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Ah, Mz, this is the point. Glad you commented. Crazy that at 21 and 23 you feel they were "kids" (or still are in your eyes I am sure, lol) just yesterday.

Now, setting aside some things I personally see as an advantage, which you should be proud of, like home schooling, let's keep it the coming of age argument and also strip the parental argument out for a second (even though I agree that it is a huuuge factor).

Your children were at this age 10 years ago. What has changed in 10 years?

1. Internet speeds that were still mostly dial-up at the time making the ability in quantity of media consumption less at similar time allotments.

2. Digital cameras have not only come way down in price, they exist everywhere and on everything.

3. Webcams were a small market, where now whether you really want one or not it is on often your device (computer, phone, portable media device)

4. Facebook-like sites were really only starting to evolve into the "social staple" (whether you and I agree or not) what they are today.

5. The fact that all these kids, seemingly rich or poor, have or have access to all the above which was nowhere near the case 10 years ago.

The playing field has changed. Before kids victim of bullying were either tormented at school or in their neighborhood or even worse both. Now, there isn't even a "virtual" escape because the bullies are there too. I quoted virtual because virtual has transformed from playing consoles without internet access and other "old-fashioned" forms of escape into everything practically being connected to the internet--socially and playfully.

Bullying is just one example. Go back to the article and the virility in which these coming of age experiences are shared and experienced is at a ferociously fast rate. If you wanted to look at porn in past generations, you either had to wait for a friend or your older sibling to hand over a magazine with still pictures where there would be a small group of friends to share it with--or if they were really lucky a video cassette--but not you can share it with the neighborhood called the world instantly online. Forget pictures of Pamela Anderson that boys had to use their imaginations to fantasize about, now just go over a friends house with more trusting parents if your parents are over your shoulders to forget the pictures, just get it all.

This is the bigger issue. Not one that I can see any stopping. Vigilant parenting and strong bonds will help, but then you also have to depend on equal parenting from the rest of your society. This is a tough one and why it is scary.
I left my funded startup to go back to school.
I was just typing in my girlfriend's email (unbeknownst to her) when I realised this could be a test: will she mention it to me this evening? Intriguing!
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>> Canvas performance on iOS is so bad that it is barely usable.

>Not hardware accelerated == slow on mobile. Hopefully the canvas will be accelerated, too.

I thought canvas was one of the biggest reasons that HTML5 would eliminate the need for Flash. I think it is disingenuous to say that the iPad does not need Flash because it supports HTML5 when the HTML5 support is in such a bad shape. Canvas will be hardware accelerated even in IE9, Apple has no excuse here.

Anyway, I guess it's no surprise that Apple does not have much interest in improving HTML5 support for the iDevices, after all they have a vested interest in people developing apps instead. They get their 30% cut, the app does not work on other platforms (unlike HTML5), and they get their cut of iAds and any another purchases.
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Please add me too ... "steve dot moyer plus forrst at selesy dot com". Thanks!
They were much buggier in 1.2 so 1.3 is much more reliable but your mileage may vary.
The PyPy version is faster, as the article and commenters point out, because the PyPy JIT can inline a call across a module boundary. GCC can do something like this with -fwhole-program, but that doesn't work on shared libraries.

Has any work gone into inlining (probably only very simple) functions when linking against a shared library? Something like the "add" function clearly has no side effects if you were to look at the asm in the shared library, but it might be hard for the compiler to figure that out in any more complicated cases... perhaps by adding an annotation to the shared object file? It seems doable, at least.
Walker Corporate Law is always advertising on Mixergy.
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Maybe for this audience, but I don't think that would be confusing to non technical people (or people in the startup world).
It's ok! I know how easy it is to do, but in this case I happened to remember other posters on SO recommending that the OP not use their full name as their nick, since the question might pop up in a pre-job-interview Google search.
"Independence in Europe" has been a policy of the SNP for a long time. Interestingly enough the relevant page on their site still has:

"The SNP believes that Independence in Europe is the logical next step for Scotland to take on its road to becoming a normal, democratic, European nation, just like Denmark, Ireland or Luxembourg."

http://www.snp.org/node/242

Note that I'm not anti-EU at all - quite the opposite.
I don't know - maximum length/special characters in passwords I find are enforced pretty much everywhere.

I used to keep my KeePass rule pretty liberal. Any 30-character length string would get generated. More than a few times I've had to either decrease the length or remove characters. I had to drop the length and keep it alphanumeric just to avoid the hassle. Plus, typing weird characters on a mobile device gets old fast (thankfully, KeePass exists on Droid, but boostrapping dropbox + KeePass is still annoying).

