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In defense of the obssessed, let me say that "fun" is relative.

Lets' take CS out of the equation and consider the case of many basketball players. In their college and highschools, they found themselves mixed in with people who were good at sports but had no great innate talents, and also didn't obsesses about practice. These people punched their clock---coming in for after school practice---then went home to enjoy other hobbies.

Now the outliers---the ones who would eventually make it to the NBA--were a different breed. Not only were they innately talented, but they obsessed about the game from the point of view of a 'normal' player. They practiced their free throws till they were perfect, they re-watched their games till strategy was second nature, they pushed their natural abilities to the limits and as a result had far less time to do anything else.

The same applies to prima-balerinas who often started training at age 6, to young chess grandmasters who simply played and studied chess more than anyone else their age, to anyone who's field was competitive enough that mere talent wouldn't take you to the top.

Is Usian Bolt boring? Was Pierina Legnani boring?

And for that matter--do they consider their training to be boring?

Coming back to CS, computer science encoompases a wide enough range that one can have a "hobby" that is in CS that isn't similar to their job or studies. For example one can specialize in logic programming as their job, but come home and play around by (a) making a procedurally generated game with their kid, (b) a poker-bot for those online games they play, (c) a flash card program so they can better learn Japanese, (d) a better Netflix recommendation engine, or (e) art with RaphaelJS. All of these involve some level of programming, and some level of Computer Science. Are they all boring just because they still involve CS?
Well, I stumbled across a recording while I was cleaning him. He says that he belongs to someone named Obi-Wan Kenobi. I thought he might have meant old Ben. Do you know what he's talking about?

German -> Persian -> German -> Japanese -> Polish -> English -> Korean -> Chinese -> Italian -> Korean -> Spanish -> Polish -> Chinese -> Japanese

Oh, the game is pretty amazing. I have heard people kenobiraneun Obi. This point, I think this is old. You know?

--

I'm tempted to run some a Terms of Service through the translator a few times and see if anyone notices.
"Plains and traditions"? (I'm a USian.)
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There has been a big hype after the announcement of new iPhone 4 from Verizon. At the announcement it was also a big thing to hear that Verizon will be offering the Hotspot feature in the iPhone, on the other hand AT&T has provided the date of 13th Feb, 2011 to release the updated version and will be providing the Hotspot feature soon, but as it is in pending from AT&T, Verizon has taken all the attention of the people who were looking for this feature.
I disagree, but I do find it a very fascinating subject area. I would highly recommend reading through Valentino's "Vehicles"(http://www.amazon.com/Vehicles-Experiments-Psychology-Valent...). It's incredibly short, thought provoking, and somewhat humorous to boot.

He goes over building very simple machines that appear to have emotions, hopes, plans, etc., and goes over they exact topic you're talking about.
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I never realized plain foam can be an object of DMCA :)

It really doesn't matter how broken the security is, doesn't it.
Ok, let me make a nice analysis of responses about that post:

1) EA is obviously upset. They are asking people to wait to buy the game. This has two main reasons. The first being that the beta release is still buggy and will give a bad impression. The second being that they don't want people who would have otherwise bought the game get impatient and download it. Possibly seeing what a heap of crap it is.

2) EA did not bash the community. They just said "fans, please support us, piracy hurts our industry." Piracy of course referring to actually downloading and helping spread it. The response is basically "piracy is good, stfu, fuck off, you deserve it assholes". The response is completely blown out of proportion unless the OP was modified later on.

3) EA has nobody to blame but themselves. However they know this, and did not blame anyone else in the post. The responders seem to think otherwise.

4) I hate EA as much as the next buy, but lets be fair here.

That is all.
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I should clarify "low stress" and "fun". It's a big company so I have to do a lot of silly things. Quarterly reviews which no one reads, yearly training courses that are a waste of time, the usual big company politics, etc. These are not fun, but I spend most of my day hacking on challenging problems and learning from people that are smarter than me which is my idea of fun. Yes product people unrealistically want everything to have been done yesterday, but I have no problem letting that go in one ear and out the other except when they are right ;)

By low stress I mean that I don't have to work much overtime and no one calls me in the middle of the night or on the weekends to fix something. When I go home I can leave work at work unless I want to keep thinking about it. I enlisted in the army when I was 17 and spent a year deployed so my idea of low stress might be different than others.
You ever notice how executions always have 10 people doing something that can be done by one person? It's so that individual people don't feel responsible for the execution.

