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Yep that's how I found yours... thanks! :)

People in engineering have to solve scientific problems too... and the author of the article doesn't understand completely what he wrote about.

Science is not biology nor physics nor chemistry and it's not truly about understanding the "universe and all it contains".

Science is a process of seeing, understanding, and confirming.

The word science does not have a claim on that process.

And almost every scientist today certainly does not have a valid claim on understanding "all" that the world contains.

If engineers didn't use science then they couldn't understand anything new and thus they couldn't engineer stuff because, as the author states, engineering is about understanding and solving problems.

Therefore there are some things in the world that engineers have to find out through a trustworthy process of confirmation and if they use controls in order to see and test things of the world then this falls squarely into the scientific process.

The author acts like someone can't be a scientist and an engineer at the same time but neither practice would be able to exist like it is today without the other one.

Oh yeah you're probably right about that. Good work. By the way, any suggestions on that phrase? I'm not a native speaker so my Japanese isn't very good.

Could you teach me how you format italic text like that?

It's the principle.

A good thing makes a good result, bad thing makes a bad result. A good thing is something that has enough truth inside it to transmit 'what is' accurately. Bad things have too much falsehood to see the things correctly.

imo you should judge things in the world for yourself after you've seen & confirmed what it is like.

Edit: @hugh3 hope that makes more sense

The problem is that he's not making the distinction between good secrets and bad secrets.

If you do something bad and covert it up, it's a bad secret because it results in bad things and the politicians involved do not want to be associated with the result. Such a thing musn't be a secret. It's wrong to cover up a bad thing because it's hiding something that could hurt you and others in the future. If the government's job should be to keep the society's justice then it's absolutely necessary not to hide bad things otherwise they're lying. So it's not the government's place to hide bad secrets.

Good things don't need to be lauded (humility) and they don't need to be covered up either. Since it's not going to result in a bad thing and hurt the society then it doesn't have to revealed unless you would like to use the good thing. For example, if private stuff in his life is actually private and not hurting anyone else, then he should be allowed to keep the secret if he decides to because it's his own life.

If there is this principle to tell good and bad in people's activities then it solves his question.

Do you know if your input method produces unicode? That could be the difference.

I think you mean, "いくつかの日本語"... :)

Very cool, well built.. but from a UX/UI perspective, it strikes me as a little bit odd that I would be sticking post-its to a cork board. Maybe a refrigerator or whiteboard texture would be more fitting. Or, so that you don't have to change your domain and branding, you can add thumbtack graphics.

"The community is often snobbish and out of touch with how the other half lives. "

I have noticed this and unfortunately have to agree with this observation. I wonder what principle (teaching) lets hackernews people behave like that.

When there are no problems present, and you make predictions based on only the effect you see, it's easy for you to be tricked about the present circumstances. It's almost like saying that spring is here again because it's 65° in Brooklyn today... even though winter is right around the corner.

You can do this with a plate of chocolate chips too, if no marshmallows are handy.

It will be more helpful to both parties if you can show a concrete problem through some existent things.

Personally I really don't want my email visible to Facebook. What would they do with my information? Google already set the precedent for leveraging email data _somehow_. If so, Facebook will probably push the boundaries while carefully marketing it so that users accept something they would not have just previously. I only have a problem with this because they're profiting from data that users would not have allowed them to sell to advertisers if they had known about the terms when signing up. So it's like a bait and switch and that makes me distrust them.

No, genius doesn't come from just hard work. You can work hard at the wrong way for a long time and still not get any better.

A genius is someone who sees the world by his own sight. A genius has wisdom because of that.

On the other hand, someone who learns only from school can't be a genius and get wisdom from books, he can only be someone with ability through learning, because he didn't awaken himself and see the principle of the world through himself.

It isn't real love to "talk it out" with them anyway. If it doesn't bless them and yourself it's not love anyway.

Things as they actually are is the only way that they are in truth.

So the teaching that it's loving them is what's false -- not that love itself couldn't help. In this case, it was a kind of love of oneself to fight back and protect oneself.

Just like a religion, it's when words and rules become more important than problems (and thus the truth that can be confirmed through those problems). If so, people are forced to do things that don't match the problems, and so the reason why they do things becomes to match a rule instead of an existent problem.

The implication is that the organization that runs like that will get bigger and bigger, worse and worse, and the activities of the group will make them exhaust themselves and lose their ability to understand their market and to adapt quickly, as the source of their ability is based on seeing things that exist now rather than a year ago. It's hard for a small organization to stay afloat like that, much less an entire country. Although countries are so big that they can appear to be doing just fine for a while but eventually the interest catches up with them.

Thanks for the link.

FYI http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-important-misconcepti...

I'm surprised to find someone like you who shares such a similar viewpoint as me.

Although I don't believe it is fully impossible to predict where we will be 20 years from now -- it's just an ability that's historically limited to a few people by the role they have in the process.

Thanks for the chat, guys. It was great to meet some of you and get to hear about your startups.

Cute..., and a good start to a UIKit visualization.

By the way, the methods you see in the diagram are to be implemented by a UIApplicationDelegate. Your UIApplicationDelegate class is usually laid out by default in new XCode projects. There are the methods currently documented by Apple.

Monitoring Application State Changes

– application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:

– applicationDidBecomeActive:

– applicationWillResignActive:

– applicationDidEnterBackground:

– applicationWillEnterForeground:

– applicationWillTerminate:

– applicationDidFinishLaunching:

Docs here (http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/UIKit/...)

I'm not saying I agree that Japanese products can't be better than another country's, but... isn't crafting a better production process the result of labor talent in the first place?

Node.js ftw

What if your startup is your baby?

Here's something else that might be of some interest to you. Slightly off topic -- video chat implemented in HTML5.

https://labs.ericsson.com/developer-community/blog/beyond-ht...

"everything was looked at, everything thought about"

When I went to WWDC this year, the lead UX guy from Apple said that one of their major design considerations is how to make the interface seem like a real thing with which you're interacting directly (known as a NUI in some circles).

If you keep this mind it explains a lot of their UI decisions... For example, the letter headers pushing each other out of the way as if they could not occupy the same space at the same time.

Wow... why so many downvotes? Not that I care about karma.

"Remember when I said that netbooks aren't good at anything and they're just cheap laptops?"

http://i.imgur.com/51f9p.jpg

I like this philosophy of working hard on what you know even if people can't recognize you right away, and not relying on anyone to live like that.

It means that living and working with a strong will, only depending on what you know in the world, will be able to result in better results (even through hardship) than those who have to rely on others.

Thanks for sharing.

This is such a great idea. Let's just hope no one on the ground gets hurt!!