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> To a female reading this, you would be glamorizing the time when they weren't in this field.

Are you one of the offended females or a "white knight"?
Do you have a good link for your work on iStockPhoto? The "View Portfolio" link the iStockPhoto page you link to returns nothing.
Scala has Manifests to emulate reified types for just this reason.

http://www.scala-blogs.org/2008/10/manifests-reified-types.h...

It's improved a bit in 2.8 - in porting some code I discovered a nice little hack that lets you declare your variance like this:

[A <: SomeBaseClass <: Manifest]

Which tells the compiler in an oh so gentle manner to reify for you.
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Key point IMO:

The Gotham Gal looked at me and said "why are you checking twitter and not email?" ... I told her that email required a reply and twitter did not.
The statement about making money without actually making "things" or a helping people conflicts with his advice to Dubai which is to simply invest the money in the 'market' which some would argue creates nothing for society.

I guess maybe for him simply shuffling paper and money isn't acceptable but he feels comfortable advising the same technique for Dubai because of their inability to make 'things'?

Maybe he is a great consultant after all?
its slightly ironic that people like you and me are less likely to subject here the HN meme of 'moral obligation to maximize shareholder value'.
Same, and when I hooked up a bluetooth keyboard for the first time and propped it up like a regular screen I type at 100% speed. The Apple bluetooth keyboard and this thing are almost the same size, so on trips I'll be able to answer long emails, write blog posts, and maybe even reply to HN with ease!

It's all about expectations with the iPad. It's not going to be a pure laptop replacement if you do any "serious" work (don't even think about web dev for example, although it would be awesome if Panic released Coda for the iPad), but for about 80% of what I do (especially when traveling) it's absolutely perfect. Combine that with home use, coffee shops, and instant child entertainment and you have a device worthy of your $500.

If it doesn't fit into your life, don't get it! I still don't understand the point of the reviews where they try to do EVERYTHING possible on the iPad. It's clearly not meant for that, stop treating it like it is.
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Hey, good luck.

I also bootstrapped my company through contracting work, and as of this year, I'm ramen profitable. I'm not quite opportunity cost profitable, but I'm moving in that direction at a fairly high velocity.

Some of my lessons:

1. I make a lot of money as a contractor, compared to what people I know who can do many of the tasks required for my company.

(cultivate relationships with people who are poor but skilled!)

Until very recently, my personal primary focus was on contracting, and people who worked for me would focus on my company.

2. Avoid debit at (nearly) all cost.

If you have debit, recovering from mistakes is much, much more difficult. buy what you need, when you have the cash. Debit (and a mistake) very nearly killed my company. I essentially ended up ignoring my company for a large part of a year while I worked to pay it off.

It will be hard, but you know? so is getting funded.
If there is a shortage you might make more on ebay.
You should make your module loading code CommonJS compatible: http://commonjs.org/specs/modules/1.0/

Check out the mailing list as well, if you're not on it already: http://groups.google.com/group/commonjs
What are the advantages of Erlang for this kind of application compared to something like Django or Rails? From what I can tell Erlang's syntax isn't as nice for typical CRUD/string processing tasks and, unless you're doing some kind of distributed web app, it's not obvious to me how relevant Erlang's excellent support for distributed applications is.

Can somebody with more experience make the case for me?
Note you can make the www redirect generic across virtual hosts. (And, R=301 or not depending on the circumstance.)

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Erm, there was no RPG and arguably only one assault rifle. Camera equipment was mistaken for an RPG and for one of the assault rifles.

The reason the propaganda was inserted was because the US military explicitly stated that they did not know what happened to the reporters involved and were obviously too embarrassed to admit that they mistook their camera equipment for weapons and proactively engaged them.
Seems like a copy of
http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/mod_rewrite-tips-and-trick...

but with no attrition.
They forgot my favorite strategy: burn your house to the ground and fly your plane into their building. You certainly won't have to pay your taxes anymore.
erm... sounds like you would be better off with a laptop/netbook ;)

Would be a good bit cheaper too.
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Which generation MB are you talking about? A one with polycarbonate unibody or something older?
Thank you for your advice. I'll check it.
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As I said: That leaves you with pretty much nobody.

If you'd constrained it to, say, those who will agree to sex the same night, the numbers would look different, or to the ones who'd explicitly agree to something they know would end up as a one night stand.

But even then, most likely most of the girls you believe to be "classy" and/or "innocent" have at one time or another fallen for game, whether natural or learned - though they may not admit to it. Girls lie through their teeth about these things if put in situations where they're worried about being labeled.

