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> Thank you for your input, it's a valuable lesson.

I'm glad you appreciate my input, but please don't confuse my gut-feeling with an actual lesson from someone who knows something about this :)
i did. just hoping that by drawing attention to the overabundance others will flag these stories too.
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Another vote for Wing Chun / Wing Tsun here. I've been training with Bay Mountain Wing Tsun for about 10 years, really fun group, and very technical and precision oriented. I think what I like best about this style is that the teaching curriculum is very well thought through; it all builds on the things that come before, and you always get a very clear sense of your progress and your goals.
But how do you reconcile the fact that DRM only affects paying customers, such as AC2's need for a constant internet connection or Spore's original maximum installations, where pirates can easily just install the crack and not worry about the DRM?
that, or make part of stories accessible (think reading above the fold in a newspaper vending machine).
1: There's no way it'd work.

2: It'd be bigotry-o-rama.

3: Even simpler, and in the same practical category: End commercial air traffic. No more terrorism on planes.
That seems to be ignoring commuters. Suburbanites often commute into the city, raising employment numbers while reducing the number of employed locals.

For instance (from wikipedia):

Manhattan is the economic engine of New York City, with its 2.3 million workers drawn from the entire New York metropolitan area accounting for almost two-thirds of all jobs in New York City.[139] Manhattan's daytime population swells to 2.87 million, with commuters adding a net 1.34 million people to the population. This commuter influx of 1.46 million workers coming into Manhattan was the largest of any other county or city in the country, and was more than triple the 480,000 commuters who headed into second-ranked Washington, D.C.[140][141]

Based on your method, Manhatten has ~200% employment rate. (Yes I noticed the numbers there seem to conflict slightly, but it gets the point across.)
Swordfighting is a [set of] martial art[s]. Fencing is a sport. Unless you find a teacher who's interested in things like targetting vulnerable spots, putting power behind a strike and maintaining defense after a point is scored.
No offense, but this is kind of a dumb question. A martial art is not much different from any other sport, programmer or not. Play tennis, box, what's the difference?

My two cents on which martial art to pick is boxing or one of the kickboxing varieties. The "east asian" martial arts schools in your American strip mall practically never emphasize that fighting is 90% physical fitness and strength, and so I regard them as a bit of a joke. Rare is the taekwondo student who'd last three rounds against a golden gloves guy.

I mean, you see fat people coming out of these karate classes. There's very rarely such a thing at a muay thai or boxing gym that actually fields fighters. When I was boxing it wasn't rare for guys to puke.

I suppose nerds want to think fighting is this cerebral thing where all these advanced skills with funny japanese names make the difference. Sorry, it's mostly being able to hit hard and keep doing it a lot for minutes.
Taking virtually anything to its logical conclusion is a bad idea. The logical conclusion of risk non-aversion isn't all that pretty either.
This is a good idea - I would recommend you email it to feedback@nasuni.com as well as any other features or ideas you have. That way the entire team can take a chance to discuss it and respond and save it.
Claim-to-fame: a pretty web-admin.

I'd be more interested if it was a pretty web-admin on top of one of the established web-servers.
It's worth noting that on modern OSes, the OS will forcibly zero out memory when it's allocated from the OS, so if you're allocating a really large sparse set (large enough to not come from existing free heap RAM), and don't intend to clear it a lot, sparse sets won't save any time, and calloc (which can skip the zeroing if it's getting new pages from the OS) will probably be a better idea.
Doesn't Silicon Valley operate in a similar way via social networking?
The American Dream is precisely about being average. The white picket fence and all that.
Compare & contrast to Clojure's handling of the same: http://clojure.org/java_interop#Java%20Interop-Member%20acce...
If you're taking a painkiller every day, the headaches at this point may be 'rebound headaches'.
This is why VC's are becoming amenable to letting founders take money off the table. (See: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/09/founder-liquidity.html)
You know this article makes me ponder the Steve Jobs 'Reality Distortion Field'. The author is right, if I go to, say, any internet music site like Pandora for instance. I really do feel like I am being slighted if it is not free. And at the same time I actually give Steve my credit card details, IN ADVANCE, because I may want to download the very same music from his site. I would never dream of paying a dime to Pandora. Yet I pay Steve and think, wow, he's doing me a favor! Look at all this great stuff! And so convenient!

