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History shows that there has been many tools that in the past have resulted in the people acting in a way that when viewed from a certain perspective could be construed as limiting the individuals ability to act individually.

Be it religion through the writings in the bible and actions of the church, printed news papers through the selection of what is reported and the application of the bias of the owners, or radio and television providing a filtered window on the world, there has always been deliberately or otherwise tools out there that have resulted in a large part of the population forming a consensus of opinion and action.

Saying that computers have taken away our "power" is much the same as my parents saying that TV "rots your brain", without taking into account the ability of TV to also expose you to thoughts and ideas that would never have been available to the average person just a couple of generations earlier.

Do computers have the ability to reduce the power of the individual? Of course, in the same way as individual power was taken from those who use to slave in the fields of medieval England or were stuck in the early factories of the Industrial Revolution. This is not to say that it is inevitable that everybody who has anything to do with computers will inevitably loose power to them? again no... some do, but those with the education, drive and ambition to do something powerful for themselves have never had a better chance to embrace the chance and do almost anything they can dream. Those without the ambition will, as always follow the crowd.
If Facebook protected users from everyone, it would be totally acceptable.

But, every ad company and security organization has access to Facebook's data. They are bitching about Google?

"Its ok if you're going to screw with my users, just dont compete me"
In Africa, if you remove countries that just don't even have working governments, you find the prisons are also horrible, with the exception of maybe South Africa, but even they've had a history of nasty evil and torture (read about Steve Biko). It's improved a lot, but not nearly as much as it should.

Rape seems to be very prevalent in South Africa's overcrowded prisons, and South African society seems to actively condone prison rape.

Regarding your Biko point, he was murdered before he was sentenced. Although political prisoners under Apartheid were kept under harsh conditions, after visiting Robben Island, I got the impression that conditions for them, overall, were better than those of general prisoners (especially by the mid-late 1980's).

Overall, I think that prison conditions, for general criminal suspects/convicts, have not gotten much better, although there is greater transparency, than in the past.

See this article on a UK extradition request, where prison conditions are being used as an argument to block extradition of a murder suspect to SA: http://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/shrien-s-gay-risk-defence-1.1...
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I'm kind of surprised that this hasn't appeared in the news before, given how important an issue it is for technical writing. After all, you don't tell someone to delete a line in vi by typing "dd."
Really, why is there no download? Isn't that the whole idea? A flash-based viewer thingy is nice, but absolutely no replacement for actually downloading the entirety.

(Yes, they do provide some scaled downloads that appear to be designed for using as a desktop background. The highest resolution is only 3000x5000 though)
It's really more about the amount of leverage and the total volume of money at stake. I haven't seen much evidence of either, although that doesn't really mean anything. But let's take Facebook as an example. It really seems like the "valuation" is due to the tiny volumes of shares being traded.

In general it seems like VCs are throwing 10s of millions around fairly recklessly. 10 million is a lot for most of us, but it's nothing in terms of the US economy. If/when it starts turning into billions instead of millions we could see trouble
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Funny to see an implementation of Lisp in a Python since there exists implementation of Python in Lisp : https://github.com/franzinc/cl-python !
The real danger is that it's fairly localized to Silicon Valley. So it's fairly likely that if this is or becomes a bubble it will be sort of contained in a small area. As more money gets pored in, wages go up, rent/real estate goes up, ...
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Ha ha ha! Absolutely fantastic. The wizard would be proud! How do you handle tail call optimization with JavaScript? (at least, until the next version of JS with proper tail calls - woot! http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:proper_tail_c... )
Those are good points, but he could still have, at least, used something like TrueCrypt for his archives.
The Techmeme Leaderboard OPML list is worth popping into your Google Reader:

http://www.techmeme.com/lb.opml
I get ipadinsight.com in 7th position, behind 5 scrapers too (searching from the UK).
How do you perform that measurement using practically bounded computing and networking resources?
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Every time jQuery changes, it means extensive cross-browser testing for us agan.
Now if only ISO 8601 date formatting would catch on...
(yyyy-mm-dd)
for a great quick and dirty:
http://www.typographyforlawyers.com/

for long term understanding, it's just like any other skill/trade/art: keep researching, learning, searching, finding inspiration, figuring out what you don't know, so you know what you want to learn next, and if it's worth learning.

you can "start hacking" by mimicking (copying) certain styles, seeing how they work, analyzing their advantages and disadvantages in different situations (just like different programming languages)... etc.

