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Various dialects of Indian English are still quite similar to British English during the 18th/19th centuries, which is why sometimes Indian English sounds quite archaic (do the needful, etc.).

Emphasised nouns are capitalised in some of the older 19th century books I own, so I suspect this is just another characteristic that remained in some places.
I've never searched for them, but I know that modules for SPI games do exist, they aren't just distributed on the Vassal site.
It's a trusted computing type lock down AFAIK, so not software update-able. I think they can try the latter of your suggestions, but the same process could just be used to discover the new key, or they'd need to do some serious re-engineering.
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Is that an independent opinion or does he do the Lasik operations or get money if he sends people to a Lasik operation?
I hated Ortho-K - they couldn't get the lenses to fit correctly so they hurt my eyes and some days I would wake up with imperfect vision (at a basically random power).
this is apparently fake. see page 24.
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I'd be down to meet up before the 15th, if you're game.

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For what it's worth, I first heard that term approximately 15 years ago.
They sure have measures to counter act this on new units.
I think they should take a different pathway though. I have a PS3 that was mainly used as blue-ray player but I am not a gamer by any mean (in fact the only game I have is guitar hero). I follow the scene just barely out of curiosity and what strikes me from what I see on different forums is that people care A LOT about the possibility to play online with other players and sony ban to the game network is really the main incentive for people not to jailbreak.

To the point that someone got two PS3: one hacked for solo playing and one originale for networking!
Some inspiration and motivation for December?
I think many of us are thinking about starting something new in 2011, for example, launching a new startup or a side project. Many of us need inspiration though.
So please share a story, a link, an idea, anything which is giving YOU an inspiration and motivation right now and Santa will reward you with some early break even ;)

(Came out of my own semi-frustration about the year being almost over and i'm not significantly closer to my mid-term goals)
It should be doable, certainly for things like caps lock etc. Something like this (http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system/XPSLightFX.aspx) might be up your street.
What is with the Australia comment?
Reading those forums is the mind death (and I don't just mean psx-scene; almost any php forum seems to be a magnet for senseless commentary).

To hopefully reduce the amount of ads and dancing monkeys one needs to endure to follow up on the claim that @baq made, here is page 24 in print mode:

http://psx-scene.com/forums/f6/ps3-master-key-found-graf_cho...

It is my opinion that this he-said-he-said stuff can only be proven out over time, or by validation from a "calmer" information source.
Firefox (without proprietary plug-ins), vim, gimp, Pidgin, GNOME, Inkscape, Evince, F-Spot, VLC, MPlayer, Thunderbird,... are not built on proprietary technologies.
I just started out as an iPhone developer and have been on that program for a month now. In addition to the startup money, you are also entitled to an advisor/coach to help you start the business (up to 4000Euros, you pay 10%, they pay 90%).
The money you get depends on the salary you received prior to your unemployment (60% of net income). It doesn't make you rich, but greatly helps to take out the risk in the first year. Don't know whether I would have had the guts to leave my IBM consulting job if there wasn't this option.
If you're doing marketing supposably for friends, you could at least link to a blog post about the book.
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The ruby is a pink to blood-red colored gemstone

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I also chose PRK because I was uncomfortable with the flap, and was willing to risk the painful (and slower) healing process.

While I am not your scenario with the 3 days, I would say that one week is a proper expectation, with some deviation one way or the other.

The pain (in case no one has mentioned it) is very much like leaving a contact in for too long: it feels like your eyeball has been packed in salt. I mean that in both the extreme dehydration sense, and it occasionally actually feels like salt in your eyes.

I had a few instances where it felt like needles in my eyes, and that was my only need to use the prescribed pain medicine. It lasted until I fell asleep from the pain pills.

I do hope this doesn't come across as a horror story: I absolutely, with no hesitation at all, would do it again and would use the same doctor. I am _extremely_ happy, and sing the praises, but wanted to ensure it is an informed decision for those who might be weighing the pros and cons.
One day I hope somebody releases a complete list of HN down-voters to wikileaks. A lot of berating will follow.
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-- H. L. Mencken
Nice. I was looking for something like this count me in
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As somebody who has no idea what you're talking about with "no stickers no squares" on you homepage, I'd suggest you rewrite your tagline so that first time visitors can parse it.

