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Ours was cheaper :-)

(Ok ok it was a dead one from craig's list that we fixed)

http://www.andrewkilpatrick.org/blog/?page_id=914
Yes: I switched about 14 years ago. It took me about three (frustrating) weeks until my Dvorak speed caught up to my querty speed---it isn't noticeably faster for me---but my wrist and hand pain completely disappeared after about a week.

Furthermore, if you actually switch back even for a few minutes once a week or so, your Qwerty typing won't atrophy much at all.

However, I wouldn't bother switching unless you're pretty sure that you're going to be spending several hours a day typing, and mostly on the same small number of computers. Reconfiguring any modern computer back and forth between Qwerty and Dvorak is easy, but it's completely maddening for anyone with whom you share a computer.
I think AGPL changes this, but I'm not sure. Frankly, GPL licensing after version 2 is so confusing to me that I just avoid it whenever possible.
I agree, it is the same thing as buying a piece of land and waiting for the area to become more popular and sell later...

The issue comes from the fact that buying domains are very cheap and easy, but that's other problem.

*btw, I am not saying that I approve people with 1000s of domains just waiting for someone interested, but the business idea is the same.
thats really helpful thank you
thank you for your advice, i will look in to it
Wow, I'm genuinely irritated at myself for now having heard about Lunascape. Trying it out now, and am impressed so far, recommended for web devs/designers out there:

http://www.lunascape.tv/
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Well, the distance your fingers travel when typing Qwerty is around twice that of Dvorak. I'd be very surprised if that had no ergonomic effect.
I haven't watched the video (I'm at work) but as a former Christian now turned atheist, I can tell you that when you grow up hearing that evolution is a 'diabolical conspiracy from the pit of hell', it's not very easy to question.

I remember one night, looking up at the stars and rejoicing that Einstein, in all his genius, never got the 'truths' that the Bible taught me. So a part of it is feeling smug that you know something that 'these intellectuals' don't know.
Yeah, but digital sales aren't replacing CD sales. They probably never will. That wouldn't be so much of a problem if the labels didn't mind becoming smaller entities. The thing they haven't yet realized is that the industry is breaking up into many different niche entities of which they're now only a small part. It sucks losing power they way they have but complaining that the digital music revolution is unfair is like saying that gravity is unfair.It's a non-starter.
I made the switch to Dvorak over a 2-week holiday break just under 10 years ago. I may have eventually boosted my speed marginally, but I can say my hands don't get tired or sore typing for long periods as they did on Qwerty.

The only con I've run into is when I have to use somebody else's computer, like during a presentation in a meeting and I end up basically hunting and pecking on Qwerty. I get looks like, "this guy is a developer?" One time when I explained I was a Dvorak keyboardist, a participant asked if I also spoke Esperanto. (I don't.)

However, I highly recommend the switch just for the brain-remapping experience. Going through the learning process literally feels like a mental rewiring.
This quote isn't mine. I forget where I heard about it the other day, but apparently it was originally stated by Roy Amara, and is sometimes referred to as Amara's Law. Though it wasn't originally about programmers, just an inclusive "We."
I would search on Digikey or Mouser instead. Sparkfun is pretty expensive.
Same thing goes for Coca-Cola and the happiness factory...
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If they are registering names that people DO have rights to and they do not, that IS cybersquatting. They should pursue them under ACPA in US and get up to $100,000 in damages per name. But consult a lawyer first, I don't know MerchantCircle and I am not an affected customer.
I think this is more appropriate if you're in a relationship with the person. It seems a little creepy since they haven't actually "gotten very far."
The industry term is domainer or domain investor. You would be amazed how much money some of those can make, often more than any sort of development. For a scalable model, it has worked quite well in the past, which is what allowed people to amass 100,000's of names.

PS - if you actually have a budget to try and purchase the name, I might be able to help you get in contact. my username .info to contact me.
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Was the QWERTY keyboard purposely designed to slow typists?
I would go to dropbox.com, then realize it wasn't there, then Google it. Your customers may do the same.
The implied message, that one should advocate the malleability of IQ not because it's true but because it's motivational, is a little troubling. If you're coaching an 8th-grade gym class, everyone will probably perform better if you pull each of them aside individually and tell them they're showing real potential and should try out for the team. That is, until they figure out you were lying.
Ah. Now that you mention it, the quote in the context of technology in general makes much more sense. Seeing as new web and programming technologies are created every day, it would be hard to fit everything into those categories, but physical technologies are much different because in order for someone like me to see them, they have gone through lots of stages of refinement and in most cases the idea doesn't get far enough for me to see it. Web apps, however, are relatively easy to make (compared to designing, creating, and then mass producing your new toothpaste dispensing toothbrush).
That works better in middle school than it does in macroeconomics. Each country has different economic needs - strict tit for tat won't necessarily lead to an optimum. Don't worry, America has its share of import quotas and tariffs, as well.
"Remember: A study need not be published in a journal and well-typeset to be scientific."

