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Although I never learned Java, I would point you to that language. I would also suggest C# or Objective-C. Really anything with a gui or IDE will work just fine for beginners. Contrary to most folks, I view being able to write efficient and fast scripts with python in a plan-text editor quickly, as much more advanced than using something like microsoft visual studio to help code. Of course, I code this way so I have my biases :-D
Yeah, it was probably a bad decision. But I chose to go strictly by definition, and PHP is a "a widely-used general-purpose scripting language" (http://www.php.net/).

Javascript, HTML, and CSS are obviously very different from PHP, but they are all scripting languages.
The other bad thing about SO is that when a question has some answers, even if they are not really right, nobody really pays attention to the question anymore.

So it feels like questions that move down in the queue with a few proposed answers are basically dead.
Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony each own their respective
console market, taking a tithe from every transaction occurring
on the device

That's why I never owned a console and played games on my computer: consoles and the provided game titles are way too expensive for the value provided, not to mention "features" like multiplayer over the network have been in PC games like Doom since the early '90 or even earlier.

The right comparison should really be versus Microsoft and Windows.

As much as I hated Microsoft's iron hand over the years, seeing Apple in action makes Microsoft look like saints interested in interoperability, openness and innovation for the greater good; the fuck? :-)
It also makes it easier for simple disputes to escalate very quickly. What happens when your first reaction is to whip out your gun instead of your fists?
Beleive it or not, just a canvas plus red, blue and yellow acrylic paint will be enough.

This is actually not completely true, but I appreciate the point you are making.

Something we shouldn't overlook is that there no pigments that fit perfectly on a color wheel. In other words, there's no blue pigment, its always blueish green or blueish purple.

This has been a challenge for pigment makers for centuries and has a complicated history.

Maybe sometimes a perfect pigment or dye is found, color wise, but then it turns out to easily fade, aka 'fugitive', so artists, the ones who expect their art work to last for more than a few years, are stuck with certain colors.

Why does this matter? Its because of mixing. You might think you have paints of the primaries, blue, yellow, and red, and you need a bright green, so you mix the blue with the yellow, and you end up with an muddy olive color.

Turns out your blue was leaning towards being purplish, and when mixed with the yellow, a component of grey was produced, because they are opposite.

So how do you get a nice bright green? You need to mix a greenish blue with a greenish yellow.

In practice this results in artists, who want to paint with a full range of colors, need 6 primary colors.

For example, two good lightfast (not destroyed by light) blues are ultramarine (very old pigment), and a newer phthalo blue (much more modern). The ultramarine leans towards the violet and the phthalo, to varying degrees, towards green. In the old days I think prussian blue was the greenish blue of choice, but its a weak color and is easily overpowered.

Cobalt blue, if I'm not mistaken, is the closest thing we have to a lightfast primary color.

Artist really hit the jackpot with blues. Some are very old. They are also nicely transparent, which can make a difference in technique

The bright reds and bright yellows aren't so good, and the ones that are lightfast are supposed to be toxic. And not very transparent either.

If you don't care about the brightness of your reds and yellows you are in luck, there are plenty of rust and dirt pigments like iron oxide, sienna and umber.

This is a complicated subject. Here's a book about it

http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Yellow-Dont-Make-Green/dp/0967962...
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As I said in the other thread... Visual Basic 6 when I was 14... I literally had to stop programming for about 3 years before I could start "fresh" again.
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You were probably on the 6RD IPv6 trials: http://www.comcast6.net/faq.php
Same here, though on an 8086
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There are enough heavily armed populations out there that you can gather real evidence about whether that's a problem or not, rather than just leaving it as a hypothetical. As far as I understand, it turns out not to be a real problem. Do you have any evidence to the contrary?
The paper you mentioned appears to be saying that Microsoft is extracting spell corrections via clicks on Google. That's pretty surprising news.

I just pulled down the paper and noticed this: "The clickthrough data of the second type consists of a set of query reformulation sessions extracted from 3 months of log files from a commercial Web browser .... In our experiments, we "reverse-engineer" the parameters from the URLs of these sessions, and deduce how each search engine encodes both
a query and the fact that a user arrived at a URL by clicking on the spelling suggestion of the query – an important indication that the spelling suggestion is desired"

Some of the recent discussion has been about whether Microsoft looks at lots of different sites vs. doing something special or different for Google. This paper very much sounds like Microsoft reverse engineered which specific url parameters on Google corresponded to a spelling correction? Figure 1 of that paper looks like Microsoft is using specific Google url parameters such as "&spell=1" to extract spell corrections from Google.

