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Sure.

Before I do, let me share the general theory about life - most people are decent people and want to help you if you're nice and a decent person. They don't want to get in trouble though, so you want to make it as easy as possible for the person. So, if there's multiple people there, you have much lower odds. People want to help out, but no one wants to get reprimanded obviously.

But let's say it's one guy or girl there. You walk up, smile, greet them, ask how their day/night is going. They say good, good, maybe you smalltalk for a moment. Be as personable, friendly, and courteous as possible.

They ask for your boarding pass. You have two choices now - hand them your boarding pass and just SMILE huge, or, say something along the lines of - "Well, I'm flying Jet Blue today, but they don't have a lounge, and I always take British Airways internationally - I'd just like to grab a cup of coffee for like 20 minutes before my flight if that's cool, and I'd really appreciate it."

Which to use? Kind of a judgment call. Handing them the pass with a big, guilty smile actually works. "Go right ahead" - oh my God, I love that, I feel like James Bond if I pull that off. But I did the Jet Blue thing flying out of San Francisco - I forget what airline lounge I got into, but it was legitimately one I flew a lot. Either British Air or something Star Alliance, Jet Blue didn't have a lounge, so I just told them that and asked nicely, the girl there waived me in.

Don't take it as a given, be friendly, and remember you're asking for a favor. You're not entitled, so don't be a jerk or demanding or act like you're royalty. Helps if you're dressed well, groomed well, and speak generally upper class English - nothing snobby, stay casual, just "Good morning", "Good evening", things like that - they want it to be a nice ambiance inside, so looking like you're not going to cause problems is critical. Again, most people want to help you, but you need to make it easy for them to do so.

So, be incredibly polite and friendly, and there's a decent chance of things working out. I usually try it if I'm an hour+ early, and I don't know what my success rate is - maybe 50%? Maybe more or less. It all comes down to the individual person at the counter, how their day is going, and how full/crazy the place is. If it's not very full, they're a nice person, and having a nice day, you've got a decent shot. Can't hurt to ask, at least.
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Source, details, explanation? (Genuinely curious.)
The articles are in fact extremely well written, but they are encyclopedaic. They are not written as a textbook, but as a reference work. Most articles assume you're nearly there and need the details.

There are people who can learn from encyclopedias, but most people need well-paced, linearly(ish) arranged material.
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That’s a fair point, they are useful as a learning aid. It’s just important to bear in mind that not only are reset stylesheets not required in the long run but they’re actively inefficient.
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So you’re saying you don’t support all these browsers? A reset stylesheet isn’t a magical fix for every issue - you still need to check in the browsers your users have chosen. That’s part of the pain of being a front end developer: you’re not just coding for one consumer.
Yes, they do, but you don’t need to reset them first then set them again. You can just set them to your own choice and be done with it.
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So what you're saying is don't commit to anything unless you're perfect. Got it.
I think he just meant you're not indicative of a large population. The article is about boys generally, not particular ones that don't do their homework but do well on tests.
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Gobohide is an optional kernel extension which is purely for aesthetic reasons.

http://www.gobolinux.org/index.php?page=at_a_glance

You may have noticed that the Unix paths did not show up in the system root listing in the very first example. They are actually there, but they are concealed from view using the GoboHide kernel extension. This is for aesthetic purposes only and purely optional, though: GoboLinux does not require modifications in the kernel or any other system components.
A reset is a form of future-proofing. If a new browser, or new browser version, appears with its own ideas about default values for margin, padding, etc., then so long as its CSS support is decent your existing reset will make it either mostly or completely work from day one.

This does not mean "never do browser testing" -- you should (and you should do it smartly, based on what's known about both the browsers and your demographics) -- but it does mean that you're less likely to get caught with your pants down.

Also, for my money, the best regime out there for classifying browsers and organizing a testing system is Yahoo's graded browser support. And oddly enough, they seem to like resets...
Well if you look at the original data of total emissions it still holds that US emits much more:

# 1	United States:	5,762,050
# 2	China:	3,473,600
# 3	Russia:	1,540,360

take a look at this :) http://cait.wri.org/figures/USToIntlGHGMap-Regions-thumb.gif
Statistically there is so much wrong with this infographic.
Sadly, you probably won't win. People who can recite from memory dozens of combinations of obscure compiler flags to make their code build have collectively decided that CSS is just too hard and inconsistent to learn and work with.

(or, in the case of the particular HN username here, people who'd like you to think they know all the differences between multiple Lisp families and multiple implementations within families)
That's a great way to get kids in to programming, games are very low 'barrier to entry' and as they get more sophisticated will cause the wanna be programmer to pick up a whole pile of knowledge about other fields (such as physics) as well.

