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Oh, hi Patrick.

The reason Rene Rebe wrote luabash initially was to speed up certain shell scripts without drastic rewriting of existing code, efficiency being the main justification for dynamic loadables (which came from ksh) in the first place.

The code here is simple, and I enjoyed reading it: it lit a few lights for me about how to use Bash loadables.
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"by sheer persistence and a constant playful spirit"

Pretty good advice for any challenging task.

Also, how cool is it that irish gaelic of all languages would get such a pretty website? I can easily imagine these becoming a series of sites, like the X pod 101 series. I would absolutely pay $15 a month for bitesizeicelandic.
I think illegal piracy downloading is the real competitor to Spotify, not CD:s or iTunes. This is the problem they're trying to solve http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/02/anatomy-of-a-pirate.html

As you might now The Pirate Bay and piracy have been huge in Sweden. Spotify have changed that when it comes to music. By making it _easier_ to listen to music via their application than via bittorrent/kazaa/napster/dc++ downloading, they're now the most used music player in Sweden. Just a few years ago the Pirate Bay top 100 list was full of music. Now there's two (2!) music albums on it, the rest is tv-series and movies.

If you look at it that way, that piracy is the competitor not cd sales, the music industry has a great opportunity in Spotify in the long run.
EDIT: I finally reached the end of that report and it asked the same questions I did. There was nothing demanded from the teachers, parents, or students. The district was top heavy and little of the money actually went to learning, instead it was funneled to more infrastructure, more computers, more administrators.
Yeah but $10? Where did try before you buy go?
These versions are NOT ONLY a security fix, they might contains some bugs. Fully test your applications before going to production.
See comments on: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/2/8/new-releases-2-3-11-a...
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Aptana is pretty good. Personally I prefer something a bit more minimalistic (yet still powerful), so I use emacs. Here's some footage of emacs in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2r8JfJJgy8

It has a bit of a learning curve, but it feels pretty productive once you get used to it, especially when taking advantage of it's many plugins. It's not for everybody, but be sure to check it out, along with some of its tutorials on the web.
That's actually separate. That's talking about a UIImage purging data, but in this case, it's the entire UIImage that is discarded from the cache that holds UIImages indexed by name.
This might be good news..

Remember their promise that US Patriot Act would be reviewed and debated before being renewed..the accelerated procedure did not allow for that but the regular process does in fact allow debate and review and reading the full act.
Hash bangs obviously aren't the only way to break web pages; has anyone else noticed that the current Google homepage has broken the keyboard shortcuts, at least in Firefox? You can't (or at least I can't) access the menu with the Alt key now.
Maybe I'm explaining the obvious here, but there is a reason people do this. If you have built your site so that the content is generated by Javascript running on the client then you need some way of making the page's current state visible so that it can be bookmarked. Without full adoption of HTML 5 that means you need to modify the URL. And the only part of the URL you can change without forcing a pageload is the part after the #.

So you need to do this if you want the user to be able to bookmark pages whose appearance depends on Javascript running. Think of it as the equivalent of "GET", but on the client - when the page loads, the Javascript reads what is after the # and re-generates the content.

Of course, that then breaks search and so you need #! which is a convention that allows server side code to give search engines the same thing that you are showing your user. But that doesn't mean that every use of storing client side state using # is automatically crazy or stupid or trivial to avoid.

Having said that, making a system that displays a blank page when Javascript fails is pretty dumb.
It depends (of course).
First of all, markup wise page content can take only a small part of the whole page HTML. Navigation, widgets, etc. can be substantial.

Also, you'd want Expires, not Cache control. Otherwise you may end sending dozens of request
just to get 304 back.

Keeping that in mind, sending single AJAX request which delivers _only_ content seems quite beneficial compared to full refresh scenario.
No political correctness, Led Zepelin, plenty of drugs, no anti-smoking hysteria, pre-AIDS free sex, Bieber not yet born, no Facebook and no Twitter, Miles Davis, Hunter S. Thompson, the chance to see a corrupt president resign for once, the opportunity of influence mainstream computing big time, quality movies as opposed to crap made for 13-year olds, no ozon layer-skin cancer crap,...

