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Can anybody comment on the xmonad and Google Chrome combination?

Since I've started using xmonad, I find myself frustrated whenever I have to reach for the mouse. Browsing with Firefox is a joy when using the Vimperator extension, yet unfortunately it doesn't look like Vimperator will be finding its way to Chrome in the foreseeable future. This alone keeps me in Firefox, even though I'd like to move to Chrome.

Is there any reasonable "solution" to this "problem?" Thanks!
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The Arc challenge in Go
What percentage of people would know what "contiguous" means?
I agree. I hit the level limit my third time playing, then left the page. Had I not been stopped by the level limit, I probably would have stayed up far too late tonight playing rather than coming back here to comment.

Putting the full game online would get people like me hooked, making it more likely for us to want to take it with us.
When a square lands, it may have square(s) immediately above it.

Only the square at the bottom of this landing square stack shrinks other squares (if any).
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Well, when you're making that sort of accusation of hypocrisy, you're best off trying to avoid it.
One would hope that once we reach that level of technology, we will have gotten past wars....
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Won't this return the last input entered by any user, regardless of who clicks? The spirit of the arc challenge is to output what you typed, not what anyone types.
Fair enough, I'm in the clear minority:)
Better than Tetris. Much better. I think that sums all.

However I second the suggestions to make more clear what actions will led to the column and lateral block elimination. It take me a couple of plays to figure out.

Congratulations for your work.
I use a share at www.gandi.net, 1 share isn't too expensive. In my experience they respond the same day to support emails, and you can enable temporary console access via their website in case you really messed up your installation.

update: gandi is in france.
This is Javascript, which means you can play it in Safari on the iPhone/iPod touch. The animation is problematic in Safari on my 2nd generation iPod touch, but perhaps it's reasonable on the fastest iPhone.
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I have heard this, but not noticed it--I make eye contact all the time on the subway, and I have not once had someone talk back to me, much less initiate sex or violence. This might be a size thing (too fat to be sexy, too big to be worth fighting), but I honestly suspect that New Yorkers exaggerate the city's hostility in this respect. Eye contact is too primal to change this fast, or to vary this much by geography.
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It's indicative of a link that answers a question, not one that asks it. So what you should weigh is controversy / (votes / comments). A high-vote, low-comment article about abortion has clearly resolved the issue; a low-vote, high-comment issue about creationism has probably just asked stupid questions in a provocative way.
Yes you're right :) this assumes that only one user is using the app at a time. web.go doesn't have per-session storage yet
Well, even if it wasn't totally original, the Futurama where Fry becomes his own grandfather was hilarious.
I agree describing it in text might be a problem. I would generate a few pictures showing different ways the "blast lines" interact with the board. I wouldn't go through all the more interesting chain reactions (part of the fun is finding them). But I think it would make the game easier to understand for a first time player.
Your point is a good one but I think it's somewhat cheating to pick 1909-1947 as your arbitrary 38 year period since both world wars happened during that period. A world war has a way of spurring innovation in killing technologies more than anything else. I guess it's possible we have two more world wars between now and 2047, but that seems unlikely to me.
I don't really know what you mean by "human-equivalent", but I'll assume you mean an AGI. I don't think an actual programmer is the most qualified to build it. It could equally be a neuroscientist or a mathematician (who does some Maple or Python on the side for their job), and more realistically a multidisciplinary team.

I've seen plenty of programmers underestimating the problem of AGI as well!
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I think the right way to deal with this is to find a way to use our closure tool to replace jsmin's functionality in a dfsg/osi approved way.

Not before the new year though (I was the dude who said no way to jsmin on google code)
At the same time, I think it's just a really quick/lazy way to prevent SQL injection.
Agree, was going to suggest a Google group.

Whatever gets setup, add me to the list: george@illuminatikarate.com.
I think "contiguous" does a great job of making "it shrinks all squares below it and in the same row segment" more concise and understandable, even if just for the subset of people who understand what contiguous means. That being said, I wouldn't underestimate the intelligence of the average english speaker that much. Contiguous is a pretty common word.

But a good compromise would be a video or something demonstrating exactly what you mean.
If you really wanted to, you could just block the iphone/ipod user agent string.