Highly recommended, and at that price you really can't go wrong :)
Also sorry for being snooty. It is easy to get riled up whenever someone tells you how smart you are.

This is especially true of people who make a living from ostensibly being clever. Some of us, clearly including myself, are insecure.
You would be wrong. I have encountered all sorts of code written by others that I have to maintain.

My favorite code has consistently been sparsely commented (though effectively heavily commented with good variable names and appropriate functions) while the absolute worst I've maintained was code that was so heavily commented that it was virtually impossible to see the flow of the program.
The data that you're using does not support what you're saying. In metric tons of CO2 per capita, Australia has 18.12, China has 4.62 and the US has 18.9944. "Interpretation" doesn't really enter into it.

The reason that most people focus on the US, China (and India) is not fashion, but that they have the bulk of the world's population. Australia only has 20-ish million people, but the US has more like 300 million (FIFTEEN TIMES!), and China has a billion (FIFTY TIMES!). So if their per-capita emissions go up, they're pumping out a lot more CO2.

Have a look into the 'raw' numbers - ie. the absolute emissions - they're the ones that matter. Australia: 372013, the US: 5752289, China: 6103493
A good point. Still, it always comes down to a cost/benefit equation. Balancing the cost of a sending every user a set of reset styles in terms of extra page weight against the benefit of some possible future-proofing against some possible browsers then my choice would be to go with the lighter site.
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You expect Reddit to be full of politics and environmental stuff. Personally I don't like it on HN.
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Your post is all about why dropping out was great for you, yet you feel bad and you are trying to apply to get back in "in case you come to your senses". What is your motivation for going back to school, after proving to yourself that you don't need it?
I had a friend in my University, he had spent a lot of time working and studying from what we call a "Distance Education"(They give you books and some video lectures).

He had a hard time doing that and valued a lot direct contact with the teacher. It resonates with me because I studied engineering but love psychology too and when I learn let's say NLP from video-audio made by masters I learn way more that in the same authors books.

Books are very good when you dominate the subject.

90% of the communication is not verbal. Nuances and emphasis are very important.
This is a non-sequitor, unless you are implying that not going to college is not fun.
I think part of the reason the type system in Haskell works and doesn't seem to get in your way is because of type inference.

Also, Haskell is more strongly (and richly) typed than Java\C++\C# so having strongly-typed code works really well.

About proving correctness, I guess you may have seen this amusing piece: http://perl.plover.com/yak/typing/samples/slide030.html

The type system found an infinite-loop bug in the code at compile-time.
Is there some reason that you're repeating yourself umpteen times throughout the article? It's getting pretty annoying reading the same poorly argued piece over and over (5 TIMES! now...)
They have declared OpenOffice.org does not infringe. The patent then must be something pretty narrow.
Because blackberry's integrate well with outlook.
Because it's mostly a non-issue on 4Chan.
> Really? I'd think that most people in software have the opinion that there should be no software patents at all.

Do you have any evidence for this? I know very intelligent people (both software developers and CS researchers) who think that software patents are not only necessary, but moral.
If you are being literal, than I'd suggest any grade school math book in your library.

Assuming you actually mean that you know algebra/trig (or can review these quickly), I'd suggest a good calculus book. I don't know any off hand, but I'm sure someone here can suggest.

Assuming you know calculus and you want to learn what you have heard of as "real math" there are a few options. 1) You can pick up a good linear algebra book 2) Pick up a book on discrete mathematics 3) Pick up a book on introductory analysis.

I guess a big question is why do you want to do this? For fun? For your job?
I wonder how common restaurant menu A/B testing is...
I've heard similar stories form friends of mine who were also CS TAs.
its not a torrent site, but http://a.aaaarg.org/ has a bunch of continental philosophy/economics pdfs (some are scans and some are ebooks).
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1.6 Billion people (quarter of the world's population), live without electricity. All of these people live in the developing nations. Without progress, these nations can't bring basic things like a glowing light bulb to large sections of their population.

I don't know if the chinese leadership is pragmatic or not, but it sort of makes sense to help your population today, than to help the planet in 50 years time.

I don’t think the choice is

Having lived in India and the UK, I'd say there is already a massive difference between India and UK, in terms of what we used. In India even if you can pay for water/electricity you just don't have access to it, there are regular power cuts in the summers as much as 8 hours a day in most cities. Running Water is available for a few hours a day. Most rich people drill a well and have a pump which pumps water into an overhead tank. For electricity, the rich have diesel generators, to run their homes.

