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Agreed, but I think you're missing something: there doesn't need to be two extremes here. There are more places to meet women than online and nightclubs.

Selection pressure is stronger online due to mere demographic differences alone - but there honestly are more places than online.
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It has an in-your-face give-me-your-email-before-you-read-further lightbox thing, which as well as being annoying, reeks of shadiness. I might have flagged it, if I'd seen it before it got deaded.
Seems like there is so much more we could do

Now all you need to do is mention curing world hunger, poverty and war and you'll have your Miss America speech down to pat.
It's still a problem, because raising the body temperature quickly can be dangerous in itself. To preserve core temperature, the body centralizes circulation, i.e. circulates blood only through the vital organs. If you're warmed up suddenly, it can cause this centralization to end prematurely, mixing still-too-cold blood from your extremities with the core blood and dropping your core temperature suddenly and fatally.
This is a response to something previously submitted that had interest [1]. I actually found this quite interesting (if a little direct) psychological/critical thinking take on the matter.

1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1494011
We use Jetty's ability to do both sync and async HTTP in RingoJS. I've written about it here: http://hns.github.com/2010/07/02/versatility.html

I think Netty is great if you want fine grained control over each aspect of your network stack and/or ultimate performance. But having a full featured web server that does sync and async equally well is a value that shouldn't be dismissed either.
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I am a night owl because the evening is the best time to pursue things of personal interest, and when I am on to something really interesting, sleep seems boring and useless in comparison.

Unless I know I have to get up by X hour tomorrow for something important, I will then proceed to stay up until I can't perform physically (e.g. I can't solder because my hands are shaking, or I can't read because my eyelids weigh 50lbs each)
In my early twenties I worked as an entry-level property agent (realtor) in Hong Kong for a small-time agency. No minimum wage system exists so I got paid about US$650 per month and had to work 6 full days (right up until 7pm on Saturday nights). Job involved wearing a suit running around showing flats, meeting clients in 35 degree C heat and 99% humidity (no joke). In the office I had to cold call property owners and large companies to pitch our services. At slow times I stood on the sidewalk handing out flyers for properties. All the while having to swallow my pride in huge amounts when dealing with rude and unreasonable clients.

I enjoyed this much less than my current job and feel stupid for having fallen for the con of potentially lucrative commissions that never happened. Live and Learn I guess.
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>even though he had a prenup

He didn't have a prenup. If he did the case would probably already be over.
I managed to connect to someone (even without being able to select a topic?), but I could not seem to get anything to work. I could not enter text in the textbox; however, if I clicked emotes some texted appeared half cutoff and yet I still could not actually send a message. Camera works in the flash settings dialog, but does not seem to work in the app either. I don't know about my partner but I never saw/heard/read anything if they sent it.
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No, I'm not using jam/bjam or ant. DIAF.

While I'm no fan of xml, I've found ant to actually be quite usable (at least for java projects).

I've used it in several projects so far & although it did require the occasional tinkering it wasn't even close to being as big of a time sink as autotools were.
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I really agree with you when you say trying to find correlation with a specific food ingredient and one or several diseases is a fallacy in itself.

That being said there is some strong evidence that the _Okinawa diet_ is extremely good for the health. Note that the key word is "diet", meaning it's not just one single food ingredient. Actually that "diet" is actually more a lifestyle than a mere diet.

Generally speaking a healthy life isn't difficult: regular exercise, don't overeat, avoid refined sugars and alcohol, no soda, no fast food and most important: enjoy yourself!
The question is then, if education isn't about learning stuff (which is what the GED should test), then what is it about?
I go to bars all the time and don't drink. If I feel like drinking something, I order water and tip the bartenders. Nobody cares.
"On the other hand, there aren't any better alternatives, so I'll just go cry for a bit."

Indeed. As the person who cross-compiled a ton of libraries for Windows (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/MinGW) I can tell you that autoconf and CMake are the only build environments which handle cross-compilation properly and transparently.

BTW CMake is not better or worse than autoconf, just different.
This is sensational. Great execution on the video. Congrats on the launch.
I think your definition is wrong, just go with wikipedia's definition:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scripting_language

Javascript can be run at the command-line just like ruby, python, and the rest. You can write a full application in pure javascript without depending on external third party tools too -- see stuff like nodejs.

