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Some choice quotes:

"Switching back to HTML4 is driven by the same kind of purity-beats-practicality, fashion-conscious silliness that made us all switch to XHTML in the first place."

"But to worry about being able to instantly switch to the doctype-du-jour -- or rather last years' doctype-du-jour -- as well as having
HTML validity - that's not being a perfectionist, it's called OCD, and I'm drawing the line there."
That's a very japanese point of view you have there. Why does nobody speak of the exploitation of china (nanjing massacre, etc) as part of what made Japan rich.
Bill Watterson is a convicted sex offender. In Ohio he is a registered sex offender. That's why he is so reclusive and shut down his comic so soon.
This article, especially the second half, reads like an ad. I imagine most of this report was lifted straight out of a press release.
I found this quote:

"With my newfound time, I had a kid, wrote a couple of movies and directed one of my own."

intriguing enough to dig up this imdb search: < http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0041864/#writer >. I'm sure the proper list is actually on Mr August's site too, but ... This might have more trivia. :)
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Love it; was thinking of similar things.

Anyone know the maximum price of an in-app purchase?
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beautiful quote(s):

- So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.

- Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in.
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There's so much disinformation in those comments. One person is happy that they are moving to php (what?), another person now has a good reason to say that php is faster than other languages. That's hilarious
Project Zero isn't open source.

"This community is an experiment in a new way to build commercial software, an approach we are calling Community-Driven Commercial Development.

Community-Driven means that we want feedback, insight, suggestions, criticism, and dialogs with you, the users of Project Zero. This interaction will yield a better solution that targets the problems you have and a technology that truly delivers on its objectives.

Commercial means that this is not an open source project. We are still building commercial software here, as the licensing makes clear, but we are doing it in a more transparent fashion."

http://www.projectzero.org/about/
If you're using CloudFront and pushing over 1000 TB/month from the US and EU edge locations, the marginal price was cut by 40%.

... which I find rather annoying, really. Every time AWS prices are cut, it's the largest users who get the largest price cuts. What happened to the idea of "we can get good rates by buying in bulk, and then pass those rates on to all of our customers no matter how small they are" which AWS launched with?
Always interested in what Vogels is saying, but this was pretty thin and the content of what he did say was generic marketing speak.

Meat: http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/
I find this kind of comments dangerous. Yes, technically he is calling North Koreans and some South Koreans insane. But taking this from the article can be done only by ripping it out of context. It's not the people who are evil, but the regime, the ideology. The meme complex, if you will. The distinction may be small, but missing it implies the author is himself crazy.
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I think Amazon originally intended Reserved instances as a way to give customers lower pricing in exchange for accepting some of the capacity planning risk; but that has more or less been subverted by the use of Reserved instances as a disaster recovery strategy, where lower pricing isn't a major goal. It would be nice if Amazon could find a pricing mechanism which separated these two groups.
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You only have problems if you try to
switch to application/xhtml+xml, which is easy to solve: don't do that

if we were outputting HTML4, it might cause
∗genuine∗ problems - e.g. if you need XHTML in order to mix in MathML or SVG

.. to do which you must serve as application/xhtml+xml.

That said, I agree with his points. And personally I wish the browsers would relax the restrictions on when they will agree to render SVG. I see no good reason why they refuse to do svg in text/html mode, considering the exceptions they make for seemingly everything else.
A computer is a tool that helps us wonder.

And flying isn't? Surely it is for some, just as for some it is "merely" a tool for transportation.

A computer is a tool that helps us wonder.

So is a book. You don't have to be able to program The Little Prince or The Way Things Work in order for it to help you wonder.

A computer is a tool that helps us wonder.

And my mom wonders why it keeps crashing when she tries to check her email. I tried to explain how important it was that she had the freedom to fix the bug herself, but she won't listen. She foolishly is only concerned with checking her email.

If you can X...

