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Yes. I think I came off as more negative towards Perl than I meant to. The point is that they are far simpler than ascii. They are quaternary data, and as such Regexes aren't really a good tool for modifying them any more than Regexes are a good tool for modifying raw binary, even if your binary is stored as a string of ascii characters.

There are other facilities of Perl though, in general its quick scripting, that make it as good a tool as any other, just so you don't get sucked into the idea that regexes are a good tool here.
> * Having seen a pirated chart, the downloader has effectively had the designer "advertised" to them, making it more likely they will buy from them in the future

The creator of a work has a right to determine who they distribute it too. Most people on HN wouldn't like it if somebody ripped the source to their web app as a form of 'advertising'. This is no different.
"I'm sure that's no consolation for a welfare mom who has to put her children to bed some nights crying because they're hungry"

The weird thing is that it is more likely that mom and those kids suffer from chronic obesity, at least in the U.S. Doesn't change the fact, though, that the poor face much greater health risks than the affluent when it comes to nutrition. Just that the nature of those risks has changed, and take longer to manifest themselves.
Jeff Bezos: What matters more than your talents (Princeton graduation address)
Yeah...Assassinate everyone who dears reveal the cruelty of the US troops and call others terrorist...I think they've reached the highest levels of hypocrisy.
Greece, Spain, Italy and to a lesser extent France are essentially bankrupt.
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Upvoted for being a promotional post.
I liked this book which is less controversial
http://www.amazon.com/Anticancer-New-Life-David-Servan-Schre...

Found the audiobook online one day dotdotdot
See my comment below, the advice they give every episode is worth writing about.

(edited)
I'm little bit afraid of more inlined SQL commands. That's sad. In times of .NET 4, lambda-expresions...
I made this argument for music on here a while back, that even if it is not the most economical outcome that a content creator should be able to choose who they distribute to. Wasn't a popular one.
There are very different regulations in each separate country, and sometimes even in regions within countries. For instance, you can run a contest of skill (which this is) in Canada, but you have to exclude Quebec. Also, the laws are always changing. For instance, we used to have to exclude Puerto Rico, but it's now okay to include them.

To do a worldwide contest, you'd need to have a lawyer who knows the local rules in every country in which you want to operate. Allowing U.S. residents only is just much cheaper and less expensive.

If you ever think about running a contest for substantial prizes, be sure to consult a lawyer who knows something about it. The FTC and its overseas equivalents are not shy about making sure the rules are enforced.
Well, it's not really clear who's doing the pirating, but I can say as a matter my ownn observed opinion that crocheting, knitting, and embroidery are still popular hobbies for young women. I think this because I know of several different 20something girls who like these crafts, and whom walk in different social circles. I also know the local roller derby team has a weekly knitting/embroidery meeting (like a knitting circle for 20something alternative girls).
Connecticut AG calls Amazon, Apple to woodshed over e-book deals
Well, yeah, money's on the line.
You are probably aware of it already, but a lot of universities (mine included) use MOSS (Measure Of Software Similarity) to detect plagiarism in CS classes. Link: http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/
Lets see... Did this guy vote for the Iraq War? Yes!

He condemned thousands of American and foreign troops to death as well as the uncounted number of Iraq civilians, and while we're on the topic, the "enemy" as well.

Thus, under his own logic, he must be himself be executed.
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When I was driving around in Northern Michigan in 2002 I realised that I'd been 'had' by hollywood and their depiction of rural America. Poverty was pretty common, people living in trailers rather than houses, bad education etc.

The difference between then and now is that some of the people that were affluent then are feeling a little bit of the heat right now and they're scared shitless. But given a slight economic upturn they'll forget about all that and it's back to business as usual. Except for the people that had it bad in 2002, they'll continue to live in a way that a civilised country ought to be ashamed off.

There is no crisis, there is only a totally weird distribution of wealth that has temporarily gotten a bit weirder. If we really wanted then we could solve this problem, but all the majority wants is to return to the situation of 5 years ago.
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How Bing is out-innovating Google
Brilliant. I've been looking at VMWare ESXi as well as Microsoft's Virtualization. Microsoft's offerings aren't nearly as nice, but I'm a BizSpark member, so the licenses are free for me right now. And, you're able to migrate live servers from one box to the other, which is a huge plus.

Thanks for the comment.
This looks really good on paper, but I'm wary of a government mandate to teach something that full time practitioners rarely master.
Oh yes, you shouldn't sit on your ass after banking a wad of cash and expect to live forever, not doing a thing.

But neither should you rely on influence and credibility, because those things still imply gatekeepers. You have to have influence and credibility... to convince somebody else.

Why not just rely on yourself? Why not foster the ability to make money in any circumstance?

