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Get a pen you like.

Take a deep breath and relax all your muscles.

Hold the pen very lightly. Pretend it's about to fall apart in your hand.

The tighter you hold the pen the worse and slower you'll write.
Ok, I was sort of hoping for a more concrete example. Do you mean like not being able to use 'unless' constructs? Not having regular expression operators? Not being able to reference default variables like $_? What is an example of doing it "the other way"?

I can usually find several different ways to do anything in Python, too. In fact I find this is true even for trivial things. For example, here are 4 ways to parse /etc/passwd and return a list of objects such that you can reference each value by the field name, for example:

>>> passwd_data('/etc/passwd')[5]['shell']
'/bin/bash'

4 ways: http://pastebin.com/wPa5q7Mc
Can confirm it works great with a Wacom tablet. Pressure and erasing works. Info on using the Wacom plugin is here: http://www.wacomeng.com/web/release_notes.htm
What Computers Teach Us About Emotion
real life scenario training perhaps?
Going to reply (against my preferences) here because I'm seeing this repeated. Looks like you are making the mistake several other commenters are: you are ascribing some specific attribute to the word "God" and then throwing rocks at it.

Are you asking me if a giant squid exists somewhere? Probably not. Unicorns that can sing and dance? Highly unlikely. FSG? I kinda don't think so.

But you're the person making up the details. Yes, any detailed explanation of anything that is unknown is more likely false than true. But to say "therefore unless you proved something exists, it doesn't exist" is the height of fallacy. Lots of things exist that I (or nobody else) can prove.

That's my point: in your eagerness for some kind of "answer" you jump too far the other way -- nothing exists unless I can prove it. This is as bad, really, as those who have some large detailed story of a Flying Spaghetti monster that they "know" to be true. If you don't know, you don't know. That's it. End of story.

Looking back through history, I can say with some degree of confidence that whatever our world-of-knowledge was at any one time, there has always been a bigger world that we were unaware of. Many times a world for which we have no language to describe. Hard to talk about Quantum Dynamics with Francis Bacon. For every pond we swim around in, there is always a bigger pond.

This leads me to believe that the unknown is a huge part of our experience. A Great Unknown exists with things in it that will highly interest us and affect our lives. This is just from induction. Not a particular myth that you might find fault with -- the unknown itself. The idea that nothing exists effectively unless we can prove it is a horrible idea. It's really, well, fundamentalism, when you get right down to it.

So you can go on arguing octopuses, pink elephants, Thor, whatever. It really has no relevance on what I'm talking about. If you'd like to call the unknown Thor, have at it. Works for me. I like Thor better than "Bob". But let's not fight over particulars, because that misses the point entirely.

As Hawking put it in another article, there might be a philosopher's God, but he's not somebody that could come down and talk to you. Hawking here still goes off the deep end -- I have no idea if something unknown to me could communicate to me or not. Or -- to put my response to Hawking differently -- can the laws of physics still be valid and things happen for which I have no explanation? Why of course they can. That's just common sense. The opposite belief -- that somehow mankind has a model of reality such that nothing unusual can happen? That's as bad as other folks who think their holy book is a science book. Both groups of people are assuming a certainty that just isn't there.
Thief, System Shock and Deus Ex were clearly a nice departure from Duke Nukem and Quake in terms of game play.

And they are still playable today. (At least if you substitute System Shock 2 for the original System Shock. The original's controls did not use the now-standard mouse-look.)
Yep, but most of us are nowhere near that level where we have so much that more muscle is a disadvantage ;) I guess it's highly dependent on how you currently are. Someone who does weightlifting in a gym could probably indeed improve his cycling performance just by removing muscle.

And of course sports performance is not the only criterion for choosing +5lbs muscle vs -5lbs fat ;)
Quake had nice multiplayer from the beginning.
Congrats on CL on finally taking the high road without being legally forced to first.

Claiming that it should be okay to do something questionable because everyone else does it is never the right attitude. Prostitution ads should not be right next to ads for cars, even if others do it.

Those that claim how many illegal things would be better if legalized and regulated are naive.
I think that ending every night out at the bar with ice cream would probably make it less exciting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habituation
Before there is a "relationship"? Not being a smart aleck: if someone knows you socially before you begin dating, they should have some general idea of where you stand in that regard. For some of the "big" issues in my own life, I generally find it doesn't work well to get hooked up with people who don't already know some things about me. But I am not a fan of online dating, so if that is the route you are going, I really can't help you.
Any non-buggy fread or fwrite should retry on EINTR.

