Comment Re:The best programmers (Score 1) 552
"They live in Western Europe (and also Eastern Europe), the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand"
Really?
Comment Re:Hitting 36 years old (Score 1) 552
Doesn't matter if you're the best programmer in the world once you hit 40 - it's up or out, and there aren't that many "up" jobs.
Just hit 40, and I try to hide from recruiters, really.. My Linkedin inbox is filled with messages that I didn't care to respond to, from all the top name companies and hot startups. Either the job market in the valley is so hot or the above premise is false.
Comment Re:Bad idea (Score 1) 275
Kickstarter to the rescue!
Comment I'm sure the pilots will not want to see this... (Score 1) 244
while trying to find information on the airport just about to land.
Error reading flash drive
Abort, Retry, Ignore?_
Comment Re:A whole generation grew up with PCQ Linux (Score 1) 39
Yes, well said. Very sad news. Atul's contribution to Indian Linux community is immeasurable. RIP Atul.
Comment Too little too late! (Score 1) 158
Enough said...
Google Engineer Sponsors New Kinect Bounties 96
ashidosan writes "Hot on the heels of the Adafruit competition, Matt Cutts (a search spam engineer at Google) is sponsoring two more $1,000 bounties for projects using Kinect. 'The first $1,000 prize goes to the person or team that writes the coolest open-source app, demo, or program using the Kinect. The second prize goes to the person or team that does the most to make it easy to write programs that use the Kinect on Linux.'"
Relatedly, reader imamac points out a video showing Kinect operating on OS X.
Comment Re:HTML5 Will Help Change The Web (Score 2, Informative) 208
It will take off but you need software to fill in what was assumed users would do.
OpenCalais (http://www.opencalais.com/) does most of that already.
Comment Re:How do scientific PDF documents appear on iPad? (Score 1) 617
You may want to consider Notion Ink's Adam
http://blog.laptopmag.com/hands-on-with-notion-ink-adam-prototype-its-amazing
http://notionink.wordpress.com/
Seems like it has better readability. But it will not be out until the middle of the year though.
Comment Re:Shitty programmers writing shitty code. (Score 1) 365
How do you know? Any statistics to back this up? Chances are good that some of the apps on your iPhone *were* developed in one of the countries you mentioned.
Comment Re:As long as they don't use GVoice Tech. (Score 1) 102
Some of my funny ones here:
"Hey bottoms ASAP. But on the religious anyways, call me back and I'm at my just call me back. Thank you."
"Hey what's going on man, this is in 2 mother and anything any cool commands. We have some. Please let me stop you have a cable is nothing important. Bye. "
"Hey Todd, on a bit. The Negro, then I put in an active on plan and payPal okay called up and have a couple (630) 440-6809. Okay bye. "
"Hey bottoms ASAP. But on the religious anyways, call me back and I'm at my just call me back. Thank you."
"Hey what's going on man, this is in 2 mother and anything any cool commands. We have some. Please let me stop you have a cable is nothing important. Bye. "
"Hey Todd, on a bit. The Negro, then I put in an active on plan and payPal okay called up and have a couple (630) 440-6809. Okay bye. "
Mars Images Reveal Evidence of Ancient Lakes 128
Matt_dk writes "Spectacular satellite images suggest that Mars was warm enough to sustain lakes three billion years ago, a period that was previously thought to be too cold and arid to sustain water on the surface, according to research published today in the journal Geology. Earlier research had suggested that Mars had a warm and wet early history but that between 4 billion and 3.8 billion years ago, before the Hesperian Epoch, the planet lost most of its atmosphere and became cold and dry. In the new study, the researchers analysed detailed images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which is currently circling the red planet, and concluded that there were later episodes where Mars experienced warm and wet periods."
Aussie Scientists Find Coconut-Carrying Octopus 205
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from an AP report: "Australian scientists have discovered an octopus in Indonesia that collects coconut shells for shelter — unusually sophisticated behavior that the researchers believe is the first evidence of tool use in an invertebrate animal. The scientists filmed the veined octopus, Amphioctopus marginatus, selecting halved coconut shells from the sea floor, emptying them out, carrying them under their bodies up to 65 feet (20 meters), and assembling two shells together to make a spherical hiding spot. ... 'I was gobsmacked,' said Finn, a research biologist at the museum who specializes in cephalopods. 'I mean, I've seen a lot of octopuses hiding in shells, but I've never seen one that grabs it up and jogs across the sea floor. I was trying hard not to laugh.'"
Comment Very nice API! (Score 1) 176
It should get a lot of traction since Android has a fantastic API, written by very smart developers for developers. I was playing with it briefly and was very impressed. The setup was breeze and tooling (Eclipse integration) is excellent! Do people who write Android apps for a living concur or there any issues in scaling?
Feed One Picture, 1,000 Tags (nytimes.com)
Museums are encouraging the public to annotate their online collections by supplying descriptive tags, creating a new shared vocabulary.
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