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The real point is that almost the entire vi interface sensibly combines that way to operate on words, lines, paragraphs, regexps etc. Whereas a good IDE works on that which the words, lines, etc represent: i.e. a code dom.
I was going to sign up but their terms and conditions -- especially number seven is a full stop for me three as well. They should really let you know.
I built a prototype of something that had the general idea of this for myself (I have no short term memory, I mark off emails to get back to), but wasn't so well integrated with gmail. I'm excited to play around with something that looks so awesome.
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http://www.breville.com.au/products_detail.asp?prod=448

Then they turned around and trade marked their button....

Edit: Also that button appears to add $20 to the total.
Not really. But then I'm using eclipse, intellij, bash, gmail etc. Its like linux, but I can sync my iphone :-)
The default font is not as grating.

This is a bugbear for me. Most Kindle books have poor typography slapped on them by the Kindle software (even on other platforms).

While there are many who find e-ink vs LCD or battery life issues to be sticking points, the typography and layout are, perhaps, my biggest beefs. It takes all sorts I guess ;-)

http://redubllc.com/2009/01/a-typographic-critique-of-the-ki...
http://qwan.org/2009/05/17/kindle-typography-goes-craptacula...
Best ways to get traffic/sales for my recently launched site?
I just launched a site called Big Heart Baby (www.bigheartbaby.com) that sells baby clothes and donates 50% of profits to children's charities. Our initial charity partners are focusing on Autism, Children's Cancer, Child Hunger, Juvenile Diabetes, and Pediatric AIDS.

The site went live on Friday and we are, obviously, trying to increase traffic and sales as quickly as possible. So far, we have reached out to the mommy blogging/baby blogging community and have been very well received there. We're also doing facebook ads, google adwords, and distributing our press release to every publication we can think of.

What else should we be doing to drive traffic?
Why not make it an option (for the content producer)? A lot of filmmakers generate income from stock footage on the side as well. You guys could undercut the stock footage monopoly. Just a thought from a prospective client. Thanks.
The PassengerMinInstances option is going to be nice to have. No more having to wait a couple of seconds for the page to come up in the morning.
Love that tag line - answered the first objection I had in mind!

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Since he argued coherently, honestly, and with good manners, just find someone else to up-mod instead please.
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Yes! That's a good analogy. Thanks
The nice thing about this is that it establishes what we all knew was true. What would be interesting to know is what the big players' position on patents are. There certainly aren't several hundred "largest" tech firms by definition (or you'd dilute the definition of "largest").

For example, I don't know a single Google engineer who is for patents, and the official Google line calls for "reform" of the system. Meanwhile, Microsoft's position is mum, and the #4 search on "microsoft position patents" is a 37signals article on how they trolled Salesforce.

It would be interesting if someone did a quantitative analysis of the big firms, say, the top 20. Slot each one depending on their public position on patents (if any), whether they have trolled other firms, etc., and basically decide if they are pro/con on the issue. Then give them a "vote" weighted by their market cap. It would also be useful to see the combined market of however many firms are included, compared to the software industry as a whole.
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When I tried it, I used jj as a shortcut for escape. It seemed to work well enough.
I quit my Ph.D in astrophysics to spend a 3-year "sabbatical" in Asia (it's absurdly cheap to live there). I used that time to pursue research ideas in AI and compiler design. I just came back to Montreal, to look for contract work. I'm particularly fond of biology projects, but I'd consider anything interesting, anywhere in North America. Lisp/Python/C
Personally, I think it's wise to avoid it as I have heard it used in a tremendously racist way. And again, everyone has different experiences in this regard. I do think, however, that it's a bit odd to get offended when someone points out this kind of usage. At the very least, we know that it's happening.

I just think it's weird to raise the "possible accidental usage of a possibly racist term flag" for a word that very few, if any, people have ever heard used in that context.

It has been educational though. I've never heard that word used in that context -- ever. Now I'll be on the lookout for it because it would have simply passed me by.

FYI, during this exchange I was curious that I could have missed hearing such a usage for the term, I actually just went to google to see if I could find an actual real world example of it being used in such a context (outside of Urban Dictionary) and instead found several hundred uses of it most specifically not being used in the racial context. As newspaper headlines, names of companies, titles of works of literature, online handles, pieces of software, programming frameworks, etc. e.g.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/27/yes-niggling/
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100722/jsp/frontpage/story_12712529.jsp

http://timesonline.typepad.com/line_and_length/2010/06/longterm-niggle-does-for-bresnan.html

https://niggleit.com/

etc. etc. etc.

