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The Best Investing Advice? Maybe Not the Conventional Method - NYTimes.com
WITH the stock market so volatile lately, investors have been asking how to ride out the swoons and maybe even outperform the major indexes. The answers — at least according to an analysis by one firm — do not necessarily conform to accepted wisdom.
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The best-performing funds over time were not necessarily the ones with the lowest fees, run by the best-known managers or focused on any particular strategy, according to more than 20 years of data examined by DAL Investments, an investment adviser and publisher of the NoLoad FundX newsletter in San Francisco. DAL analyzed the returns on 306 mutual funds for The New York Times.
Monday, October 31, 2011
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America’s Exploding Pipe Dream - NYTimes.com
We are slowly — and painfully — being forced to realize that we are no longer the America of our imaginations. Our greatness was not enshrined. Being a world leader is less about destiny than focused determination, and it is there that we have faltered.
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Luck Is Just the Spark for Business Giants - NYTimes.com
BETTER to be lucky than good, the adage goes.
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MICROSOFT: A TURN OF THE PC TIDE In 1980, Digital Research developed the leading non-Apple operating system for personal computers. Luckily for Bill Gates, it failed to impress I.B.M., so Big Blue turned to Microsoft. At the time, Microsoft didn't have an operating system — and Mr. Gates had no plans to create one. But he recognized the moment and committed his young company to a brutal schedule to develop the system for the I.B.M. PC.
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INTEL: GOODBYE AND HELLO Japanese companies unleashed a price war in DRAM computer chips in the mid-'80s, driving down prices 80 percent in two years. The business offered nothing but misery — bad luck for Intel, as DRAM chips were its main business.
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Gordon E. Moore, right, and Andrew S. Grove (shown in 2001) asked themselves what new managers would do. The answer: Get out of DRAMs. So Mr. Grove suggested that he and Mr. Moore leave the company, metaphorically speaking, and return as those new managers. They exited memory chips and committed Intel to the new market for microprocessors, for which it's known today.
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AMGEN: HELP WANTED, AND FOUND In 1981, Fu-Kuen Lin, a Taiwanese scientist, happened to see a classified job ad from Amgen, then a small start-up company. Mr. Lin happened to be looking for a job — and that lucky break became a defining moment for the company. George B. Rathmann, its founding C.E.O. (below left, with Mr. Lin), recognized the scientist's talent and drive and built an environment where he could thrive. Mr. Lin logged 16-hour days to isolate and clone what is known as the EPO gene, which led to one of the biggest biotechnology products of all time.
And maybe that’s true — if you just want to be merely good, not much better than average. But what if you want to build or do something great? And what if you want to do so in today’s unstable and unpredictable world?
Recently, we completed a nine-year research study of some of the most extreme business successes of modern times. We examined entrepreneurs who built small enterprises into companies that outperformed their industries by a factor of 10 in highly turbulent environments. We call them 10Xers, for “10 times success.”
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Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice | Kalzumeus Software
If there was one course I could add to every engineering education, it wouldn’t involve compilers or gates or time complexity. It would be Realities Of Your Industry 101, because we don’t teach them and this results in lots of unnecessary pain and suffering. This post aspires to be README.txt for your career as a young engineer. The goal is to make you happy, by filling in the gaps in your education regarding how the “real world” actually works. It took me about ten years and a lot of suffering to figure out some of this, starting from “fairly bright engineer with low self-confidence and zero practical knowledge of business.” I wouldn’t trust this as the definitive guide, but hopefully it will provide value over what your college Career Center isn’t telling you.
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Officers Unleash Anger at Ticket-Fixing Arraignments in the Bronx - NYTimes.com
A three-year investigation into the police’s habit of fixing traffic and parking tickets in the Bronx ended in the unsealing of indictments on Friday and a stunning display of vitriol by hundreds of off-duty officers, who converged on the courthouse to applaud their accused colleagues and denounce their prosecution.
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Despite Iraq Vet’s Cracked Skull, DoJ Sees No Evil in Occupy Crackdown | Threat Level | Wired.com
After Scott Olsen, a two-tour Iraq war veteran, suffered a skull fracture Tuesday when police shot Occupy Oakland protestors with rubber bullets and threw flash bang and tear gas grenades at them, you might think that the Justice Department would investigate.