"pay for stuff with FaceCash" seems to be what you're all about, right? Why start off by telling us about things you're not. Especially when we don't get your inside references about those things.
Yeah the comparison between Jobs' veteran attitude and Zuckerberg's um, exuberance came across strongly reading this. The personal computing revolution was far more important, in my opinion; and if Jobs doesn't think that Apple technology isn't changing the world significantly then Facebook certainly won't. Slogans like "This changes everything. Again" for the iPhone 4 are just marketing spin.

"Zuckerberg was still on stage, an analyst leans over to me and says, “They just changed local commerce forever.” It wasn’t even lunchtime yet."

Wrong, wrong, wrong. First, they haven't done anything yet. Not anything visible that I can see anyway. (The 'analyst' is speaking in the past tense.) Secondly, people like to read newspapers and magazines, watch tv then go browsing shops and buy stuff they may need or not based on ads they saw. Facebook or the internet does not enter the equation. The majority of people I know are like this to one degree or another. Amazon and eBay, two companies aimed squarely at bringing shopping online, haven't dampened people's affinity for buying stuff on the high street. And they've been around for years.

"What we’re imagining is very different,” says Chris Cox, who dropped out of Stanford to join the company in 2005 and is now one of Zuckerberg’s closest lieutenants. “If you imagine a television designed around social, you turn it on and it says, ‘Thirteen of your friends like Entourage. Press play. Your dad recorded 60 Minutes. Press play.’” In other words, the world will be experienced through the filter of one’s Facebook friends."

This is also dead wrong. Most of the people I've friended on Facebook have much different tastes to me. The last thing I would want is to get recommendations based on what my 'friends' like. If you were talking to some random person at a party for five minutes it's almost becoming a faux pas not to friend them on Facebook. Do I really want to be spammed with updates about Glee or whatever?
"Better" is always a tricky word.

I think that it is likely a matter of what aspects are important to you (aside from those patients who are forced into using, or excluded from using, one technology or the other).

I received a comprehensive description from my doctor, and chose PRK because I was not comfortable with "the flap," and I was comfortable that there would be some pain and longer healing time. That was my tradeoff, and I am thrilled with how it turned out.
One of the benefits of Paypal being so crap is that we all eventually end up with real merchant accounts. That way, a chargeback means you lose money on one sale, vs. Paypal where a chargeback means that your entire business goes down for a week.

I don't mind giving money back to customers who are unhappy. I go out of my way to do so before it comes to a chargeback. As such, my mind can't spin "easier to keep your unhappy customers' money" into a feature for a payment processor.
The original source is an unauthenticated blog comment[1] and the one person he claimed to have given the key to has refuted this from his authenticated forum account, so it's probably safe to assume it's a hoax.

[1] http://xorloser.com/?p=297&cpage=15#comment-2225
I'd like to come - my German is terrible though.
I can't comment on your assertion, but I did want to mention the other unspoken item: the network effect.

It doesn't matter one whit that I have a moneybookers account if I can't use it to donate to the projects I support (or buy products, etc) because they are not on moneybookers. And I can assure you that "just signing up" for a money movement service is a _non-trivial_ operation.
Hm, that's too far unfortunately :)

Perhaps there are some people who would like to meet up around Cologne.
Yet a closed source commercial PSdowngrade does exist. I wonder if it's based on the same principle (namely, they do have the master key).
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I'm in for Cologne!
Hex (digits) or it didn't happen.

Edit: apparently fake.
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I live in Ogaki, which is in the general vicinity of Nagoya. You'd need about three hours to get from Tokyo to me, most of it on the bullet train. But if anyone ever is in the vicinity of Nagoya or Ogaki, I'd be happy to have coffee or something.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Tok...
If I remember correctly from a couple years back, H1-B Homeland security fees are around $3k and if you hire a lawyer for the process you'll have to add at least another $1k.

It's not cheap, but it is certainly not that expensive, as those fees will usually be less than 1 month's salary of the hired developer.

In my opinion, timing constraints and uncertainty end up being a bigger deterrent: you can only apply on April, the visa start the following October and it takes a while to know whether the applicant was selected.
The IP address is an interesting issue; there is really no need to attach it the data that you send out, which is the illegal part. I guess too many ISPs use egress filtering to prevent clients from forging the source address? (Also, tit-for-tat would be harder without any verification of who's actually sending you packets.)
What's the value of using 18th century English in the 21st century? It just confuses the people using the current version.