Also, I don't know of anyone that would consider Haskell to be a scripting language. If we consider Haskell a scripting language, we might as well consider Java, C, C++ to be scripting languages too...
typically? JIT for javascript is only a semi-recent innovation. I'd say most javascript runtimes pre-2009 didn't have a JIT.

> (like Java used to be)

So Java doesn't run on a virtual machine anymore?
I'm not a big fan of the traffic light wifi idea. For starters, I think people trying to time the lights just right trying to hit a changing light at 35mph are crazy and are just asking to be hit by someone trying to beat a red.

Moreover, in places where the lights are influenced by the cars around, I think it's usually pretty easy to tell if a light is going to change soon.

But, I do think we will start seeing a lot more tech in the automotive future. I think it's the newest prius that has an auto-sensing cruise control, to adjust the speed to the car in front of you. I've been wanting that for years. Also, I think it's the first step in integrating autonomous drivers on the road.

I've also heard about work on a "train" like vehicle that other cars could attach to and be dragged along. Idea is that it'd be more efficient, plus the drivers would get to relax on their commute.

Like you mentioned about communicating where potholes are, I think all cars should be alerted to emergency personnel on the side of the road well before they reach them. I think maybe some radar detectors do something like this, maybe as a side effect. Something built into GPS would be awesome though.
I think using a pre-processor is MUCH better:

CoffeeScript: http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/
You may have already thought about this, but have you considered getting a "teach English" job? In many cases, your housing (and possibly food/etc.) will be paid for, and you can focus your free time on building apps. Best of luck!
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Are there actually still well-used languages that don't have a development environment that takes care of this for you? (serious question).

Yeah, all of them (serious answer).

Granted, we have an automated build system that requires hand tweaking from time to time, but that's something we introduced ourselves.

An automated build system that A) does not require someone to sit in front of a machine and press a button to start it. B) doesn't just produce executables based on a working copy, but is aware of SCM (including branches), runs unit tests (and sends alert mails when they fail), does code analysis, and can be arbitrarily extended to do whatever else you need is NOT a luxury, but an essential requirement. If you don't have it, you're not developing, you're toying around.
Education is about learning to follow the rules of an society: coming to school or work in time, sitting still and quiet while being bored for several hours. You know, the important skills you need to be a good little worker bee.
Sure. I was just poking fun at the, shall we say, "alcohol-normative" society we live in :)
Ask a girl to tell you a joke, laugh at it genuinely. Then say you have one too, but warn her that your sense of humor is dry and nerdy (with a grin) :) They'll love that!

Your personality won't drive people away, as long as you make a good first impression. After that, you can be yourself!

To practice, you should try speed dating. If you really think no girl is interested, then just for fun, write YES to every girl you meet so they will tell you how many matches -- I bet you'll get more than you expect ;)
A more modern variant is "A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs." -- Bram Moolenaar
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I would say a number of things, but one big one is to simply show that you're the kind of person willing to jump through various hoops to get where you want to be.

Actually, I think at the undergraduate level it's even worse (you still learn a lot of generally useful things in GED/high school). I would guess that what most people actually learn at the undergraduate level is completely unnecessary for their eventual careers. There are certainly exceptions, but it's a good rule (consider this: why do you need a bachelor's degree before entering med school? We invented a "fake" major for this requirement--premed--but objectively, it's completely unnecessary)
I don't think anyone in OMEGA's target market believes watches are dead. Maybe Casio and Timex need to worry.

And of course, an automatic movement never runs out of power as long as you're wearing it.
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If everybody wants to sleep at night who's gonna watch the mouth of the cave?

Apparently my ancestors.
Frankly I think this is s stupid idea, macros are evil. I don't think we need them, the language is just fine without them.

But look at those examples.... they do nothing useful, they don't make the DOM behave, they don't enhance the language.

Use functions for recurring code!
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By the same token if every story on hacker news focused exclusively on startups/programming and startup related business I think I would spend less time. It's the balancing act that you need to have when you have many different personalities and backgrounds on the site all viewing the same front page. This has over 100 upvotes so I do think a decent amount of people are interested.
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I think I will file a patent on light sabers and reanimating corpses....
Can you end a marriage without requiring the services of predatory divorce lawyers? As in, a wife and husband having a "gentleman's agreement" to divide children and property?
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Interesting. I never looked up the etymology of that expression. Thanks.
I can't believe it. I was going to learn how to make Iphone apps to make a similar app. Looks like they're way ahead of me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpKXE2lm4t0
There's an Icelandic legend that beat all this crap in 1984. His ship sank with all his friends and co-workers. He swam to shore, walked bare feet on razor sharp lava and walked to town. Guðlaugur Friðþórsson.