After all, the Justice Department has the power and responsibility to investigate state and local police violations of Americans’ constitutional rights.
Sorry, Scott Olsen. Sorry, Occupy. No such luck.
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Crony Capitalism Comes Home - NYTimes.com
Whenever I write about Occupy Wall Street, some readers ask me if the protesters really are half-naked Communists aiming to bring down the American economic system when they’re not doing drugs or having sex in public.
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The answer is no. That alarmist view of the movement is a credit to the (prurient) imagination of its critics, and voyeurs of Occupy Wall Street will be disappointed. More important, while alarmists seem to think that the movement is a “mob” trying to overthrow capitalism, one can make a case that, on the contrary, it highlights the need to restore basic capitalist principles like accountability.
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Occupy Oakland protests - live coverage | World news | guardian.co.uk
2.24pm: I've just spoken to Keith Shannon, roommate of Scott Olsen, the Iraq veteran who is in hospital after apparently having been hit in the head by a police projectile.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
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Will Dropouts Save America? - NYTimes.com
I TYPED these words on a computer designed by Apple, co-founded by the college dropout Steve Jobs. The program I used to write it was created by Microsoft, started by the college dropouts Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
And as soon as it is published, I will share it with my friends via Twitter, co-founded by the college dropouts Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams and Biz Stone, and Facebook — invented, among others, by the college dropouts Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz, and nurtured by the degreeless Sean Parker. -
One Country, Two Revolutions - NYTimes.com
I take no pleasure in seeing anyone lose a job, but I can’t say that the recent headlines showing that America’s biggest banks have been losing money on their trading operations, and are having to radically shrink as a result, are entirely bad news for the country. Over the last decade, America’s banking sector got pumped up by steroids — in the form of cheap credit and leverage — every bit as much as Major League Baseball’s home run hitters. And if one result of the downsizing of Wall Street is that more of America’s best and brightest math and physics students decide to go into science and real engineering rather than financial engineering, the country will be a whole lot better off.
Monday, October 24, 2011
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150 years ago, a primitive Internet united the USA - Boston.com
LOS ANGELES—Long before there was an Internet or an iPad, before people were social networking and instant messaging, Americans had already gotten wired.
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Monday marks the 150th anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental telegraph. From sea to sea, it electronically knitted together a nation that was simultaneously tearing itself apart, North and South, in the Civil War.
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Major ALS Breakthrough – Common Cause of All Forms of ALS Discovered | Neuroscience News
Researchers discover common cause of all forms of ALS.
The underlying disease process of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS and Lou Gehrig’s disease), a fatal neurodegenerative disease that paralyzes its victims, has long eluded scientists and prevented development of effective therapies. Scientists weren’t even sure all its forms actually converged into a common disease process.
But a new Northwestern Medicine study for the first time has identified a common cause of all forms of ALS. -
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Culinary SOS: The Oceanaire Seafood Room's Maryland-style crab cakes - latimes.com
Dear SOS: Last February I ate dinner at the Oceanaire Seafood Room in Washington, D.C. The food was fab. Can you get the recipe for the crab cakes? They are served as an appetizer and as an entrée. There is nothing like them. The cake is more like a scoop of chicken salad than a formed, consolidated cake.
Ellen Eubanks
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Dear Ellen: Oceanaire Seafood Room was happy to share its recipe for these tender, soft crab cakes. The cakes are baked, not fried, and can be assembled a few hours ahead of time and refrigerated, then baked before serving. Perfect if you're planning for company!
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Culinary SOS: Cafe del Rey's Mediterranean pizza - latimes.com
Dear SOS:
Café del Rey in Marina del Rey serves a Mediterranean pizza that is very different and one of my favorites. Is there any chance you can obtain the recipe?
John C. Severino
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Dear John: We loved the light crust, bright sauce and array of colorful toppings in this pizza from Cafe del Rey. The restaurant was happy to share its recipe, which we've adapted below. The recipe makes two pies, perfect for company.
