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A good SLA makes downtime painful enough for the provider that they'll want to fix things. Most SLA's have no teeth though - marketing only. (Any "100%" SLA falls in this category.)
Firequery, YSlow, or more generally any Firebug extension not built into the Webkit Developer Tools.

Also, proper stack traces.
The big deal is that multiple articles on that site are focused on products created by the same guy. If he's not the one actually writing the posts, whomever is clearly has a boner for him.
Sending checks requires much more liability and overhead.
No. But it's a factor to take into account.
functional stuff is making a comeback. haskell can be daunting in its pure-ness sometimes, requiring monads for seemingly anything useful. but it's a wonderful language/lifestyle choice. this online book broaches the subject pretty well: http://learnyouahaskell.com/chapters
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While not strictly a CS book, "Godel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter definitely has strong roots in the area. It's not a text book, nor anything even close, however, there is a reasonable amount of mathematics and programming language design which make it educational as well as inspirational (particularly formal logic systems, around which the premise of the book is built).

The book is somewhat life changing, in the questions that it asks. You might find yourself thinking about things differently, such as what it is to be conscious, can we ever achieve artificial intelligence, is there such a thing as fate, how was J.S. Bach able to produce such stunning compositions, etc.

It's quite heavy going however, but there's a slightly more succinct, terse version which he wrote a few years ago, called "I Am a Strange Loop". This book takes the point he was trying to make in the first book, and expands on it while adding clarification. It does lack a lot of story that the original contained, so it's not a complete replacement however.

While I think of it, there's also Operating System Concepts by Silberschatz, Gagne and Galvin - http://www.amazon.com/Operating-System-Concepts-Windows-Upda....
It's an extremely detailed look at how operating systems work, down to the lowest level, and it explains a large number of things that we interact with on a daily basis.
I would suspect the court found that the particular form of IQ test used was biased against poorer people, or would be biased agaist people from certain cultures.
Actually, Apple locks up supply channels to buy display and chipset components exclusively. They essentially get "first pick" because of their volume. But that might change in the near future.
> "you pay for what you get"

And, you get what you pay for. ;)
yeah, 23 and me.... no response yet...
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Applied Logic was yesterday awarded a contract by the Securities and Exchange Commission Nigeria http://www.sec.gov.ng/ to develop a margin list application on its behalf using meta data from APLs product broadstreetlagos.com http://www.broadstreetlagos.com/index.php. It is a multimillion naira project that will essentially have a multiyear capacity building, maintenance and data feed arrangement. The margin list will govern the selection of companies that are to be used by stockbrokers and financial institutions in the determination of margin credit in stock trading accounts.
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I doubt they could, actually - all they would be able to do would be to move the research out of the US and Europe. When the technology is good enough, the law makers will be forced to allow it back in again or the US will not be able to compete. Then ordinary people will demand access to these printers and it's over.
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. Много южнокорейци се ръкуват с емигранти след покланяне, като по този начин хармонизират двата културни стила.
I agree. Voting should be based on the quality of the contribution, not how closely it aligns with your own views.

Exceptions should be made when someone is presenting provably false information, but then a reply with counter-evidence is always preferable to a downvote. Downvoting without a reply is IMO only really appropriate for content-free comments that add nothing.
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It really depends on what you feel you're missing and what you're hoping to do (definitions of "daily work" vary widely). If you're looking to get up on theory by doing your own program of sorts, you could do worse than start with these (in roughly this order):

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - Abelson, Sussman, and Sussman

Introduction to Algorithms - Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, and Stein

The Art of Assembly Language - Hyde

a digital logic book (not sure which is most recommended), and an architecture book (see reply by tftfmacedo)

Modern Operating Systems - Tanenbaum

Introduction to the Theory of Computation - Sipser

Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools - Aho, Lam, Sethi, and Ullman (a.k.a. "Dragon Book")

Programming Language Pragmatics - Scott

A database design book (one that covers Relational Algebra, not just a book on SQL), and maybe a book on Networks. Also, Roy Fielding's paper on REST is both academic and applicable (and more approachable than you'd expect of a Ph.D paper). If you want to go all the way, an undergraduate program usually also has Calculus, Discrete Math, Linear Algebra, and Statistics. Some schools would also require Physics and Differential Equations. I'm sure I'm missing some topics, too, particularly electives.

