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There's more factors at play than just money here, though. You point out yourself that "a big part of her motivation is wanting to help people in need." Your boss is not "in need". Certainly there's something to be said for pitching in in a crunch and meeting a deadline, but as a refugee from a "if you're not putting in at least 10 hours a day in your cube, you're a terrible human being!" workplace, I'm just way too burnt out on the false sense of urgency some managers try to breed to get free overtime.

Fortunately, I've escaped from that bad situation and am now at a much more reasonable workplace -- I work late because I want to, and want to see the project succeed, not because I have some manager breathing down my neck.

Besides, while there's certainly economic value to management for me to work unpaid overtime so they can ship sooner, your surgeon acquaintance actually helps people with problems much more important than either me or my boss getting an extra "atta-boy" for getting something done sooner. Not to mention, half pay for a surgeon is sill probably much better than full pay for your average developer.

Unrelated: in the city I grew up in, our baseball stadium was named "Phil Welch Stadium".
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It will be interesting to see if this causes any issues for people getting apps approved. If nothing else it seems like a very nice tool for doing Ad-Hoc crash reporting.
Good point. Russia has the ability to detect our ICBM's, but they cannot distinguish the warhead, so it'd be impossible to determine whether we were nuking them or dropping a deuce on Afghanistan.
The text zoom works for me in Firefox just fine. The zooming also is accounted for, and the site layout changes to meet the need of the enlarged text.
This puts a period to the age of Java as a vital language and puts it firmly in the category of a legacy tool.
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Seaside seems interesting but how is the smalltalk library support? Does it have a robust way to call libraries in other languages?
It's not bad advice per se, but beware of mortgaging the future to do something today.

As someone heavily in debt, I'd be better off by the opposite advice (learn not to indulge yourself). Also not that good advice for procrastinators (I'm also one)
I have read it, and he still has a 3 year probation after his prison term.

When they accuse him of "fraudulently obtaining user names and passwords and stealing personal identification and financial information" - does that mean he went after this information, or more likely one of the computers in the botnet happened to have such information residing on it. It's possible he didn't know of any financial information and they would throw the book at him anyway just to get the initial charge and work down from there. We all know there are differences in computer crime, that our legal system isn't able to make a distinction does not make an argument.
It's not necessarily the fact that site is designed to be resized or not it's more about the careful consideration of how a site will look at various sizes. Take http://hicksdesign.co.uk/ for an example. You can tell that the site was designed for various resolutions but uses the same codebase to support them. I don't think the two problems are mutually exclusive.
I wish it offered combined pricing on any two apps (say Backpack + Highrise) for those who don't want/need all 4 apps...
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I came here to post the Dutch word 'gezellig' but luckily I read the article first and discovered that apparently the Danish have a cousin word, 'Hyggelig', that was included in the list :)
"I make this same argument for using Rails rather than Java." -- JRuby is pretty cool, no need to choose! It isn't as fast as raw java, but you can easily swap out the hot paths with java to get additional performance.
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I'll definitely be posting it freely online when I'm done. At this point I'm pretty much down to the 'polish' stage. I'll probably post a link here, along with some observations I made while creating this.

After I publish it, I'm going to work on better knobs (they're a little clunky now) and the ability to store your patterns. As it stands now, if you leave the page and come back, it's like you're running off a 9v with no batteries. I'll either store the array in a cookie or make it something you can download/upload.
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http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/2010/11/my-application-for...
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/e3gf3/a_missile_...

tl;dr: We're launching a missile tonight. Stay away please.

Edit: Doh. The date for this is Nov 9th, not last night. Not sure how I missed that - this isn't rocket science.
We recently implemented a new recognition program for and by employees called the "EmploYAY" Program (yeah, it's cheesy on purpose). Anyone in the company can nominate a peer for the award, and based on the particular event or effort that inspired the nomination, the recipient gets different levels of awards. It's definitely helped recognize people for their awesome contributions, and made it fun for all involved.
Take any agglutinative language (Hungarian, Finnish, etc.) or one with propensity for constructing words by gluing other words together (German) and you will find thousands of "words" that have no single word English equivalent.

Some of the words from the list are interesting, but overall this is quite superficial, "word" is not a building block in the exact same way in all languages. Besides, some items are not words but expressions, one is a slang term related to mobile phones, that probably has equivalents in most languages, a large part of the words refer to some sort of melancholy or nostalgia. Not exactly that? Well, I'm sure the word "melancholy" already means something different for any two persons, let alone speakers of different languages.

