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Ask yourself what it is about Modern Warfare 2 that you like so much. Is it the violence? The community? The adrenaline? The nostalgia you've built up for the maps you play on? (These might be way out of line. I've never played MW2.)

A lot of those things you can find elsewhere, and if you don't like the work you're doing there's a good chance you can find something that lets you do what you want and still get paid.

This isn't you I'm talking to necessarily, 'cos I've got no clue what you like and what you do, but I've got in mind a friend of mine who moans about how he envies the people working for CollegeHumor and what a dream job they've got. I'm constantly telling him, "No, you'd hate it. Filming is a pain in the ass and having to be hilarious every day is probably exhausting." So-called "dream jobs" very frequently require a certain incredible effort along with their nicer aspects. If they didn't, more people would have them.
I'll probably not switch (immediately) because of inertia. I've got too many systems to admin on my other network and if anything i'll just migrate over to some hardware that I have. Afterall, I just host a blog now on Slicehost :)
I meant each idea will have uncertain value until you test it, no matter how smart you are. Of course if you, know it's a good idea, it will have value. But it will only be valuable to you. Some ideas seem more valuable than others simply because most people already have experience testing it. So that's why some or all aspects of the idea may seem ludicrous. So based on my experience, a flying genetically modified horse is not a good one because o already know genetic modification at that level will be much harder than engineering a plane.

I disagree with you about how not all ideas are iterable. One idea can iterate into another. Both a plant that makes toothbrushes and a flying horse are different from the original idea. Iteration simply means taking what doesn't work and replacing it. If the whole idea doesn't work, then you simply iterate into a new one. There really is no guideline as to what constitute the same idea after you iterate. After all, most ideas completely change after iteration right? Iteration is a process not tied to any idea, because it involves changing the idea. It is tied to the person.
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Does your college have an MIS focus? When I was in college, you'd chose a few focus areas for some of your electives. In the Business dept, they had an MIS focus which included some of the entry level CS classes, software process type stuff, and then some management-type classes from the business dept. It might be more for you.

Generally though, I'd agree. If you don't want to code, CS isn't the best fit for you.

Although in our field, it is quite unique that what your degree is in really doesn't matter. I several coworkers, who are great developers, with degrees in Political Science, History, and other completely non-tech fields.
Did you read past the first paragraph?

The linear interpolation applied is so that the tree-ring data better matches the actual temperatures that were collected. The actual temperature measurements still indicate exactly what they indicated before.

The question is whether tree ring data is a good way to measure temperature since 1400, or, what happened since about 1960 to cause the model to diverge so drastically. (Or perhaps it is neither and there is some biological factor..) These questions were both brought up as being 'of concern' in the published paper, not hidden away or covered up.

Linear interpolation is a purely deterministic process... as such, it could be easily removed from any data that had it applied (which is apparently only the tree-ring data in this case).

To compare this to massive bank fraud is nothing short of malicious. Certainly, be upset about the missing data.

But be more upset about the people who are blindly ignoring all of the data that still points to global warming and actually believe that something like this would disprove it.
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It is quite common to throw away raw data, especially a few years ago when data storage was very expensive. For example a friend of mine worked on a project which generated about 20-40 gigs of data a day (and this was back in the day when that was a lot of data), most of which was noise. They'd only keep the raw data around long enough to filter out the noise and then only store the filtered data. Any other approach would have bankrupted the project in storage costs.
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I sent an invitation to FusionGarage to do an interview on Mixergy about why the partnership fell apart.

I want to learn from the issues they faced.
I think this is an overstatement. If I say "the mass of an electron is X and this is how I did the experiment to determine X", you can repeat all the steps of the same experiment without looking at my original lab notebook.

The more dubious situation is when I say "based on my analysis of a massive quantity of data, which took my grad students a whole summer of full-time work to collect and which I won't publish here, I observe the following pattern which is evidence in favor of theory Y". But even in this case, a competing scientist with his or her own graduate students can collect data from different sources, or a different kind of data, and publish a paper saying "hey, the pattern in this other data provides evidence against theory Y".
What makes it laughable is that we are currently facing enormous unemployment, and our economy is in gigantic trouble. State and local governments are going bankrupt right and left, our federal debt is proportionally bigger than it has been in half a century, the only thing keeping our banking system afloat is massive government bailouts and the implied promise to do more of them if things get worse, we're running gigantic trade and current accounts deficits, consumers are saddled with unprecedented amounts of debt, and commercial real estate could collapse at the drop of a hat. &c. &c.