If you can get through those and the associated problem sets, you'll have a better foundation than most.
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Your best bet in my opinion is learning Fireworks, it easy to make vector wireframes, and is is meant for churning out web optimized assets. The 9 slicing is huge help when reusing buttons, modules etc. Plus, there are lots of great UI templates out there to get you started. I personally use illustrator, but would highly recommend Fireworks for you particular needs
I would be extremely careful with that project: it relies on Javascript crypto extensively to project users from storage nodes. Javascript crypto is nearly always completely broken (crypto needs to take input-independent time for all operations, for instance), and their implementation hasn't been audited at all. (It has been lifted from some Stanford crypto group, IIRC, but that's hardly enough checking.)
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Also, a worthy introduction to the field would be The New Turing Omnibus by A.K.Dewdney.

In fact, I'd recommend this book first, for it gives self-taught programmers a taste of nearly everything in computer science (and thus equips them to know which branch they'd like to pursue next).
That's one way, but it's better to set up Google for domains and direct all mail there directly (set the MX record).
I like the idea of the proxy, why not have it so you do a direct link and gumroad takes a small percentage (1%?), and if you want it proxied gumroad takes a bigger percentage (5%-10%)?
The ranking algorithm is much more subtle than simply counting karma. Some votes are worth more than others. The exact mechanism is secret, but I believe upvotes on replies to your own comment are counted differently to other people's votes for example, similarly to how one cannot downvote replies to ones own comments. This may obviously be wrong.

It is very possible that flags are invisibly counted and this also factors into the ranking algorithm.
I hope the new force in nature is not this: "Fermilab’s Tevatron [...] now slated to go dark forever in September or earlier, whenever Fermilab runs out of money to operate it"
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port43.net - a minimalist WHOIS utility - iPhone friendly... heck even lynx likes it. Firefox and IE have fun with it too. I hope it helps. Love to hear HN feedback and to making it even better!
Just self-sign a certificate, and tell your browser to accept this one certificate for localhost:8080 only.
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Hi,
In January 2011 me and two other friends started our first web-based project: a website about Windows Phone ecosystem.

Things are going relatively well but there is room for improvement.

Can you please check out the website and tell us what you think is missing, what is surplus, etc. We would love to hear your sincere opinion: if you think it sucks, don't be afraid to say it :) (we would like to know why though)

Thanks,
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My data points for a UK centric app in the sports section of the app store (iPhone & iPad combined) :

#25 = ~ 20 sales/day

#15 = ~ 30 sales/day

#5 = ~ 50 sales/day

#3 = ~ 75 sales/day

So wildly different to US in terms of numbers - which is probably in itself unsurprising but great to see some actual numbers.

One thing I have noticed is that sales in general in the UK have gone up quite dramatically since Christmas - before Christmas we were in the top 10 of the Sports section of the UK app store and seeing around 20 - 25 sales a day - now you would be likely to see around 40 sales a day.
I doubt your own personal voting vendetta is going to have more effect than the culture that pg is trying to nurture.
Well a supportive wife is a little different. But a relationship where your communication is mostly after work hours since you aren't living together yet could get strained if not managed correctly. I'm quite serious about this question because there is a very strong possibility of it happening to not just me but a few others as well soon. So any suggestions? Because if it is a road of no compromise, one or the other, I'd have to take the relationship I guess. But I would honestly prefer both.
I'm quite disappointed that they don't seem to provide any feedback or guidance for developers on how to write well-performing plugins. Without that to sweeten the post it just seems a bit ungrateful, given that plugins are one of the major reasons Firefox got so popular in the first place.

Edit: it's there on the right, but my well-honed ad blindness didn't let me see it. Either way it's not exactly prominent.
Btw I did forget to say. That routine that you currently have is really awesome! Love the whole going into BnN to read for a bit or just walking across to take in a movie. Used to do things like that during Degree and it worked really well for me
> this is why drivers exist

Having a uniform interface for all hardware is great, but doesn't solve the specific problem here.

There are so many variables that affects performance. Some of them are:

* Graphics card fillrate

* Graphics card memory size

* Graphics card buss speed

* CPU speed

* CPU cache size

* RAM Size

* RAM speed

* Optical disk speed

* Harddrive speed

* Harddrive cache size

You need to make tradeoffs based on how they affect your particular application.
Paid for nothing, had previously owned ~20 albums, got ~10 albums for free (Jamendo).

I don't seed, seeders will hate this, anti-piraters may like this. I have no reason to do it, unlimited, p2p-allowing internet. This is my third music library from p2p (and first backed-up).
I am ambiguous on the eyeball-first requirement, but I agree that you definitely always have to check the visuals.

Thirty or forty sheets of correlations might be made slightly prettier and on one sheet by just using 'plot' on a data frame in R.