In fact, other than a couple different urban dictionaries and a letter relating a warning by a professor not to use the term because it might get confused with the n-bomb, I actually couldn't find an actual usage of the term that was derogatory -- and I went at least 20 pages in on the search results. If you can find a real, honest to gosh usage, please link it here because I have yet to see one.

"niggardly" on the other hand, I wouldn't use just because it's archaic and sounds silly but also because it's etymology is the same as the n-bomb.
This idea is awesome. I'm not interviewing these days, but someone please do it and report back on results.
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Wriggle? What?

I think you're confused. All of the major DB vendors have clauses saying that you can't publish benchmarks without their written consent. Not surprisingly that supports a hearty confirmation bias. What's the confusion?
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I'm not sure why you think we need researchers who are at the top of their fields to "teach the same damn introductory-level BS to spotty-faced teens every damn year".
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Most of life consists in trading one kind of freedom for another. What is striking about RMS is that in his defense of software freedom he sacrifices other freedoms of life that you and I enjoy.
Scales are nice. Too bad most people must learn twelve per mode. I encourage all to renounce the normal piano's inefficiencies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janko_keyboard
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I don't think it is widely used by anyone in that context. The guy I know who said it was joking around.
The best ways to come up with ideas is to get out there and talk to people. Work. Try new things. Some of the best ideas I have ever come up with had to do with what I hated or took up so much time in my work.
Offer something free. Like 10 things a mother must know. Or something like that. A good blog post can generate some good traffic, which can lead to sales.
"The capital of cool"?

Seriously?

Toronto has a fantastic multicultural population which means good eats, but my compliments would end there.

Compared to when I grew up (I now live in the suburbs of Toronto), I find Toronto to be dirty and run down. The summer smog warnings are nothing to be proud of.

GTA (Greater Toronto Area) drivers are among the rudest drivers I've ever seen (red light means GO!). Unless you live in the downtown core, you basically need a car. And the major arteries in and out of the city are hardly world class.

The transit system, which everyone brags about, sucks. Compared to Montreal, which has an excellent subway system, geographic coverage is lacking. If you live at one of the corners, you're on a bus for an hour before you get to a subway station.

While crime isn't nearly as bad as the worst US cities, gun crime is much more prevalent than it was when I was young.

The tech industry is doing fairly well here, but Toronto isn't the shiny gem it used to be.
I'd imagine it's pretty common, especially if you consider CSS, HTML and Javascript different languages. Personally, I use PL/X, and z/Assembly daily, with REXX thrown in every now and then.
I don't know, but it seems more likely to me that the causal relationship runs in the other direction: a society is likely to become more free as the median resident becomes more prosperous.
Well the answer must be yes otherwise I'm doomed for life. So, yes. :)
Use knowledge you have that I don't which you might have used to bring in the $500K in the first place. I can tell you about things in my industry that are great investments, but you don't know my industry like I do unless you are at the same place I am. Listening to others would be too big a leap of faith for investments which are considered high risk.

If you received the money from the lottery or from inheritance, you are looking for a way to quit your job flipping burgers and you insist on high risk, then put all your money on red or black on a European Roulette table. If you win, then quit while you are ahead and move your risk outlook to low. If you lose, then at least you lost it quick rather than painfully watch it dwindle over the course of months / years on bad investment advice from total strangers.
I own this very toaster, and humanity is exactly the right term. The 'A bit more' button was a motivator in the purchase. When I read it I thought, "This company understands how I make breakfast. I should buy from them."
> Thank God Stallman helped all of those sick kids with Malaria in Africa with by giving them GIMP and GCC.

>Way better than the billions of dollars and thousands of vaccinations Bill and Melinda Gates gave to them.

RMS and the free and open source community have given way more billions of dollars and jobs that Gates ever has. Let me explain. Many governments have switched to Gnu/Linux and are saving billions of dollars each year for the last ten years such as Brazil ($1 billion per year http://www.brazzil.com/2004/html/articles/mar04/p107mar04.ht...). Given that many governments have switched to gnu/linux and free and open software, that's billions of dollar saved each year for the last 5 to ten years. Those are billions that can be spent on health, education, employment and more, it's an invaluable gift to humanity. I know Bill Gates fortune doesn't exceed $50 billions so I'll let you do the math. RMS and the free software world have given way more to the world than Bill Gates ever will. And Free Software will continue to give while Bill's fortunes will soon be over.

