MrVitaliy

Best way to fix LinkedIn's recommend system is to stop using LinkedIn.

My analysis professor used to say, if you state that some part of the proof is trivial then it should be easy to just write it out. And when you have a hard time writing it out or it takes too long, perhaps it's not trivial after all.

Perhaps Google as well as anyone else, including my self, feel that they can spend 2B in a better way than the government would. For example, lobbying for more open internet.

"an incredibly frustrating, bash-your-head-against-the-wall-repeatedly process that is commonly measured in hours, not minutes"

s/head/axe/ s/wall/monsters/

Sounds awfully like video gaming ;)

It's kind of like debugging two programs at the same time. On one hand there is wine, wine configs, winetricks, loading directX, etc. On the other hand it's the game you're trying to run.

For example, it turns out StarCraft II needs an update process running before the game runs. So you have to find and start the correct Agent.exe --nohttpauth and only then start the actual game.exe as a different process. Then the game dumps segfaultish error saying some 3d surface wasn't initialized, which means it requires later version of directX, back to playing winetricks...

To be honest, Linux is my favorite gaming platform already. I remember trying to play the original Diablo and WarCraft games on windows 7 with no success. Diablo II works ok in virtual box running XP with 3d acceleration enabled, WarCraft III pushes the virtual 3d acceleration to the limit and just runs super slow.

All of those games run flawlessly on Linux with latest wine. It might take few minutes to play with wine config and winetricks but if you're playing games you have the time to waste anyway.

Also I've played all the latest Blizzard games flawlessly under linux + wine setup (World of Warcraft, Diablo III and Star Craft II). You do need a beefy video card for those however.

His lawyers can probably blow this out of state (internet being an inter-state medium, appeals and maybe even supremacy clause) where federal law will take precedence over the state law. This case will be a waste of time, money and government resources and a circus nonetheless.

"Under United States federal law and most state laws there is nothing illegal about one of the parties to a telephone call recording the conversation, or giving permission for calls to be recorded or permitting their telephone line to be tapped. However, several states (e.g., California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Washington) require that all parties consent when one party wants to record a telephone conversation."

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

Too bad he's in New Hampshire, otherwise him being one of the party aware of recording the conversation would make the recording perfectly legal.

I think companies started asking for BA degrees precisely because college education is readily available and almost everyone they are interested in has a degree.

Yes, college is over-hyped, yes we're in tuition bubble not unlike the housing bubble from not-so-distant past but if most of the crop has college education and you're interested in hiring the cream of the crop, requiring a college degree is given.

> Maybe not for Kogan, but most of the DOD is still on IE6, as an example that is something like 2 million daily users.

With each passing day, this statement made less and less sense to a point of absurd. And that point has been reached a long time ago.

I work for Department of Interior (the armpit when compared to DOD) and here its either fully patched IE8, latest Firefox or you are booted off of network. Can DOD be really that archaic and still allow employees to browse wild wild web with IE6?

Maybe it's due to 4chan's huge community size that fools are not a problem as they seem in smaller communities. Additionally, there is a whole slew of tools to identify (and punish) fools such as karma, comment voting, etc which perhaps weren't as widely available in the past.

4chan has mods who routinely remove child-porn and other questionable, non-related material. http://www.4chan.org/faq#whomod

Interestingly, the story strikes as a completely opposite of 4chan.org/sci/ where among army of trolls many intellectuals for many years discuss interesting ideas.

Maybe it's the community size, maybe it's new technology (comment voting, bans and such) but I have a hunch that fools are not a problem.

I shutdown my MacBook Pro about once a month (mostly for OS updates). Simply closing the screen puts the laptop into sleep and opening flawlessly brings up the OS multiple times per day. Perhaps MS is aiming for a similar os/hardware symbiosis with their next OS iteration which would justify hiding shutdown option.

This looks like a perfect application for using a genetic algorithm solution with two competitive agents.

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Robert B. Cialdini

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Life, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If arbitration is with a contract, the winning side might have a stronger case in a real court.

