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I work in intense spurts, when I do, I am so focused on the task that I really don't care what's happening around the keyboard:), my desk gets cluttered very quickly with coffee cups, the occasional book, keys, notebook, pieces of paper etc. After a couple of hours it resembles a battlefield. However, before I start on a new task, I like to clear everything:)
Some Outright Bugs in Markdown.pl simply described with examples: http://code.google.com/p/pandoc/wiki/PandocVsMarkdownPl -- He doesn't even mention the hilarity where if you mention the MD5 hash of a token in the document, the hash will be replaced with the token, as Gruber's code uses that as an escaping mechanism!

"PHP Markdown" started as a straight transliteration of Markdown.pl, and he lists 123 user-visible changes that he made. The few of those changes that add features were to deal with warts in Markdown's design that made it impossible to not fuck things up: http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/

The PHP Markdown guy called out Gruber over this same bullshit 3 years ago: http://michelf.com/weblog/2006/state-of-markdown/

The bugfixes Gruber's been sitting on were mentioned on his stagnant mailing list: http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/markdown-discuss/

The BSD license does gives you freedom, but not authority or the name, and Gruber spent years being hostile towards forkers/reimplementors, and then spent years simply ignoring it. Besides, the only thing the license would give your freedom regarding is Gruber's code, and you really don't want that.
These folks laugh when you talk about evolution as reality, and can only reason abstractly at the level of a grade schooler.

Since you tossed this subject in, how about folks that disagree with (macro)evolution but have a Ph.D. from MIT and currently work as a Nuclear Research Manager for NASA?

http://www.apologeticspress.org/staff/mh

I've met this guy and he does not reason like a grade schooler. Also, he noted that many of his colleagues agree with his position regarding origin science.
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I'd recommend tidying up and cleaning every now and then. You don't have to go all minimalist on us, though
Sorry, I misread the title "Beautiful mini language for outputing HTML in Python" as a DSL to be embedded in Python code rather than a separate text file (which is actually language agnostic after the preprocessor is done).
I've heard stories about this for years, there are some choice comments about it by Thomas Lord in this recent thread: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3696

I can't find it right now, but there was also an old flamewar (can't remember if it was public or just a public recounting) between RMS and Steve Jobs over NeXT's Objective-C frontend.
When he says 'interface element', do you take that to mean a button or what? In one sense, everything on the screen is an 'interface element' ...
Wikipedia and BBC are NOT scientific studies. I followed up some of the (VERY FEW) links from the Wikipedia article to medical papers, and they were just what the original article said - studies that claimed improvements on this or that scale with no evidence of actual life extension.
Online debates are mostly about disagreeing and polarisation - what I would like to see is a platform that would reward agreeing - saying things that would be acceptable by both of the usually formed sides.
In addition, the series at http://academicearth.org/courses/the-structure-and-interpret... is pretty good as well.
For the love of Pete, what kind of posting is this?
It sounds to me like he is making a lot of use of harmonics. He appears to be doing it percussively (by banging his finger against the fretboard vs. the usual technique of lightly touching the string and picking elsewhere). This is probably what gives him his unique sound.
I'm a big fan of Wikilekas, but I see several things wrong with this approach.

First, it's the way they ask for donations. They close the website and it's almost like "If you want Wikileaks, you have to pay". I don't think this helps their cause in any way. I remember seeing a banner while the website was still live, but that didn't last long.

Also, I don't think they reached a point where then can't hold the website online. It's not like it's new.

Like someone else said, they don't tell what their expenses are, nor how much money they need.

On the technical side, I don't see the need for having MediaWiki running. It's not the most lightweight application, and since most of the publications are done by the team behind the project, maybe having an approach like http://cryptome.org/ would make it less CPU hungry and would not depend on so many resources.

Since someone mentioned the mirror on Freenet, here is the mirror on the Onion land: http://gaddbiwdftapglkq.onion/
"For the love of Pete, what kind of posting is this?"