But maybe not unconditionally retry. Say you got SIGTERM while waiting on network I/O and need to go flush something to disk and exit (instead of just resuming your wait or calling arbitrary code from your signal handler), or you got SIGCHLD on a subprocess and need to clean up stuff related to that.
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Religious Outlier
This actually runs fine on my nexus one. Based on other comments here I'm rather impressed with the performance.
I don't have a reference, but several years ago I read an article that described improving one's hand-writing by engaging the entire arm up through the shoulder. The amount of movement further up the arm is small, but it transforms the overall effort. As I recall the article describing, many people "freeze up" their arm, resulting in all the effort being made in the wrist and hand. This also increases strain and fatigue.

I tried what they suggested, a few times, and it did seem to have some effect, but I didn't stick with it methodically.

Sorry not to have a reference, but maybe Google will find it, if it sounds of interest.
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When the going gets tough and you simply have no time to complete your writing assignments, ordering the essay will be your first option. However, simply going online and ordering the essay from the first company encountered will not be wise. You need to know how to select a good writing company.
POSIX.1 , according to my signal(7).
who would have thought it would be so easy!
Hi Phil, don't feel bad, amigo. The problem is that the good Perl 6 people are putting in long hours making something really awesome, and they are doing it only for fun, the challenge, the love of programming, and because it's great to build something beautiful and useful for oneself, and for the world.

Meanwhile, over in non-Perl-world, other people are (sometimes innocently, sometimes idly, sometimes maliciously) perpetuating these idiotic toxic "perl is X" memes which just poison the ecosystem for rational argument (in my opinion).

So you stepped into a minefield with good intentions, my thoughtful friend. But if I were on the Perl 6 team, I would be so frustrated by others out there who have this perverse obsession with what other people are doing, what other people are using, what other people are building.

It's not healthy, but regretably, it's also often very mean-spirited and has all the social utility of gambling on a cock fight.

I love what Perl has become, what the Perl community is, what the Perl 6 people are building, the UNIX-y culture, the spirit of adventure. It's really cool, and for those who don't get it, and don't want to, just move on (not you Phil).
I had an early beta account because I wrote two articles in January on using Heroku with external data services. Their system is very slick. Before anyone complains about paying, for example, $39/month for a 8 GB plan, they only charge for the latest version of each document, and not for replicated copies.

I am a big fan of sometimes using 3rd party services instead of paying the admin and infrastructure costs, so services like Cloudant, MongoHQ, etc. make a lot of sense for some applications.
Thanks. I really didn't know that.
What percent of good starcraft players do you think are developers like that?

What percent of good developers do you think are good starcraft players?
Out of curiosity, anyone here into/in for a gamedev?
This makes perfect sense to me. If you do massage, the strength comes from larger muscles like the shoulders, back and even legs. The hands need to remain relaxed or you hurt the person. So I can well imagine a similar principle applying to writing.
The box is already colloquial English for the TV, as in, "What's on the box tonight?".
I recommend that you sit behind a non-technical relative or friend, and watch them use a Mac without offering them any help.

There are quite a number of things that they'd like to do that isn't clearly expressed - or even easily findable! - though OSX's GUI. They will struggle with it for a bit.

--

Really, it's just a learning curve and it's the same for any new OS.

Most non-technical people don't have the habit of figuring out what to do. They have the habit of doing what they're used to. For most, if you change even the smallest thing in their interface it can be catastrophic. (My mom often calls me for things like not being able to use internet at all anymore because the bookmarks bar is gone because someone accidentally hit ctrl+b or something).

I think the whole "Apple just works" thing is majorly overblown. Every time I have to use an OSX laptop I cringe because I have to look for stuff in the weirdest places and it takes me so long to figure out how to do things that I often just give up (if I'm using an OSX laptop it's usually because I don't have much time and just bummed the first laptop that was around). I can't imagine my mom magically finding everything intuitively if I can''t.

Also, you say you backed your assertion up with evidence. What evidence? I see none at all. The plural of anecdote is not data. (I'm not saying I'm providing evidence either, I'm simply providing a counter-example to your anecdote.)
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I think the Chinese leadership get it
I'm not against ASP.NET or this Razor syntax, but is this really HN material? Honestly folks, I'm clueless about how this got to the front page.
You mean trees? The fit your description perfectly, except for the wind-powered part.
Node? But it's as about as unwelcoming as name as you could find.
A couple of wagers:

The Nintendo 3DS will be a massive driver for stereoscopic gaming, both in increasing demand for it and in creating a base of knowledge amongst developers on how to make use of stereoscopy.

Gaming or porn (probably gaming) will put stereoscopic displays in a lot of living rooms. We're well on our way to critical mass in terms of distribution.

