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Interesting idea. However, the voting metaphor is incorrect here, (as I think you even said). The only thing it really solves is that it determines what learning style is dominant.

If there existed an easy or common way of determining most favored learning style, then people with these alternative dominant learning styles could filter by those. I'd love that.
Haha, this is just the logical successor to brain dumps http://mcse-braindumps.net/

"if you read our exam dumps Seriously, you will pass the exam 100%"

vs

"candidates will be able to leap through the common hurdles of technical interviews"

These sites do neither candidates nor interviewers any favours.
How can humans survive in a post-food world?

This is just unsensical.
I wonder if shorter videos would help. I know when I did video lectures, it helped immensely to speed them up anywhere from 1.2x to 2x, depending on the lecturer and the audio quality of the video.

Additionally, watching the video could be an assignment that counts towards a grade. Sure they could sign in, turn on the video, and walk away, but this at least provides additional motivation to do the first two steps, which may be all you need to overcome the activation energy for many students.

Additionally, threats of failure help - I had a course that was considered the filter - about 50% failed every semester. I think I was motivated by that statistic because it ended up being just about the easiest class I had. The motivation was less about not wanting to fail and more about showing excellence where common people fail.
Depends how you constrain the tags. I mean, I hear this "people lie" thing, but when was the last time a brick-and-mortar business website you saw lied about where they are? What benefit does one have in saying your business is actually located in New York City rather than Miami.

I don't see why the same wouldn't apply for porn. If I'm running a pay-for porno site offering premium woman-on-horse action, I'm not interested in, I dunno, gay guys turning up. The people you want turning up are the target audience because those guys are going to pay you money. If the cost for lying in the tag is sufficient (i.e. Google won't rank you as high), then you've got a motivation for telling the truth.
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That's really impressive. I've been working on a web only code editor for a few weeks (on and off), so I can appreciate the work gone into this.

They built it using Objective-J (according to the source code).
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I'm amazed at the amount of "this is crap because I already knew it" comments in the articles comment section. Sure one sees this a lot on the web but it seems to me that it's becoming more and more common.

As a hobbyist in the field I find articles like these very interesting. However I find it hard to find larger collections, or even better books on such subjects. So much of what I come across is bloated with crap. Very seldom can I find collection focusing only on the why and how. Any tips?
You're right about the live results being entertaining. Possible google docs has something to contribute, after all. Not that I'd be able to use it in most of my work, because off-site storage has legal implications, where I live.
Ooops. My bad.
Yeah, in particular it would be great to see how the load time compares. John found that even loading literal JSON in a JavaScript interpreter is much slower than loading a comparable length string. Presumably the latter is just a buffer copy operation.
I actually bought a license after using the editor for quite some time. It's the first time I spent money on a text editor, despite having the possibility to chose from a number of free alternatives. For me, this money is really spent well for various reasons, the most prominent ones being that the software makes me happy and I really enjoy working with it.

I'm currently using version 2, too, and the developer is pushing updates on a weekly base (http://www.sublimetext.com/2). I even requested a change in the forums once; the developer kindly responded to my thread, and shipped my requested change with the new version.

Awesome work, seriously!
This Cω/LINQ concept of unifying XML and object data access with SQL- and XPath-like syntax is elegant and obvious (aka intuitive).

Does it get much usage?

Most XML access is delegated to tools these days, and SQL is so familiar (and type-based access so unfamiliar), that it seems unlikely to make inroads on either - nor offer substantial practical benefits. That is: no order-of-magnitude benefit to overcome barriers to adoption.

Have you personally found LINQ beneficial? Has it been widely adopted? Why/why not, do you think?
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I think he means you can't download code then compile it yourself on a phone handset. Tho' having said that, there's probably no actual technical reason you couldn't have gcc/make/whatever on Android.
Write, then re-write.
Scripting languages don't need this though.

Did you miss the reason why we're compiling while you type? It's so that our IDE knows your codebase and can help you. It'll autosuggest things based on context rather than simply matching strings. It'll inspect your object model and stick in the right include directives for you. It'll let you rename things without having to search&replace&hope.

