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This is the point of all the status updates, link sharing etc - it's stuff to talk about. You wouldn't send a link to something you thought is cool to all your friends, but posting it on your wall is Ok because you are not interrupting them and they can easily ignore it.
I think all jobs require problem solving to some degree just that some jobs are easier than others and others while not necessarily easy are sufficiently well defined to enable a worker to develop expertise in that area. And with expertise in a field problems are often solved intuitively without going through all the "problem solving mechanics".

Getting to this point where problems can be solved intuitively can sometimes take years of study and practice. We can look at this as an investment. A person invests time and energy in wiring his or her brain to solve a particular set of problems and after achieving this goal the person is left with little desire to repeat the process for another problem domain. A doctor may apply problem solving skills to diagnose and treat a rare disease but may not be able muster the effort required to learn photoshop. It's not due to a lack of problem solving abilities but more of a desire to step not out of their problem solving comfort zone.
1. Clear goal - If I don't know what the website does from the first look at the home page, I close that tab and move on with my life.

2. Clear feature set - Just a basic overview. But once I see the goal and it matches up with what I need, I look for features.

3. Conciseness - As little text as possible while still conveying a point. This is key. Images are good as well, but taken in moderation.

4. Easy to find demo/trial/signup button - Seriously? I don't understand how websites get this wrong. If you want me using it, flaunt it!
1. Ease of use

2. Accessibility of information (no one wants to click 8 times to find what they're looking for)

3. The mood the design creates (colour / spacing / layout / font)

4. Uniqueness
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Am I the only one who smirked when he saw Ruby code for Twitter? Sorry, just fits a stereotype ;)
Yes. For a silly example, one cloud and another cloud do not make two clouds, but one bigger one.

But more philosophical, it's the question of `oneness' that problematic. How can you define objects? All edges are arbitrary and if you look close enough they even blur.

(Of all the numbers the `natural' numbers are the most unnatural. Though they do describe some features of nature quite well, most scientiest would agree that e.g. complex numbers and vector fields are much more closely aligned to nature.)

Leopold Kronecker thought, "God created the integers; all the rest is the work of Man." Today we now better. The integers are no exception.

(Anyway, in practice every mathematician behaves like a Platonist no matter what his philosophical viewpoints are.)
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Neat, organized, simple, clear, understandable, scoped, engaging.

-- Neat and organized.

Messy and chaotic looking websites turn me off. Everyone has their idea of "style" but if it feels like I have to make effort to digest any kind of content, its a huge turn off. Being organized and tidy solves this problem more times than not.

-- Simple, Clear and Understandable.

Language is beautiful. Conveying concepts whether in words, pictures, video, etc, is hard. Websites that don't give a crap about the quality of their message turn me off, if they don't care, why should I?

-- Scoped.

I have mentioned how important scoping is in a couple of "review my website" posts. It has to do with how organization is displayed and sorted within your website. A nice example of proper scoping is stack overflow, and it takes tons of work. Stackoverflow has a "global" page where questions from all categories are sorted by votes, time, and responses. Drilling down into a specific tag or category narrows the scope of the information you see. All the filters and sorting work on a unified interface but only the scope changes. Lots of websites have scoping problems. Why are weirdo arbitrary global links/functions contained on a side navigation when I am in a particular subset of the site/data?

Headers, footers, left/right panels can all be designed to reflect proper scope. Maybe you want global stuff present everywhere. Well make the container clearly and consistently represent a global interface. Don't use things for both just for the hell of it.

-- Engaging.

Hard to explain possibly, but I like to think that a website has its doors open and it looks like people are actively enjoying themselves inside. You would not paint your local ice cream shop entirely black, board up all the windows, close the door, and expect people to feel welcomed.

I personally like minimalistic design, but that does not mean I don't use and like sites like http://wufoo.com

Ok thats all!
Anything that puts an employer out of the "dull, generic listing on Monster" park is great by me. Sometimes they try too hard but showing a little bit of spirit can be a good sign.
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What else would you write it in (besides python)?
I worked for a small company in Europe selling software into much larger companies. I am pleased to say that over four years, there were only a couple of times when I think we lost a sale because of corrupt tactics by a competitor and even then, I can't be sure. Certainly, we sold a fair amount of software and didn't have to bribe anyone. These were small deal sizes though, less than ~$50k and I think corruption probably gets more prevalent with larger deals. Certainly I have seen much more questionable behavior in other businesses such as consulting and outsourcing which is why I wouldn't want to spend my days selling those kinds of services.
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Well all my school life I have had some great English/Hindi literature teachers. I may be safe in saying that I have learned problem solving from them. They were not of the types which tell you to learn the poem or prose by heart.Give prepared notes on certain lines and then tell you to rote learn them.They told us how to get to heart of a story.On of my most experienced teacher(our batch was her last,she retired at the age of 60 I think),told us that just reading a story is a disgrace in itself to the author [when you are in a Literature class].Every story was a part of his/her life when he/she wrote it.Every poem was a real emotion when it was laid out on paper.She used to throw random books at us (on me sometime literally), told us to "understand" them. Then we had this huge discussion over the plot and how this can be interpreted or how that is misinterpreted by most people.Those were one of the best days of my school life.