Targeting Google specifically is quite different than using lots of clicks from different places. It looks like you work at Microsoft--can you say any more about this?
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The thing I find most interesting about Microsoft's tweets here is that at no point does Frank ever actually deny copying Google's search results. Well, except to tell a bald-faced lie that obviously isn't true. I mean, if Microsoft really had evidence that Google had its employees report the sites to MS customer feedback, I have a feeling they'd be making it known some place other that Frank Shaw's twitter account.
i think you are mistaken. generally speaking, python and ruby are considered scripting languages. html and css are not.
The Hackers & Founders meetup happens on the last Thursday each month - follow @hackersfounders for info.
BASIC on the TRS-80. I was 8.
Yes, how dare you draw attention to how people spend realmonies for digital goods with basically no replication costs.

Cough. Time to go listen to some MP3's, maybe buy a copy of a free-to-air show I've already seen.
Zed Shaw's "Learn Python the Hard Way" is a great way to start and test the waters - http://learnpythonthehardway.org
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Beyond DOS/Windows batch files which are terrible but indeed a language, my first "real" language was Turing ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_(programming_language) ). It was mainly used in Canadian high schools - at least it was when I was there at the beginning of the decade.

I didn't like it but it had a full graphical environment that was pretty accessible to students. I liked that our particular IDE/interpreter was called WinOOT (Windows Object Oriented Turing) - OOT pronounced like the stereotypical Canadian pronunciation of about, "aboot". If that's not patriotic enough, it also had a built-in graphics function named drawmapleleaf.
I would try http://www.firehost.com/secure-hosting/wordpress its a bit on the high end but I am a happy customer.
Why does that matter? They're only "stealing" results from Google insofar as people (/Google employees) used Google in order to illustrate what pages they want returned given a certain search query. I have a sneaking suspicion that the exact same thing would have happened if they were in the position to do the same query bombing on Ask Jeeves or crappywebsearch.net as it did for Google.

Search engines to me are an obvious case of a means to an end. If a search engine better than Google were to come out tomorrow I would switch to it (from Google) instantly with no regrets. Google's sense of propriety about their results (or, more accurately, what users clicked on after searching via Google), especially given the fact that they are well-known for their penchant for sucking in user data like a black hole (not that I care-- I want them to use it if it means better searches), to me seems 9 parts hypocritical and 1 part prima donna.

Need people be reminded that this is the same company that "accidentally" logged users' WiFi browsing habits while driving StreetView cars around Europe? Give me a break. Everyone is guilty, and no one is going to do anything differently now than they did before.
I remember figuring out how to make a turtle graphics sailboat, faking the curved surfaces by stepping a bit then turning a bit.
Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that the music industry screwed itself by raising rates until they all but killed the most profitable, popular and legit outlet they had?

But the natural reaction to piracy seems to be to screw one's paying customers, if the events of the past 20 or so years are any indication.
I'm reminded of this silly little microcomputer from the 70's, where all you could do was flip switches and watch lights blink. There was a company that wrote a BASIC for it. Then, five years later, IBM came out with a much more capable microcomputer and that company made their real fortune by selling the OS for it.

The punchline being, of course, that sometimes a toy is just a toy, no matter what you end up doing with it.
> NTFS5, for example, can support file sizes up to 18 quintillion
> bytes, and it's a decade old.

IIRC, NTFS has loads of advanced features, but Microsoft is slowing "turning them on" by adding support for them in Windows. I'm sure Windows would blow up if you got anywhere near that limit.
It wasn't economical for the statistician, since he was making more than he could possibly make doing this. It would likely be economical for many other people, however.

He said he could make $600/day doing this. Even if you only do this 5 days a week and give yourself 2 weeks of vacation, you still end up making $150,000/yr ($600/day * 50 weeks/yr * 5 days/week). That's well above the national average for both the US and Canada.
Actually, time won't do it either. Unless you somehow compete with Google today, the data will never come.

Google only gets the query volume it does because it is the quality leader. The query volume itself helps Google to retain its quality lead. Google likes to portray search quality as being algorithm-driven, and it is to some extent, but in the modern era quality is also about collaborative filtering with clicks. If you don't have the users, you don't see the clicks, and you can't have the quality. Web search is a natural winner-take-all monopoly, unless someone gets creative, which is what Microsoft seems to have done.
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http://StackExchange.com has a growing network of niche Q&A communities.
For Photoshop, GIMP I suppose.
Because that's the minimum block size (/64) for several IPv6 features - mostly important the stateless address configuration - to work.

