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I've installed it on two RHEL/Centos machines so far, I'm planning to put it in some production systems in a maintenance period just to be sure of no issues (though I wouldn't be surprised if my datacenter vendor (whose name I won't reveal but it rimes with backspace) would offer this as a "free" service to the customers). It seems like just the thing for hosting vendors to buy for their customers in bulk.

I'm happy to see someone making money off free software and I hope there'll be more of it. There just isn't much software one can spend money on besides the basic like RHEL. If I want to plunk down $5000 on high-performance something it seems like commercial lisp vendors are the only ones that can give that to you. I'd like to give $5000 for a faster Python.
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How does the new design give you less control?
I actually think that they have been remarkably good at fixing problems. I remember saying that the apps would kill facebook. I was sent beers, challenged to ninja wars and whatnot many, many times a day. They designed their way out of that.
You could make a filter for it.
All numeric metrics of programmer productivity are easily gamed, but yours is particularly so: just add and delete one line repeatedly.
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I agree about the journalists bit, but when he says in his letter includes the following:

John Christy took a lot of heat over the satellite data, but nothing remotely like what is being turned on Phil Jones. It would have been romantic if John's error had been uncovered by journalists combing through stolen emails, or members of the public issuing freedom of information requests. But it wasn't. It was found by the US government funding a painstaking independent analysis of the satellite record, with John's co-operation, just as Phil has said he would be happy to co-operate with an impartial and scientific re-analysis of the surface temperature record, if anyone wants to fund such a thing.

The implication is that none of these 'members of the public' are any good, the only thing worth considering is funded research.
I highly recommend The Non-Designer’s Design Book by Robin Williams for all non-designers out there.

It goes through basic stuff which is important to pay attention to when “presenting information” (designing) such as proportions, whitespace, alignment, repetition, etc. Also basic stuff about using different fonts.
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Hmm. Would be nice if the dropdown and buttons worked properly in Opera.
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Theme roller is a cool idea, but the CSS it outputs has so much cruft... It's like they forgot about the cascading part.
Except for physical litter I can see quite a few similarities on some abstract level, don't you?
Take the idea, but don't try to learn HTML and CSS from this post.
This is bad:

<div class='header'>Basic Information</div>

Don't you ever use anything like this—HTML has a nice set of dedicated header elements.

There are the cases when you need to wrap your ULs into DIVs, but most of the time

<div id='main_menu'>
<ul class=menu'>

Can be replaced by simple <ul id="main_menu">

Some CSS tips:

a) don't specify units for zero values. 0px is the same as 0em is the same as 0pt—you get the idea. So plain 0, not 0px.

b) properties that accept four values (like margin or padding) allow some shortcuts: if the only one value is specified, it is applied to all sides. If there are two values, the first is used for the top and bottom, the second for the right and left. If there are three values, the first is for the top, the second for the right and left, the third for the bottom. This often comes handy.
E.g. "margin:15px 0px 10px 0px;" can be written as "margin: 15px 0 10px;"

The easy way to remember what is the order of the four values is mnemonic TRouBLe: Top, Right, Bottom, Left.

c) If your color values look like #xxyyzz you can use short form #xyz. So #999 instead of #999999, #abc instead of #aabbcc.
Very few users change the default font on their browser.
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My account user name is genderfree. I posted a test comment just now and I logged out. I cannot see the comment. I read somewhere on here recently that when pages start loading very slowly when you are logged in, chances are your account has been banned.

This is the account:
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I don't understand what is happening. I heard bannings occur when users ignore the rules. I don't believe I have broken any. There is no way to contact anyone about this so forgive me for posting.

Thank you for listening.
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I just checked and found my profile to be private by default.
This is an important distinction, and the other amateurs always came early in the field's history when it was a simpler science.

Climate science is not in its infancy. It's broad, deep and complex.