Even better, as programmers we can write scripts to compare layouts and calculate whatever statistics we want to. aAfew years ago, contemplating the switch to Dvorak (not really to optimize typing efficiency, I was getting twinges in my wrists and the doc said they were early warning signs of RSI) I wrote a ruby script to compare a given body of text against both Dvorak and Qwerty layouts and then I ran it against a few years of code I had on my machine. The Dvorak layout showed a significant decrease in amount of finger movement, especially movement off the home row. Good enough for me.

It took me about a month to get back to my original typing speed. I don't have to use other people's computers often so it works for me.

my 2 cents. (oh yeah no more wrist pain. fwiw)
The QWERTY myth
Damn, and I thought I was going go get go read about obscure browsers I work with like Fresco, Galio, Ekioh or Ipanel to name a few.
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I think the authors should show an example or two on the main page, instead of hinting how one might go about seeing what things look like. Much as I like Matplotlib's documentation, I don't have the time budget to follow what appear to be obscure directions.
If you're really on a budget, you might also want to consider leasing. You can get them as cheap as $300/month, roughly.

5 figures is right, but low five figures. A uPrint starts at $14,500. However, for really low cost stuff, check out a company called M-Cor. They're not available here yet, but coming soon. They print with regular A2 printer paper and glue, and you end up with a material that's comparable to wood. If I remember right, the machine is $30k, but you're talking a dollar or two per part.
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That plan (opening up society by economic isolation) didn't work particularly well for Cuba, Iran, North Korea, or any other embargoed country that I know of.
Your opinion doesn't exactly matter in this case, does it? It obviously worked, it obviously was appropriate and not at all creepy for the only person that matters in the context of this story.

Let me reformulate your statement: Some as yet undetermined fraction of people who haven't actually "gotten very far" might think of something like this as creepy (not this girl, though).
tl;dr: Google Voice still has no "keep your number" support; poster attempts to forward a phone number to another phone number that forwards to his other phones; hilarity ensues.
I won't use Sass, Haml, LessCSS or things like that until I see Sass, Haml and LessCSS in Firebug or View Source (or whatever your choice of web development tools). The claimed benefits are nice in theory, but I think it is a debugging roadblock to have to mentally translate and associate your source code with what the web server serves.

If I code in CSS and HTML, that problem is practically nonexistent (excepting things like templating). The CSS and HTML the web server serves are the CSS and HTML in the source code.
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Yes!

Speaking of which, anyone happen to know how (in X and at the Linux console) to make both my Alt keys act like Alt keys instead of one being AltGr?
Still, I also would like to know the answer to the original question. Surely videos are still played somewhere. Do labels get paid when that happens?
Re niyazpk's comment on squatters and porn, I have been unpleasantly surprised by the .com version of .other sites that I use.
I recall seeing Jethro Tull back on their Under Wraps tour. I don't recall which song, but one of the tracks from that record features a repeating synth riff. The keyboardist (a hired gun) actually made a bit of a show with this, if you had your eye on him. He recorded the riff into his sequencer in realtime (which I guess should count as "real" rather than "fake") and then stood back and held up his hands as if to say "Look, Ma, no hands".
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1, He did something for the person he Love/have affection
2. he did something he likes to do (Programming)

I think sending a present to a person you love is a very personal matter and one should do what he feels like doing. It's not merely a means to an end right?. One suerly derives happines from doing it as well.
The funny thing is that it is Americans' relative willingness to pay for movies that allows the American movie industry to create in the scale that they do. If bootlegging weren't so prevalent in China, perhaps their movie industry wouldn't need to be supported by decree, and perhaps their marketplaces wouldn't be awash in what are effectively advertisements for America.
It is true, there are other aspects to Magnuss chess proficiency. Adgestein's coaching when Magnus was in his early teens, must have been a factor. It is hard for a teen with other pressures to transition from a promising player (with much hype one must add) into a real premier player.

Notice though, that Magnus mentions that he is not even sure where his real chess board is. His chess time is spent at the computer.

Personally, I have trouble playing on a regular board after playing tons of computer chess, but then again I am an old patzer(2400FIDE).
Most designers aren't programmers — they're designers.
Exact match domains are overrated, unless you're going for long-tail keywords with little competition like Patrick.