I think you're already way ahead of the crowd just by knowing how important typography is to the successful design of site, best of luck.
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I wonder if Wikipedia adopting that style has had any influence on its popularity online, or if that's an example of convergent evolution. It was decided way back in 2002 to use the logical punctuation style there, in a fairly ad-hoc way when it was still a small project. Part of the motivation appears to have been a sort of UK/US compromise. It's since been reworded significantly, but this was the original style suggestion there (introduced on August 23, 2002):

In most cases, simply follow the usual rules of English punctuation. A few points where the Wikipedia may differ from usual usage follow.

With quotation marks, we suggest splitting the difference between American and English usage.

Although it is not a rigid rule, it is probably best to use the "double quotes" for most quotations, as they are easier to read on the screen, and use 'single quotes' for "quotations 'within' quotations". This is the American style.

When punctuating quoted passages, put punctuation where it belongs, inside or outside the quotation marks, depending on the meaning, not rigidly within the quotation marks. This is the British style.
>When I asked Feal and Carol Saller, who oversees the Chicago Manual of Style, if there was a chance their organizations would go over to the other side, they both replied, in essence: "How about never? Is never good for you?"

It seems to me the next logical question here is, "why not?" Just about the only arguments in favor of "American" punctuation are tradition and some hazy sense that periods outside qoutes look wrong, whereas the best argument for logical punctuation is that the point of writing is to communicate clearly, and logical punctuation is more clear at virtually no cost.
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no you read it wrong, they are detecting the true volume weighted price of an instrument, by sniffing all the little sneaky trades jettisoned into the market.
I'm with you on that.

If only MSSQL Server wasn't broken in the way it interprets that if your user locale is set to UK English (give it a string formatted that way in other locales and the behaviour is as expected, in "English (British)" it sees the format as yyyy-dd-mm).
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Yes, I know Haskell. Yes I know python. Yes, I've used django. Yes I've programmed in PROLOG and EIFFEL. Yes I can use a shell and succesfully configured a linux server countless of times. Fuck me, totally unrelated, but I even know MATLAB. Yes, I had my hands on SOLARIS servers. Yes, I programmed a SPH solver with CUDA. Yes I know javascript, not just jQuery. ETC.

So here I am, an actual ".NET stack developer". Ask me anything.
Absolutely! If the computer 'decided' on these illegal strategies theres impunity!
Some great books in arkitaip's comment.

But start with this one: "The Non-Designer's Design Book" -- it'll teach you how much of "great design" is "great typography".
Good point about the dividends. I didn't consider that.

And you're right about spare cash and the bottom line. From what I understand, the twin cash cows provided by Windows and Office hide a LOT of sins. In that sense, Microsoft is like some hopelessly corrupt petrostate. Sure, the place is a shambles in every way imaginable, but as long as the oil keeps flowing, nothing matters enough to dislodge the ruling class.
I physically subscribe to Harper's Magazine (http://harpers.org) and the New York Review of Books (http://nybooks.com).

I use Google Reader, through which I have 222 subscriptions and have read 11,321 items in 30 days; I mostly skim through most summaries and articles and read maybe 1 in 20-50. I bookmark particularly interesting articles in my Delicious account and then try to re-read them within a week to see if I a) still find them interesting, and b) whether new perspectives and thoughts crop up about the themes of the article.

If you're curious you can get the OPML export of my Google Reader subscriptions here: https://gist.github.com/970230

My daily reading routine is:

- Guardian's international articles (guardian.co.uk/world)

- International Herald Tribune (iht.com)

- Techmeme (techmeme.com)

- Skim the first page of HN

- Skim the newest articles on Metafilter and AskMefi.

- Flick through all my Google Reader items throughout the day.