What's even worse is when password registration silently drops data. You'll register with one password, and attempting to log back in fails because the page that stored the password and the page that you log in on are using two (probably subtly) different decoding methods.
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See: the European Union. Shared currency, very little restriction to travel and trade, made it possible to compete economically with the UK.
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I love Haml/Sass/Compass for HTML and CSS. It is tightly integrated with Rails and saves much time. (I never want to write HTML tags again!)

I disagree on the use of presentational/semantic styles, however. These are not that useful once your design is stable, but the beauty of Sass is that you can use them early, then move your grids into specific selectors later for cleaner, better organized code. You can do both!

Compass is awesome for color palettes, too. It includes several cool functions for adjusting colors.

JavaScript is a completely different story. You should really dig into books, etc., and build a solid understanding of how JS works before adopting any library like jQuery. It will save you a lot of hassle building and maintaining your code. D. Crockford's JavaScript: The Good Parts is a common recommendation. jQuery Fundamentals is a free HTML book that provides a good start if your going the jQuery direction.
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One downside of entangled influence: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianoce...
Yeah we are so happy for that :) even if the feedback has been light (from users i'm talking)

Did you try the website ? Have any feedback to share with us :) ?

We are looking for ways to improve the website so thank all for your comments !
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I guess it makes sense if you know who Steve Pavlina is. His stuff is very popular amongst the life hacker types.
I'm not saying that it's inherently wrong, I was attempting to explain to you how your example (Google using A/B testing to determine which results are the most relevant) had no relation to what bing is doing.
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I would hope that my boyfriend would continue the ploy! Though, more than likely he'll send me an email saying someone is flirting with him and, is it me. Not very romantic but he'll get the picture at least that I'm thinking about him.
All of the options are about present and future, there is nothing about the past.

My situation is that I used to be involved in startups, but I'm now all corporate.

If I had to choose from the list, then both "interested in working for a startup in the future" and "just like reading" are fairly appropriate, but the latter option paints me as rather more of a dillettante than is actually true.
Startup Quote: Seth Godin, founder, Squidoo
The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.

- Seth Godin

http://startupquote.com/post/3105781450
Nice analysis. Points up the need for synchronization primitives around complex data structures.

Which brings up its own issues: scheduling blockages. Resizing a hash map; garbage collecting; flushing file buffers. It doesn't matter, putting synchronication primitives around usually-fast-but-occasionally-dog-slow operations is the sad result of most naieve multithreaded attempts.

It results in apparently-hung GUI threads, stuttering performance, deadlocks that usually don't happen and are terrible to diagnose.
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Without arguing it, as I said, it can be a problem but doesn't have to be. I realize things have changed in the landscape. But since my kids had strong acceptance from me, they were never desperate for acceptance from others. If others did not accept them, they felt no need to seek that acceptance and so were not easily manipulated in social settings. This is a strong defense against many types of social problems, whether online or off.

I really need to get offline now and attend to some things or I imagine I would be happy to drone on at length.

Later.
It seems like NYMag knows what men want too, was there any need for them to have a picture of a model pretending to be youger than she really is on each page?

Was there going to be anyone reading the content thinking "so you've described this pose, but without seeing the 14 year old in question I can't really judge how bad it was"?

Or... was it just a nice excuse to give readers the snapshots they so badly desire.
Nice design and video but the problem with these services is that anonymous mail notifications are generally disregarded as spam by many people.
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I just wanted to see my dot :)
"HN is useful for this too."

Many people wonder what the point of participating on HN is. This is my primary reason for doing it here. Being able to write something that survives here is a valuable skill to keep in practice; being able to do it when it against the groupthink even moreso, which I get to practice sometimes.

(I write because I must, but I could find much easier places to do it than here. I do keep a blog but that's for different things.)
Not bad for 10 days work. Just one small comment -- lose the song in the video. It's distracting. Use a simpler background music that sets the mood, but doesn't keep the viewer from focusing on the value proposition. BTW, what did you use to make the video? All the best!
Last week I spent a little bit of time trying to figure out how the Dynamic trait works and what its good for.

I managed to do a quick and dirty 5 minute mockup of a "Callable" Map that lets you invoke keys as method names:

https://gist.github.com/797513
That would look, to me, extremely spammy. An email from a service I've never heard of offering to send me flowers if I give it my address? Yeah.
nah man, I love the song. I was able to follow just fine with it.
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Amsterdam is suffering from the same problem, and likely other EU cities might as well. And by that I mean it's full of consultants/social media people, not do-ers. That's why we started STIKK (stikk.nl). (Near-future) founders only.
The whole environment of high school has been broken for many years. We are seeing technology collide with societies gradual raising of the age of adulthood combined with a school system designed to create factory workers for Ford.

