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I wasn't presenting the be-all, end-all criteria for determining which features to implement, just that there needs to be one in order to make a decision. Your example is likely better, and I'm sure Microsoft's taskbar team uses their own method:

"Part of the hard job of product design is deciding which 20 features you have the resources to pursue and which 180 to leave for next time. If you choose the right 20, people will say you're the best new UI feature in Windows, or even the best Windows 7 feature, and they won't mind too much that you didn't get to the other 180."[1]

I think single features can certainly sway a purchaser. If I like the OS X notification center quite a bit and its integration with 3rd party applications I use a lot, then it may well cause me to lean in the direction to purchase a MacBook over a Lenovo. Of course they're all taken as parts of a whole, but it's still conceivable that people may not be able to perform their job/task in a way that they are accustomed to without X feature.

In addition, while some features may not sway you, it is not unlikely that you are an exception to the rule.

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2010/05/31/10017...
...and then a manufacturer (possibly Compaq or someone more esoteric like Mannesmann Tally), came out with a Mini-tower design and a few arrived at work. Seeing how 'cool' this new arrangement was, some of our engineers took their IBM PC units off their desks and sat them upright at the side.

A few weeks later, the IBM PCs started to die because the retrofitted 5.25" full height hard disks (probably 10-20MB!) began to seize up - the spindle bearings had 'worn in' in one orientation and didn't take too kindly to being tipped on end. Sometimes a good whack would get things moving - if not, it was time for a new (and very expensive) hard disk.
Glad to hear, instakill :)

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Well, it's not completely unreasonable given that Apple is in the business of selling hardware. Of course they want you to buy macs. :)
Looks like it will be a lot like this: http://www.getmoju.com/
It's a great subtle troll that the title refers to professional programmers as "IT professionals."

They of course don't think of themselves that way; they're "developers", "engineers", or "hackers." To them, IT is the poor guy installing Adobe Reader on the manager's PC.
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with that definition of recycling even gasoline is recyclable in plants :)
I'm curious what the "computer science" equivalent in the engineering world would be.

All of the engineering majors study a particular type of engineering: mechanical, electrical, computer, construction.

There's no "engineering science" program that I'm aware of that would teach the theory behind engineering and award a degree just for that. Instead, the engineering student must understand that way of thinking simultaneously while learning the practical components of the degree (analyzing free-body diagram forces, producing printed circuit boards, building physical objects for competitions, etc).
>Product Hunt is a daily leaderboard of the best new products

Compare that with a more lasting ranking of the best old and proven products: http://5000best.com/tools
If I transfer money to someone else's account it's in there within about 10-20 seconds. I guess different banks and accounts make use of different transfer types, and when the thieves are in the system they can just choose to use the faster ones?
I've read of people in your situation who leave a note that says what time they left, what time they will be back, and where to find them or how to contact them if the dog needs aid before they get back.
Hi, gk1! I realize it's not very clear right now (sorry about that). Currently a small number of people have access to post and comment to:

(1) control the quality of submissions (if everyone had access it would be all self-promotion and

(2) reduce the number of products posted (with its current design, the feed wouldn't scale if 100+ products were submitted each day)

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That's because parents don't generally leave four year olds alone in cars, not because four year olds left alone in cars generally do just fine.
Is there evidence for preconceptual experience? It seems to me that there is no experience without concepts.
Note, in case someone blindly takes this as advice: This method of expressing it in C doesn't work for multiplication (you could wrap more than once).

I'm not sure you can express an overflow check for multiplication purely in portable C (without library or intrinsic support), actually. Well, I guess you could break the multiplication into checked additions manually, but that's probably not a great idea.
"Despite this Mac people insists getting Linux to work is "hard" when it mostly works out of the box on any hardware. Amazing."

This kind of divisiveness is not necessary. Clearly you have some dim folks in your midst.
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The questions here in the form certainly give some hints about what it's about:

"Are you interested in developing apps utilizing a new type of sensor?"

"Describe an innovative way in which you have used gyroscopes, accelerometers, or other device sensors in your app development."
This is false. Since Lion (I think it was), the wording allows installation of up to 2 additional copies as VMs, provided the underlying hardware is a Apple/Mac.
> Aluminum is the most abundant metal on earth

Not technically true, since almost all natural aluminum exists in oxide form, not metal. The process of turning Al2O3 into metallic Aluminum is incredibly energy intensive, requiring temperatures of over 1,000 degrees Celsius and some seriously heinous chemicals (HF among them).
Yes, but when was AS/400 first introduced? 1988. Do you think that twenty-five years from now, people will say the same thing about the new IBM products they purchased today?
You might consider the FreedMan: http://freedmanchair.com/ although perhaps wait until it's received some user reviews.
First, it was 3000 kilometers, not miles.