His descriptions are chilling. "When the ship sank from underneath us and we were submerged for the second time we decided [the three of us] to swim. We decided not to help each other which would have been hopeless. We spotted the lighthouse and started swimming towards it. Soon there was only the two of us left calling between us, but soon enough I stopped hearing any calls."

More amazingness: On his way to shore a ship came within 100m of him. He spoke to "múkki" an imagined sailor's friend on the way, told himself jokes and said some prayers. When he came to shore he had to hold onto a rock wall while waiting for the tide to recede. While walking he spotted a bathtub used for lifestock feeding he punched through a layer of ice to get drinking water.
Because the Mozilla developers are the same wise guys who think IndexedDB is superior to SQLite!

If they keep this up, web developers will eventually abandon Firefox. Firefox is starting to be the new IE6.
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Direct from the UK government's website:

Most people think that, after they've been living with their partner for a couple of years, they become 'common law husband and wife' with the same rights as married couples. This is not the case. In fact, couples who live together have hardly any of the same rights as married couples or civil partners.

There is no such thing as ‘common law marriage’.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentcitizensandrights/Your...
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British law != UK current law but those laws that in the distant past were direct descendents of UK law at the time.

British law vs say Roman law.

Because of the widespread nature of the British empire remnants of these laws (and remnants of the Empire, such as the Queen being formally the supreme being in Canada) are still found all over the world, even if a lot of those laws have been abolished in the UK itself.
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This is hard to believe. I'll wait until the experiment has been repeated using muonic helium. Most likely, the researchers made a mistake in how they applied QED in their calculation.
Paying for information is dependent on the value of the information to an individual or corporation, if you want people to pay for information then you can look at angles such as scarcity, quality, return on investment, entertainment value and so on.

There is such a thing as the 'information economy', so clearly information has value but what that value is highly depends on the information itself.

Next weeks lottery numbers are information, they're worth gold today but nothing two weeks from now.
I would say yes since he said it was too presumptions for him to say about the panthers. His didn't say that when he called Obama a racist
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Borrow money on the internet?

Isn't that what start-ups like http://www.zopa.com/ are all about? Disclaimer - I'm not affiliated with them in anyway.
I had early Flattr invite, and decided not to join:

• Before I can put button on my website, I have to add funds to my Flattr account.

• I have not seen Flattr buttons on other websites, and I don't want to send whole "pie" to one or two websites I may find in months.

Catch-22.
There was an article posted to HN some time ago that claimed that being a Night Owl or Morning Lark isn't an intrinsic disposition so much as a lifestyle choice. Does this mean I can choose to stay up later and I'll get more intelligent?

Claim: http://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm#Lark-owl%20misco...

HN post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1207945
I suppose they should be allocated based on frequency of use within the intended domain of the language, with the most frequent getting first choice. I guess pointer dereferencing would be more important than xor for most domains. Not that I am particularly advocating ^ for pointers, * is just as good, but I do think using @ for the opposite of its meaning in Pascal would be confusing.
You could say nothing, technically, but that wouldn't reflect real life situations and existing "best" practices.

It's usually used to build deployments, CI, autodeploying and stuff. In fact for many operations tasks Maven cannot be decoupled, because it's used for almost everything. When using Makefile, to copy a compiled archive to a destination you'd use shell commands; in Maven you cannot leave the Java world so you pick up a plugin to do the same, usually of poor quality. This way you introduce even more code, which is hardly manageable at some point, and contrary to the maxim "every line of code not written is a correct one".

Short answer:

Pick a job in operations or change management at a large Java shop, then you'll know.
Ah ok, I read that as "Those crazy Brits still have this" and waded in to correct ;)
Is this a terrorism vector?

Could infection of the 5 largest wheat-producing countries be done maliciously? If the disease is fungal in nature, what's to stop Joe Terrorist from hopping over to mainland USA or AUS and injecting a few dozen crops, and letting it spread from there over the next 5 years? Can anybody speak to this?
Movie studios are in the business of making movies, plural. Just cause I can copy DVDs once and set up a DVD burning shop doesn't mean I can make the next movie. Movie studios have the process and equipment (cameras, sets), contacts (directors, actors) to make movies.

