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Do you really think companies will have to be more legitimate? In what ways have "Hollywood accounting" or "music biz accounting" (by which I mean the practices which lead to creative people being f*cked over by movie/record companies and earning next to nothing on their intellectual property in stark contrast to the companies) changed in the internet age?
The big companies are still maintaining dominance. "1000 true fans" doesn't work for probably about 99 % of artists - it's a make-believe myth perpetuated by the people who want to believe in the power of the internet. Sure, it changed the music biz, but creative people didn't (in general, exceptions prove the rule) feel much difference.
There is still no way to adequately pay creative people for what their IP is worth (and adequately pay "support staff" for what they're worth), not in writing, not in music, not in movies.
> If given a programming problem, don't stand/sit quietly while you work out the solution. Give the interviewer some insight to your thought processes.

I think most of us are much more naturally going to sit and quietly do our work, as we have done all our lives, unless you're asking us to talk you through what we're doing.
Doesn't that hugely depend on his salary?
Well written, but it would be nice if there were some numbers to backup the claim that this would help scaling in a significant way.
the forgot this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Europe.svg
They are part of society and it's worthwhile to them. What they do with their wealth is up to them as indeed it is for you. Who knows what is necessarily good for 'society'? Politicians are constantly telling us what's good for society and they get it wrong most of the time IMHO.
I certainly hope so - every time I hear that spirit has gotten stuck I feel so sad. Its illogical, but the way they soldier on is so inspiring.
Which showed that there are probably irrational heuristics involved in every decision. However, it doesn't show that irrational heuristics are important, or even dominant, in every decision.

On the Wikipedia page for 'Anchoring', there is an example about thinking of a number and subsequently bidding (experiment by Ariely). What happens when you tell people with a high number that they are likely to make a relatively high bid, so they should try to make a relatively low bid? Do they make 'normal' bids or extremely low bids?

This shows that saying people can't rid their decisions of that influence is an overstatement. When you are consciously aware of the heuristics and the decision is taken over a period of time, you can downplay them.
What? This doesn't clarify anything. All it says is, "we didn't like some people."

For an entity that purports to be such a healthy entity/community, Craigslist sure doesn't seem to be a very friendly internet citizen.
I disagree with this. If you have a GUI, sure, you have fun buttons to click. But if you don't understand what those buttons actually do, you will mess things up if you click them without thinking. The solution to this is to read the documentation and understand what you are doing.

If you don't have a GUI, then you will have to read the manual to find out what to do.

The end result is the same; you have to read the manual.

(Also, you can have discoverable interfaces without graphics. Open a file in Emacs and type M-x describe-mode. From there, you have a description of the commands available, and links to follow for more details about any aspect.)
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/captchas-affect-on-conversion-rat...
So very true. The summer after I graduated I started listening to Genetics lectures by an extremely entertaining lecturer at UC Berkley. I was far more engaged with iTunes than I was in most of my classes. The same went for books. Pity I learned these lessons too late to do independent study as much as possible.
Check out http://common-lisp.net/project/clbuild/ and http://libcl.com/ , although the latter is still in its testing phase.
An academic friend of mine pitched that to me as a product idea (for me to develop; not him), but I chickened out thinking of the legal issues.

Also:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/25/mendeley-snags-2-millio...
Isn't wikimedia trying to build wikiversity? The last time I went there it was piss poor compared to wikipedia articles, but it made an attempt to read like an introductory text.
There are two opposing pistons in each cylinder. This enables the power of a 2-stroke engine, but without the horrible emissions and inefficiency normally inherent in a 2-stroke engine, and without the valvetrain complexity of a 4-stroke.
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Unless they are implanting electrodes in your pleasure centers or are affecting the GDP in a large measurable way, I'm pretty sure ethics aren't really coming into play. After all, they are providing a useful service.
I'm don't think there is a secularly celebrated version of Hannukah. If you have any references for this, please state them.