Our versions of usability are different. When I purchase a smartphone, I expect to have more than just an ability to make a phone call. Smartphone means email, web, gps, maps, etc and also means doing those things well (this isn't year 2001 anymore).

Perhaps being a software engineer I have a spoiled sense of what it means to do thing well. The native AT&T apps don't just fail to do things well but clearly have a message "We don't give a damn about you nor this phone. This is our crapware and you have no choice but to use it".

While unlimited data leaves something to be desired. I had to flash Galaxy SII with a more recent Android OS without all the AT&T crapware just 20 mins after buying, it was simply unusable.

What begs a question, how can cellular phone providers even think, that their team of 12 underpaid code monkeys capable of producing software that's on par with google? AT&T places, map searching apps, etc are utter crap and you can't even get rid of them unless you flash the OS.

Unfortunately this problem isn't tied only to cellular phone providers. Network card manufacturers for Windows (yes, I'm looking at you Intel) come with their own crapware utilities who think their monitoring app is better than default windows wifi manager. Similarly, consumer routers that race to offer more and more features DMZ, QoS, etc but have millions of bugs because they're not software shops and still refuse to use DD-WRT or Open-WRT which are clearly better and have been developed, used and supported by thousands of professional.

Silverlight. lol.

If it's the same "carrier" who put crap-load of useless, buggy malware with every android phone they sell, then who cares what they say. They clearly have no clue what is even "good enough" to weight in an opinion about Nokia.

Those ex-soviets are mostly jews who finally seized an opportunity to live somewhere else, outside of iron curtain. Many of them also showed up in US, see Sergey Brin.

Just watch/read the news

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPILhiTJv7E

Similarly here https://github.com/vitalius/Twiturr/blob/master/src/com/twit...

I also find using WebView activity for launching twitter authentication page is more robust in terms of controlling activity focus.

Same thought. Wonder if those titles are generated simply for a more descriptive url. In that case, I think writers are missing their target audience - humans.

Also this particular title strikingly resembles typical MS's writing signature such as "Buy a home, get a US visa, Senators propose"

See http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/20/8413642-buy...

You would certainly get a low mark at an elementary writting class for a paper title like that.

That's hardly a motivation for Apple. They still don't have an official dealer in Russia and afaik don't have any plans. Yet, most of government officials widely use iPads (including the president) and every hip kid around the block has an iPhone. This suggests that Sergei Ivanov is merely looking for more ways to tax their own population, not Apple. Russian GLONASS is an archaic POS that they them selves have trouble working on their own, approved devices and a 25% import duty on GPS-capable devices won't fix it.

This sounds like a perfect problem for Bayesian nets.

IIRC, Bayes prof was very similar to the concept of the game, by throwing pebbles on a table and trying to predict where they land.

What would be the picture of perfect 22-29 span? Being born with a silver spoon in a mouth? Partying every day?

I'm a CS grad student, married to med student. While our schedules are different, there isn't much difference in time. I'm mostly occupied with reading papers, grading papers, doing homework, grading homework and generally providing very cheap labor in a form of research assistantship and teaching assistantship to university.

To me, the experience of every point the author mentions is the sole reason for existence between 20-30 years of age.

The title is misleading. They just extracted character frequencies from source files which fail to capture 'Delete', 'Shift', 'Ctrl', 'Alt', etc keys.

Even has Paul Graham name at the end, as if 'Look, this is totally legit!'

I think the key word here is "intensity".

For example, it is typical in martial arts to hear people bragging that they did Kung-Fu for 5 years or Karate since age 10. But if the training was nothing more than a 30 min warmup once or twice a week at a downtown studio with "World of Karate" sign, it is actually worse than not having any training at all. People with such training track genuinely overestimate their ability and put them self through unnecessary health risks.

Someone who followed peer-reviewed journals on software and design and implemented complex system in a 5 year span is simply going to be better anyone who did HTML/Javascript websites for 20 years, no matter what their age difference is or when they started programming.

Many people live in Goose Hollow (87% of them are renters) and the Fareless zone covers most of the transit distance.

I find that many people who live in downtown simply do not own a car, which seems almost impossible to function in this day and age.