Whoops. Still and order of magnitude more than the Tesla Model S batteries.
Incidentally, IBM is kinda becoming Heroku: http://bluemix.net :)
> Good thing an NDA caused rapists/etc to go free!

No, police misconduct did, and that's how the justice system needs to work. If they face no consequences for violating the law, they'll continue to do so.
They would probably study some form of math or maybe theoretical physics, which is basically just math ;)
Very much so not true:

http://fedoraproject.org/

http://www.ubuntu.com/

Download an ISO and install it.

I think you will be surprised. Pop the disk in after burning to a CD/DVD. Click "install", reboot and you are done.

Doesn't matter what your hardware is... it will install and work.

Other than getting a computer with a pre-installed OS, it really can't get much simpler. Modern Linux Desktops do not require you to do anything but click the "install" button. You don't have to mess with partitioning, packages, etc. You can understand absolutely nothing about Linux and install it easily and use it easily.
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Aluminium is not going to get any easier, barring massive breakthroughs in fusion energy and/or the Second Coming.

How about vast solar thermal plants in the Sahara?
Alumina is not all aluminum (Al2 O3 ) so you need to correct for that.
That's probably because it's so new in QEMU.

VMWare, for one, have been able to do this for quite a while with the effort of ~1 mouseclick.

Edit: Not sure if troll or not?! Getting Linux to run as a guest in Xen 0.0.1 probably took some work, too.
Referring to people who build software as "IT" is a UK thing. The author is from the UK.
this is great news, thanks for linking the talk!
The original title doesn't mention anything about IT professionals. The title has been (sensibly) moderated as "Hands up who likes PHP?" didn't really summaries the gist of the post.
What motivation do they have to do that? For a clueless user all they will understand is that their ISP has cut them off, and if they give money to a different company instead then their internet will work (from their perspective their computer works fine in most cases - well, perhaps a little slowly).
Which is a real shame. It means that testing OSX software is significantly more expensive than testing software on any other popular OS due to the need for a Mac host.
They of course don't think of themselves that way; they're "engineers"

My Software Engineering degree is accredited by the Australian Institute of Engineers. I am an Engineer.
This particular smelter uses hydroelectric power, mentioned in the article.
>If you can tell me that it is your job to accept payment yet not create useful people, in my opinion, you're committing some form of fraud.

This is a huge distortion of the point the author is making.

The author is not saying "schools should be paid to churn out students that are not useful."

The author is saying "schools should be paid to churn out students *already equipped with the skills they will need to learn once they get to the work force."

Anyone, and this includes you, that expects a fresh CS graduate to "hit the ground running" with no adjustment period and to be fluent in whatever language/toolset you decide is important is deluded.

The point of a CS education is not to master every library, every IDE, and every language. The point of a CS education is to master the fundamentals so that even if you learned Java in school, you can spend a weekend learning the syntax of Swift because really that's all that's different. You already know object-oriented design (or whatever).

The problem is that employers expect new employees to start being profitable on day 1, when that is absurd. There's always a learning period, even for a seasoned veteran. Whether that learning period is 3 weeks or 3 months, there's always a learning period and I wish employers would get this through their seemingly think skulls.
I think its difficult to do right and frequently done wrong. I'm just not completely convinced that Go makes that significantly better (there is an advantage to being more explicit, but it comes at the cost of making what is usually right -- propagating errors back up the chain -- easy to omit, and lots of sample code silently swallows errors to avoid distraction, which has value for what it is trying to teach but might incidentally also breed bad habits.)

It probably makes the most common mistakes in error handling in Go different than with languages where the preferred method is more "traditional" exceptions, because the easiest mistakes to make are different.
Apparently there is zero information about who runs this site. Yes, it looks nice, and seems to be a clever idea. But personally I wouldn't trust them with my coins.
Being an Apple developer is very (overly, maybe excessively?) expensive.
Rofl, if you have an opinion... to shut it up ? Heck yes to productivity :)
Yes but numerically approximating the beta function is extremely fast, much faster than running a CAS optimization routine and possibly faster than going through the factorials!

Not really worth it unless this is in an inner-loop.
Is this technology similar to the Bloom Box, but with Aluminum instead of some type of ceramic material?
Hmm methinks you did not watch the video...
I wish there was a reasonable way to run OS X on non-Apple hardware.

