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Minusing the already growing snarkey comments, i too am at a loss, probably as i have never heard of them secondly their website forces me to stay in the iPhone version.

What am i missing?

Based on the blog post they mentioned igoogle ahead of games. Could it be linked to creating a more igoogle game marketplace.

Also couldnt help but notice how a game for igoogle would be constrained to small dimensions, just like those of a mobile.
MacFusion seems to be maintained to some extent. I just downloaded a version that works on 10.6.3.

http://github.com/nall/MacFusion2
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AMD's Six-Core Phenom II X6 1090T & 1055T Reviewed
I really like the idea of devoting the entire team to improving the processes, helps avoid the inevitable annoyance by uninvolved devs to the changes. To use manager speak it gets "buy in".
"The better way to look at it is to ask yourself what sort of machine you're building. If you're building a task specific box that will mostly run heavily threaded applications, AMD will sell you nearly a billion transistors for under $300 and you can't go wrong. If it's a more general purpose machine that you're assembling, Lynnfield seems like a better option."
Engadget also has links to 5 other reviews here:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/27/amds-3-2ghz-hexacore-phen...
Having themes and a customizable header image doesn't make it a "full website creator".

Posterous has some nice features but its place in the market seems a little undefined. It's more than Tumblr and less than Wordpress.com, which with the widgets available for hosted sites can do pretty much everything Posterous does (if at times in a less attractive way) and quite a bit more.
That term actually has a much more specific meaning among the "academic left" (for lack of a better term).
Hello World, using the Singleton Pattern.
I hear frequently that Mahalo is "crushing it".
What meaning is that? The meaning I am actually more familiar with is "the belief that one sexual orientation is inherently better than another."
Could you point me/us in the direction as to how to set this up? I've been trying to emulate this function from Emacs ever since I've seen it in action. I'd love to be able to launch my test suite and have the output available in a buffer.

I've tinkered around with hacks that put shells in Vim windows but it wasn't really satisfactory.
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No, what he means is that, certainly differences exist - and there is nothing wrong with that or them (as you seem to be suggesting).
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Some of the human rights are conditional upon whether or not the person they are applied to is 'of age' or not.

There are some inconsistencies but they've definitely managed to avoid most of them.
I'm only guessing but my thinking on how the thought process went was..

People wondered why he was sticking up for Turing in particular - a lot of people have been abused by the government (and society) in the past. They wondered if he had a certain interest in this specific case; and they falsely assumed it was an issue of sexuality, forgetting that Turing was a geek too :)
I don't get it either. I feel like people should be paying me for this info. Free service? Please.
Thanks for the link. Glad to see someone moving it forward.
The connotation of "heterosexism" seems closer to "heteronormativity" than "homophobia"--basically the assumption that everyone is heterosexual, or the establishment of heterosexuality as a social norm. For (potentially poor) example, if a television series has a homosexual character who is stereotyped and portrayed in a negative light, that's homophobia. If a television series has no homosexual characters at all despite prominently portraying heterosexual characters and relationships, it's heterosexist or heteronormative.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterosexism
This got long, but hopefully there is some good knowledge in here for you.

Steve Yegge wrote some great starter posts on Emacs. He essentially inspired me to get out and learn it. He provides some good starting defaults that you should use. You can Google for these.

If you start Emacs and type C-h t, you'll get the tutorial, which is a helpful starting point. C-h in general is your friend and an entree into several kinds of help, like what keystroke bindings are currently active, what a built-in function does, what a keystroke does, etc.

The Emacs Wiki is a great place to go and just click around for a while. On the front page is a section for the Emacs Newbie. The Nifty Tricks page alone could consume several weeks of learning.

http://www.emacswiki.org
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsNewbie
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsNiftyTricks

What really sold me on Emacs was M-x shell. I love having a terminal with functionally infinite history, with completions for any text I enter (not just files and programs, read about Hippie expand), where I can munge the output of a shell command in place or just search through it.

M-x shell in combination with server-mode essentially replaced screen for me. server-mode allows you to run Emacs as a long-running server process that you can attach to with emacsclient. So your Emacs process might have uptime measured in months, and you just keep attaching to it from home or at work.

I like ido-mode with fuzzy matching, which functions something like an awesome bar for your editing tabs (or "buffers" in Emacs lingo).