I desperately hope you're not implying that we should give credence to the din of crackpot circus clowns who think dramatic climate change isn't really happening and that Al Gore is personally placing space heaters on the glaciers and polar icecaps.
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I'm kind of surprised this was Apple's policy to begin with. Some networks already block or deliberately slow down VoIP traffic (e.g. Skype) anyway.
Bad teachers can turn interesting explanations into boring lists of facts.

And your schools can't be that far behind universities when it comes to teaching quality, can they? Considering that teaching quality (contrary to depth and detail of knowledge of those teaching and other advantages of higher education) is the one thing were at least in my experience schools are sometimes even better as universities.
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My favourite fact about Einstein is that in 1905 he submitted 5 papers - the last was his PHD submission. Einsteins two most important papers were attributed to "Mr Einstein" :)
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It's a fair point though that the accuracy of your location made public is too much.
Can we get some nice date and time pickers please! :P
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Exactly - during his "Wonder Year" of 1905 he was most certainly an "amateur".

I'm not sure having a PhD qualifies you as a professional anyway - certainly not in the PE, lawyer, doctor or accountant sense.
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Get a paper trading account with a brokerage firm, I suggest thinkorswim, and practice with the delayed feed. 15-45 minutes a day, 3-4 days a week. Log everything, and use the numbers to gauge your intuition.

I do about one well time trade per week, it's like going hunting with one bullet. Better than any video game.

I will play the Wii when it pays me to :-)
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Since version 5.0.317.2 dev for windows (not tested on linux or mac) google chrome has now built-in javascript, cookies and plugins blocking, based on a blacklist
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The settings are in the new "content" button into "under the hood" tab.

All I need now is faster access to the whitelist and ability to add temporary permissions, then I'm about ready to switch to Chrome.
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Being almost done with your PhD doesn't make you an amateur in the sense used in the article.
Which is why almost every scientific publication does not tell the peer reviewers who the author is, and vice versa.
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Yet, at least in my situation it was spot-on.
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Got it compiled properly now, had to get one of the versions without the lexer/parser files included.

However I'm still getting 'xhp_a' class not found errors with the basic tests from the wiki, the same as the other comments in the sibling thread.

It seems to happen on several platforms so its probably a configuration error somewhere.

Any help would be appreciated.

EDIT: Figured it out. You need to include 'init.php' from 'php-lib' in your php scripts. I copied the directory from the xhp source to my site directory and included them from there.
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Ugh, I dislike this a lot. I'm one of the guys who actually likes PHP, so this may be a bit skewed, but what's wrong with PHP's existing alternate syntax? Most people don't know about it, but it's clean and easy to follow:

<?php if ( true === $some_value ): ?>
<div>display this div</div>
<?php else: ?>
<div>display this div instead</div>
<?php endif; ?>

This way, you can keep basic logic in your templates (its inevitable and convenient), it's still PHP (there's endforeach, endfor, endwhile, etc.), and this method of templating is very clean.

You can now have a class that sets variables through __set(), loads up a .phtml file, starts output buffering, renders the file with those variables, and then returns it.

You can extend it further to automatically sanitize output variables for XSS and whatnot, cache output, etc. This way, you don't need some overly verbose system like smarty to do what PHP does already. XHP just looks like another smarty: solving a problem that I really don't think exists.

Edit: Ok, I probably shouldn't say I dislike this a lot, I do love seeing Facebook sticking with PHP and ultimately helping it out.
return $this->renderBaseAttrs() . ' />';

No wonder it's expensive. If you serialize a tree of objects by concatenating subtrees into substrings, most values are copied many times depending on the depth of the tree, and you end up doing O(n log n) work. But as for the alternative

there was basic XSS filtering in place for the naked
$_POST['name'] variable in the plain PHP version

isn't knowing you have to encode some but not all of your output worse than just encoding all of it? This is the kind of design mistake that leads to databases accidentally full of HTML entities. Or more likely, half full.
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His benchmark is all about the template engine because that's what XHP changes.

