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Not so different from Apple in the late 90s. And it kept struggling to find its stride until the iPhone. Let's have some context.

1993, Apple Newton

1994, IBM Simon

1996, PalmPilot/PalmOS

1996, Apple Pippin game console

1998, iMac

1998-2000, tons of MP3 players

2000, Microsoft Pocket PC/Windows CE

2001, Microsoft's tablet PCs

2001, iPod

2001, OS X

2002, Pocket PC smartphones

2002, BlackBerry

(I included a few flops to show that this wasn't a God-given destiny but an iterative search process...)

So as of 2004:

* PDAs are an established market but mostly limited to business. The functionality will only take off in smartphones, which are really just PDA-phones

* iPod has gobbled up the pre-existing MP3 player market in a way that prefigures iPhone, with a decent device and very good marketing

* Smartphones are just getting taken up in 2004, as an outgrowth of the PDA market. It'll be 5 years before iPhone hits a pre-existing smartphone market with a decent device, very good marketing and "app store"

* Tablet PCs are bombing, largely because nobody understands or wants the form factor yet

Near future after 2004: transition to Intel 2005-2007ish, MacBook Pro and MacBook 2006, iPhone 2007, Android 2007, MacBook Air 2008, iPad 2010.

and consider the contribution of economic downturns/booms to the timing of products which did well
Obviously there's no single right answer to this question. Anyone who says otherwise is just spouting nonsense.

I hadn't thought of the "be forced into addressing emergencies" aspect, but that's a good one. If you can pull it off, you'll get mad props and great experience.

But ultimately, it's a decision each person should make for themselves. Company culture, social habits, work habits, finances, diet, all may play a role. Do what's right for you in the environment you find yourself in.
The Ipad definitely wasn't a revolution.
Just like Panama canal scandal was only its investor’s issue, it still changed significantly how Stock Exchanges are regulated. BitCoin appears unregulated and hard to make sense of: MtGox was an entry point for many newcomers , one whose obscurity proved damning. Those newcomers, attracted by business magazine covers (and drugs on Silk road) were the first wave that changed BitCoin from a crypto-geek game into a valuable currency. No body is challenging the fact that people have lost money, citing dollar figures -- a unit BitCoin was meant to avoid initially.

You are right in saying it’s not a BitCoin disaster: it will trigger massive changes in the currency, just like Silk Road’s closing has triggered a legitimation of the tool.

As for rhetoric: all publicity, even bad, is legitimation this is a worthy interest to look into; business magazines like blood, but their prefer victory in adversity. I promisse that you’ll have enough “How we step out of MtGox rumble and built a competitor to Visa” soon enough. Remember ‘Web 2.0’? that actually was the shortest version of that story, told by O’Reilly. You’ll have a similar catchy name for what BitCoin will become soon enough; my money is on an international payment system with lower fees. The tax-avoidance angle was as lame as only ultra-liberalitarian can be; the drug angle seemed to have missed both the decriminalisation trend, and the whole ‘Every transaction is recorded forever, publicly’ part of the protocol; the funky price chart is a sin of youth. It could become a (long-term) reserve for value, that has been the secondary angle through-out, but I don’t see it: I believe that should remained reserved for ventures, talent and fine wine.
Yeah, but a mobile app with better design.
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Or what they want to be money makers.
The shame of all of this noise is that resources going into medical research today ends up getting spent on data security and building expensive, custom solutions that avoid using servers of a certain type or location in the name of privacy.

Sure, it would be more secure to conduct medical research without using computers at all, but what about all those people dying of nasty diseases? If I had 6 months to live, I probably wouldn't mind these "criminals" trying to find me a cure.

Instead, we have a deafening din of screaming about data privacy and little or no mention of the benefits of the medical research itself. If people could calm down a little bit about Big Brother, these guys could spend more time doing their jobs, helping sick people.
Any attempt to force a particular mathematical subject matter on students will undoubtedly be ruined by a committee.
So it's basically a closed source and commercial fork of nodejs ?
Simple greed.