By that same token, it's easier to not feel responsible for deleting a page if it's a team effort. I would imagine that the admin who deleted them would probably say "I was just responding to complaints."
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Technology is one thing; society is another: I doubt anyone from the 19th Century could possibly imagine a debate over gay marriage. A crazy promoting it getting beaten down by a righteous world, possibly, but not a debate.
The wording I used for the fifth choice probably played played a role in why it got chosen the most.

More than currently - let students calculate almost everything by hand; let them use calculators/computers once they've done it by hand

Sounds the most traditional to me, and it seems as if people like traditional. However, I'd have thought most people would have wanted more reform. So it'd be nice to hear the views of the people who chose that option and why they thought it was the best.
@chrismonsanto has this thread (and the reddit thread) caused you to reevaluate what we, the programming community, consider 'notable'?

The easy reaction would be to focus on the flamers, harden your heart and drive ahead. The wise man, here, stops and thinks for a bit.

Restore Nemerle.
You can literally read these requirements as "some big mega corp my grandma might encounter has mentioned it."

This is spot on. I had to engage in a battle on Wikipedia to keep the page up for dream hampton. Not everyone knows who she is, but she was the editor for The Source at one time, and ghost wrote Jay-Z's autobiography, among other things.

What I ran into is that Wikipedia basically demands that you get published in these megacorp publications that are basically all run by rich white people, and mostly men. So being written about in black publications, which tend to be more magazines and online publications, and less Library of Congress kind of stuff, doesn't cut it according to Wikipedia's notability "guidelines". If the white editors don't recognize the publication names, they don't "count".

The fact is, if she had been editor of Rolling Stone, I don't think there would've been a problem.

There were other factors too... being an editor and ghostwriter means she's more behind the scenes, and less likely to get outright exposure in the press. But that, too, is a requirement that I think turns Wikipedia into an amplifier of power, rather than a distributor of one.

I'm not sure if there was some outright racism going on too. I mean, she was mentioned in the New York Times and people were still calling for her page removal. At that point things start to get a little murky for me. But the situation was fishy for sure.
I took this literally (maybe a Speed kind of scenario?) and got super excited.
This year I donated 50€ for the worthy cause of Wikipedia. One of my arguing points was that there is a lot of obscure information I am sometimes looking for that there is no reference of - except for Wikipedia.

Jimbo put your dog on a leash, or next year, when your bambi eyed face gazes into me from my monitor, I will send a turd in a bag instead of a donation.

Does anyone know what address I could/should send my complaint to for maximum impact?
> Instead of improving the pages (which any self-respecting graduate student could do over a cup of tea and a scone) you just erased them. Unilaterally.

Well, technically he and an admin deleted them unilaterally. Regardless, you're correct. The focus should be on building knowledge, not tearing it down.
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I don't know everything involving the whole process but in regards to what you would study in college for the type of people involved in creating hardware are often mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, and industrial designers.

A good source of finding out the types of positions for these things also are looking at current companies in the hardware space, such as Apple. Their job boards are very telling =]
First, race isn't purely a social construct. Obviously race is determined, at least partially, by ancestry and physical appearance, both of which are things science is fully capable of empirically measuring. The common conception of race is probably too flawed and inconsistent to use for scientific purposes, and most contemporary mainstream scientists who study human genetics don't use the word "race", but it's not a completely arbitrary and unfounded concept. If it was, public health offices wouldn't use it to narrow down which groups of people are at greater risk for genetic conditions like sickle cell disease.

Second, even if there is no scientific validity to the concept of race (and there very well may not be), I think everyone knows what the term "scientific racism" means. So I don't see the constructive point in your comment. My point is that there's a distinction between arguing about IQ statistics and burning crosses in people's front yards; I think you're using rhetorical tricks to undermine that point rather than arguing against it directly.
This is really interesting.
Do you remeber more details , or can give a link to the study ?
I think you're reading something I didn't say -- I'm not sure I'm even on board with banning the actual deathsticks (I could probably persuaded to go either way).

