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I couldn't resist, so I got one to dink around with. Hell, I spend more than $12/week on power drinks, so if I can abstain for a week, I will have paid for a year's worth of service. :)

I'll have to refresh my familiarity with Debian to get the most out of it (such as how to fix apt-get from bombing with "404 Not Found" errors), but it looks like a nice minimal setup. I'm a little irked by the fact that anything other than SSH is running by default (the infamous "It works!" Apache page is up and running, for instance).

I prefer FreeBSD myself, and I have a $20/month VPS at rootbsd.net (great company, btw). I need to see if there are any really tiny FreeBSD VPS services out there now.

I can hear the skeptics: WTF good is a VPS w/ 5GB drive space, 20GB monthly bandwidth, and 64MB of RAM?!?

A few things come to mind: 1) secondary MX server for catching mail when the main MX is down for maintenance; 2) backup NS server; 3) a machine for crawling the web, to feed back data to a back-end DB on a beefier server (might be relevant for a personal project); 4) fallback "woops! our web site is down!" web server to point the WWW load balancer at when the main servers are down for whatever reason. And my favorite: It's 99-cents, why the hell not?!?
Google on naming Go - closes the issue and calls it "Unfortunate"
I would prefer PHP but seconded
I don't have experience with Chargify's, so...

Basically, braintree has a 'vault' feature where I just add a 'vault_id' attribute to my user model, then call 'response = GATEWAY.store(credit_card, :email => current_user.email)' to send their info off to braintree. Later, that lets me send a charge with their vault_id, and it charges their card.

It's probably just slightly lower-level than Chargify's...
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Sorry I never noticed your reply. Your link is unfortunately broken now but I would love to see it if you still have it around.
It was pointed out [1] that this thread was the source of a controversy that lead to a Florida law student and political candidate losing his position writing for the student paper:

http://chalkboard.blogs.gainesville.com/2010/10/candidate-lo...

[1]http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/dlrjs/whats_the_m...
They haven't hung themselves yet.
I can call in and out using Sipgate, Google Voice, and SipDroid (Android SIP client).
That the Minecraft creator was at one point making $250k a day.
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Unsure on this. Submission vs Reception debate? Submitting papers and publishing books is attempting to initiate the move from hobby to research topic or accepted language but it doesn't look like it moved much past that. Virtually anyone can take these actions if they are motivated enough.

Tracking the history on this is a bit slippery because "go" is such a genric term. To qualify this it is a case of finding out what peer review or engagement was undertaken and how far the idea of Go! (as in the non-google one) made it, or if further languages or research were progressed on the back of it.
unless we linkbait? ;)
Evolution requires survival of the fittest. If the name got more enticing over time then it would be evolution.
It's explained in a previous entry: http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/no_more_java_7 TLDR: He theorized that Sun was planning to avoid claims of standards hypocrisy by never submitting the Java 7 spec for standardization in the first place.

It didn't quite play out that way, but it will be interesting to see what kind of non-reform reform Oracle has planned for the JCP.
I can only see ADs :(
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I think it's the culmination of lots of five-seconds. I probably do about ~100 google searches a day and I think my brain has given up and said "no more".

On the flip-side, I kind of enjoy asking a friend: less impersonal, less lonely.
I think the guy is just playing victim. He was very lucky and he has gotten a lot of attention that he didn`t have before. So he already won.

On the other hand google was unlucky. They lost on public relations on this issue.
If it becomes popular enough, maybe in ten years it will have a unicode code point, and will be found in common fonts ;)
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And this is the result of pointing the telescope at the darkest, loneliest spot in the sky they could find!
Persist it in memory, you only need periodical writes for something like that. We're not running on a $5 powweb account here.
I'm not sure if this is the most, but Cantor's Diagonal Argument[1] is the first that comes to mind, probably even more as an example of a creative approach than for its implications (although those are pretty huge too).

Charles Petzold's "Annotated Turing" has a great run down of this and a bunch of the other mind-blowing things that came out of math in the late 19th/early 20th centuries.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantors_diagonal_argument
I think I understand what he's trying to say, but perhaps he could've picked a better example than Joy Division and U2.

The Joy Division pages on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/JoyDivisionOfficial?ref=ts [55k fans]

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Joy-Division/108018775886004?r... [260k fans]

The U2 page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/u2 [5M fans]
Thanks for your detailed advice Ygor.
Have a nice day.
My boss was doing an internship at Intel, and didn't have time to verify the floating point unit because he had to go back to school.
2 McAloo tikki burger ~ $1

Smallest Domino's pizza (they don't do the home delivery of this one I believe) ~ $1

And make another $1 for noodles, bread, omelet etc.
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Shouldn't you be using CC0[1]? Your blog posts are automatically covered by copyright when they are created. I think the Public Domain Mark is only for works already in the public domain.