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Arkansas Town VS. Classic Sitcom - Who's Correct? | MetaFilter
My turkeys. My aerodynamic turkeys. Let me tell you about them.
I wanted turkeys because I was jealous of a friend's home-raised 34-pound Thanksgiving dinner, and because my husband and I already had chickens, and, you know, because how hard could it be? They'd strut around all day, preening and looking like those cheesy wall decorations from grade school. They'd stand there, being turkeys, but--saved from a factory life--they'd gratefully peck at scratch and entertain me with their adorable gobbles. Then I'd find someone to cut their heads off and then we'd have dinner, the end. Turkeys! Badass! -
On the night of October 20, 2010, Angel Enrique and Jesus Antonio were in bed in their small, two-bedroom apartment in the Clairmont complex in Nashville. The doors and windows were all shut and locked. Suddenly there was a loud banging at the door and voices shouting "Police!" and "Policia!" When no one answered, the agents tried to force the door open. Scared, Jesus hid in a closet. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents began hitting objects against the bedroom windows, trying to break in. Without a search warrant and without consent, the ICE agents eventually knocked in the front door and shattered a window, shouting racial slurs and storming into the bedrooms, holding guns to their heads. When asked if they had a warrant, one agent reportedly said, "We don't need a warrant, we're ICE," and, gesturing to his genitals, "the warrant is coming out of my balls."
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Apple's Siri Shuns 35 Million Americans—Are You One? | Jill Duffy | PCMag.com
The new voice-recognition feature in Apple's iPhone 4S, known as Siri, carries out simple tasks for you when you speak to it, but only if you’re an English speaker in the United States.
Siri can handle simple tasks, like composing, sending, and reading text messages, and checking the weather report, in five languages: U.S. English, U.K. English, Australian English, French (France), and German. But if you want to use Siri to its full potential, you have to speak American English and you need to physically be in the U.S. Ask Siri to find a local business (ATM? car-towing service?) or get directions for you in any other language, and you’ll be out of luck. Even if you’re in the U.S., if the language option is set to U.K. English, Siri will tell you, sorry, but no. -
Will Self: The trouble with my blood | Books | The Guardian
Some time over the winter of 2010-11 I began to be gorged with blood – or, rather, my blood itself began to be gorged with red blood cells, with haemoglobin. I didn't pay it much attention – mostly because I didn't realise it was happening, the only perceptible symptoms being a certain livid tinge to my face and to my hands, which, I joked to family and friends, had started to resemble those pink Marigold washing-up gloves. When I took my gorged hands out of my jeans pockets the tight denim hems left equally vivid bands smeared across their backs – these, I facetiously observed, were the colour of those yellow Marigold washing-up gloves.
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Firefighters bring focus, skill and heart to the Seal Beach chaos - latimes.com
When Scott Belshe stepped through the door of Salon Meritage last Wednesday afternoon, the world around him fell to pieces. He heard screaming. He heard voices. He smelled gunpowder, and he couldn't put anything together.
A firefighter with Station 44 in Seal Beach, Belshe has seen the beginning and end of life. He's treated sickness, worked automobile accidents and fought house fires, but the violence and ruin that lay before him now was nothing he ever expected to see. -
Credit card 'convenience fee' law has a big, fat loophole - latimes.com
Hit you with a fee for using a credit card, that is.
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Dropbox Will Simplify Your Life - NYTimes.com
Every time I’m tempted to write about some tech product that’s been around awhile, I’m torn. On one hand, I’ll be blasted by the technogeeks for being late to the party. On the other hand, it doesn’t seem right to keep something great hidden under a barrel from the rest of the world.
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Occupy the Classroom - NYTimes.com
Occupy Wall Street is shining a useful spotlight on one of America’s central challenges, the inequality that leaves the richest 1 percent of Americans with a greater net worth than the entire bottom 90 percent.
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Most of the proposed remedies involve changes in taxes and regulations, and they would help. But the single step that would do the most to reduce inequality has nothing to do with finance at all. It’s an expansion of early childhood education.