AS you pointed out, it makes no sense, which gives him the perfect cover. He can empty the coffers and claim it was a hack because of a technical glitch. He takes it all, declares bankruptcy and he's gone with the wind.

Now, with a hefty stash, he can start another BTC exchange, and then rinse and repeat as necessary. It's about as close to a perfect crime as you can get.
I wonder if you'll be able to do this kind of stuff with CarPlay
Google down
Gmail and google.com not working in pakistan.
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Including Microsoft, which many aren't aware of.
Wow, thanks, I'd been looking for this too, and somehow had failed to come across that one. Sounds perfect.
Cars have a greater tendency to crash into other things than planes.
not you need the jvm to run that.And frankly nodyn doesnt run anything yet.
A 1:60-Scale Boeing 777 Built Entirely from Paper Manilla Folders
Someone should tell us that sooner then. I've been trying to get over math anxiety for a long time, and having professors that say "it's simple, what don't you understand?" when you try to get help didn't help much.
His comment says he leaves early. That could be problematic with some managers, but maybe the lunchtime work is appreciated at his job.
> I'd never call CL a "dinosaur language".

It's a dead horse and people can't help but beat on it as they pass by.

I wouldn't call it a dinosaur language either. The specification of Lisp that we call, "Common Lisp," was ratified by ANSI in 1994 -- putting it almost neatly between ANSI C (1989) and ANSI C++ (1998). Common Lisp just has a longer history than those two languages so it tends to get flack from the young'uns and ignoramus' for being, "old and crufty."

It's a small community but there are plenty of libraries, tools, and compilers under active development.
You do realize that you're comparing a diesel car to a standard petrol-hybrid right? Diesel engines are ~33% more efficient per-liter (and usually that much more expensive).

The number for a Prius-hybrid you'd really care to look at would be the city driving numbers as that's where you get all the advantages of regenerative breaking. Running a Prius at 100+ km/h it just turns back into a standard petrol fueled vehicle carrying drained batteries.
Like not using any kind of VCS for the software which was the core of his business defies any reasonable explanation?

Maybe he just wanted a quick payday and get out of the business?

The guy doesn't seem to have a track record of making great decisions and he didn't seem to take the business very seriously. Not to mention we are talking about hundreds of millions of dollars. Theft is a possibility worth looking into.
>(especially when someone put the value of the drive at $100) //

Is that wrong? I see a Seagate Baracuda 3TB on Amazon at $110. Do you mean it should have included the data value or that they inflated the price or what?
Fixing something yourself vs shadowing someone else makes a huge difference. In fact, I'd say that was the author's point: shadowing someone you'll learn a little bit, but you won't be tested on your understanding of the architecture. Yes, you may learn how to use the tools your mentor is using, but when it's your turn, how do you know which tool to start with and where to look first? If there's a fixed list of rote steps to follow to solve all problems then you don't have serious problems to solve.
Fashion is something Apple is good at.
Yes, that is correct. Bash has additional functionality (and the for-loop I showed could very well be a part of that). If you want posix, better stick to dash, the code he showed.

But bash with its additional features (like associative arrays) is much more comfortable, so if you know you can use bash - because the target is GNU/Linux - it is a good idea to use them.
me too, I want it back now! ... I was just remembering what a PITA it was programming when I was younger - no internet at home meant I had to read the code of similar programs to try and figure out how to do things.

Every day I'd come home with a box of floppy disks full of open source programs to read, and satellite jpgs downloaded from the noaa website.

later on I got internet access and that's when I hooked it up live ... good old NZ Farm internet : 0.5kb/s because our electric fences caused so much electrical interference with the phone lines ....
I know very little (er, how bout zero) about e-paper technology.

However, I'm guessing when designing it there were certain assumptions and optimizations that were made given the reasonable guess that the screen's content would not change often.