In the UK, I've never experienced a power cut, never had any water shortage, no cut of gas to the house.

There just isn't any infrastructure in poorer nations. If you are poor you are on your own. If you are rich you are still on your own, but you have the resources to fix the problem for yourself.

I think it is important that 1.6 billion of us get electricity some time in the near future.
From the Guidelines for this forum: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics,..."

Please don't turn this into a place for politics, instant support groups, lolcats, and recycled memes from 4chan. That place is called reddit.
I find it interesting the he suggests requiring a minor in another field. I largely agree with this, but at my school, you can't get a minor if you're a CS major. For instance, by the time I graduate, I will have the required credits for a minor in math. That minor won't be recognized by the university, and I can only say that I've completed the courses for a math minor without actually earning one.

The same is true for double-majoring. I have a friend that wanted to double major in CS and linguistics to do AI, but he was told that he couldn't. Instead, he has to stick around for an extra year to get two distinct degrees. He's had to waste time because some of the courses he needed to take required you to have declared a major in that field.

This is from a school that probably has a more vocationally applied view of a CS degree. We are, for instance, required to take two semesters of software engineering. They're obviously interested in giving a student an education that will be useful in the industry, but they also have inane rules like the one described above.
You probably never heard of them because they didn't go to your area to recruit. When I was looking at schools recruiters were coming to the school practically everyday. Some were bundled up in the same day.

And you never know why a student chooses a college until you ask. They might be offering something in their major. They may know an alumni who can get them a spot (with the proper grades of course), or they might offer more scholarship money. If you're family income is $200 a month are you really going to turn down a free education?
Your arguing a statistic though. Even if Australia massively slashed their carbon emissions what effect does it have? Very little.

On the other hand if you and China cut a small amount each, well, the roll on impact is huge. :)

That's the statistic that counts here.
Agreed. Dont it let it degrade to that level please.
I think your comment should have been : oh crap here come the 4chan wannabes. Lets urgently start looking for a new aggregator to frequent.
I made a list of requirements and compared the best Live chat SaaS sites here:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ApeWkxPGlfpNdHQ3VmlH...
(it's editable, so feel free to improve)

I looked at these sites:
Olark, Live Person, OggChat, LiveZilla, IMified.

For these features:

multiple operator support
route based on skill / rating
direct to specific agent
show status of specific agent
transfer agents w/ history
agent initiated chat
mobile client
sms send/receive
save transcript to database
save length of chat to database
user rate agent feedback
user interface (1-5)
white label
API (create agent,save chat)
Agent client type
price (1 agent)
price (10 agents)

Basically, I'm looking for a subset of the functionality on the liveperson.com site. The Live Person software is too expensive.

LiveZilla seems to be the closest and is free.
IMified (SaaS IM API) would require coding, but is flexible and supports SMS.
You could run another HIT to get people to verify the submissions and reduce the error rate further.
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IIRC (actually I could fire up one and check, but I'm too lazy for that) if you had an Atari 8-bit computer, you could go:

10 PR. "Hello, World"

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rbanffy/4208561088/

The simpler FX-series CASIO BASIC pocket computers used "PRT" for that. Cool gadgets.
Im interested why you targeted tech blogs (not your audience at all) instead of style blogs.

There are plenty of big beauty/style blogs out there who might have covered you :)
I think your timeline is off. Id software had created a lot of games before quake.

Here's a list of their games

* Dangerous Dave (1988)
* Commander Keen
* Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion (1991)
* Rescue Rover (1991)
* Rescue Rover 2 (1991)
* Shadow Knights (1991)
* Hovertank 3D (1991)
* Catacomb 3D: A New Dimension (1991)
* Wolfenstein 3D (1992)
* Doom (1993)
* Doom II: Hell on Earth (1994)
* Quake (1996)
* Quake II (1997)
* Quake III Arena (1999)
* Doom 3 (2004)
* Quake Live (2009 - Beta)
Your ratio is approximately back-to-front. In 2007, the per-capita emissions for the US were 19.1 Metric tons to China's 4.6 Metric tons. http://www.iea.org/co2highlights
As an American student I've observed or heard of both international and local students cheating. It really pissed me off when students would come to exams with psychiatrists' notes about a sudden onset of ADHD. Or abuse the sympathy of the teacher to get more time. Crib sheets only occurred in lower level classes where it's hard to observe. At the higher levels it becomes obvious who knows what.
“We are the second or the third best design house in the world when it comes to mobile phones,” says Horace Luke, chief innovation officer at HTC.