(I do admit that I like the expression "do the needful", though.)
Why are variables "i" and "j" used for counters?
Although I applaud the engineering effort, I would never make this myself because it will proof a huge distraction.

I would become a slave of my email.
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It was.. The challenge was then lugging a laptop always online and reading it. Now the app makes it offline and easily readable on the move.
Cologne would be great!
I follow Smashing Magazine.

They are successful because their content is helpful. Helpful to the point where people will link them on other sites to help other people. That's where the multiplier effect kicks in.

And they also publish their articles very frequently as well, which is why they can grow so fast.
:-) There is so many 'english' versions spoken and written in India, those who are not exposed to our country will be baffled. The big big move is 'Hinglish' - Hindi meets English. And yes, I do admit a lack of consistency or rather attention to the capitalization of words.
then all the games out there that have already been sold wouldn't work anymore.
I'm mighty happy with it. Much better than the National Goegraphic apps etc
The key to notifications is filtering. Don't make it light up for every email, only make it light up when an email that needs immediate action arrives.

I'm going to set one of these up to monitor my work email. If someone sends a message to me (which is a small minority of messages I receive), it will light up. Then when I'm in bed and feel like hitting the snooze button, I can glance at the LED and determine whether or not I need to get up and check my email or not.

laziness++.
hmmm, unfortunately too far for me as well, I'm in Darmstadt, anyone in the Frankfurt/rhein-main area here?
Maybe they are not doing the right thing, but at least they are trying to do _something_. I will always respect that over just complaining (not aimed specifically at you).
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He's talking about the Australian black list (which I think is no longer in play).
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I'd like to see some screencasts of these sessions on opensource projects where there's commentary about the actual code and the thought processes behind it as it's being written, especially a mature useful project like Samba, even though I'm not a C coder I think just seeing these guys work would be interesting.
I wonder what Francis Fukuyama is up to these days:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Last...
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When that field produces a viable mainstream product, they can have "picocomputer".
China's current advantage in "cyber-warfare" is temporary.

As China keeps developing, the internet surface area of its corporations and institutions will be just as vast as the US. And it won't be magically immune to script-kiddies around the world, either.
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Despite these kind of programs in Germany, but also in the Netherlands (although with different conditions), the startup culture in the US seems much, much stronger than in Europe. Why?
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I hope this means I can easily track the latest stable kernel versions without having to upgrade the rest of the system (to a degree), and without having to roll said kernel myself.
A bit too far for me too - anyone around Stuttgart?
I'm going back to Kobe on Tuesday and briefly stopping by at Nagoya, if you have some free time I would love to meet you over coffee.

My email is adeel.ko.ansari@gmail.com
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Do you know any startups that take H-1B candidates for system administration jobs? I know this is HackerNews but our species (of sysadmins) must be still needed for some :)
Thanks for that, very interesting reading! I prefer my Martini made with Hendrick's gin and Nolly Pratt, but I've only had it shaken---not stirred.
An excellent introduction to a topic that normally only gets introduced after wading through a lot of lambda calculus - not that there is anything wrong with the more formal approach for CS course but it is nice to see these things receiving a bit more visibility (and nice that it is in JavaScript).
I expect it will be a mixture of German and English. I'm happy in English and German so will find a way to make this work.
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In English, you can verb anything.
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At the time of the edit, that post might have been in negative numbers. Voting expresses agreement, yes, but any score below 1 should be reserved for troll/frivolous/vulgar posts.
Another insightful thread on this topic over on Quora:

http://www.quora.com/Is-it-a-good-time-to-have-LASIK-surgery...
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"On Friday, the White House told federal employees and contractors they're not allowed to read classified federal documents posted to WikiLeaks unless they have the proper security clearance."

I think, they mean, cops can't read these documents in office.
Edited to remove snark. I don't believe the protocol that you are describing exists. A quick survey of distributed systems papers and leader election strategies over the past 30 or so years says that a satisfactory completely distributed protocol may be impossible.
pitches to rank perfectly fine for the search queries before the spam sites push them down the index. The black hat SEO guy therefore isn't adding any value to the unsophisticated end user he targets at all. Better solution: anyone pitching SEO services to webmasters on the basis of their competing sites' higher rankings gets their competing sites booted from the index.