Is it possible you could somehow do bad things to the device by doing something like this? Maybe akin to red-lining an engine, or ghosting an old CRT, or maybe other things?
They're probably not allowed to take the data out of the building for security purposes ...
Well, those features. Groovy was probably one of the first to bring those to a C-type language (though you could argue whether it's still a C-type language with those features), but I'm glad to see them in more languages.
The point of the article is not that eInk is all the rage for gaming.

The point of the article is that out there is an eInk platform that makes building and deploying web applications to eInk simple and developer friendly.

Disclaimer: I have developed Visionect Geoffrey restarurant ordering system and Wemar Nautipad nautic application for Visionect V Tablet platform.
Great web design basically doesn't need to change over time. Apple has kept the same ideas: big hero image, top nav bar, a few secondary things, and that's it for a decade.
How to configure Logwatch to send daily reports of nasty hacking attempts
Eat wherever the fuck you want. No one gives a fuck. Can we stop discussing this every week.
Yes, this is subjective... I realize that, so here's my opinionated response.

More market share != winning.

Applications for Android tablets largely still suck.
Applications for iPad, are better quality in my experience - and that by a WIDE margin.

Now, here's the bias disclaimer. I have been an avid Mac user in the past, and there are many things I prefer about that platform, in terms of development and productivity (i.e. just getting stuff DONE)

HOWEVER - I am currently all-Linux, except for the iPad Air.

I use the following devices:

iPad Air
Nexus 5 (this is my primary "phone" now, having switched from an iPhone 5)
Nexus 7 2013 wifi.

Yes, that's some extra info... I just wanted to convey the fact that I'm giving Android a fair shake. If you want to ask me what I think of the N5, I'd be happy to share, but that's off-topic here. :)
If they have permission of government officials then what?

We can hold companies accountable but how do you hold government accountable? In a meaningful way? Certainly we can find a myriad of excuses not to fire an government worker for a mistake I am fine with doing the same for this as well.

The key is to learn from it and put into place processes that stop it from reoccurring. We need to weigh the penalties to the harm caused. Frankly, if no one lost their life or livelihood I don't think seeking the outcome you suggest is warranted.
Actual project link (OP just goes to Chrome/NSA app store): http://notabledocs.com/
What are the best resources for really grokking LINQ in depth? I'm not too impressed with the level of depth in the main LINQ section on MSDN - it seems (sensibly) more focused on how to use it than on how it works.
Impala to python: ODBC and thrift
As far as I can tell: He is extremely easily amused and has a terrible case of urinary incontinence. The former will heal with age, but the latter will get worse.
Ok. First I'm not taking lessons from anyone who plagiarizes. This is a re-write of:

http://j2kun.svbtle.com/you-never-did-math-in-high-school

Which may also be someone's work, but it was one I read recently.

Second, I learned some Calculus in school, how about you? That is not a subject a 1000 years old. So we haven't been teaching it that way for 1000 years.

Third, did this guy not have story problems? Applied Math is basically what this author is claiming we don't have.

Fourth, Graphing is pretty new. We didn't use to visualize plots because we didn't have the resources, I can't tell you when that became part of algebra, but it was in the past 100 years.

I can't believe LA Times ran such a poorly informed piece.
Yes PHP is horrible,but it is usefull,otherwise nobody would use it.It has excellent libraries for "traditional" user facing websites. It's clearly not meant to do anything else.
I read that article over the weekend. I agree completely, but it's downstream of a bigger problem. Think of it this way - when we file the bug fix, the report will reference a different bug fix that solved this one downstream.

We need to draw math teachers from the top tier of math majors (or physics, stats, etc). And if we do that, it's very likely that people with real insight into math will teach it very effectively but less mechanically.

One thing I've noticed is that the US system loves a "plan". This might be a result of the career ladder - a teacher is on the bottom rung, whereas someone who sets the curriculum for all teachers has moved beyond that lowly spot. But what we really need is an armada of accomplished math majors in actual teaching positions.