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Breaking Batman (via IamA with user MassiveJoe) - Imgur
I was Producer and Creative Director of The Batman. I draw things. I started a new mobile games company. This explains everything: http://imgur.com/ZjG9L AMA and I'll respond with a drawing. Will do as many as I can today. Shameless self-promo, we launched an iPhone game: http://bit.ly/reddit-aom it's what we'd like to think a Rock Paper Scissors game would be like if Michael Bay made it. We also did a press release, I think it turned out well: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/pressreleases/78728/Massive_Joe_Studios_Ushers_in_the_Age_of_Monsters.phpUPDATE: WOW! Front page! Thank you guys! Keep the requests coming. I'll do as many as I can get to. Please upvote ones you guys like so I can like, harness the power of the crowd to help me be lazy, I mean, prioritize which ones I work on.UPDATE 2: Overwhelming response people. Thank you for all the kind words. Will draw until my hand falls off.tl;dr version of this thread:Breaking Batman: http://imgur.com/uGaBJSpock/Batman HIGHFIVE! http://imgur.com/ZYb0EWhy so serious? http://imgur.com/UiQdsHard to explain: http://imgur.com/ZOKzSTime for p90x: http://imgur.com/S1Y2wBraaaiiiinnnnss: http://imgur.com/RXNUEBatdroid: http://imgur.com/r19x6Lollipop: http://imgur.com/xw7cy
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
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The Evangelical Rejection of Reason - NYTimes.com
THE Republican presidential field has become a showcase of evangelical anti-intellectualism. Herman Cain, Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann deny that climate change is real and caused by humans. Mr. Perry and Mrs. Bachmann dismiss evolution as an unproven theory. The two candidates who espouse the greatest support for science, Mitt Romney and Jon M. Huntsman Jr., happen to be Mormons, a faith regarded with mistrust by many Christians.
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Economic Outlook in U.S. Follows Home Prices Downhill - NYTimes.com
ORLANDO, Fla. — Ernest Markey lost his stone-cutting business in 2009. He then sold his home for half a million dollars less than its value at the peak of the housing bubble and moved with his wife, Marie, to a smaller home in a less affluent suburb. They gave up two new cars and bought one. Used.
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Chimp to Human to History Books - The Circuitous Path of AIDS - NYTimes.com
Our story begins sometime close to 1921, somewhere between the Sanaga River in Cameroon and the Congo River in the former Belgian Congo. It involves chimps and monkeys, hunters and butchers, “free women” and prostitutes, syringes and plasma-sellers, evil colonial lawmakers and decent colonial doctors with the best of intentions. And a virus that, against all odds, appears to have made it from one ape in the central African jungle to one Haitian bureaucrat leaving Zaire for home and then to a few dozen men in California gay bars before it was even noticed — about 60 years after its journey began.
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Notes From a Dragon Mom - NYTimes.com
[sorry, not a Dragon mom amd whoever did the headline for this article was uselessly fishing...--pjm]
MY son, Ronan, looks at me and raises one eyebrow. His eyes are bright and focused. Ronan means “little seal” in Irish and it suits him.
I want to stop here, before the dreadful hitch: my son is 18 months old and will likely die before his third birthday. Ronan was born with Tay-Sachs, a rare genetic disorder. He is slowly regressing into a vegetative state. He’ll become paralyzed, experience seizures, lose all of his senses before he dies. There is no treatment and no cure.
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Stuxnet Computer Worm’s Creators May Be Active Again - NYTimes.com
The designers of Stuxnet, the computer worm that was used to vandalize an Iranian nuclear site, may have struck again, security researchers say.
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Stuxnet, which infected tens of thousands of computers in 155 countries last year, created an international sensation when experts reported that it was designed as an American-Israeli project to sabotage Siemens Corporation computers used in uranium enrichment at the Natanz site.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
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It’s Not Too Late to Learn How to Code | [Jean Hsu]
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There are many kinds of ugly - GameDev.net
As I've gained experience in the software development world, I've moved through several stages of perspective on how code should look. In the early days, it wasn't even an issue; most code was equally mysterious and inscrutable, and if it did something cool, well, that was great. It didn't bother me in the slightest to do "evil" or "ugly" things, because the ultimate goal was to get stuff done.
