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You know, I love this.

Simply because I like when I purchase classics (not covered by copyright any longer) that I have the ability to choose the book based on criteria I cannot usually factor in.

I can opt for quality paper, for a nice and well-spaced font, for good-binding, for a nicer jacket, for a specific translation.

I like that there is the potential that I could purchase this book and be able to choose such things, that I could say "I'll pay this guy over here a little more as he's invested in the quality of the medium.".

I was very happy with the contents of Coders at Work for example, but disappointed with the paper selection and choice of font. I would have happily paid more to have a nicer package, so I love authors who would permit multiple companies to do this.
"I don't see why you would make such a blanket statement about them."

Haven't tried the N82, but I had a series of E-series phones and all shared a tendency to crash, of being slow (starting many programs took several seconds, booting took up to two minutes - mind you: more than Windows does on a desktop PC) and having a generally confusing interface.

I had a Palm Centro briefly and despite its limited software, it was one of the best QWERTY phone I ever had. I look forward to the launch of WebOS phones here in Brazil.

I also assumed we were talking about QWERTY phones like this Motorola unit. I understand the Nokia S-60 series interface is less confusing on a simpler keyboard and the N8x series is among the best media phones you can buy.
Scary that it's a subscription-based service. I was expecting a stand-alone IP webcam, like those from Axis. This seems to be something else.
1) Well, machine learning is basically computational statistics, and machine learning is key to a lot of web apps.

2) The graphics in R are pretty good. I've used matlab and matplotlib and gnuplot. I'd say comparable functionality to matplotlib in 2D, with better 3D graphics via rgl (though I guess in that case you'd use a python OpenGL library).

See:

http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/
Google's R Style Guide may be helpful:

http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/google-r-s...
That's not a joke but a cleverly disguised marketing message. They're emphasizing scalability, reliability, security, dependability and other feel-good "ities" while reframing their atrocious usability as a power option for experts.

Yyyyyyyyeah, SAP just discovered web memes as a source of Revenue 2.0.
At 100k, paypal an keep all the penny donations, imo. Up to ~7% is acceptable.
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Maybe, for the first few years, but really, when you think about it - isn't Dilbert just a loser? He never improves his lot, he either has no desire to, or no ability to. If no desire to, he is a loser. If no ability to, he is under the mistaken impression he is far smarter and more capable then he is, which means he is also a deluded loser.

(and yes, I know its a cartoon !).

But it does bug me a bit - instead of people feeling sorry for themselves (as the cartoon seems to help people who are coping with grey corporate existence) why not encourage people to change their environment (either bit by bit, or just improving yourself, starting something, finding something, anything).

Dilbert is a loser, feel sorry for him but don't relate to him or else become him.
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Guessing before you know the answer creates suspense: a cognitive receptacle for the answer + emotional engagement. When the answer comes along, you grab it, like an enzyme grabs one of its raw materials, because it fits. And it's a relief.

When studying at uni, I took a past exam paper under exam conditions, before doing any study: it wonderfully concentrated the mind on what I needed to learn. (I got the top mark, with a big gap to the next person).

When teaching at uni, I presented a puzzle at the start of the class, that didn't make sense until the material in that lecture had been heard. The entire class came up to me at the end to check what the answer was.
My mom is still kicking herself for not buying Apple when it was trading for $2 (~'97). I knew as soon as Steve Job's stepped in things could only get better.

It's the same feeling you get when you forget to buy the lottery ticket the day they call your number.
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I guess it's driven by `sociopaths', to use the terminology of another recent essay.
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I bet you good money you wont forget the company or its product for the next few years though, and every time you see a similar product you can't help but compare them.

It was a friken cold call and it worked. You went through the trouble to blog about it. The salesguy has the wisdom to seek you as an influential web persona, and if he "failed" with you today it doesn't mean it's the end of his campaign, specially if he has a well-researched prospect list.

Instead of being cranky at him, if you had a shred of business sense you would have talked with the guy and possibly "flipped" him to promote your ventures and services; you can see he is already working at a very detailed nano-level; most software promoters go straight after big fish, write long boring articles and waste good money advertising with shell "industry" websites that are nothing more than a press-release dump; instead of harnessing visible personalities to be their word of mouth. BUUUUUT, you're designer, move along, select message and click "trash".