I don't have a good idea of how many other people do this, but I imagine it is a lot. Perhaps the secret to a good business model in the digital age is to replicate Steve's 'Reality Distortion Field'. Because, as one of the suckers, I can tell you it really does work.
Is this even what is shipping with Win7 EU? I would assume that the real browser choice screen is not in a browser window, and that this website was created quickly just to give people an idea of what it might look like. Do we even know who actually wrote the code?
Allocating and initializing a huge array of memory at start-up can take a second, and subsequent server operations take 12 microseconds. Nobody's talking about allocating a gig of memory every time a server gets a request.
It was because that concept was really useful :P I factor them all the time when trying to engineer things.
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Their website and blog don't work anymore. I've found several rave articles and blog posts about it from mid-2009, but no announcement or commentary about its disappearance. I'm really curious about this - does anybody know what happened to Tweba?
Over-focusing on one metric in a way that overplays its significance runs the risk of a worse result overall. Driving safely is a function of many parameters, only one of which is driving a safe speed.

In many places it's now specifically illegal to speak on cellphone while driving. But eating a cheeseburger isn't. I'm afraid that the single-factor approach to road safety ends up giving people a mental check-list to pay attention to, rather than paying attention to potential dangerous situations.
This is a question better asked on our forums here: https://www.nasuni.com/forum/ where the entire engineering team can comment as needed.
I've studied a couple martial arts and had brief introductions to a number of others (Systema and Qi Dao are the two I've done for a while).

Every art I've seen teaches getting out of holds first because it is something a novice can do pretty easily with some understanding of technique.

I've also been hit in the balls during sparing matches a number of times. It's not the decisive hit many imagine. In fact, a strong solar plexis shot was much more effective in my personal experience.

A lot of "real world" martial arts teach about "disabling" shots that their practitioners never get to seriously try because they are, at least intended to be, truly crippling.

Yet that means that in the "real world", when assaulted, you are trying to do something you've never previously done in the same fashion.

For that reason, I think that "competition" based martial arts certainly can be at least as good for "real world" defense. The tactics used in MMA matches would work good in the real world - with the proviso to avoid fights and avoid the ground as much as possible.

If anyone wants to debate these issues in gruesome detail, look at http://bullshido.net . There's plenty of attitude there but it's a group of folks who've worked pretty hard sorting out bs from effective martial arts.
A sniper robot would be workable with off-the-shelf technology. You could hide it in plain sight by simply making it look like a city garbage can or a vending machine.

The problem with static, low-cost technology is ingress and egress: whatever the mission, the idea is that there are no pieces for anybody to find once it's over. Ideally the robot would move itself into position and get the heck out of dodge with a high degree of invisibility. That's why man-portable UAVs work so well. Heck, we're already using them for reconnaissance. (But you're right about the technology problems. Only a few countries could mount such an effort)
Whoah this guy is taking entirely too much credit for the freevolution. If I recall, media companies did not example jump head over heels at the chance to buy into the vision of these young new media hypesters.

The phenomenon of giving everything away was largely confined to startups, most of which failed, some of which settled for meager profits compared to traditional companies, and a few of which (Google, Facebook) generated revenue models and brand equity that would be the envy of any news organization.

I do think he's right that the pendulum has been swinging away from free recently, but that's only because it's now becoming clearer what business models work as free and what don't. And even today, a lot more works as free than used to.
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The problem is this needs to be an change throughout an operating system or it doesn't work.

I know there have been userspace file system projects for Linux systems that have attempted the tagging system, but none have really become mainstream. Gnome seems to be going in the direction of time-pased file sorting which is another non-folder oriented way of thinking.

On the Apple side I think they really want their users to be searching in preference to tagging.

Microsoft had a go with Windows 7, but obviously they want users to be able to upgrade their old operating system making it impractical to make it a global default.

But the other thing to consider is 'Cloud' computing, a lot of online services (eg Google's) use tagging rather than a folder modal. This means if software moves more online/browser based we'll see tag-based systems emerge naturally.

Edit: Fixed some typos
It is not good at all - it asserts on the first page that evidence for global warming is piling up, which is just not true. It is more of the same politically motivated bullshit that the UN has been spreading.
Dilbert is a coward.
"The American Dream is a national ethos of the United States of America in which democratic ideals are perceived as a promise of prosperity for its people. In the American Dream, first expressed by James Truslow Adams in 1931, citizens of every rank feel that they can achieve a "better, richer, and happier life."[1] The idea of the American Dream is rooted in the second sentence of the Declaration of Independence[2] which states that "all men are created equal"[3] and that they are "endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights"[3] including "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."[3]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dream
I second that, having practiced fencing for a year. That's pretty much the wording we'd use to describe it.
I don't know the internals of Sillicon Valley, but I guess, yeah it does. And I also guess that the ratio of people you shouldn't have employed/co-founded with/funded there is significantly higher than the ratio of terrorists on planes.
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Hey this is fun! Now you do one again.
Again, I see no benefit to MS or harm to EU for using the broken algorithm... It sounds childish that the broken algo is a win against EU of some sort
"typically you're crushing or breaking something as fast as possible and then RUNNING"

Typically, you're avoiding without getting involved. Occasionally, you're facing someone down or pushing someone away as quickly as possible and then running.