Cutting business taxes might be a reasonable idea, especially if we can target it specifically at increasing employment – we should be doing everything we can to save/create jobs – but it’s not going to get us out of this mess by itself, by a long shot. Also, we should accept that we’re going to have to pay for such measures down the road, and if they pay for themselves it is only going to be over a longer time period. Stimulus is an investment in the future benefit of full production.
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It sounds like kind of hard ball that's being played by Fusion Garage could almost certainly be overcome with some effort. Not to justify it, but it's not uncommon for people who feel like they're getting screwed to renegotiate at a time when they feel they have leverage.

My guess is that Arrington was overwhelmed with how out of control the project got. He jumped at the best opportunity to get out of the whole thing, without looking like he just flat out gave up.

Like some people do in relationships they want out of. "Oh, fine, don't want to see that movie? Well let's just break up then!"
It just might be more difficult to design and bring a successful product to market than to write articles about something that sounds like a good product.
TC has a large readership that Arrington might be using to his advantage in this situation as well.
Ok, what's going on here? This same article has been killed at least twice in the last week...

[EDIT] And now this one appears dead.
And really, having access to porn when you're out-and-about? Logistically, it doesn't seem like a high priority. Though, they do sell porn at the airport so who knows.
Absolutely , there has to be more to the story. Where is the other side of the story ?
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If I thought that by taking heroin I wouldn't be missing out on anything else in life, I'd have no problem with it. Problem is, I think life is pretty awesome.

I feel bad for people who think that life sucks. It takes a certain willingness to hunt down the flaw in everything, to ignore all the incredible pieces.
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Your code does not accomplish the required task. The goal is to return nil when there is no match, or the nth match if there is.

>>> re.search('a(x)a', 'axa').group(1)
'x'
>>> re.search('a(x)a', 'aya').group(1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

The idiomatic python for the job is:

match = re.search("`([^']*)'", caller[0])
if match:
match.group(1)
else:
None

(or some nonsense involving try/except, which would be even worse).
Maybe not much more, though. As I've warned even my own partners, it's sad, but people often change over money. The near readiness and impending launch probably got some people excited. Let this be a lesson, especially on an entrepreneurial board like this: agree on partnership terms and expectations up front, and also get it in writing.
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Yep. I too think TC isn't the most truthful media outlet. TC has a lot of power as a media outlet, and there have been a couple of incidents where I think they are abusing that power. This is just another case of that happening. Justified or not you have separate your personal feelings from your coverage, and I don't think Mike can do that.
"Up to 500 Subscribers, See Pricing for Additional"

10k-25k is an extra $130/month, and any higher is the typical "call us.."
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Mike left a comment when someone asked that same question in the post:
"of course there is more to the story. but the point is we’d gotten past all the ugly sausage making that goes into any startup and had moved to within days of launching it. An email to us saying “the economics don’t work, we have to talk” would have been a reasonable request. But telling us that we aren’t important to the project, and stating that we don’t own the intellectual property, is just bizarre."
Worked fine for me on Firefox 2.something.
I have experience with something similar.

Working with Freelancers is not a bad idea, yes you might get it at a better cost - but if your business is based on being technically better or if you are trying to solve a hard problem - then this is not the route to take.

This model is good for commodity development where the problem is well known and so are the solutions.
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Ah, you’re right. In many cases, I don’t want to return None when there’s no match, but for short scripts quickly tossed together, the extra few lines can be a bit annoying.

try: re.search("`([^']*)'", caller[0]).group(1)
except: None
Being in a coding job is one thing, enjoying writing code and building things is another. I can fully understand not wanting to be the stereotypical code monkey who sits in a dark room and outputs code. So the real question is, do you dislike the subject matter or the imagined career. If the former, then you have a problem. If the latter, you can probably escape the stereotype by founding or working at something smaller.
I think there's always more to such stories but rarely do the other parties know it. In my experience the biggest contributor to products dying is passive aggressiveness. If you're in a partnership where you don't feel you can air your grievances they'll just build up inside until you hit the last straw and everything explodes. I suspect that's what happened here.

On the upside, thanks to my Boss foolishly putting enough faith in this project to bet on it's eventual existence (and write several blog posts he's probably embarrassed by now) I'm now $100 bucks richer.
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i bet the main issue was unrealistic expectations.
Yes, but you're implying that direct reproduction of the work with the original subject is necessary. Obviously, it is not required in a variety of scientific fields. For example, research into medicine cannot re-infect a patient with a disease to re-test a vaccine to "reproduce" the experiment, that would be unethical.