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Time zone database has new home after lawsuit | ajc.com
NEW YORK — The organization in charge of the Internet's address system is taking over a database widely used by computers and websites to keep track of time zones around the world.
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The transition to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, comes a week after the database was abruptly removed from a U.S. government server because of a federal lawsuit claiming copyright infringement.
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Sunday, October 16, 2011
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A programmer’s greatest enemy is getting stuck. A crucial skill in programming—and one that many of my beginning game programming students lack—is the ability to recognize when they’re stuck, to get out of being stuck, and to avoid getting stuck in the first place.
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New Dodd-Frank Rules Muddled by Congress That Wants It Both Ways - NYTimes.com
When there are two powerful factions in Congress, one of which wants to take an action and the other of which wants to avoid it, what should Congress do?
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Mary Schapiro, the chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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As the rules get written for Dodd-Frank, the financial reform law that Congress enacted last year, the essential contradictions in the law are being left to regulatory agencies to sort out. Whatever they do, you can depend on legislators to say the regulators are ignoring Congressional intent — or at least the intent of one faction or the other. -
5 Things You Should Never Have on Your Resume | Work Goes Strong
Your resume is your greatest tool in your job search, but some information just doesn’t belong there.
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Dennis Ritchie, 70, Dies, Programming Trailblazer - NYTimes.com
Dennis M. Ritchie, who helped shape the modern digital era by creating software tools that power things as diverse as search engines like Google and smartphones, was found dead on Wednesday at his home in Berkeley Heights, N.J. He was 70.
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The End of the Future - Peter Thiel - National Review Online
I can separate science from superstition or tech from magic, ty.
"Yet during the Great Recession, which began in 2008 and has no end in sight, these great expectations have been supplemented by a desperate necessity. We need high-paying jobs to avoid thinking about how to compete with China and India for low-paying jobs. We need rapid growth to meet the wishful expectations of our retirement plans and our runaway welfare states. We need science and technology to dig us out of our deep economic and financial hole, even though most of us cannot separate science from superstition or technology from magic. In our hearts and minds, we know that desperate optimism will not save us. Progress is neither automatic nor mechanistic; it is rare. Indeed, the unique history of the West proves the exception to the rule that most human beings through the millennia have existed in a naturally brutal, unchanging, and impoverished state. But there is no law that the exceptional rise of the West must continue. So we could do worse than to inquire into the widely held opinion that America is on the wrong track (and has been for some time), to wonder whether Progress is not doing as well as advertised, and perhaps to take exceptional measures to arrest and reverse any decline." -
Squeezed Out in India, Students Turn to United States - NYTimes.com
NEW DELHI — Moulshri Mohan was an excellent student at one of the top private high schools in New Delhi. When she applied to colleges, she received scholarship offers of $20,000 from Dartmouth and $15,000 from Smith. Her pile of acceptance letters would have made any ambitious teenager smile: Cornell, Bryn Mawr, Duke, Wesleyan, Barnard and the University of Virginia.
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Rabbit-Hole Economics - NYTimes.com
Reading the transcript of Tuesday’s Republican debate on the economy is, for anyone who has actually been following economic events these past few years, like falling down a rabbit hole. Suddenly, you find yourself in a fantasy world where nothing looks or behaves the way it does in real life.
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A Look at Apple's iCloud - NYTimes.com
This week in The New York Times, I reviewed Apple’s new iPhone 4S. But the new phone is only one of the big Apple news items this week. On Wednesday, iCloud went live.
This new service is the latest incarnation of what has been called iTools, then .Mac, then MobileMe.
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There are three bits of good news about iCloud.
First, it’s free. (MobileMe was $100 a year.)
Second, it does more than MobileMe.
Third, it’s solid. Like a rock. It would be understandable if you wanted to steer clear; plenty of people remember the data loss and foul-ups of the early MobileMe — but this time, it looks as if Apple nailed it.
Friday, October 14, 2011
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Programming Languages: Survivors and Wannabes - New York Times
Whether they are in the vanguard with new languages like Java, or toiling in the catacombs of Cobol, programmers speak a variety of tongues in their intimate conversations with computers. And each has its own vocabulary, mixing algebraic statements with simple words to tell the computer to perform repetitive tasks.
