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If you always repeat the same steps, why can't you abstract them into a single method that takes name and text as arguments. You shouldn't ever have to repeat the same set of steps in multiple locations.
Could you post some links to music that is 'controversial'?
I would approach these speeches with a hefty dose of salt. Historically, communism has been one big systemic lie. For goodness sake, even in a democracy you can't take the leaders' rhetoric at face value! Do you think the Chinese who've read the translated speeches of George Bush now think that the invasion of Iraq was about human rights and nuclear nonproliferation? You have to look at the actions, not the words used to mask them.
Try to upgrade to Chrome - that should solve the issue.

But yeah, it is a little waste full for something like googles home page.
Yeah I don't think it's great for the social TV watching. But plenty of people also watch TV solo, and play video games solo, etc.

The effect is pretty astounding in sports and video games, which might be enough to get away from the nerd stigma and maybe even make it a must have for some people.

I don't think it's a fad this time. This article didn't even cover the main attractions, which makes me think the author is either ignorant of the topic he's covering, or he's biased.

I'm personally not a huge pusher of 3d tv. In fact I'll probably wait until it's more mainstream and prices have dropped before I grab one. But yes, after seeing sports and video games in 3d at CES I will definitely get one eventually. Hopefully with more comfortable and less nerdy eyewear (just a matter of time before Oakley designs a set).
Slowly the word will mean something else. That's just how language works.
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I would bet porn will be a pretty big driver of 3d as well, but man cave doesn't necessarily refer to porn. Man Cave = basement where you get away from the family (for good or bad) for a couple of hours and watch your hockey/football/soccer/golf/nascar/whatever.

I love the term.
Yes, sorry.

I meant that they refrained from using canvas/svg/flash.
I wouldn't say they're lies... Telecommuting is great when it works. Here are some ways to help it not work:

1. Fail to create a real working relationship while working. This easily happens when the telecommuting is reaching 100%.

2. Fail to take into account cultural differences. There are big differences in how people can handle poorly defined tasks.

3. Use telecommuting as primarily a way to drive down the prices.
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Had he been paying attention, he would have noticed there's also a man in a kilt.
Given what we know about the characteristics of Harvard and Luboš, I surmise leaving Harvard involved a non-disclosure agreement and a settlement. How else could he completely resist writing about the event all this time? And while his blog is popular enough to generate some cash from advertisements, his apparent lack of other employment suggests a behind the scenes benefactor.

The Harvard final exam issue reminds me of the Doonesbury sequence a couple of decades back in which the Ivy League slacker sued his professor for not giving him an A. I don't think the Harvard brand will suffer. It's been as much about who you know as about academic accomplishment for over a century.
It's capitalism - not prostitution - that is based, root and branch, on exploitation.
Restrained greyscale (maybe 2-3 values plus black) and a strong accent color is the "little black dress" of web design, and an easy way for non-designers to produce designs that, while probably unspectacular, will at least look competant.
Without being disrespectful to our American brothers I think the difference stems from the poor school system in the USA. Because of that the first few years of undergraduate are equivalent to European schools' last years (in breadth and a little harder in depth).

By the end of undergraduate they will have very much cached up (American schools may be bad, but Unis are top notch) but then in places like UK, students would have been a lot more focused. So once you move to PhD the first couple of years in the USA are more similar to what in the UK we call a master. Hence only the last few years of the PhD correspond to the 3 years of the European phd.

Overall I think the two system are equivalent in duration, it's just that in the USA they start from a lower step of the ladder.

(on top of this there may be difference in the focus: e.g. papers vs. thesis, but I am only talking about the durations.)
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Compare to Steve Jobs who knows how to make wonderful shiny devices that cost more than what many in the third world will make in a lifetime, but who has done very little when it comes to philanthropy.

I really hate this comparison for one reason: Gates has a lot more money than Jobs - IIRC the amount of Gates' wealth that he put toward the Gates Foundation is more than Jobs entire net worth.

There's also the matter of whether Jobs isn't pursuing philanthropy or if he's just not doing it publicly.
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I'll second the recommendation of getting a pen you really like.

The next step is going to depend on your boredom threshold. If you can do it, find an article or two, ideally a few pages each, and copy them word for word in longhand. The goal of this exercise is for your brain to get bored enough to naturally push you to go faster. For legibility, add in that if it's unreadable by your partner/friend, you have to redo that article (and not pick another article: that would be too interesting :).