If multiple lines of evidence all indicate the same thing, that is considered reproducible enough.
This and a thousand times this. If you don't want to code - you are wasting your time being a CS major.
Yeah, many ISPs are wary of newer IPs with low volume. To avoid volume problems, you usually need to be sending from a server that delivers >10,000 mails a day. Also, check your logs. Yahoo uses the following graduation when dealing with a temporary blocked mail:
[TS01] -> [TS02] -> regular deferred message. (found in your logs) Your goal is to stay at TS01.
If you're experiencing significant deliverability problems, Yahoo wants you to stop delivering to them for four hours.
(We wrote an article about this a year ago, they've since then instituted feedback loops, which we employ in our deliverability service CritSend , but they still help you demystify some of what Yahoo's expecting from your server: http://blog.deliverability.com/nicolas_toper/ )

You've recieved some really great setup advice in this post and the owocki article as well. Keep a tight monitoring on your delivery feedbacks and spam folder clicks when you can by keeping watch through the feedback loops others have listed for you here.

Feel free to contact me if you need some help going through those logs for other deliverability items, they'll tell you a lot.
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"Stimulus is an investment in the future benefit of full production."

It's sort of pointless to try to create jobs for the sake of creating jobs - especially if they all go away once stimulus stops - in which case it's just another entitlement program. It would seem to be a massive leap to assume that implementing half measures to sustain marginal businesses will "pay for themselves".

Governments at both the state level and federal level overspent relative to the size of the economy during the good years. What would be laughable is to tax further or create greater burdens on business to pay for the mistakes of governance. The massive increases in debt also do not come without risk.

From Arnold Kling on "the anti-stimulus" - http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2009/05/the_anti-stimul....

Stimulus and cash for clunkers may well increase interest costs for everyone (interest charges to businesses are additive to that charged to the US government). If true, this will almost certainly mean less profitability and less jobs in the future. If anything, the history of central planning shows that governments cannot sustainably create jobs, they can only provide the environment for businesses and individuals who flourish to create jobs.
This could get me to switch to Seesmic, and maybe even learn to program, too.

I see twitter client after twitter client that reproduces the majority of the functionality of its competitors, but each with one unique difference.

It'd be great to not have to always be checking out new clients and deciding if the utility of its unique feature is worth the effort of using another app.
I'd say no. I've been continually disappointed in the coding part of the university education. It is much more about theory than a technical degree. I'm a code monkey, all I want to do is write code, and learn to write better code.

You on the other hand would be great for management, which I've seen lots of my friends with CS degrees who don't like coding more into in the work force. Stick with it, there are plenty of jobs for you!
I agree with your perspective except that for most in his situation any major is the wrong major. Very few know what they want to do with their life. You only find out by lots of exploration. This path extends well beyond college.

I haven't always loved to code and especially don't love tasks I'm told to do as opposed to ones I invent myself. But when I do get into it, I build great products. It comes and goes with me as I like to wear different hats from time to time.
I don't buy it. This happened because Apple hasn't launched the rumored tablet, and the potential for holiday sales is huge. Here's the main point:

We think they were attempting to renegotiate the equity split on the company behind CrunchPad, which was to acquire Fusion Garage. Renegotiations are always fine. But holding a gun to our head two days before launching and insulting us isn't the way to do that.

Sounds like Chandra started with a very heavy-handed offer at renegotiation, part of the implied threat being "you can't back out now that you've made such a public commitment to this project". The only way to respond to a heavy hand with with your own heavy hand - and this post is it, it's all just part of the renegotiation. Another point I don't buy:

I never envisioned the CrunchPad as a huge business. I just wanted a tablet computer that I could use to consume the Internet while sitting on a couch. I've always pushed to open source all or parts of the project. So this isn't really about money. It was about the thrill of building something with a team that had the same vision. Now that's going to be impossible.

It's a great story we all know - the "unhyped cool side project" hype, Linux being the best example. From the looks of the demo shot [1], whether anyone "envisioned" it, or not, it will be a huge business, especially with no competitors. Arrington knows it and Chandra knows it. I just hope their lawyers can come to an agreement before christmas, so I can get one :)

1. http://cache0.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/cdba...
Playboy's mobile site gets a lot more traffic than you might think. (Though I can't imagine it makes very much money)
Shareholders can sometimes do crazy things.

Arrington mentioned that the deal being contemplated involved a new entity buying Fusion Garage. I'm sure that would have required the approval of FG's shareholders, who don't currently seem to be strongly behind Chandra.

