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If you can't get festival to work (it wouldn't for me), 'espeak' worked great on my Ubuntu box.
Sorry about that. You're right. http://www.google.is/search?q=define:submerge

I'm not a native English speaker, so sometimes it's difficult to find the right word and something pops up in my mind and I think it's correct.
I don't see how you could be hurt by trying the service. I think some of your fears are paranoia, for example the fear that customers will "figure out" your margin.

Try it out, move some volume at a discount.
None worth visiting I'm sure.
Okasaki's _Purely Functional Data Structures_ can be a good choice, too - depends on the language.
Unfortunately, your hunch is proven wrong wrong wrong by statistics. Actually, in-house development fares worse than that (if you count ones that go over budget, over schedule, under scope, don't get used AND ones that get scrapped completely) and I don't think you're suggesting that the odds of an outsourced project are better?

Stats on that are everywhere. Some are here: http://www.codeanthem.com/blog/2010/04/how-to-save-the-softw...
Even TC sometimes has a slow news day.
US private Bradley Manning charged with leaking Iraq killings video
Right now we're doing a simple redirect to the mobile version if the user browses to the restaurant's normal website.
If I may ask, how did you get into CMU without a hs diploma?
By taking the high road of ,we cover real news, they set themselves up for ridicule from Bloggers who cover even more "important" news.
Not all school districts will allow such arrangements. Unfortunately some districts are hostile to anything that smells of treating students in an unequal way.

But also, if you consider taking classes in test only form ok, why not simply drop out and take the GED?

My hometown had a program where you could get a district diploma with a GED and a few key credits (which you could take at community or state college easily enough if you preferred).
Follow the money.

You book a place at a conference using PayPal. PayPal transfers money to the organizer. The organizer withdraws it, buys a lot of beer, never organizes the conference.

You used your credit card to pay for the ticket, so you call your credit card company and request a chargeback. The credit card company takes the money back from Paypal IMMEDIATELY (this is standard in all merchant agreements), pending an investigation. Ultimately, PayPal gets left holding the bag.

Sure, credit card companies count on losses for fraud, but in most cases, they get their pound of flesh. In this case, it's PayPal's flesh.
Wasn't this linked recently from Hacker News? Seems relevant:

http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/nurture-shock/2009/11/05/why-t...

"Allen has concluded that our urge to protect teenagers from real life – because we don’t think they’re ready yet – has tragically backfired. By insulating them from adult-like work, adult social relationships, and adult consequences, we have only delayed their development. We have made it harder for them to grow up. Maybe even made it impossible to grow up on time.
Basically, we long ago decided that teens ought to be in school, not in the labor force. Education was their future. But the structure of schools is endlessly repetitive. “From a Martian’s perspective, high schools look virtually the same as sixth grade,” said Allen. “There’s no recognition, in the structure of school, that these are very different people with different capabilities.” Strapped to desks for 13+ years, school becomes both incredibly montonous, artificial, and cookie-cutter.
As Allen writes, “We place kids in schools together with hundreds, sometimes thousands, of other kids typically from similar economic and cultural backgrounds. We group them all within a year or so of one another in age. We equip them with similar gadgets, expose them to the same TV shows, lessons, and sports. We ask them all to take almost the exact same courses and do the exact same work and be graded relative to one another. We give them only a handful of ways in which they can meaningfully demonstrate their competencies. And then we’re surprised they have some difficulty establishing a sense of their own individuality.”
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They still get them yes, and if you ever go back, you get the same one.
Yes, it's no good for longer term neighbours. But nobody seems to have a problem with them. Or, rather, the discussion was about short term neighbours not behaving.
Replacing Objective-C with Javascript would perhaps be one of the most foolish tech decisions Apple could make. It is about as bad as trying to bridge to Cocoa (highly dynamic) from Java (not so much).
The full list of speakers and languages:

