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Think about it this way: The web browser you are reading this on was likely written using C++. Here's a link explaining why C++ was chosen: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/41883/why-are... Also, 99% of all commercial games for Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii are written in C++ (probably also with some Lua for scripting). Like it or not, C++ is still the dominant language for these domains.
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One word: pageviews.
I'd imagine Mubarak has plenty of of Euros and USD in Swiss bank accounts, which he probably was working on transferring to backup accounts for the past few weeks.
The value of them is less than 1 million WinMo phone users, when those quarter billion people replace their phones if Nokia doesn't have a compelling offer they will lose them to competitors. The article looks to the past rather than the future. We are on the brink of a revolution in computing, it's 1984 out there. Looking to the past will not give you answers as to the future right now. Nokia was once a tire company and before that a pulp mill (Nokian still makes the best winter tires), if anyone has the courage and conviction to reinvent themselves it's Nokia.

Symbian is sold on low margins. If Nokia was doing so well on Symbian why did they replace their CEO?

Symbian may have been a smart phone platform in 2005, but it is no longer. I haven't seen anything impressive on Symbian, and of the features that Symbian does have that others don't I don't see anything compelling enough to give up the App Store. iOS / Android / WinPhone 7 have mind share, and Blackberry has the corporate market which is kind of like IE, you'd like to ignore it but there are simply too damn many people willing to fork over cash to do it.
arg, misspelling - by now.
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And useful if the number of days in a week ever changes.
Way way down in the TOS fine print:

"You agree to Creepyest Web Service Ever Pty Ltd sharing your social graph and stalkee selection with our business partners including but not limited to match.com, collegehumor.com, and the NSA"
Would you be able to use real-time updates for this to avoid polling? http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user/ I'm not sure if it notifies you on friends changes or just the user that authed your app. I assume the latter.
You should see the size of the style guides for the foundation and steelwork on a sky-scraper!

Of course if you are simply building forts out of sofa cushions then you don't need all this.
> At this point there might be nothing the OP can do except wait until the initial hump of traffic has died down: ifthe server really is completely bogged down he may not even be able to open SSH session to make any config changes.

I actually did some testing at that moment, before I edited the part you have quoted (I added this later), and I'm confident OP could have probably rescued it if he wanted to.

But I agree, it's pretty much game over because you can't edit the link after you've submitted it. So if you're not prepared to handle dense traffic, it's a good idea to submit coralled link instead or put your website behind CloudFront temporarily.
Isn't "it's complicated" just Facebook jargon for "unhappily polyamorous"?
This will be either proved or disproved when up to 20 new tablets are released by July. If you're right, it's gonna be ugly.
I built a Facebook app that does this for personal use. It's broken now since they released API changes, but it's pretty easy to do. Maybe I should go back and fix it and open source it.

Not sure what Facebook's policies say about these sort of notifications though.
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The first thing that comes to my mind when I see an opportunity to integrate a Facebook login button with a website is how to attract traffic from Facebook.

One of the most effective ways is publishing updates to the user's wall. However in this case it's tricky. You don't want everyone to know that you'll be notified when Pamela is single.
If you can do it based on your dependencies and your time, I don't see why you wouldn't, given the following:

* It's easiest to do when you don't have a wide range of versions to support. If you want to support 2.6, 2.7, and 3.x, writing a single codebase that supports both versions is not really that hard. It gets harder the wider your range gets, but it's not impossible. For example: if you need 2.4-3.x then you don't have the `as` statement, so exception handling is tricker across all versions.

* Run your code through `2to3`, it probably works. A lot of people are surprised at how close they are to working under 3.x, enough that there are some projects which successfully keep the codebase under 2.x and port to 3 via 2to3 only at release time.

* You need good test coverage to have a successful port. Period. This is one of the barriers a lot of people see to porting -- they need to stop and build up tests before they can even think about moving forward.

The initial effort in porting turns a lot of people off, as does the ongoing maintenance, especially when there's no audience for it, but as with the movie Field of Dreams: "if you build it, they will come". We need more projects to be proactive and spend a little time if they can...enough that the PSF will fund porting sprints (see www.pythonsprints.com)
Is the open-source Google Python styleguide all that different from PEP 8? It seems basically the same in most of the cases that matter.
Absolutely right. As one of those quarter billion, Symbian is the OS on my phone, but it is no platform.
Maybe I just need to see it to understand it. Is there a non-trivial app on github or somewhere I can look at? One that shows the strong side of Node.js?
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The demo was fun. I was working on a heatmap smiley and someone turned it into a peace symbol on me. shakes fist
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I've also seen it used to mean "I'm still sleeping with this person but don't want anyone to think he's my boyfriend."