Christmas is celebrated as both a religious holiday (by large groups of people in the US and UK, which are large markets for Google) as well as a secular one.
In the US, UK, Germany and Australia at least, it's considered polite to acknowledge other's beliefs around their religious holidays.
Well what if they launched somewhere else that was exclusive? Nothing pops to the top of my head I'll admit, but I haven't thought about it very long. There seem to be three key ingredients for the initial launch: exclusive, young/technically savy, and prestigious. LinkedIn is doing fine working with business professionals, although they have the benefit of people already understanding what a social networking site is.
John Carmack on hacking Doom and Quake (.plan file from 1998)
"it's _good shit_. Get work done good. Think, hack, ship, bill for it good. 2-3 products per month good. You still have to know where things are, who is working on what, what's maintained and what's obsoleted by what. Sure. But there is absolutely no lack of libraries."

this is exactly how I feel about Ruby...
This seems to be very good from the employers point of view, but if I am to pay to use the site then I expect to be able at least filter who can see my profile to only be the people who match my profile of an acceptable place to work.

I am impressed that they have people outside the states though, that seems to indicate that the place is not just a me too copy cat.
Most fail on both counts, so beware.

Potential startup? I have no idea if it's feasible, genuinely curious though.
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Mint.com is built on Yodlee's banking-data platform.

http://www.yodlee.com/index2.shtml

You can check out Techcrunch's view on Mint's use of Yodlee's data here:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/18/mint-is-yodlees-youtube...

Personally I think that such insane attention to detail on the user-interface is admirable and he definitely deserves the sale.
NASA needs a TL;DR version of their articles.
A very successful quant did an AMA (ask me anything) on Reddit a while back. There's a lot of content there, but totally worth the read. If I remember right his background was a masters in math from MIT.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/991kc/my_2009_adjusted...
For those who are curious:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizuho_Securities

http://www.physorg.com/news8901.html

But I thought exchanges could retroactively cancel trades in some cases?
Not a very serious study. If he allowed forms to be processed even if captcha failed, he could of known how many of the failures were indeed legit clients. This way, it might of just been bots and the 2-3% change just a normal deviation.
The point is that the windows/toolbars/icons/tooltips/buttons/mouse/etc. GUI is an interface you can learn and apply everywhere with minimal inspection required to get up and started using an unfamiliar GUI, whereas textual interfaces take much more investment in time to learn and effort to inspect.
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I know! I read the first few sentences and they mentioned this amazing discovery, but it forced me to scan down about half way through the article to actually find out what it was..
A collection of raw data is full of systematic errors, accidental mistakes, misleading black swans, and false trails (some of which get followed for years before they finally turn out to be false). I've seen several talented, well-trained, and highly experienced scientists fool themselves for decades with their own raw data.

I've done a lot of data cleaning over the years, some of it geological. Yeah, there are usually some problems. But I've never had one that I couldn't resolve. Your post implicitly assumes that only one or the other can be published. Not true. As a condition of receiving grant money, document and publish ALL raw data and any cleaned data, in addition. The interwebs still has a few bits left to hold the extra.
On the first point, you have to remember that the larger a company grows, the more impersonal it becomes. Interviewing in most large companies is usually seen as a chore, the outcome of which does not have a huge impact on the interviewer. This is different in a startup, where hiring someone may significantly impact your own work. Of course, if the interview is conducted as though it is a chore, then it just sucks and you have to start thinking about how badly you need the job.

On questions, you can always ask about -

* the team you'll be joining

* if it's a small company / startup ask about their business and competition. An engineer who shows that he understands how his work fits into the larger picture is far more valuable than one who is happy to just write code.

* learning opportunities - large company or small, dig into what it is you can take away from the job

Of course, there's no point in making it a formality. What would you like to know about something you might be doing for the next few years of your life?
Would like to join...
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Google.com have new fade in effect?
Is anyone else getting the same fade in effect
on http://www.google.com/?

When I load the page i only get the search field and buttons. When I move the mouse around all the other info fades in.
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Much like a moment from a Baxter(?) novel I found very stirring. It describes a small world, completely terraformed except for a domed patch of gray sand and vacuum. The dome was built to preserve an ancient spacecraft named Eagle and the footprints of its crew.
Mogrify is easier.

But you are comparing someone that knows bash scripting to someone that apparently can't write a script at all.

If there were a Windows program that added an item to the windows explorer context menu 'Mogrify' that would be easier than typing mogrify.