Business is give and take, rub my back I rub yours. You could have asked for a promotion offer, exchange contact details, added him on Skype/LinkedIn/Facebook, and got yourself a reseller deal with his firm and possibly a lead-generation fee for his own sales/marketing services you share with your network.

Annoying sales guy 1

Annoyed web socialite 0.
I hadn't looked at it that way, but my cloud section editor assured me it was very funny to other cloud guys. shrugs, goes back to programming
I wouldn't like strippers at a conference either, no question. I haven't really experienced above average social incompetence around women in IT, but as I said elsewhere, there tend to be not many women around to act incompetent with.

Of course I would like to have more female coworkers. I just don't think that go go dancers in Taiwan are the root cause for not many women being in IT.
most of my issues with r can be traced back to the nonintuitive (for me) data structures. i found http://www.amazon.com/Data-Manipulation-R-Use/dp/0387747303 to be the most concise guide for how to manipulate common data structures.
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Meh. It's Just Data.
I take it that you don't ship to the rest of the world?
Personally I love Faber Finds for their dynamically generated covers http://www.faber.co.uk/faberfinds/
Lua-Coat (Yet Another Lua Object-Oriented Model)
Interesting concept, but a bit short on details. Anyone know a good place to read more about this kind of thing?
You mean a linked list with events at similar times grouped at each node?
Using the content of music for search
> That you're stuck in their unjustifiably-oddball bytecode-interpreter sandbox (no JIT!)

It's pretty evident if you think about it: they wanted something open source under a liberal license (Apache/BSD rather than GPL), and so did not want to touch Sun's Java implementation. Therefore, they did their own thing, which is a much solution than hassling with Sun about licensing. I suspect we'll see performance improvements with time; it's not as if Google doesn't have the resources to create a JIT if/when they want.
Can you hook this into Twitter/Gravatar/etc and have your profile picture changed several times a day?
There's a culture in the gaming community that despises what DRM has done to the industry, myself included. By releasing World of Goo without DRM purposefully, 2DBoy sought respect from this niche. By selling it at a "pay what you want" rate, they are saying "I respect what you think, please compensate what you will. I already know you can get it for free. Maybe you just can't afford our 20 dollar price point.".

And they have thus earned this niche's respect and attention, and more importantly, their money. That's quite difficult to earn from an ordinarily pirating gamer.
This is needlessly hostile. It's like you're assuming everyone should want the same things as you. Not everyone cares about being good at business.

The author was just trying to understand a reaction he had to something that happened to him. I didn't get the impression he was "cranky" at all.
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No offense, but the same can be said of Dojo, Prototype, Mootools, etc.

They all are rock solid cross-browser JS toolkits.
Why I think that IDEA going open source is not a good sign
While I was lukewarm about the actual tones generated, the Wolfram Tones app actually has pretty high production values.

http://tones.wolfram.com/generate/

Try downloading one of the tones and clicking "not sure" for the cell phone model. You get a popup with pictures of every model. Clicking the model fills the form.

That must have been a fair bit of a pain to find or curate the data for so many different cell phones. Might be available online, but it's the kind of one off thing that could take you two solid days to get the list of manufacturers, get their full cellphone lists (not just current models!), scrape & organize all the images, and then add the form functionality.

Not bad at all. I wonder how many people are actually using it though.
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The GPL increases your freedoms by forcing people to give back, for free, the work they've done on top of GPL'd work they in turn received for free. With software as a service, this breaks down completely, because the derived work is never actually distributed.

The GPLv3 explicitly tries to deal with software as a service, but it's definitely more problematic since it's not as solidly grounded in copyright law as v2 is, it's harder to detect breaches of it, harder to prove breaches, and harder for the people in the justice system to understand it.
Net neutrality pitting Web giants against state AGs, mayors
I'd like the people that paid 1 cent and also said that's all they could afford at the time on the survey to say that to one of the WoG developers with a straight face.

It's amazing they can't afford to pay even $5 for the game, but they have hours and hours of free time to play it.
It's hostility but not "needless":

1) The blogger is a "freelancer", by his own admission, and someone out there rightfully thought the man's services where available to the market and wanted to establish a business relationship. I guess the blogger is not a businessman.

But wait ..