That being said, I always have trouble explaining "kitsch" in English (see the M. Kundera link :) and always have trouble understanding "serendipity" in languages other than English :)
Here is a video of a Sprint ABM (from the 70s) being launched and passing close to a RV:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZZV464z9g8
I knew quite a lot of "polite Nepalis" that met this description when I lived and worked in Nepal. There are lots and lots of CS programs but few good professors. Students have to do much of their learning on their own. They reach out to the Internet for these reasons. They also may not have grown up with Internet access but only gotten it after moving to the city for school.
Cute, but linguistically it doesn't mean as much as it claims. English happens to be an isolating analytic language— meaning that words tend to be made from a small number of individual units of meaning (morphemes), with more complex meaning being conveyed by the use of additional words.

All of those languages listed (that I know of) are what are called synthetic languages, meaning they tend to use words made up of many (in the case of polysynthetic languages, very many) morphemes. Thus concepts that are expressed in an isolating language using several words — happy at his suffering, so bad it's good, mid-life crisis, to use a few examples from the article — might be expressed in a synthetic language with a single "word", but which is still composed of several meaningful morphemes.

Basically, "words" in these languages don't fulfill the same function as words in English, so the comparison isn't really valid, and the fact that there isn't any single-word English equivalent isn't very interesting. Not to say some of those aren't nice words, of course.
Sankla will work similarly to that in that when you start adding a new post, it automatically renders so you'll see what the rendered content will look like.

I do like the idea of doing an inline edit though. Thanks!
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Irony certainly can be random or a signifier of implied fate in the case of literary/dramatic irony.

Verbal irony, which is closely related to but not identical to sarcasm (though there is quite a lot of debate on exactly the relationship among psycholinguists) is most certainly intentional.

"I don't wear my seat belt because if I'm uncomfortable I'll drive more dangerously."

"Sounds like you've really thought that one through."

Verbal irony, possibly sarcasm depending on whose definition you buy, but definitely intentional in any case.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony#Verbal_irony discusses this further and refers to specific research on this topic.
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I'd actually love to apply for a fellowship, but I turned 20 a couple of months ago. That makes me ineligible. :(

.. might as well give it a try anyway I guess.
If we are talking a "virtual" rock star, I prefer a hybrid approach, like sushi k in snowcrash. A real, single musician writing and performing, but using different mediums - the metaverse in snowcrash, or maybe even holograms in real life.
If you had trouble consistently hitting targets, you would probably fit right in with Patriot missiles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-104_Patriot#Success_rate_vs...
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Looking for interesting techniques, tips, experiences, etc. on different approaches to FB ads. Do they work? How successful were they? What level of creativity was involved in any ads that were run? All the ads I see are pretty bad, but if it was something unique that peak someones interest, would it make them click through?
I'm sure it's possible; lisp is very flexible.

But would your example code still be considered lisp?
I've lived in Boston for 4 years now. For perspective I'm originally from Florida.

The T is awful. The trains do not stick to their schedule so it's slow and unreliable. The trains are also overheated in the winter and the A/C is always broken in the summer. Just be sure to live within walking distance of your work.

The weather is pretty bad. It's definitely beautiful here, but it often rains in the Spring and Fall. It's one of those light drizzles that lasts for days kind of rain. We're having it right now. Meh.

You don't need to commute 45 minutes to find a nice place. I live in Belmont now, just 2 miles west of Harvard Square. I rent out the first floor of a 2 story house (2br, 1 bath, living room, dining room, kitchen, back yard with porch, drive way) for only $1050 a month. The previous tenants were a family with 1 kid and dog. Also, 2 of my neighbors each have 2 kids so it seems family friendly. Definitely safe, quiet, etc, etc. I'm moving though... want to take it? hehe.

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It is perfectly easy for other web services to access the data of a logged-in Facebook user, provided that the user has granted permission via Facebook Connect. This is how Facebook's "Download your Data" product[1] works; it is entirely implemented through publicly available graph APIs.

What Google is insisting on is "download my friends' data." This is where Facebook currently draws the line; we make it easy to retrieve your own data programmatically, while retrieving your friends' data programmatically is harder.

And, whatever Google says, Facebook is right to draw the line somewhere, and probably at friends' contact info. Consider an immediate consequence of doing what Google is insisting on: Zynga (e.g.) will spam all of their users' friends' emails. Because now they can retrieve them in bulk via a Facebook API. If you use Facebook, and tomorrow you started getting reams of email from applications you do not use, would you think, "How wonderful that Facebook has finally liberated my data!"? Or would you, maybe, be annoyed, and wonder why Facebook would ever consider making such a boneheaded decision?

[1] https://register.facebook.com/editaccount.php -> "Download your Information"
With the Facebook API, the user doesn't have to provide any third party his credentials to allow the third party to access his data. Facebook uses OAuth to securely pass an access token to the third party while protecting the user's credentials. See http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/ for more info.