Eventually, you may plateau in your knowledge and you might want to read the manual. It is written in small, digestible bits. You can skip around but it might help to read the first chapters first. It took me about a year to get to the point where it made sense to start eating the elephant.

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/emacs.html

Last, you might want to investigate Emacs Lisp programming. Writing little programs in the native language of your text editor will make you drunk with power.

Happy hacking!
Sure is fast. That finder integration is sweet as well. Bought. (45% discount for those who own T3)
> I had assumed I was the only one.

That's strange then because there are plenty of people here that have stated openly and without reservation that they are gay or transgender.

In a population of this size you should be very surprised if you are the only gay person.
"... I went to a prep school, and I can tell you that the culture was somewhat flipped – the academically successful kids tended to be more generally popular. There were still subcultures and different groups with different interests and characters – but generally, being smart was considered a virtue. The culture of the school generally respected hard work, integrity, and achievement. ..."

The author might have benefited from reading the redux of of pg's article, "Gateway High School, 1981" ~ http://paulgraham.com/gateway.html to get some context. In the social graph of the described school pg went to I can imagine the half life of the author would be a tenth of Cobolt 56. Try "hard work, integrity, and achievement" on these chums ~ http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/paulgraham_2102_11802106 Look at the clenched fists and how close they are standing together.
For me, Lost is a deeply frustrating show. For at least the past 2 years I feel like I have been "chasing the dragon" - trying to regain that excitement I know I felt about the show at one point, even though I can't point to exactly when that was, or what I was excited about.

I guess I'm just disappointed that all the cool stuff that happened in seasons 2-5 was mostly filler, buying time until we got to the planned end in season 6. I'm sad that they neutered my favorite character, even though it seems necessary given how the plot is playing out. And I'm a little bit upset that the writers knew what they were doing all along, taking advantage of people's naive belief that they wouldn't dare give us all these juicy plot points with no resolution!

In retrospect, what we need is for someone to make "Lost: The Good Parts" which will be a 60-90 minute summary of everything that happens in seasons 2-5. That would greatly reduce the anguish of having watched so much with so little payoff.
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And?

Just because a person in denial wouldn't know it doesn't prove that I was in denial, it just means that you have a theory that's unprovable because you've set yourself up so that any evidence at all, both positive and negative, makes you believe that you're right.
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You make it sound like he was murdered because he was gay. I don't think it was quite that clear cut.

I'm quite a believer in "if he hadn't done it, someone else would have" personally. I don't mean to belittle anyones contribution, but the idea that there's only one genius who can come up with something seems very unlikely to me.

Most inventions are 'discovered' by many people at around the same time.
> “hypnotizing chickens.”

This phrase needs to enter the popular lexicon.
> We use Linux because of its differences

I don't know who you speak for, but it's not about me ... I use Linux because it's cheap and I'm in control.

Other than that I love having aptitude and a good repository, but every once in a while I really wish there was a click-to-install standard and I also really wish I wouldn't burn my weekend over wireless issues.

> developing programs for it is a whole hell of a lot easier

You're not speaking about desktop applications / games. That's hell-like compared to the alternatives, being partly the reason why companies like Adobe aren't investing in it ... I've worked there and I know the arguments that are flying back and forth.

> By every step these people take, Linux gets more difficult to develop for and less comfortable to use. This needs to stop.

People should and will work on whatever they want, and all "wasted effort" arguments are bullshit. If you think there are better paradigms that should be explored, then jump in and show the world how right you are. Talk is cheap.
"... I managed not to get bullied much (it usually stopped quickly after a round of fisticuffs and my father being a boxing coach in his youth) ..."

However this technique does not always work. Bullying is about finding weakness and applying an asymmetric attack. I'm not sure this approach will work with say a group of girls?
Thanks, I'll give it a try, hoping to make my site faster.
I don't think that holds water. Gay rights are great, but childrens rights are greater. If there is any doubt about the rights of either group being infringed on by 'experimenting' then you have an immediate problem because nobody will sign off on experimenting on children to see if in the long term it will matter or not.

If there would be large numbers of cases proving that it essentially makes no difference then that would help, but you're in a chicken-and-the-egg situation.