2) The blogger goes to write an article about how to market your products and services.
Virtual Currency Monetization- A source of revenue for Application developers
Virtual economy is a way to generate income by monetizing your web traffic. It can be thought of as the real economy with the difference in the purpose of its utilization. Virtual economy is mainly used for recreational activities as virtual worlds are solely for entertainment activities whereas the real economy is generally used for fulfilling the needs of life.
Therefore, Virtual Economy can be best defined as a financial system implemented in a virtual world usually for gaming purposes just as the real economy of the real world.
That sounds about right, yes.
I absolutely agree !!
I hate C++ too, but as you said , there is no real alternative for it. Mixing C and python is a good idea ,but real world applications in my area (computer vision) use C++ widely ...
Unfortunately it has been decided (in the rest of the comments) that we're not allowed to do anything about, or even comment on, any of these problems, even if done by Western companies in foreign lands, because to do so would be cultural imperialism.
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Except that we are talking document management here, not edible shoelaces. Or anything that requires "manufacturing" in the made-in-a-factory sense of the word.

A fake ad survey for a document management system from someone who "works in the electronic Document Management and Records Management industry" is shouting out loud, "I'm too scared to actually sit and code this thing because it's hard and I might take too long to do it or completely fail to do it."

And I don't know why people like throwing money away. With $100, I'd rather buy 5 months of Linode server time than 12 email addresses. When the best entrepreneurs are saying be cheap, I think we ought to listen and be cheap. And with 2 weeks of time, I'd rather sit and code the most basic functionality of my app and show it to people I know who might need it.
To write a text editor today is very different that inventing the first VIsual editor that is a major step forward, or Emacs that was a similar impressive step forward at the time.
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Conclusion: If you want to search for google voice messages, you will have to use Bing.
I was afraid to use the phone for fear of breaking it. You could hear the plastic crunching everytime you typed on the keyboard.

O/T: I'd like a concise term for this "author switches from 'I' to 'you' and ends up suggesting the reader's involvement where there couldn't have been any. (This reader couldn't hear the author's phone crunching).

It's like the reverse of the "royal we". Maybe the "common you" (meaning: I).

Hopefully after this drawing of attention to it, you will see and hear it everywhere and you, er, I can promptly forget about it.
They're so proud of shipping a Mozilla browser, but how the fuck are they going to integrate that with Qt?

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2008/08/nokia-helps-...

Says that they did the easy thing, mostly, and wrote a Qt backend for Cairo.

It also states that Firefox/Qt was usable over a year ago, but needed some more work on stability before it would be ready.

I don't see it as being a major obstacle to them at this point...
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I know this is absolutely irrational, possibly to the same extent as it is irrational to feel weird about a 5 piston engine, but I really can't help myself, I find three an 'odd' number of cores to have in a CPU.

Two, I'm fine with, four and eight are obviously better, but three ? It doesn't feel quite right.

Of course there probably is absolutely no sound technical reason for that.
This is a concept I discovered independently recently, terming it "relational data modelling" since that is the more general concept at work; I'm starting to use it to great effect in my own code to simplify all aspects of the program.
The approach they outline is nothing new. It's how I developed mathematical proficiency 20 years ago, following the advice in Mistakes and how to find them before the teacher does.

http://books.google.com/books?id=Z4-JbH0Cf0IC&dq=misteak...
They might be not from the US?
I wonder which machine learning algorithms they are using. It looks interesting for Reinforcement Learning or ANNs.
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but they have hours and hours of free time to play it.

On their $2,000 computer, no doubt.
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I think the money vs happiness equation is pretty logarithmic. Going from $8000 per year to $16000 is about the same increase in quality of life as $80000 to $160000.
But, damn, I'd Love This Product Even If I Weren't A Stealth Marketer

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/43456
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If all webOS applications are coded in JavaScript (so I've heard; didn't look into it too much), the VM overhead could well be dragging things down. Even V8 is ten times as slow as Java or C#, and v8 isn't even available for ARM.
Scanning a public domain work doesn't give you copyright over it. See Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp.
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I've the same feeling, though in a rational way it's completely possible, feasible and w/o backsides (IMO). But feels... weird...
When I got my certificate in geographic information systems (GIS), it was an 8 week long intensive program where I spent 36 to 40 hours a week in class and up to 20 more studying. GIS is a 2/3s male field and my classes were all about 2/3s male. The last week of school, it dawned on me that the majority of women in my classes occupied the last two rows of seats. There were a few women who sat various places. I was the only woman who consistently sat in the front row. I also was one of only a few women to attend the graduation party. The few other women left by about midnight. I stayed until about 4am. I was one of the last people to leave. I've had people (usually women) make horrified remarks about what a terrible (ie "immoral" -- good girls don't stay at parties surrounded by male colleagues until 4am) and dangerous thing it was I did to attend the graduation party.