Fucknemeses would also seem to be an appropriate use-case.
I believe he was making one of those things humans like so well... what are they called... ah yes, a "joke".
He claims that this article is relevant as Lady Gaga is a startup and so is Apple (i kid you not)....
Show HN: quick social contact list concept of mine
just another late night, weekend idea of mine.

my totally refined elevator pitch: it's Quora, without the Q&A. what does this leave, you might ask? well, the best part, imo - contacting people of interest, easily.

i just finished a couple hours of coding on this, and you can only really sign up and set your contact information. once you set your contact info, you're indexed by the full text search engine. people can locate you based on your name, email and company for now. It supports full-text searching, so searching for any part of the available fields will result in a match.

being the super awesome day dreamer that i am, i have about 100 feature ideas for this. does anyone think this might be cool or useful?

temporary url i already owned: http://cohack.it/
It depends on the attack vector you're trying to protect against. If you're on a machine you control (e.g., a personal laptop) and can vouch for its security -- that is, you're sure there's no kind of spyware installed -- https should be sufficient protection when connecting on public networks (especially open wireless connections).

Two-factor auth, on the other hand, protects you when you can't guarantee the security of the machine you're using -- someone able to capture the logon sequence won't be able to replay it at a later point in time.

Note that two-factor auth without https isn't clearly of huge benefit, as an attacker with access to your network may be able to capture the session token (e.g., through firesheep or similar tools).
click: http://cohack.it/

this is also hosted from my terrible time warner internet, from my house. apologies if it's super slow. my internet has funky dns issues.

searching for * will show all entries. wildcard support should function as expected.
Maybe comes from the fact that child mortality has reduced dramatically.

But the habit in this countries of having more than 5 children hasn't changed yet? Probably it takes a generation for families to adapt to the fact that you don't longe need to have several children to make sure that some of them survive to adulthood.

Take a look at this TED presentation for some amazing facts.
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_y...
As can credit card companies, I once heard on a Planet Money podcast I think.
Reminds me of the creepy Twitter bot I set up a couple of years ago (which is still going):

http://twitter.com/reboundfinder

The account got a mention on MSNBC; I have no idea why.
Article is pretty weak on the details.

This guy http://nodetuts.com/ has video tuts on using Express, Jade and Mongoose to make a simple web service.
Was it?

9/11 didn't change any borders. It didn't change the set of US allies and enemies, neither did it cause a change of government in US. It only caused a protracted but still relatively small war in Afghanistan. Its government fell but this change didn't spread to other countries. One could argue that 9/11 was a factor in the growth of radical Islamism (cf. speeches by Islamic leaders all over Europe, incidents in Netherlands, etc) but apart from the London bombings we didn't have any major incident linked to 9/11.
Interesting! I've been tinkering with something similar myself, though not quite as focused on 'mobile' and the SMS-inspired size limit.

One other site in the same vein is 'Factolex' – http://en.factolex.com/. (I saw one other tweet-sized 'reference' site in the last year or so but can't find the link.)

What are your hopes for Stubia? For example, do you prefer people make entries in an 'authoritative' or a 'whimsical' tone?
None of us can "tag" things except Graham and his minions.
At some point you do actually have to deliver something. You can pitch vaporware and get people interested. You might even get some people to give you money, but at some point you do have to deliver something. People pitching vaporware and never delivering can't be said to be a 'good' thing for the economy.
The site now allows anonymous posting.
BTW, tree decomposition is a generalization of dynamic programming. In a general structured problem you may not have a nice table recursion like in edit-distance example, and tree decomposition is what you get when you abstract away from tables. When problem structure comes from the real world, like with probabilistic networks, computers are much better at finding a good recursion than humans. Here are some pictures to illustrate tree decomposition http://yaroslavvb.blogspot.com/2011/02/generalized-distribut...
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Thank You, that clears it up for me. I don't think I am able to upvote you, or haven't figured it out. Maybe someone else will, for your kindness and time.
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I only started reading tc about a year ago and even in this amount of time I've seen the downturn. Steve and alexytosis(whatever) both write meaningless dribble.
I didn't mean that I don't like the request/response model. I meant going beyond that, by which I meant voicemail, hold music, extensions, conference calls, and so on, seems like it would be difficult to implement with the Twilio model. That's all.