Without that, the plan won't really matter. With it, the plan? It matters, sure, but I'd personally be inclined to give quite a bit of latitude and autonomy to people who were in the top tier of their class and majored in math and who are inclined to teach.
Its not just Apple, of course. The entire web is very fashion conscious.
I went all the way through differential equations in engineering school and don't know how to do anything with matrices. shrug
I've got a 2 line cronfile on my raspberry pi that uses Tesla's web API to do roughly the same.
Quicktime was mainly to have access to some of the rare actual videos on-line at the time: film trailers, hosted by Apple (and streamed by Akamai at great expense). It seemed incredible at the time. I would religiously connect there every Saturday for new releases and wow at how fast a 240 would download.

You had that, dancing-baby/wombat gifs, or that guy jumping into a tree (that because YouTube first big video) if you weren’t tired of it, and… that’s it.

The Show with Ze Franck was insane idea: the technical feat was more mind-bogging that his antics.
I hate to burst your hacking bubble, but this product has been around for a long time. You can find several models at Home Depot or your local home store.
This is mostly just showing off their eInk platform, and at that it does a good job. (with some humor)

The devices themselves look kind of neat, wonder what pricing is at volumes. IE, if I wanted to build a restaurant ordering system based on this, what would it cost per device to sell to my end users?
Funny thing is, Target or another retailer might know because of your purchase history and would that be a violation under some laws currently on the books?
I thought node's non-blocking I/O implied that threads were unnecessary?

What's the core mechanism that permits node's implicit concurrency?
This would be more worrisome if they weren't so likely to report misinformation... just for fun.
This is a contract law case.
"Nonsense! We never uploaded any data to Google servers, we just put it in the cloud!"
> By hiding math's great masterpieces from students' view, we deny them the beauty of the subject.

The problem is that math's great masterpieces are problems and proofs. High school math educators are largely the folks who hated doing proofs during their education, and they're just as uninformed about what the interesting open problems are as their students.
And if you thought the "sudden unexpected acceleration" hysteria recently was bad, just wait for the first time someone dies in or because of a robocar
I guess I have an engineering viewpoint as well--which may not be surprising because I, well, was one. I never especially connected to geometry with its proofs in high school. What I did learn was lots of basic trig and algebra and the beginnings of calculus (which I took more of in college). The result is that while I've never had much of an interest or flair for advanced math, I did develop most of the math skills I needed both for school and, more importantly, through career and life.

I've had stats as well. As I was just discussing with someone in a different context, I think stats, accounting, and similar applied math would be far more useful to most students than either most calculus (past simple differentiation which is used in a lot of contexts), proofs, or set/group theory. And, arguably, could be linked a lot better to real-world applications.
Only one I can think of is 32 bit architectures, but those are phasing out pretty fast. I wasn't being incendiary at all with my comment - just a general question from a novice software engineer.
Indeed: Quicktime wasn’t making much money at the time (or ever was) but when streaming films became a Moor’s law prospect possibility, the fight with Real became insane.
What from the leaked documents tells you they lack credibility? From what I remember it was England's own GCHQ that was wiretapping the leased lines between Google data centers.
The listing on the Chrome store is more up to date, so I linked to that - but the landing page works too :)
Shoulda turned off the fences...
Not to mention, "The curriculum is 1000 years old" is a terrible argument from a logical perspective. I have no idea if that means math is timeless or dated.

There are other funny gems.

"A mathematical statement is either true or false"
That's very cool, but I don't know if I'd like to have this feature as a monthly service.

It would be cool if Tesla bought the company and offered the software and support (eve as an extra).

