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Actually, when buying back stock you're essentially reducing the number of shares outstanding, which, all else equal, would translate into a higher stock price.
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How to write "Pretty Code"?
I'm looking for books, guides, tutorials to "beautiful code". I'm looking to improve my programming style with better variable name choices, comments, and white space usage. I'd like to learn reasons why certain bracket placement is advantageous to others, or why 2 space indents are better than 4 and so forth. I realize that some of these issues may be language dependent, but there are some general rules to follow.

The only book I've come across regarding this is the Kernighan and Plauger's "The Elements of Programming Style". However it's a bit outdated.
Whether the property/attribute distinction is necessary for jQuery users is one question (I strongly believe it is), but if not, the correct move would be to remove the prop() method entirely, because according to the release notes it nows seems pretty much completely pointless.
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For a second, I thought he was talking about California.
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Dev and design companies are changing in that the structure might be a collective of individuals or small companies who work together to win and work on jobs.
Can anyone give some ideas of succesful co-ops (remote or non-remote) as I'm very interested in finding out more about this new model?
I have a formatDate() function lying around somewhere, but I cannot create functions or views on many of the DBs. convert(varchar(8), @myDate, 112) seems a daft way to go about things - and I have been wondering if I have been doing something wrong...
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I wonder what are your thoughts on the double-spacing after full stops. I find it terrible, but I know projects who enforce this style in code comments.
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Fantastic post - thank you.

I don't believe Ballmer is a good CEO, but directly comparing to Apple and Google is nutty. Your comparisons are much more relevant.
Taken from the top, these sentiments imply that the financial crisis was caused by fraud; that people who take big risks should be subject to a criminal investigation; that executives of large financial firms should be criminal suspects after a crash; that public revulsion indicates likely culpability; that it is inconceivable (to Madoff, anyway) that people could lose so much money absent a conspiracy; and that Wall Street bears collective guilt for which a large part of it should be incarcerated.

TLDR: set up a straw man unobvious only to people who haven't read or watched the referenced accuse's (Inside Job, Rolling Stone, etc) then spend 5 pages knocking it down.
If the period is part of the quote, it would be inside the quote, as in `He said, "Hello there."' I thought the article made that pretty clear. Certainly nobody argued for two periods.
The US labor depts numbers for unemployment show something like 10% for folks without a college degree and 2ish % for people with a phd. This tells me there are lots of jobs just maybe not in academia. That seems like a good thing to me. Less publicly funded research and more private industry taking over. (e.g. SpaceX)

Frankly, lots of people arent cut out for acadeia. I realized I wasn't and left my phd program with a masters and couldn't be happier.
i read some great book about similar things you looking for, but forgot its name :/
http://www.amazon.com/Code-Craft-Practice-Writing-Excellent/...
this one might be it, but i dont remember now as i dont have that book near me
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Why do you choose to omit the second rather than the first period? If you're after conciseness, surely either is up for ommission, and the external period unambiguously means the current sentence is at an end. An internal period is ambiguous as to whether the current sentence ends or not.
Strange. I am British and I was taught your American style. And have always done it that way.
I lost over USD75K of personal financial resources in the failed start-ups I founded.
The British style would actually include the period/full stop in this case, since it's quoted speech and the quoted speech ends with a period.
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Since my wife offered me a Kindle, I happen to read interesting classics found on http://www.gutenberg.org:

Les Mémoires du prince de Talleyrand
De la démocratie en Amérique, Alexis de Tocqueville
À la recherche du temps perdu, Marcel Proust
And another thing. Using "an" when a word starts an H is followed very inconsistently.

Is that a rule in American English? I don't remember hearing it in school.
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It's implicit in the closing quotes that you've reached a pause or end of some kind.
I've found that the easiest way to explain one-way hashes is to start with the simplest example possible, a function isEven which takes and Int and returns 1 is the argument is even and 0 otherwise. Most people have no trouble accepting that, given only the output, it is impossible to work out what the original input was. Once they've accepted that, building up from there is relatively painless
In Forth, you write

." some text"

to print 'some text' without the leading blank. But that's for a completely different reason.
The same technique was used later in satellites to map terrain. I had the chance to see an image of the Himalayas, in my Remote Sensing class. You don't use any special glasses and consequently experience minimal eyestrain, even when you view the image for hours. ( This is important if you are scouring the image for some small detail.) And the 3D effect is so much better and lifelike than current 3D in movies. I wonder what it would take to get that kind of experience to devices today.
An herb? An hour? An horchata?
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No, not for themselves; for their shareholders – ie for you. They're saying that there's an illiquid opportunity they can access which you can't.

