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> A down-vote!

Your first I gather :) ?

Fixed.
I think that I read this in the New Yorker but I could be wrong, but anyways, this writer said that one of Zynga's innovations was being able to attract women to gaming. And it is true. Girls I know who would have never touched an xbox with their stiletto are now on farmville planting crops. So this writer conjectured that it appealed to their nurturing instinct.

So yeah... some gamers would rather have the game take attendance because they have been evolutionarily primed for feeding times.
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This has bothered me from time to time for a long time too. It usually affects me most when I get to make other people do things I though they would not do for me. I've got no cure or definite answer for it.

On the other hand I felt the same of my dancing abilities (and still do) but being praised(+) a lot by lots of people, some of them being international dancing figures, and one of my teachers - whom I find an excellent dancer - asking me to enter into her (not truly professional but important to her) dance company has made wonders to improve my self-image. Even though I feel clumsy from time to time, once a dance or so ;)

So I guess trying to improve more in what you feel you do badly until everyone praises that aspect of you can help it.

(+) I've got to say the praises where not about my technical level, but more about energy, fun and all the things that make a dance alive.
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... it is wrong design. Since obviously you are using the exceptions as control flow.

What convoluted understanding of "control flow" makes an exception unworthy of use as control flow?

Exceptions aren't bugs, they're simply exceptional conditions. If you use them right they pose no problem but serve to make the code more legible.
I applied for the chrome netbook the other day through the pilot website and I was surprised there was no "landing page" after you hit submit saying "thank you for applying, etc." It just posted to the same page with no error messages, no nothing. Was it like that for everyone or did my application not go through? Just kinda concerned because there's no confirmation of any kind.
> I am very happy walking in parks, looking at trees, or petting animals. Life is simpler.

I think these seemingly simple things are something a lot of smart and brilliant people could enjoy very much. Being smart and able to think will let you enjoy a walk in the park on a whole different level... You could find out what trees those are or think about all the people who been here, who made this park and why and how... I think a walk in the park is a great opportunity to try and focus on HERE and NOW and concentrate on "mindfulness", seeing all things and how they connect.

Or, you know, you could just enjoy walking in parks and let your clever brain rest and indulge in nature, blue skies and fresh air.
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The link hasn't worked for me since last night. I can see a cached copy, but that's it.
Syntactic sugar would be the right term for this, I guess. I think everyone who has dealt in languages not having Try-Finally can recall a case or two where it would've felt smooth and tidy to have access to Finally - but never, ever a case where they absolutely required it. No one is having problems in C/++ because of this. No one is having problems in PHP, either.

And saying this will probably get me the flood of down votes, but this has always struck me as being something that is a language "requirement" only in people who have an itch in a hard-to-reach place in the engineering department of their brain - no offense meant. They need it for their sense of order, not for their software.
How is any of this isolated to "Posterous culture"?

Someone using any blogging platform (or any hosted website) could do this.
254 characters.

From http://www.dominicsayers.com/isemail/:

"Myth: The maximum length of an email address is 320 characters

This arises from the simple arithmetic of maximum length of a domain (255 characters) + maximum length of a mailbox (64 characters) + the @ symbol = 320 characters. Wrong.

This canard is actually documented in the original version of RFC3696. It was corrected in the errata, but nobody reads the errata (except me it would appear).

There's actually a restriction from RFC 5321 on the path element of an SMTP transaction of 256 characters. But this includes angled brackets around the email address, so the maximum length of an email address is 254 characters. You read it here first.

This is not a new restriction - it goes right the way back to RFC 821 and was also in RFC 2821."
Can you link us on some studies disproving a link between Marijuana and some long-term health risk? I find it hard to believe that smoking something ISN'T bad for you, though am aware that there are other uses of it, as well..but a lot of people (if not most) tend to smoke it.

I don't understand why this is the case, it does sound rather implausible, but this study seem pretty good.[1][2]

What about the long-term cognitive impacts of using Marijuana as a mind-altering substance? Alcohol, caffeine and other drugs have long term effects, so what are the ones from Marijuana?

If you are at risk of some mental illnesses it can trigger the onset of symptoms.[3] I don't think that there has been any studies showing other risks, but there's probably a lack of research in this area.

[1] Paper: http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/cmaj;180/8/814
[2] Article: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=large-study-finds-no-link
[3] Article: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/your-brain-food/201011/can-marijuana-induce-psychosis
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I thought it was going to be a program for helping me draw Ascii art diagrams. I was disappointed. It's a program for converting Ascii art into graphical diagrams.
Sure it does.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_particle#Pair_productio...

