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The problem I have with awesome is that it likes to make you write new configs every other release. That's why I'm still stuck with a fairly old version.

Now that they kicked xcb out of cairo (which awesome needs) which resulted in awesome getting kicked out of the arch linux community repository I think I'll just switch to i3 like all of my buddies.
I have a rather different viewpoint.

In my experience, people who belong in PhD programs generally do not need to be taught to "think like a researcher". Rather, they enter a PhD program because they already love to do research. They spend their spare time thinking about how to solve problems, and they attract friends with interests along the same lines. Thus, a PhD, which is essentially training and a credential for a professional researcher: it is a step toward the goal of spending their professional lives doing what they already love to do.

Based on your post, this does not appear to describe you. Why, then, are you in a PhD program?

I'm not trying to discourage you from pursuing your dreams, but I think the question is an important one.
Used it before I switched to awesome. Suckless stuff is always neat.
find some people who are new to this field (perhaps sit in on a first-year lecture?) and take note of questions that get answered with 'because you can't...'. Also, just because a promising idea fell at the first hurdle in the past doesn't mean that hurdle is still a barrier. If nothing else, reviewing the history of your field and seeing that some ideas went nowhere will get your imagination going. Perhaps even talk to retired practitioners and keep an ear out for stories about 'the one that got away' or that made them wonder 'what if I had done x instead' for years afterwards.

Alternatively, look for some imagination-based recreational activity, preferably one you're not familiar with so you find yourself generating ideas without necessarily knowing whether they are practical.

PS what are you studying?
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My vote is for Eclipse. Eclipse is great and has a pretty easy learning curve, especially if you plan on learning multiple languages. Most major languages have an Eclipse plugin, so you can use the same environment for Java as you do for Python, PHP, or anything else. There's also the Subclipse plugin for SVN integration, etc.

I came from Visual Studio for .NET and it does make that type of development easier, especially if you're only targeting Windows.
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I just recently implemented this. The thing I'm having trouble with is the fact that they don't limit the amount of time (or specify a limit, rather) which is acceptable to make the crawler wait. For instance, what if it take 20 seconds to load an acceptable amount of JavaScript-created HTML?
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Someone here must be a marketing guru.
ratpoison was my first tiling wm. i remember how it made me feeling like a total newbie =)
its lack of a floating mode (needed for gimp and others) made me switch to more advanced wms though.
I'm curious how the candidate who claimed 18 years experience with Java got past the phone screen. Unless the candidate is a former employee of Sun Microsystems who worked on the team that invented Java, a claim of 18 years experience with Java is already a big fat obvious whopper of a lie.
I guess you are a Motorola shareholder or something? If not, is this likely to harm you in any way?
Booting to a USB drive is something any decent bios has been able to do for the past 5+ years.
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No one is going to argue that the experiments were wrong, and NOT justifiable. But now the data exists. If its justifiable to use that data IS an ethical question. And as I outlined above, it's not all cut and dry. Especially when it comes to the concentration camp experiments, BECAUSE WE ALREADY DID. Are we suppose to unuse the data? Or what? That's where the grey comes in.
The slide that stuck out to me was the claimed number of Haskell programmers: enough to fill 1155 Boeing 747's. By my estimation that comes out to about 575,000 (assuming ~500 per plane), which definitely seems high to me. I would guess the actual number is closer to the 125,000 the slide cites per HP release, and even that may be high. But in any case, Haskell's growth is very exciting and encouraging. Let's hope it continues!
You're claiming that we (in the US) have a simple legal code, and therefore it is inconceivable for someone to commit a crime without knowing that what they were doing was illegal? (i.e. 'complex set of legal codes' is a 'mythical' problem)
After my experience with historious, I wouldn't do it. People are just not used to it, they can't parse "historio dot us". They expect a ".com" or something, so they might even mangle it as "historiodotus.com".

There also seems to be great resistance in parsing "historio". "ben dot to" might do better in that regard, but "bento.com" would always win because people are just used to it.
I mentioned in comments on your original article: I wasn't able to appreciably beat the BMW or portrait images.