You might disagree with them; if you do, sell the stock.
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Perhaps "compositional" would be more appropriate.
Correct. However in this case it's the SMC managing it.
PMU comes from the PPC era, like CUDA in the clone and 68K times.

SMC handles all low level monitoring, because it's OS independent reading data via SMART is just a non option. SMC also takes care of how hardware components are initialised and a slew of other things. See > http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964

Secondly, while you can override certain SMC values like fan speeds you can never override the lowest safe values that are hard coded in. In that same vein if the SMC thinks your fan should run faster when you don't want them to, they will regardless.
32x EBITDA (the net income is artifically low thanks to one-off writedowns).
Weird.

Last week I just made a commitment to start doing this the "correct" way. I find it's very difficult after years of programming, though.

Another problem I have is with capitalization on titles. You're supposed to capitalize only the larger words, but I have to go all initial caps. The inconsistency between caps drives me nuts, even though I know it's the "right" way to do things.

It's fascinating to see topics like this kind of float around for months or years and then suddenly become news items. Wonder if a shift is really happening? Or is the story just noticing a trend in people making the same mistakes?
There are two further elements of this discussion that the article misses.

One is the fundamental approach to maximising value from government-created works. Traditionally, the Crown owns the copyright and then sells them to maximise revenue. The US approach is to make it public domain.

The second issue is that the bar for a creative work covered by copyright is much lower in the UK than in the US. The notorious case is football schedules which are copyrighted, but it also applies to cinema and train times.
Even though I have followed the 'proper' way all my life, I recently realized that there are many instances where having the punctuation inside is confusing. I now have absolutely no problem putting it on the outside when it's less confusing.

I'm seriously considering putting it on the outside all the time now.
That's the way it's not only written, but spoken in Japanese.
It depends on how semi the semi in semi-automatic is. The problem is that there are other people making educational content by hand. They are going to do a better job than your automatic algorithm.
I was actually angry when they revoked the licence for MyRail then introduced a £5 app that did less under a different brand... I still haven't bought it
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I was never paid by Napster, Inc (although probably should have been ;). Those were fun times. My career was just getting started so it was my pleasure to volunteer my time -- 8 to 10 hours a day. I was responsible for the Napster Ground Zero effort, which I started and managed. I was an administrator there -- not just only a chat moderator volunteer on the Napster service (although I did have the chat moderator access level as well). The Napster Ground Zero service was insanely popular and allowed napster users to have a persistent identity online, beyond just the chat service. I received a written recommendation from a Napster cofounder and created some great relationships, which was great at that early time in my career. I appreciate every moment of that experience. On a side note, it was great to connect with them again in person at the Napster 10-year reunion last year (can you believe it's already been over 10 years now?). Shawn Fanning throws amazing parties.

As for AllAdvantage, I was a security consultant there. This was a paid position. I was involved directly with the company (and have maintained contact with some of the people there over the years, including the CEO). The software I created, first of its kind called MyAdvantage, got their attention. I was asked to be a security consultant for them to hunt down other software and to help protect their Viewbar software. I agreed and helped with the onslaught of the waves of similar software to my original. Sadly, their business model was fundamentally flawed, but that's an entirely different story.

Great times back then. Heady days of the last dot-com boom.
No, the second one would be written:

He said, "I've been outside."
All things considered, I'm not sure whether an SSD is really necessary for an OS that runs Web apps. Nice, for sure, but...

I wonder if there's a significant difference between HDD and SSD boot and return-from-hibernate times.
I'm the Alex Hewson whose license got turned down for being critical of NRE. Backstory @ http://mocko.org.uk/b/2011/01/08/open-uk-rail-data-media-cov...

There hasn't been any progress since I wrote that and it really does seem that NRE are using the overly broad code of practice as a way to punish those who question their attitudes.