What context is this in?
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I'm using the web-developer add-on without this impact.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/web-developer...
I don't justify it. One young new singer (Pixie lott) wrote a blog post saying that she felt affected. I replied saying that I torrented her album, gave it to friends, follow her on twitter/etc, know all the lyrics, will never come to her performances, see the talent (songwriter and ballet) in her work, but I still won't pay.
I, at least, have different policies for "stupid" comments ("Ruby runs a hundred times faster than C!") and comments that present a valid viewpoint that is not mine ("Ruby is a cleaner language than C") - in fact, I'll upvote such comments if they are well-reasoned and on-topic. Of course, I'm not perfect.
The standard for computational grammars and parsers in natural language processing is:

Prolog and Natural-Language Analysis - Fernando C. N. Pereira and Stuart M. Shieber

The PDF is available from the publisher:
http://www.mtome.com/Publications/PNLA/prolog-digital.pdf

It also serves as a great introduction to Prolog and logics programming.
This site would actually look pretty good on an iphone, because the lines are short. (They actually have a mobile version of the site.)

It sucks big time when a site uses small fonts, and the iphone cannot reflow it.
From personal experience I would say #3 is a myth. It's reasonable for "success" stories to emerge more often that "failures" not because there are more but because people don't like to talk about it after they failed.
While I am personally largely against extensions, I wouldn't be if their allocation was managed better. I think that the extension should say what websites it's intended for (Greasemonkey does this) and be in the javascript process for those pages only. It shouldn't be separate, it shouldn't be in memory before the page is even open.
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Uni makes you learn really boring shit that you really don't want to learn and don't think is relevant at the time, and then gives you a credential. Both of those aspects should not be underestimated.
I really liked "The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages" by Simon Peyton Jones, which is available online:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...
No need for that step, ask you designer to try this. In settings, make set all increments to pixels. Then set the grid to 1px X 1px (in some unobtrusive color) When creating a new doc, always go to view / (check) snap to grid / then whenever making a sprite simply put everything together, and draw a rectangle around it. With the rectangle still selected, make sure its height and width are in even pixels, and Go to object / artboards / convert to artboard. Hit save for web, and you are done! (hint, make sure strokes are always set to inside, or outside, and never centered, adobe defaults to center, so creating some reusable graphic styles can make this quicker)
I have created a special key command for convert to artboard, since I use it about 80 times a day. Also, its typically better to double click and enter height and width then to draw a rectangle to insure the dimensions are in absolute pixels.
You can find some resources in a similar discussion here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=297289

You can find some resources, mostly books, in the following links

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-ava...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1711/what-is-the-single-m...
I think GEB is an excellent books because it basically demonstrates in a reasonable accessible way that CS can be about rather more than "how to write programs".
I've heard "The Art of Prolog" is good, too... a quick glance at Amazon shows it to be ridiculously expensive, though.
Or look at how STM is handled in Haskell, where it's arguably more pure.
The author knows the Stripe people (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2414177), who have specifically ok'ed this. That may not be enough, but it's something.
Python dicts have a similar behavior. There is a version optimized for string-only keys. As soon as you insert a non-string key it will switch to the slower generic version.
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2 points. One is that starting a company is only frowned upon by a section of Indian society - the middle class professionals who grew up reading the mantra of job security. Also there are not yet enough stories of people making big by starting their own companies. Once we have few stories, things will change.

Second, a lot of people start companies and do business in India but since those are not in the traditional IT or other VC oriented sectors, they are not heard of that much in these circles. Also not a lot of these companies would be doing the "innovative" stuff but building businesses in well tested markets.
This can disintermediate home made porn - this is not a small market.
Maybe you sent it the wrong type of request :).
Patricks summary was just the basics of the case. The background is that Duke Power originally segregated employees, only employing African-Americans in the labor sector. Then the civil rights laws came in and they introduced requirements, including an IQ test, that didn't violate the laws, but had the same effect.

''Did the US Supreme Court really find that African Americans are less intelligent than people of other races?''

Simple answer is no, they didn't.

The court basically found that because African-Americans had suffered a lower standard of education (their wording: ''Because they are Negroes, petitioners have long received inferior education in segregated schools, and this Court expressly recognized these differences in Gaston County v. United States, 395 U.S. 285 (1969)'') and that DP knew this the whole point of the new scheme was to continue segregation.