I know of one gay couple in my circle of friends that would like to adopt a child and they've come to the conclusion that they themselves can't come to a 100% agreement between the two of them about what that responsibility exactly entails. It was a very eye opening discussion, because I think I went away a changed person, essentially form going to saying 'I don't see why not' to 'maybe it really is better, who knows'.

For me that's a weird thing because when I thought about this before I always thought that gay people would not 'overlap' with straight people on this issue but would be on the far side of a barrier that you can not cross because you can not imagine what it is exactly like to be gay when you are not.

This is a very complex issue, societal pressures are such that simply being raised as the child of two gay parents puts undue pressure on a child (for instance peer pressure), and that can cause serious damage. That's the sort of argument that they went on about and I had never even thought of it from that angle.
Steve responded to this? The witty should have been: "Did your fucking brain fall out of your skull?" Of course people at HN were taking it seriously....

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1292436
The HN title is even worse.

"Don’t expect OS X 10.7 Not to be locked down like the AppStore. Steve says, “Nope.”"

This entire article/submission reeks of crack-baby nonsense.
I don't understand why your post implies that compilers produce... what? schematics of capacitors, resistors and inductors?
I would argue that the problems with Catholic Priests is largely down to the requirement for them to be celibate.

Firstly it represents an important selection bias - most people would not want to promise to be celibate for the rest of their lives. Those who do do are likely to have 'outlier' sexual feeling and thoughts.

More obvious is that because they have no legitimate means to fulfil their sexual desires they are far more likely to find illegitimate means to do so.

A more sinister explanation is that they are attracted to the clergy because they are aware that it offers them the opportunity to commit abuse.
Programming is a very wide field. In some cases creativity is a priority; the stereotype of the genius rock star developer hacking a business defining solution. For the majority of cases however, programming is all about communication with your team and with your stakeholders which is why core business hours are useful.

That's the problem with articles like these that they treat all programming equally. What's appropriate in one setting or for a particular developer is not appropriate for everyone.

That being said, if you can't allow your developers some flexibility and rely on them to behave like responsible individuals (re: internet access or time keeping) then the problem is with your staff and no amount of strict policies will fix that.

I still laughed at the article though.
But everything packaged that way still demands to be installed as root, linked against their depgraph of ancient fucked-with libraries, and split apart into pointlessly separate packages.
I can see the uncomfortable scenarios already:

Neighbor: Oh hai, can I borrow your circular saw.

Me: That one is broken, I got rid of it. (thinking: and you broke it.)

Neighbor: But I just saw on your Blippy feed that you bought a shiny new Makita.

Me: (thinking: Oh WTF? Damn you blippy!) Oh yeah, I guess it's not a problem. (now steaming inside)
... and sound mind. Which may rule out women.

(JOKING).
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Exactly. The argument is not, "Well, it could be worse." it is, "It should be better than this."

When you give an entity the legal right to trespass, break-and-enter, steal, kidnap and kill you better be damn sure it is only done against "bad guys". Otherwise, that entity is the bad guy.
The deal here is that long term stability is what it is all about. Heterosexuals and Homosexuals alike appear in all variations, some are promiscuous, some stay with the same partner all their lives. The perception is that in the gay scene because there are no children to worry about sexuality is much freer than it is in the hetero scene.

I doubt if that is actually the case though.

But I think the 'stable family arrangement' factor weighs heavily in all this. And elsewhere in this thread I think I've shown that there can be pressure on a child simply because it is raised by two gay parents, after all, it immediately makes you the odd one out. Of course other children should be brought up to realize that it makes no difference as far as the child is concerned, but unfortunately that is not the case.

Teenagers that are gay as a rule do what they can to stay under water in plenty of cases for fear of the kind of nastiness that can come out of being 'out' at a young age. Not all schools deal with stuff like that well - in fact, most schools don't.
Anyone who has ever discovered anything surely knows this? The world is full of curious minds. This doesn't belittle this individual curious mind but honour the millions of others.
one photo per post, 5 minutes per video, one audio file per week. can't mix media in a single post.

Our goals for Posterous are just totally different than what Tumblr is going for. We're aiming for Wordpress.com, not a microblog.
Actually the people between the 90th and 95th percentile are the ones who have difficulty getting along. Those above the 95th percentile understand how society works and are as Confucius described, "the ones that lead society (by example) so that all of society is harmonious."

I've met people from both categories.