And if you think game these days is constrained to "a few canned lines and techniques", you have no idea.
I think that this reveals the real villain of the previous video: the people who sent these men up to patrol a city in an Apache in the first place! Apaches are attack helicopters, "flying tanks," built to kill armored columns; they are not known for their stealthy approach (which is necessary to be confident that no one with an RPG will move around behind you and put a rocket up your tailpipe), nor for the high resolution and good zoom features of their gun cameras (since a small-screen, black-and-white camera is generally adequate to distinguish that which _is_ a column of tanks and ZSU-23-4s from that which _is not_. Well, maybe not buffalo herds, but there aren't many of those in central Germany).

Not to mention, should it be assumed that a man with an RPG in a dangerous part of Baghdad is hostile? What if he's Iraqi military and the Apache shoots him, thereby robbing his squad of their light-artillery support and giving away their position?

The right way to patrol is to _patrol_, and that means dismounted infantry operating out of forward bases (which the US is now using) -- not convoys of roadbound IFVs, and certainly not heavy helicopters. Counterinsurgency is not war against poorer enemies, it's police work with heavier weapons; and it's taken five or six years (and a _lot_ of incidents like the previous video), but I think that lesson is slowly sinking in.
Or, emigrate to a country with a more reasonable tax system, especially one that doesn't spend ~25% of its budget on the military.
Arent you lucky to get a couple of hours battery life with those? That would drive me nuts.
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This is an extraction from one of our client projects.

Work in progress ... :)
Link to study... http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/psp/98/1/146/

This study was done at Cornell, where there has been great concern for suicides. For students there, grades are their 'product' and hopefully they can see that grades and being at the top of their class isn't everything.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/education/17cornell.html
In this case, the value vs. volume may be debatable.

Lately, I've been taking notes on this. These are not bad observations:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1223346 - Networking advices from legendary Silicon Valley networker, Heidi Roizen -
90% of my interactions are on email (and I will say that is the same for almost all highly efficient people I know)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1248503 - Ron Conway Explained - (quoted email) “AM ON IT.”

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/03/28/Compartmen... - Communication Silos - They differ in their latency, reach, and persistence and, on another axis, in length of form.
The opposite is happening here. The user (browser) requests "foo-123.css" and is served "foo.css."
Cloning the core doesn't sound simple (even if it is).

Making it easy to move away lowers the potential cost of using Akshell - I really don't want to be locked in. How about open sourcing whatever is needed to run an app on your own server and then working on keeping customers through convenience and the interoperability between apps?
"I am firmly against wooden toys and want to give my kid a computer asap"

Less chance of splinters.
This is a very minor point, but could someone edit the title? "Afghani" means the currency; "Afghan" means the people of Afghanistan (Afghan-i Stan, "Land of the Afghans [originally another name for the Pashtuns]", in Persian).

This is a pretty common mistake, for what it's worth; demonymns in the eastern Middle East are kind of unpredictable.
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But it looks like 1680x1050 is $100 more. 1440x900 is still the default configuration. The 1680x1050 screen is offered in both "Glossy" and "Antiglare", though.

(PS: Is "Antiglare" just Apple's marketing term for matte?)
I have a Macbook Pro, I just don't like lugging it around on trips when it's overkill (the sucker is 5 - 6 pounds easily).

A netbook? I hope that's a joke. Why would I want a cheaply built, underpowered (I'll bet the iPad out performs most netbooks), mini laptop that doesn't run OSX or iPhone OS (as in I can't stand Windows or any linux distro)?

At risk of sounding like a fanboy I'm going to quote Steve Jobs himself: "We don’t know how to build a sub-$500 computer that is not a piece of junk,"
The Torx has always been required. At least with the unibody MacBooks they made it far easier to replace the hard drive. I just did a pre-unibody MacBook Pro yesterday, you have to pull the entire top part with keyboard.
Down voted for providing a use case where the iPad is actually enjoyable? Nice!
Depends, did you watch the full video or the cut one? AFAIK, there are no weapons in the cut one but there were people in the group walking around with weapons before.[1,2]

Wikileaks's goal is not neutral publishing of leaks- it's maximum political impact.[3]

As long as they continue to release the full video, I still think they do far more good than harm. The editorialization forces it into the public eye. Although I do think they were misleading, they're no worse than the MSM, and the full release allows it to be analyzed more objectively later.