Breaking bones? Is that something you expect to do easily?

Also, if you manage to get one mega-pain-inflicting blow in mugging type situation, you might give the guy and his friends much more impetus to chase and injure you.

-- Before learning martial arts was mugged a couple of times. Despite the fact that they assaulted me, they were aiming for money. If I'd injured one guy before they got me on the ground and snitched my wallet, I might have been facing considerably more injuries.

Sure, there's lots of attitude in martial arts but I think the "this is the REAL WORLD and we fight DIRTY" folks have as much of this attitude as the wanna-be ninjas.
The opposite of risk-aversion is not risk-seeking, as you seem to imply, but risk-management as I have explicitly advocated in my previous post.
It's strange how things work out. I used to use Macs, but recently switched back to Linux. Shortly after, I paid for Pandora One.

It's all about what's most useful to you. I would listen to Pandora way more than 40 hours a month if I could, and now I can. When I had less free time for messing around with my OS and trying to get stuff to work, I wanted a Mac, but now that I have a regular job, trying to get stuff to work at home is fun again, so back to Linux it is.
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that might work pretty well, and it would map well to their existing business models. do you know of anyone doing it?
The message I take away from this is that Seth believes he much much more special than the people who draw a wage.
More accurately, it's believing you could be anything you want and choosing an average comfortable life. This is in contrast to not having the choice at all. People like having choice, not necessarily using it.
Krav Maga is pretty cool, but I wouldn't call it a "martial art". There are no aesthetics in Krav Maga, no spectators, no tournaments, and no rules. Krav Maga is for people who want to defend themselves efficiently.
Which "they" are you referring to who has been telling you for decades to take aspirin? The drug companies, the media, or your own doctor?

The only one of those three that I would actually listen to, my personal physician, has never once suggested that I take aspirin daily, surely because I'm not a high risk for heart disease or stroke.

I'm curious if it really is common for physicians to blindly prescribe aspirin. The article itself doesn't specifically identify any case where a patient was prescribed daily aspirin. It sounds like the people mentioned decided on their own to start taking it.
Eh. Neither of you cited any empirical evidence for your claims. Jury's still out.
I'm a big fan of tags, and I would argue that we are giving up the folder metaphor, it is just happening online first (tags was a big part of "web 2.0" sites, gmail's labels, using google to find files based on keywords, etc).

The location where files are stored is where tags are a bit awkward. The folders are clear there. It's easy with folders to copy a picture from an SD card to my hard drive. From hd to a network mount.

The alternative would be to have magical tags, so everything you gave the 'hd' tag to, it would be stored on your hd.

In fact, the whole concept of adding a storage device to the system is strange with tags. Mount a 1Tb network share and automatic indexing starts? A standardized format for storing tag-information? What about computers that just change files directly without updating the tags? What about incompatible formats?

I wonder if applications could do a better job at tagging up files they create compared to the approach (in apple spotlight) to have search engine plugins that can find tags based on file content (mp3 id data, jpeg exif data,...).

If applications were more tag-aware, they could at least allow you to browse your files by tags instead of by folders.
The actual quote is, "As women (and compassionate people everywhere) ..."

"As women"?

That's irritating. Why the distinction? Are women different?
I wonder if it would have helped. Patzer was probably choosing between $40 million (or whatever) today and $80 million (or whatever) in a few years. The VCs would own more and he'd own less, so even with a bigger exit he's not looking at all that much more. During that time catastrophe could strike and wipe him out completely.
You get that the video is comedy, no?

Aikido gets a lot of bad press but it's worth remembering that comes from Aki-Jujitsu, which was created to allow armed samurai to gain control of unarmed opponents.

It seem pretty obvious that if you've got a gun, you should put yourself in a position where you're wrestling with your opponent - keep them at the minimum at arm's length. I've heard that why Akido uses straight-arm throws.

Walking the city armed for real is pretty literally looking for trouble anyway.
So stupid it hardly warrants comment. So if there is no one famous on your flight, it doesnt fly? OTOH if your first passenger is a world famous terrorist, the problem solves itself. You have a plane full of terrorists; just shoot it down. (Crikey, I feel like I am on /.)
Why isn't Microsoft trying out Haskell? Reading "Coders at Work" I was surprised to learn that research/development of Haskell's GHC is financed almost entirely by Microsoft, yet they aren't using it even for internal purposes as far as I know. And for their own functional language (F#) they picked ML to build on.