I find Zynga distasteful -- and I say this as someone who has paid them money because they push my buttons very successfully -- for social justice reasons. Basically, I think their entire business model is targeting weak people and extracting large amounts of money out of them in return for very little value. It is no skin off my nose that I spent $150 -- I knew what I was doing and I can make that much in my sleep -- but it distresses me to think about who is actually paying $600 million a year. I rather suspect that comfortably well off software entrepreneurs make up no significant percentage, and that more vulnerable members of society are getting taken to the virtual cleaners.

There are quite a few businesses with similar models. I find them pretty much universally distasteful. That doesn't mean I'd necessarily illegalize them.
It's made by Adobe and is associated with Flash, therefore it must be disliked.

In all seriousness, if you take out the Flash integration in Air (which I presume they would have to to make it work on iOS devices) then Air is basically like PhoneGap with a nice set of javascript APIs.
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It has started getting stuck on translations from (but not to) Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, even though the translations execute quickly when I do them in Google Translate. It happens in Chrome and Firefox. I was able to use it for several minutes before this started happening.
Content that validates your concept, approach, ability to execute etc. goes on the corp blog, interesting things you find along the way go on your personal blog.
AIR apps don't feel right. In the way that, for many, the subliminal feeling is what differentiates good iOS apps from everything else, AIR apps feel weird. All of them

So do feel the same about every web app? Because Air is basically just webkit with some prepackaged APIs.
My friends and I had a lot of fun with translationparty.com, and I heartily second the creation of links so people can share. Shakespeare is always fun. Can anyone guess what these two are?

The death of hell for all of us dog, the dog's eyes in front of him, with his teeth, worrying lambs and noble lineage, and the masterpiece of God, a tyrant on the planet Defacer well fail, this is usually called the soul exists in the eyes, bruises, your uterus relax, to pursue our grave.

But I have to by law, larger than this year, the President, a child, but no more expensive orders my mind: What is worse, actually came to this world was sent, but his mother was right: when there a very good exercise, and a son of a bitch, must be recognized

It does better with shorter sentences:

Come on, you in me unsex human spirit, I filled with senior officials of the terrible cruelty of the full ah! Make my blood thick, blocking the access channel and remorse, and that nature, I do not blame the purpose visitings down, the effect is no peace between, for me! Come to my woman's breasts, and take the courage of my milk, the ministers murder

This one came out impressively accurate:

This is a dagger before me, the handle toward my hand?
I made a small edit, but I reverted it. Is it fixed now?
> Is anyone building a digg/reddt alternative?

You're soaking in it.
He's a wikipedia admin. It is commonly recognized fact that all wikipedia admins are on egotistical power-trips, what do you think is going to happen?

You will never see an admission of wrongdoing.
I doubt it. Chances are, he's just taking an "I don't make the rules, I just enforce them" attitude. I'm always annoyed by people who don't evaluate rules critically, but I suppose that's just something you have to deal with in life.
>"...you're going to be a professor, a profession devoted to the advancement of human knowledge and educating laymen in this knowledge"

Correction: a professor is a profession devoted to advancing human knowledge and then locking that knowledge behind expensive paywalls so that only elites with institutional subscriptions can afford to read it. Academia couldn't care less about the knowledge available to the average internet user. You could burn all the books in the world and they wouldn't care as long as the copy in their affiliated-persons-only library stayed safe.
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Of course, when you discover nuclear fission, they then come knocking on your ivory door with apologies and pretty words.
I'm not really a Flash developer so I have to ask: Is the only issue you see with Flash that it runs poorly on Macs/Linux?