Hell, I'd rather be middle class in 1973 than rich in 2011.
It's not gone, it's just going to take a less expedited procedure to get it through the House. There are faster, amendment-free, debate-light procedures, and then there are slower, more amendment conducive procedures. In this case, they're going to have to bring it to the full floor and let people speak against it or try to stick watering-down amendments on it, but since the regular procedure only requires a 50%+1 vote instead of a 2/3 vote, it'll almost certainly ultimately pass in one form or another.
You sound like a prick more. Who gives a ff about your "future children".
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Oh ok, I had missed that part. So the purging can happen at both level, within the UIImage (which discards its data when it's linked to a file) and within a cache holding a UIImage (which discards the UIImage itself)? (the former seemed to match the described case exactly, which is probably why I missed the difference, sorry)
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Can you clarify something - what benefit does the #! syntax give your site specifically? The reason for using this seems to be misunderstood by the original article.
Most laws have a sunset provision. It provides an easy way to bring the topic back up again.
Awesome story - well played! :)
Text gets cut off in mobile safari.
I've been doing this (with my whole OS X system) for a while, and I do recommend it. As a multiple-language-learner, though, what I really want is some app or something to let me assign certain languages to certain apps, and also perhaps randomize the current 'active' language for the next app launched (from my list of known languages, of course). Bit niche I guess, but I'd buy it.
ugly is subjective - an opinion.
It's a no brainer to wrap a web app into a wrapper and publish it as a "native" app, too, so that it appears in the app store.
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I know. They also bought the name VAX, along with Compaq...
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What's really cool is, that on a system with a c-compiler and swig it is now possible (and trivial) to inline some C-code in a lua script, generate a swig wrapper from lua, compile it from lua, load it as a module into the lua interpreter and then export the defined functions automatically to bash!!
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Heh heh, perhaps Rubén can help me build that.
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> Spotify cannot be compared to iTunes and amazon, or traditional CD sales. It is more equivalent to royalties from FM radio play.

Well, that sounds like a strange simile to me. When listening to FM radio you do not chose what tracks you listen to. Spotify isn't Pandora. With Spotify, you can chose whatever track you like (as long they have it and there's no commercial queued). Lady Gaga got $167 for 1 million plays. Imagine what the small artists receives.

Spotify is controlled by the four major record companies: Universal, EMI, Sony and Warner. Even if they just own 18% of the shares, Spotify's entire existence rests on the trust that these record companies continue to license "their" music. The four record companies are using the power of Spotify to further strengthen its domination over other record companies and penalize artists outside their own team.

To me, listening to Spotify and actually believing you are doing something better for the artist than those who pirate is no less than delusion.
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Ieri, Stefano Zanero (che non ha bisogno di particolari presentazioni) ha pubblicato una notizia sulla lista sikurezza.org relativamente alla violazione della sicurezza della SuisseID, la carta di identità svizzera che consente, tra l'altro, di apporre firme digitali a valore legale...
> Yes.

Honestly, I'm sure you'd be able to find an excuse why it would be better to leave it until Monday fore someone else to do.
I should have made it clear I was talking about offline webapps - not something that is always dependent on a web server.
This seems like shoehorning a JavaScript-based web framework on top of an existing web framework, which looks like it adds a lot of work.

I almost threw myself out the window after seeing that hard-coded HTML in a JavaScript string. How is that maintainable or even nice to look at? It's not.

Am I crazy? What is the benefit of this? With a bit of customization rails could do this out of the box without a duplicate MVC arch.
Lawmakers urge FTC to investigate free kids games on iPhone
Right on.

Also, clean up the bathrooms when somebody's coming for an interview. Wipe the floor under the urinals and around the crappers. Why make a potential co-worker wonder whether working with you is worth living in filth?

But, it's also good leadership to put up a note saying "There's a rumor going around that this kitchen (or bathroom) is magic, and cleans itself. It's false! false! Please do your part!"
I like the smooth two-column layout and flow. It's very high class.
I'd be interested in seeing these studies, as all I have to go on is personal experience and experience with the GAOSP, MustyMod and the popular custom builds on Android forums.

So, you buy a new Android phone, try to download the Twitter app, and realise that your 2 month old phone will never be able to run it. Does the phone work?

A lot of custom OS projects wouldn't exist today if consumers believed it did.
"We would like to see the prime numbers distributed as regularly as possible."

Why? I don't understand why mathematicians seek regularity in prime numbers so much.
In 1993 Autodesk almost died
In a sense, yes. They have a 98% chance of failing in the next two years ;-)

(I am not sure what the number is for the US or Finland, but in Brazil, this was the death rate for commercial partnerships in their first two years)
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This is a great writeup Robert. Thanks for the overview.

What were the primary factors that signaled it was time to move to AWS for you guys? What else were you considering at the time?
Haven't we seen this movie before? At one point the web was a complete joke to the average user and now we have an incredibly diverse ecosystem of web applications.

I think that applications that require high performance will always require a native app, but for the simple business applications out there mobile web apps will certainly do just fine. The devices will get faster, the designers will work out the user interface issues, and the programmers will make it easier.

