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I don't think it's that big. It has no visible effect on the nearby buildings (the towers).
Yah, the steam itself is perfectly safe. It's only what is mixed in that is a problem.

I can't imagine there is very much mixed in though, water boils at much lower temperatures than the other things there. And I assume they are venting from the top, so it should be pretty pure. (Worlds most expensive steam distillation :)
Superficial understanding of subject is worse than no understanding at all. People who blew up Chernobyl knew what Sievert is, and in fact possessed nuclear engineering degrees.
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Why is a good question here. You already have a cleaner syntax for generating JavaScript:

http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script
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>I suspect that you have the surprisingly common misconception that Big-O is about worst case scenarios...

I appreciate what you're saying here, but I think this part of the Wikipedia page is relevant:

>A description of a function in terms of big O notation usually only provides an upper bound on the growth rate of the function. Associated with big O notation are several related notations, using the symbols o, Ω, ω, and Θ, to describe other kinds of bounds on asymptotic growth rates.

Upper bound implies worst case. I was going to say that big Theta is average case, but after some brief research I actually think I was mistaken on that.
I was pressured/forced at various times to create one in order to use Google services. I can't remember the details, but I do remember feeling annoyed at Google that it wasn't 100% clear how to opt out or hide things to the maximum amount, made worse by the fact that this un-asked-for task was between me and trying to achieve my original intent.

Since I didn't actually want one, a private one, which was effectively empty, was the next best thing.
Yes, of the surrounding environment. This is a single building more or less single-purpose-build to be contaminated as a last measure.

All these exercises are inherently economical -- they could just have walked away on the first day and have the whole thing melt down, and the surrounding area wouldn't have been any better or worse off, radiation-wise.
"lobbyist" doesn't mean 'I disagree with this'. Using it as such is just low-grade conspiracy-theorising.
>If "overlap" means "at least one substring in common"

Why would it mean that? Is it not obvious that the common substring must be the beginning of one string and the end of the other?
The public already knows banks are evil. If you have evidence, go to court.
Specifically, this guy: http://twitter.com/OperationLeakS

You can read the whole stream from the 10th to follow how this was put together. It's not really HACKERS ON STEROIDS material; he was contacted by an ex-BoA employee because he ran http://bankofamericasuck.com/.

Contrast this no-4chan/no-hacking reality with breathless headlines like: "4chan hackers leak internal Bank of America emails" -- http://venturebeat.com/2011/03/13/anonymous-bank-of-america/
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If it is not necessary, don't install it. Rsync or scp is probably "good enough" for production.
Please do not post links with utm junk in the URL.
I just wanted to respond to all the hostility / negativity towards audio on linux.

I've started recording Audio with a refurbished PC (desktop from the company I was working with) with Ardour and Jack. Mixed everything at home in Ardour on a OS X system. Later changed that system to a linux based system and I am happy with it.

I've started with ardour so I never had the problem of "missing plugins" or VST plugins I "had to use". I really like the idea of having an inexpensive "recording computer" in my rehearsal room and having the beefier machine at home to mix the recorded stuff. For the last recording I've update the recording machine to a "newer" refurbished model and it still works great.

The linuxdsp plugins are great sounding plugins (http://www.linuxdsp.co.uk/) and there is even a commercial variant of ardour - the Harrison mixbus (http://www.harrisonconsoles.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_...).

There are some things going on in the linux audio world - and they may fit your bill.

Ardour doesn't do Midi in the current version - but this may be fixed with the upcoming version (I don't do Midi - so no problem for me)
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REAPER-on-Wine works very well on my UbuntuStudio workstation .. but I still prefer Ardour (since I have access to its source code..)
Apparently, the name Eyafjöll (which is used in the article with the ö changed to oe) refers to part of the site of the famous Icelandic volcano. From Wikipedia: "The name Eyjafjöll describes the southern side of the volcanic massif together with the small mountains which form the foot of the volcano".
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AppJet had so many great ideas; it's a shame you had to abandon it. Hosted server-side javascript with a web-based IDE is still a good idea.
I already switched to alfredapp.
Dubai's oil reserves have diminished significantly and are expected to be exhausted in 20 years.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080705161411/http://www.uae.gov...

The reason they are building skyscrapers, race-tracks etc is that once the oil run out, Dubai shouldn't see an exodus. They want to become the financial capital of Asia and keep the money flowing in.
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If you edit your profile, you'll see a field that says "Visible in Search." I think that's it, though I'm not sure.
I started using erlang a couple of months ago and did face the problems you mentioned. I used Armstrong's book and read about 1/3rd of it.