If this is, in fact, the reason that many people hate Flash then Adobe is really dropping the ball by not making this performance issue their highest priority.
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I wanted to post about this, but I could not remember the name and googling things like '(collaborative OR crowdsource) static binary analysis' was futile. Thanks, it was driving me insane.
Stop thinking about government spending as if there's a magic money fountain and start thinking about it like it's your own money. Yes, it would be great to spend twice your income on a better car, but the mere fact that it would be a great car, a really great car, man nobody should have to live without this car car does not make it a good idea. Nothing that science research is going to feasibly produce is better than having a country that is still fiscally sound, and that goes for a great deal of other things that need to be cut.
What is a bankrupt society supposed to do with the results of this research, anyhow?

I say stop thinking about the government spending as if a government budget is similar to a family budget or a company budget.

It is impossible for the US government to be "bankrupt" if the debt is held in US dollars. Impossible. You might not like the situation but the analogy you are operating on is deeply flawed with respect to reality and leads to bad decisions being made.
Nope. Here's some Japanese it got stuck on:

しかし、陽気なトリックの形ではない私は、また好色そうなガラスを裁判所に請求する。ぶし刻印していますが、、、愛の威厳はニンフをアンブリング悪意に満ちた前に誇示したい、私は、この公平な割合の縮小午前、自然を装うことで機能の浮気、変形は、未完の、私の時間に、この呼吸の世界の前に送ら乏しく、半分はまた、交流したので、弱々しくと時代遅れその犬は私に樹皮私はそれらが停止になることは、なぜ、私は、この弱い配管平和の時間がない喜びは、太陽とデスカントわたし自身の変形に私の影をスパイする場合を除き、時間を離れて渡す必要があります：私は、恋人を証明することはできないため、これらの公正よく話された日を楽しませるには、それゆえに、私は決心している悪役を証明するためにそして、これらの日のアイドル快楽を利用しています

And some Korean:

하지만 미러 사랑, 나 난폭하게 찍혀 법원에 운동이나 트릭에 대한 형상에 있지 않은 내가, 그리고 당신이 당신의 폐하는 공정한 비율을 감소 무자 비한 ambling 요정 내가 전에 잘난 체하면서 사랑하는 함수를 속여서 이 세상의 호흡, 내 도착하기 전에 보낸 기형 자연, 끝나지 않은, 감추기 위해서 어디에 가난한 절반, 그리고하고 약한 밖으로 패션의 날 내가 그들을 위해 내가 그 때문에 튜브를 중지 짖는 개 나 사랑하는이 박람회의 일을 알고 증명할 수 없기 때문에, 그리고 따라서 : 평화의 짧은 시간은 태양에 내 그림자를 감시하라는 게 아니었과 내 자신의 기형에 넣어 지출 시간의 즐거움을 가지고 있지 , 그래서 제가 악역을 증명하기 위해 오전과 당시의 유휴 기쁨을 미워, 잘 구사합니다.

Here's some Persian, too:

اما من ، که هستم برای ورزش کلاهبرداری متناسب نیست ، آیا دادگاه عشق آینه ، من که هستم rudely مهر ، و می خواهند عظمت عشق را به قبل از گستاخ پوره ambling من قدم زنی با تبختر ، که هستم این نسبت عادلانه ، فریب خوردن از ویژگی های dissembling طبیعت کاهش می یابد ، تغییر شکل ، ناتمام ، فرستاده قبل از زمان من رو وارد این دنیا تنفس ، به سختی نیم شکل گرفته ، و این که تا ناشیانه و unfashionable که پوست سگ به من که من متر &#39; متوقف شده توسط آنها ، چرا من ، در این زمان ضعیف لوله صلح ، هیچ لذتی را هم به تصویب ، مگر آن که به جاسوسی در سایه ام خورشید و نظرات را در تغییر شکل خود من : و بنابراین ، از آنجایی که من می تواند ثابت کند عاشق به عادلانه می دانم این روزها صحبت خوب ، من مصمم هستم تا ثابت تبه کار و نفرت را با لذت از این روزها از استراحت نیست.