I cashed out my IRA because, so far, the money I've put into my SaaS has paid back itself 1000%, not 10%.

Based on that, and my other efforts/products, I know I could easily earn 7K euros a month just by working a few days. Training is lucrative. My information products are lucrative. I'm about to open my "your first product" launch class again - last time it made $25k (as I was building it!), this time I aim to double that. Shouldn't be too hard.

Sometimes I sit back and think about it, and I can't help but laugh (in a nervous way), that I can earn more in a few weeks than one of my parents' yearly salaries from when I was a kid.

Now, back to my influence/credibilty/gatekeepers argument - the perceptive HNer will point out that I am using my credibility to bring in customers. That's true, at a few hundred bucks a pop -- which is a far cry from hoping somebody will hire you for a sweet job (which means, of course, that you have to work that job), and miles away from trying to use your credibility to get millions in investment.

My way is very do-able for a normal person, the other is incredibly hard and requires much luck in addition to a full-out effort.
Large-scale agriculture and cooking made us even smarter. A good pot of rice and beans will net you even more energy with less work than meat. It's also less likely to spoil and give you any number of diseases.
Nothing in that article seems to me to represent the role a UX Designer should take.

She seems more interested in making strategic business decisions than designing the UX.
> You, my friend need to listen to the podcast.

I don't like being baited. If the advice was good enough to post this article about then you might as well show how good it is. If it really is that good I might listen to the podcast, but personally I prefer reading above listening because it is less intrusive to the people around me and I don't have headphones here.

I also read about 10x as fast as anybody could speak.
These photos are beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
I haven’t read all the papers put up on Wikileaks so I don’t feel comfortable making a judgment there. But as someone who grew up in a military family I’d like to take a second to defend the harshness of the justice system in the Military (since part of this article’s point is how barbaric the military punishment for treason seems)

The thing you have to understand about Military Justice is that it has to be harsh. These are guys whose job it is to take guns and kill people with them. Which is why, as a society, we very specifically outline their chain of command and that chain of command ends at the one person in the country that must be elected by the majority of people in the country. Because the right to legally order that another person be killed is so solemn that we only dare give it to the President himself (who then decides who he wants to put his trust in as far as chain of command).

As such you have to understand the highest value in a soldier’s life must be “to follow orders”. Because if that soldier substitutes his own judgment for that of his commander than our whole society falls apart (this is how we get military coups). Which is why we force soldiers to sign over their life to the military for their term of duty and why we take away many of their rights as citizens. You, as a private citizen, can tell off your boss without any fear of legal repercussions but a soldier will go to jail for the same act because the highest military value is “obey your commander”.

So while I understand Military Justice might look harsh to civilians you have to understand that it’s absolutely necessary. The guys with guns who have the legal right to kill people have to be held to the highest standard possible. As do the paper pushers who deal with confidential data since they too can cause a person’s death through their actions.

(Just to head off one criticism right up front some will say this could lead to a corrupt Military. To those people I’d point out that a soldier can say anything he or she wants about their time in the service AFTER they leave the military)
Is the scavenger hunt really necessary? At least tell us which episode you were listening to.
You seem to have completely missed the tenor of my point. These are arguments I've already heard, and which I consider hackneyed. They are quite specifically not arguments I agree with.

My apologies for not making that clearer.

ADDED IN EDIT:

Having said that, the general consensus seems to be that the artist does not in fact have that right. The "modern" consensus seems to be that those who produce anything easily copied can only expect it to be copied, and it is unreasonable and stupid for them to expect to have any control at all over the distribution.
Flash 10.1 on Mac OS X: What's improved?
With FreeBSD you can be assured that STABLE is stable and CURRENT is current. Releases are taken very seriously, as can be seen by FreeBSD 5 (one of the best OS releases every, IMO) took years to finalize. Point releases are binary and API compatible with .0 releases (ie. 5.5 binaries are guaranteed to run on 5.0)

Each time i've tried a "stable" release right out the gate (5.0, 6.0, 7.0) I have had numerous random crashes and bugs in the default install. I always have to wait a few minor revisions for the bugs to be worked out. Of course, i'm a Linux guy, so maybe i'm doing something wrong.
GMABooster - perfomance boost solution for Intel Graphics Media Accelerator
I haven't actually used Mongrel2 yet, but I get the impression you can use it as a front-end for multiple physical servers, in which case the relative load of the M2 process on its server increases. Besides, unless Zed is writing your application and this is eating away at his time for that, it's not clear what exactly your complaint is.
A/B testing is no panacea
Minesweeper for Emacs. It's a pain, 'cause I'm new to programming elisp, which has some rough edges, and I haven't found great references for it.
> Holding onto the Solaris/SPARC combo in the hope the high end customers would the be last to leave (which they were, but sooner than Sun expected) killed the company.