Which is to say X is not yet a solved problem, or even one known to have a solution. In the meantime: Forgive us all who dare persist contentedly with balloons and dirigibles.
I didn't learn that lesson :( 2 years sucked away into the void.
and once you've done all that you then deploy your app to Heroku...
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XHTML is last year's doctype-du-jour, too.
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Have you had any luck selling software in the so-called BRIC countries? Any best practices to share?
He does go on to mention that 'HTML5 will save us' - at least from quibbling over <br> vs <br />...
A bigger mystery is where the space bar has gone.

If he does this then he'd probably need to move the non-alphanumeric keys onto the front like my Kinesis keyboard does. Perhaps make them touchscreen soft-buttons?
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People do discuss Japanese wartime atrocities. Frequently.

It would have been a bad example for the above post, though, because people actually opposed Japan's conduct in Manchuria contemporaneously (whereas China's conduct in the status quo, the Soviet Union's conduct for its entire existence, and the first few years of German fascism were/are dealt with limp-wristedly when they were not actively applauded).

For example, the United States hit Japan with a steel/oil embargo after Japanese refused to withdraw from Manchuria, which was the proximate cause of Japan deciding to go to war with the United States. (Funny little historical note: the US didn't actually intend the embargo to be a total embargo. When it was conceived in Washington it was as a temporary cutback to force Japan to the negotiating table. A minor bureaucrat misfiled something, though, and the planned periodic review never happened, which turned it into a total embargo. "Whoops.")

As an aside, essentially none of Japan's present economic prosperity is owed to wealth stolen from China. Most of that got very comprehensively burned, along with the rest of the country. Japan was pretty desperately poor postwar prior to the US' Korean war buildup, which they largely sourced in Japan, re-laying the industrial base which ignited the Period of High Economic Growth (高度成長期) that brought Japan from "substantially poorer than Mexico" to "really freaking rich".

Apologies for the lecture.
Some context:

It's mainly about Django's Admin and form generation - in most other places Django is markup agnostic.
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Wow, kudos there for managing to instantly lose my trust just reading the title of the page ..
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To be honest, what difference does it make? It may sound cruel, but why not just fire someone if they are not performing (given adequate time to improve, etc...).

Please treat this as a genuine question - as someone who has only started working a few years ago and never had a management position, I feel my view is correct but am open to learning if/why I'm wrong.
This is definitely big news for PostgreSQL. When I had to set up replication for one of the projects I was working on I was highly dssapointed with all the solutions out there. I'm really excited that this will be built in and it looks like it will be really simple to get set up and working.

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I really don't care about Ustream anymore. Not since, like so many places, they went 'super kid friendly'.

I used to love the service as I could watch artist friends create works in real time and watching an artist draw/paint is just.. wonderful. Except, occasionally, they'd draw or paint tits.

And get banned extremely fast.

So, fuck ustream.
Adobe cannot be bothered to deliver a performant Flash plugin for regular OS X or Linux boxes, what makes you think they could do it for a device with just a fraction of the power? And I’m not talking about just video playback here, Flash demands boat loads of performance for the simplest kinds of animation and graphic display.

Even if Apple didn't care about control, there would still be excellent reasons to not bring Flash onto their mobile platforms; because Flash is a crash prone performance hog that would suck the life out of the device's battery.
Agreed. I think this is more a web design than a UI/UX work. Usability here is nearly non existent.
"We wish Facebook had made this project open, as we're sure many PHP developers would concur that the efforts would have been much swifter and more beneficial to the public had more folks and a larger team been involved from the outset."

Considering the uproar generated by introducing something like namespaces into PHP, I strongly suspect the opposite of the bit in italics to be true. In fact, that's possibly why they did it this way.
> Coincidences do happen and if you happen to be around the area of two murders you'll have a very hard time to explain that away, whereas in a society with good privacy you would never even appear on the radar.

I have the perfect real-life example of exactly that
situation:

Portland-area lawyer Brandon Mayfield was arrested in May 2004 because his
fingerprint matched one found on a bag of detonators near the train station in
Madrid in the March 11 2004 bombing, which killed 191 people. But Spanish
authorities said the fingerprints belonged to another man, an Algerian.
A US federal court later threw out the case against Mayfield, and the FBI
expressed regret for the "fingerprint-identification error". As a former
Army officer, Mayfield's fingerprints would be on file with the government.
A law enforcement official said the fingerprints were not on file because
of any crime or as part of the government's terrorism databases.