(for a particularly cool consequence see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casmir_effect)
Btw if you observe closely, the icon preceding 'programming is an art' is Mona Lisa's portrait and the once preceding 'on his way to become a hacker' is the hacker emblem!
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I find it laughable that they’re arguing this from the "don’t abuse exceptions as control flow" angle considering that PHP 5.3 introduced goto.
I just did a little checking for you over a log of what people try to enter in to an email field in a form:

<5: 1056713 (none or fake)

5-9: 6052

10-19: 226676

20-29: 274956

30-39: 8912

40-49: 196 (from here on they all seem to be either fake or badly formed)

50-59: 29

60-69: 11

70-79: 2

> 80: 0

That's probably not very representative, but it gives you an idea of what people tend to enter in to email fields if you are not too strict about what you accept in the form itself.

So, valid addresses across this sample appear to be between 5 and 39 characters, with the shortest valid address in the log at 8 characters. It's technically possible to have both shorter and longer ones but the chances of those being actual addresses are probably quite low.

All that said, I'd stick with the RFC anyway.
Finland & outside the capital. Ok, we have some, but I wouldn't count on those on getting me anything else but very cheap alcohol.
Well, it does if you control the machine you're using. Or am I missing something?
That's not what it assumes at all. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of what Assange explicitly states, that revealing mundane details has the positive effect of demonstrating how overused secrecy is as a tool of governance.
You should read Smugmug about it : http://don.blogs.smugmug.com/2006/11/10/amazon-s3-show-me-th...
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...or exactly what GOOG Brothers like: chrome isotopes finally get a whole new market. Something perhaps like the GRiD Compass 2.0
Facebook rejected a $15 billion Microsoft offer
Have you looked at 'artist mode' for emacs? http://www.lysator.liu.se/~tab/artist/
I applaud the aim of the article, and there is certainly an assorted collection of a few good tidbits about early adopters in there, but this article's tone is too perky, the content is too diluted by the voice the author used, and fundamentally there isn't that much solid advice. The site byline says it's "Young entrepreneur's jot", and indeed the article feels like it was written for a 10 year old.

I mean, wtf @

This is the main thing in whole article, I was just building the base till now. (Yah! This is gonna be an essay… kinda).

The author should learn to be more concise. This should have been a clear, simple, straightforward, short article.
Some interesting outliers that confirm what I noticed generally -

- I always wondered why there were so many Delphi questions on Stack Overflow, despite seeing very little Delphi activity elsewhere

- F# developers don't ask many questions
The same goes for Europe, at least for immigrant doctors, who are considered under-skilled and must go back to University at first to get an equivalent diploma...

Also, the medical profession has lost a lot of its prestige here (In Belgium, at least).

From what I heard from colleagues coming from less developed nations, they were more respected in their country of origin than local, established doctors are here.

Due to latent (or sometimes overt) racism, foreign doctor are even less considered, and have thus a harder time earning money.

Even if their net income increases, on a relative scale they lose a lot and happiness is a function of how rich you are relative to your peers.
Quora-ntined for complaining too much about China
Quora seems to have a pro-censorship bias.
I am not a physicist either, but your concept of vacuum does need updating.

The idea of matter and antimatter particles popping up out of vacuum has been around for some time, and appears to be the driving force behind black hole evaporation (hawking radiation) .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation

According to wiki, there's a few other natural processes where we can detect particles forming and disappearing again in vacuum, but my understanding of these processes is nihil :-).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_fluctuations#Virtual_par...

Anyway, to me the article is exciting.
You have cool ideas for your cv. There is style. I like your idea of the icons and the writing style you have there.

From a purely graphical point of view, you may want to check spaces and line.For instance, looking at vertical lines from the right side, you may notice that the codebar is not aligned with the right border of text, or with the border of titles on the second page. Also, the second page give me a different stylistic feeling. Took me a little while to figure out that it is because there is no black used there. There is some green used, but this green cant be found on the first page.
I think that by looking at that kind of things (line, colors, spaces between paragraphs) you can make sure that you design is more homogeneous.
Oh and i did not know that you are a motorcycle maintainer. I'll probably ask you a few questions in the future..

-olivvv
AFAIK if someone else controls the machine you are on (or can get certs installed by one way or another) which can be combined with a MITM proxy to get access to the unencrypted content.