I really have no way of knowing what lap-dancers at a hacking event might have to do with sexism and discouraging the participation of women. But it's clear to me that there are still very real social barriers to the full inclusion of women in technical fields.
What weird writing:

Blurr is four times less cheap than the comparable rotating disk appliance from Teradata. But then it is an astonishing eight times less slow.
I paid less than $5. It was that or not have the game.

I'd be more than happy to say thank you in person to one of the devs.

2DBoy offer[ed] World of Goo to the world for whatever price people want[ed] to pay for it so I didn't pay what I thought it was worth.

The game kept me occupied for one evening, quite a long evening, it was fun. I did skip one level though.
Alright, I guess I'm just lucky to be in Finland then.
I would add:

Programming Collective Intelligence (O'reilly)
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529321

http://ianma.wordpress.com/2009/07/19/machine-learning-for-b...

Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming in Java
http://www.markwatson.com/opencontent/
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Someone noted that there were 2 devs plus a few hires for porting. That versus the millions of USD spent on blockbuster games ... $20 might be high compared to the production costs?

Incidentally your $50 games are usually £50 GBP here.
Ah, thanks. Checking the links I posted:

iPhone sales go from $1.84B per year to $2.3B per quarter. Still pretty good.

(EDIT: rather bizarrely, that's precisely a five-fold increase.)
What is so broken about email? (apart from spam)
Which theme to go with in cloud computing?
I've used EC2/AWS and google AppEngien (java) for sometime. Using amazon is great, fixable, configurable and pretty stable (IaaS). AppEngine is good two, but comes with extra services (PaaS): such as shared login service (user service), image service, law level infrastructure management: you don't care about operating system configuration, database clustering, snapshot and backup etc. You can achieve some of these with SDB in amazon solution, however, you still need to worry about number of instances up, and to configure / install and prepare your instance.

In Google, they limit you to the technology you should use, and they will for sure remove a lot of the library such as IO or at least limit it's scope which result in great constraints. Interacting with the database is another challenge: in google it limits you to bigtable or you should remotely use database in the cloud such as interacting with amazon SDB. Google: they don't have SLA, or do they? How can i as a business relay on their service? I'm just thinking loudly, any ideas guys? Any other interesting cloud vendor? And why?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=871111

Is there a way to archive geocities pages like this one? And are there any other sites on this topic?
"Science and the taboo of psi" Google Tech Talk
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People living in the US really should realise that there is a world outside of the US.
Facebook may be the way of communication for american youths, but it is not that entrenched in other countries.
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Your company is growing 100% year over year. It's profitable and throwing off cash. Why not wait another year and let revenues double again, which will make the company six times more valuable (assuming 3x revenue valuation, a reasonable ballpark for a growing software company).

Unless I misunderstand the situation in some basic way, there is a math error in the above. (Of course, even if there is indeed a math error above, that does not make the whole blog entry worthless.)

First let me restate what I take the above unambiguously to says:
it says that if the company continues to grow 100% year over year, valuation a year from now == 6 times valuation today.

My math: valuation a year from now == 3 times revenue a year from now == 3 times (2 times revenue today) == 2 times (3 times revenue today) == 2 times valuation today.

Am I missing something?
I do not see why it is a good idea to lose an income source numbered in the thousands based on the opinion of one user.
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re 8), couldn't you sort by bookmark folder, URL then by title?
Ultimately Email is a standard communication form.

As popular as Facebook and Twitter (et al) are they are technically proprietary.

Email isn't dying simply because there is, as yet, no successor.
> as I started corresponding more in the "real world," email took hold as the most important tool I have.

Same.

The one major benefit (I found) of email is that the other person has no way of finding out when / if your online.
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Page titles are most important in SERPs.
"Programming Collective Intelligence" is very short on theory. It's good for getting your feet wet and for getting over your fear of something new and difficult, but otherwise without proper comprehension of the phenomenons involved in those algorithms, you're not going to get very far.
Not true, it shows favicons too in the default which makes the HN bit superfluous IMO. Also if you want listings by domain then choose the "date and site" view. Simples.