If you have more time, handwriting a nightly journal or regular letters to someone is a more pleasant way to achieve the same goal. As writing more than a few words at a time becomes rote, it will naturally get better and faster.
There won't be as much freedom as in the west as long as the millenia-old fear of rebellion continues to guide their decision-making. Note that this fear is part of what drives what little reform there is.
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I though about a more elegant approach and then just brute-forced it too when I realized a brute-force solution wasn't really very expensive. cloc shows 7 lines of perl code for my part 1 solution and 22 lines for part two.

[edit] time for my part 1 solution was 7.8 seconds on an old Dell 2650
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I'm not familiar with the War on Christmas. Can you elaborate.
Well, of course, and I ended up doing that. But that's not the point, is it? The guy in the blog post could also abstract all those lines in some method and it wouldn't make that OO design with factories and contexts any less bloated.
"Lots of things exist that I (or nobody else) can prove."

Can you gave some examples, and also tell how you know these things exist?
blahedo posted this link here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1660405 and I thought I resubmit it as it is quite interesting, esp. if you compare it to how Google handles such changes.
I understand why they'd make it optional (in the Firefox way of 'if you know about it you can enable it') but why not enable it automatically on platforms that support it?
I can't speak for Europe, but maybe I can shed some light on Japan.

Christianity had started to spread to Japan by 1600 from the Portugese, but after Hideyoshi Toyotomi unified Japan, he made Christianity illegal. After Toyotomi died, the Tokugawa government cracked down even harder, and Christianity was basically eliminated from Japan by 1700, leaving the hybrid Japanese Buddhist/Shinto religion where the Emperor was God-on-Earth as the sole major religion.

After Japan lost WWII, part of the surrender terms was that Emperor Hirohito had to admit he's not a god. During the occupation of Japan, MacArthur's team scrubbed away a lot of the traditional power and prestige of the Japanese native religion, leaving the country largely secular and atheist. They do have strong cultural values and ethics though, which serves some of a similar function that traditional religion does.
That'll be kind of difficult. There are hardly any PATA SSDs available.
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The Guardian has no doubt protected itself from legal responsibility of certain writers: probably those which aren't direct employees. So I imagine the 200,000 comes from legal fees.
Simple:
A product which will be understood in the long term.

Try to use a very simple product and then switch to a complex one, you'll hate the complex one.

Complex:
A product which will attract the buyer on the paper. When you compare features it'll be always on the top.

So if there is a product with WOM involved simple will won in the long term otherwise end user will choose features over simplicity as they don't know whether it's stupidly simple of awesomely simple.
Wow, lots of vagueness here. I'll try to be concrete.

I'm looking for someone who amazes me with their insights in the areas of my relative weakness. That includes design, user experience, sales, marketing, and media. You should also have a decent sense of humor, not be too arrogant, and generally be someone I'd like to be around and can trust.

I'm decent and understand most disciplines required for a startup, but it's too hard and not that fun to do everything on my own. That means you should really be able to show me demonstrable abilities, as I'm pretty demanding of someone who wants the title "cofounder." Ambition is great, but you better have worked on lots of stuff in your spare time if you have no track record.

I can show you that I'm an accomplished developer with many job offers each week that I turn down so that I can stick with consulting and pursue startup dreams. You should also be someone in demand, but turning down work. Honestly, I meet a lot of unemployable talkers and not enough doers.

My current ambition is to turn craise.com into a great business. There is a long story behind the existing product, but that's not the important part. The business model is there and I have the product direction. We need "customer development" - early customers to figure out our product and distribution model.

I've got lots of other projects behind me, including cribq.com - which I use all the time but hasn't been touched in 4 years. I built a good part of divvy.com for a client. I'm currently developing a social shopping system for a client.

I have a complex and long story to my life, as many of us entrepreneurs do, but I have experience with business, management, I speak Mandarin Chinese, and play ice hockey.

I'd love to do an incubation program like YC.

Get in touch at alex at stacktrace.com and we can meet.
I've been missing Camille's column in Slate. I understand she is working on a book and will pick up the column in October. She has stayed true to her roots in post-WWII liberalism and not been swept up in the Progressivism which dominates media intellectual circles today, and for that admire her.