Just today I was looking at the current Mac lineup, and there's not a single setup that works for me. Everything comes with underpowered Intel graphics, unless you pay the ridiculous price for a top-of-the-line MacBook Pro.

Oh, if only I could have a Surface Pro 3 running OS X... I could live with the Intel graphics if it had Surface-style portability.
This article serves to illustrate how different America is from the rest of the world. Outside America nobody knows what NFL is beyond that it is some strange variant on the football theme, related to football in no more way than how a whale is related to a dog.

Then there are 'customary units'. Outside America nobody knows what a pound of weight is, is that pound of 'customary units' the same as an 'Imperial' pound? Nobody knows, particularly when applied to body weight. The height situation is better, there are places like the UK where Imperial measurements are used for height, but, in mainland Europe and beyond, I doubt anyone knows what 6' tall means.

I imagine that in America it is hard to see this perspective on how different America is, and, most of the time with most HN stories there is no cultural barrier to understanding things, yet this story is an edge case and reminds me how different American culture really is.
"Do you expect Chemistry students to walk out of school ready to begin work in a lab?"

Yes? As someone who didn't major in chemistry or go into a related field... what the hell does someone with a degree in chemistry do when they graduate? Go and work in a coffeeshop?

Edit: the original post seems to have been edited several times since my original comment, including the clarification that she's a high school teacher in the UK.
>What motivation do they have to do that?

Security. Notifying a user that he's been pwned can protect that user's confidential info/identity. It's really a service to the user as much as anything.

The ISP would just need to message it as such. They wouldn't just cut off "clueless users" without explanation. Instead, they'd explain that the user's machine has been compromised and disconnecting them until they can get it cleaned up is for their own good.
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It will install and "work". But the 3d graphics won't. And even though it's pretty easy nowadays, it's still not easier than OS X, especially if you want to transfer files and settings from another machine.
I was thinking of a 2d canvas context. Basically, I would expect battery consumption to be lower when WebGl is rendering 2d than it would be if it were rendering 3d. It just seems intuitive that 3d requires more computation. But I really don't know. I've never seen any battery usage comparisons.
Not being a *nix is actually not a disadvantage at all in this context. You'd be surprised how little of an OS you actually need, and how inapplicable most libraries designed for PCs are.

In other words, you're thinking like a hobbyist rather than a product designer, or someone making tools for products. That's fine, but realize that embedded development for actual products is a completely different world than hobby raspberry pi hacking. I think the hobbyist embedded development community is awesome, BTW, just rather different than commercial embedded development.
The local paper posted an article a few days ago about relative sizes of Rugby players ( The "All Blacks" are the New Zealand national team ) compared to 20+ years ago.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&obje...
I find the self interest argument silly. A federal court of appeals appointment is a lifetime appointment, and the last step of a career. There's no revolving door, consulting gigs, etc. Almost all judges serve until they retire entirely, and a COA judge is more likely to die in office than take another job after their service.

Your line of reasoning is an instance of a common strain of intellectual laziness: "I don't agree with you, therefore your motives and intentions must be bad or self-serving."

There are major ideological issues at play. Many people with no personal interest believe in patent maximalism, just as many people believe in maximization of other property rights. A lot of people think we should privitize water--do you find it so hard to believe that many think we should privatize ideas?

My own background is in aerospace engineering. I never imagined until I got into software that anyone would be opposed to patents. When everyone around you wants to work for Pratt and Whitney or Boeing, its easy to dismiss troll lawsuits as: "some minor thing that just affects those startups and their software stuff. Real engineering companies like DuPont and Boeing and Pfizer need patents because those Chinese companies will rip you off and copy your designs down to the English silk screening."

I think that's not an unfair characterization of how many engineers think about patents. And the views of the broader engineering community are what inform judges and legislators. I think that's a lot simpler of an explanation for the state of patent law than self-aggrandizing judges.
Actually I would say European.
> Then why the hell are we paying as much as we are for tuition?

I can assure you that tuition rates have very little to do with salaries for Computer Science professors.
>There's no "engineering science" program that I'm aware of that would teach the theory behind engineering and award a degree just for that

Actually the University of Toronto offers an "Eng Sci" program that is exactly this. They offer it alongside their regular engineering program. A guy I went to high school with dropped out of the eng sci program because it was "too theoretical" for him and he wanted a more practical education.
> I don't know anyone who has been requesting a 3D display on their phone.

Well, 7 years ago I didn't know anyone who was asking to eliminate physical keyboards from phones.

