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by JunkDNA 17y ago
Yes, and the image of the cover of WIRED is very telling. They have especially suffered from this over the years. For every great piece like the one Neal Stephenson wrote on the people who deploy undersea cables ( http://www.wired.com/wired
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
Wild speculation: perhaps they are trying to get out in front of upcoming announcements on actual products to show they are working in this space too? The crunch pad is due out soon and Apple is also believed to have a product in this space
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
Not only is the "flash is needed for videos" idea going to vanish. The impact of the relentless improvements being made to the JS engines in Firefox, Safari, and Chrome are hard to over state. At some point, the combination of HTML5 and hig
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
This is not all that surprising to me given the huge difference in performance and capabilities between the iPhone 3GS and the original EDGE-based iPhone. Upgrading after one year is a bit soon for all but the true Apple fans to upgrade. Ho
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I know this is going to make me sound like a fanboy, but I find the article title amusing. The idea that Apple is "racing" to keep ahead of rivals and feeling the heat is a bit silly. Only recently, a full two years after the original iPh
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
Very nice, I've been looking for something like this that actually works and isn't trivial. I got some really nice results. First (nitpick point): You've got a misspelling in the page: scarse instead of "scarce" underneath the bars that sho
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
Yeah, that made me gag too... their PR department is really over-selling things. They also overlook a very embarrassing fact: in spite of all those "users", I bet they have almost no brand recognition whatsoever with at least 75% of them. M
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
The "secret question" process is a relic of a time long gone when information about individuals was not so readily available. It is made worse by things like social networking. A few careless settings in one's Facebook profile, and anyone w
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
The worst thing about this is that he had to actively decide to use CipherMode.ECB. It's not like it's some kind of dumb default, hidden from view. A human being had to type that string of characters in there. Did he look at the doc and jus
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
Well, at least as far as the USA is concerned, the founders enumerated the list of natural rights endowed on people by their creator. This was not arbitrary, it was based on thousands of years of western philosophy. What the original poster
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
There's a lot of excellent advice in this thread, but I think I can sum most of it up by saying that the primary thing you need to do for yourself is spend more time way outside your comfort zone. It's fine to be learning geeky hobbies, cod
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by JunkDNA 18y ago
I agree with you 100%: somehow usernames have to have weight. The main thing I worry about with linking of real identities is that (as others later in the thread say) it limits people's candor. For example, I think it's generally impolite t
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by JunkDNA 18y ago
What about granting voting and posting rights to only those people who have been invited to join? Give the members who have the highest karma a set number of invitations and they invite people they trust. To prevent people from gaming the s
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by JunkDNA 18y ago
Yeah, it's also not bad supplemental income if he's got a "day job". He's easily offset the purchase of the iPhone, developer account, and maybe even computer. On top of that, he has an extremely valuable research project feeding him data o
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by JunkDNA 18y ago
Thanks for posting a "middle of the road" kind of story like this. I have found all the stories from the extremes of iPhone app revenue curve to be almost completely useless in understanding how to grind out a reasonably profitable app.
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by JunkDNA 18y ago
Exactly right, due to "security concerns" you were not supposed to run anything other than IE6. In this case, "security concerns" are defined as: "the club by which a corporate IT department can beat down a reasonable request without being
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by JunkDNA 18y ago
Sadly, inside corporate environments this is unlikely to be the case. Big companies often have web apps that are broken in anything other than IE6. These IT departments will fight the upgrade until it is the only option. I would not be surp
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by JunkDNA 18y ago
What an incredible lineup! Really wish I could go, but the budget won't allow it. I sure hope they make videos of the presentations available at least.
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by JunkDNA 18y ago
I recall spending hundreds of dollars a semester on books. I distinctly remember my Organic Chemistry text was well in excess of $100. The cost of a computer amortized over the entire college experience is not a whole lot compared to other
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by JunkDNA 18y ago
Early stage computer science research is not an area I'm familiar with, but I would be curious to know where the current research is headed in terms of radically rethinking the way we think about and represent code. That said as an admitted
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by JunkDNA 18y ago
I have wrestled with the question of whether or not biologists and programmers need to be the same person for most of my career. The short answer is that in my opinion, you often need those skills to reside in one person. I've been working
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by JunkDNA 18y ago
This article made me realize that goal setting is really a specialized case of "beware of the metrics you set". Whatever you decide to measure is always what people focus on, so you need to be darn sure you're measuring the correct things o
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by JunkDNA 18y ago
I wouldn't be surprised by this. MS is in a real bind in this case. Many of their cash cow corporate customers are reluctant to upgrade to anything past IE 6. So MS is essentially putting effort into subsequent browser releases largely used
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by JunkDNA 18y ago
Codd's paper is instructive from a historical perspective as well. When you read it, you realize that people were grappling with all these same issues before the relational database came on the scene. His description of hierarchical data st
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by JunkDNA 18y ago
I would take your point about there not being many political current events a step further. The broad ideas discussed here are some of the most important issues of our day. I might be overstating things a bit, but I think it's safe to say t
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by JunkDNA 18y ago
I shudder thinking what this would look like after a trip through one of those resume upload tools used by corporate websites. It's maddening how much they mangle even a carefully constructed plain text document.
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by JunkDNA 18y ago
What a brilliant way to make use of Facebook. I can see this being great for the High School and college crowd especially.
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by JunkDNA 18y ago
I'll second what timr says, I think a PHD in Bioinformatics is possibly a waste of your time. I got into the field in 2000 immediately after undergrad. Since then, I've been working in industry and did my masters in bioinformatics at a top