Giving Dell all the tools to fight SPARC/Solaris effectively would only kill it faster.

As a high-end hardware manufacturer, they were pressed from below by Linux on cheap x86 hardware. One possible solution would be to press back with SPARC/Solaris hardware at x86 prices. Sticking to the high-end may be a good strategy, but that's why IBM does not make an x86 version of zOS.

And that's why they lawyer to shreds anyone who tries to sell and support zOS on emulated zSeries hardware.
Because disk IO on cloud hosting solutions generally suck. What I'm doing requires a lot of disk IO.
I'm surprised that Racket is beating SBCL. When did that start happening?
Thanks for the feedback. The email-only option is definitely on our list, it will be a bit tricky due to the different mail clients but still doable.
I know this is not self promotion, and it's not shameless, but even if it was, I would up-vote you if I liked the link and it looked like hard work. How did self promotion ever come to be something to be ashamed of anyways?
That's funny, I specifically avoid fish (but eat other mammals) because I care more about the mercury in fish (and all aquatic meats) than I do about the non-cerebral badness of meat.
We used http://www.weddingpaperdivas.com/ and while it was higher than your price point, they have a great app and quality finished product. You could probably learn a bit from what they're doing.
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All I could think of was Linus:
http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2010/01/embroidery-gaah....
All Americans are allowed to possess $100 bills in their full detail. There are all kinds of restrictions on what we can do with them, but we can possess them and look at them any time we like.

Resolution isn't much of an issue either. Absent watermarks, there are lots of nice upsampling algorithms.
Initial citations/qualifications still needed and citations for these new claims needed as well.

The countries you listed (aside from Greece of course) are having some issues, which they are addressing. So what. From where I sit (live in Europe, have family and friends still in the US) the US looks much worse off.
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The other games are good references.
interestingly enough, with the advent of OS4 bugs in various 3rd party applications become much more visible. Skype for example sucks 20% of my 3GS (1 year old) battery per hour if it's running in the background.

Even if it might look really cool, the task manager functionality of the iphone is really badly discoverable (I've had coworkers ask me how to fix their battery drain, not knowing how to kill tasks) and clunky to use if you need to regularly quit application (which you do with skype).

I guess it's my fault though - I wanted multitasking for Skype and now that I have it, I don't want it any more.
The Cage Guards against the Tiger only if We're Outside it's Bars
But could this work with a non-Lamarkian explanation: say most people would smoke, some of them have a random mutation which makes them resistant to it, so they would be more likely to have children and care for them, so the trait would become more common in next generation. Isn't it just darwinian adaptation then?
Cool experiment Mr Zed, but what about kqueue?

It seems superior to both *poll minions. Would be great if you proved/falsified this thesis as well.
Conceded. But I can't edit my original comment now. :(
I'm impressed that PHP is now less than 20x slower than SBCL and Racket (Lisp and Scheme implementations). It's improved a lot since PHP4.
Wow, damn, so much Microsoft innovation... and it's MS SQL and MS language specific.

(YAWN) You could have written that code in most languages with most databases years ago!

What's next Microsoft?
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Apple May Brick Jailbroken iPhones
The blog post does not say if the epoll code uses level triggering or edge triggering. It would be interesting to see the results for both modes. The smaller number of system calls required for edge triggering might make a difference in performance.
Perhaps the cooking is key, as stated in this article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/08/990810064914.ht...

Digesting meat is a lengthy process, which I'd have thought would still tire us.

I thought it was pretty conclusive that our digestive systems weren't suited for meat, and that's why there is so much colon cancer.

The raw foodies suggest that cooked food, triggers an immune reaction. Though you'd have thought we might have gotten used to it by now.

You'd have thought the powers that be would have figured out optimal human nutrition by now!
They now have JIT compilation.
Looks like half-life is inversely proportional to pay.
It’s kind of astonishing, actually, that the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Warsaw Pact went as peaceful as it did in Europe. No bloody revolutions, no wars. Not a shot fired in Eastern Germany, Poland or Russia (and so on). Except for, you guessed it, Yugoslavia and Romania.

I don’t think anyone would have expected that.
The author also complained about free designs:

"not merely because designs are being “shared” (read “pirated”), but because people are downloading free charts rather than paying for a designer’s work."

At least, that's how I read it.
IMHO you could try doing something for the "hacker" public, to contrast with something like Linkedln, where (I guess) people take it very seriously.
This in turn reminds me of an april fools joke in the german c't magazine where they've shown this software of theirs that puts an end to the huge CPU load of the idle process.