It's related to length. This Japanese selection worked fine:

あなたが必要がありますあなたのドリンクやあなたの売春婦を残すと、ドアの維持などを、、あなたショーウェスト以上を持ってあなたは知っておら未満を話す、なたowestはなく、ライドに行くのだより、より多くのあなたは、Setあなたthrowest未満trowest未満貸しポイントつ以上の多数。

As did this Chinese one:

比你不容多，说话比你知道不，借不到，你把所欠的，乘坐更比你走到哪里去，更比你trowest，设置比你throwest少;给你喝，你的妓女，并保持在室内，你就会有更多的两年多的几十点。

P.S. Gone to bed. Thanks for the amusement! I'm sure I'll check back tomorrow.
The past few decades have been dedicated to things that haven't been solved yet.
A more appropriate comparison would be McDonald's.
1) they do at movie theaters, restaurants, a lot of places. a 12 pack costs more than a 6 pack. etc, etc.

2) you still get the point. it's then even more clear that it has nothing to do with the underlying cost.
I just went through your history and concluded you've got a seriously skewed view of reality. Of your few dozen comments, only a handful has been downvoted, of which only one to -4, which was because you posted:

YAWN! n00bz, you really bore me here.

Your assertion that your answers are not 'accepted easily' and suffer 'ridiculous downvoting' is completely unfounded.
How to follow the 25 Bahman protests in Iran today
On Twitter: http://www.twazzup.com/?q=25bahman

Enduring America's live blog: http://www.enduringamerica.com/home/2011/2/14/the-latest-from-iran-14-february-it-is-25-bahman.html

Tehran Bureau, via PBS: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2011/02/iran-live-blog-25-bahman-14-february.html
I think the key here is that Wikipedia's notability requirements really only apply to people, publications, and events. For some things, for example the article on esoteric programming languages, it doesn't really make sense to talk about notability.
You could try the peepcode screen casts. I heard they were a good start. http://peepcode.com/products/meet-rails-3-i
I'm pleasantly surprised by this article. I expected it to be another "Facebook clubs baby seals" article (which is what I've learned to expect from techcrunch), but it was a great insight into Silicon Valley culture.
You could always create an esoteric languages wiki of your own if you were all fired up about it (I work at wikia, and that's the service we provide, we have 170,000 wikis on various subjects, using the same software! Founded by the same guy!)

But that's not really the point here. It's just because it's wikipedia that everyone gets all weird about it. The information is out there, I don't see why it's so important that every esoteric project have a wikipedia.org page. It's not supposed to be a compendium of ALL human knowledge, it's an encyclopedia of generally useful knowledge. There has to be SOME criteria for excluding stuff. There's already a problem with wikipedia containing way too many pages about nerd topics and not enough information about the rest of the world.
The first public victory of inclusionism over deletionism. Perhaps it is not too late for Wikipedia. If only similar mobs could mete out rough internet justice to the top ten most notorious deletionists, casual contributors may once again walk the hallways of Wikipedia.

[only partially tongue-in-cheek here...]
The server itself is written in arc and as is news.arc, the server was written to "just work".
Plan B ¶Put out a yearly publication on Lulu.com … This publication is then a legit secondary source by a real publisher…

Uh... nope.

Hey, I have an idea! Let's publish suggestions like this to a blog and purport for it to be sound, so then it can be picked up by quacks who have an agenda to push in a bunch of completely unrelated situations. (Think vaccine scare pushers or those looking for self-promotion, who already exist in abundance on Wikipedia). Yeah! Let's all eschew with stuff like a "nuanced understanding".

Whether you are for or against this instance of deletionism, Shaw's plan B here wouldn't successfully legitimize anything of any subject matter, and that's a good thing.
Mr. Obama ended the call, the official said, with these words: “I respect my elders. And you have been in politics for a very long time, Mr. President. But there are moments in history when just because things were the same way in the past doesn’t mean they will be that way in the future.”

I can't recall a single dictator in the modern history of the world which would fall down without US interference. People's engagement and activism is hard to undervalue and for sure the revolution is in their hands, but when I came across lots of such comments http://i.imgur.com/7u8xk.png I was really disappointed how people tend to easily forget history.
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It's rare that I can't find some article about the "rest of the world" on Wikipedia that I'm looking for. What part of the world have I been overlooking?
Even after this "reversal", I'm not sure he understands why people were angry about his AfDs.