Rob Pike and Robert Griesemer – Go
Steve Dekorte – Io
Charles Nutter – Duby
Matt MacLaurin – Kodu
Gilad Bracha – Newspeak
Jeremy Ashkenas – CoffeeScript
Adam Chlipala – Ur
Francisco Tolmasky – Objective-J
Jonathan Shapiro – BitC
Luke Hoban – F#
Tav – PyPy
Rich Hickey – Clojure
Christopher Bertels – Fancy
Jonathan Edwards – Coherence/Subtext
Alex Eagle – Noop
Slava Pestov – Factor
Erik Meijer – C#
Mark S Miller – E, Caja
Brian Rice – Slate
Walter Bright – D
Wolfgang De Meuter and Tom Van Cutsem – AmbientTalk
Phil Mercurio – Thyrd
Melvin Smith – Cola
Carson Gross – Gosu
Alexander Fritze – Stratified JavaScript
Alan Eliasen – Frink
Dan Bornstein – Dalvik
Steve Folta – Trylon
Ola Bini – Ioke
Amos Wenger - ooc﻿
At least it's not an excerpt of CrunchGear writing about something that has nothing to do with gadgets.

They're becoming distastefully like Weblogs Inc, writing and summarizing anything and aggressively throttling external links.

http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/07/06/u-s-army-wikileaks-whis...

- wtf's a gadget blog even writing about that for?

- how do you even write that article without linking to the videos or even wikileaks?
I read a lot, that certainly seems to improve my writing. As a non-native speaker the biggest thing for me to watch out for is repetition of words or sentence fragments in a short piece. Native speakers/writers usually have a much richer vocabulary and set of idioms they can tap in to, for me it's more like lego, build complicated stuff out of endless repetition of simple blocks. That can make text very boring to read.
Perfect timing. I'm about to open early-bird registration for an event ( http://www.mathsjam.com ) and we're emailing people on our "registered interest" list to ask how they want to pay. We were going to offer PayPal, but this has convinced us otherwise.

We will now not offer PayPal as an option.

For reference, we will offer direct bank transfer and cheques in advance. We are also dealing with the venue, and they may offer CC facilities, but that's still being negotiated.

I understand PayPal's position, but I'm not going to run the risk of having them continue to accept money on my behalf, then not give it to me.
Well, the way I find local restaurants (on my iPhone) is:

1) Pull up Google maps and search for restaurants.
2) Pull up Yelp/Urbanspoon and search for restaurants.

Then I often find myself wanting more information than Google/Yelp/Urbanspoon provides, so I end up going to the restaurant's listed website on my phone. 99% of the time, the website isn't in a format that I can easily use on my phone.
That was my original plan but I needed something for Twitter, etc. Maybe I could do what HN does (along with many others) and just use the first letter in a box when I need a smaller graphic. Thanks for the suggestion!
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hah! for once i'm amused by techcrunch's antics
You basically just described HTTP pipelining, which has been part of HTTP for over a decade.

The main problem is that somebody might have installed some broken proxy in the middle that doesn't understand HTTP pipelining. That is why browsers usually disable it by default. The second problem is that sometimes it is faster to open multiple parallel connections.
The AP's position seems really silly at first, but the link they provide is actually worth reading. If what they say is true -- namely that 1) this isn't targeted at bloggers or anyone else using the content in a way that can be reasonably assumed to be fair use; and 2) this is a simple way to license content you have reason to believe may not qualify for fair-use protection -- then I think this seems fairly reasonable.

EDIT: Just want to make the logical fallacy explicit. The fact that the form allows you to pay for 5 words does not imply that the AP expects you to pay for 5 words.
Tough to figure out a menu icon: how can you immediately know what a menu looks like, maybe a rectangle with some fake lines of "text" and a wine glass pic? I've seen that somewhere...personally I think maybe the bite was my mistake (despite our chosen name) because it doesn't scale down well.
Do you mean lead generation to potential restaurants, like an affiliate setup?