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BlackBerry blackout: how it happened - Telegraph
ngineers at its European headquarters in Slough, Berkshire, as well as its corporate base in Waterloo, Ontario, are still investigating what went so badly wrong. According to industry sources, however, a picture is beginning to emerge.
While Slough is the site of RIM’s European headquarters, and is also in charge of operations in the Middle East and Africa, it is not the physical location of the stacks of networking equipment that actually serve the tens of millions of BlackBerry users in these regions. -
Care and feeding of your computer hacker | MediaFile
Under a proposed new law, the Obama Administration is planning to throw the book at hackers convicted of organized criminal activity or endangering national security.
The maximum sentence for these crimes will be raised to 20 years to reflect how hackers have become “a key tool of organized crime,” with many hackers “tied to traditional Asian and Eastern European organized crime organizations.”
But while law enforcement and the criminal justice system seek to impose ever longer sentences on hackers, they are missing a trick – we need hackers. They are an invaluable asset in the fight against cyber crime and cyber espionage at a time when there is a dearth of IT Security professionals able to deal with this threat.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
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My Advice to the Occupy Wall Street Protesters | Politics News | Rolling Stone
I've been down to "Occupy Wall Street" twice now, and I love it. The protests building at Liberty Square and spreading over Lower Manhattan are a great thing, the logical answer to the Tea Party and a long-overdue middle finger to the financial elite. The protesters picked the right target and, through their refusal to disband after just one day, the right tactic, showing the public at large that the movement against Wall Street has stamina, resolve and growing popular appeal.
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In 1968 a student working 6.2 hours a week at minimum wage could pay for college. That was back when education was considered a public good and not a private investment... back when education was for the 99%. (i.imgur.com)submitted 7 hours ago by yousless515 commentssharesavehidereport
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Forced Exercise's Effects on the Brain - NYTimes.com
Scientific discoveries can be serendipitous, and so it was when Jay L. Alberts, then a Parkinson’s disease researcher at Emory University in Atlanta, mounted a tandem bike with Cathy Frazier, a Parkinson’s patient. The two were riding the 2003 RAGBRAI bicycle tour across Iowa, hoping to raise awareness of the neurodegenerative disease and “show people with Parkinson’s that you don’t have to sit back and let the disease take over your life,” Dr. Alberts said.
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There’s Something Happening Here - NYTimes.com
When you see spontaneous social protests erupting from Tunisia to Tel Aviv to Wall Street, it’s clear that something is happening globally that needs defining. There are two unified theories out there that intrigue me. One says this is the start of “The Great Disruption.” The other says that this is all part of “The Big Shift.” You decide.
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Stevey's Google Platforms Rant
I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it. -
This Time, It Really Is Different - NYTimes.com
The title of the white paper is, admittedly, a mouthful: “The Way Forward: Moving From the Post-Bubble, Post-Bust Economy to Renewed Growth and Competitiveness.” It was commissioned by the New America Foundation, which hoped that it might “re-center the political debate to better reflect the country’s deep economic problems,” according to Sherle Schwenninger, the director of the foundation’s Economic Growth Program. Its authors are Daniel Alpert, a managing partner of Westwood Capital; Robert Hockett, a professor of financial law at Cornell and a consultant to the New York Federal Reserve; and Nouriel Roubini, who is, well, Nouriel Roubini, whose consistently bearish views have been consistently right. It is scheduled to be released on Wednesday.
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U.S. Intelligence Unit Aims to Build a ‘Data Eye in the Sky’ - NYTimes.com
More than 60 years ago, in his “Foundation” series, the science fiction novelist Isaac Asimov invented a new science — psychohistory — that combined mathematics and psychology to predict the future.
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Now social scientists are trying to mine the vast resources of the Internet — Web searches and Twitter messages, Facebook and blog posts, the digital location trails generated by billions of cellphones — to do the same thing.
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Exclusive: Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet | Danger Room | Wired.com
A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones.
