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Here is one more data point against him http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Announcements/Cease_and_Desist_Lett...

The guy who was fired (Kiruba Shankar) is an empty suit. Here is a cease and desist letter from Wikimedia to him a couple of years back -- http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Announcements/Cease_and_Desist_Lett...

Remember he usually calls half-cooked products or apps as "turd"s.

They should atleast release the monospace as beta.

The problem with many explanations is that people who write them have forgotten how it is to not know Bayes Theorem. Here is my humble attempt as to where people who want to grok Bayes theorem can start:

Imagine you have been locked inside a room. You are asked what the outside weather is. Assume you have to pick one of sunny, cloudy and rainy. You know it is July so you predict it is mostly sunny. (Because intuitively you know that the odds of "sunny" is more than the other two). [1]

Now you see that someone has entered the room carrying an umbrella. You are asked that question again. Of course you are going to update your answer based on the new information. Your previous odds calculation, while good, has to accommodate the umbrella factor -- a very solid piece of additional information. [2]

Before the umbrella happened all you knew was [1] and it is called Prior. After you saw the umbrella the odds are conditioned on the umbrella and it is called Posterior [2]. which is what you want. And you should definitely use your intuition about the weather too [1] which now goes to the right hand side of the equation.

So

Posterior = ( ) x Prior

This blank is called as Likelihood... it is the probability of umbrella given the weather.

Imagine you live in a place where the umbrella is used only during rain. So the likelihood of an umbrella given it is sunny is very very less and is going to make the product of Prior x Likelihood very less.

Whereas the likelihood of umbrella given it is rainy is almost certain. Even if your initial guess (prior) gives less odds to rain.. the product of likelihood x prior for rain is more than that of the previous paragraph product. You answer "rainy"

Of course there is more to it and I suggest reading other great explanations in this thread.

I don't get the last point. It's a level playing field. If it's more work for other developers, it's more work for you too.

You don't need iTunes if you are controlling Apple TV with an iOS device. In fact I'd think that's the common usage.

I. Will. Reply. Like. This. To. Seek. Attention.

I thought this was a bit obvious.. whenever Go matures.

A contrarian p.o.v: They are going to lose out on exceptional cases where the candidate is a great engineer but is not able to devise a strategy towards a solution. However, there is a huge correlation between a good engineer and the ability to arrive at the solution (keep in mind they look at how you arrive at the solution too)

Personally, I'd make the candidate solve a decent intermediate level problem using a computer (and Google too). Give him/her the closest approximation of the typical job environment.

If you have the actual numbers, it would probably obey the Pareto distribution. Essentially few rockstar developers make big money and most of them don't succeed.

\Didn't read the article.

How long till Google buys Xamarin?

Yes. Multiple opportunities to take the high road.

I agree, though, as founders of geeklist.. the two gents are held to a higher standard and they utterly failed.

It seems Shanley interviewed with them initially and didn't get the job? Maybe, that's the start of the issue.

Well. in actuality the $4B is paid according to Pareto distribution ( Pareto principle). That means a small chunk of developers with highly successful apps are going to get a large chunk of that $4B. This makes Apple's claim actually worse.

Apple had the second biggest quarter by a company ever. It's good journalism to acknowledge not only the great aspects of Apple - design, products, marketing but also acknowledge the unsavory parts of how these companies have to rely on brutal labor conditions to get things done.

Yes, other companies are doing it but it's not the point of the article.

acting like a butthurt child. I have a Fire.. not a fanbou by any stretch.. its a fun device because of my use cases.

awful linkbait

Seems to be a fitting reply to Marco's post.

Wait. Isn't this what Google TV is all about?

Since Microsoft, Apple cartel bought the Nortel patents aren't they exactly behaving like patent trolls ( Intellectual Ventures ) in this context? You have to be wilfully ignorant not to see the similarity.

I doubt it's going to work. What is going to prevent state from becoming a totalitarian authority? The state is going to attract sociopaths and power crazy individuals.

Democracy is probably the system which can do the least damage.

What statements encode serious programming concepts?

* Duck Typing - "If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck"

Citation?

I gave a skim and didn't find this

11. Never commit revisions which can't be built. (In the exceptional cases, always state in the commit message that the code doesn't build.)

I think you mean 38 minutes. To be fair, Dr.Clark's message was really long. Maybe, he already had your post in his editor before you corrected it. I can't fault either of you.

Reading the exchanges, it seems that Prof.Clark and Jeff Atwood had prior exchanges wherein Jeff was asked not to privately email Clark. It seems to be a classic case of power struggle.

But I'll say this -- Mathematicians are strange cats. My boss is one. His emails seem extremely rude but he's one of the nicest guys in person.

It's not just in the Math community. But isn't it common practice that when you use quotes, you absolutely don't paraphrase. Weird move by Jeff.

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I don't get this application. Why would I want to use such a thing?