I wonder why.
True. However some achievements will last after I am dead, some will not. I'm more interested in the former.
Fantasy island nonsense. How are they going to lockup all that data, magical fairy dust? The genie is out of the bottle, as much as newsweek wishes this were 1950 it's not. It's fine and dandy that this guy expects to pay on these new devices. The reality is they are just computers and they will only remain tied up in proprietary software for so long. I expect I'll get hold of all the data I want for free on my computer just like I always have. I expect I will only use devices where I can run arbitrary code and I expect after they get tired of paying, the rest of the world will catch up.
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It would make more sense to me to just reduce the dose rather than cut it out completely. Maybe just take one every other day or 3-4 times a week.
And he's right, he is more special. He is also ready to explain you how to become special - a better you.

Imagine that a person is in fact brainwashed - how would she react to someone trying to explain it to her? Would she perhaps become defensive? How would she go about discovering if she is brainwashed or not? How would she go about changing that?

I submit it is in fact nearly impossible to use one's own world view to understand the limits of one's own world view. The best way to explore the boundary is to listen to someone who has gone further than yourself in a given direction.

The other great option is to look for people with a more limited world view than your own, pay attention to patterns of behaviors and convictions that make those people limited and then look for the same patterns in yourself. I have made many great self-discoveries using this tactic.
"...and that he doesn't have designs to become a dictator and make this opinion the law of the land."

Yeah, I think he wants to be the next Tony Robbins:

"My mission is to inspire people to think clearly, to live deliberately, to conquer fear and embrace possibility, to express beauty, and to love completely. Prepare to be scorched then reborn, authentic and complete."
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I studied karate for years. I would recommend finding something with a strong heritage to traditional martial arts - this is more important than style, you should be able to trace the lineage of your teachers back to someone notable. http://www.amazon.com/Moving-Zen-Journey-Bushido-Warrior/dp/... this is a nice book regarding this topic. I personally would recommend tai chi or karate over kendo. imho, kendo is not exactly practical these days, it tends to be a bit stuffy for me and in most karate schools you will get weapons training after you advance far enough.
at this point I'm honestly just waiting for the UK to openly set up minitru etc.
What, specifically, are you calling out as untrue? Are you saying that the earth isn't warming up? Even most of the listed skeptics would disagree with you.

The only skeptic, I'm aware, to have a decent criticisms of the temperature rise (as exaggerated rather than claiming there's no overall rise) comes from Ross McKitrick and Stephen McIntyre, of which many issues have been addressed, and some are still up for debate. In other respects, an overall rise is kind of a red herring: urban temperature rise killed 35000 in Europe in 2003, agricultural zones are changing with exceptional rapidity (wine regions are moving Northward, for example. There are even successful vineyards in Nova Scotia, in Canada, where I come from, now.)

In any case, regardless of global warming, we are making huge changes in the atmospheric composition. Sudden changes in atmospheric composition have been implicated is most of the mass extinction events throughout Earth's history. How can calling the wisdom of these drivers in to question be politically motivated bullshit rather than a genuine concern for sustainability/survival?

http://www.ted.com/talks/peter_ward_on_mass_extinctions.html
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For practical defense in mugging type situations, one of the biggest things to worry about is KNIVES. This video gives a lot of great points, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFr30p0aZl0 be sure to watch it to the end and not just the first half.
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I see it as a totally different model. I don't particularly want my files to be stored by tags. I keep a very organized repository of all my stuff. If I want music I go to media/music if I want code I'm working on I'll go to code/projects or stuff I'm not I'll go to code/legacyprojects etc. Directory structures have hierarchy, traditional tag systems do not.
Retarded article by equally retarded future juice purveyor.
Thanks for this! I had this bookmarked from when it was first written, but if i remember correctly, access was restricted soon after.
I'll admit the wavy-edged annulus is a little over the top, but compared to a standard pie chart, I think the double hemicircle is clever and more visually interesting than a standard pie, with no loss of information.
Maybe that explains it.
What I mean is things like Lua doesn't have a popen in its standard library that lets you both read and write to the subprocess, because there's a case where this can break (if what you're sending over the pipe is bigger than some internal buffer). Ruby and Python both let you do this, even with the potential for breakage, but Lua prefers correctness over convenience. A lot of the library calls in Lua seem closer than I'd prefer to the underlying C, because they don't want to provide abstractions over it that could break (even if the case where it breaks is something you'd never do). I guess this is because they don't know where it could end up getting embedded, but that kills it as an everyday scripting language for me.
Have you tried stopping for a while?
You need to be careful about user privacy with things like this. You're leaking user information to third party services, and you need to make this clear to your users, especially if you're dealing with anything that could be considered at all sensitive.
Some women believe that being polite or kind is tantamount to being a doormat. Such diseased thinking is apparently caused by a course in women's studies or speed reading self-help books.