"US covers up a video that should've been made public" is not as sexy as "Collateral Damage: US covers up the murder of two reporters." And when you're dealing with a public that seems more interested in Tiger's romantic escapades, perhaps that's what is necessary to seize their attention.

-----

[1] "there do appear to be two other—two people in that crowd having weapons" -Julian Assange[http://www.democracynow.org/2010/4/6/massacre_caught_on_tape...]

[2] "The [army's] report claims that at least two members of the group which were first fired on were armed"[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,_2007_Baghdad_airstrike...]

[3] Assange's interview with Colbert. http://gawker.com/5515720/stephen-colbert-grills-wikileaks-f...
I was going to make exactly this point. Computer science is the only field I know of that has actually increased its male dominance over time.
Absolutely. The netbook user experience is horrifying. My laptop does everything I need, so why do I want a desktop?
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The authentication functionality demoed in the screen cast is cool - but looking at the notebook app it seems that it is a Akshell branded system. Are you going to offer customisation of that?
"The worst criminals in that war were the Communists"

Oh, you have a measuring stick, how does that work then? I was pretty certain that everyone that took part in that did some fucked up shit:

* The Holocaust - Germans

* Katyn massacre - Ruskis

* Dresden Bombings - English

* Nagasaki/Hiroshima - Americans

If you'd like to forward your measuring stick to this page:

http://members.iinet.net.au/~gduncan/massacres.html

Then I hope you could provide us with some nice totals at the end?
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And we in the third world think that someone who owns a car, a house and lots of china-made products is filthy rich.

(seriously, over here owning a car is a huge measure of wealth, even if it is a 1994 clunker like mine)
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Can someone recommend a good personal finance book/guide
I want to get control of my debts and finances. Any good reads out there that helped others?
> I think the world needs china , and nobody likes doing business with peoples you can't trust. The idea of closing a deal with a chinese company and feeling like, you may have your intellectual property stolen is not really exciting.

I don't know how much the world "needs" a China that behaves that way, but I'm pretty sure that it would be better off with a China that didn't.

How do you propose getting to the latter without causing some pain to the former? Remember - they're the former because they think that it works for them.
It's not so much remembering, it's typing it all out (for me at least). Having RSI, reducing any amount of typing is a godsend. However, my first impression of lightning is similar.
You may want to consider running Snow Leopard inside of VMWare , especially if you already have a decent machine to use for virtualization. I've been running 10.6.2 for several months in VMWare on a Windows 7 host with absolutely zero issues.
"...simply invest the money in the 'market' which some would argue creates nothing for society"

Those people are wrong.

His statement about his work being worthless wasn't because money was being made without making things. It was because his work wasn't valuable at all, but his company was still getting paid for it.
Also he mentions preons, hypothetical particles of which quarks are made, which I believe is an idea mostly done away with.
Wow, no politics. Just java, buses and cafeterias.
Go for it, don't listen to the negative people. Try it out and see what happens.
The above link requires you to pay to read the white paper. I found the PDF through the researcher's website in case if anyone is interested.

http://cornellpsych.org/people/travis/materials/Carter-Gilov...

EDIT: Looks like it requires to have Google as the referrer. Simply search for the title and it's the first link.
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It doesn't use node.js because node.js is asynchronous and the main goal of Akshell is simplicity. But it definitely can be used the way you pointed.
Maybe the build quality of the thinkpads used to compair but the mbp is much better now and the lenovo's worse. I own a last gen mbp and have also placed 20-30 lenovo's at clients in the past. The are not even close these days.
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I have come to the conclusion that I will stay with the classic presentation patterns. For Model-View-ViewModel I have just seen too many varying ideas, too many different concepts and too unclear explanations.
An echo chamber that might prevent anybody from realizing the privacy implications of exposing people's email contacts to the world?
I don't have a problem with driving. I like driving, but I wouldn't enjoy having to do it for an hour every day. It's car dependence that sucks about suburbia. When everyone drives because everyone has to do so, you get a mess: traffic, sprawl, loss of community, ugly places not worth caring about.
The knowledge that these orders of magnitude exist is one of the great gifts of science to humankind.
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How can companies get the best possible performance out of their employees? Let them do whatever they want!

Sounds like Google?
Only we do not have competition for shared resources or any other pressure.
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Yeah, really it's a more general problem with the extreme expressiveness of C++ meaning that the compiler is less able to give a helpful error message than in other languages I've used. It seems that you can do anything in C++, but step out of line and you'll have trouble deciphering where you went wrong.
I didn't say anything about recycling actually. I'm not really looking to discuss this much further, just please do not put words into my mouth.
I don't think you can SSH into a soviet era weapon.