So yes, scripting languages do need this. At least if we're talking about things that your development environment needs to do to be considered a modern IDE.
I don't think you can learn a language properly on your own. You need people to interact with to learn how to speak it properly.
You've no idea how good it is to see an IDE on an iPad. Editing doesn't seem to work, but so what; it's _there_
If you can read German, I suggest perusing Silvio Gesell's "Die natürliche Wirtschaftsordnung". The author belongs to the rare-breed of free-market socialists, and has some interesting ideas about money and land.
I have never sold (or bought) a web app before, but I have had to value various different types of assets due to my job. The most common valuation technique would be to use the Discounted Cash Flow model. In short, you project your pre-tax cash flow for say the next 10 years, and discount them at the required return which the investors are looking for. This rate is determined by a multitude of factors, such as the stability of your business model, target market, etc.

Then at the end of your projection, you simulate a sale of your business by 'capping' it at a certain rate. Then you add this terminal value to the sum of all the discounted cash flows calculated above, you have the total value for your business.

Of course in hi-tech sector things fluctuate too much too quickly. But the model should be the same, you just have to adjust your discount rate and terminal capitalization rate to account for those fluctuations.
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As a counter-anecdote: India only started getting rich, when they dropped the protectionism somewhat.

Perhaps rich countries can get away with more protectionism than poorer ones, and they are rich despite it, not because?
"encryption and identity... as distinct concepts"

It is pretty standard to view these as separate concepts, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_security
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We are aware of this and are working on an on screen keyboard, kind of like this: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/integrating-virtual-k...

To answer the question below: we would need a custom layout to ensure all the curly brackets and other common JS chars are one tap away
My implementation is very similar to SSA_RRR on the pizza&chilli website. The index implementations on the website are not easy to understand (research code + 8 years old) so I'm trying to re-implement a few of them (especially CSA).

I used some of the test data on the website to test my implementation [1] but didn't really compare to their other indexes.

Also make sure to always use the chilean mirror as the italian one is outdated (2005).

[1] https://github.com/mpetri/FM-Index
The number sign (pound sign, octothorpe, etc) separates the fragment identifier from the URL. Browsers don't send characters after the # to the server. It works with Twitter because they use Javascript to AJAX in data from additional requests. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragment_identifier
Out of interest, if you are warned that a site's SSL certificate has changed, what steps would you take to confirm the authenticity of the new certificate?
The key here is that the data is obtained via a 3rd party. Once you as an individual share any information with a 3rd party you lose any expectation of privacy. In the digital world there are specific carve outs for email, but not much else.

These actions are terrible, but completely legal.
"I enjoyed the ads and thought they were rather clever."

Would you still have enjoyed them if they riffed off (say) the 9/11 attacks [1] in an attempt to be "edgy"?

Imagine ...

"The Twin Towers were destroyed, five planes blown up or crashed with all on board, 3000 Americans died ... but New Yorkers still make the best burgers..."

Would that be equally "clever and enjoyable" ? Or would you be outraged?

[1] I assume you are American. Feel free to replace with any atrocity you have a resonance with. And fwiw I believe "edginess" is a poor excuse no matter which specific incident of innocents being killed is used as background for the "edge"
Using {{tag}} notation seems to work well enough on Wikipedia -- could you elaborate on the difference between Tempo's use and Wikipedia's?
The gap is way shrinking. The mobile web originally meant browsers that barely supported HTML (does WAP ring a bell?), picture support was sketchy, and bandwidth was a major concern as connections were very slow. Now the majority of mobile use that use it more than once in a blue moon have the same rendering engines as most desktops on connections that rival (in my case surpass) what we have available through telcom ISPs. Screen sizes are really the only difference oftentimes. Indeed, even the plug-in landscape is similar as many smartphones over Flash plug-ins and so forth.
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yogsototh thank you for submitting this. We are seeing 150 or so concurrent users on the site due to this at the moment. I'm retweeting some of the other online reactions we're getting at https://twitter.com/akshell_com
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>Echelon

Get with the programme ;) The new hotness in european wiretapping is called the INDECT project. Here's a presentation from CCC where a representative of one of the firms contracted to build it gets into an argument with the assembled hackers during the Q&A. It's pretty entertaining.

http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2010/27c3-4237-en-indect...
Be nice to see a non-OSX skin. :P
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I've been using Komodo Edit for a while. It has a few quirks/issues but overall I think it's the best editor that's not Emacs/Vim. I'm keeping an eye on Sublime Text 2 though.