> In all seriousness, if we're going to argue the ethics of charging for software,at the end of the day who has done more good?

See above.

> Bill Gates who made himself rich, gave thousands of people jobs, created products that made the lives of millions of other people easier

Free and Open Source software give millions of jobs too. I'd say even more especially with the internet. Do you think Google could have been done without Gnu/Linux when they needed to install thousands of servers and didn't have yet the money to pay licenses? How about the internet? It's all free/open source software, a way bigger revolution than the PC which was a boring work machine before for most people.

> When I compare the more calculus of capitalism and propreitary software against Stallman's dogmatism, it's obvious to me that capitalism is utlimately more moral and does more good

Well, think and try to calculate again. Gates' done way less.
Well, I consider that they're "almost white" in relation to the piss-yellow I used to have. But the difference is dramatic nonetheless.
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Imagine if he tried to compete with StackOverflow.
Bought the PDF and was really happy with it as a reference. Used it to write YARCAL (yet another Ruby Couch adapter lib). Although that was for 0.10.x and I didn't follow Couch much after that - no idea what kind of changes have occurred since then.
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200k in good quality under-or-moderately valued commercial real estate with moderate leveraging (say, 60% LTV)
100k in a hedge/growth fund with a consistent record. I know of one that has delivered 20% returns average for 12 years in a row. It's a computer algorithm based trading system with no direct trading control by humans.
100k in a contrarian play, like long japanese + korean small caps and short US govt securities, or maybe short USD.
50k in gold and silver (physical, not bits of paper promising it)
50k spread across a number of speculative investment ideas, including junior miners, maybe a promising biotech, some chinese automotive companies.

Things I would stay away from : long 'ordinary' stocks, single family home residential real estate in most places (except somewhere to live), cash or near-cash like bonds/cds, growth based companies, anything that is relying on government policies/subsidies to create a profit. Stick to modest leverage.

My belief is that we're going into a short period of deflation (<5 years) followed by 10-20 years of solid inflation as governments inflate their currencies to get rid of debt. You want to own something real that earns money (commercial RE), something that works off volatility (automated hedge fund), something that has low probably/high payoff across a number of bets, and something as a protection against inflation (precious metals). Debt is OK as long as leverage isn't too high (to weather the deflation problems)
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I'm late to this.
But in my experience you should start up your company while you can live with your parents. Don't bother with working for someone else's startup. Also, the 120-150 person mark is a really bad time. You have all the chaos and long hours of a startup, but all the weird political lameness of a big company at the same time.
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Meanwhile, it's possible to go to a liberal arts college which has a teaching focus and offers engineering and/or science degrees. For example: Pomona College or Harvey Mudd College (I went to Pomona).
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Not sure why you're getting downvoted.. your statement, although not true for most theory pieces, does hold true for any kind of reference or API text.
We've started a company to make an energy storage system using compressed air that's 10x cheaper and 10x longer lasting than traditional batteries, while being as efficient.

We don't need someone with the skillset immediately, but we would have. Have you considered greentech?
Yup. That was the point that I shrugged and closed the article. The guy has done an awful lot for OSS as we know it, but it's really difficult to take him seriously when he talks like a 14 year-old. Why not just throw in a Micro$oft and Crapple in there while we're at it?
That is a proud parenting moment.

Given the kerfuffle that blew up last weekend over a couple of Google scholarships for women, I sometimes wonder if the boys club mentality turns away bright women from our industry.
As someone about to open-source something that does Java refactoring from the command-line (as a small part of a larger research project related to optimisation) I feel like I ought to respond. :)

You make a good point about refactoring. It's useful, and I should do it more. But this comment goes a bit too far:

> [people edit projects, not text, therefore] a good IDE will always be better than vim

This is an unassailable assertion. If anybody manages to come up with an example in which Vim is better than an IDE, it is always possible to respond with "that's not a good IDE", possibly with qualifications ("you shouldn't be editing Java in that IDE").

One possible response goes to the definition of "better": I contend that Vim is, in fact, a better environment for creating, debugging, and generally editing files. This is actually a large part of what I do, so I appreciate it. I have been using Eclipse quite a bit recently, because it's the standard IDE for Android app development, and while it provides some great refactoring tools, it is not nearly as good as Vim is for actually editing code. I don't really understand what you mean w.r.t. "formal grammar": even Vim and Emacs can be trained to do things that rely on language-specific syntactic knowledge (examples: code completion, code folding, context-specific search). What's missing in non-IDE editors is a concept of a "project", and semantic knowledge for refactoring. That is not the same as grammar.
runs code examples through standard analysis

I am not saying that this would not be generally useful. In our case we're a specialised shop, without many short-listable applicants (we only ask code from candidates going forward to an interview), so it's no big deal for the tech lead to cast an eye over submitted code samples.