More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co. (it's an interesting case)

Whether that would be the same now, I don't know. On the other hand I could completely believe that companies are still worried by it, and so avoid IQ tests etc.
Dozens of ad networks pay publishers via PayPal. They have a MassPay feature specifically for these situations.
Plus learning a language from another paradigm, e.g. functional or logics programming, can also be insightful to your 'safe areas'[1]:

- After learning functional programming I realized how much of my programs do just mapping or folding over data. You start to spot the cases where this is not immediately obvious after some FP practice.

- After learning logics programming, I realized how much of my programs do a poor man's version of backtracking.

Maybe one of those languages is so much fun that you'll eventually change your 'lifestyle'. E.g. I use Haskell in many cases where I'd previously use Python or C.

[1] Of course, it doesn't always come natural. C++ STL does provide maps and folds, but since pre-C++0x doesn't have lambdas, using them requires more effort.
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Haha, why thank you very much ;)

They do have a good deal of exchange programs. But if you're not applying through one of the big networks (ERASMUS, etc.), then it's probably down to the individual university.

There are tons of exchange students from all over the world, both Master's and PhDs, so it shouldn't be a problem at all.
> Is there some gift-giving holiday in France coming up?

Not that I know of. There are many holidays in May, but none specifically related to gifting.

> Is there some gift-giving holiday in France coming up? Was this traceable to some specific site/list/opinion-leader endorsing the app?

I don't know, but I can tell you the current version (1.2.1) has basically all the reviews on the french appstore (30 notes out of 31, 27 reviews out of 29) and they are very positive overall (16 ★★★★★, 9 ★★★★, 4 ★★★, 1 ★)

> Does the app have a french interface option?

Nope, that's the number one complaint about it.
but... when a consumer gets the PC and they wanna play a game that uses Epic technology, it’s got to be a consistent experience, and Epic can’t guarantee that.
I haven't read "The Art of Prolog". But if you want to write correct and fast Prolog, reading "The Craft of Prolog" by Richard O'Keefe is a must.
I'd recommend this one on architecture:

Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach - Hennessy and Patterson
To steal words from a comment earlier today, Haskell has a very steep but very rewarding learning curve.

It'll reinforce some concepts from math, and lead you toward writing code in a manner that's considered good practice in other languages - such that it's generally maintainable and testable. Similarly, if you're familiar with Design Patterns, you'll see that a lot of patterns are attempts to implement functional concepts in OO languages. That said, as a fan of Haskell I'm definitely biased, and a lot of that can be said for other functional languages as well.

"Real World Haskell" is also very good, but probably not the best place to start if you haven't written in a functional language before.
Looking back at myself - how I was when I graduated vs. with experience of ~10 years in the industry - I think it is more of an issue of exposure to the right things than culture.

Besides what I find is a total disconnect of industry reality in college education. The only way we could circle back to correct this is by having experienced people from industry going back to academic roots to teach, to improve quality of experience graduates go through.

With my current employer to bridge the gap & provide more exposure to students & guide them, we go to colleges & schools across rural areas and we conduct a program in partnership with "Junior Achiever" (http://ja.org/).

We hope such programs would eventually bridge the gap between industry & academia and also help students get the right exposure.
Link to my friend's blog. He consults on these matters http://www.thomasheath.tv/blog/
If you could show that passing the test was an important part of performing in the job (i.e. those that did not pass the test would be worse, or unable to perform the job) then it would pass the Griggs finding.

The main issue with Griggs was that the court found that people who failed the test were no worse (at their job) than those that passed it. And, so, decided (rightly) that the test was not there for performance/ability reasons, but for other reasons.
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I use firebug to trace the HTTP requests, mainly. I know there are alternatives (for both Chrome and Firefox), but none of them compare to firebug. May be its because of my comfort/acquaintance level with firebug.
Nuclear weapons are perhaps mankinds most terrible invention - but it is fairly clear that political leaders on both sides of the Cold War were utterly terrified of using them. If they hadn't been invented then I suspect there probably would have been direct armed conflict between the Soviets and/or China and/or the West at some point after WW2, so we were probably saved from another horrific conflict by scaring ourselves rigid with these weapons.

Rational, perhaps not, effective - arguably yes.
One book that I would suggest to anyone is Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation - HMU. It is very approachable and presents some very interesting topics (so you won't write a regex for matching HTML and will learn what P vs NP means). On a more practical side, I think that a must read for machine learning is Tom Mitchell - Machine Learning . Another book that from what I've heard is easier to digest is Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques.
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Thats what I do (well, sort of). just that I have to keep another browser installed.

--Written at my Google Chrome.
good implementation but if it took 48 hours to launch, the barrier to entry isn't particularly high.

how would Gumroad differentiate if a competitor (or paypal) started providing the exact same service?
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