I'm not that old, when I was in high school ND allowed people to get a driver's license at 14. Now we have calls to raise the age to 16 or even 18. I have heard the argument "Well, 14 isn't as mature as it used to be". That is crap, and I can see the day when 21 isn't even old enough to be out on your own.

It isn't the technology, bullying, or sexting that is the core problem. It is the environment when society is trying very hard to repress biology and thousand of years of development. It isn't working and is causing serious problems.
Wouldn't that still be a finite state automata?

He mentioned recursion, so no :-)

I also hate working with ANTLR/YACC ... heavy, hard to start with, steep learning curve. These tools are designed for industrial-strength compilers, where performance / flexibility matters.

And PEGs are better than CFGs (that's teeshirt material right there :))
There's no benefit to recovering a current password. If you can determine that the requesting user should be able to receive the current password, you can skip that step and just ask them to set a new one.
I am working on my project nearly full time. I go to college on the side.
I'm contracting to a startup.
For fairness sake, I with the author would note the version of the C compiler they used. Otherwise saying PyPy is faster than C is like saying "my 2010 Toyota Prius is faster than a car in a carefully crafted example".

Sorry to sound like a language curmudgeon, but if you're going to make a claim that language x is faster than language y you're treading on thin ice. Languages in and of themselves don't have a whole lot of grounding in reality (especially Python; C has some closer analogues to the machine). That is to say that the devil is always in the details, or in this case the implementation of the compiler. Though my guess is the author of this blog post may not have intended for this small post to be flung across various nerd news sources to invoke the ire of language zealots everywhere.

The fact that the compiler can't inline across file boundaries (which is why PyPy is 'faster' in this case), I would think, is not a limitation of the C language, but rather a limitation of a C compiler (which I assume is GCC).
"Too big to fail" is a classic perverse incentive, and a mockery of the idea that the financial industry can somehow self-regulate.

Unfortunately, if you remove deposit insurance (or any of its variants), people's savings once again become subject to the self-fulfilling whims of insolvency or the unfounded rumour of insolvency.
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Why Kill Facebook? Befriend it
I found that much of the "noise" on Facebook comes from the fact that I had too many "e-friends" at even 100-110 people.

It was still well under the Dunbar[1] threshold, as I knew who they all were and could probably spend an hour on each one of them telling you how I knew them in high school or college, etc. But I simply got no value out of seeing a post from a woman I dated briefly in college 9 years ago talking about what new yoga studio she was teaching at, or from an old high school classmate saying what airport he was currently passing through.

The noise was just too loud and overpowering. I ended up deleting my account.

A few months later I came back under a made-up new email address so those folks wouldn't find me again. My e-friends list now is only about 40 people, cut way down -- specifically people I see every week or two or people I would otherwise invite into my home without any hesitation.

With less noise from people I simply don't care much about anymore, I see useful things. And I feel better about sharing a interesting news article from HN or a picture from a dinner party with my small inner circle, without feeling like I'm spamming dozens of people who just don't care.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbars_number
I was a better programmer at the age of 12 than most of the people who did my Computer Science degree were at the end of the course.

A worthless piece of paper. Had a fun three years getting it though.
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the underlying demand is far different though, the demand for the new housing being built is high. The rental market is also very expensive and has almost zero vacancy. Whereas Ireland sounds like they were struggling to fill the housing being built in Australia the demand for new housing is higher than the rate at which they can be supplied. Maybe at some point things will go backwards but things still look very good in the short to medium term.
As you age your sleeping habits change.

Maybe you actually were a night person at 25 and naturally changed to a morning person as you got older.
Can you explain why this is? (Not doubting you; just curious.)
It sounds like you should be testing more.

What is different about the questions you ask and the ones that get responses?

How can you make your questions more like theirs?

Ultimately, just throw up a lot of crap and see what sticks. Then improve on what sticks.
Right, what I am describing there is battles in the long war to denormalize, once a normalized site gets popular. We have since denormalized many things into dirt-stupid yet very functional mysql shards.
I read the article. It's nothing but speculation and I don't buy it.

Emailing them their password gives higher retention than being sent to right location when you click on a link that automatically logs you in? Yeah, right.