Although that'd be more of a last resort thing.
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Crazy dreadlocks? They look normal to me ;-) .
It has to do with asian population also. They tend to look away, and not stare, or feel uncomfortable with it. Since asians are about 30-40% of the area, it sets the tone that eye contact is rude.
I've seen plenty of programmers underestimating the problem of AGI as well!

...though for every one that underestimates it, there are plenty that overestimate it.

Solving this problem doesn't necessarily mean that we do anything at all clever; it really may just boil down to having decent brain scanning technology and lightning fast processors to run the simulations. We'll definitely have the computers, in time, so the only question is whether brain scanning improves. If that's what it comes down to, programmers and computer scientists are pretty much irrelevant, and the real heroes will be the guys doing medical tool development.

Granted, it would be deeply unsatisfying to "solve" the problem by blindly copying nature. But there's a very real possibility that it's going to turn out to be our first viable solution to the problem, and let's be honest: it's not going to be very difficult to do if the enabling technologies are already in place.
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Contrast the obsession with simplifying sign-on forms, to lower the threshold for participation in web applications.
I'm using it right now, and I was so impressed that it is now my default browser (replacing Safari).

Extensions I'm currently using are: Gmail notifier, Feedly, Goo.gl shortener, Google Translate, and Facebook. All work well, and they don't seem to be slowing down the browser during normal operations.
Oh, you are right. I assume the down-voters did not recognize the colon, either.
Don't miss Joseph Wu's origami web page, particularly the "gallery":

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Yes. You forgot when option: "Or should I get three other people to get on my car and use the express lane for free."
I really think you might be on to something. It's just as much fun to play as any of the big hits in this genre I can think of - really is in the same class as Tetris, Bejeweled, etc.

Some random thoughts:

- I started reading the instructions, failed to visualize any of it, and said "screw it, I'll just start playing and pick it up as I go". The good news is the gameplay itself is very intuitive.

- appearances are SO important in the iPhone world. If it looks like it's starting to pick up momentum, absolutely get a good designer on board and give it an overhaul. I can easily see someone else take your gameplay, give it a lot of polish, and release an app that will leave yours in the dust - that would really suck.

edit: just bought the iPhone version. Well worth the $0.99.
There's no root access and might not suit you, but the answer to "what hosting do [I] use for personal projects?" is Google App Engine. It's really very convenient and easy for small things. (e.g. http://h4ck3r.net/, http://skulpt.org/)
But computer science isn't about building applications.
When I was in New York in November people seemed quite friendly to me, and did not evade eye contact. (There were even people who gave out free hugs on Union Square.)

But then, I was growing up in former Prussia. So I may have other standards than Americans.
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Chromium Mac builds have supported extensions for a couple of months :)

I wrote an extension using Chromium on a Mac http://github.com/tumult/jdic-chrome

It's in need of updating to take advantage of NPAPI (to reduce its giant memory footprint) and the new preferences page feature. Hopefully I'll get find some time to work on it before too long.
Is that what you meant?

Not really. If I added a condition to the contest that you didn't take into account when writing Arc, Arc would no longer do as well. When the same person designs the programming language and the contest to "prove" it's the best, the contest is likely to prove that his programming language is the best. Not due to malice, but rather because both the language designer and contest designer think exactly the same way (as they are both the same person).
I guess it's not finding something important, but lowering the costs of launches, so that space becomes important.
the biggest change in how people reacted to me (coming from an extreme introverted childhood) was making eye contact with people.
I'd read your article.
Ask HN:  What are the best technologies you've worked with this year?
What are the best shiny new technologies that you worked with this past year? I'm always interested in hearing about what others are working with, and loving.

edit I'd also love to hear what you love about it and why.
if anyone has been following natal development....apparently the infrared cameras that natal uses for depth information has trouble with darker skin. I can't wait for the hilarity upon release if they don't fix it.
I didn't feel comfortable looking somebody in the eyes while talking them until I was 22 or 23 and had just re-read How To Win Friends & Influence People for the 3rd or 4th time.
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Doesn't Scheme/Arc fall in the same category? One could view Arc as a Scheme-implemented DSL for web applications, or not?
A high-vote, low-comment article about abortion has clearly resolved the issue

Well, perhaps that's a bit optimistic on that topic... :)
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That's a pretty sweeping generalization there. If you could substantiate it more, I might like to hear what you have to say.
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Great point. Apple seemed to take the NeXT OS and try and mask it to resemble the visual functionality of OS 9 as much as possible.