Or lead generation for restaurant customers?
I see you're a deconstructionist yourself--you've deconstructed the penny into fourths. ;)
Low-end luxury seems to be very profitable, as those three companies demonstrate. They're comfortably away from the cost-cutting at the bottom of the market, but still accessible to a large number of customers.

It was the really high-end cars ($100K+) I was talking about as apparently being unprofitable.
This seems to be their current policy, so I don't think it's appropriate for you to the past tense.
Many people work their way up a corporate ladder and end up getting paid more than they could by any other company. The company likes it because they know they have a "slave" and the employee likes it because he's getting paid more than he's worth on the open market.
Yes. HTTP/1.1 arranged for this with pipelining 11 years ago.

But there were servers that thought they supported pipelining and had corruption issues, so the clients got scared and wouldn't use it. (Besides, the modems on the edge of the web were the problem, not the latency.) Then the proxy people said "Why bother? No one uses it.", and the clients continued to not implement it, or did but left it off by default with a switch to turn it on in a disused lavatory, behind the "Beware of the Leopard" sign. Meanwhile, the server people having run out of useful and useless features to add to their vast code bases actually got around to making pipelining work correctly.

Welcome to 2010.

• Most popular web servers support pipelining, probably correctly.

• <1% of browsers will try it.

• Proxies (firewall and caching) largely break it.

• If you are using scripts that can change the state of the web server, then your head might explode when you consider what happens with pipelined requests.
This. A company with that attitude wouldn't be my first choice, but I'd have to prefer starving on the street before I'd give up the option of ever being able to work there.
Yes, but why care about underpricing at all? Can't you just have a formal auction, where everybody states (legally binding) how many stocks they want at which price level (e.g. for 3$ I'd buy 10 stocks, for 5$ I'd buy only 8 stock, and so on, basically giving your demand function) and then do a simple optimization that finds the highest price at which all shares sell. (Or alternatively, and perhaps better, the lowest price at which everybody who wants to pay at least this price, can buy.)

Why rely on guess work?

Edit: I saw on the linked Wikipedia article that some people have tried auctions. Google seemed a noteworthy example.
A few landing page principles
This article reads like an annoying friend kept instant messaging me while I was away from my desk to narrate a petty internet social encounter as it was happening, then I come back with my Starbucks Frappathingie and furrow my brow because I have six pages of IMs filled with condescending "can-you-believe-this-guy-is-so-stupid-ha-ha-what-a-troll" drivel in the window's scrollback history.
How Hard is it to Make Money from A Mobile App?
While the whole app industry is heating up and seems to be the place to be when it comes to making some quick cash, it is definitely not as easy as you think.
Change the name. Listeria is a (sometimes lethal) genus of bacteria: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listeria
Google's SPDY proposal does about what you mean, and more: http://www.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-whitepaper

SPDY is definitely implemented in Chrome/Chromium, though I don't know if it's on by default. I believe at least some google services (google.com in particular) support it publicly as well.
You can sell electric cars on subscription where the customers pays per km driven. That might be a disruptive business model. Some companies are already doing so.
Maybe. The JPEG decompression has been mercilessly optimized for decades.

The oddball base64 URI decode might have been done by the team's crappy coder that no one trusts, but you can write decent test cases for base64 decoding, so you can burn his hours for a few weeks without him doing any lasting harm to the code base.
It might be nice to allow the customers to mark the foods that interest them so they can remember what they want to order when they get to the restaurant.
It would be useful to see a matrix of browser/version support for data URI's embedded in external stylesheets along with anticipated support in future versions.
Good point. Another reason to do this is that jQuery and other libraries are not always backwards compatible between point releases, so you can end up with broken code in the wild without your knowledge.
Pretty much the same with Smalltalk, but people still make this distinction in their minds. That's part of my point. The distinction no longer even has so much basis in the actual organization of code and runtimes!
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While this outcome would not be very glamorous, I'd might still be worthwhile for the founders.
Pipelining is not enough even if the internet infrastructure was perfect. Why?