Unfortunately, the article doesn't seem to be available online.
No, I'm not assuming, I've experienced it first hand. The language is ridiculous. I'm not going to rehash the tons of reasons the language is not technically sound, if you wish to believe it's a suitable language then go ahead. When a better designed language actually focuses on this space the different in maintainability will become measurably clear.
I was referring to the latest episode 17, saving money, and of course the advice they gave me in regards to my start-up.

There may be episodes that are more helpful to you, however, they addressed my question in this episode.

Great place to ask questions, they really answer them!
and more worthy of your time due to being higher quality (this post excluded)
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Study after study shows that people consider good looking, charismatic people smarter and more trustworthy. How can you make sure you're not falling into the same trap? This seems like it will just degrade into the prettier, charismatic people getting yet another leg up on everyone else.
> one of the few remaining companies that actually respect engineers

I'd look at it more as a cyclical thing than as a "dying breed". Google itself, after all, is barely more than 10 years old... New ones will come and go.
BCS Linux-baiting sparks flame war
And how exactly am I supposed to memorize this image so that I may rapidly authenticate the bearer against all possible simulations if I can't see it?

There's no need for that. The fact that it's illegal for anyone but the FBI to use it as an identifier is the authentication. You need not look too closely at the image. :/

Edit: I assume from the downvotes that there are people who actually believe this is a good idea. Could someone who believes that please defend the idea so we can have a discussion about it? :)
Indeed it wasn't clear that you disagreed with those points. I'm glad you don't support them.

> The "modern" consensus seems to be that ... it is unreasonable and stupid for them to expect to have any control at all over the distribution.

That's not the consensus in my circles - then again, I know a lot of people who make things - whether code, lingerie, or sculpture. They know they can't stop everyone stealing their work, but they also know they can can reduce it by trying - they certainly don't feel stupid for doing so.
After stripping out a whole pile of junk I end up with:

- move to a cheaper city

- sell your car

- borrow money

- stop paying into your retirement fund

- cut back on your landline

- take on a roommate

- cut back on your cell phone plan

- reduce your cable service

- sell stuff on ebay

- cut down on your food bill

And then, at the end:

How can I spiff up my site when I have a lack of design skill and my budget is low?

(32:05 and further down), text is here: http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episode-17-el...

I hope I didn't miss anything and I hope I saved other people some time listing to this podcast or sifting the sand for these 'gems'.
What a goldmine of cool projects!
Anchoring bias and the pitfalls of worst-case reasoning
What will it be called?
Linux had and still has the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy (http://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/index.ht...). It's true that it hasn't been 100% stable, but things do evolve and it's quite logical.
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I argue the rendering is actually pretty inaccurate, considering that cheesy-looking gradients don't really do actual metal justice.

I certainly wouldn't be fooled if I saw someone showing off Wikipedia's rendition of the badge.

It's good enough to explain the article, but in terms of creating fakes? It sucks.
One strategy I hope to see tried (and succeed!) is an open source game with a central for-pay server that sets up world-wide games. You can choose to use it or not (but no doubt it will be the largest community for the game).
I read this book years ago and it still has a lasting impression. I agree that this is a fantastic and almost essential choice.
The most interesting changes to me are Javascript V8, Racket, LuaJIT.
RE: MSFT Failures; Windows Mobile 6.5

A dose of reality, Microsoft was in the smartphone market long before Apple. WinMo 6.5 was the last in a line of OS releases from the CE lineage that was incredibly successful. Apple for all its success with iPhone did not truly pioneer this space, they embraced and extended to borrow a term.
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Money’s on the line and that’s just the reason why the EU won’t suddenly disappear.

One of the nice things about a common market (even if it is only partially reality) is that it leads to economic interdependence. Companies can invest wherever they want, companies can sell stuff to wherever they want, people can work wherever they want. There is money to be made and the economic shock waves of making that impossible by leaving the EU would probably be way too much for any EU economy to take.

Maybe the Euro was a bad idea and won’t survive. (My prediction would be that it will.) That won’t, however, be the end of European integration.
Sun customers knew and trusted Sun. If they had matched Red Hat and HP/Dell's prices (which they have had to anyway) and actually made Solaris something pleasant to use (like a modern-day Nexenta, but in say 2004/2005) I think the company would still be alive.
And in Romania (I'm in Bucharest at the moment, coincidentially) it was very limited compared to what Yugoslavia went through.
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This headline is about as well supported by the article as saying "Apple may buy every jailbroken iPhone owner a steak dinner".
Exactly. I admit that sometimes there's interesting discussion on the "what would you do if you got rich?" posts, but I'd trade all of them for a single "I made something; let me show you" post any day of the week. Bonus points if it's shameless, because apologizing wastes my time.