Maybe that's how Markus justifies it to himself too but it doesn't make my original statement any less true.
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This would be fine if there were a way to roll-back updates.

As it stands, once you update an app you're stuck with that version and as a user this can be frustrating if the developer has made a change that you don't like (or worse breaks the app).

As a developer this would be nice as well because it would allow you to try "big changes" in an app w/o fear of alienating your customers.
Above all I think the greatest thing about DDG is the direct forwarding to UPS when I submit a UPS tracking number. No clicking. No need to enter the number again. It just goes straight where I need to be. I use this 50 times a day and it's wonderful, and it probably doesn't benefit DDG at all but it's great for me.
I think the author didn't think this through all the way. WebOS needs to have 99% of videos, but needs "The ability to play Divx/xviD AVI video of the kind shared on the Internet"? Sorry, I don't buy that at all. It NEEDS to play H.264 and YouTube. It's not competing against Archos, it's competing against the iPhone and Android.

I think there are some valid points, but this waffles between what "Mike Cane" wants, and what the device actually needs to succeed broadly.
I discuss world-changing news with my son after dinner. NASA discoveries, social phenomena, whatever. I get it all from HN.
For me, Facebook is a cool address book that lets me contact people I know in a less 'immediate' way to text/phone. I'm not friends with people that I don't know in real life. I look at it once a day to see if anyone has posted anything interesting; from time to time I might post a cool link I've found, or a couple of photos, or something I heard in the news that pissed me off.

This guy, with 5000 friends, strikes me as odd - isn't that more like what Twitter is for? I don't think Facebook was conceived with that kind of usage in mind. It doesn't scale to display such huge amounts of data particularly well.

It's fascinating how people will adapt your product to uses that you didn't intend; it must also be frustrating to hear them moan about it.
Same boat for me, I used to be an employee at a startup but now work for a huge company. Though I voted for sideproject because I'm doing one on my own now.
It's an amazing piece of work: Those 617 lines are in its own C subset, so it can compile itself into a native code ELF version.

This evolved into bellard's "tcc" compiler, which is the fastest (compile-time wise) available on linux, the only one I'm aware of that can be used as a library to run code in memory (without having to generate an .so and load that). And it's output performance, while lacking compared to -O3 gcc or clang - is not too shabby!
Yes, that point may have had some influence on the way I phrased my post.
The main focus of jQuery Mobile is NOT to be a competitor to native apps written in Objective C or even Sencha Touch. We aim to build touch-friendly UIs based on HTML5 for web apps and websites that are easy to build and work across a huge variety of platforms.

Sure, you can wrap a JQM site into an app with something like PhoneGap but I agree that a native app will always be more "native" and perfomant.

People never compare web apps built with jQuery UI to native applications created for desktop platforms, so it's a bit puzzling when we see developers try make comparisons between apps built with jQuery Mobile and Objective C. They are completely different tools, each with pros and cons.

The emphasis of the project is on embracing the web for mobile and I think that is the best way to judge the success of this framework.
Just throwing up a lot of crap and seeing what sticks doesn't generally work for me. To me, that's the slowest, most painful way to figure out what works. Studying the successes of others is my preferred route. This particular idea is kind of newly born, so probably best to let it incubate a bit anyway. And, as I said, I have not slept well this week. Posting with a clear head generally gets better results.
I find I'm a better programmer every year. I look at last year's code and think "What idiot wrote that?"

Or maybe I just never get any better, hm.
examples with XML tree

https://gist.github.com/783394

what to call it?

http://groups.google.com/group/scala-language/browse_thread/...
My colleague and I are working on a startup within an existing business. I think it was the way the question was phrased that yielded so few responses.
Wow, thanks for that clue. Will have to take a closer look at that source now. I don't feel too bad for not really getting it, given the creator of J saying this about it:

My immediate reaction on seeing the page was recoil and puzzlement: it looked nothing like any C code I had ever seen. (“Is it even C?”) However, Ken counselled that I should reserve judgment. As recounted in An Implementation of J, it then happened that:

I studied this interpreter for about a week for its organization and programming style; and on Sunday, August 27, 1989, at about four o’clock in the afternoon, wrote the first line of code that became the implementation described in this document.

The name “J” was chosen a few minutes later, when it became necessary to save the interpreter source file for the first time.
Aaahhh, ofc, now I see why that wouldnt work. Guess I learn something every day :)
Seriously? A 'if he's so stupid why is he rich??' argument? Ugh.
The commenter (on the linked blog) who said that the pizza shop has a small number of call-takers that put calls on hold until they are ready to service them makes a better analogy.