However, I am not entirely sure about this, so clarification would be great.

[1]:http://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/
Sadly, I can't bring myself to type my Amazon credentials into his "sign in to Kindle" form, or I'd love this idea even more than I do.
continual slight deflation is the best option. Deflation is the natural order of things, technological development is supposed to make things LESS expensive. Anything more inflationary than natural deflation (of course society will go through occasional inflationary bouts) is effectively stealing the fruits of societal progress from the poor, and reappropriating it to the rich or politically connected.

Consider this: With continual slight inflation, in order to keep up, society is pressured to keep expanding exponentially. Well, I'm sorry to tell you son, but we live on a finite planet, and exponential expansion at some point is going to hit a limit.
I'm a big supporter of the Creative Commons project, but this is a good example of the problems that CreativeCommons face.

Without wishing to be narky, your use of this mark is inaccurate. Your material is not in the public domain, it is copyrighted to you. You should instead be using CC0, which is the appropriate mark for works still in copyright where the author wishes to disclaim all rights.

(And note that some part of copyright in major jurisdictions cannot be waived - look up moral rights)

This is why this new Mark will be fabulous for widely disseminated works for use in a low value environment. For a work to be properly usable in high value environments, such as for a film script, the players will still need to do expensive due dilligence. As the page for the public domain mark states, 'The work may not be free of known copyright restrictions'.

This isn't a criticism of the CC efforts, just a description of the problems created by the mess intellectual property is currently in.
I remember clearly in elementary school when I suddenly understood that gravity is just a constant acceleration; if I were in a box in space accelerating at 9.8 m/s^2, it would feel exactly the same. For some reason, I found that absolutely mindblowing at the time. I spent all day trying to explain it to everyone else, and I don't think I've ever been so excited about knowing something again.
IE6 was a gigantic improvement over IE5.5, too. The problem is not there, the problem is that people are still stuck with IE6 today, close to ten years later...

IE8 seems not so bad today, but without any support for html5, css3, canvas, video or websockets, what will you think 10 years from now ? That it sucks: it will force you to have Flash/Silverlight fallbacks to do something as trivial as plotting a graph or displaying a video. Yet many XP users will still be using it, so you will have to support it...
This reads like it was very badly transcribed from audio. Or not transcribed at all-- it's filled with errors, missing words, and run-on sentences. Not a great reflection on the site or Reznor. If I were him, I'd demand they fix it.
It's like the total perspective vortex but some how completely backward. I remember explaining it as much as possible to my brother; he looked at it for a bit stopped and said

"Well, I have to live forever now."
if as many people really listened to Joy Division as list them on their Facebook page, Joy Division would be bigger than U2

This just drives me nuts.

First, there isn't an epidemic of people on Facebook claiming to like Joy Division; ~340k people "Like" Joy Division, compared to ~3.6MM for Avenged Sevenfold.

Second, it's an extension of a high school attitude that enjoyment of music is a kind of badge that needs to be earned; not only does it very much matter to Reznor that you like Joy Division and not, say, Collective Soul, but also he's pretty sure you don't really like them as much as you say you do.

Joy Division was a pretty great band. But compared to the landmarks of western culture, they're not particularly Important. You like them if you like them. They aren't a club and you don't need to pledge to them. Reznor has plenty of good reasons to hate social networking services (he has cultivated a particularly drama-heavy collection of fans online), but they are Reznor-specific, not endemic to the whole Internet.
Seeing as Google has its own Java-like VM, what would stop Google from creating its own spec and Apache, and the rest of the Java community, following this spec? Can Oracle's patent arsenal stop the Java community from forking?
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I face the same thing as yours. I will try to follow your new approach.
I am made of parts.

Close runner-up: There are zillions of slightly different versions of me. http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/0302/0302131v1.pdf

Third place: There are only around one and a half thousand people signed up for cryonics worldwide.
The point when I realized that most things I hear are probably bs and I need to think for myself, regardless of the source.

What naturally followed was the realization that there are an infinite amount of things not yet solved or understood and I have the power to try to discover any bit of it.
Shows how, but doesn't explain why, which make it completely pointless.
Sounds like a win-win situation to me.
Take a moment, and look around you. All the elements that are combined to make you and everything you see was once inside a star. A star!