After that I switched to writing programs, some for fun and some for work. Coming from Python, I did face a lot of resistance in using erlang, but the upside is so great (message passing, insane concurrency, pattern matching) that sticking in was a no brainer. Erlang has introduced me to a totally different way of solving problems. Its quite an experience.

I will advice you to write some real world applications using erlang. The entire semicolon, comma, fullstop argument will vanish within a couple of minutes. You will realize the power once you start architecting a solution. I implore you to not quit.

You can contact me if you need help regarding erlang.
> Another Facebook co-founder, Saverin was given a sympathetic portrayal in the 2010 movie The Social Network.

What exactly was so sympathetic about being portrayed as a guy who could not separate emotion from business, was terrible with girls, nearly destroyed his own business by closing the account, let himself be tricked into giving away his stock. He got off more poorly than Sean Parker.
Starts out by talking about what a partier he is, then how he met a girl at a party, then how South by Southwest is like spring break, then how Foursquare is the new Twitter, and then I stopped reading.
When I saw kickstarter as the link I was excited for earbuds (those that can fit on the EARS) being able to "switch" somehow to external and still sound decent.

These are just stylized portable speakers..
I don't know, people seem pretty happy to pay for the higher-spec models. Maybe this time around, with non-early-adopters playing a bigger role, price sensitivity is higher. Still, if you're dedicated enough to queue for one during launch week, you don't want to walk out empty-handed...

I've mentioned it before, but here in Vienna, the best-selling first-gen iPad was far-and-away the 64GB 3G version. (source: owner of a local Apple reseller) It was constantly sold out for months after the launch here, with the lower spec models, especially the wifi ones sitting on shelves a few weeks after launch.
Win7-style window management shortcuts would be cool. The grid plugin for compiz is close, but Win7 has a few details that make it a bit better (for example, wrapping a window around to the right when you hit win-left on a window that's already left-snapped).

Installer options for remapping caps lock, like Google did with its ChromeOS laptops. I use it as an easy-to-reach control key; other people I know turn it into another super for easy window management or an escape key for vim. Useful functions for the average grandma might include "search the web", "open gnome do", or "open Unity's 'everything on the computer' page".

Include KeePassX in Ubuntu, provide solid integration for it (possibly even with Ubuntu One), and present it to the user on installation. Encourage users to use it to create strong passwords and to maintain separate passwords for every service and website.

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I use Ubuntu 10.10 for most of my real work. I'm a computer science student, so I do a lot of programming, answer some email, surf the web, and spend a ton of time reading and writing papers.
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No software needed _except a browser_ much less amazing than title suggests.
What I would like to see is XMPP integration.
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I've recorded probably about 30 songs in Ardour on linux and probably had one crash at all.

Best thing is to start with a distribution with audio focus (I'm using AVLinux http://www.bandshed.net/AVLinux.html). Then the base system is set up the correct way for your hardware.
Yes, but each programmer has his own hash table wheel, which is most probably an undocumented, unholy mess of #defines, void*'s and function pointers.
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fuck, it's a social feed-reader for work stuff. I hate work, but this looks good.
Sounds useful for early deployment stages, but later on you really should tag the code you deploy and perhaps include the tag in your application headers (or in the page footer, or somewhere). And even better, build packages after tagging in your VCS, which gives you numerous advantages, like being able to quickly check if someone modified the code in-place on the production machine.
Looks like Wave :)
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I agree with what you write with one little correction

Twitter didn't invent the 140 character medium. It was a legacy from Twitter originally being very SMS focused.
Google seems to be going about creating social products in entirely the wrong way. They seem to prefer forcing people on to their platforms (see Buzz in Gmail) rather than making a product that people actually want to use and spend time on.
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> * i find the structure of the skiplists intricate and fascinating as a thought experiment, but i feel they difficult for certain things, like implementing an iterator over them.*

Skip lists are augmented single-linked lists. You can traverse likewise.

See the python implementation[1] and its lua port[2].

1. http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576930/

2. http://love2d.org/wiki/Skip_list
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Japan Does Not Face Another Chernobyl
I run Ubuntu 10.10 on a MacBook Air (back on Ubuntu after 3-4 years on OS X) and it runs great. I haven't tried Unity yet, but I will, I think I'll like it. I basically only run a terminal, mostly with vim, and Chromium. I have all terminals and Chromium windows in fullscreen, each on their own workplace. It works pretty well. In general I think a good way forward is fullscreen and a simplified UI, so Unity looks great.