Hardly a progressive way for a body that gets a large amount of public funding to behave.
The company I work for (Red Hat) has made a ton of contributions to the Linux kernel to improve real time performance. The driver and money for these contributions is high-frequency traders, but the benefits accrue to all sorts of areas and kernel users.
Exactly. With international communication on the rise, it's best (IMHO) to do away with the timezone concept, and just use one time format everywhere.

India is +5:30, Nepal is +5:45, California observes DST but Arizona doesn't... the EU does, but they start and end DST a week before the US...

It's ridiculous.

The initial gut reaction against this is that people would hate waking up at 18:00 and going home at 8:00, but I think people would get used to this pretty quickly. After all, we do this twice a year as it is.
Agreed. The CONVERT syntax is rubbish, but the output is so much more powerful. I'd rather have an equivalent of Date.ToString("YYYY-mmm-DD hh:mi:ss.ssss") in SQL but, sadly.... It could be written as a UDF but I'm not sure performance would be up to production use.

I had a wonderful stack of little helper functions and views I'd cobbled together at that job and had had free rein to stick into the real databases; they made development so much easier. The downside of employment though, that sort of work gets stuck with each employer you do it for and can't so easily be carried around like a toolkit.

I experimented a bit with some of the code from http://www.simple-talk.com/community/blogs/philfactor/archiv... a while back on some toy projects; it makes some interesting reading and had me building a few similar functions around my own conventions and rules. On a larger scale, I would be sorely tempted to build something like that into the Model database and insist on a clean output as part of the approval criteria.
By all means learn typography, but always remember that not everyone is going to experience your site the same way. People with less than perfect vision(there's more of them than you might think!) will often change their browser defaults to enlarge the text. Some people use screen readers. And a few people will alter your design with their own custom CSS.
A very simple guideline I use is what type of customer service would I like to receive myself?

So, I

* try to respond to email quickly.

* don't write email like it's a press release.

* don't write too formally.

* issue "refunds" (for iPhone apps, I have to pay for Apple's cut). It's troublesome. I have to pay instead of refund. Some people have PayPal, some don't, Some have Amazon accounts, some don't.

* treat the party at the other side as a human, like I want to be treated.

* build a good product, and keep it good

it's surprisingly easy.

So next time you are at the receiving end of good or bad customer service, note it down.

PS: We really need Markdown or something similar.
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Economist.com blogs, especially the Johnson blog (http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson) and the "Free exchange" blog (http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange)

Planet Python : http://planet.python.org/

The Erlang sub-reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/erlang
As a British tech blogger who writes on American tech sites, I've spent a lot of time arguing this particular subject with editors, copy editors, and proof readers.

Grammar should help the reader, not hinder. Logical/readable grammar all the way.
"U.S. citizens order from Canadian and overseas pharmacies to get cheaper prices on medicine, though it’s illegal even with a prescription or for drugs not available in the I.S.[sic]"

It is illegal for a US citizen to order non-US drugs. WTF???
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Imagine bright young things entering a new kind of science PhD, in which both they and their supervisors embrace from the start the idea that graduates will go on to an array of demanding careers.

This already seems to be the case in fields like computer science. An academic career path is only one 'successful' route, among many. It's not uncommon to see CS PhD students take positions in software development, industry research, finance/banking, consulting, startups, and so on.

While academics may be biased towards academia, CS students seem well aware of their options.
Indeed. It seems very extortionist to me! How is this every going to stop online pharmacies serving (what seems to be the legitimate) needs of consumers?
Your example requires that Congress pass legislation, which is exactly what I'm making a case for. In practice, and after reading this article, I doubt that will be the way it goes down.
Great article, shame it got optimized away before I had the chance to re-read it.

edit: seems Blogger turned their -O knob to eleven http://status.blogger.com/
This is part of the new health care plan (seriously).

President Obama met with big pharma in the whitehouse back in July 2009 and cut a deal to never bargain for lower prices and to block Canadian imports. This was to bow down to big-pharma so they would not fight the policy changes, because they had the billions in profit to lobby for eternity to prevent changes from happening.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/health/policy/06insure.htm...