One thing I can do with file system explorer windows is leave a couple of them open and then switch from one to the other or copy and paste between them. You don't get all of that with cd and cp. There are some CLI tools that improve the standard situation with bash or whatever but you don't get all of the advantages of the GUI.

The advantage of GUI config dialogs is that they provide immediate feedback and prevent the user from inputing invalid configuration or having to look up config options. Those things waste time, even for experienced users.
As I understand it Julliard's got more of a classical emphasis, whereas Berklee's likely a better choice for someone aiming to be involved with rock, jazz, etc.
>> Q. Was Mint profitable at the time of sale?

>> A. We do not comment on revenues.

Odd, surely a simple yes/no isn't giving too much away.
This looks interesting. The one thing that bothers me is the language on the site. Sounds like they are copying the EC style of being condescending to applicants. Also, they could just say "we expect you to work out of your home" as opposed to "we are reluctant to finance office space". Sounds like a real European alternative, though they want a lot of equity. I wonder how it will evolve. Still doesn't beat Springboard, but the application is earlier. Let's see how this evolves. More seed funding in Europe can't be bad.
+1 for that.

I'm not in the habit of shouting out what's going through my mind as I'm working.
"The company also noted that one of its apps, 'Farmville', is more popular than its major rival in the social-networking world – Twitter."

Say what? How on earth is a game a competitor to Twitter?
What bothers me most is when a candidate gives off a "this is below me vibe". I tend to start with quick, easy questions and work toward much more difficult ones. Candidates often act as if answering these easier questions is below them... And then choke on the hard questions.

To me, acting haughty is a good indication that you're going to be a pain to work with. You're going to make a fuss when asked to do easy work, rather than just getting it done and moving on to the more interesting things.

That's my pet peeve and the pet peeve of several others I know, so apparently it's fairly common.
It would make more sense if it was a wiki, so people could link to detailed descriptions/implementations of the algorithms listed. The invitation to email those to the author (at the bottom of the page) is not exactly encouraging.
Windshield wipers?

Seriously though, NASA is very PR savvy. Announcing the robots' lifespan as three months was probably just to make sure they would overdeliver.

Still an awesome accomplishment.
The "its" in "its major rival" is facebook not farmville. They are saying that even some non-central and fully disposable part of facebook has more users than twitter.
Very verbose and longwinded article. Summary: Rover gets stuck straddling a crater. Wheels sping uncovering sulfates. Sulfates are associated with volcanic steam vents.
Wonder how things will work out for him in Intuit's bureaucratic culture -- kinda surprised how much he publicly belittled their bureaucracy (as deserved as the criticism was).
Performed maybe. The people making it really know their craft.

Pop is hard.

(I still don't like it.)
This could also mean that there is neither an opera named "common lisp", nor a comedy group, nor a gemstone fo the same name ... and well perl's fame is waning or fewer people misspell pearl.
These links are informative as the article itself without knowing Ross McKitrick's past form is quite persuasive. However on reflection it does seem extremely unlikely that the 20th century climate record was based on the cores of just 10 trees.
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500$/week just to see some 900 CVs is a highly offensive price. He should have started low and increased the price gradually.
"...and 1.4 million photos are uploaded a second."

I hope that's not true. ;)
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I imagine it's frightening to a C# programmer

C# programmers everywhere are heartened by your condescension. Not. Thinking of it as a pair is not going to help you understand it.

from TFA:

The syntactic trick is how the API uses the name of the lambda’s parameter as the name of the HTML attribute

If your function is passed a function of one parameter, then it is a bit of a hack to vary behaviour based on the name of that parameter. But I'm OK with it, since it works quite well.
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IP was never designed for real time reliability. If they want a packet switched phone network, fine. But a new protocol, not IP.

A protocol where you request a channel and are guaranteed a certain bandwidth. A protocol where each packet takes the same route, so jitter is minimized.

A protocol where the real time nature of packets is known, so routers can intelligently decide which packets to send first, and which not to bother delivering at all.
This reminds me of Microsoft saying they will 'grow another Google' over the next few years (a few years ago). At the time Microsofts market cap was c.$250bn and Google's was $100bn. Now the Microsoft market cap is $264bn and Google is $186bn.
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Which is more profitable: Stock or Forex Trading?
With Forex being talked about so much, is there really a difference between it and the stock market? How do they differ, and which is better?
Manhattan does something similar - waste steam from power plants is piped through to customers who use it for hot water, heating, and AC (most likely via absorption refrigeration: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_absorption_refrigerator ).