There is one thing I wish you would work in and it's speed: Waking from sleep and turning on the wifi takes ages in Ubuntu. If there is something you can do here, that would make me happy!

EDIT: One more thing: I know installation with USB on a Mac is difficult to impossible, but if there is any way to make it easier on the Airs, I think it's a good thing. It's a very nice machine for Ubuntu, but it's really hard to install.
Thanks so much. Would keep that in mind. Wish they had a javascript popup that would warn me :)
It is funny to read these comments AFTER surviving of huge economic crisis, Chernobyl and few smaller disasters.

15 years ago, at practice lesson about radiation protection in University, I found that the most radioactive item in the class room is me. How to deal with that fact, when you have no money even to buy enough food to live? I had only one choice - buy ticket back to my radioactive home, grab our self-grown radioactive food and return back to University. Half of people in the country were is similar situation.

If we are talking about Apocalypse, and not about camping in the woods, then you must consider that you will need to live in contaminated environment and there will be no room in clean environment for you. You will stay for decades in areas with moderate chemical or radioactive contamination, like Japan today (if nuclear reactor will blow up).

Surviving in woods is much harder and expensive task than surviving in home. I mean, than you will need much more time and energy to solve your basic problems, like food, water, fuel, hygiene, etc., so you will have no enough time to play with camping, even when you are alone, without wife and children. Try that with pregnant woman, or injured man, or 1 year old child, etc.

For me, idea, that I should walk to radioactive woods to survive economic crisis, sounds crazy. I can die in about 15 minutes if I will go into woods unprepared with temperature of -30°C (-22°F) outdoor. Even when I will be equipped with saw.

My recommendations:

Always keep full cigarette lighter with LED, multi-tool pocket knife, and small candle (anti-mosquito, preferably: slice large candle into smaller slices) in your pocket AND in your outdoor clothing - you will use them much more often than any other survival tool. I use them few times every month.

Keep needle, thread, plaster, healthing balm and another multi-tool in your backpack. I use one of them 5-6 times every year.

TRAIN yourself - if you are injured, you can prepare wound with healthing balm, then boil water in paper bag or plastic bottle, disinfect thread in water and needle in flame, blend needle, and then sew up yourself. But will you do that properly and fast enough when you will do that for first time?

What you will do when you are wet and you will have only 15 minutes to build hut and make fire before you will die? Will be you are smart enough to use your wet clothing as material for hut and put candle inside your clothing? Can you make wood candle or torch using your multitool when your candle will be near to expire?

For long-time survival, good tools and instruments are very helpful. My parent has garage full of instruments - it helps a lot. But lack of some instruments and replacement parts made us mad some years ago - we just had no money to buy them (low market - high prices, we had 3-5 times less money, and they were about 5 times more expensive than today). Lack of replacement parts or tools to repair equipment forces you to drop your most used equipment. You use it often -> it wears out fast -> you cannot repair or replace it -> you lose it.
I suspect this is a complicated issue, but my biggest gripe with installation has always been related to third-party drivers. It would be cool if there was some way to bundle wireless card drivers with the install CD/USB stick, for example. (Was recently setting up a machine where wired internet was not readily available - I know that's sort of an edge case.) I know that problems related to the drivers themselves are out of your hands, but making it even easier to track down and install the right drivers would be a step in the right direction.

As was mentioned over at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2321584 power management needs a lot of work.

Nevertheless, I'm eternally grateful for the excellent work you guys are doing over there. Please keep it up!
Or integrate it incrementally one step at a time without any disturbance to those who don't use it.

I never really understood googles approach to these things.

Look at Wave. Why did I need a specific wave mail, why couldn't they just integrate with my gmail and again those who can use it great, those who can't no biggie.

So much engineering power yet so little design skills.
It should be the reverse, private should be the default, and public should be the eyebrow raising exception.

How nice it is of Google to decide by fiat to impose their standard on everybody else without consultatin (I know Eric Schmidt is on record as saying that he doesn't believe in privacy, here we have a prime example).

However, at least they are handling this better than the way Facebook does. If this was Facebook they would have (a) just done it without giving advance warning and (b) would have flipped everyone who was private over to public.

At least Google is deleting the accounts rather than outright exposing the info.
Yep, that's the best solution when a website is going offline due to high traffic. Keep kitting refresh.
I would genuinely like the option to use GNOME 3. I'm considering moving to Fedora to try it.

It would also be great to see Systemd used. Rather than Upstart.

A global menu and a launcher (like Gnome Do) are some of the first things I install after upgrading. Along with Docky.