If the hardest part of your business can be so easily copied by someone else, then you do have a problem. If it can't be copied then you might not have a problem
The expression you're looking for is "combinatorical explosion".
Interesting. I had wondered myself whether a large part of the success of "seduction techniques" is that the man using them can blame failure on his incorrect applicatino of the technique, rather than on something intrinsic to himself.
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I wouldn't call it hatred but rather lone voice of reason. Quite bitter, though.
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I'm sure the GED did some good for some people and that it has some purpose (the author addresses this as well by saying that passing the GED helps self esteem in inmates).

While I understand that you are simply stating your case, I don't understand how your case is relevant to the article. I'm obviously missing something, so it'd be great if you pointed out what I was missing.
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Flattr would have to be built in as an option to the existing blogging platforms first to get anywhere: WordPress, Blogger (good luck with that one!), Tumblr, Posterous, etc. Until all those happen, this won't go anywhere.
Those crazy Brits abolished it in 1753 according to WP:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common-law_marriage

So maybe they're not that crazy :)
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I can believe owls are more intelligent than most people.
While your story is very positive and inspiring, and instructive for parents dealing with smart, bored students who are underutilized and unstimulated by the limitations of high school, I don't think the article was written about you.
Interesting, I might have to try that. Thanks!
In tennis now Rolex has been completely eclipsed by Richard Mille, which I'd guess most people hadn't even heard of until Rafael Nadal started wearing one. Their brand is really taking a beating now, it can't be helped by Wiley writing songs about it. Be interesting to see what they do to dig themselves out of this hole.
So you're saying the article is talking about scripts for continuous integration servers. That makes a lot more sense.

I had read the comments here to mean that people still have to toy with scripts just to get their project to compile.

So you're saying that the source -> executable problem is indeed solved for every language. It's the (source control) -> (source code) + (db change scripts) -> (QA Website) + (QA Database) problem that we're talking about. I didn't gather that from the article.
If that turns out to be the case, it's interesting to contrast the two different approaches in transparency that Apple and Google took in using their kill switches.
So the advice to survive in cold water:

wear a life jacket?
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No, I agree that you can flip the switch. Absolutely. In gcc as well as MSVC. It's a flag, nothing more.

I just don't think you can flip the switch without also doing due diligence so far as re-testing goes. I wouldn't feel comfortable making that sort of change and just blindly shoving it into production. So it's really not "flip a switch" it's "flip a switch and re-test the entire codebase" IMO. It requires dev resources.
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The article mentions 100,000 recommendations made on Nextstop. Great. Chance has it, but I came across http://www.geckogo.com/ via http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2010/07/get-up-go-with-g... today and it has about 975,000 discoveries and 200,000 reviews. Seems like the Plenty of Fish for travellers, and I'll be examining it for why it has become that way.
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Don't you feel that with video, the reason it has been traditionally poor at converting or monetizing is because the systems used so far have generally been pay walls.

Pay walls eliminate customers because its like anything what you don't know you don't miss.

This new concept however, works much like real world interactions where the consumer can get hooked on the content before having to pay.

I think this is a fundamental shift from Pay walls...
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The way most video sites seem to solve this is by adding advertising at the beginning of the clip.

It's a high nuisance way of creating money but it does seem to work.
I've never heard of or seen a premed major. I've heard of premed students getting degrees in bio/chem/eng. Just like there is no prelaw degree. Just phil/polisci/engl degrees with courses suited for taking the entry exams.
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I disagree. He's right. What investors should be asking is, "what is it about your idea, people and product" that is unique and difficult to replicate, whilst being crucial for your success. Typical barriers typically come via patents and strategic alliances. Who has those?
Varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but in many places yes (with a caveat). You both show up at the relevant office, fill in some paper work, pay a small filing fee and you're basically done (many places have a separation period between the paperwork being filed and the actual divorce kicking in).

The caveat being that even if you do it this way there is nothing stopping one of the spouses suing the other after the fact for access to the children or more money, so you're not completely off the hook if your spouse later decides to get vindictive.
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I get lost easily in non-lisp-code nowadays =x
The unwritten standard for lisp indentation works out quite readably