Spend a few hours with AjaxWhois.com and find a workable .com. You'll be glad you did later.
If society reaches the point where all countries but one are aligned on the same principles, and only one country in the world is behaving badly, then I think your solution will work.
Project Euler is a great tool to learn a new programming language. I used it, along with 'Programming Clojure' to learn Clojure. You can see all my problems on GitHub. http://github.com/semmons99/clojure-euler
For the curious: jpg's are interpreted from the beginning, zip's from the end, so "cat image.jpg archive.zip > doublefile" will make you one of these 'magic' files.
if it was disruptive, if it was the best thing since sliced bread, you wouldn't have to do this.

The man who invented sliced bread didn't make it popular. It was initially viewed as a bad idea. Acceptance required the selling efforts of Wonder Bread, and even then it took a number of years before most consumers decided that it was a good idea.

History is rife with examples of products and services that became incredibly popular, but had slow uptake. Lack of initial acceptance proves almost nothing about the usefulness, quality, or long-term viability of the product.
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This is a great point - the web is a place where anyone can participate on equal footing. If I have the savvy to make a site that people like, there's no reason it can't be the next Google or Facebook or Craigslist.

If we don't maintain net neutrality, we'll start to get stratification. "Oh, you're trying to use Vimeo? Your ISP throttles that. Try Youtube - they made a deal to be fast."

Suddenly the web loses what makes it unique and innovative. Just like I can't buy property on Fifth Avenue for my store unless I'm already rich, I can't deliver fast video to you unless I'm already rich. Goodbye underdogs, goodbye innovation, goodbye internet.
this chart clearly shows that everything you can do with Google wave can already be done with other tools.
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"[And] as Frederic Bastiat put it, it makes no more sense to be protectionist because other countries have tariffs than it would to block up our harbors because other countries have rocky coasts."
But the fact that "many psychological studies suggest" that intelligence (not IQ specifically) is changeable makes this a different scenario than outright lying to students as in your gym class example.

Whether or not the students are actually getting smarter is another question. But it doesn't look to me like anyone's getting lied to.

(edit: refactoring language)
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I've also noticed that Google Voice, despite its awesome feature set, is just not very reliable. I absolutely prefer to use it as my primary phone number, but I've noticed repeated problems with just using the service, a good deal of the time.

Outbound calls (from my phone) that use the Google Voice service often times just don't connect.

Inbound calls often don't ring my phone, and go straight to voice mail.

I've never noticed an SMS message fail altogether, but I have seen a number of occasions in which it was delayed so significantly that it might as well have.

Perhaps the most important glitch to me (and this isn't a service complaint, so much) is that MMS messages are just ignored. I don't receive them, or any notification that one was sent, and from what I can tell, there is no message / delivery failure sent to the sender either. This is a problem for me.

Despite all these problems, I still LIKE Google Voice, and continue to use it, despite its unreliability. If I'm dealing with time-sensitive matters or financially sensitive ones, I just give out my non-IP phone number, to ensure that I at least get the calls, but my main want for Google Voice is to replace my regular number, so that I can change phones & carriers at will, that doesn't really sit well either.
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Think on the bright side: if the US economy can survive this kind of one-sided trade it can survive anything... The same can't be said of other economies.
I don't know...maybe the program was a test to see how the girl would react?

I know that if I did something like this and the person I sent it to reacted with "meh, that's cool", it would mean to me to stay the hell away from them, or at least keep them at arms length.

I think this is really, really cool. A friend of mine and I used to do this with each other; make puzzles and things and then trade them. It was really fun, and a really cool way of teaching each other new things we had learned.
Seems like a lot more developers (including the author) need to read "The art of the metaobject protocol".
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I've struggled with this as well; the closest I've come to solving it was changing the keyboard layout preferences in gnome so that my right windows key now works as alt. I find that works almost as well.
I've noticed now... Thanks :)
You're right. In the reddit comments, the girl definitely wasn't sold on the guy yet. She just really liked the gift.
I've been doing them to learn Haskell.

Haskell is actually very good for solving these types of problems. It supports infinite lists and lazy evaluation which help quite a bit.

I find that the best thing about Project Euler is being able to look at how other people have solved the problems - a great way to improve your own code.
Vanilla is one of the companies that drove Brad Feld to push for a startup visa. They're Canadians, would love to set up in the US, have investors, but are blocked from doing so by the immigration system. There's a WSJ piece that talks to Mark O'Sullivan about his situation if you want more:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126282269345218789.html?mod=...
Funny, when I read this initially my first thought was: it would be inconsistent for the US, as champion of the free market, to attempt to impose its will on a country such as China by itself acting contrary to free market principles.