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Exactly: clustering and storage are more and more "commodity" features, as I see it.
The most important thing is going to be what you build upon them, the real value you provide to the user: is data partitioned or replicated? What data manipulation features are provided? And so on ...
Sure, I was just kidding.
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I dunno, they all sounds kind of same to me.

Compare it with Stanley Jordan: he actually makes it sound like there are two guys playing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjXN3OLgoqs
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I take it to mean any interface element you're making in Photoshop -- buttons, nav, etc.

Now that I think about it, I stick to CSS most of the time and try to keep images to a minimum (front-end optimization is a tough habit to kick), so I may forget this by the time the next occasion arises.
Cluttered desk. Clean desktop.

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I'm not a Microsoft hater at all and contrary to some others I think they have been an innovative company (e.g. VB, XMLHTTPRequest, Linq, ...). But Wilcox's list of "visionary" Microsoft innovation is weird.

I mean just because they did something before Apple did it doesn't mean they invented it, nor that they were particularly visionary. Most of the items on that list were talking points at the time and many wanted to do them in the .com bubble years. What Microsoft was talking about then was just part of the general "vision hyper-inflation" of the time.

Hailstorm was a concept for an XML Web Services platform. Yes it was supposed to support API access to things like address books among many other things, but presenting this as the predecessor to Facebook is a stretch to say the least. Facebook started out as a web site, not as a platform. Turning that on its head is not visionary. It's an old blueprint for certain failure.

And the tablet PC a precursor to the iPhone? Excuse me but the iPhone is a phone. It's primarily a communication device on which people play some games as well, and a very small minority does one or two other things with it. Is everything with a touch screen now a would be iPhone?

And then there's the NTFS successor. As far as I remember it was not planned to be a distributed file system or some kind of virtualized cloud/cluster thing. It was supposed to be a file system that had database-like features like a rich data model, and it used SQL Server technology. Scaling out was not the vision but that's exactly the point of "cloud" storage.

Microsoft as the largest OS vendor completely missed the boat on virtualization, which is probably the most important OS trend in the past 10 years. Ok, they took the next boat, but the fact that it's not even mentioned is telling.

And then there is Office collaboration. What a horrible mess. There's nothing even remotly usable. They piled on useless features in Office but stuff like editing a Word file in a group, something really obvious, is so horribly broken and has been forever. That's an anti vision.

So no, they haven't just been bad at executing. Their visions were either of me-too quality or the kind of failed platform grandstanding that IBM was known for.

That said, they have created some solid high quality stuff in the past 10 years as well. Windows is a good solid OS. .NET is a good solid development platform and C# hasn't stalled as Java has. They have opened up Office file formats and invented a sane alternative to PDF. It's good engineering work and a little bit visionary in some places.
Like any other tool litigation can be used or abused. It's unfortunate that a lot of abuses have gone unpunished and that more people (and companies) are taking these bad examples as 'the way to do it' because everybody else is doing it too.

This is not a purely American thing, though I would definitely contend that the United States has seen some of the worst excesses of this.
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I'm more familiar with St. John's College, as I dreamed of attending had not the cost been so prohibitively high.
http://www.sjca.edu/

But the one-track curriculum is based off the trivium and quadrivium of medieval education, where you don't have electives but regardless, you get a well-rounded education because they're preparing you to think and inquire. So every student studies Greek, Latin, French, Western classical music, mathematics from the source (like Euclid's Elements and Newton's Principia), physics from the source, chemistry, history, etc. No modern textbooks rehashing information, so theoretically, no passive learning. So this curriculum isn't really a straitjacket.

The one downside is that you're not getting a very multicultural or contemporary view, given that you're reading the Western canon largely pre-World War II. But it's not such a big problem if you again realize that the idea with this education is that you're being trained not in subjects but in the ability to go out and find what you don't know in the classroom on your own and to discuss these new ideas with other people.
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I don't know why you're taking his post so literally.