The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military’s Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying their missions overseas. Nor have there been any confirmed incidents of classified information being lost or sent to an outside source. But the virus has resisted multiple efforts to remove it from Creech’s computers, network security specialists say. And the infection underscores the ongoing security risks in what has become the U.S. military’s most important weapons system.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
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Christmas Food Court Flash Mob, Hallelujah Chorus - Must See! - YouTube
Uploaded by AlphabetPhotography on Nov 17, 2010
http://www.AlphabetPhotography.com - On Nov.13 2010 unsuspecting shoppers got a big surprise while enjoying their lunch. Over 100 participants in this awesome Christmas Flash Mob. This is a must see! -
Who are the 99 percent? - The Washington Post
“I did everything I was supposed to and I have nothing to show for it.”
It’s not the arrests that convinced me that “Occupy Wall Street” was worth covering seriously. Nor was it their press strategy, which largely consisted of tweeting journalists to cover a small protest that couldn’t say what, exactly, it hoped to achieve. It was a Tumblr called, “We Are The 99 Percent,” and all it’s doing is posting grainy pictures of people holding handwritten signs telling their stories, one after the other. -
Amazon, the Company That Ate the World - Businessweek
Jeff Bezos is channeling Steve Jobs. It’s mid-September and the wiry billionaire founder of Amazon.com (AMZN) is at his brand-new corporate headquarters in Seattle, in a building named Day One South after his conviction that 17-year-old Amazon is still in its infancy. Almost giddy with excitement, Bezos retrieves one by one the new crop of dirt-cheap Kindle e-readers—they start at $79—from a hidden perch on a chair tucked into a conference room table. When he’s done showing them off, he stands up, and, for an audience of a single journalist, announces, “Now, I’ve got one more thing to show you.” He waits a half-beat to make sure the reference to Jobs’s famous line from Apple (AAPL) presentations hasn’t been missed, then gives his notorious barking laugh. With that, Bezos pulls out the Kindle Fire, Amazon’s long-anticipated tablet computer—and the first credible response to the Apple iPad.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
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Programmer - should i remove this code or just commen..
I'm a real programmer, and this is a decision I make weekly (quickmeme.com)submitted 18 hours ago by m_bishop406 commentssharesavehidereport
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Why code review beats testing: evidence from decades of programming research | Kevin Burke
tl;dr If you want to ship high quality code, you should invest in more than one of formal code review, design inspection, testing, and quality assurance. Testing catches fewer bugs per hour than human inspection of code, but it might be catching different types of bugs.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
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Koch Brothers Flout Law With Secret Iran Sales - Bloomberg
In May 2008, a unit of Koch Industries Inc., one of the world’s largest privately held companies, sent Ludmila Egorova-Farines, its newly hired compliance officer and ethics manager, to investigate the management of a subsidiary in Arles in southern France. In less than a week, she discovered that the company had paid bribes to win contracts.
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Oracle’s Ellison Introduces Faster System to Challenge SAP, IBM - Businessweek
Oct. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Oracle Corp. introduced a computer system that works faster by analyzing data within its dynamic random access memory, aiming to boost market share and take on International Business Machines Corp. and SAP AG.
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Symphony Flash Mob - Copenhagen Central Station
(link in an email from BW)
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How Did the Robot End Up With My Job? - NYTimes.com
I’VE done a lot of television book interviews lately, and I continue to be struck at what a difference there is in the technology in just a few years’ time.
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Technology users are under constant digital surveillance - latimes.com
During his two-hour morning bike ride, Eric Hartman doesn't pay much attention to his iPhone.
But the iPhone is paying attention to him.
As he traverses the 30-mile circuit around Seal Beach, Hartman's iPhone knows precisely where he is at every moment, and keeps a record of his whereabouts. That data is beamed to Apple Inc. multiple times each day, whether Hartman is using his phone to take pictures, search for gas stations or check the weather.
Saturday, October 1, 2011
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We are the 99 percent. We are getting kicked out of our homes. We are forced to choose between groceries and rent. We are denied quality medical care. We are suffering from environmental pollution. We are working long hours for little pay and no rights, if we're working at all. We are getting nothing while the other 1 percent is getting everything. We are the 99 percent.