The impact of XHP and HPHP depend very much on what you are doing to serve your requests.
Call me old-fashioned, but I have been weary of source-code transformations since I first touched C++
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I think Mike Arrington has been investing too much in companies with no Hero-CEO in their teams ;-)

An inspiring leader is an incredibly valuable asset. Just imagine what would have happened with Apple had Wozniak tried to to it without Jobs.

OTOH, I think a Microsoft with less Gates and more Paul Allen would be an interesting thing.

I will have some experiments to conduct as soon as time-travel becomes possible.
It could learn a thing or two from YUI CSS here.

Also, I find the themeroller a bit clumsy, spitting out whole zip files - rather than just little my-theme.css files.
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Ojay.Forms handles dynamic changes and supports IE6. You have to write your own styling, though, but generally one would have to do that with Uniform anyway.

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I understand this is one person's rant against FB but i am quite surprised that not a lot more people have experienced the same rage against FB.

I think the author does make a good point about boundaries. Lets say i sign up to FB using the same email id i used for sending an email to an office colleague once , now FB will suggest him to me and me to my colleague as "Add as a friend". This is fundamentally broken and no simply ignoring it or rejecting that is not enough. Why ? because the other party "knows" that you have rejected them.

Boundaries in social interaction are important and much more subtle than what FB models, add to this broken model the prevalence of stupid apps and that's enough for someone like to me get out of FB.
Yes it was, by Adam Curtis. Watch his other stuff too. The Trap is particularly good.
I agree he's too broad (and in other places as well). I had assumed it was just the heat of the argument.

I also wonder about him invoking his professional capacity. It implicitly makes him a representative of scientists; in acting so he really should have been more nuanced.
I love it! :-)
Open-source has created more clones than any single company, and it keeps on cloning. And yet software companies that actually provide value aren't going out of business any time soon.

If Google really starts cloning everything, the way Microsoft is trying, they'll start losing the focus on their core values. As a result, their products will be inferior ... their resources are limited after-all.

Don't believe me? They have a social network for quite some time ... see http://www.orkut.com ... do you see it competing against Facebook? They also have a Wikipedia competitor ... knol.google.com ... do you see it overtaking Wikipedia?

But I do remember what my online-life was like before Google Search / GMail / Google Maps ... I used AltaVista and the first page of results was always full of junk. I used Yahoo Mail that had a slow interface, and only something like ~ 50 MB of storage ... I still have that account (using it for YIM) and it's practically unusable (their spam filters are crap ... in contrast with 2 GMail accounts + 2 Google Apps accounts that are doing just fine).

Google Apps is also really valuable ... I can have my email setup for my domain in a couple of hours, for free, having all the goodies of GMail.

I'm also using Google Translate ... which is really kick-ass sometimes (I'm not a native English speaker, and my native language isn't really popular, but Google Translate knows about it ;))

I'm also using Google Docs and Google Calendar ... Docs because it's there (came with Google Apps) and Calendar because it is intuitive and it is sending me SMS messages for free, plus my wife can see my schedule without me having to give her my password :)

Android and Chrome are 2 products launched to increase competition. I'm a Firefox user, but Chrome is so fast and so stable that it leaves Firefox in the dust ... I'd use it, but some Firefox-specific features are missing. And Android is the open-source mobile-OS we needed ... polished, backed by a strong brand, with a good SDK, and online-store.

I don't really think it's debatable whether Google provides value or not ... they clearly do. And what's "innovation" anyway?

Of course you're not going to see revolutionary ideas. That's why patents are so absurd.

But if you're fear-mongering about freebies, it means you're not providing enough value to justify your sales.
Your criticism of current scientific practice does not go far enough. Recent issues like the refusal to grant access to climate data cannot be so easily brushed off with a "not enough bandwidth" complaint.

We have the internet now. There is no reason to not put up a site with data & code when you publish your paper and just point all requests to go to the site. Scientists need to start using these tools like the rest of us and stop hiding behind such false excuses.
Wow, I'm astonished how this seems such a good and unchallenged idea to you, guys! And you guys were so fond of the 'Teach yourself programming in 10 years' the other day...
There is an inverse linear dependency between the speed of swallowing information and how deep it penetrates your skull...
I mean, the (good) lecture already contains a great concentration of information and knowledge that you need to
thoroughly review (ideally from different angles while throwing in additional info and reason of your own).