Metadata would help explain this, since as a percentage of file size, it'd be a lot more detrimental on the first image at 45K than the BMW at 575K.

But sure seems there's something else going on with the first image's circular gradient; PS seems to be dithering its blocks in a moire pattern while GIMP is showing strong banding even on files w/o metadata.
It's interesting that the author didn't mention a third option– you can build your own subscription management and dunning code, and then foist the high-risk credit card related stuff onto a third party. I'm not sure I'd necessarily suggest doing this over going with a provider like Chargify or Spreedly (both look like cool services), but that's what we've done at Onehub, and while it was painful, it's worked extremely well. We just store tokens and let our payment gateway, Braintree, deal with the actual card data and charging.

Additionally, if you are going to write any of your own billing code, I sure hope it's not buggy and poorly tested. If it is, you should probably test and debug it before unleashing it to your customers :)
Asking your date for a copy of her most recent STD test is definitely a sure-fire way to avoid contracting any STDs...
How A Great Web Team Fired Their Utterly Useless Manager
Really? I've only ever heard it pronounced to rhyme with "mikey". What other variants have you hears?
Droooooool.

Does the knob in the middle come off though? Because if you can't position each half independently that seriously kills the appeal of this vs a Kinesis Freestyle.
You could always do the gentlemanly thing and offer to show her yours first...
The Freestyle is an excellent keyboard, but it's got membrane keys rather than a mechanical key switches.
It's nice to see confirmation of this. I got similar results on the simulation I wrote: http://github.com/philwelch/SexSim
See my comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1407984

I'll check back when I'm less busy to compare how our simulations are set up. Mine was very quick and dirty and naive, based on uniform random distributions no less, so I'm fully open to the possibility we're both wrong.
HTC and Apple at least both have some licensing agreements with Microsoft that may cover these patents.
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Many, many of the stories you read about insight turn out to be quite exaggerated, with everybody at the time understanding something which after many retellings turns into an amazing breakthrough by one person. Hell, it happens all the time at work, with a bunch of people screaming, "We need to do X, we need to do X," for months on end before they give up and just grumble bitterly about it over beer, and then after a mysterious attitude shift in the leadership, the next guy who suggests X (usually someone who hasn't been around long enough to know better) is hailed as a genius.

I actually got to be that guy once. I was randomly venting in a meeting about a chronic problem and the ridiculously easy fix to it, and there happened to be a business guy there who did not want his project held up by the BS problem I was talking about, so he demanded that the fix be implemented. It happened. I was amazed. I didn't cash in on the genius part, though.
The dictionary model is most likely used for calibration, e.g. to get 3 points necessary for the correct orientation of the keyboard. This will likely be adjusted for drift as you type, but if a user presses a r instead of a n I very much doubt the entire KB will be shifted. It will probably just work like a normal keyboard, with spelling correction/suggestion, but one that gets shifted as you type.
I go with the (distribution) flow and use KDE/kwin. I dumped Gnome/metacity a while ago as it wouldn't do more than 12 desktops, while kwin gives me 20. F1-F12 for the first 12, Alt+F1-F8 for the rest. Every major window is fullscreen on its own desktop and can thus be switched with one keypress (I like desktops over some sort of window-focus hotkey as it gives me a spatial metaphor to how keys are assigned). For example, I'll bounce between web (F7) or pdf (F6) while editing code (F1/F2), negating the need to have two windows side-by-side with the management/tradeoffs that incurs.
Well, there certainly are statistical problems you can't solve without math or simulations, but this isn't one of them. Landsburg is obviously wrong. You only have to think about the extremes (ie. nobody having sex at all, and everyone having sex with everyone) to see that.

He also misunderstands the dating pool. It isn't as if promiscous people have a calendar and go to the bar determined to hook up with someone every 100 days, then when they're done think "that was nice, I'll do that again in 3 months." They go to the bar frequently and hook up every time they get the opportunity. Hookups with less promiscous partners don't sate their appetite or reduce at all the number of hookups they'll make later.
Internet Censorship Bill is Delayed, For Now
Reading the article, it sounds like Marc set out to change people's behavior. I don't think Mint did that. There's a lot more money in giving people what they want rather than what you think they need.
hm. how do customers feel about you changing the pricing without their input? I mean, it sounds like the guy is clear ahead of time, but if he thinks he will lose customers if he reminds the user that they are paying, uh, doesn't that mean that he is basically acknowledging that he is not providing a service the user values at full price? that he is just hoping they forget to cancel?