Possibilities are endless and generally speaking, I liked it - very smart project.
As a student in my first /real/ real analysis course (called "Advanced Calculus I" by the registrar, predictably), I have a slight quibble with your characterization of high school "calculus" as real analysis. What we did in high school, which I now think of as nothing but "calculus" in scare quotes, is to real analysis as arithmetic is to mathematics proper---because that's all it was, glorified arithmetic. Even though I had a great teacher and an understanding principal who allowed me to just go and study math on my own for two years, even then I was misled into the glorified-arithmetic world of studying "calculus" for advanced standardized tests. That's all high school math ever was, and when I scored in the 99th percentile on all the standardized tests, it was because they quite literally just asked arithmetic questions (sometimes disguised as "plug this into the quadratic formula", sometimes as "take the derivative then plug in this value").

TL;DR: high school math, and even much of what's taught in an undergraduate degree now (in math!), is just glorified arithmetic.
And the "more market share != winning" comment...

let's add an example of that... Microsoft.

Yes, they rule in the desktop space. So what? They haven't done anything to innovate in a LONG time.

They lost the mobile market.

They seem to be grasping for straws, and largely trying to gain revenue by strong-arm bully tactics with patent licensing agreements that are likely almost all FUD.

CAN they innovate? Perhaps. It's been a long time since they have.

For all you MS-lovers who will tout the dominant market share, and stock market profits... let me ask you this.

If MS was doing SO good... why is Ballmer out? :)

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Since you mentioned knitting (and I agree with your analogy), check out the great intuition you can get about hyperbolic geometry via crochet and knitting.

See how "parallel" lines act and the angle sums of triangles end up smaller than 180 degrees: http://theiff.org/oexhibits/oe1e.html

A TED lecture is linked: http://geknitics.com/2010/11/sunday-knitting-science-hyperbo...

Hyperbolic baby pants also convertible into a 2-holed torus (not while on baby I guess), with added note that on 2-holed tori you can make maps that require 8 colors instead of just 4 like maps on the plane or sphere: http://www.ravelry.com/projects/smbelcas/hyperbolic-pants-2

Geometry, topology, map-coloring theorems, crafts: all things many kids never get to do anymore.
I eat my desk cause our office has a small table in the kitchen area that seats 4. It's shared between about 100 staff... There's absolutely no culture of eating together etc... Everyone here sits at their desks and eats their lunch there.

EDIT: I eat AT my desk... I don't actually eat my desk...
Agreed, this was pretty far from the "inside story" of Mt. Gox and was more just about Karpeles incompetence and personality faults.

"seated, inexplicably, on top of a blue pilates ball" really irked me, because its not inexplicable. The guy probably has back or circulation problems, give him a break instead of giving him crap for every last detail of his life. There's more than enough to critique about the fact that he ran the largest bitcoin exchange into the ground.
Obligatory Star Trek reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETt8GJRbqLc
Oracle's Mats Kindahl talks about MySQL Fabric
But DSG isn't a traditional auto. It's still clutch based, you just don't control the clutch yourself.
Triple Handshakes: Breaking and Fixing Authentication over TLS
Goddammit, I hate this hacker crap ...
It pretty much has already happened. Most cars that offer both versions are very similar in terms of mileage for automatics and manuals - the difference is usually only like 1 or 2 mpg, with the automatics actually coming out on top at times because the car makers can add more gears. And realistically, most drivers aren't as good at using manual transmissions as they like to think they are, which also does a lot to cancel out the theoretical improvements a manual transmission offers.
You've never actually seen people assert their rights when talking to police, huh?

I think the correct phrase for this situation is, "you can beat the charge, but you can't beat the ride."

Police get all ornery when there's any kind of perceived challenge to their authority.
>The biggest problem in education isn't the curriculum or method of teaching or the teachers, it's how motivated the student is (which is usually a product of their home environment)

While I get what you're saying, the motivation of the student is highly influenced by the curriculum and the teacher.

Having a meaningful curriculum content with a teacher who presents it in a way which the student can relate to is surely possible (but woefully rare). Good teaching can change things around.