The lawyer is lucky that the Spanish found the actual bomber. There are probably many such cases where the absence of privacy caused horrible damage to innocent people.
Ah now. Australia is a different matter - no first hand experience myself but some friends paint quite a bleak picture.
It was 17c now it's 15c.

For comparison, linode is 10c ;)
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That's only an option if it's a separate iPad app. I guess a lot (most?) iPad apps, especially just after launch, will be existing iPhone apps with some UI tweaks. You can't take an update offline in the appstore without completely removing your app (you can only have one version).
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It really stinks how apple leave out features on purpose in an attempt to take your money again the following year. Another reason not to be an early adopter.
Not to be overly skeptical or anything, but I don't see any evidence that these photos are of a disassembled iPad. Where would they get one anyway?
I think you're making rash assumptions there. There might be a whole lot of reasons why they left it out. One of the most obvious ones would be that they had to make trade-offs to meet the release date, and there was something fundamentally not quite right about the way the camera interacted with the user experience, and so they had to cut that feature out until they could get things sorted.
Or maybe he should do his wife more.
I second that, I did a comparison a few years ago and pgbouncer blew pgpool away:

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A lot of people think playing wow is a complete wast of time. But when you ask them what they do all day, they just watch television.
Reminds me of this request for startup:

http://ycombinator.com/rfs5.html
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unladen-swallow does not get a 5x speedup, but pypy gets pretty close.

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2010-01-01T0...

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/42210 is tangentially related.
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"The development of genuine expertise requires struggle, sacrifice, and honest, often painful self-assessment. There are no shortcuts."

Makes sense; a 'solid grasp' is like a solid algorithm: it's not solid until it can handle anything you can throw at it.

But the amount of time 'expertise' requires can vary a lot. Mozart had the technical expertise in music to write a fairly decent fifth symphony when he was nine. Beethoven's first symphony (technically superior, emotionally much superior) came when he was forty.

So it seems a good idea to distinguish -technical- expertise from -mature- expertise (much more familiar with all the special cases and anomalies). (Marriage takes longer to decide on the third time.)
I played quite a lot for the last half year, until I got scared when I started looking at my /played and think about what I could have done in that time. With a double course load and a full time job coming up this semester, I knew I was going to be in trouble if I kept up the pace I had. In contrast to what many others say, I don't think cold turkey is necessary, but you do need some outside assistance - going at it by willpower alone is hard. I asked my girlfriend to set up the 'parental controls' functionality and set a hard limit of 4 hours a week. When your game time is up, you get kicked out. Clock is reset on Sunday night, so Monday evening is usually my game night, rest of the week I just check wow.com sometimes or do some occasional research on gear. You'll never get far in the game at this rate but if you get someone to check your gaming habits it's very doable to keep control over it.
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You're a quick learner! I wish I was as smart as you. I played WoW too (http://inter-sections.net/2009/02/21/destroying-the-world-of...)... I think I'll buy Diablo 3 and StarCraft 2 when they come out, too.
Unfortunately he thinks that he can't switch to HTML5 today and get all the benefits he requires. Do it, there's no reason not to.

http://html5doctor.com/absent-elements-and-validation/

http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#Should_I_close_empty_element...
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You are correct. It doesn't matter, if someone is getting nothing done you can fire them unless their performance is due to a medical issue. I was referring to the people who get very little done.

Other companies would love to hire only Google caliber employees but there isn't enough people to hire. So you end up with a company that may have a few superstars and a lot of average programmers. If a superstar slacked off they would have the same productivity as the average coders. It is hard for a manager to complain to that superstar when his productivity is just as good as many of his peers. At Google the slacker would stand out because his peers are all superstars and get A LOT done.
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The fundamental problem here is the need to output in multiple markup languages. [...] However, Django simply does not work at the level of abstraction that would allow multiple output languages.