It's related to something I've struggled with; I mean, I make users take active action every bill... I don't support recurring billing, just 'cause I feel weird about just hoping you won't remember to cancel your account. And yeah, I'm probably loosing out on a lot of trailing months... but what do you think that does to customer goodwill?

I'm not saying I know the answers... however, my opinion would be that long term, you are better off providing enough value that the customer is willing to take active action to stay.

On the other hand, I've had several customers ask me for recurring billing, so it's quite possible that the convenience factor is the operative issue here, rather than the value provided by the service. It's possible that the service is worth the money, but not worth the hassle of positively acknowledging another bill.
I didn't believe at first, so I wrote a visual basic GUI to inspect element.
Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk
To me, the most important drawback is the inability to defer charging. It honestly breaks my heart to want to tell someone "thank you for that, have a free month of service" and then to see that you can't do that because they already liked your service enough to support you.

I see a commenter mentioning PayPal reference transactions, I will give those a go and see if they are more flexible.
Not necessarily. I'm assuming adding armor incurs some form of debt so to speak on performance, cost, development time, etc. In some cases those debts might overshadow the cost of armor...
This code refutes a claim the author didn't make.

He was saying that it is in your personal best interest to convince people more sexually conservative than you to start having more sex, which reduces your individual risk. I don't remember him making any claims about the overall benefit (or lack thereof) to the population except for the admittedly misleading title of the book and example.

I have no idea whether the claim he did make is true or not, but this particular program doesn't get us any closer to finding out.
Awk by Example - Part 2
You have to love the way these electronic futures (e-Mini S&P's - 50x leveraged) are geared. One trader's 4.1bln stone in the pond triggers a chain of ripples that causes $900+bln losses. Its gotten so extreme that "The current average daily implied volume for the E-mini is over $140 billion, far exceeding the combined traded dollar volume of the underlying 500 stocks." - wikipedia

That said I don't think the problem lies in leverage. I'm sure if this Waddell & Reed trader had tried to pull a fast one in the trading pits where they trade the 'big boy' S&P futures (500x leveraged), the effect would have been much more muted because fellow traders would have pinpointed the seller and reacted accordingly. When the trades are coming in electronically, the 'enemy is faceless'...

For some related fun listen to the squawk in the pits:

http://catastrophist.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/ben-lichtenste...

(The excitement/fear is palpable - bear in mind Ben is a professional watching billions wasting away)
"Your computer is now stoned."
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While this seems neat for helping with autocorrection, I'm really skeptical any user would ever use it on purpose. I type a lot and I doubt I'd be able or would even try to do it blindly above the keyboard. If I saw I had missed one key I'd probably reflexively hit backspace, and even if I didn't I'd try to type the rest of the word properly, rather than all shifted the same way, which would make this not at all better than the autocorrect that currently comes with modern smartphones.
All depends on what are you planing to do. For a real novice the best recommendation is a good Editor (like the examples below, TextMate, vim, jed, emacs, notepad++, gedit, etc) with just syntax hilighting. Why? an IDE like eclipse, netBeans, Visual Studio are complex tools for complex projects. A novice can easy get lost with lots of options. For a good starting, the person who start to learn a programming language needs understand the syntax and one very important thing too, mistakes, "Why my code doesn't compile" and "how can I fix that" (in case of an imperative language like C). An IDE groups all the tools that you need to make your "programming life" easy. But for a novice, at least in the first steps into programming is better make some mistakes to learn some things like use a debugger, the compiler or whatever you need for your code. Later you can go to the easy way, and choose a best solution for large projects, or more complex like UIs, etc.