The next five year will be dominated by native mobile apps, after that I really don't think we are all going to continue to pay the expense of developing on multiple platforms.
I don't understand any of this. Who's Kevin Butler, why is he fictional, and what does battleship have to do with it?
As a victim/administrator of sendmail-based mail systems from the 1980's to the late 1990's, this was a pretty interesting interview: anyone know of good retrospectives from other epochal software, especially open source?

I'd love to see retrospectives and lessons-learned on BIND, awk, perl, ssh, the Linux kernel, PostgreSQL etc.

One of the noteworthy points is that Eric Allman really does skim over the unbelievably crappy model for managing security problems in the code and in configurations (understandable of course, for the time, but a retrospective on how that can be/is better now would be fascinating), the guru-level fragility and bizarreness of configuration (the implementor and administrator use-cases).

And also, more than a line in passing about sendmail.com, one of the first semi-open source startups.
Oh ok, so now I apparently can't decide for myself what I find patronising.

I have no problem with your argument — I'm just pointing out that you don't come across very well.

>I only speak the truth

Seriously…?
This seems like a pretty huge installation to put into GEO (geosynchronous orbit). Seems like space junk could be a big problem.
I moved to a German speaking country about a year ago. I'm not brilliant at languages, but I've made great progress and most people are surprised to find out how little German I spoke a year ago. Here are some of my tips:

1) Use Mnemosyne every day. It is computerized flash cards based on the SuperMemo algorithm. Do not skip days. At around 2000 words memorized (9 months) the 'switch flipped'. At 2000 words you can have conversations with about anyone. Business is still hard, but smalltalk easy.

2) Read trashy literature - People, In Touch, Celebrity Rags... these are all written so 10 years olds can read it. Newspapers use bigger words and don't have pictures. Reading about celebrities is a hassle, but it helps and it an appropriate level.

3) Got kids? Turn the Wii and Cartoons to the foreign language. This makes your play time also a learning process.

4) Do Not turn your computer to a foreign language. This will cripple your productivity. I am forced to work in German on a Windows box now and it is really awful and frustrating. Not recommended at all. Not one bit.

5) German Tuesday - Deutsche Dienstag - Every Tuesday was German Tuesday. Anyone caught speaking English to me had to pay a Franc into a Jar. If I spoke English then I paid. This make my German a fun game in the office. Plus we had Bier Freitag at the end of the week. I stole this idea from an outsourcing company I worked with where Tues and Thur were English only days.

UPDATE: For those learning German, the Mnemosyne flash cards on the website are mine. If you have any issues I am glad to update or help.
No matter how good the strategy looks on paper, it's useless unless everyone buys in. Its effectiveness will depend to a great extent on how well the new strategy, and more importantly the need for it, can be sold internally.
To check if a phone number is real, it's best to call it.
I've seen this happen on occasion and it's the one thing that really pisses me off about Spotify. I expect music that's in my playlists to actually be there when I want to play it. I pay for it, it's legal and it earns the labels more than the thousands of people who use Pirate Bay. When they yank the music I listen to, away from Spotify it makes me want to fire up my BitTorrent-client again.
* Partially owned by the big four (18%), who got their shares for basically nothing.

* So far, they're losing more money each year.
http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/11/22/spotify-had-a-16-66m-los...
Which, coincidentally, can also run Android (if you really want to hack it that much).
I work often at the Bates Hall. Spacious, beautiful tables, respectful atmosphere -- even when crowded it's remarkably quiet. The Johnson building is much less appealing.
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I think it is just an odd way of expressing a hope that the Riemann hypothesis is true and therefore we are confident that we know a bit more about the distribution of prime numbers.

I wouldn't read into it any more than that.
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?!?!?!?!?!

Are you saying that Roman numerals are better for counting than Arabic numerals? I suppose you don't mean count (I, II, III, IIII, V...), but show the number of men in the army. I don't see any advantage in using Roman numerals.

Lets say we divide infantry in XXX maniples of CXX men each, supposing they are complete and you haven't lost people yet in battle. How is that better than 30 maniples of 120 men?
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Indeed.

Also, while it's really its own discussion, I think Emacs is more usable with the Dvorak keyboard layout. Emacs's default keybindings pack a lot of important keys into the left hand on Qwerty (C-x, C-c, C-v, C-r, C-s), while with Dvorak they're distributed more evenly.