This idea that war can be carried out "safely" is detached from reality. We say that our technology gives us a moral advantage in warfare. "We can hit just the right targets, and minimize collateral damage." It will never be.

WikiLeaks presentation of the first video was disingenuous, but I don't care as long as the video enters the public domain. I want to be able to pull up videos that show how worthless human life is on the battlefield. I have friends in the military and they need an emotional shell to do their job. The public, however, needs to start thinking about war not as a pissing match with browner countries, but as a serious issue.
You heard it here first: authenticity is fake! Fakeness is the new authenticity!
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Yes, I will offer customization, but not complete rebranding in order to prevent fishing (Akshell login is shared among applications).
Maybe it is money, except that developers want to earn it their way and be recognized for it.
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im sure you're smart and well-informed, but even with all those fancy references, none of us have any idea wtf you're talking about.
The major success factor is that social networks are by default one to many, while email is one to one. Think if you had to email all your friends to tell them you are in town...
Direct links:

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iphone - http://iphone.plerts.mobi
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That's it. Next time I work out, I'm going to grab the front of my car and lift like crazy. It won't budge, but I'll exert maximum effort.

One rep - I'm done. Efficiency!
Not necessarily. E.g. the total energy/mass of the universe could sum up to 0, if you take potential energy in a gravitational field from a reference point infinitely far away (and other such tricks).

The total charge charge is probably very close to zero anyway. Total impulse can be made zero by choosing a suitable coordinate system. And so on for the other conserved properties.
If I can get 3-4 hours I'll be happy. It will be my new mobile workstation that I can use at the office, home and sometimes while travelling. I have a Vaio i3 14" if I need to do extended work, but the lack of resolution and smaller keyboard on the Vaio doesn't lend itself to long coding sessions.

My last hacking laptop was a Vostro 1500 with a 1680x1050 resolution. The 9 cell battery lasted about 4 hours while coding, so I carried two of them. I may do the same with the Studio XPS 16.
I agree with the sentiments echoed in this article. For me, tablets, although useful, are not the revolutionary devices they are made out to be. As I see it they are not the gateway for new types of applications, anything you can do on a tablet, you can do on laptop (personally I like the idea of a laptop with a detachable screen).

I wholly agree with the comments about Kindle too. I can see the benefit in having a Kindle, it offers a relaxing and focussed environment on which to catch up on the one thing I never have enough time - or am to distracted by web/mail/chat - to do, and that is READ.
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This is interesting, but I'm not upvoting it... I wrote something similar for dealing with calculus on tensor fields a few years back and most compilers I've written use something similar for dealing with expressions.

This is different though, it doesn't let you solve any new problems that C++ can't already solve, and it also happens to produce slower expressions than, e.g. a function object or a function being pointed to.

If you want lambdas (which let you solve exactly no problems you can't already solve with C++) then use a language that supports them instead of shoehorning them in badly.

I'd recommend Haskell...
Scant is a good word to describe the the state of the Nitrogen 1.0 docs. You definitely had to be willing to dive into the Nitrogen internals to find some things. The internal code was pretty easy to follow, so you could pretty easily figure out what you needed to do, but the external docs did indeed leave something to be desired.

I haven't played with 2.0 yet, since it's only a few hours old, but the docs do look a bit better so far.
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There was something similar by Sun a few months ago: www.zembly.com

Unfortunately the project seems to be shelved now.
Don't bother with The Game if you want to learn about the techniques in a practical way, though it's fascinating reading and well worth reading for the story (it's more of a "history of game").

Especially don't take The Game as a manual. Much of what it describes is perhaps the worst aspects of "old style" game, full of manipulation and scripted material. A lot of newer stuff is far more palatable for most people, and much more "human".

Check out fastseduction.com or rsdnation.com - both are huge free resources.

fastseduction.com has archives of most of the posts referenced in The Game, as well as assorted guides and a step by step guide with references to reading material etc. for people who are new.
I think by real world, he meant meatspace.
Yes, I needed to clarify this would be for the U.S. Thanks.
Sure, I am all for meaningful identifiers.
May be I'll take this way. But now it's too early do decide. At least because currently Akshell doesn't have many users and applications; so if I opensource the core, anybody would be able to setup an absolutely equivalent server.
Motivators for cognitive tasks: not money but "autonomy, mastery, purpose."

Hey guys: it's not anarcho-socialism, it's science!
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