The smartest geeks I know have no trouble fitting into society, one of them is leading a startup that has received over a million dollars in VC funding. They work on serious, possibly disruptive and hard project. (double emphasis on hard)

On the other hand, the rather large group of geeks I know who have trouble fitting into society work on not-so-important projects, usually things like flash games, simple web apps, etc. Some of these geeks (the ones who outwardly call themselves smart) suffer from illusory superiority (some even intentionally complicate their code so that others find it hard to understand, as a show of intellectual superiority; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority)

The fact, is these socially-challenged geeks aren't so smart after all; they don't put much effort socializing with people, and then they whine and complain how they don't fit it.

The reason why this doesn't happen in Asia as often, is because the culture doesn't permit it. In America, you can sort of get away by denoting yourself as a geek and refraining from social activity. In Asia, since that is seen very badly (much worse than the comical portrayal of geeks we have here); these kids are forced to go out and socialize.
yep, new web editor that allows uploads and editing of all posts.
Via Robert Young, http://drcoddwasright.blogspot.com/2010/04/its-hardware-stup... . More on RDBMS + SSD topics there.
> You're not speaking about desktop applications / games

Those apps aren't hard to develop because libraries or the environment or whatever; they're hard to develop because their developers want them to be closed, so recompilation and putting them into the real package management system is impossible. Starting with such a handicap makes things complicated :)

> If you think there are better paradigms that should be explored, then jump in and show the world how right you are

The better paradigms have been known and used for 20 years (such as the Unix paradigm of connecting multiple programs, the CLI, and so on). That it doesn't appeal to some end users is not our problem.

(also username post combo, but just kidding :)
> What does it mean to model the cat brain?

They don't seem to have a way of testing it. Sounds like Dawkins' computer models of "insect" evolution: fun, interesting and even beautiful, but not falsifiable. Visual art rather than science.

Seems they're saying they've constructed a neural network of comparable complexity to a cat's brain - for some value of comparable. And they're arguing about that value. Meanwhile, their cat's brain performs nothing like an actual cat's brain. The question doesn't even arise. But it's hard to tell, as the article is very information light.

As in code, complexity is impressive. Not necessarily useful or truthful.
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> The Dragon Book covers everything you need to know to write a compiler.

No it doesn't because it only covers techniques you can use in implementing and optimizing old-school static languages.

But today a language is more than just the compiler, with modern VMs coming into play, and runtime optimizations aren't covered ... for instance if you want to implement a tracing JIT compiler, your only hope is to read the source-code of some available VM. Or if you want a precise garbage collector ... well, good luck with that.

That's one reason the implementations of dynamic languages are so shitty ... the effective techniques for doing it are yet to be explored / documented.

So if you want a book on implementing compilers, I recommend this one ... http://pragprog.com/titles/tpdsl/language-implementation-pat...
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Rushing to edge cases is just bad ethics.
Do these kinds of bans even achieve their stated goal of reducing kids' access violent games? What 12-year-old walks into Best Buy by himself to get a copy of Modern Warfare 2? Seems like if you're young enough to be covered by the ban, your parents are going to be the ones buying the game anyway.

(And if your parents refuse to buy you the game, then the ban isn't what stopped you from playing.)
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This functionality inside Transmit actually depends on MacFuse, it asks you to install it when you select you want to enable the function when you first load it.
If you asked the population if they'd have been happy being brought up by gay parents, the vast majority would say "no".
Does Transmit 4 have the ability to unpack a ZIP archive on the server? YummyFTP has it built in and it saves so much time being able to upload the wordpress.zip file and then select 'Unpack archive'.

This can probably be done with RAW FTP commands, but having it built in is great.
I'm sure they're not dumb, but it's not obvious to me why it's a good idea. Would you like to enlighten us? Because no one else here seems to have any idea either.

AFAICT it's not much different than Beacon, which was very quickly abandoned by Facebook after a huge backlash (and lawsuits). If it is different then I'm curious why.

Also, do you work at Blippy? Just curious... most of your comments here have been about Blippy.
It is able to send SSH commands, so you could unzip via that. I don't know for sure if it also works via RAW FTP commands.
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That's the way it looks from outside. Apple users inevitably resort to unmeasurable and often 'fashion-like' qualities when describing what is so great about their products. People who care a lot about beautiful fonts are also more likely to care about signalling than those who are only concerned about functionality.