I read once that some buildings use the steam to run backup generators in case of power failure, but I can't seem to find that source anymore - so take it with a grain, so to speak.
In 2003, Intel was saying they'd have 10ghz processors by the end of the decade.

http://www.design-reuse.com/news/4850/intel-building-blocks-...
Reuters article: http://www.reuters.com/article/technology-media-telco-SP/idU...
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Good points. But I think nobody can be genuinely interested in understanding what they don't currently understand during a job interview.
I disagree somewhat with your final statement. As long as we're talking about a creative job, it's not easy no matter what. As a scientist/researcher, you have to be every bit as creative as an artist or a musician, IMO.

This is somewhat true of engineers as well, but you can certainly get an engineering job where you don't need to exercise your creativity.
Seems like they don't tell on the website where the personal interviews and the actual camp should occur. London?

Edit: from their blog: "Microsoft Innovation Center Athens"
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The title of the video is "single-chip cloud computing". At least it's buzzword compliant.
The difference is that this 48-core chip is actual hardware, in the here and now.
Hooray stereotypes. I've never met a computer science PhD who went to star wars conventions. Most of them are very intelligent, social people who do not obsess over anything. The only thing they all have in common is that they like to climb mountains,
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Maybe it's useful for science, but it seems like the moment has past when most consumers were blocked by CPU power.

My next upgrade will be to a SSD. Making my CPU go a bit faster is pretty useless when it's usually waiting on disk/network anyway.

I'm betting on a move the other way - toward low power 'internet thin clients' like a netbook with chrome on it. That'll do most people.
This is referring to the fact that you can programmatically power off most of the cores.
Here's an announcement from a different company for a 64 core processor from 2007. http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2007/08/MIT-startup-rai...
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I'd entertain the possibility, but I'm not sure. I hardly ever access google.com directly. I mostly use Chrome, where I search from the address bar directly, and in Safari and Firefox I search using the "g %s" bookmark from the address bar. I have gmail as a thumbnail in the Chrome new tab start page, and in other browsers I type it in directly.

So, no anecdotes from me. Hopefully the Google guys have tested this themselves, and perhaps it does happen.
It is even more impressive keeping in mind that the planned duration for the mission was three months (90 sols, to be precise).
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Part of the problem there is that in some fonts there's very little difference between a "q" and a "9". So that's either "qA726F" of "9A726F". Either way, I didn't find that one very difficult, and if the others were similar, I wouldn't've expected a problem. A side point is, of course, that most CAPTCHAs of this style don't actually need to be that complicated.

That fact that you had a problem does show that this style of CAPTCHA has to be deprecated.

People are reporting that hidden fields with names that suggest they are necessary - and hence get completed by robots - are very effective, as are simple questions in natural language. Point is, currently they're not common, so spammers haven't yet had the motivation to crack them.
Dynamically scalable applications are only a small subset of the massive number of things that have fallen under the umbrella of "cloud computing". The definition cloud computing is sufficiently vague that phrases like "single chip cloud computing" don't really have a single intuitive definition.
Doesn't Google use Pagerank for crawling policy/priority?
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Didn't the decision from the representatives of the taxpayers come in partly from both regulatory capture and sheer extortion?
There's a difference between searching for a unique phrase (the document is the only exemplar, therefore it ranks #1) and searching for the best page on a breaking topic.

That said, it's not clear to me that humanity actually needs real-time search. Maybe there's some advertising value in winning the race to be #1 for "hudson plane crash" but is there really a business here?
Clojure is nice, although I didn't use it in production.
But it is Java deep underneath (so not completely homoiconic) and comparing to CL there are restrictions, albeit mild.

For some specific tasks I might have preferred it (until CL catches up with concurrency support). But in general CL gives you more freedom.
The announcement mentions vision, although I personally doubt that this would be driving the market. On the other hand, gamers still want the latest and greatest.
> Not only did Google delete the Adsense advertisements appearing on the blog, but it diverted its spider from the site as we

AFAIK, these two are not related. THe adsense and web search spiders are separate.
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