Forget about the 98 and 85 numbers.

The point of the follow-up was to merely say that functional programming works as long as you don't try to rigorously and dogmatically apply it to everything. There's a sweet spot where most of your code is functional but you also allow certain inconsistencies in, in order to make the whole system palatable.

This was actually what he was trying to say in his first post, but he didn't really get it across clearly, hence, the follow-up.
>I don't see how this is any knock against the functional programming paradigm. I always understood the rule of thumb to be "use purity as much as possible, and be impure only when it's explicitly needed." Modifying a global state seems to be a pretty obvious case for using an impure function.

This is pretty much exactly what he's saying.

His response was targeted at people who think functional programs should wholly avoid state and side-effects. (I don't actually know of too many people who believe this, but apparently he does)
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Actually Joe Sugarman (the marketer who made the usage of 1800 toll free numbers in ads popular) tested this out a couple of decades ago for his entire company.

Doesn't matter if people have organized desks or chaotic desks. Doesn't matter if they have a minimalistic desk or a cluttered one. Just follow one rule: shut down everything before you leave for the day.

At the end of the day, everything should be in its proper place. You can't have 3 folders open on your desk - they have to be closed and put in its place on the shelf.

That one rule gave a tremendous boost to employee productivity.
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And be replaced with what? I'm as irritated with all the stupid TSA crap as anyone else and now go out of my way to avoid flying because of it---but the post-9/11 pre-TSA period was even worse as far as fickleness and inconsistency of security.

TSA needs a lot of fixing. But on the whole I think nationalised airline security is probably the right way to go.
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I used to have a mini-Leatherman attached to my key ring, which had a small knife on it. I'd often forget to take it off when traveling, and it made it through airport security on at least 4 trips (so at least 8 times through the x-ray machine), probably more. Ironically, it wasn't the TSA who eventually took it from me, but security outside a club in San Francisco.
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I agree. Though you can lead downward, too.
There are also some interesting applications in Clean. They (used to) ship a jump-n-run game as an example with their compilers and IDE.
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"Of course, if you're a C++ programmer..."

Ugh, no. C programmer. I don't have an intrinsic problem with GC (as it allows me to be lazy), though admittedly there are quite a few bad GC implementations out there that can cause noticeable performance issues.

Immutable state has its uses, but, again, it's a question of whether or not it's mandatory.
I wish they would enable this on their own wiki. Markdown is great, but they force that textile crap on everyone.
The problem is that we are looking at a tragedy-of-the-commons problem, a classic prisoner's dilemma: if y'all cut back on your Z-packs, then I can use it safely without really breeding any superbugs. And the US, with its deep-seated commitment to liberty, is notoriously bad at resolving that sort of thing cleanly.
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Two things:

1) Reinforced cockpit doors and armed pilots so terrorists can't get control over the plane.

2) Better intelligence and policing on the ground; remember, in the last attempted attack the guys father had raised concerns about him beforehand.

Airport screening is basically security theater.
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I honestly don't know. I'm not a security or explosives expert. Maybe you can't defend against an attack like that.

But maybe that's ok. Maybe preserving our privacy and avoiding making us all feel like criminals while we're traveling is worth a successful attack every now and then.

Yes, I know: easy for me to say, not having been on that plane, and never having lost anyone to terrorism. But I'd argue that the people who have been victims of terrorism (directly or indirectly) are way too close to the situation to be able to make a decision like that for the rest of us.

What is so magical about planes that make them such huge terrorist targets? How many passengers are on your average commercial flight? 200? 300? Hell, you could kill that many people just by setting off a bomb in the pre-security section of a decent-sized airport on a moderately-busy day -- and it would be comparatively trivial to accomplish.
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Sorry this article is borderline ridiculous. Comparing for example, Amazon S3 to NTFS is like comparing an online storage platform used for building web services on top of, to a local file system used for storing files on desktops. Oh wait.