Remapping left-Alt to Ctrl is another option; that way, you can hold Ctrl with your thumb while you type.
From my experience, it takes total immersion in the language to become fluent. I spent two years in Brazil and it took 6-8 months before I reached the point where I began to think in Portuguese. It's a pretty amazing thing though, once you reach that point. You're thinking and even dreaming in another language. I still have dreams in Portuguese even though it's been 15 years since I returned to the US.
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Moreover, humans tend to have multiple identities. You see, I'm sort of another person for my family, than to my friends.

Facebook completely ignores this aspect.
erlang is called out as being ugly purely from hearsay

I have no preconceptions about Erlang. I've never seen the opinion that Erlang is ugly, and your code above is the first Erlang I've ever seen. I also know nothing about Haskell, but I found the Haskell example to be the most elegant.

So, a more reasonable conclusion: The fact that two people found the code ugly suggests that it is ugly.
Did he not give an example in that white text box just above that paragraph?

"Every 2 days or so, I’d go to my school’s quad and chalk every vertical surface I could find. Then I’d do the same thing in town. I even went to one of the dorm’s and used dry-erase marker on the mirrors and windows on each floor and in each bathroom. "
Hi Liedra. I DEFINITELY take your feedback as it really is a perspective I didn't think about.

As Marc mentioned the intent isn't/wasn't to exploit anyone for entertainment purposes. What initially wanted to do was raise people's awareness that homeless people aren't just all 'bums'. The best way to do this seemed to me to be to let them tell their story.

I agree I could do a transcript version of their story but I feel like:

1. That would be far less engaging, and as a result far fewer people would actually see their story (less people read nowadays that you think)

2. The chances that people would SEE, understand and lend a helping hand would be less. Think about it, would Ted Williams have ended up getting that HUGE break if his interview had just been a transcript? I feel like video is a much more emotional medium and as such would engage viewers far more.

However, the idea kind of transformed and I figured it would be better to interview ANYONE that people would find interesting and make them the offer. So by far most of the interviews will be people that are 'well off' that the public finds interesting.

Thanks for the links btw.. very useful stuff that I hadn't stumbled across before!
I would build my app in HTML5 for the iPhone if image uploading was possible (on iOS Safari all file input fields are disabled).

Considering that this feature is crucial for my project's success (i.e. the ability to take a photo and upload it with geolocation), a web app for the iPhone is the same as not having one in the first place (or worse, since it is crippled).

And for example, another limitation is that you cannot automatically put the focus on an input field, unless it originated as a response to a user action. Why is that? There are instances where I just want the user to start typing immediately after a page loads (typing itself is hard enough, finding the input element and tapping on it is an extra chore that I could do without).

HTML5 and other browser technologies are fine, if only phone makers would not put stupid limitations on what you can do with it.
> June 21, 1983
Nice. I tried to write a quick version of this for my response, but wasn't aware of insert-key-sequence.

Edit: insert-key-sequence doesn't exist on Emacs 22.3.1, is that a more recent addition?

Also, while not crucial, I prefer to add a my-X-mode-hook function and add things to that, rather than adding several lambdas to the mode hook - it's easier to modify them all after binding that way.
What's your email address? :)
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Mailplane rocks. It's more of an SSB than a pure native app like Twitter for Mac, but it has a lot of nice little integration points with Mac OS X.

It's not cheap, but it's well worth the price (its also due for a paid upgrade soon, IMO, as I have not paid anything beyond the first version three years ago).
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A reporter who wanted to refer to the race of a person would have used the term "Negro" as a neutral term. Not all categorizations are necessarily bad.

But I understand your point, and I think you understand mine, and there's lots of other important stuff to discuss- so, good thread.
> No one criticizes Samsung

Except me, maybe. I don't know anyone who's been satisfied with a Samsung device. I certainly wasn't with mine.
Will fix the LinkedIn URL. About stackoverflow/hresume - sure, what other web presences do you think we should have there?
Oh wow, thanks, Wikipedia really does have everything.
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"willing to delegate"

There is so much to be said here. When I first had the idea for the project i'm on now I decided to find someone to help me with the business tasks, and I found another person who knew the domain better then me. It took a few months, but eventually I found them. Then something weird happened. We were all in the same room, I had brought them both there because I knew they were the best! however I somehow couldn't allow myself to let them do the things they needed to do. For some reason, I still knew more than my domain expert, I was going to make better business decisions than my business guy. The meeting was great for meeting everyone, but in terms of progress none was made.

Then they found my weak spot. We went out for lunch at a bar, and for some reason never left the bar. After many beers, I had this drunken vision that I was doing things wrong! So I went home, and said to myself hey i'm the tech guy, i'm just going to worry about the tech, and let these guys do the things they need to do. Thats when the progress ball rolled down the hill.
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They can still be erased or tampered.