However, a lot people use machines they don't control where this kind of approach is perfectly feasible.
so this is not creating something out of nothing is it? it is figuring out that what we thought was nothing is really something, no?

could've said, "vacuum != nothing" imho.
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Exactly. Judging from the wording of the post the OP does not have on in his shareholder agreement or he would not be asking the question to begin with. So now, even without the clause to get the other party to accept this either way is going to be an act of delicate diplomacy.
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$5000 to the winner? Wasent Facebook Chat developed my an intern? I would assume $5000 and a chance to work for Facebook would be a better price.
18. Could be expanded on
http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/gcc/string_buffers.html

Also no mention of integer overflow handling?
http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/gcc/integer_overflow.ht...
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Is there an archive of the old wiki? There were some documents on there I might like to revisit.
Noted, will keep in mind next time I write.
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I have the opposite on most other sites and actually really like this format, which suggests a preference in the user settings.

The reason why I like the current format is because I always find myself doing mental arithmetic to figure out how old a post is when I see a timestamp. It also makes scanning for 'new' stuff much quicker, they have 'minute(s)' or 'hour(s)' in their headers.
It compiles with "use strict", and it's not abuse.

The reason you can't compile it is because guard is not defined, nor are cwd, cleanup, and the other placeholder functions I used. When you are relying on the parser to add parens for you (and let you omit "sub"), you have to have the function in scope. Compare:

use strict;
sub foo { bar }

And

use strict;
sub bar;
sub foo { bar };
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Reality check -- sometimes you reject a candidate for less than scientific reasons. Either you didn't "click" with them, or there was something that you just didn't like. Shallow? Maybe. But when I've hired people in the past, I've made the mistake of overlooking someone's personality in favor of what looked like a superior skillset. Several magnificent failures later, I won't do that again.

The reality is that you have to look at someone's personality and whether they'll mesh with your team as much as their skills. That's a fact, and nobody -- repeat NOBODY -- wants to hear that they come off arrogant, ageist, misogynist, etc.
Finally makes it much more easy, and much more readable, to do the right thing. Not having finally means duplicated code and harder to follow methods where resources have to be managed, and for most developers, this simply means resources are not managed properly at all.

C++ doesn't need finally because it has deterministic destructors, which are used to emulate finally clauses. In my opinion, destructors can cause less readable/predictable code than a proper finally block, but that might be matter of taste.

Comment from the language maintainer:
The only difference is the second example does rethrow the exception. Though this is still possible (however much more to type) it is wrong design. Since obviously you are using the exceptions as control flow.

This seems quite strange. Finally is a construct to manage control flow, and it's essential to control flow during error conditions. He seems to prefer just swallowing a (potentially critical) exception. Either I'm misreading him, or I think he fails to understand the point of either finally, or exception handling in general.
This is going to be a bit weird when you're used to interacting with the universe at a macroscopic level, but the vacuum is actually more like a cosmic bank account. On balance it is at '0', but locally there can be small 'offenses' which create pairs of particles that spontaneously annihilate (again, in pairs) before anybody gets a chance to notice.

As long as the books balance (particles and anti-particles created in equal proportions) the universe does not seem to care, it even does not care if these particles are in existence for a longer period of time, or are separated by distances large enough that you can notice them.

This also apparently is one of the more interesting pieces of the puzzle about where all this stuff came from in the first place and has been used to postulate the existence of an 'anti-universe'.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67O3TH20100825
But surely you must have access to transportation to take you to a bigger urban area, where you can find well-connected bums ;)

Another thing I forgot to mention, strangely enough, is the internet. There must be forums that discuss drug use in Finnish. They may not post phone numbers but it can't be that hard to find a guide to your local underground market.
Except to the Guardian, Der Spiegel, and the NYT. They got them all.
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No one should be attacked, neither Wikileaks or it's enemies.

If I really had to choose "I would attack people making stupid polls on HN"
That's true. I don't think they're going to pass them all on except on a much longer timescale (decades, likely).

If the whole cache is ever going to hit the streets in plaintext it will likely be through wikileaks.
Real-world applications of mathematics, by arxiv subject area?
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Sounds a bit categorical with respect to inventory management. I know of one company, moysklad ('my warehouse' - in Russian), which has done quite well for itself in Russian-speaking countries. They are a couple years old and they've already taken venture capital from Ambient Sound Investments. I found a little snippet of info about them in English here: http://www.chubbybrain.com/companies/moysklad/investors-fund...