I realise some of these are fundamental changes to the Ubuntu way, but it's what is drawing towards alternatives, and further from Ubuntu (which I've used since Warty).
Really appreciated the following especially as I try to balance local (JP) coverage and international news.
"With all the death, devastation and disease now threatening tens of thousands in Japan, it is trivializing and almost obscene to spend so much time worrying about damage to a nuclear reactor."
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Former PROCAM Oral presenter (NYC 2006) here.

Mersive, http://www.mersive.com/, sells a solution with their proprietary software on a box connected to a camera communicating over the network to rendering machines connected to projectors.

I hacked together a prototype X server that worked seamlessly across several projectors (casually aligned/partially overlapping/etc) for them a few years ago.

I also wrote high-dynamic-range camera code for them so that a camera can easily measure the full dynamic range of even overlapping, bright projectors.

I haven't done any computer vision since, but those 2 things (particularly the former) still get me a lot of attention with recruiters and in cover letters.

Cool to see another PROCAMmer on here. I'm quite familiar with Shree's work, as I worked in color correction, too.
I just realized that this case was in the UK. I don't know how much of what I'm about to say applies to their judicial system, but I'm going to leave it here anyway for those familiar with the UK to comment on.

Yep, the process is pretty much the same here.

The bottom line is that with the sheer amount of hardware going through youi do end up with some small damages (scratched cases, a few dead disks), but nothing on this scale.

It makes me mad, actually, to see this, and if he wants a hand finding out who to blame I'd be very happy to help with that. It gives my profession a bad name to see someone showing so little respect to someone else's kit :(
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Dammit. Now everyone else is going to get screwed just like last year, as shipments intended for outside the US will be diverted to the US to meet internal demand. We got the shaft not once but twice last year.

The thing that persists me off is that a sale outside the US is just as good as a sale inside the US, or even arguably better, given the US currencies recent shitty performance.

Dear Apple, please don't screw over your foreign fans you inconsiderate bastards. Okay? Call me. Love you.
I don't remember Python ever having a driving force equivalent to Rails. Ruby was a somewhat obscure language before Rails, regardless of its strenghts. I got into Python because of Zope, but the world would be a much, much better place had it been as popular as Rails.
That doesn't make your profile private, just not show up in Google searches.
Not sure if this is appropriate for your question.. but I've been using Ubuntu for 5 years now as my sole OS, as a programmer. I'm thinking of switching to Mac OS soon because I'm sick of hacking my computer to have it "just work":

- Every time there's a new release, and I update, it leaves me with a crashed unusable system. Its happened so much that I've scripted out my entire install and configuration process

- I have to kill Firefox in order to make sound work in VLC... wtf?

- My bluetooth mouse works 50% of the time

- Wifi doesn't usually work with the built in managers.. I often have to install wicd

That's the gripe side.. will report back later for more UI related improvement ideas
I found it!

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Apparently not if you want to include the git commit id in your HTTP headers :)
I have a google account without a google public profile. I use it to access google reader and google wave (both are services used by my friends), as well as customizing google search behavior. I need to expose neither my real name nor my contacts information.
When you put your information into the cloud terms and conditions apply, and they can be changed on a whim.
The Social Network is a film about startups, they won't re-tell the story for every successful startup.

For example, Titanic had numerous films made about it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Titanic_on_film_and_TV), but not every ship that sinks gets a movie, these didn't: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005329.html
Gnome 3 and Gnome Do will be easily installable through package manger.

The inclusion of unity is not disabling the usage of Gnome 3, although I agree that Gnome-do should be integrated as default, it is so useful.
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Better hardware support sure is important, but it looks like you have harware that was carefully selected as to bring the greatest frustration possible.
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I'm a long time Ubuntu user, currently using Ubuntu 10.10.

10.04 by the time I installed it was rock-solid. On the other hand 10.10 is not working properly - web camera is displaying up-side-down and my laptop many times freezes on shutdown. And it's like a cycle, one in every 3-4 releases doesn't cause issues for me.

Unfortunately I don't have the time to deal with these problems, find the cause, give feedback on mailing lists, etc...

If you could invest in a more stable / well-tested Ubuntu release (although I do know the next one is not a LTS) that would be great.

You guys also did a good job regarding usability lately, thumbs up.
I would say a lot of Brits really do enjoy talking to people, not as an obligation of 'politeness'. The culture of politeness is more likely to be a cause than a symptom. (Speaking for myself) I find it hard to talk randomly to strangers because it's imposing on whatever they may be doing at the time.

Watch for Brits asking each other for directions, or for the time, even in plain view of a clock tower. It's sweet in a repressed kind of way.