As for the link: some terrible choices. ActivePython is an IDE?
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Try writing to your own MP. You'll almost certainly get a reply. If he/she's not interested, then try engaging Tom Watson MP's interest. Odd for a ministry department not to respond, though.
mb:~ doug$ perl -e "if ('ω'=~/\w/) {print \"It IS a word character.\";} else {print \"Maybe my language settings?\n\n\";}"

Maybe my language settings?
The same effect [as abolishing all TLDs] could be achieved in a backward compatible way by allowing arbitrary TLDs i.e., google, facebook, cnn would be TLDs in www.google, graph.facebook, api.cnn addresses.
ok, but it's created by iOS so surely can be trusted just like Safari?
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What's the valid use? It isn't as if all the porn sites are going to give up their current domains and move into .xxx right? So what is the point? You can't force them to move. Who would be the judge on what needs to move into .xxx even if they could force it? No, it was stupid.
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The 3 columns are #ababab on #ffffff in Chrome, in other words a 33% difference in brightness. For primary body text of regular or thin width, a lot of readers are uncomfortable below 50%.
150? It's only the beginning :)
In my experience, even if you're not learning any new concepts or techniques, you're learning about parts of the code base you would maybe not touch normally. This can be a huge advantage when it comes to localising/fixing bugs later, or when the "owner" of some code is on holiday (or sick, or has left the company) and urgent changes need to be made in "their" code. Having at least 2 people know about every corner of the project is worth the cost of the code reviews.
>Why can't the domain name registrar give me a SSL cert for free?

http://www.startssl.com/ will give you a free class one SSL cert that works in all major browsers. They will also sell you a class 2 cert with wildcard support for $49 a year. These can cost $800+ in other places IIRC.

They are trying valiantly to destroy the entrenched price structure of the SSL cert market and I wish them the best of luck.
You could write your own, the interface is fairly open and Firebug is all you need.
Illuminating. Seems that the academy's recent focus on mastery and testing is of utmost importance, at least that way students who watch the videos but do not absorb the material will realize they don't actually "get it" when they can't answer the questions. The key will be in devising problem sets that truly require mastery and not just plug and chug or rote memorization.
I like it that there are at least 2 other programmers out-there using Python's IDLE. All this time I thought I was the only one using it :)
Basically if you see a certificate on the interwebs, it goes through and says:

"This particular website is X". And it can back this up with all sorts of fancy math.

The problem then, is how do you know that the particular certificate is correct? I can go through and make a certificate saying that i'm santa clause. How you get around that is by using another certificate that you already have, and using that to certify the websites certificate. Ie. if you trust godaddy (or the hong kong post office), and I have a certificate saying that i'm me, signed by godaddy, then you can trust that i'm me.

The collection of certificates that you trust are then called the "root ca", and having random certificates there is a problem because if one of them was to produce a forged certificate, you'd never know about it. ie. by adding in untrusted certificates to your root ca, you lose trust in the whole certificate chain of trust process.
Took an hour and a bit yesterday to improve my eBay listings, like so: http://tinyurl.com/67dou5n (link to the app, not eBay).
> My implementation is very similar to SSA_RRR on the pizza&chilli website.

Thanks for the code, I've seen you are using libcds's wavelet tree. I was wondering if you had implemented your own, since apart from libcds and sdsl (and some unreadable research code) I couldn't find any other implementation of the WT so I'm always curious to see if there are any developments in the engineering of wavelet trees, the current implementations are still too slow to be really useful, I think.
I got introduced to talker app a while back while working with the guys from Teambox. I'm based in the UK while they're all over (Spain, US, UK). I didn't really see the point at first and figured Skype/IRC would be better but the more I used it the more I never stopped going on about how cool it was. I'm a little surprised but super excited that it's now free!
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It would be more annoying if it actually displaying trending Twitter topics instead of "#everyone #loves #the #dickbar".
That's neat Roman, didn't know you were working on this. I'll have to put you in touch with somebody else who wanted to build an eBay app on top of Akshell.
The line I've heard is that experienced lawyers would rather be tried by a judge if they were innocent, but a jury if they were guilty.
Just out of curiosity, why do you browse without javascript?
Ah… a teachable moment. The reason it doesn't work on twitter is because they serve their page with the following header:

X-Frame-Options:SAMEORIGIN

You can also use the following value:

X-Frame-Options:DENY

This prevents a different site from framing your site. Increases security against click-jacking phishing a bit. Modern browsers will recognize it and enforce it. Super easy to implement and recommended for all of you web app developers out there.
Try geany, it's like a smarter gedit. Perfect.
How well does the {{}} syntax coexist with server-side template languages like Django's one which uses the exact same marker for placeholders?
Adds value?