I agree 4 more years of sitting in a classroom is not the best course for many, if not most, high school graduates. There are a lot of forces at work in today's society conspiring to prolong the adolescence of young people and hinder their maturing.
I wouldn't be so hasty regarding Chinese development and overall politics. You should take into account the fact they're Eastern country with Eastern mentality. They take different approach from most western countries because they're different.

I guess, we shouldn't point fingers and say "Too bad they aren't democratic" or "Too bad communism is a lie" because we cannot really guarantee that what's good for us will be good for them.

FWIW, I think they'll continue to develop on their very own historical path disregard whatever western countries try to do.
I loved the article. Like someone said above, it's like reading a mini-drama.

What really made it for me is how I can relate to it. I'm constantly taken back and think things like 'So many people are trying to take the world into new directions, myself included, and some are successful. The rest of the world gets the end results and we get accustomed to them so incredibly fast. Often times ignoring all the work done or the brilliance of the piece itself.'

Like, for example, I can literally work on my idea for a business, listen to virtually any record that has ever existed that I want to listen, watch any movie that I could possibly want to watch and thousands of other activities all in a single day and without leaving my house.

I could witness the huge developments that other people are making all around the globe and watch some of the most brilliant minds the world has, often the developers themselves, give feedback on said events. And yes, I'm talking about HN.

All in all, it's a great age to live. I'm only 20 and not particularly wealthy, but boy has the trip thus far been incredible.
Answer? simple. $150K/4 = $37.5K/year, an average tuition of a liberal arts collect. I went to Lake Forest College, 1hr north of Chicago, and this was their tuition 5 years ago. Did I pay the full-price? No. I got a half-off scholarship for getting a SAT score above 1,200. Simple. I only paid ~ 16K/year (room & board included) for 4 years. But there were people paying the full price. I hope they make good money to pay all that debts.

4 years went by really fast, and before you know it, you're in great debt. I don't think that people are totally irresponsible. Here in the US you were taught to at a very young age to "follow your dream" and the rest would come. For a 18 year old girl or guy, being so young and naive but having no clues about finance and the real cost of money (your life!), of course she/he would make a decision of following their dream. However, undergrad debts are understandable. If you make a wrong decision and can't get a job with a high enough salary to pay back the debt, at least it's early in your life so you can recover. But if you're 25 and want to further defer the real hard life by getting a master degree of something you want (but probably don't need to), and along the way get in tons of debt, then you're financially irresponsible.

Higher education should not be this big of a financial burden for students, but it's pretty profitable and the US education system is still the best in the world, so there's a huge premium to go study here. From my own experience, foreign students make really good and conscious choice about where to go and how to get a scholarship. A lot of my international student friends got full scholarship to top schools, but this may not be the case for every one. But they and their parents really come prepared to pay every dime for a good education that can help hem make the most out of their professional life after graduation. I was too an international student.

My point of view in life is: time is money, debt is negative money, thus you're subtracting time from you life to pay for debts. And that's the real cost of debt.
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I am not convinced there is a such a strong pattern though definitely there is correlation: I would have preferred it a bit more if he drew a best fit to drive home his argument.

That said there is no doubt that USA is extremely religious among rich countries.
I remember Laserdisc mostly as the thing that almost killed the BBC Domesday Project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project
My friend calls it the "Everything Device".
It's not purely literal, Frank Chimeri generalizes the experience to whenever something is naturally astonishing but somehow now impossible to notice.

The "tiny horse" effect!
That is the beauty (for the lender, that is) of the american student loan system: they are mostly immune to bancruptcy of the borrower, see for example http://chronicle.com/article/Lawmakers-Introduce-Bills-to/65... for the current discussions.
http://typekit.com has some excellent fonts, I use Museo all day, but they just added Adobe
Also known in the UK as a "one-ringer" or "missed call" (as in - "I'm running low on credit, I'll just missed call you when I'm there?"). Amusingly enough, my brother, who had eked out 10p of credit for several weeks this way, once got quite annoyed when I was a little too prompt to answer the phone...
Our local apple store even has kid accessible iMacs for them to play with. And there are always kids during "normal" hours.
I think I was confusing different meanings of trendy. I agree with you on second thought.
> "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.