Then I remembered: the US has not had a problem doing just this with/to other countries before; for example South Africa. There were not only the apartheid-era sanctions; there have also been the post-apartheid era "negotiations" (for example, 'halt your satellite development program or we will oppose your entry to GATT').

It seems fair to say the US has used "steamroller" tactics like this before. So maybe the question should rather be: why is the US handling China differently?
The law isn't some kind of book from "on high" with static text that just is. It is a living body of rules that under the right circumstanced even lowly working class citizens can affect. If people are becoming exploited again and current labor laws can't stop it then those laws need to be changed.
AjaxWhois just posted my sample domain search to godaddy. Sounds like a great way to get the pricejacked up.
Why would courting a woman need to be couched in terms like "creating attraction", and why would it need to be as efficient as possible?
<i>"If designers liked programming they would be programmers."</i><br />

Amen. Having to express a visual idea in code is about as fun as it would be to have to draw your program and have a compiler turn it into code. If web designers could just draw their beautiful designs and have that magically turn into code, they'd love it. Search the web for services that claim to do just that, and you'll see there's plenty of demand. (I have no idea if those services work.)
In his defense, she does say that he is 14+ hours away. So it's not like he can be with her in person.
Yay. I'm totally confused as well. I read things that tell very different stories, and all end up with "you should ask your lawyer" (who has no clue).

Currently I just think I'm going to stay away and find an alternative, it's just too confusing.
"Most web designers I know want to know more about programming and jump at the opportunity to learn."

Because they enjoy it, or because they want to advance in their career?
tl;dr: it's a wordy but alright article about how the idea of an inferior product winning because it got a head start is a myth that has no actual evidence. QWERTY vs DVORAK is one example of this myth, but it's not central to the piece, actually.
Of course Avatar must look really crappy on these bootlegged DVDs. I guess many Chinese would like to spend the additional money to watch it in 3D.
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The problem wasn't attraction -- they'd already managed that. The problem was that they lived 14 hours apart.
Well, Gruber has daringfireball.net and .com
Oh the irony -- it's not available on Kindle.
One of the very first posts I wrote on my personal blog in 2007 was about Dweck's "Fixed Mindset vs Growth Mindset" (based on a graphic by Nigel Holmes):

http://michaelgr.com/2007/04/15/fixed-mindset-vs-growth-mind...

Still one of the most popular posts there.

I really wish this concept was taught to young children. I bet it could really make a difference.
Cuba and Iran are only isolated from the US, and the US was never a major part of their foreign trade. North Korea only survives because it is propped up by external powers (China, and to a lesser extend, South Korea).

In contrast, China makes many consumer electronics intended for the US market.

International isolation worked fairly well for South Africa. Threads of isolation also opened up the Japanese and Chinese markets to US-made auto parts, and it opened the domestic Chinese consumer electronics market to foreign-made semiconductors.
First of all, I don't think it's out of line to generalize for purpose of those that might think of doing something like this.

Secondly, she thought it was cool, but from the way she typed this it's apparent that she wasn't that into the guy, and that she still isn't that into him.
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Well you are correct. I just thought that maybe China didn´t want people to watch it but that´s not the case. Just being paranoid.
Embargos are a (light-weight) act of war. And like most acts of war, they hurt the civilian population more than they hurt the leadership.

Protectionist trade policies to attempt to balance a huge trade deficit is just economic policy. Free trade is all well and good when both partners are trading freely, but China is not doing that. China uses forced-low labor costs, low quality standards, low environmental standards, and import quotas to ensure they come out way ahead on the balance of trade. This hurts US businesses who can't compete with Chinese companies prices because they have to adhere to much higher standards/costs.

Simply adding tariffs to Chinese imports wouldn't be enough though; while that would bring some money into the US budget, it probably wouldn't help US businesses start up to pick up the slack in imports, and US consumers would wind up footing the bill. We'd also need a reduction in taxes on businesses that produce the sort of products we import from China so we can kickstart US production. The lower taxes should lead to more US jobs and lower prices on the products, and the government shouldn't lose revenue because it'll be getting the extra tariff money. (It'll be a long time before US businesses can produce the volume of goods we import from China, even with tariffs and tax breaks in place.)
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http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/steven_tyler.htm...

Its a valid quote, a very valid concept, and it is this article described in one sentence. If its good enough for recovering alcoholics to get back on their feet, and good enough for one of the greatest rock musicians of our lifetime, it's certainly good enough to be my own personal motto when diving into anything for the first time.