used 4 words, 1 more word, and you'd have to pay $12.50
well, they haven't won the case yet, and they probably won't, since Google can argue that they offered to supply it in exchange for benefits-in-kind which have an economic value, in other words a barter agreement.

Don't go blaming France just because a French company brings a crappy lawsuit. the USA is awash with frivolous lawsuits.
2.50?
11-Word Extracts May Infringe Copyright In Europe
Ridiculous and suicidal, I would say.
CSS2 (which has been a recommendation for a decade) supports display:table, which is equivalent to the layout model of HTML-tables: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#value-def-table

The working draft you refer to is a new model which is more powerful than either HTML tables or CSS2.
Until you use them.
Actually there are three main schools of thought in ethics: consequentialist, deontolological, and virtue based. (Before someone asks me to summarise, I'll note that I'm not expert on any of them).

One place where the distinction can become vital is in ER rooms. The following case was described (in another, closed, forum) by the chief on an actual ER: Suppose your ER is full, but you get a call about a patent in critical condition who needs an ER slot, and your ER is nearest. You have one slot occupied by a patient in a relatively stable condition, who could, with low risk, be moved to another ER, clearing the slot for the more critical case.

The utilitarian response is to accept the new patient, as the certainty of helping them outweighs the low risk in moving the existing one.

The deontological response is to refuse; you have accepted duty of care to the current patient, but not yet to the new one.

I don't know what a Virtue ethicist would do.

Actual ERs in the UK have different policies, depending on whether their ethics policy was written by a utilitarian or a deontologist. My interlocutor said that he would usually respond by the deontological rules, but in a crisis would (and in fact, had) act in a utilitarian way.
That doesn't necessarily mean that this one was not interesting.

EDIT: Also, if you want to talk about putting up useless posts, perhaps you should not be posting a link to OCW, a site most people here are probably familiar with. There's not many things that make me upset, but people who think they know what other people want to see, or, in your case, not want to see, is one of them.
You are correct… http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_200957.html contains the four word quote.
In related news, Perrier sues tap water, claims unfair competition. :-)
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According to the T.O.S., you can't lawfully quote an article if you intend to criticize it?

Derogatory and Unlawful Uses:

You shall not use the Content in any manner or context that will be in	any way derogatory to the author, the publication from which the	Content came, or any person connected with the creation of the Content	or depicted in the Content. You agree not to use the Content in any	manner or context that will be in any way derogatory to or damaging to	the reputation of Publisher, its licensors, or any person connected	with the creation of the Content or referenced in the Content
There are no paradoxes: http://bit.ly/bV9xa
While the article claims to explain the emergence of a income gap by the presence of war and disease, I believe it only shows how easily arguments based on simplistic economic theories can confuse correlation with causation.
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Why? It's still legal to quote them according to fair use, so who cares what they put on their website?
Proof that our society dictates roles & routines based on age. I think this will change in the future.
Because Google has the financial and social capital to publicly humiliate Apple if they feel like it. In other words, they are big enough to take revenge without putting their bottom line or brand at serious risk.

You know, flip off your neighbor and only a few people care. Flip off the president and you'll have people demanding you be brought up on treason charges.
Well not for me. I have quite a hard time keeping by eyes from hurting after staring at a computer screen all day. Thank god for paper.
I'm thinking this is a good time to start an AP for blogs where bloggers can write articles to be syndicated among other blog.
I think I owe them a lot of money. Do the words have to be consecutive ? In order ? In the same article ?

That's going to make the AP a lot of money I bet.

It's going to be hard to get on without them, but we're certainly going to try our best.

btw, I'm fairly sure there is a legally allowed minimum that you can quote from anything under fair use.
WTF? Doesn't fair use exist?
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People went crazy about iphones before there was even such a thing as an appstore on the horizon.

I really don't understand why no other manufacturer is capable of producing something that gets close to the iphone. Even less since android is available as a platform. Sure, there still is the lack of multitouch, but I really don't get why nobody can come up with a serious device.
I can't believe the number of apologists posting on this thread, even claiming that's it just an ordinary lawsuit is ridiculous -- it should be thrown out of court as soon as its presented.
No problem. Using my handy AP obfuscator...

For compliance reasons, please identify the web site where you will be posting or linking this article.

becomes

For compliance reasons, please aardvark identify the web site aardvark where you will be aardvark posting or linking this aardvark article.

A new market for Firefox AP de-obfuscation plug-ins?
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Feel free to flag it.
If you pay them money.