So I wouldn't get discouraged just yet.
Wellesley might have been an anti-democratic, ennobled aristocrat, but he wasn't the one who overthrew a republic and declared himself Emperor.
It depends on what you need to do.

- If you use Amazon for fail-over purposes then their cost cannot be beat since you are effectively only paying them for the few hours a year that you system is down (if at all). Same story if you can just use them to shave peaks off your load a few hours a week.

- On the other hand: if your base load is similar to what you could run on a 1U rack server then it's obviously much cheaper to run that yourself rather than using AWS
A longer account of this crisis from 1910:

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Influence_of_Wealth_in_Imp....
> Drupal's internals are a steaming pile compared to what, exactly? Ever taken a look at Wordpress's core code? All code sucks.

Yes, and I'm sure Joomla's code is terrible as well. On the other hand, I can most often peer into Django's internals comfortably and see exactly how it is working, and extend that as needed.
The problem that agent provocateurs is that it's difficult to convince someone that you're in the in-group. I've been in a situation with agent provocateurs[1] and frankly, the 5'11" dude in a crew cut that's built like a house is not an anarchist. It was pretty freaking silly.

You'd think that it would be easier for something like Anon, but it's actually probably harder. The only thing you have is communication, and so it'll be scrutinized even more. Anon's humor style is incredibly deep and nested, when you really get down to it. I'm not saying that it's impossible, it'd just take some work.

1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPFC7THiKho
Then what is 'nothing'?
Interesting, I've actually found the exact opposite to be true. If you self-publish and do the work of building a platform and marketing enough to show that you have to ability to move books in a real way, not only will publishers be more interested in your next one, they'll more interested in picking up the one you've self-published.
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What specific symptoms would you suppose would be associated to having both?

For years I've suffered from headaches and I feel the cause is almost always a lack of oxygen (I suppose) to my brain. I've realized I definitely suffer from shallow breathing and over the past few years I've learned to breathe deeper. It has definitely helped a lot, though I always wonder if there's something else.
So planets would tend to form more from the aggregation of gas rather than rocks or dust (then accumulate the other kinds of matter in the new gaseous body). Does this new model also propose that planets formed further out than previously believed? ("in excess of 50au" means further out than Pluto)
I have to say I hate Posterous links for a different reason: they're blocked by the Chinese firewall. This greatly decreases my desire to load them, as I have to switch to my proxied browser and have it load slowly via an international connection.
On top of that, implying that "not a lot" of tickets must mean that every works hunky dory because you've got a couple of large-scale sites using it is rather naive.
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Agreed. I'm not waiting for another Java, either, When carelessly integrating a JIT there would be a big risk of long startup times and other memory-heavy behaviour.

Of course, there are also examples of JIT that seem more lightweight, such as the javascript JITs.
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I just looked back into Mono to see what they've been up to in the last year, and it's nice to see that they're finally back on track:

http://www.mono-project.com/Compatibility

They've always had this annoying tendency to stray from the things we need them to be working on (getting a 100% feature complete version of the latest .NET CLR) and into things that are cool but not really core, such as the long list described in this post.

I gave them a hard time about this a year ago, when they came up with a similar list of fun side projects yet still had major pieces of .NET 2.0 unfinished, such as this one that was stopping me from using them:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=346561

Sounds like they have enough people on the core now that they're mostly up to date on 3.5 and starting on 4.0. That's great news (more-so than this blog entry, but it provides a nice excuse to give them some props).
One thing I try (and don't always succeed) in doing is to ask myself - if someone who is very busy is going to read this article, can they extract the value out of it quickly and efficiently?

There's two key things you could do to enable that:

1. Use headings that summarise the text below; currently, your headings are introductions to the text below rather than summaries. Of course you can't get everything into a 5-word heading, but looking at the heading, the reader should not only know what type of content is coming, but also largely what the conclusion of it will be. A really good book on this topic is http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pyramid-Principle-Logic-Writing-Thin...

2. Summarise the key points at the end. A lot of people scroll through, glance at the headings, then look at the conclusion, before they decide whether to read the article. Summarising your points will, paradoxically, get more people to read the full article (or at least dive into the points of interest to them).

I believe that if you want people's attention, you need to show that you're respectful of their precious and limited time.
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What does OSS have to do with this? Amazon isn't releasing the source for their infrastructure services.