Seems to me like its a hurried piece of negative PR in part of a much larger war. Probably a response to the "Top 9 products Google killed" story somewhere else on the internets.
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It was everybody's greed, not just the banks.

If I despise something about human societies, it is their tendency for scapegoating...
Somewhat morbidly entertainingly, with the "no standing up in the last hour of flight" rule, the underwear bomber might have been successful, given that either a) no one would have gotten up to try to subdue him, or b) the first person who got up to try to subdue him would have been subdued by another as a potential terrorist.
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Small banks fail too, they won't make the national news but they definitely do.

This is an interesting list of failed banks:

http://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html

Especially if you look at the years and the number of failures in those years.

2009 definitely does not look good, more than 100 in one year.
I shot them an email about what they needed programming-wise. No response so far. Not terribly productive in getting help.
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Yes, my understanding is that it makes the person stop and think for a moment, "oh, hmm, wait a sec... I did leave my bag alone when I went to the bathroom." Of course, my assumption is that most people would still answer "yes" to the question anyway, to avoid being inconvenienced by a search.
That something is a non-profit doesn't mean someone doesn't take it home.

If you're asking for this kind of contribution then you need to be 100% transparent.
No doubt. But isn't a big part of that in 2009 because local banks were encouraged to take bigger risks than they normally would have? I mean, if they didn't have mortgages to bundle for Wall Street, would their more conservative policies have helped them to survive?
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I think there should be some order on the desk and allow for easy reach to the stuff you want. I keep a notebook and pen to the right of the keyboard to note out stuff I might have missed. For everything else, that I do, I use the keyboard and desktop. Like someone said. Clean Desktop. Ordered (could be messy but still ordered) desk. Always a notebook and pen and you are good to go.
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Actually that comparison is not so ridiculous.

Customers want storage, lots of it. One way to do it is to provide the technology to make that storage cheap and easy to maintain. Another way to have cheap/maintainable storage is by using an external provider.
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I have a 4oz gel deodorant container that I put in the freaking plastic bag, and it's never been confiscated.

When I flew out of SJC on the 24th, they weren't even reminding people to take their liquids out; I left mine in my luggage with no issues.

When I flew back from BWI on the 29th, there was a guy a little bit in front of me who walked through the metal detector with his coat on. The machine went off, and they had him go back and take his belt off and empty his pockets... but said nothing about the coat, despite the facts that the signs along the line specifically say to take off your coat and put it in a bin.

If the TSA doesn't even enforce their own policies, what's the point?
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Augmented Reality. Facebook in school. Teaching through Social networks. Elimination of old studies and introduction of new concepts. Nano technology more in your face. Mobile devices replacing computers. We getting a cure for cancer. We growing limbs again. The futures fine to look forward to.

Unless we destroy ourselves before that.
"Most of the items on that list were talking points at the time and many wanted to do them in the .com bubble years."

That goes for most innovations - they are floating around when the time is right.
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The battle over the living room was firmly won by the wii. Households that have never had games consoles, now have a wii in the living room. I'd be willing to bet there are far more wii's in living rooms than any other console.

I think one reason the xbox looks like a great success is due to how badly the ps3 sucks, and how stupid Sony got. £300 for a games console is ridiculous, and basing it on a soon to be obsolete bluray standard is just more idiocy. They never seem to learn - minidisc, UMD etc - they always try to lock in these ridiculous new formats.

For me, the only innovator lately has been Nintendo. They have absolutely turned gaming on its head, and come out with some truly imaginative games that focus soley on fun and gameplay. They've captured amazing large new markets of gamers who have never played before.

The xBox is a good all round console, but it's just more of the same IMHO. I don't see much innovation going on there. I'm sure ms are pleased with xbox, but I wonder just how much money they've lost in total doing it. Maybe they'll break even in the next generation, or maybe Sony will realize just how stupid they've been. Maybe they'll go back to their playstation 1 roots.