Now this may seem not a particular type of "problem solving" to some people. But it is when you take it seriously.You get the same sensation when you make a perfect connection between an event in the authors life and how he interpreted it in his story,that you get when you solve a mathematical problem.Because these two have essentially the same procedure.1)Finding the roots of the problem ,2)Understanding the roots of the problem,3)Interpreting the roots of the problem,4)Using those to solve the problem. Perhaps that's why one of my Maths professor used to say "Look at the problem,its screaming its solution to you".
its kerning not tracking, and its only off in a few minor places (for the same reason the midline is off in H E), in those paragraphs I can find around the same mistakes from both the renders around the kerning (both make pretty identical errors)

I use osx every day, I am very used to it, I just prefer ubuntus rendering by quite a long way
This was a fun amusement during my evening which was otherwise being spent feeling blue about the current state of "enterprise" software. @[[friend]] is a nice touch -- it made me check who is following me for the first time in a few months.
1. Intuitiveness of design

2. Simplicity

3. TOS/Privacy concerns; Can I delete my account and data with it? Who controls it? Who gets to look at it?

4. Use of open space in design of pages

5. Speed

6. Novelty factor

7. Connectivity with OpenID/Google account

8. Types of ads running on it

9. Customer service in case of problems; response time and vibe from site owners

10. Active development, new features, public API with decent documentation, and a good community around it

11. Does it fill a need that I have adequately/better than competitors?
You started arguing about properties of the universe.
I am often outclassed by people decades older than me and less caught up on social networking trends, Web x.0 fads and whatnot, but with more technical depth of knowledge in the fields that do fundamentally affect me. It isn't that old age makes an old person irrelevant - it is very much that old age isn't an excuse to not be curious and to not /keep learning/.

Have we truly forgotten about one of the oldest Aesops? The tortoise beat the rabbit out of sheer, bloody-minded perseverance - and even in an era where one's mental agility and flexibility is heavily hyped, there is still very, very large demand for actual /mastery/.
It probably makes sense for the government, or any organization for that matter, to regulate the behavior of other organizations it is responsible to bailout if their behavior gets out of control.
1. Lack of visual clutter; looking at something that is simple and does not tax my concentration makes me feel relaxed, and thus makes me want to visit the website again.

2. Any kind of news about the website that does not seem like a press release.

3. Advertising that is relevant to me, or none at all; monetisation is bad (teeth whiteners, Acai berries, etc.), while relevance is good (local restaurant informing me of today's lunch special).

4. A "Contact Us" page that has multiple methods of contact, instead of just a submission form that might go who-knows-where.
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Same idea, with zero maintenance
> How is 4 different from 68575999143494039 77654744967172758 17990411426461294 73261271699761332 96980951450542789 80888450430107555 07864648023040197 95402754670660318 614966266413770127 ? (I need to know what the law is before I can try to avoid breaking it.)

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I just meant that the Ruby and Twitter in the same sentence provoke certain stereotypical images in my head.

What would I write this in? I wouldn't write this.

Still, well done to the guy. It's good code.
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Money spent for corruption was tax deductable in Germany until a few years ago. Though only when you used it on a non-German or outside Germany or so. The reason ran along the lines of `Everyone else is doing it, so we just level the playing field for German companies.' I am glad this hypocrisy ended.
It's weird - I find it a lot easier to understand theory when I'm presented with an opportunity to use said theory. Linar algebra isn't terribly hard to get started on, and seeing it used will reinforce your understanding.
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This is a problem.

1.

You have to put one person in charge of an app or project so that she takes care of maintenance. But putting one person in charge - as the article says - "gives executives no incentive to say their product line is on the decline and the technology used by a rival group will be the next big trend."

2.

But if you don't put one person in charge, the problem of getting good ideas improve. But it raises another problem: maintenance suffers. No one takes the responsibility of maintenance.

Its a catch-22. I think there has to be a mix of both the models: 1. Hierarchy for accountability. 2. Councils for idea generation. 3. And a mechanism that both models work well together.
Do you want your doctor to look at your symptoms and start leafing through reference books, or looking on Google to decide what you have? It doesn't matter how clever you are, or how good at reasoning, you have to have basic knowledge to use as the base.