The Beatles were only preset for the mono mixing of most of their albums; they were not there for stereo mixes of albums like "Revolver." This probably just reinforces what you're saying, but I would like to think if they were around when the stereo version was mixed there wouldn't be as much hard panning. I believe they mixed "Abbey Road" in stereo and the mixing vastly better.
Because clearly startups are overloaded with free time... ;)
I dunno. It is very artificial? It certainly does not seem like a proper college town.
Strange that Russia is listed under "other" -- last time I checked, the Russian Orthodox Church was still cited as the dominant religious institution there, despite decades of repression under the Soviets.

I'm also surprised that Israel would rank so low on the vertical scale, considering how polarized the population is in terms of ethnic and religious differences. Maybe the survey respondents are trying to compensate for something?
I just wanted to say that I clicked over to genevine, and while I honestly don't know if I have even a remote need for this application, I'll almost certainly be using it (and just registered) because it's gorgeous, and very thoughtfully put together.
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Where to start to read rails source code? Any good references like blog series that discuss the rails source code?
How is this different from simply using NX?
To clarify, the parent comment was posted when the title was “Quite amazing…”. The current title of “DeviantArt Muro” is better.
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I still like his comics, but yes, his writing is excellent.
It reminds me on a passage in Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by D.Adams. He basically says that people unconsciously ignore / blind out strange not-explainable things.

He also had a funny term for that but I forgot it...
Is it any good? Embarassingly I have never been.
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You are talking about temporary natural catastrophes, though, not the kind of disasters that develop slowly.

Also, a huge percentage of earth's population is living in squalor right now. How come nobody miraculously copes with that?
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I'm at Emory and would love to meet up. nnlevy@gmail.com
http://www.anncoulter.com/

Despite her craziness, Ann Coulter has a fairly nice minimalist website (well, it looks minimalist). Although that quotations thing off to the side kinda ruins it, AFAIK it was recently added (I don't remember seeing it during to school year, when I last visited), so you might check the wayback machine.
A bit long-winded but has some great lines:

Being clutch is the ability to do what you can do under normal conditions under extreme pressure.

He was wrestling with something that inhibited clear thinking much more — and causes people across a range of professions to choke under pressure. “The biggest problem for me was pride,” he admitted.
But the US is poor - sure the normal person may have a lot of money, but that isn't the same as being rich, since they still have the mindset of poor people. You can see that in the amount of stuff people buy - you are apt to buy more if you feel your station in life could fall at any given time, as a hedge against future problems.

It is not so strange that this mentality is so widespread, even if it is divorced from reality, because the US was founded by the absolute low of the lower classes from Europe, and it isn't old enough that most people have lost their roots.
Allright, that' settles it. I'm moving to Hong Kong.
I would agree that the guy didn't act with the best courtesy or thoughtfulness, but it's a far cry from the behavior of the attendant calling the cops. Assuming that this description is accurate, of course.
There are most certainly many, many extrasolar planets that we cannot presently observe, or otherwise prove to be there directly. However, we know that statistically they are certain to exist. Below is a link to the best methods we currently have to detect them.

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Hrm not sure I agree, to my understsanding minimalism is all about making sure the main thing that draws your eyes is the content, here all of the stuff on the right is completely distracting from the content.
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After less than a year of operating, we're growing fast and need some like-minded people to join our team. This is a contract-based, not a full time position, but may turn into one.

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Jason and Mark are pretty awesome at what they do. You can't really go wrong there.
Wow—thank you so much! You just made my day :)
Without meaning to imply anything, I'd also be interested to see how both of these variables correlate with quality of (public-funded) education.
Really appreciate it, man. Jason has been too busy lately, so he's dropping to an advisory role instead of a co-founder, hence this post.
I'm with you. The first ever issue issue of PC Gamer I bought in 1997 had this game on the cover as "coming next year". I was psyched!
Prostitution is not legal in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

First line of the paper you cited:

"Female prostitution is embedded in a context of felonious activity, illicit drugs, and violence."

Also from the paper:

"Deaths from acquired immunodeficiency syndrome occurred exclusively among prostitutes who admitted to injecting drug use or were inferred to have a history of it."
israel is not a very religious country, at least in terms of the Jewish population there.
The entertainment business (MPAA, RIAA, etc) are a very powerful antiglobalization force? They are in fact betting against real globalization. Just consider regional coding for DVDs or the fact that there is not just one Apple iTunes Store but that every nation needs to have its own?

With other words: What does "globalization" really mean?
(and chalk the reply up to poor reading comprehension. I understand what you mean now)
If I may ask, why python?
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