The Django people have always been quite up-front about their goal of providing a full-stack framework with all basic components included and tested rather than an all-singing, all-dancing, pluggable and composable architecture. I can't say what they've come up with is to my personal tastes but it's a perfectly reasonable design choice. "What real world problems would such a change solve" is a similarly reasonable and pragmatic question. "Tough. Django produces XHTML" makes them sound like bigger jerks than they probably are!
I understand that; I'm saying: for an American company, I won't give up my rights at the door. They can insist, and I'll walk away. Forced self-incrimination is not consonant with reasonable liberty. Should that stop at the door of a business?

Consider who got the piss test started: Ed Meese, Attorney General of the U.S. at the time. Purely contradicts the Fifth.
There's nothing preventing Joe Djangodev from switching the doctypes right now.
upvote, the title alone is pretty spot on.

reminds me of jwz's "How will this software get my users laid" (http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html)
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JIT native code compilers do make quite a bit of difference over byte code execution is some situations. E.g. loops over many elements (say loops that concatenate large HTML fragments, ok the string operation are already native, but other bits of the loop will not be (e.g. array access)).

So, I agree that the main 'bottleneck' in most PHP apps is probably not-PHP itself, there is still scope for improvement.
I typed with an index, middle, and ring finger style (+thumb for space) before devoting a few weeks to convert to full touch typing. I went from 50 wpm to 70 wpm.

That said, the only time I ever maintain 70 wpm is stream of consciousness writing. If I'm thinking about the words, the bottleneck isn't my typing speed.

On a semi-related note, a friend and I were talking about a switch from qwerty to dvorak. Has anyone that was a touch typist in one made the switch to the other? Thougts afterwards?
How on earth did someone find that stat?. Just curious.
Nice diagrams. Dvorak (and Colemak) please.
+1

iPad camera might be tricky because of many different angles you can interact with it.
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This is pure crap. phc (http://www.phpcompiler.org) has been open source for 4 years and actively soliciting help for 2 years. Did anyone in the PHP community step up to help? Not one.

(I mean the quote is pure crap, not your comment).
Hobnox is such a great example of why HTML5 have a long way to go before it even comes close to offering proper online experiences.
There was recently a long discussion here or on reddit/r/programming about dvorak vs qwerty. Did not seem to go in favor of dvorak.
They are fast and easy to understand - for whom? For mediocre programmers, right? Creative programmers may enjoy both reading and writing good code.

I'm not talking about obfuscation and all kinds of trickery in code. Creativity in programming means, I think, finding shorter and more elegant ways of implementing something.
That's not possible.
Awesome graphics. I do touch typing with the home return, does that make me cybernetic? :P

@jessejmc I tried to switch to dvorak once. It's a very efficient layout, and I might have stuck to it if it weren't for the fact that I need to switch regularly between english and portuguese, and dvorak is not at all targetted to languages other than english.

It doesn't help that, between laptops and keyboards, I have pt, es, us and uk physical layouts... nowadays I find myself just customizing the keyboard layout to my needs - US international as base, then switch and add all the accents and symbols around to optimal places - that way I don't care much what's printed on the keyboard.

I wonder what that does to the pretty diagrams? :)
That's one of the reason why I can't stand Django anymore, being Rails programmer for few years.

FYI, Rails' mail_to supports similar mechanism for years.
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Slowing to 2-3 ft/sec. is different from coming to a complete stop because if you stop, you must start again and it takes few seconds (especially if you don't have automatic transmission) and that's the reason you don't do complete stop even if when you should. That few seconds might save your life. That's the reason Stop sign and Right of way sign are two completely different things and you are required to do a full stop at Stop sign.
Not surprised, dvorak is optimized for speed in pure text, and programming is not pure text, nor does it need a lot of speed most of the times, and the ()[]{};.$ symbols are the most important, which clashes with what the dvorak layout considers important.
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The cynic inside me is really looking forward to see Steve Jobs announcing a future version of iPads equipped with cameras and selling it as a "major breakthrough". (He's a great guy but the reality distortion field http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field definitely exists.)
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