Even if your solution were to miraculously yield better results it would still create a massive PR problem for Google, who have always purposefully kept paid and organic search rankings separately. Frankly I'd probably trust an index that directly sold SERPs rankings more than one that deliberately facilitated spammers acting as intermediaries.
This is very interesting. What is the purpose of the Wallet Card feature? I would have expected most merchants/authorities to be kind of squicked by someone showing up with just the data from a card and not the card itself, so it seems like an extra potential vulnerability without much upside...
Yes, it often is. Most time mere adequacy will do just fine, which is a good thing because that's frequently all you will get.
Stuttgart reporting in :)
I know of at least two native English speakers who are coming; I also expect there'll be a mixture of English and German conversations going on. Plus, beer is good for your German!
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That's going to depend strongly on the extent of your outlay in dealing with the customer up to that point. If your business is SaaS, giving money back is relatively painless, but if there's actual inventory involved it could be a real hassle.
I had lasik done 7 years ago in Israel. No problems here. One of the best things I have ever done. Been staring at screens those whole 7 years.

As someone else wrote, don't be cheap w/ your eyes

I paid $3500 USD and my dr. was a Johns Hopkins Medical graduate
Will be there :-)
A distributed DNS platform wont stop censorship. Governments will just find a different method of censorship.

Null routing IPs would cause collateral damage, but to block illegal content that the hosts refuse to take down? They might go ahead and do it anyway...

I would still love to see a distributed DNS platform. The issue that needs resolving for a distributed platform is trust. We will always need a trusted authority. That could be split over 50 hosts over 50 countries, but we still need one.
I don't know if Zuckerberg also implied this but what I find truly awesome is that that map of human relationships is available to anyone now through Facebook. Zynga is just one example of a business that has used the social graph so well. There will be more.
I think this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summation#Capital-sigma_notatio...
I completly agree with you. It's a great book and i wish i had read it earlier and i would have done things better.
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Doing useless stuff is actually worse than just complaining, because in addition to not accomplishing anything, it wastes resources that would have been better spent elsewhere.

Also, the phrase "we must do _something_" is often used by politicians to justify stupid laws or contracts that don't help to solve the intended problem, but sometimes make things even worse. That's quite a high price to pay for the publicity shows of certain people.
I'd just like to note that sometimes people present physicians as an example of people who don't need to work on their field outside of work. These people are horribly informed.

My extended family gatherings are like a medical convention. Both my parents are physicians. Unlike computer science there isn't a question of "do I need to work on medicine to continue to be on the top of my game?" The answer is yes. Period.

As far back as I can remember my parents have always had heated medical discussions on new cases over dinner while my sister and I shared blank stares. When I was 6 or so I remember gathering all the copies of the New England Journal of Medicine, Modern Pathology, and the Journal of Clinical Pathology and using them to make a fort in the apartment. The high ceiling fit me and my sister quite comfortably. My mom spends her time thinking about how things could be done better and more efficiently in her practice and my dad is constantly innovating and forming companies.

So do programmers have to like programming? Do they have to keep up with it outside of their job requirements?

Yes. Period.
I'd like to see the results of a blind taste test by persons who swear it would make a difference to the taste.

I have my suspicions of what the outcome would be.
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My limited experience of pair programming suggests that the biggest gain comes from having one brain devoted to the higher-level modelling and design task, and the other brain (with the hands attached) devoted to the lower-level intricacies of where to put the braces and semicolons, what headers to include to access which parts of the standard library, and so forth.

Because each brain can stay on one level without having to jump up and down the abstraction stack interruptions are lessened. Of course, if the higher-level brain starts to wander too far from the task at hand, the lower-level brain can interrupt, and if the lower-level brain gets tired of doing grunt-work, they can switch places.
I think that's probably doable if you're just looking for a business to support a mediocre salary for a person or two. Of course getting a Google/Facebook/whatever out of something like this was have just as bad of odds as any other method.
i had thought it was a manifestation of James Bond's personality: assuming the ingredients were mixed on the spot, a stirred drink would have a uniform flavor, while a shaken drink would have a more erratic 'spontaneous' flavor
> a strong but fairly easy drinking vodka (at least 43% ABV)

43% it's not a strong vodka, 40% is standard (disclaimer: I'm from Poland.) and by EU terms vodka starts at 37%. strong is like 70%, popular in Russia, Ukraine.
Why would the US even have jurisdiction in this case? The act happened outside the US, did it not?