If you don't need those, this looks killer. Otherwise, might as well just bite the bullet and set up Asterisk.
Why not collect information from Wikipedia Simple English? You'll start with a huge database of information.
^^this

I also had the same issue, oddly enough it got worse as i got more accustomed to the program. I think mainly because I was visually counting the boxes from the right to left.

maybe instead of boxes use a numbering or finger image? But yeah definitely some differentiation between the 'f' key and the 'space' key
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The article is a bit self-serving. The only thing you can do on twitter is post a link to a MSM article or blog. It's devoid of content because it's a communication platform, not a publishing platform. It's the equivalent of phoning up a friend and asking them what they thought of the article in the paper.

There is nothing wrong with being a communications platform, but it's not a publishing platform and there are certainly needs for sending < 140 character messages, note the popularity of SMS

The NYT would like to see more information consumers and fewer producers. Blogs may be declining as a percentage but they are certainly not declining in number. It's just much easier to run a cat blog with twitter + twitpic than wordpress. There always were far more cat bloggers than people publishing interesting content. The only difference is that now they have a platform tailored more to their needs.
I wonder if this applies to computer languages.
He couldn't possibly think it's safe to take that phone and use it, right? If so, being a spy doesn't seem that hard.
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Should've given him a set of region locked DVDs instead.
Honest questions (and from these questions you can probably tell that I haven't spent much time in Hospitals):

1 - Are you saying mere access to content is the problem? Do Hospitals have limited reading material? Do libraries not provide outreach services to patients? Do friends/family not bring content?

2 - Is there a need and/or market to create/aggregate content specific for this audience?

3 - Anything more specific about the content besides being uplifting? Seems like a broad range of content is needed, which is proving a challenge to my brain.

4 - Is there a technology angle to this at all? Hospitals aren't well connected, old people (who account for a lot of people in Hospitals I'd assume) aren't very tech savvy. I mean, given your audience here, is there something we can do at a technical level to help?
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:m51jMMm...

I had to use a Google cache article because when I click the original CNN link it goes to a new updated article.

The quote:

"We have no freedom here," she said. "I speak to all the world, to America, to Mr. Obama: Please help us. We (did) nothing. We want to live a good life."

Not that I support an interventionist policy, but this was shared to refute your point.
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Hi Luigi, this is what we call the "zone apex" issue. We're working on it

See my Route 53 post at http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/12/amazon-route-53-the-aws-d... from last December when I first mentioned this.
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It's likely a 'Cry wolf' issue where the OS sends warning dialogs about every download, even safe ones.

Right. This misunderstanding was the entire point of my post. Distinguishing between the "safe" downloads and the "unsafe" downloads is an instance of solving the halting problem.

Also, I was thinking of the Chrome "Run Application" dialog, not the UAC.
Big lie or little lie? Did she say she was manager of a large project when she shared most of the management duties with another employee? Or, is she fabricating a medical degree out of thin air?

Everyone puts their best face forward on a resume - and will usually stretching the truth a bit. But most don't engage in outright fraud to land a job. If she is doing that, well she may be facing liability down the road.

It's impossible to discern the severity of the lie from your question alone - for all I know you could be nitpicking douche-bag - OTOH she may be a conniving, money-grubbing harpie. Details, please.
They have a full voicemail & whatever thing with a web console for administration, as an OSS app, if you like that.

http://www.openvbx.org/

I don't actually use it, but I like the basic idea: spend your expensive programming time on places where your unique contribution adds value to the business. Common infrastructure code, on the other hand, is like a web server: download the appropriate bit of OSS, drop it in, go back to doing valuable work.

(I do my voicemail with a Twimlet, which is a less powerful version of the same idea: here's the minimum viable voicemail-to-email script, just copy/paste this URL into your config and you're good to go.)
some folks are probably lying. statistically speaking. anything to make themselves look better.

that said, sure, some are probably not. my sense has been that there are certain design tricks/styles that, once you learn them, you can apply them fairly fast if the scope and complexity are small enough.
As for docs and tutorials, I wrote one myself for the PSF Sprints group at http://docs.pythonsprints.com/python3_porting/. Brett Cannon just came out with http://docs.python.org/dev/howto/pyporting.html a few weeks ago. Both of these docs have a references section which lists a number of other porting guides that we borrowed from.

Library support is so-so. It's actually surprising how many libs out there could be have an initial port completed in an hour. I would encourage anyone to look at a dependency of theirs, run it through 2to3, then see what it does. Sometimes it's as easy as making a few fixes and it runs fine.