If you quote them without paying, exercising your right to fair use, then you can criticize them all you want.
You raise reasonable points, but consider in turn that Apple's whole brand is built around providing a friendly experience. They're certainly aware of app store trends at the upper management level, as evidenced by discussions with stock analysts on conference calls about whether the trend towards $0.99 apps means a race to the bottom that could lower the perceived value of the platform.

I agree that it's not as simple as Steve Jobs rolling around in a swimming pool of money cackling at the misfortune of penniless developers, but I find it hard to believe nobody has mentioned to him that the peasants are revolting.
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How long has the republish button been there?
Wait wait wait, this is a sensationalist headline. The submitter obviously picked an AP story to frame them as evil.

iCopyright is the company that provides this Fair Use-violating service and here are some of their clients http://info.icopyright.com/conductor.asp
* The Globe & Mail
* REUTERS
* Associated Press
* The Toronto Star
* Ziff Davis Media
* The Boston Globe
I pasted my own work into the text box, and it tried to charge me money. It also let me buy, "fuck you, ever heard of fair use". (OK, I used a fake credit card number, but it got all the way to failing credit card authorization. Disgusting. Why do they think they can legally resell my work!?)
Good that Fravia didn't live to see this!
Not really, other newspaper/magazine companies are doing it too, it isn't just AP as the submitter would like us to believe.
Why not make a few bucks off of people that don't know their rights? It works for the criminal justice system...
It isn't just the AP, it's other publishers that use this site too.

The problem is iCopyright, not the AP.
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It isn't just the AP, it's also Reuters, The Toronto Star, The Globe & Mail, The Boston Globe, and Ziff Davis Media that use iCopyright.
that's very cheap, but it doesn't seem cost effective, they plan to deploy 32 satellites per launch, I sincerely doubt that launching a rocket into space costs less than $256,000 they'd generate per launch
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Are you saying iCopyright is licensing AP content w/o their consent?
Then, if many people decide to commit suicide, they actually don't die ;)
You have got to be kidding us. But I don't really get it - what is difficult in & and * operators?

I do teach programming, and most of the time I see both the concept of pointers, and syntax is pretty understandable.

The real trouble begins when you expect students to use them to their advantage - but it really is beyond syntax.
I don't understand the value of failing students in this way. At medical school I failed some exams but was allowed to retake them, and received coaching for one of the re-takes. (Relax, I had to prove I'd learned the material before I could work with patients.)

At my brother's economics PhD, however, the school (can you guess which it is) took pride in failing 50% of the class. Why? And when the students are going into so much debt, why is this appropriate? Pick students who can pass your exams in reasonable numbers, reject those who cannot, and then invest in teaching the ones you chose.

Bravado over failing students to demonstrate how difficult your course is is a waste of human talent.
It's their data. They can do whatever they want with it.
Reading is definitely different than playing video games.

I personally take frequent eye ball breaks from writing code. Video games, however, don't seem to bother me for twice, if not three times as long. I can't go two hours reading without a break, but I can easily kill an entire sick day playing a video game.
It's cool and all, but why?

Full urls are there for a reason... I don't want to add one more DNS query and the unknowness of my destination when I click a link.
"are trying to find out what happened" - oops?

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAN_MISSING_AMERICAN...

oh wait, http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#107
It doesn't really say that they are going to be the only thing on the rocket. Also note that it isn't putting them in permanent orbit so possibly that reduces the cost?

This looks like the company providing the launch vehicle, http://www.interorbital.com/Neptune%20Page_1.htm
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Thank you very much for the effort :)
This only explains why Europeans had a relatively higher standard of living over the centuries. It does not offer an explanation for why Europe shot ahead of the rest of the world spectacularly in the 19th century.

That question is addressed in A Farewell to Alms. It will never get much popular air time because the conclusion is basically eugenic forces. The most economically productive people had the most children in Europe, and this was not true in the rest of the world.
I was thinking the same thing, but I'm wondering if this isn't subsidized by the company's other endeavors. It'd be great advertising and give them a good bit of mindshare.
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Please remove the caps from the title, they really aren't necessary.
You could always quote the AP article and just remove all the spaces, turning it into one gigantic word.

Sort of like:

Forcompliancereasonspleaseidentifythewebsitewhereyouwillbepostingorlinkingthisarticle

That would bring it under the 5 word threshold for which you need to pay, although it would definitely cause havoc with layouts on websites.
Perhaps instead of submitting papers via TurnItIn, they should submit links to papers stored in Vanish[1].

1- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=719067
Apparently it's not news:
Founded in 1998, iCopyright has generated millions of dollars in new licensing revenue for online publishers, and has seven patents pending in the field of automated copyright licensing and permissions.