Not looking for perfection here - just to give you a basic example, I had a candidate submit code that did not have a single comment in it. I mean even if you wrote the code in the first place with no comments (naughty you), surely you'd stick some in before you sent it to somebody you wanted a job from, eh?

Obviously for the hotshot places that get hundreds of qualified applicants, that's a different story. Still, I think you can tell a lot about somebody's coding personality from looking at their stuff, not sure I'd trust a machine to do it.
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FWIW, I just noticed my book "Beginning Ruby" is on a $10 one day deal at Apress: http://www.apress.com/info/dailydeal (for the next few hours only..) See http://beginningruby.org/ for more book specific info.

Apress also note on Twitter that they've totally randomized how the daily deal works so you never know what book of theirs might turn up tomorrow. Seems a good deal if you keep looking for books you might want to buy cheap.
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Slashdot was tables-based back in the day, which can't help but be verbose. :)

(The point stands, though, that "basic" doesn't mean "light").
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The Australian Kelpie is part dingo part collie (originally). The resulting animal is an extremely intelligent but hardy working dog. One that works all day in hot conditions but follows its master unwaveringly. I would say that Dingoes aren't true wild dogs.
The point is that the performance of recursion is not very context-dependent, and more complex contexts are less capable of accurately measuring the performance of any single operation — you don't know what elements of the function are slow or fast unless you measure them in relative isolation. Like, OK, so it runs that function fast — that tells me nothing about how any other function will perform, because you haven't determined what's fast and slow.

Doing "benchmarks" with huge functions that do a lot of unrelated things is like "unit testing" a program by running it and seeing if it crashes. It tells you something, but that something is pretty vague.
Avoiding "niggardly" is far from a sign of respect. I'm taking a precaution against a listener flying off the handle in ignorance, so it's actually a critique of their education and emotional stability as I perceive them. And it never would have occurred to me that we now have the same problem with "niggle" until reading this.
In our economy, they're not really ready for you until you're 28 or so. They want you to have a number of years behind you. So when somebody comes out of college at 22 with a bachelor's degree, what can that person really offer Goldman Sachs or General Electric or the Department of the Interior? Besides, young people today are going to live to be 90. There's no rush. That's why I say they should take a year to work at Costco, at Barnes & Noble, whatever, a year away from studying, and think about what they really want to do.

If students did this, then they would find a passion and become highly motivated. They would then enter a university, where they find that they have to shell out a large sum of money every year. This goes towards ensuring that they're able to live in small, inadequate rooms with loud, obnoxious people with whom they sit in boring, superficial lectures and take tests that assess one's ability to learn by rote. All of this, just so they can earn a piece of paper that says they are allowed to work in a field they liked enough to learn about on their own.
It's something I didn't mention, but you're completely right.

The past 3 positions I've hired for have had essentially identical applicant spectrums:

* 80% completely ignored the requirements and didn't provide requested the information. Our listings contain one or two questions to make sure they've been read. Things like "What is your favorite programming language?" or "What is your favorite technical blog?"

* Another 10% were not qualified as per the listing

* Half of the remaining 10% did not pass HR screening - usually this meant they were jerks to the HR lady or didn't have good references
* Less than half of the remaining 5% were able to perform at any capacity during our very simple coding exercise.

By simple I mean things like "write a function that accepts an integer and returns the next largest prime" or "write a function that interpolates two strings".

We have fairly liberal hiring practices, but insist on being able to do the job we're hiring for. I feel sorry for any company that doesn't have a technical interview process in place.
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True, but it's better than some redneck retard seeing an opportunity and buying a male and female and inbreeding them to make $3000 a pop until they turn viscous, like German Shepherds, Golden Retrievers, etc.

I know they're doing this to keep their profit artificially high, however I'd rather someone be making $6000 selling healthy well cared for animals rather than see idiots abusing animals because they're a new novelty.

I own exotic pets and I've heard true horror stories of people buying sick pets, I'd hate to see that happening with a new species. I'd love it if the domestic fox could be the one domesticated species we don't bastardize over sheer greed.