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I find the comparison with SE Asia rather poor with regards to investment as I've been to Sri Lanka and the amount of money that is available for basic infrastructure, let alone anti-tsunami barricades, is negligible compared to Japan unfortunately.

Another talk I find highly inspirational is his 2005 Stanford university commencement address.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

Back in the 90's, Nokia im my opinion has the best UI's by far compared to the competitors then. When Motorola phones did not even query the phone book to get the caller's name, Nokia was innovating with tabbed menus and whatnot. Its a shame they lagged.

I also find the fact that the official email from PayPal is just signed "Julie" with no surname and just comes from a generic sink account, thus eliminating any chance of actually following up the problem with a human being rather annoying.

Can somebody from the Perl community please but this guy in the right place by supplying a one-liner Perl golf quadruple map call?

Filtering out stopwords would be useful to prevent trolling.

http://www.subzin.com/s/a

This reminded me of Isac Aasimov's foundation.

I use Perl every day in product/home and have contributed numerous modules on CPAN. The "Ratings" argument is very very thin. Yes, CPAN does have a ratings system ; nobody uses it. Even very very popular and well-written modules, for example Data::Dumper, have below 10 ratings.

Wouldn't this be equivalent to somebody finding out Google's exact ranking weights from 2005 ?

The recipe has changed/been tweaked alot & the true strength of Google is now in its worldwide brand rather than its ranking algorithm.

How does this compare with Postbox? Has anybody used both?

Yes, they do.

From what I recall, they are developing version 2.0 in parallel. Relevant post from their blog: http://blog.macromates.com/2010/why-2-0-is-not-developed-in-...

"greatest things that has ever happened to the internet"

What a bold bold statement. Care to elaborate why?

I only wish the real Textmate followed up on the huge list of todo's and feature requests people have been submitting. I think a core update is long overdue.

I agree with what you are saying here and I believe there are similar regulations in the UK for loan applications. But remember: I am _renting_ a room in a house, not buying anything or borrowing any money. You also put down a 1 1/2 months of rent as a safety deposit.

Exactly, thank you.

I love the fact that people with no authority and no respect for privacy whatsoever arbitrarily just ask for bank statements from their customers. I have had estate agents ask for 6 months of bank statements for no apparent reason and when I declined they got furious with my insubordination. This was on top of a written / signed letter from my direct boss with regards to my salary and job status.

My bank statements = none of your business

Are you 100% sure? Doesn't the whole 'equal opportunities' scheme dictate that you cant ?

I would argue: it depends.

I live and work in London ; the only places where I've seen recruiters or job ads specifically ask for a 'red brick' or 'top ten' university degrees is the financial domain. They specifically ask and check for a top ten university in order to hire you for most jobs, be it analyst or IT consultant. I would also argue that the pay scales you get there reflect this.

Most startups I've seen, again in London, dont really care where you are coming from. I used to work with one which basically said 'we dont care how you look or where you finished uni or even if you did, we just want you to be a) hard working b) smart working c) eager to learn'. Worked very good for them as they are now a successful business and most people have stuck around for years. I now work in a "top 3" uni in central London and we also dont care where yo u got your degree from. Our job ads are, by law, neutral - we are not able to distinct between candidates based on university alone. Again, works fine for us. It doesn't matter where you went, it only matters what you are. At the end of the day, I myself did not finish a 'big name' university,far from it, and its worked out well for me.

Always relevant, the article from Ioannides - the man who dedicated this entire career on examining the way in which research is done rather than the actual research.

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal...

#1 in downloads on PLoS for many years.

I think you might be a bit confused. Father (John) Chrysostomos, aka Ioannis Xrysostomos in Greek, was an archbishop in Constantinople. He was renounced for his preaching skills thus the translation "Golder mouth". I'm pretty sure he's not Santa.

CNN has insightful news now?

Not entirely sure if this also applies to the CS domain (been quite a few years since I published a CS paper) but in the medical domain researchers are also presented with the option of publishing in an open access journal. For example, PLoS http://www.plos.org/

My understanding is that he's working from home? I dont really see how this could work out if you are not working from home and your partner works as well. A simple example would be that you wake up at five, go to work at 8 and then come back at six or seven. Your partner wakes up at 8, goes to work and comes back at six or seven. You are dead tired by eight and want to go to bed at nine. I personally cant go to bed before 12 or 1 as I work long days and I feel that I have 'wasted' the day if I dont spend some time for things I enjoy (be it hacking or gaming or something else).

I was under the impression that credit companies relied on the insanely big number of possible combinations in order to protect them selves. You can surely create a billion "valid" credit card numbers but the probability of a portion of them being in-use is very low.

I cant help but think of the fonejacker cinema prank and laugh. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgOkJjjwmnk

Please dont forget to mention that an official review will be ordered in order to satisfy the regulators that the transition from 11 to 10 will not affect civil liberties.

I was answering to the "Correlation is not causation" statement in the comment. Epidemiological studies usually have to satisfy most of the "Bradford Hill" criteria in order to claim a certain association.

More information: http://www.drabruzzi.com/hills_criteria_of_causation.htm

I do not think they are considered retro. Interventional studies are widely considered the "golden" standard but they are not perfect and, in many cases, not feasible. Like you point out, in many cases, it would not be ethical to perform one ; for example, making people smoke on purpose and then try out smoking cessation interventions on them. "Luckily" though, people usually self-select their selves into these categories.

There are statistical ways to ensure that the results obtained from a study are both a) not due to chance and b) statistically significant to be applicable to larger sample sizes. Hopefully, both were applied and evaluated during the peer review process when a study gets published. I could potentially extract the actual data from the studies but alas, traditional media consider it a sin to link to the original papers and of course, a simple 'recent studies' is sufficient for us common people.

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I am happy for them. Apple is a company that puts design and user experience at the front and they get rewarded for it. I see their revenue as generated by genuine consumer appreciation compared to the generic ad revenue that other companies generate.