I'd thought of explaining with my own words, but found very good and detailed explanation here: http://serverfault.com/questions/182881/why-add-an-ipv6-addr..., so I'd just quote.

--- begin quote --

The IPv6 addressing architecture (RFC4291) requires all unicast addresses always have a prefix length of 64 bits. Using something other than a /64 will break a number of IPv6 features such as neighbor discovery, secure neighbor discovery (SEND), privacy extensions, mobile IPv6, embedded-RP (multicast), etc.

The current IPv6 address assignment guidelines call for allocating a /64 only when it is known that one and only one subnet is needed, otherwise a /56 should be allocated to small sites that are "expected to need only a few subnets over the next 5 years", or a /48 for larger sites. (ARIN policy 6.5.4.1)

--- end quote ---

This is why all those just-bit-counting "number of atoms in universe" and "79 octillion times" comparisons are wrong. Actual comparison should compare single IPv4 address with something ranging from /64 to /48 IPv6 allocation - /64 is a minimum per L2 broadcast segment - so it's a minimum per-customer allocation (unless ISP is really greedy). Also, I don't know of reasons, but RIPE NCC themselves uses /32 IPv6 block with about /21 IPv4 one comparison to calculate LIR billing score - http://ripe.net/membership/billing/calculation.html
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even a lifetime of flickr wouldn't satisfy the authors request for compensation. a few hundred in flickr dollars is not worth thousands of lost photos.
Now I wonder whether you are brushing off Quine out of the conviction that it is a matter of opinion anyway and that his actual argument therefore doesn't matter? In which case I would like to point out the advantages of challenging your own opinions. Sometimes opinions turn out to have been, well, let's say: much harder to defend than originally thought and even though you can defend them as 'mere opinion', you just don't want to anymore. Decent philosophical treatises have at least changed my 'opinions' about some things.
You okay with that ex-post facto? I mean, I bought said tablet knowing I could buy and read my kindle library on it....
I honestly don't get the controversy of this thing.

Let's say Microsoft via its bing-toolbar is checking what pages people are visiting, what search term they are using on various sites (including google) and what they deem are the most useful results of these queries, and incorporating this into their search engine. Is this really so bad?

As it stands, Google is collecting this data about you almost everywhere on the internet, even if you use google or not. Besides straight Google search, think websites which uses Google's CDN for stuff like jQuery, Google analytics, etc etc. Google is everywhere and they are collecting data to incorporate in their search and ad-platform from everyone. End of story.

Heck, with google instant and their new JS-based search-gui you can't even get the referer information on your own website to see what search terms lead your users to your site. You now have to use Google analytics to get that information, and in getting that information you are helping Google even further in tracking everything everyone is doing on the internet. WTH?

Relatively speaking, is really Microsoft the bad guy here?
I know you're joking, but I think the point is that the numbers are so large that we really don't have the tech right now to exhaust the space. I remember hearing in the past that 2^128 is close to or more than the number of molecules (or was it atoms?) in the known universe. We're not at the point where we can assign an address to every atom and make use of it... yet at least.
Partly because cyan and magenta pigments good enough that you can mix them with yellow and get a decent red and green are a relatively modern invention. Partly because the reds and greens you get still aren't nearly as vivid as unmixed pigments. Partly because it's easier to start with a pigment that's close to what you want and adjust it than to start from scratch with only CMY.
Since when HTML and CSS have been programming languages? Why is javascript (a real, turing complete language) bundled with them?
>Napster had cast its stone straight into the music goliath’s eye, and no one had seen it coming.

>MTV was forced to react, and fast. The network realized that the cheapest way to operate was to start producing its own content, rather than fork out the oodles of cash needed for a half decent music channel. And thus, hits like “Punked,” “Pimp my Ride,” “Singled Out” and more recently “Teen mom” and “Jersey Shore” were born.

That was some serious foresight, running Singled Out from 1995 to 1998, in response to Napster, released in 1999.
An alternative indeed, possibly the best, but still not good enough. Adobe's software is the only software I really miss since going Linux full time last year.
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I don't see any reason why PPP's application would appear (on the outside) any different than any other eBook reader app.

I mean, I guess from the sounds of things it's up to them - they could deliver their books as apps, making them first-class citizens on your home screen, but that would get annoying fast.
BASIC on a SpectraVideo SV-328 (CP/M).

I didn't have storage for a while, so initially I had to type in my games every time before playing them.

Then I got a tape drive and spent months playing Tetra Horror :)

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I completely agree that the most important thing is to have a concrete objective that you really want to achieve that you are moving towards.