*Hydrogen, helium and a bit of lithium aside.
java 7 is called clojure
I'm curious about how you evaluate prospective algorithm changes. Do you roll out a change you think should work and then monitor, or do you have a corpus of e.g. flame wars you test against?
I considered the stories of Santa Clause and God to be pretty mind-blowing when they were presented as fact. So the realization that both were made up was kind of a return to sanity.
Thanks. That looks like a great start!
There's a python implementation in the original article:

def calculate_score(votes, item_hour_age, gravity=1.8):
return (votes - 1) / pow((item_hour_age+2), gravity)
Whether you spoke to them on person or talked on the phone, when you interact with them it would be a real person and not some avatar of themselves.

This is simply nostalgia. Some people have always been posers, phonies, narcs, fakers, wanna-bes, tools, charlatans, jive turkeys, bullshitters, etc. I don't think we can blame this one on Facebook.
"Had better rules been in place the mess would not have occurred."

How about not having rules in place that created the mess? Why, for example, was the interest rate so low, making it artificially easy to take on mortgages? Why were home mortgage payments tax-deductible?

You think that these economic decisions are made in a vacuum, but you really ought to look in to the political decisions that were made to push people en masse into a series of economic moves that were probably unsustainable. The notion that the most recent economic crises were a failure of the market is completely laughable.

Ironically, it's exactly the notion that government is supposed to "prevent bad economic decisions" that has resulted in centralization of economy (via the fed, via subsidization of bank risk, by subsidization -i.e. stealth corporate welfare- of retirements through 401ks, IRAs) - so that instead of a few bad actors getting punished for poor choices, risk is socialized and we all have to bail out the rich guys.
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Funny ads although I think it's difficult to market Windows Phone 7 as being easier/faster than others. Visually the iPhone and Android appear more beautiful and equal if not more obvious to use at first glance, in my opinion. Instead, this new Windows Phone 7 marketing feels like they are saying "buy our phones because the other ones are too difficult to pull away from". If someone wasn't paying much attention to the wording in the ad it may have the opposite intended message which is "buy our phone and you'll forget about everything else".
To me (and IANAL), this sounds like a stern response to Google's claims that Sun/Oracle are supporting such projects (not a very good response, mind you). It is a shame that it has to play out this way, but it seems Oracle thinks this is in its best interests somehow. Maybe destroying Java is somehow beneficial to them (I have no idea how besides getting rid of the responsibility)? Does Java-as-a-product have a positive cash flow?
This is pretty trivial but sure, something like:

function calculate_score($votes, $item_hour_age, $gravity=1.8) {
return ($votes - 1) / pow(($item_hour_age+2), $gravity);
}
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There's a repl on the server, and I test tweaks on the live site.
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I think the real moral of the story is that it's not okay to offer a free plan and then suddenly remove it and jack everybody's prices up. Your customers will feel betrayed, and it'll be a PR disaster. I'm not sure if people will ever trust Chargify again.
This is what gets me; nobody gets C and C# confused. Why Go and Go! ?
Compare the message here to this "Disconnect to Connect" ad from Thailand: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17ZrK2NryuQ
I thought it was just people trying to be nice.

Maybe some of them were.
"Most people can't make an informed decision on what constitutes safe food. Consumers rely on government to have adequate standards that are enforced. Without such standards people would make bad decisions."

Bullshit. What government agency prevents us from having exploding lightbulbs. There isn't one. It's done by Underwriter's Laboratory. There is no good reason why we can't have an Underwriter's laboratory for food. Or an underwriter's laboratory for medicines, instead of the FDA. In fact we are seeing en mass rebellion against the USDA (particularly in the organic-certification area) where the USDA is seen as basically an agent that prevents upstart food producers and entrenches big-food interests that can afford to pay for extremely expensive certification.

You know what, the FDA screws up big time, too. Remember how we had an e coli outbreak? So what are you going to do when 'government standards' are 'inadequate'?
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You're right, there is a lot of risk, which is why you have to be an accredited investor in order to take part in such a transaction.
My uncle was smoking a cigarette and drinking a cup of coffee at the kitchen table near the cookie jar at Grandma's house during Thanksgiving.

He showed me how small our sun is by showing me the tip of his cigarette and comparing it to the top of his coffee cup i.e. the size of larger stars in the universe.

I was about six years old and the universe suddenly became a drastically larger place.
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Strange- This used to be linked to a Reddit story at http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/dlrjs/whats_the_m...

Now it appears to be a [self] post.
Parallel Universes, I literally fell of my chair when I heard a scientist telling, "There are infinite versions of our universe, all slightly different".

Many-worlds interpretation:

Many-worlds is a postulate of quantum mechanics that asserts the objective reality of the universal wavefunction, but denies the reality of wavefunction collapse, which implies that all possible alternative histories and futures are real —each representing an actual "world" (or "universe"). It is also referred to as MWI, the relative state formulation, the Everett interpretation, the theory of the universal wavefunction, many-universes interpretation, or just many worlds.