(I work on the Facebook platform.)
It's a shame number 17 is four words, not one. Otherwise, some interesting words.
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I suggest that English steal 'tartle' and 'prozvonit'.
Why not, 37Signals is basically Comcastic!
Cool thanks. I'd really like to make something with your data, but don't think I can get to it by the deadline. Will do it anyway though, just might not be in the contest.
Slightly different. Gorillaz band members are usually voiced by one real artist (although this artist can change from album to album), whereas Hatsune Miku is one step removed - while there was a real voice actress providing the foundation for her voice, the actual lyrics sung don't pass through any human mouth.

The persona of Hatsune Miku also seems to have evolved a little more organically: the style and personalities of Gorillaz are basically driven by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett; Hatsune Miku started out as an image on a software box, but got adopted by the internet community who produce videos based on her, with quite diverse personality and style.

As for artificial intelligence composition, Emily Howell is probably the closest we've got at the moment:
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/09/virtual-composer...
I too feel a lack of control and frustration from the fact that walk signals (such as across 3rd St in SF) and elevator "close" buttons obviously do nothing. Perhaps it's my Aspergers/geek thing, but I feel patronized by the fake buttons.

On of my favorite things about traveling to places like Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, etc. is that the close door buttons work. It's ridiculous, I know, but I feel like it points to some sort of cultural difference.
But this is for tonight, not last night when the phenomena occurred.
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This I noticed right away but I didn't know the linguistic terms for it. (Isn't agglutination something to do with this by the way?) For instance the very famous schadenfreude that everybody has come across at one point or another and arguably has been imported into English at this stage (and so _is_ an English word as such) has two distinct words - schade meaning pity (i think) and freude meaning joy (i think). This example is silly because it is allowable and possible to compose reallylongwords in german from shorter words but not in English. What would be neat is if there were a single undecomposable word in German that has no ready, handy English cognate.

I wonder how many "words" on this list or not morphologically discrete.
The Facebook API allows 3rd party applications to access most of the user's data, including the user's email, if the user grants the application the required permissions. More details are at http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/permissio....

(I work on the Facebook platform.)
Pretty sure the author of the comment meant 20 million
A Scot here - I've never heard "tartle" being used.

Much more frequently used is dreich - A combination of dull, overcast, drizzly, cold, misty and miserable
I think this is a huge statement from the ASF, specifically:

The ASF will terminate its relationship with the
JCP if our rights as implementers of Java
specifications are not upheld by the JCP Executive
Committee to the limits of the EC's ability. The
lack of active, strong and clear enforcement of
those rights implies that the JSPA agreements are
worthless, confirming that JCP specifications are
nothing more than proprietary documentation.

Calling out Oracle on their previous statements that Java 7 will go forward on their timeline no matter what -- it appears that the JCP really could end if everyone's threats are called.

(disclaimer, asf member, not involved in this though)
There are people who have an opposition to 'dynastic wealth' and would very much prefer there to be no inheritances or for them to be massively taxed. I don't agree in the least.

I also don't buy the radical minimalism/anti-ownership ethic either. Being so independent of things makes you in turn totally dependent on merchants who provide the things you want or need.

I'm with Heinlein: 'specialization is for insects.'

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As someone who's worked with ICBMs, I can say ceejayoz is incorrect. They are accurate to the low single-digit meters. Basically the tip top of GPS (and in some cases terrain avoidance radar) technology.
If your children are dependent or semi dependent, aka, college, you should have term life insurance for the period of your life to make sure the expenses you planned on covering for them are covered.

The education you provide your children should start them far from 0. Actual inherited wealth of a vast sum nature is rarely a good thing for character, and often is counterproductive at making good humans.

Additionally, if it's actually inherited, they don't get it until their late 40s, 50s, 60s or 70s with modern lifespans of those rich enough to get constant good medical treatment. Additionally the pandering nature that can make relationships in the later years of a parents life who has money is not always the healthiest thing to inject into family life.
It's utterly ridiculous and a waste of resources that these sorts of things are felony criminal prosecutions at all. Putting people in state prison at a cost of $70,000 a year in housing costs, PLUS the loss of income and other tax they would have paid plus the loss of their support of family who then goes on welfare, this should only be reserved for people who are an actual imminent threat and danger to the community.

Hacking should be something that gets fines only. Let the hacker pay back the cost of his damage, but there is no reason for taxpayers to bear hundreds of thousands of dollars in costs to warehouse these guys with actual hardened criminals whom they will have to make deals with in order to survive in the pen. Then, when they get out, they owe favors to actual criminal syndicates which they formerly had no relation to.