Think of it this way: would you want to live in a world where everyone is like the author of that article?

I know I wouldn't. Nothing would get invented and nobody would take any risks. Everyone would just sit back and criticize.

I would much rather live in a world of dreaming entrepreneurs, who are sometimes wrong and who sometimes fail.
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Impressive. May I ask what libraries do you use for the menubar and all UI widgets?

Also, is the web a "pretty proxy" that redirect everything to a node.js server which does the actual work?
Not having to configure & admin a VPS is one of the reasons to use irccloud.

That, and the fact we are building a really slick web interface you can access from multiple machines easily. You'd be paying for an integrated server/bouncer/client package.

Also, for many people the €3 and €5 plans are ample; so the €12 represents our most expensive option.
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I should have said that I found the technique interesting and insightful. Learning doesn't happen without engagement -- that's the key point. I just thought it was a bit disingenuous to ignore what Khan Academy is beyond video lectures & "worry" about it being bad for students.

Re: Point 2. Yes, I just looked over the Khan Academy knowledge map and it does look like I was wrong; however, I'd still posit that there is more to Khan Academy than just videos (I've talked about the "Coach" elsewhere in this thread). But I can see the point the author is trying to make and I'm not asserting that the method is wrong, but that he's glossing over everything outside the video content of Khan Academy.

That said, I think the idea is a really good way to give students a better way to engage with the subject. It adds another way for a student to engage, which can never be a bad thing.
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It's a kind of a Javascript framework called Cappucino, I assume.
Interesting tweet: "... someone made the old @heroku for node.js" -- did Heroku start out as a browser-based app builder?
Having one of those "You know I had this very idea back in 20xx, I should have jumped on it" moments. Best of luck uTest, I'm glad to see someone had the same vision and executed it!
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Inspired by http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2347428

Related to http://adage.com/special-reports/agencyalist/147
I'm sure the NSA is listening to Freenet, but it doesn't matter. That's the advantage of Freenet.

Among the disadvantages of Freenet are that it's incredibly slow, difficult to find content on, and cannot access content on the regular internet.
I'd think .cym for Welsh language sites would be a good thing. I'd see a lot more point in that than .net, a general-purpose namespace which is used generally by people too slow off the mark to register the .com (yes, I know it wasn't intended to be that way).
$ perl -E'say "ω is " . "not "x("ω" !~ /\w/) . "a word"'
ω is not a word

$ perl -Mutf8 -E'say "ω is " . "not "x("ω" !~ /\w/) . "a word"'
Wide character in print at -e line 1.
ω is a word
'Least valuable' is not the employed poor. They're the entrenched criminals and severely mentally ill - those who only consume resources and can't be rehabilitated.
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Correct, link here: http://cappuccino.org/
Yeah, folks at my company follow discussions about our products on Twitter and it doesn't matter whether the person uses a hashtag or not. What you need is a distinct product name though, to only discover relevant tweets.
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Same here. I had tried out campfire but wasn't overwhelmed with it. I love the extensibility of Talker. Almost every other day I'm writing a plugin (https://github.com/saimonmoore/talker-plugins) in javascript to enhance my chatting with my team members.
You can use tags in your django templates do avoid that issue. For instance, I am using icanhaz which use mustache's templates ({{}}) and I inspired myself of a snippet called Verbatim. So, basically, in your template you do:

<body>
{% js_template test %}
Here you can freely use {{}} because the surrounding tags make django ignore them.
{% endjs_template %}
There are lots of stupid startups. Why would the ones behind these top-level domains be any different? ICANN's role isn't to pick the winners, its to manage the overall framework. Perhaps .sex will succeed where .xx fails. Or not. But you can't blame ICANN for failed .tld business models anymore than you can blame YC for funding failed startup business models. Its just part of the landscape. Now stop ranting about it and go do something productive. ;-)
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As a former IDLE user, I highly, highly recommend you take a week or two and commit to learning emacs or vim (I recommend emacs...). It can be daunting but once you get used to it you'll wonder how the hell you ever accomplished anything in IDLE.

(If you decide to take the plunge with emacs, hit me up via email [it's in my profile] and I'll send you a link to my config file.)
That's what djb's CurveCP is trying to do (http://curvecp.org/) (except with DNSCurve and custom protocols)
Emacs is more an OS than an IDE.
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Interesting. At first sight, I couldn't really understand the difference with the existing icanhazjs(.com) library? Can you elaborate on this?
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