Over the next 10 years or so, stereoscopy will fade into the background, in much the same way as stereo or surround sound has - some people will ignore it completely, others will be fanatical about it, but it will be a normal part of the film-making process.

We've been here before with sound. Listen to early stereophonic records and you'll hear what we're seeing now with stereoscopy - crudely exaggerated balances designed to show off the technology. "Revolver" by The Beatles is a good example - the record is quite uncomfortable to listen to on headphones because tracks are panned hard left or right, creating a completely artificial sound. Classical recordings sounded good in stereo quite quickly because the engineers just stuck two microphones in front of an orchestra, but pop records took a lot of development to sound natural and pleasing, most significantly the development of good stereo reverb.

Likewise in stereoscopy, we're currently seeing stereoscopic images with a hugely exaggerated depth effect, partly to show off the technology, partly because the technology and technique still needs to mature. We have films not shot stereoscopically being rendered to 3d, stereoscopic images being digitally 'widened' and all sorts of other shenanigans. There just isn't a body of technique for stereoscopic cinematography, so directors and DPs are struggling to figure it out.

I reject the argument that stereoscopy will fail now because it has failed previously. We now have a critical mass of technology that has massively reduced the cost of filming, editing and exhibiting stereoscopic pictures. We have overcome most of the significant technical problems, although this is not evenly distributed yet. This time around, stereoscopy is a big deal precisely because it won't be a big deal for very long.
Digg v4 Bringing Back ‘Upcoming’
The points have been discussed so often elsewhere in this thread, but I just wanted to point out that, for me at least, this is very much the low road.

Bowing down to socio-political pressure without being demanded to, for a service that is very clearly popular and (I believe) ought to be legal is, in my opinion, spineless.

I understand that their heart is in the right place, and I'm very understanding that their belief system may not match my own, so I applaud them for doing what they feel is right... but that is all that I can applaud them for.
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If you need that, you should be using the low-level read() / write() instead.
FWIW: I don't really like the design but I can't quite say why. And I tend to like minimalist design. As best I can guess: It feels to me like your page lacks a sense of structure. I think giving something a sense of structure using minimalist design is quite challenging. When it is done well, it's wonderfully elegant. When it's not done well, there is just no there there. I guess.
If only our forefathers had the foresight to write laws governing air travel.
HTML/CSS + JavaScript.
I just saw the latest 3D TV (no glasses required) demo'd in HK.

Every previous 3D TV looked like garbage. This one seemed to add a new level of depth to the movie without being blurry or looking ridiculous.

It is coming, and it is stupid to ignore it. People love 3D movies and 3D tv too, and the market will drive the products.
I have many good projects, most in idea stage. I am good in user experience / usability, frond end design, business development, strategy, monetization.
Looking for a really good coder, who can code and scale entire thing, making all of the features work like charm. i can share simmple description of my projects with you and we can start working on them together if any of those interest my prospective technical cofounder,
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Simplicity makes things harder. Pare away elements and what remains has less margin for error, and must be more effective. "Simplicity" isn't a license to put a couple of <li>'s and a <p> on a page and call it a day.

In your case, there is neither a grid nor a measure that makes the placement of elements on the page make sense. Text is haphazard. The "contents" of each section are stuffed into an inexplicable jQuery scroller. Nav elements are 18px and subheds are 14px; there is minimal contrast between elements. This probably wouldn't cut it as a blog template.

I like the restraint with color though. Color is one place where good-simple is easier than good-complex.

Department websites at universities are also probably not a good benchmark for your work. They tend to be utilitarian. Design is a secondary concern.
I think any reasonable approach realises that anecdotal evidence needs weighing appropriately. In the sibling comment for example if you merely wanted to establish if there are any incidences of children with "social awkwardness" that are home-educated (or if for example this is a product of a particular method of schooling) then you've got your tentative result off the bat. The fact that there are some such results allows you to hone your null-hypothesis and tune your approach to getting statistically significant data.

Anyway, I digress, anon.
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Don't paint every country with the same brush. In Australia it's legal and regulated. Sure, there are dodgy brothels (usually the asian ones) but the normal ones are mostly college girls who are earning a bunch of extra cash.
the slight difference is that both oil and coal will eventually run out and there will have to be a way to replace them - or make them.
Windows Phone 7 Gets Over Half a Billion towards Development
... you try to cleverly evade the fact that every Perl 6 implementation is an incomplete implementation of a draft spec.

Nonsense; even the release announcements say that directly.

All I made was a statement of fact--Perl 6 isn't done yet.