1. Slow requests stall the entire pipeline.
2. The initial request stalls the pipeline.
3. The pipeline is being pulled instead of pushed so your performance is still roundtrip-lag-bound if you have cascading references. For example an HTML file references a .css file which references PNG costs 3 round trips at least.
Yeah, I should probably have been less vitriolic and more refined. The IDE complaints mostly come from Java migrants and people who are looking out for the newbies. Honestly, using an IDE (or at the other extreme, vi) for a Lisp is like using Latin to write in Russian: you can do it, but you're better off if you take some time initially to learn Cyrillics.

(Doug Hoyte disagrees with me on the vi point, arguing in his book that Lisp is expressive enough not to require any editor support. I respectfully disagree.)
Solid idea, great implemntation, beautiful landing page.

On your "Features" tab you do a great job actually focusing on "Benefits" (most people just list the features!).

I'd propose that you change that menu title to "Why Do I Need Chompstack?" or just "Why ChompStack?" and then retitle the headline to:

"ChompStack generates more customers by making your site accessible to mobile visitors."

Then rather than opening up with "Why go mobile?" - find some real data illustrating the "pain" for restaurant owners:

"72% of restaurant websites don’t work on mobile phones . . .”

Or

“Your website is broken for up to 50% of your visitors!

Support those stats by doing a quick restaurant survey from your local listings and I bet the number is crazy!
Indeed, I was aiming at recursion. (Though I mostly use combinators like foldr instead of naked recursion.)

On the other hand: You can see loops as a special case of recursion. Though I like languages that don't treat this special case as a special case.
> The problem of course is when you allow too many "too big to fail" institutions to exist

Folks keep talking about certain financial institutions as "too big to fail", but what about countries?
Also:

"BAM! Look behind you, an oil spill!"
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Treat Your Mind as You Would A Private Garden
> It will be optional to display your main characters name.

Which is hilarious and retarded at the same time, cause I'm posting on the blasted Battle.net forums in the first place because of the game I'm playing (in my case, WoW). It should be in the context of the character in said game, not my real name. WTF does my real name have to factor in what I want to say in my realm's forums or something? And why require real names in subforums that are legitimately being used with little trolling that in-game GMs will actually tell you to go to to post about problems and such?

In fact, WTF does my real name have anything to do with whether or not I will troll? I can go create a new account with a fake Real Name quite easily, and that's only to troll on the forums. Trolling outside of the forums and in real life is probably going to explode with this change. Which I'm sure is great for Blizzard, they can stop hiring so many CMs to moderate their forums.
> Also, not be able to change your name is pretty key to elements of their security.

Why? Just keep a log of all the names you used. Maybe even visible to the public on your profile.
Online ID fraud losses explode to $1.3bn a year
On Wordpress, wp-syntax has worked well for me and uses GeSHi:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-syntax/
With time, as with money, avoiding pleasure is no longer enough to protect you.

This point in particular has really hit home for me lately. If you make a living doing technical work, you're either improving or atrophying. There is no steady state. Sometimes the most dangerous thing you can do is sit at a desk collecting a salary for a few years.
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I believe this, too, was linked from Hacker News at some point recently:

http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html

John Taylor Gatto, New York State Teacher of the Year, 1991

"The third lesson I teach you is to surrender your will to a predestined chain of command. Rights may be granted or withheld, by authority, without appeal. As a schoolteacher I intervene in many personal decisions, issuing a Pass for those I deem legitimate, or initiating a disciplinary confrontation for behavior that threatens my control. My judgments come thick and fast, because individuality is trying constantly to assert itself in my classroom. Individuality is a curse to all systems of classification, a contradiction of class theory.

Here are some common ways it shows up: children sneak away for a private moment in the toilet on the pretext of moving their bowels; they trick me out of a private instant in the hallway on the grounds that they need water. Sometimes free will appears right in front of me in children angry, depressed or exhilarated by things outside my ken. Rights in such things cannot exist for schoolteachers; only privileges, which can be withdrawn, exist.