But it's not really that big if in 11 years they generated just millions of dollars...
Something that's missing from a lot of these is the pre-implementation aspect. P7 prior proper preperation prevents piss poor performance. This includes

picking a good platform after careful comsideration (not the coolest kid in the block always)
Design the system in detail then start implementing it

Both of these will prepare you and allow for scaling if needed later on (note: not premature optimization, just keeping it in mind and allowing provisions in case you do need to)
How about Google's recent O3D work? Not saying it's the be-all and end-all of browser 3D, but people are working on it.
Translation: "I've never used an iPhone."
This seems like it would make a really exciting group project. I can just imagine all the hard work that would go into getting the software right, then actually going to watch the launch together and impatiently waiting for first contact with your very own satellite.
My god. It's truly amazing how any technical or academic topic seems to degenerate into a Java vs C debate. Is there a law for that?
I really don't understand why no other manufacturer is capable of producing something that gets close to the iphone.

Because they're idiots who won't stand up to the tin-pot dictators at the mobile carriers.

The secret to Apple's success is actually quite similar to the secret to Microsoft's success: they've been fortunate at having incompetent competition.
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I love working with embedded systems. The nice thing is that it's usually embedded for some reason--it's talking directly to some hardware and that makes it interesting--motors, switches, leds, accelerometers, DACs ADCs, etc. Quite often those are hooked up to physical things so the program you end up with is controlling or is controlled by cool tangible things.

Then add to the mix that since embedded things are custom you generally get to drill all the way down to the processor itself to make it boot up correctly. When you are done you've generally got an app layer and hardware layer and a processor interface layer and it's all code you wrote yourself (since everything can be completely customized it's really hard to write reusable generic code and have it small and fast).

There's something really satisfying about standing back and realizing that nearly every piece of code running on the processor is yours.
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At my university, Intro to Prog. is in C and C++ (yes, both), and the course that immediately follows is in Scheme, some made up language (we had to build an interpreter for that language in Scheme) and Haskell (for the motivated students).
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I think the Cygwin approach might be a little too much, but thanks for the --link-dest pointer: I wasn't aware of that before, and it'll be handy for other things I'm doing.
Well, fuck them all then, $12.50 / 5 words is laughable from anyone, even if it's the ghost of Alan Turing with a terse solution to the halting problem.
You are probably right. But there is another interesting question - is for-profit news aggregation, where you quote a part of the article, fair use? Bloggers do that, user-powered aggregator sites do that, but is it fair use? Because in most cases, the quote itself carries a news value, and those quoting websites are commercial venues. I am just asking...
Interesting question. I really should have worked that out already :)

The current plan involves being in about 20 countries over the course of just under 3 months. So let's say 90 days x 50-100 photos per day x 2-3MB per picture. That gives somewhere in the region of 16GB right there; with backup, twice that. And that's probably on the low side.

Hmmm. I'm going to need more space (and more upload bandwidth) than I thought!
Agreed; Firefox needs to have this out of the box, for free, to compete with IE in corporate IT.
Hey, you can get 25 words for the price of 5 - a $50 value!
> This is not just a CS issue, it's universal and the real damage is being done in the second tier establishments where grade inflation and dumbed-down courses are endemic.

It's worse that that, because the dumbing down doesn't just effect universities. Secondary school science education has also been badly hit. The links that follow contain actual questions from GCSE science exams (note for non-British people: a GCSE is an exam typically taken by 16 year olds).

For example, in a biology exam, a question asked whether you see with your eye, ears, nose or mouth -- http://cabalamat.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/do-you-see-with-yo...

Here's a physics exam, that's not quite as absurd -- http://cabalamat.wordpress.com/2007/08/31/gcses-are-dumbed-d...
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Looking purely at the graph, I'd say the conclusion should be "think about how your startup will be more engaging than TV".
There is certainly the possibility of a third replicator, where the patterns are copied by machinery rather than biological processes, but we are not there yet. In the primordial soup of our Internet, we have only the very simplest form of life so far -- viruses, which only really seem to be alive when inside a host. We have a few true self-replicators, but they exist only in protected bubbles inside simulators, and cannot survive on the real network.

I think it's quite likely that a new form of replicator begin on the Internet, but there's no sign of it yet.
Could also be a statistical blip. People with no children includes children themselves (hopefully ;-)), who probably will not be working. Averaged between them and 20-something yuppies, working hours will be less.

The part that really surprised me is that sleep does not go down much between having no children and one child. It does go down between 1 child and 2+ children, but not by as much as I'd thought.