If that's all actually the case, then perhaps the mistake was failing to recognize early enough that Chandra wasn't the final decision maker.
OMG and we can call it Video Professor...oh wait a minute...How about we just scam people for money? Brilliant!
You should edit your OP to include this snippet. There's a big difference between "I don't want a coding job, and I don't like coding" and, "I love coding, but I don't want a coding job."
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The AP is a program for college credit, so they look at what colleges are expecting. The majority of colleges are using Java for their intro computer science classes, so the AP adjusted the class to account for that. The major industrial players keep nudging colleges towards Java because that's what they all use for their applications. We all like Python, Ruby, Scheme, etc, but Lockheed Martin comes to a university with a $500K donation and suggests that they teach Java, it's very persuasive. ;)
Perhaps, in the case of data-intensive work, grants should be given in pairs: one research team gets paid to collect the data, and another team gets paid to analyze it.
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Turn the snuggie up to 11!
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Good luck! You're welcome. I don't think anyone will walk out of your lecture after the bait-and-switch. Maybe you can hedge the bait-and-switch by making the main topic 20% of the total time and the rest 80% (Q&A + the switched topic). Please try to video or at least audio record it for your records (you seem to be someone who will want to do this sort of thing again, better). If you can get pizza (even if its - who wants pizza - pitch in a $1 or $2), that might help.
I'll withhold any and all judgment until I can hear both sides to the story. In the meantime, we should let this drama unfold over the course of the week.
(Warning: I use possibly incorrect stereotypes for the sake of the argument. Please correct me on them).

I feel we don't understand each other. I'll try to restate what I said in more details.

What if the kid speaks French? Most likely, he will speak French at home, and American English at school. Sometimes, he will employ the wrong word or make a grammatical mistake while trying to exploit similarities between the two languages. Any professor hearing this will call this an error.

But but but, at home we say… say the poor boy. If the professor know French, he may answer What you say is more like French. In English, we say this…. Note this is not an encouragement to abandon French. Merely an encouragement to learn proper English.

Now, replace French by AAVE (or Ebonics). What has changed? I agree that the two languages are highly similar. This may be confusing to the kid. There is two ways to handle this:

(1) Saying to the kid that his last sentence wasn't proper English. This is very close to saying that he doesn't speak correctly, period. Knowing the way we speak at home, the kid can easily extend that statement to his parents or neighbours, and try to correct them, proud of the knowledge he just learned at school. I think this is dangerous, because this may be perceived a direct attack on their identity. This can lead the kid's family or friends to pressure him into not learning proper English, for instance by dismissing it as "speaking white" or something.

(2) Saying to the kid that his last sentence was AAVE, not English. Making a sharp distinction between the two. Insisting that at school, you are to speak English, not Ebonics. So, when the kid get home, he won't try and correct his parents. He may point out the differences between English and AAVE, but won't speak of them as errors. This is hardly an attack on the identity of Ebonics speakers. Plus, it makes sense: "black speak" in the "black world" (home), "white speak" in the "white world" (school and work). As a consequence, there is less reason for his family or friends to insist that he doesn't speak proper English.
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11%, 10 for tithing and 1 for "service fee."

So evil it could possibly work.
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When did they hint? All I've seen is unfounded rumors for the last few years.

If Apple did come out with a tablet you can be sure it'd be $1500+. So it'd be a totally different market anyway.
Possibly because all people are not you. Life is more interesting that way.
That's an interesting one. I know that my dad really enjoyed the process of becoming a doctor but not the process of studying for medical exams. He loves surgery, thinking fast and helping people out. In his field of expertise it turns out that watch-makers' hands are far more useful than an extensive knowledge of the retina.

By way of contrast, my uncle loved studying English. Those were years well-spent in his mind.
Don't get smirky. I was exactly that guy. I was a CS major but minored in business and was the extroverted CEO of a software startup at 21. I used to think the fact that I often didn't like the "code" aspect in-and-of-itself (it just seemed hacky to me) made me think that it was my fault -- that I just didn't get it. After a lot more learning, I now know that I was right all along. It is hacky and it's horrible, and I never had to worry because that's not CS. There are cores of "Dijkstra beauty" in every project. Find that and extole that, because that's what's good in your project. It's not about being some ivory tower academic. I'm saying you can be a people person and be a CS major. You can hate "code" and be a CS major. Truth is, you'll be a better CS major.
To me that says acres more than the entire original post...
It was 3 days from a launch (or so he says). If he was "overwhelmed" and looking for an exit, why did he give up so close to the finish line?