Playing Defense Towers etc. while you're listening to a lecture? I understand that this technique is the cure for that but really, if you started by viewing the lectures while playing, my assessment is that you were not taking things seriously. And the whole idea that creeps out is that you're on a lecture-viewing marathon, trying to beat some sort of record...

You know, sometimes less is more...
Gettting used to using the OS provided codecs can be a problem, because it forces you into specific codec, that you may want to avoid and disallows to use codec you want to use.

For example, I can't imagine Bink being hardware accelerated anytime soon.
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This seems to be from the guys over at http://informationarchitects.jp/ - which explains the heavily typographic layout.

I actually think it would be fantastic as a daily email round.
How do people learn about new games these days? For some reason I stopped reading the online game mags a while ago, and now to start again seems a bit overwhelming. Would be nice to only hear about the real must-play games.
APC is doing that, just one step better, by caching them as PHP Opcodes.
When I'm new to something and get that feeling of having hit a barrier, I try to remember to "go broad before you go deep".

It's too easy to feel the tail of the elephant, think it's a snake, and then go off based on that assumption and waste enormous time. You have to avoid doing that. Make yourself consider assumptions before you work form them.

One way to do this is to force yourself to write out a list of ten strategies for helping to solve whatever problem you're stuck on. The ten-ways works for most things in life. Five isn't enough - you have to force yourself to really think.
This may be humour but he's getting to the heart of something big.

Why don't we just watch all the amazing films and TV shows of the past? Why do we listen to music that's in the charts when we've got over 5 decades of complete genius waiting to be listened to?

Because fundamentally these are social acts. We like listening to the music that others are listening to, to define ourselves by the films we like in common with others. It's the same with games.
As someone who sort of kind of keeps up, it's actually pretty true, there have been a WHOLE bunch of goods games lately, and I don't think I'll ever catch up.
As an expat Aussie, the direction the government has taken has saddened, but not shocked me. This is a country famous for having what the Register used to call 'The world's biggest Luddite' Richard Alston appointed as Minister of the Digital Economy. There has been a change of government since those times, but not much seems to have changed.

While the idea of censoring certain content types like child porn may be seen as a good things, the issue is that the Net could become a tool of the government. The laws could extend to discrimination of minority groups - and Australia would become like China.

http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/feb2008/gb2008...

This article points out that questions remain: there is a lack of detail on what will constitute illegal content, how decisions will be made, and how the filtering technology itself will work. It also said Australia is not the only Western democratic country to look at web filtering - Scandinavia and UK have web filtering. The Oz govt just failed to stem the tide of outrage and bad press.

I'm also against getting rid of anonymity on the net, ie forcing everyone to use their full name, for the simple reason that some rogue governments in some countries are persecuting groups and the internet can be a powerful tool for them. Imagine if Mandela and the ANC had the net in the 50s.

It's a hugely sticky issue though.
That happens with products introducing revolutionary ideas ... people don't quite get it ;)

Wave is probably ahead of its time, and also suffers from a poor user interface.
This should be a standard feature of HTML5 audio and video support. I believe the Webkit-GTK guys are already working on it with their gstreamer backend.
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It's often claimed by speed-readers that the faster you take in the info the more you understand, because you get to a point where you have a cohesive overview faster.

I've never heard anyone claim that slower intake was necessarily better and if it was then you'd be able to use the same technique to slow down a lecture to take twice as long.
I think there is still some progress in the arts.
I have lots of friends that are regular users, sending crappy content to each other via email ... like funny clips and stupid jokes. They don't even use BCC or a mail-list so it's not uncommon to see an email sent to 40 addresses at once, all there in the "To" header :)

IMHO, this is genius.
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So, it seems you need to include init.php. Not sure why that doesn't happen automatically.

http://github.com/facebook/xhp/issues#issue/2