The fourth lesson I teach is that only I determine what curriculum you will study. (Rather, I enforce decisions transmitted by the people who pay me). This power lets me separate good kids from bad kids instantly. Good kids do the tasks I appoint with a minimum of conflict and a decent show of enthusiasm. Of the millions of things of value to learn, I decide what few we have time for. The choices are mine. Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.

Bad kids fight against this, of course, trying openly or covertly to make decisions for themselves about what they will learn. How can we allow that and survive as schoolteachers? Fortunately there are procedures to break the will of those who resist.

This is another way I teach the lesson of dependency. Good people wait for a teacher to tell them what to do. This is the most important lesson of all, that we must wait for other people, better trained than ourselves, to make the meanings of our lives. It is no exaggeration to say that our entire economy depends upon this lesson being learned. Think of what would fall apart if kids weren’t trained in the dependency lesson: The social-service businesses could hardly survive, including the fast-growing counseling industry; commercial entertainment of all sorts, along with television, would wither if people remembered how to make their own fun; the food services, restaurants and prepared-food warehouses would shrink if people returned to making their own meals rather than depending on strangers to cook for them. Much of modern law, medicine, and engineering would go too — the clothing business as well — unless a guaranteed supply of helpless people poured out of our schools each year. We’ve built a way of life that depends on people doing what they are told because they don’t know any other way. For God’s sake, let’s not rock that boat!"
> Put it towards a HOUSE. Whats that, the housing market sucks?

That's good advice iff the housing market sucks "enough" where you're buying. You want enough rent to cover a significant fraction of the expenses. In some places, housing prices still haven't dropped to that level.
I think one ticket is fine. If you break the law once, you're likely to break it again. Kill off all the violators, and there's no lawbreakers.
Microsoft's cloud is slower than Google's, Amazon's, benchmark says
Excellent feedback, and great ideas. Thanks!
Living in NZ, we get the regional prices too. It boils down to publishers attempting to protect brick and mortar stores; if a game is no cheaper on Steam, then the thought goes that more people will go to the store and buy it as they see no advantage.

As far as I'm concerned, it's costing them sales. If I want a physical copy of a game - like a Collector's Edition - I'll pay the extra. If I don't, then pricing the digital download that's served off the steam cache at the ISP I work for in the same region just costs them a sale. Case in point right now is Bad Company 2, but the same can be said of Borderlands (nabbed it in the 4-pack preorder for a reasonable price, then at launch it shot to $79.99USD :/) and many other titles.

Basically, it's a compromise I imagine Valve had to make to get large publishers signing with and selling their games on Steam. I'd prefer them to now use some of their critical mass to lean on the next contract they sign and say "we're a competitor to brick/mortar stores, we're losing sales because of your high pricing, and from now on we're going to compete".
"Lifetime" sounds like a huge can of worms to me. Just offer a 2-year plan if you don't feel like implementing a (relatively) complex subscription system right now.
From the various stories about sports figures going broke, there's another obvious route - friends and family.
True, if latency dominates that much in your situation, which can happen with no congested pipes in the path. An HTML5 "manifest" with pipelining would take care of all but the initial and 2nd latency.
Works for food too. Even if you completely avoid any obviously unhealthful food (cake, ice cream, candy), it's quite easy to get overweight eating large portions of normal food.
Or, you do find out that that pretty Draenei is actually female. Guess where it goes from there.

I get enough shit for joining vent and talking as a woman that plays WoW in anything non-guild related (oh, please, I still got shit there until I became an "established" player in the guild), I can only wait with joy!!!!! to see what happens on the forums.
I write for businesses, and I think a lot of us probably can't mainstream because either we can't handle a large load of customers suddenly pouring in (although it's probably our lifelong dream), or we don't want to take the chance in hiring more labor and hope everyone is as devoted and committed to the company's success as we are. There's probably a lot of other reasons, but those stand out the most to me. I certainly can't see business writing as becoming a "factory" type industry anytime soon, with those conveyors of word-smiths standing around waiting. :-)