Anyone remember the OS X beta with the blue apple in the middle of the menu bar? Yikes.
The rule of thumb for eye contact with strangers (this is what I learned in a character analysis for film) is that beyond a time limit of 3 seconds the two characters will either A) get into a fist fight or B) start making passionate love.
I'd say a bigger problem would be time to target, in one of two ways:

- light speed; being 0.5 seconds away from the enemy moving at orbital speeds means that even the slightest change in direction would put you quite far from where he thinks you are. I'd guess in-combat ships would continuously change direction by minute amounts.

- old fashioned "see the bullet 1000 km away and dodge it".

This leaves one obvious option: autonomous scatter pack missiles. They would get as close to the target as possible, then split into several parts so as to be harder to pick up by laser or kinetic defenses. Payload could be anything, but i'd guess delayed explosives might do a fair amount of damage.
Dead giveaway: the dotted line around the folder name for "Apple Extras". That's some Windows UI right there.
Aha... so, yes, a terrible Photoshop job. :) The progress bars are particularly galling - they don't even line up with the frame properly.
I don't get it. The FAQ implies they aren't using jar files, so are they providing a custom classloader instead? If they inherited multiple-version support from rubygems, how do they know which version I want visible?
GAE: if you can reduce your problem to searching in a b-tree, you're in heaven.

GWT: code for the browser like it's 1984.
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I've been doing this eye-contact experiment, i.e., making eye contact with random people in public places and waiting to see how they react. Reaction in Poland: look away. Reaction in Switzerland: look away. Reaction in California: smile and say "Hi!"
Don't worry, Avatar and Titanic are nothing alike. Titanic is a big-budget chick flick, Avatar is a pure action/adventure movie without much sappiness
Oh, I guess I assumed they didn't since the official Chrome betas don't yet.
I went for slicehost about a year ago right when they were bought by rackspace. At the time HN recommended them as the best choice by far, and I think they were. I never did have any problems with them at all this year, and everything from customer support to management interface has been great.

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"... Ekman ..."

Thanks DTrejo, you would think I'd get the name right. I was thinking Venkman ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Venkman
People in New York are actually quite hospitable. They just have places to be, things to do, and they are tired of explaining which way is downtown and bumping into people who are too busy looking up. I find that a calm smile and a friendly tone of voice goes a lot further in New York than in most cities. People are more genuine there. If you get a negative response, that person is just trying to save you both some time.
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Eye contact and a warm handshake go a long way. Whether you are try to get the VC to give you money or the pretty girl to go on a date.
This is why we need diversity in the work environment. That software to track faces was probably designed by a bunch of white kids and they forgot the people of color.

This isn't the first time either: the voice recognition software that did not recognize the female voice at all.
Tokyo Cabinet (key value storage: removed the "R" and "M" from "ORM", managed to get an object from disk to the client with the object being opaque to the server, cutting deserialization/serialization overhead down, implemented indexes to keep track of keys and got more of an idea of what MySQL does behind the scenes).
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So, just how much code can I hide in a 3rd-party library or framework before the LOC count begins?

That Ruby example clearly will not work without a bunch code (i.e., the whole of Sinatra) that's not shown, and is not part of Ruby's std-lib.

See:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1005162

but also

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1005155
I kept losing instantly, took me a bit to remember I have a setting that forces new windows to be new tabs. Needless to say it is very hard to play that way.
distributed with the up-and-coming "Place your license text here. This file will be incorporated with your app at package time." license. interesting.
Ask Hacker News: What is the % chance of cataclysmic climate change?
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Same here. Though I'd say the size of the blocks gave me a much better clue as to what's going on instead of the color. If there was something, like icons that "degrade" naturally, like...say from big birds to small birds...(that explode with lasers at the end), it'll probably help.
>>Each Orion mission would require a couple dozen explosions to reach LEO

Huh? Values I've seen talks about a nuclear explosion around per second. You'd need a few minutes to reach LEO.