So import all the made-in-china gadgets you want, but big-pharma gets protections from any US citizen being able to afford their medication. And now the government is obligated to fine/sue anyone who tries to help you get a discount with imported prescriptions, to protect big-pharma.

Part of the continuing "negotiate starting from the middle" tactic from the whitehouse, ie. give in before you even start to bargain.
CHP's relevant also (go back to ~mar 2010 for intro-ish posts)

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Not necessarily. People use encryption every time they access a website over HTTPS. Encryption is also the default for many Bittorrent clients.
Think about how the Mac users used to complain about Flash.
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If Novartis has put on 50% or 15B, how is Microsoft doing better by putting on 22% or 11B?

Now, I'm not fully convinced that companies on that scale are really delivering the best market value to either shareholders or wider society compared to their functions being split across a network of smaller organisations that can stand or fall on their own merits, but still... other large companies exist and have done better.
Hence the "logical" bit. It's not logical to have the period or commas outside of the quote if the quote actually includes a period or comma.
Loaded question asking for examples of "unnoticeable" gender targeting. And lots of products are gender targeted, but that facet isn't generally the first to stick out -- ads for tampons, mens vs womens shaving razors, birth control and prostate exams.
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“If I had Rs. 50 Lakh today, I would’ve spent it on a team – hire great developers, designers and even a community manager – be a team of 4-5″

It's always team that matters not the place, be it NYC or India.
> and to top it off, you'll have a spare Windows 7 license that you can give to your mom

I'm pretty sure it won't work that way (legally). That license is very unlikely to be transferable for use on any machine other than the one it was bought with.
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> 10% for folks without a college degree and 2ish % for
> people with a phd.

Doesn't say much about job quality, though. Nobody could sensibly argue that it's impossible to get a job with a PhD; it evidently isn't. But this includes career paths that make acquisition of a PhD either pointless or even detrimental.

Ask, for instance, burger-flipping or even Excel-wielding zoologists if (a) their PhD was worth the time, effort and money it cost and if (b) they're happy with their current employment situation. Because, statistically, they're employed.
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You seem to have misunderstood the source of train information. It's a private company that's publicly funded. The Crown does appear to own the copyright.
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Low contrast text does not a design list make.

The entire .link div should be a link. Regions with hover states that appear to be links should be links. You can absolutely position the date and username links over the main link, if you have to.

It's a good start though.
I've replaced the drive in one of those early Intel iMacs (still our main computer 6 years later), and yeah, it was a bit of a pain.
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What I got from this post is that he has a good enough understanding of git to know it's distributed, and that NoSQL doesn't do help improve his consulting revenue or book sales.
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Hi. I am the author or AiP.

There were a lot of leaks, when I tried this idea originally, back in php 5.2 days. See http://blog.milkfarmsoft.com/2007/06/php-as-appserver-vs-mem... for example.

But 5.3 solved all of the issues. The only leaks happening these days come from "unofficial" extensions, which introduce errors on C-level. PHP code _never_ results in memory leaks these days, as far as I know.
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>Be it religion through the writings in the bible and actions of the church, [...] resulted in a large part of the population forming a consensus of opinion and action.

This comment suggests to me you don't know much about the Bible or about the Church.

Jesus doesn't teach religion. The Church has virtually no consensus outside the Nicene Creed (and even then that's simply a definition of the Church others will argue for a more liberal or more conservative definition). Christianity is, at the centre, about personal action.

I see what you're getting at, I think. The person of Jesus Christ is like an anchorage point for peoples lives that gives them a certain locus. Computers, though I think we're probably talking about the Web really, do something similar - the Web is like a secret society for everyone who can access it.

>Those without the ambition will, as always follow the crowd.

Which crowd? Like the Church there are focuses of people, lots of them. Unlike IRL one can choose to be allied to almost any group one wishes without geographical restrictions. Online one makes a positive affirmation as to which group one wishes to be allied to. You don't have to, for example, keep visiting a site and taking part in their memes and affirming their groupthink you choose to.

IMO you need more than just ambition, you also need opportunity. To some extent you may be able to make opportunities and this is probably vastly easier if you're wealthy, already well connected, etc., just as in the past.
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