You don't explcitly mention this but I also voraciously read books, at a rate of about two every month. Right now I'm going through a serious counterinsurgency phase.
The best of mine:

/r/machinelearning

/r/javascript

/r/php

/r/coding

/r/programming

/r/askscience
You don't have to upgrade to every version that is released, unless your product is affected by a fixed bug (or performance improvement). jQuery isn't exactly a system library that could have a security hole making your web server exploitable remotely.

Unless of course "VWO" (you should provide a link or descriptive text when mentioning a TLA we might not recognise, BTW) is somehow sensitive to what version other people use on their sites so you have to test against all versions.
Also: 24h time with no timezones.
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How much money is there hidden in US's sofas?
"It happens to all of us: accidentally dropping a quarter or dime between the cushions of our sofas and we forget about it or it just slips out of our pockets. How much money is wasted like that in the entire US?"

This might sound as a joke, but I'm thinking of asking this as an interview question for my next tech employee. Is it too crazy and open ended? Got any smart answers?
Student trends cannot - by definition - be indicative of the US as a whole.
Zite on the iPad is absolutely amazing. It's a dynamic newspaper/daily magazine with the cobtent you are intersted in. It somehow always finds the best new content relevant to me with stunning accuracy.

Most of the stuff I really love in HN also appear in my Zite-magazine
How about going metric?
Here's what I read in google reader -

Coding horror
http://feeds.feedburner.com/codinghorror/

Daring Fireball
http://daringfireball.net/index.xml

Derek Sivers
http://sivers.org/en.atom

Devour
http://feeds.feedburner.com/devourfeed

DZone Refcardz
http://feeds.dzone.com/zones/refcardz

Geek and Poke
http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/atom.xml

Gizmodo
http://gizmodo.com/index.xml

Hacker News Daily
http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/index.rss

Learn Something Everyday
http://cargocollective.com/feed-rss.php?url=learnsomethingev...

Lovely Package
http://lovelypackage.com/feed/

Pattern Tap
http://patterntap.com/rss

Paul Graham
http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/feeds/pgessays.rss

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
http://www.smbc-comics.com/rss.php

SVN
http://feeds.feedburner.com/37signals/beMH

Steve Yegge
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

The Big Picture
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/index.xml

XKCD
http://xkcd.com/atom.xml
I'm British, I've worked with a large number of clients' SQL Server installs. I think I've only twice seem yyyy-dd-mm as a default behaviour, yyyy-mm-dd was far more common.
for what it's worth, there's nothing magical (or random) about computer languages - they tend to become more stable over time because they (1) reach some level of internal consistency and (2) become more popular (pressure for backwards consistency).

so yes, it probably is possible to answer this question to some degree if you've been watching scala grow. i haven't, which is why i asked.
As a non-native speaker, this is one thing I found very irritating about American English writing. It never made sense to me to put something in quotes that is not part of the quote.
Why no timezones? Do you propose that all times always be given as 24-hour UTC?
Since I follow most of the mailing lists for Symfony 2, I have come across Silex a little while ago. However, something new I took from this article was the appserver-in-php project https://github.com/indeyets/appserver-in-php

The blurb on the git project has "The main idea is, that your app, if built for this protocol, will be able to preload resources, preconnect to databases and response to requests really fast.", which seems like it's taking a persistent approach to running PHP apps. How does this deal with the memory leaks etc?

Can anybody knowledgeable weigh in on this with a little detail about what it is, how stable it is, who's using it, how it stacks up to using PHP-FPM in a spawner pool w/ nginx etc... ?
I agree with this. yyyy.mm.dd.hh.mm.ss
Also? The Holocene calendar, and the International Fixed Calendar.

But then, I'm a nerd.
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The problem with that is that you want to let them communicate freely to strike a deal, emailing each other details etc. Then they can just negotiate off-site and you're cut out.
There was a useful (I found) discussion about no timezones on here a few days ago, when discussing Samoa's decision to switch to the other side of the date line - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2528338
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Glad I'm not the only one who likes it...apparently several people dislike it so much they're downvoting me. I'm not a sock-puppet, honest!
I'm the author of the original post. We use AiP quite a bit in production.