AI researchers came to this conclusion a long time ago. Reasoning or experience is not enough - you must have codified, accessable knowledge on which to work.

Not knowing basic arithmetic cripples you when you need to work on the next stage. Not knowing that 7*8 is 56 means you can't work out the expansion of (x+1)^8. Working simple cases like that makes it clear what's happening when you differentiate, and gives insight that you can't obtain without doing the work.

The maxim from medicine is "See one, do one, teach one." The middle step is crucial. If you get the computer to do everything, you never gain the experience, and rarely have the insights.

And, personally, I can interpolate polynomials. It's an interesting example, because recently it allowed us to implement a new feature in our system. No one else to work out how to do it, and were amazed when I did.

In your terms, I can make fire in a world where most people can't. It just earned us real money.
Actually it's pretty easy. It also follows from the basics of long division, which underpins how CRC algorithms work.
The comment is quite similar to the idea of "mappers and packers:"
http://the-programmers-stone.com/the-original-talks/day-1-th...

This theory goes that some people (mappers) create a mental map of how the world works, and any new knowledge has to be integrated into the map - or if it doesn't fit, the entire map has to be rearranged. Packers just store little packets of knowledge for each situation, without connecting them together.

The mappers therefore can do problem solving by connecting the different parts of their map when they come across something they haven't seen before, whereas packers are will try and apply one of their existing knowledge packets to a new situation, and if none of them fit they are lost.

I think the analogy works, certainly some people I've helped with using their computer don't seem to be able to apply knowledge learned in one program to another one, and need to learn everything by rote instead of figuring it out as they go. So either they don't have enough experience yet to build a meta map/model that would let them figure it out on their own, or they don't even try to.
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Good point, I think I'll automate my twittering by converting my rss feed to tweets.
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hi, just for the record: I know a lot of PHBs that do not even know Werner Vogels and would not even start contemplating hiring him seeing expected salary figures. One must never forget, that the common misconception that our business does not value experience comes from the fact that most software systems just have to be "good enough"--therefore, the old "worse is better" approach applies here, too. Consequently, the types of PHBs I have in mind would gladly hire the 25 year old for their euphemism software (product|system|whatever).
It'd be a little easier to do this by requesting followers/ids (http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-follow... ) if you have over 100 followers. That'll give you 5,000 id's at a shot and then you can just do a simple diff of id's.

Yes, you'd have to then request their profile info so {1:6, other:0.5*dozen}.
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For a Theory of Computation class I had as a part of the homework to write a program that writes itself in one programming language. It is amazing that such programs exists that can switch languages and can go through several methamorphoses
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... it is very much that old age isn't an excuse to not be curious and to not /keep learning/.

My thoughts exactly. I've worked with older people who lost the curiosity to keep learning about new developments in their field many years ago, and I've worked with older people who have retained their curiosity. I find in a functioning workplace, the former are often relegated to what is jokingly referred to at my current workplace as "special projects", which is code for "soon to be shown the door", the latter are very highly valued.
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Simplicity needs to looked at from a customer point of view. "Will this code make it simpler for the customer?" should be THE primary consideration.
If we consider two equally valid choices (back-end code for example that is not exposed to customers) then the code that is easiest to maintain (or the code that is very easy to follow) is simplest. Think of the person maintaining your code as your customer.
Too many people get suckered into writing "fancy" code, "elegant" code, "design pattern" code, what not. In my experience this practice almost always led to more issues than helped in any measurable way.
Higher health insurance premiums are probably to blame for a good part of the desire firms have to hire younger people.

A simple improvement to skyrocketing health care costs would be to eliminate employer provided plans and let everyone buy a plan on the open market.
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One thing that comes to mind regarding wisdom of the elders is certainly dealing with life itself. Of course there is a lot of factual information easily retrievable using the internet, but this is only one side of the coin. What about non-factual, personal information? What about emotions? What about life and death?

These are points where the wisdom of every "old" person becomes apparent--something we seldomly realize before hitting the age where suddenly people start dying, some friends parent, your own grandparents, etc. One cannot find solace in Wikipedia here, and most often these events present life-changing turning points, where one realizes that putting in the extra hours is probably not worth it all, smoking actually kills people, and whatever caused the death of those near to you.

Consequently, the elders the article deals with might not know how to do that stuff or use the internet, i.e., are less tech-savvy. But every single one of them most certainly is more life-savvy, which comes in handy, too.
And I've read claims that with type annotations you can get bytecode on-par or close to that of pure Java.