Sheesh.
Quite interesting. It does seems most of the advantages of Seaside are from using the Smalltalk environment. One thing is definitely clear: Ruby needs much stronger debugging support.
Does "insufficient recognition" as a reason for leaving a job mean simply not getting praise, or does it mean employees not getting the changes to their responsibilities, workload or perks that reflects what they feel their strengths and contributions are? Praise is all well and good but no amount of "good job" and wizard clipart is going to make up for the feeling of being stuck in a silo and/or burdened mainly with the stuff other people don't want to do.
Sure, as long as it's not on a weekend.
There's been an active Smalltalk community in Vancouver, BC. If you want to stay in the U.S., then Seattle or Portland may work.
I'm Egyptian. One of my absolutely favorite parts of Egypt is Nuweba (North of Dahab, South of Taba) in the Sinai.

You stand in the Gulf of Aqaba and just a few hundred meters in front of you is the coast of Saudi Arabia. To the Northeast, you can have a glimpse at the port cities of Eilat in Israel and Aqaba in Jordan.

I've never been in a place with so many countries right next to each other. The profound thing, like the author mentions, is that there's absolutely nothing in that nature dictating or talking about any borders.

From that perspective, all those lands look pretty much the same: gorgeous.
Man, I tartled something fierce last week at a dinner party I threw in NYC. Thank god I finally have a word for it.
Surely their best customers will already be paying separately for the products individually? How does charging them less for the same increase the amount of money they are going to get from these customers?
It's worth keeping in mind that if you care about Unicode, Lua doesn't really support it. See http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaUnicode for the details.
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The article points this out explicitly: that we used to do these kinds of launches as a sign of military power against the Soviets. What are we trying to show China, that our submarine ICMB launchers haven't yet rusted into oblivion?
It's supposed to be bare-bones, so that it can be used for any design.
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This article mirrors an implicit assumption that I see in a lot of these anti-materialist articles - that being that accumulation is the desired result of the undesired (and presumably unfulfilling), all dreaded, "work." For some of us accumulation of material possessions is a welcome side effect of a highly fulfilling passion which is "work." When I say work I say it with a prideful passion in my voice, not with disdain at the damned capitalists for forcing me into this materialist trap. I love my work first, but the car is nice too. Perhaps the author just needs to find some purpose.
I don't know if I'm an outlier, but cheesy recognition programs (there's one where I work now) really demoralize me. I've worked hard to get where I am, and I want my employer to treat me like an adult and a professional, not a child.

Some people enjoy public praise or having their picture posted, but not all of us do. --Knowing that we're doing a good job and quiet/low key recognition on occasion is enough. And if our employer wants to give us a bonus, well, who's going to say no to that?
I've been in the same situation, but a different perspective.

In Eilat, viewing Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
One of the things that troubles me is that even Seaside's creator (Avi Bryant, who sold his company to twitter recently) mentioned how this way of doing web apps is old: http://python.mirocommunity.org/video/1186/djangocon-2009-dj...

He went overboard and implemented smalltalk in javascript (named clamato): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2116348/does-anybody-use-...
Renting introduces a Principal-Agent problem[1] because the owner's incentives are not entirely in line with yours. Maximum profit is realized by doing the minimum amount of repairs necessary to keep people from moving out. Switching apartments is not free (in time, money or effort) so the bar a landlord has to clear is only 'not bad enough to leave'. I doubt homeowners would choose the same standard.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal-agent_problem
It's funny you say that, as one of the things that bothers me most about travelling is the lack of handy access to the things I appreciate making my life easier. Usually it's simple creature comforts: a nice chair, a good work desk, a supply of hot water, tea and fresh milk; but getting those things from a hotel is tough and frequently overly expensive. Staying in a furnished apartment is better, but next thing you know you want a variety of food, better cooking implements, and various other things that don't have lifetimes that match up well with a typical stay in an apartment or hotel (1 or 2 weeks for me).

A some of the bigger upsets in my life come from times I've lost stuff, either through the upheaval of moving, or data from crashed hard drives. Physical and informational tokens can act as triggers for remembrance of past experiences, and it's not nice when you lose those photos, diaries or whatever.

On the other hand, going into a store, I am very seldom tempted to buy fancy items. I usually get more joy from my ability to purchase something than actually purchasing it; probably a relic of growing up in poverty. The best purchases have been food, wine, holidays, theatre and art: experiences.
Hmm, interesting. Can't wait for the first time they have to sue a real flesh and blood human being over the copyrights to a song by a hologram.

Still, the future its going to be awesome.
It doesn't use any private APIs