Indeed, memory leaks are a potential issue with persistent PHP. Garbage collection in 5.3 helps a bit, but in general AiP exposes such issues more readily than regular mod_php setups. This doesn't mean memory leaks in your code wouldn't be an issue anyway, it just means you'll notice them a lot more quickly.

AiP workers die when PHP's memory_limit is exceeeded, and AiP will then restart them.
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Magazines: Monocle & The New Yorker

News Websites: http://ft.com (news/finance) http://gq.com (fashion/lifestyle) http://businessinsider.com (tech) http://pehub.com (tech deals)

Blogs: http://kotaku.com (video games) http://www.valetmag.com/ (fashion) http://hypebeast.com (fashion) http://daringfireball.net (opinion)

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Right now I'm reading "Game of Thrones" on my kindle. Before that I was on a Jules Verne kick: "Around the World in 80 Days", "Journey to the Interior of the Earth" and "20,000 Leagues under the Sea" are all great fun.

Sometimes I even read something work-related: "Bureaucracy" by James Wilson and "Managing the Unexpected" by Weick and Sutcliffe.
for loops are also syntactic sugar and the case class matching thing

case class Lol (a: Int, b: Int)

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I was wrong saying profit equaled the utility exactly.

There is clearly an opportunity cost with HFTs, and I would hypothesize that at a certain point there is a better ROI in other fields for those people. There should be diminishing returns to investments in HFT, right?

This is such a theoretical argument and my conclusions are based mainly on the idea that if there is no utility people would not pay for it. It does seem ridiculous that moving 3ms faster wins you so much, but I'm just not convinced that there is definitely no utility there. Often economic utility is very hard to intuitively recognize -- often it is not recognized until people start intervening in the market and bad things start happening. If you ask computer scientists which jobs are useless, provide no utility, and should be eliminated, they would eliminate huge sections of the economy.
Also a good mention is exchanging tangible assets or safe currency. For example using EU dollars for transactions because it's backed more.

And, security. Always good in an unstable environment.
You could feed it your Amazon authentication details and let it bring up an EC2 instance automatically.

That would make it functionally equivalent to Cloak.
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From an end user's perspective, this demo is a monstrosity (like pretty much all WebGL stuff I've ran across so far). I opened the link in a background tab, then my system started thrashing and Firefox got stuck. Restarted Firefox only to have it reload the tabs and freeze again. Had it running in the end and got to see the 3D butterflies flying around in a choppy music video.

Thanks, I'll go look for the disable button now.
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It's quite CPU-intensive, but well worth watching if you can get it to work. I had to watch it in Chrome and bump my screen resolution down to 1024*768 to watch it smoothly. It was well worth it.
I can't even begin to imagine working for a company that thought anything like this would make a good interview question.
I am working on such an app over Google App Engine, iFreeTools Creator : http://creator.ifreetools.com

Requires nothing more than a Google/Google-Apps user account to get going.

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Integrates with Google Contacts (import/upload), Google Docs (attach docs to database records), Google Maps (mark and search for records based on geographic location). Google Calendar (export events/tasks-like data) and email integration are coming up later.

The web-app can be mapped to your own domain like http://app.yourdomain.com (using Google Apps).

Other features include :

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It's the national standard in my country!

(Then again, it's the national standard of two whole countries, everyone else ignores it. :-( )
You don't need the list of potential scrapers, it could apply to anyone who published the same content after.

The issue though is if you write a blog and don't know to do this, the scrapers do know and nick your content and inform Google of "their" new article. At that point you're now seen as a scraper for an article you actually wrote because the real scraper plays the game better.

And that's the real problem - the scrapers play the game better than the rest of us because they can commit larger amounts of time to it (not having to waste time writing actual content and all).
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Not even flash?
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They can pass an act designated as "private law" (aka slip laws), which can apply to specific individuals and afford relief from another law or grant benefits/powers that are not available under the general law. So Congress actually does have the authority to extend his tenure.