Many-worlds claims to reconcile how we can perceive non-deterministic events, such as the random decay of a radioactive atom, with the deterministic equations of quantum physics. Prior to many-worlds, reality had been viewed as a single unfolding history. Many-worlds, rather, views reality as a many-branched tree, wherein every possible quantum outcome is realised.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation
I happen to have a djangy account and I tried some of it few days back. I made a simple hello world app and deployed it but it took longer time to go live than I had anticipated, esp. in comparison to Appengine.

Other than that I'd like if you could also give a sense of expenses that I might run into if I deploy my app on djangy. The details in terms of pricing are lacking there.

Just some feedback. I know it's in private beta. All the best.
Even if the technology was perfected and allowed within 8 years there would be a massive generational gap. I doubt few people older than 40-ish would even consider switching it on. As a fallback safety system it makes a lot of sense though. It should be possible for the car to detect when the driver is making poor choice due to sleep depravation, inebriation, etc. Eventually it would detect when the driver has completely lost control and park itself.
An exam system, Voltaire and something that impressed Leibniz don't seem very fundamental impacts to me.

The fundamental ideas in Eastern thought do not seem to have made any penetration whatsoever in Western culture.

For example, the Eastern removal of self consciousness doesn't really exist. Eastern forms of thinking haven't introduced anything new in the West. Hindu veneration for all forms of life equally doesn't exist, except perhaps for some philosophers such as Singer that most don't take seriously.

Can you point out anything truly fundamental in our culture that has come through Eastern thought?
Interesting. Thanks for your feedback.

Would you mind emailing me at dave@djangy.com? I'd like to ask you some details about which app was yours, and what exactly your experience was. We're about to roll out a TON of new changes within the next few days, and we'll be inviting quite a few more users into the beta program. I want to make sure we're covering all the bases and keeping users happy.

Thanks :-)
I think you may be right. Although, I don't think that's a great loss. Outside of literally a few games on iPhone, I think WP7 would do just as well with their own batch of games. I think XNA is a very effecient platform so I don't think developers need to port games. I wouldn't be surprised if there were 1,000+ games in mid-November.
I am powered by nuclear fusion. Indirectly, of course. I eat food, which gets its energy from either eating other food or from sunlight.

This really blew my mind when I was six.
To be pedantic, the definition of majority is half the group, and 'vast' implies upwards of 70%.

You probably mean something like a "large plurality"
If you're interested in this theory there is a novel worth reading that covers this ground, almost from first principles.

It is Anathem by Neal Stephenson.

Great book. Like most Stephenson books it gets a little weird at the end but is nonetheless well worth reading.
Something like this has been posted here a long time ago, but I'm having trouble recalling the name or link. I think there is a demand for this and there will be more and more as more apps move to the cloud.
I gotta ask, is this a really dedicated & not too bright student or a crazy hard curriculum? Most educational problems are not this hard.
entangled particles and quantum mechanics in general.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lOWZ0Wv218
Didn't even see the demo and I felt creeped out by the HN description.
f\left ( x \right )=e^{x} \to {f}'\left ( x \right )=e^{x}
Carl Sagan's reflections on star stuff still blows my mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UR2L_4ic6Y
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Eventually driving on your own will be illegal for the exact same reasons driving drunk is right now, on a relative basis.
What is a for-loop? Seems to copy my beautiful jQuery each()!

$.each(new Array(3), function(i){ alert(i); });
I've used Django for years, but Flask is the bomb.
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Like you, I decided to get into IT kind of late. My first position in the IT industry was help desk support for a local and quite successful ISP. We did both sales and tech support. It was a very busy job with high call volumes, lots of shift work and the shortest legally required break times. Coincidentally enough, I also had a long commute to this job, though it was < 2 hours. After about three months I found a new position working in web design/development which was more like what I was wanting to do. This was lucky because shortly after I left, the local ISP was sold and everyone was told they could relocate across the country or lose their job.

I learned a lot from working help desk and don't regret doing the job at all, if nothing else, it was good to have something other than study on my resume. But I could tell even after three months I was already starting to burn out and was getting a bit sick of being treated more like a resource than a human being. In my experience, help desk workers tend to be treated as being pretty expendable and easily replaceable, whether this is actually the case or not.

My advice would be if you need a job now or feel that you might benefit from the experience of working a "real" job (assuming this is your first foray into a professional position), then take this help desk job. If you don't need a job now or don't feel the experience of this job would be helpful, don't take it. But either way keep looking for something that's more inline with what you're really after.
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