I wouldn't have objected if you'd written that. Characterizing software we've released on schedule for almost three years running as something thrown out in the world incomplete, ahead of an "official" release (whatever "official" means) is, I believe, incorrect and unhelpful.
Evidence from Asia:

I saw about 5 Kindles and around 10 iPads on my last flight.

There was a huge lineup in a store selling iPads and iPhone 4G's for a big markup in HK.

People are loving those products and buying them. Definitely premium goods, but there is no denying the popularity of these items.

It is easy to doubt these premium goods like 3D TV's and iPads...but there are a huge number of people who replace their phone every 6 months and their TV every 2 years.
Avatar was brilliantly glowing and didn't feel dark at all. Am I the only one?
I'll bet once 3D content gets there Apple will sell an amazing 3D TV/monitor for somewhere like 5000.

I am sure they aren't ignoring it on their iTouch/iPhone/iPad lineup either.
Not sure how to answer your question. I want to write a game. I always assumed I would learn a programming language and write it myself. So far, that hasn't gone anywhere.
almost, except trees take too long to grow and cars don't run very well on wood. i mean something that gets CO2 and H20 and yields gas, lpg, diesel or something else that can be put into your tank without making a trip to a refinery first.

see e.g. http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/08/12/bug.diesel/in... for the basic idea.
There is a vast difference between simplicity and minimalist.

Minimalist is very bare; the content has to stand strongly on it's own.

Simplistic designs don't have to be minimalist - just simple. So fewer colours, less complexity and so on.

People generally (in my experience anyway) prefer simple to minimalist.
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Old computers are not exactly 'free', as they use a lot more watt per flop than new computers.
Less Work, More Life
Stephen Hawking vs. God
What if this spreads? It seems pretty clear that they've proved that you can region lock and no one will care.

Many oppressive world governments like Iran and China would love it if the Internet itself was segmented in this manner. And the large copyright owners would love it too, since it would make copyright enforcement much easier.

There are some very big players looking to make Starcraft the model for the Internet, and yes, I can not play Starcraft, but there are some big principles at play here, beyond the traditional FOSS vs. proprietary mudslinging.
While reading that pile of code I couldn't help parsing it as Java, although syntactically it could be a wide variety of languages.

Are there any other languages' libraries with complicated designs like that one or is this a problem specific to Java?

Just to give an example, this is a snippet of code I had to write dozens of times in a college project using the javax.xml.soap library to create a simple soap message with a tag on it:

MessageFactory mf = MessageFactory.newInstance();
SOAPMessage soapMessage = mf.createMessage();
SOAPPart soapPart = soapMessage.getSOAPPart();
SOAPEnvelope soapEnvelope = soapPart.getEnvelope();
SOAPBody soapBody = soapEnvelope.getBody();
Name name = soapEnvelope.createName("HelloWorld", "hw", "");
SOAPElement element = soapBody.addChildElement(name);
element.addTextNode( "hello text message" );

It's not exactly the same issue has in the example on the blog post, but I think it also represents something that could be a lot simpler/shorter.
Found this link that talks about the correct technique for writing (engaging the forearm and shoulder instead of 'finger-writing')
http://www.paperpenalia.com/handwriting.html
Writing an average 2d game with a good framework like cocos2d is easier than most applications IMHO, so it could be a good start.
Have you put yourself on the ftc's do not call registry? Its pretty easy and I've found it effective: http://donotcall.gov/
Thanks. I was on the harmony site for nearly 2 days straight when it was pulled for no apparent reason. I'm so happy to see it is back.
It's funny because it's true. How does a manager evaluate the work of his subordinate programmers (especially when the manager is a so-so programmer himself)?

1. Count the lines of code.

2. Randomly inspect code sections.

The verbose Bureaucratese sampled in the article responds to both requirements.
I'm going to argue about something else: clarity. As a consumer I look objects whose use is clear to me, and prefer to buy from brands with reputations for quality.

My Capresso kettle has only one button. I fill it to two cups, the minimum, boil the water and make my tea. Now, what if I wanted green tea instead of black? They say that green tea ought to be brewed at 200°F for best taste. Do I have less control because it has one button? No, I have the same amount of control as before: I just have less automation. So to get my ~200°F I pour the water into my mug, wait 30-60 seconds and add my tea bag.

But really, do features sell to all consumers equally well, or just to the inattentive or uneducated?

My dishwasher has only 8 settings, 4 of which are the type of wash. Nothing is unclear in the design. If I've got a light load I press "Light". If I don't want it to do a heated dry I press "Heated Dry" to turn it off. The design and intended use of the dishwasher is clear.

I'll be the first to admit that I like a little too much automation. But really, is the $250 toaster worth it? I don't find myself needing the features, and I would not buy such a thing unless tricked into it.
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