However, I disagree that every language is equally hard. There are three challenges in learning programming: syntax, logic, and resource management. Those can be optimized for beginners:

Syntax: A syntax that is more natural and less symbolic will be easier to learn. There is a lot to be said about brevity for experienced programmers. For new programmers, it is completely wrong.

Logic: While certain, highly mathematically-inclined people may be different, most people understand the concepts involved with imperative programming (I do this, then this, then this; if I do this thing a lot, I can abstract its concept; etc.). Functional programming, "pure" object oriented programming, etc., are concepts that add impedance.

Resource Management: Whether memory, pixels on the screen, or bytes to a network connection, you've got to interact with the hardware at some point. Different languages approach this in very different ways, from manage everything directly to nearly complete abstraction.

Trying to learn all three at once for any but the most highly motivated is a recipe for frustration and, ultimately, failure.
I think that it would largely depend on culture. If you were to give everyone in NYC a gun tomorrow, you could not expect there to be no issues. If you transitioned over a period of time, then maybe not (but that's mostly because the culture/mindset of the people has time to adjust).
It was a joke :-(
> Presenting your competitor's clickstream as your own takes it to a new level.

Clickstream is still of bing toolbar users.
Seems that it will bring a lot of spam to fb.
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How did napster affect music videos any more than radio does? Listening to music is very different from watching music videos.
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Heck. Windows Mobile 5 had that (via bloototh or USB). It's still nice for your laptop to have dedicated connectivity and relying on external devices.
Apple may not make money on developer tools wrt software, but they certainly sell plenty of macs to developers as a requirement to develop for their platform.
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Reverting a full db should be straightforward (stop the db server and revert a dump).

For a single account it's more of a pita.

Retrieving all the datas associated with one account, put it in a format readable from the production environment and recommit all the changes while dealing with the potential errors and inconstencies seems quite a huge deal.

Messing unrelated data in the process would also be a nightmare.

Of course, not deleting anything from the start wouod be the way.
4 months in queue with repeated changes on how to get in compliance then apple backtracking and banning the app's core functionality in all apps in the store and rejecting it.

I have seen it. Moderate 5 figures.
They could even just block users of the toolbar if they object to its behavior, since it's identified in the user agent.
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That just doesn't roll of the tongue in the same way.
>> where's the SQL Server vs MySQL practical comparison?

Here is one:
http://angryhacker.com/blog/archive/0001/01/01/mysql-eye-for...
Where's Assembler in the list :) I loved me some MASM. Did no one learn this in the late 80's early 90's? It must still be used a lot for embedded systems ...

What I liked about it was a) it was hard and made you really really think about what you where doing (in terms of memory and CPU usage) as you where in total control of both at all times and there was often no abstraction (well unless you wrote in binary I suppose). b) it was super tedious and required keeping a lot of code in your head at one time so when moving to say C/C++ it made you review your code with some sympathy of how it will run and how to optimise it (say rolled and unrolled loops etc). When things went wrong in C you could look at the produced ASM and understand perhaps why.

Do I miss it? Heeeeeellll no!
I've noticed a lot of people mentioning a 30% price increase, but it would actually require a 43% price increase to pay apple a 30% margin.

It's the difference between markup and margin. If you want to pay someone x margin, you have to markup your product by (1/1-x)
Snap... then moved to QuickBasic..ooooooooowwww. Remember the bundles source for gorillas,money and nibbles?
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Think I'll just quote Mike Masnick's post over at techdirt, since he sums it up so well:
"For Google to attack a competitor for using open information on the web -- the same way it does -- seems like the height of hypocrisy. It's fine for Google to crawl and index whatever sites it wants in order to set up its ranking algorithms, but the second someone looks at Google's own rankings as part of their own determination, suddenly its "cheating"?

This seems like the latest in a series of indications that Google has moved past the innovation stage into the "protecting its turf" stage. That would be a shame."
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The best platform to build on is the one you know inside and out. Spolsky and Atwood are long-time Microsoft developers. I would call them stupid if they hadn't used Microsoft to develop their product with.

Personally, I can't imagine doing the scaling, but I don't know the platform at all. SO has obviously figured out how to scale well, though.
On the contrary, having a status is a great way to keep your long term relationship going.
imho, the second, except that some consistency is present ib document dbs: like in the order example, all order items will be within the document and wont be lost without losing the whole order.

no-one would ever use 'eventually consistent' databases for financial or trading data, i think. they're for higly scalable consumer web projects
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