I'm less skeptical of the merit of the idea (whatever exactly it turns out to be), than I am of Amazon's first generation implementation (based on owning 1st gen versions of Kindle eReader and Kindle Fire).
I'm not sure I follow, but I think you're describing a Ph.D. in the specified engineering discipline. I would describe getting a Ph.D. in an engineering field as studying the fundamental science of the process of engineering.
Is there anything discernible in the reflection on the hipster-glasses at 0:42?

... enhance ...
The article appears to indicate that the person capturing video saw the lady leave and return. It is not clear if the video was rolling the entire time but certainly as the video-taker was giving the video to the police, they may have mentioned that the same person who left the car also returned. I don't see why the police would be more worried about an abduction in this situation than in any other "person with child" situation.
at least put a website link so we can know what they do
Fine. Abused kids need help. There, I said it. It's nothing new and not related to the example at hand, but yeah, we found some common ground.

The state has laws and agencies to interfere and check (Disclaimer: I've no clue about the US of A here, but I assume it's not too far off from what I know). But that's not related to the action(s) we discuss. Are we missing a part of the picture? Certainly. Is the partial picture scary? Yes.

The adversaries in the story didn't act to protect the kid. They acted in a completely crazy fashion. There's so many things wrong with this story, I cannot even begin to imagine how someone would defend the side of the cops here..

One (out of far too many) questions: If this mother is utterly incapable, if a lawyer actually can make the point that she might lose her kid if she's not complying: Why does it take 10 month to proceed? I'd say that someone with a little ambition can kill a kid in less time than that...

There's not One. Single. Point. in that article that makes sense, on the side of law enforcement. Zero. The only potential reason to discuss why this might not be so far removed from reality that everyone involved should be ordered to take a drug test is that the article might be lying. If that is not the case ... there is no case.
> So, as others said, panic is very similar to throw, it's just intentionally ugly and strongly discouraged.

I thought it was officially only discouraged across module boundaries -- e.g., library code shouldn't let panics "escape".
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"than any Linux distro ever did" - Remembering my stack of 32 floppies to install slackware and the level of understanding it took of drivers and hardware, I'm pretty sure that's not true.
We have that in Canada too. But in the US you don't need to be accredited to call yourself an engineer.
It depends very much on the country.

In Portugal universities call Software Engineering to Computer Science degrees.
This is great! There's also Skeuocard (http://kenkeiter.com/skeuocard/) which offers a bit more of a skeuomorphic design. I think I favour the form as part of the card, however this may be confusing/inaccessible to some people - nice work on the library!
Split discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7848334
The author teaches CS to 11-18 year old students. In the UK School != University
Split discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7847951
Macintosh- and facial-hair-related: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Moustache.txt
Each of these companies had huge scandals related to accounting fraud. Are you assuming the same is the case with IBM?
I wouldn't mind it, assuming that this would have no effect on the already bad battery life of those.
In all my years, and colo'ed across 3 DC's... I have yet to see any OSX server hardware besides a mac mini...
It's at least 100x more difficult than opening a laptop screen and it already being done.
If you look beyond the rhetoric you'll see that Blackberry in 2011 was in a completely different situation than IBM is now.
You should capture credit card details (not the numbers) for the purchase. Amex for example extended the warranty an all purchases made on the card. Perhaps even look at the store details. Costco, I believe, extends warranty on certain items.

Amex or other cards could be a promotional partner down the road.
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In sensible countries the EULAs don't have any legal value.
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Yeah I was coming here to say the same thing. Seems like it is definitely doing some sort of motion tracking.
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>I am not sure if people buy clothes from ebay.

They definitely do. I think selling on ebay is a good testing ground for you to experiment with different ways to present things.
I may have misinterpreted what you meant by vocational, but no it's not. In my CS program we had maybe 3 programming classes. I learned pretty much all my programming on the job, but my CS program taught me to think about problems differently and it was definitely useful.
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Okay, I'll compare "You are hurting your cause by being angry" and "[stirring] up heated conflicts and [throwing] Tumblr-style tantrums."

The former is perfectly fine in many situations, and I don't see many people saying that being angry is inherently counterproductive or bad. The latter is widely accepted to be immature and counterproductive.
Former recruiter for hedge funds here. Switch banks, roles or cities but stay in finance. Its difficult to get back in once you are out, and while I agree Palantir has incredibly cool products, its a better long term career move to find a way to work with the software from within an investment bank or fund than as a consultant. Others may disagree, and be right.