Obviously there are complicated projects out there where this isn't true, but I don't think there needs to be any distinction between amateur and professional porting levels. Just go for it. As I said in another post, taken from the movie Field of Dreams: "if you build it, they will come."
This is exactly the sentiment that led to us at QuickFuse (quickfuseapps.com) to skip creating yet another XML DSL for building voice apps. The voice dev ecosystem is overflowing with them, some new and some old (VoiceXML, TwiML, etc.), so we decided to move straight to a graphical representation that does the task.

For some things, a visual DSL like a callflow for voice apps or musical notation for music probably has the highest information density, and therefore becomes the most pleasing interface for being creative.
How does forcing registration help? The main barrier is that you need to answer a couple of questions and get upvotes before you can upvote others.
it reminds me of Greatfull Dead concerts..never the same meander every session..
Actually if you have an older Amazon account it was shown to be pretty terribly insecure.
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It's cool to support gay people and all, but if I'm straight I shouldn't have to look at all the dudes when I'm clicking who I'm interested in.
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For those that are interested in what a pin-scarred crack looks like:

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Each one of those wider flaring sections are places where people pounded or repounded in pitons.
There are two times when you'll be better of programming in XML. One is if the language you would otherwise be writing in is Java. (Or WCF in the MS stack)

The other is transforming XML documents (XSL) although this is quickly becoming more of a PITA than doing it natively as the various XML APIs start offering declarative syntaxes.
"But using JSON would have required parsing text in order to load the file."

As others pointed out, this is a silly objection. You still don't need to bring Lisp into your dependency chain. Many JSON libraries will let you serialize straight into a struct you define in C, and if you want to slam the resulting memory to disk and bring it back later, nothing stops you. You get the JSON interpreter for fast turnaround during development and a fast freeze/thaw when you're done and want speed, and the freeze/thaw is adding basically no code.

It won't be hardly any easier in Lisp than it will in C; what you win with an expressive language on a toy problem you'll lose with the impedance mismatch between Lisp and C. You can either write it once in C or twice in C and Lisp.
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With all due respect, I think you're completely wrong about this. I do not assume that most developers are competent.

In fact, when it comes to security, I assume most developers are about two steps away from handing out root on request.
I invented a new genre of poetry called Peomgramming. Here is an example.
In general, any time you find yourself beginning to write a comment that says "I didn't read the article" is probably a good time to just click on the article, or go back to the news feed, or close the tab and move along.
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I wanted to gauge interest. I think its pretty clear that people want a way more in depth tutorial/article and I'll put one together.

I'll try and make it chock full of details this time around.

The tutorials on nodetuts are solid.
Typical programming interview questions.
The number of Symbian users means absolutely nothing, because they're not worth anything as they're not buying into an ecosystem.

The Symbian devices sold are basically 'done' -- they'll never improve, and the person using them is basically never going to buy a single app or a piece of content for them. A much better comparison would be total revenue of the Ovi Store against all the other stores. That means something.

I'll make this analogy:

I own an electronic door bell. It's made by a large multinational company who probably have sold way more than 200M of these -- but they just make widgets, and who gives a shit? That doesn't make it a viable platform.

The vast majority of Nokia phones running Symbian are just a door bell. They make calls and do the job, but that's about it.
The basic goal of the site is to have a place where people can create content that would otherwise be deleted by Wikipedia; no concerns about notoriety and no pressure to expand articles. I don't really have any plans to impose any rules on the site, for now I want to focus on collecting the long-tail of articles that doesn’t exist on the web.

There is also a micro-blogging component to the site. Depending on the context attached to the article a series of buttons appear on the article page(By default just "Love" & "Hate", I left out selecting contexts for simplicity and data quality concerns), clicking on them creates a post on your profile: http://www.stubia.com/@abe

Let me know if you find that other link, I would be interested in taking a look at it.
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Not to mention, JavaScript unlike many other server-side languages, supports closures.
It's quite an advanced language, once you get used to it's (many) peccadilloes.
Yes, but not the whole Quora anymore, Right now, they use it just for pushing chunks of javascript to browsers

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[2] http://www.quora.com/How-does-Quora-use-Tornado
It's not Techcrunch, it's Steve Gillmore. I'd say he'd jumped the shark, but that would imply at once point he actually said something sensible.
And we've seen how well that's worked in the past... If there is even a whiff of the CIA helping out the protesters a good chunk of the Middle East will chalk up the whole revolution to the US meddling in the Middle East. I think that would detract from it's legitimacy and prevent the sentiment from spreading to other countries.