HTC has also imbibed one of the greatest ideas of American business: It’s okay to fail. HTC’s R&D division called has a “target failure rate” of 95 percent, says Luke. “A research lab has to come up with enough ideas that fail fast and fail early so you can learn and harvest the right ones,” he says. “That’s very different from the culture at Taiwan, where you have to be successful all the time.”

A lot of interesting quotes.
A good read for anyone who has been in the same (delusional) position as this author, and can look back with fond memories of drinking that same Kool-Aid.
You might want to have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ratio_of_G...
By similar token, George Bush and Co. were also pragmatic in dealing with global warming issues.
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Objective C, sure, but cross platform, thanks to Cocotron, an open source implementation of the Cocoa API. http://www.cocotron.org/

It's the first Cocotron-based project I see featured on HN, although it's not the first success story that they could brag about...

See also: the account of the porting of the File Magnet Uploader, then Mac-only, to Windows, using the same library. http://macdaddyworld.com/2008/10/27/adventures-in-cocotron/
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Seriously, don't you think there is enough of that pathetic shit on Reddit, slashdot, etc? Do you really want language flame wars and FUD campaigns everywhere?

But this cartoon was quite innocent in its stupidity, certainly.
No, really not. Australia is not being taken to task for several reasons:

1) Unlike China, Australia was a signatory to Kyoto (actually, I'm not 100% sure if China was a signatory or not, but at any rate they didn't have binding targets).

2) Unlike the US, Australia actually met its Kyoto targets.

3) Everyone knows that most of Australia's economic activity is geared towards exports of primary produce to the rest of the world - as already noted, Australia's own population is small, certainly not big enough to consume even a tenth of what is being produced. As such, at Kyoto it was agreed to not heavily limit Australian emissions, as these emissions would more fairly be placed on the books of the consumer countries.

4) Australia was willing and able to play ball in Copenhagen, unlike the Chinese.

5) Australia does not have very much diplomatic clout, so it is not being held accountable for the failure of diplomacy, as the US is.

6) And, finally, at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what Australia does per capita, as its population is simply too small to make a difference on a global scale - even if we accept the dodgy figure of Australia emitting 11 times more per capita than the Chinese, that still means that China is emmitting more than 5 times more than Australia. Using more realistic figures, China is emitting about 10 times more than Australia, and the US is emitting nearly 20 times more. And that is why no-one is pointing the finger at Australia.
I think this article is uneducated and useless.

He declares OO superior to all other paradigms by giving a few scenarios where it is better than procedural programming.

As far as I can see, all the Good Things he points out in OO are (often better) implemented in functional languages.
I thought it was confusing too, but I think the writer was arguing that men are getting disadvantaged because they are underperforming.

That's an interesting choice of word. Men are not underperforming because of lack of effort on their part, but because of the feminization of the previous stage of education (mainly female teachers, the switch in emphasis from exams to coursework, etc)
The number of tweets continue to grow steadily, even with the recent decline in unique visitors:

http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/11/13/in-depth-study-of-twitte...
I guess the community (i say this loosely) changed drastically right around the "down with Scientology" stage.
I remember writing Tic Tac Toe in BASIC. Way better to get started in python.
The disproporion is caused by an obvious fact that women usually study stuff like political studies, international studies, women studies, literature and such. Anything hard like engineering or CS, law, economics and you will see very few women in the classroom. This combined with the fact that most people enrolled study this pure socialist propaganda "sciences" and we have the answer to the question.
Actually, K4PC uses a different scheme - the book key is not encrypted in the same way as for normal kindle books. I believe each book uses a different Mobipocket PID, and what this new script does is extract the PID for a particular book and then invoke the original script using that PID.

Also, the PID is not the kindle serial number, but can be calculated from it. There's another script around to do that.
There were better BASIC languages out there at the time.

One example of this is AMOS. It was one of the very few pieces of software that I bought for the Amiga, because of the great manual. It was years ahead of qbasic/quickbasic and had a great library for moving graphics around.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMOS_(programming_language)
I believe what the script is actually doing is extracting the Mobipocket PID - K4PC uses a different PID for each book.
The article doesn't compare OOP to anything. It tries to define OOP and considers it necessity.

Personally i think FP is complementary to OOP and Haskell could be OOP according the articles definition (OOP=polymorphism). Maybe someone who knows Haskell better than me can comment on that?

(disclaimer: i'm the author)

Update: I just saw that i did write "OOP is better than other paradigms" and corrected that. Sorry!