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Why announce the deal when he did? I'll give you a Billion reasons ...

The funny thing about "A players hire A players and B players hire C players" is that every company I have worked at that uses that mantra is full of B & C players from the top down.

IMO, the original is better.

Agreed or at least offer it as an option so we can throw Eifion a bone. Asciicasts is great when you prefer to read (e.g. on a Kindle during the daily commute).

I agree 100%, but maciej has also found something rare and rather special. A technically savvy group that has a non-technical use case and the ability to clearly articulate their need. Further, their needs are widely applicable to other groups. This does not happen very often.

I just completed the course and it is very well done. If you want to teach to young children (especially boys), then a Khan Academy approach could be used where you narrate the course. Most of Khan Academy's success comes from Sal himself, his personality. It is hard to find natural teachers who show heartfealt enthusiasm for their subjects. Ryan Bates of Railscasts also achieves this. Just my C$0.02. Again, thank you for your work. This is a wonderful direction for education.

Well done. One suggestion is to use the Socratic Method (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method) like "The Little Schemer". I would love to see "The Little Schemer" implemented on your site.

Thanks for the clarification. I hate it when I fall for this stuff.

This is for wireless communication to/from the device and not operating it from the control panel. For critical incidents paramedics would use their own tools (glucometer & needle).

Incredible. As a minimum I would have expected all communication to be encrypted.

The internet makes it harder to determine the truth. If not careful, then anyone can start spreading falsehoods against their best intentions. Nobody wants you to shut up about the truth, but your ability to judge what is "true" is greatly impaired by the cheap (and legal) proliferation of falsehoods.

He is looking for an internship. Hello, Apple, hire him already.

JRuby 1.7 has the major Invokedynamic changes. You can play with trunk for now.

Indeed, As Charles Nutter (JRuby) wrote:

"There’s a very real chance that invokedynamic could improve JRuby performance many times, putting us on par with our statically-typed brothers like Java and Scala. And that means you can write Ruby code without fear. Awesome."

http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2011/jruby-1-6-released-now-w...

Exactly. It depends upon which language, framework, programming style, etc. For game code you can look at ID's work. For java I hear the Jenkins code is very good. Ask around, there is no shortage of good code.

My point is that as an apprentice you should study the masters. Try and duplicate their work through practice.

He missed some important ones: study good code and practice writing it.

Right and most hate doing it because it hurts, so they don't. This will make it painless (after getting the tattoo) to continuously monitor your blood sugar level. Sweet (pun intended).

If this works, and scales, then it will be fantastic. It will also be disruptive to the ~$450B diabetes industry.

Satire is an important form of political commentary.

In this case the lawyers are an agent for Apple. Apple is the one with the patent claim and started the lawsuit. The real issue (IMO) is Apple, Microsoft, RIM, etc. colluding to kill Android. Android is a fundamental threat to their business model.

I can't wait to see this progress when emacs gets lexical scope and threading. Having a lisp machine as an asynchronous web server is amazing.

Windows and OSX, but not iOS (yet) or Linux (probably never).

I also wonder if they are selling shares because Microsoft is nipping at their heels. Live Mesh is a serious contender and starts with 5G instead of 2G. I switched.

It doesn't just happen to athletes. I saw the same thing happen in the high tech world during the dot-com bubble.

ITerm2 combined with zsh and oh-my-zsh gives you super powers.

Apple needs applications clients want/need to use. Facetime is a direct competitor to Skype. Twitter integration will help on their social front. This is a 3-way war.

Google vs. Microsoft+Facebook vs. Apple+Twitter. This is fun.

The reason it is not "done right" is because it is really hard to do right with the existing tools. Diabetes is a bitch. 5+ blood samples a day, 4+ insulin injections per day, every day. You can't ever miss one. Hungover? Too bad. Sick? Double the tests. If you miss one you either pass out (low) or feel like crap (high). Anything that can help with the regimen is appreciated. I'm looking forward to what they have to say.

My son is diabetic.

Design is more than that. It is what users really want, but it is also how they feel when they use it, how it works, how it looks, etc. PMs are great at getting projects done. They herd cats. But very few have studied design, industrial design, art history, architecture, literature, etc.

Jonathan Ive studied industrial design. Steven Sinofsky studied computer science.

The difference is more nuanced than sales. At Apple designers rule, and because Steve understands design, they higher excellent designers. At Microsoft program manager's rule, and a PM is neither a technologist nor a designer. They represent "the user". As a result Microsoft is great at feature-rich products that solve many problems. At Apple, they focus on the human side of technology. They try to make things easier to use. They focus on design details and strive for minimalism while still being feature rich. At Microsoft a PM could never remove an on/off button from an MP3 player.

Microsoft's cloud strategy is very good for their business. They will run many enterprise products in the cloud successfully (Exchange, SQL Server, etc.) that generate revenue. You just won't read about them in sfgate.