Brought to you by the people who occupy wall street. Why will YOU occupy?
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Vietnamese Pho Recipe: Beef Noodle Soup | Steamy Kitchen Recipes
Andrea Nguyen’s Into the Vietnamese Kitchen, which is one of the most comprehensive books on the cuisine of Vietnam. The book also won nominations for a James Beard Foundation award and two International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP). Definitely a must-have book for Asian food lovers.
So, let’s get right to the Vietnamese Beef Pho Recipe!
The dish is pronounced “fuh” and not “foo” or “foe” or “puh”
Yeah, Pho is cheap eat out…but to be able to make a home made version? Pretty Pho-king amazing, if you ask me. -
A night in the ER: adrenaline, chaos and very long waits - latimes.com
At Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center, as many as 550 patients a day pass through the emergency room. 'It's like a battlefield in here.… It just doesn't stop,' says a nurse supervisor.
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Kodak Hires Restructuring Lawyers - WSJ.com
Eastman Kodak Co. has hired law firm Jones Day for restructuring advice as it faces growing concerns from investors over its turnaround prospects, but the imaging company said it had no intention to file for bankruptcy protection.
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Stock Quote: EK
The move signals Kodak is intensifying efforts to ensure it has the financial wherewithal to complete a difficult strategic and financial revamp. Shares in the 131-year-old company have tumbled following Kodak's disclosure last week that it pulled $160 million from a credit line. -
Pho Pronunciation: You Can Say It, Pronounce Pho, Say: Phở... - Vietnamese Pho Noodles
Updated 07-22-10. You need only read a few of my posts on this site and you’ll understand my passion for pho. I take my pho seriously. And personally, I’m not one to make fun at my favorite, beloved and respected chow. Certainly not in substance, not in name, and definitely not in pronunciation.
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"Algorithm" is Not a Four-Letter Word
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What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic
Floating-point arithmetic is considered an esoteric subject by many people. This is rather surprising because floating-point is ubiquitous in computer systems. Almost every language has a floating-point datatype; computers from PCs to supercomputers have floating-point accelerators; most compilers will be called upon to compile floating-point algorithms from time to time; and virtually every operating system must respond to floating-point exceptions such as overflow. This paper presents a tutorial on those aspects of floating-point that have a direct impact on designers of computer systems. It begins with background on floating-point representation and rounding error, continues with a discussion of the IEEE floating-point standard, and concludes with numerous examples of how computer builders can better support floating-point.
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An autism treatment worth funding - latimes.com
State law requires insurers to include coverage for autism in comprehensive healthcare policies. Now, lawmakers want to go a step further, requiring coverage of a particular autism treatment: applied behavioral analysis. Insurers are resisting. They don't question the effectiveness of the therapy; they just say it doesn't fit the definition of "medical" treatment. Their position reflects how crucial parts of the healthcare system are wedded to the status quo, regardless of what's best for patients. State lawmakers have passed a bill to overcome the insurers' resistance, and Gov. Jerry Brown should sign it.
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Boffins prove Queen ballad 'world's most catchy song' • The Register
We are the Champions, Queen (1977)
Y.M.C.A, The Village People (1978)
Fat Lip, Sum 41 (2001)
The Final Countdown, Europe (1986)
Monster, The Automatic (2006)
Ruby, The Kaiser Chiefs (2007)
I’m Always Here, Jimi Jamison (1996)
Brown Eyed Girl, Van Morrison (1967)
Teenage Dirtbag, Wheatus (2000)
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Music video by Sum 41 performing Fat Lip. (C) 2002 The Island Def Jam Music Group
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Fire burns away the Kindle dream of interactivity • The Register
Amazon's new Kindles don't have keyboards, an omission which says more about how the Kindle has evolved than any of the shiny new capabilities which have been added.
To understand why the keyboard was so central to the Kindle's aspirations, it is important to remember that Kindle wasn't just supposed to be just an electronic book reader. The Kindle was supposed to be a new way of interacting with textual content and with dynamic content, which updated itself and invited consumer participation. It was supposed to be a physical embodiment of the Web 2.0 dream.