Note: I forgot my recommendation. Well, my vote is for eclipse but in case of making graphical UIs in Java I prefer NetBeans. For Android devel Eclipse again. For python a text editor with syntax highlighting like TextMate. And for php/html Espresso (mac also).
Didn't they spend a huge % of their initial money on the name?
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I've found that if you set up devilspie and xbindkeys, it doesn't really matter what WM you use.

devilspie is a rules engine for windows--new windows for this application go to this desktop and are always maximized; browser windows always go to workspace 1, all windows are always undecorated, etc.

xbindkeys is a scheme app that just handles mapping key bindings to shell commands.

Both of these are configured with files full of s-expression that you can check into your version control. Put them together and you can kinda ignore the fact that you're still using brain-dead metacity.
Delayed tweets could make money. http://blog.fairsoftware.net/2010/09/30/a-real-business-mode...
If private investors purchase $100 billion in US bonds, that is $100 billion in cash that is not available to be invested elsewhere (i.e. in the private sector). When government borrowing goes down the cash flows to other investments it doesn't just sit there waiting for Uncle Sam to change its mind. Nor is available cash created out of thin air just because the US government wants to sell more bonds.

Obviously the size of the credit market changes over time but in the short term, public and private interests are competing for the same pool of available cash.
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Death Rays
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I use ratpoison on a ThinkPad X201. I basically only have one xterm with tmux and one browser open. Ratpoison is the least annoying window manager for that.
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it happened to me the other way around once and though the startup didn't make it, we're still good friends (He was a F&F investor)
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He was saying that it is in your personal best interest to convince people more sexually conservative than you to start having more sex, which reduces your individual risk.

This really doesn't sound logical to me unless the goal is to specifically talk some conservative individual into being your long-term sex partner, thus securing a source of sex with a low risk of a) bringing an infection into the equation to start with and b) exposing you at a later date due to promiscuous behavior after they start sleeping with you. Of course, that assumes you also "behave" once you have such a situation or all bets are off. (I think most cultures already place a pretty high value, at least theoretically, on such an arrangement via valuing monogamy and marriage.)
Really sorry to nitpick, but this one irks me to no end.

i.e., from Latin id est, means "that is" or "namely."
e.g., from Latin exempli gratia, means "for example."
I'd rework that statement slightly. If you're building an actual company, then customer acquisition is not merely "part of the equation," it's the whole ball game.

All other factors you list (tech, UX, naming, etc.) should primarily be evaluated as means to that end.
IPTDL (I prefer to date lawyers) and "that's what she said." More specifically, that income comes in many forms, and that even stock/options (in exchange for services) could count unless all the correct paperwork has been filed.
'The Social Network': reviewed by Lawrence Lessig
Thanks to NAFTA it's relatively easy for citizens of the United States and Mexico to obtain temporary work permits if you have a profession on this list [1] and the credentials to back it up. This includes "Computer System Analyst" and "Engineer".

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If not, is this likely to harm you in any way?

If it contributes to Android going away and leaving us to "choose" between Apple and Microsoft controlling our computing experience, then yes.
I can play this game, too.

> Oh really?

No, not always. My wife and I also have a say, though we usually take the advice of the doctor. So, between us and my doctor, yes, 100%.
According to Matt (WordPress Creator) from http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2009/11/19/wordpress-and...

"What did you announce about WordPress at Microsoft PDC 09?
As part of the introduction of the Windows Azure platform, we announced that self-hosted WordPress can be run in an Azure environment on an open source stack of Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Showing MySQL in particular at a Microsoft conference was unusual.

Are you moving WordPress.com to Azure?
No. WordPress.com, which is Automattic’s hosted blogging service, is going to stay on its existing infrastructure. Martin Cron from the Cheezburger Network launched a new blog Oddly Specific on Azure, which some people confused with Automattic.

Do you use Azure at all?
Yes, we’ve been testing out their blob storage as an alternative to Amazon S3 and Rackspace Cloudfiles. We don’t currently use it in production."
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It's not completely illogical to want to protect the places with holes, because the distribution of where bullets hit isn't random. Fighter pilots aimed at specific parts of planes they were attacking. And some surfaces would have been protected either by other surfaces or by having a nearly flat angle of incidence to probable incoming fire.