>>nuclear fuel to be diverted from military uses

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_uranium

"The decommissioning programme of Russian nuclear warheads accounted for about 13% of total world requirement for enriched uranium leading up to 2008."

Etc.

(And of course it isn't a simple decision. Few interesting ones ever are.)

This is the second discussion in a short time where you obviously don't know anything at all but still write.

Personally, if I don't know anything about a subject, I just read and/or ask. Since I know my opinions will change when I know more, anyway.
The argument against global warming seems to be that there is a lot of uncertainty. The models really could be wrong.

What is your prior probability for the formal scientific opinion on climate change being correct? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_c... I choose 95%.

What percent chance do you think there is of cataclysmic global warming, human caused or otherwise? I can't pick an exact number, but it is certainly above 0+ and it seems like a bad enough scenario that it is worth doing something to try and stop it if we can. Note that I don't think this type of analysis is very meaningful quantitatively, but it can reveal why people think the way they do. I really don't understand the contrarian perspective on global warming and I would like to hear how you justify your probabilities.
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Good catch. I guess when this is true until they implement session management. Anyways I was surprised by the cleanness of this code.
Does anyone know how long the folks making the prediction expect to live? I ask because this sounds like an instance of "AI will be good enough right around the time that I should die", as in http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2007/03/the_maesgarre... (which was recently mentioned in HN).
The biggest extensions that's still missing is 1password and that's probably the only reason google chrome is not yet my default browser.
Best software engineers are also strong systems administrators. It's also commonly understood that strong systems people must be strong software engineers. An operation department at a serious Internet company wouldn't even invite somebody who can't write production quality code for an in-person interview (they wouldn't pass a phone screen).

Strong operations people would also resent being called "IT". IT sets up corporate desktops/mail/calendaring, the VPN and mounts machines in a rack. Indeed, this could be outsourced (mail to Google Apps, rack mounting to Rackspace, OpenVPN in lieu of an expensive Cisco product).

Production operations involves something entirely different and requires an entirely different skillset. Think being able to create application specific automated provisioning, configuration, deployment, software load balancing, monitoring, fault tolerance and high availability. Monitoring is especially tricky: nearly all the enterprise and open source NMS products, for example, "get it wrong" (e.g. hyperic using a single database to store events and allowing you to only poll every few seconds). Monitoring an application (as opposed to a machine) requires writing custom code (by definition), otherwise you simply can't capture the essential vital statistics (and not just whether or not somebody listening on port 80).

I hate doing an appeal to authority, but I should add I've done operations at a very large scale (10,000+ machines) in a big name Internet company, as well as on a smaller scale at startups. I've since moved on to software engineering (since that's what I love doing the most), but it bugs me to see misconceptions about the nature of running an Internet service. Unfortunately these misconceptions run deep and often disadvantage entire application stacks by making them unfriendly to operations (e.g. the flaws of JMX).
How about just using a cookie?

No, it's not going to keep track of me as I go from computer to computer, but if I care about that, I'm interested enough to login.
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Nope, human intelligence is inherently different than anything machines can do:

http://www.box.net/shared/u13u3agxqg
Isn't this similar to what berkley db does?

EDIT: Genuine curiosity, not trying to make a point.
Redis. It's a very different kind of database - being able to perform 80,000 set or list operations a second enables a whole bunch of solutions to otherwise difficult problems (real time stats stuff, writing in to activity streams etc). SRANDMEMBER on its own is invaluable since picking a random item from a regular relational database using ORDER BY RAND() tends to kill it stone dead under load.
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Haskell. I avoided it for the longest time because of the purely-functional-no-side-effects zealots. As it turns out, it is a surprisingly powerful and beautiful language, and you can get quite far without needing OO.

The paradigm wars will rage on, but in the meantime, the rest of us have a language that has a rich library set and a very rewarding programming experience. The usefulness of applicative monads, functors and typeclasses have convinced me that there's something much, much bigger out there with regards to these so-called design patterns, something that we have not even begun to explore and discover.
Same here as well.

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