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I don't know what it is like for an everyday user but as an experienced power user I found Unity slower than the classic interface. I use gnome-do for launching programs, and it runs faster and supports more than Unity does.

We aren't the target for this interface.
"All signs indicate that Julian Assange is correct about Facebook information being completely and easily accessible, without judicial oversight, to US intelligence."

Do you mind showing some examples of these signs?

I'm not particularly skeptical, but it's the first I've heard of automated interfaces like these.
"Hellbanning" is part of HN's anti-spam (and anti-asshole) defenses. I didn't read your post, but it looks like you've been hit. AFAIK, the only thing you can do is making a new account and being nicer.

I've never heard of intentionally slow page loads, though. Maybe some cache is optimized for not-banned accounts?
A 10% time difference can make or break whether a video game truly feels real time. That's 54fps => 60fps.

If you mean "You typically get far more than a 10% return on low-level optimization investment," I agree. It's typically a dramatic improvement.
Experimenting and trying out new things is good in principle. Even if you don't agree with this, here's an example of JavaScript taking feedback from CoffeeScript: http://brendaneich.com/2010/11/paren-free/
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I've seen similar code being used, but IMHO it's confusing
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Sad thing is his death will probably add fuel to Al-Qaeda's fire. Although we may not be able to kill his legacy, we can still try to extinguish the fear he lived to ignite.
Pixels work fine in real browsers, they worked fine even since and they don't require strange math or resetting a child element. And because they work, they don't require a fallback.

If a specific browser doesn't support a very specific feature, I'd say: screw that browser. This isn't about an essential page feature missing, heck, it's not even about the page not looking the same across browsers.

This is about allowing the user to change the look of the page. If a user is advanced enough to even know they can do that, then they might also be advanced enough not to use IE.

This feels like optimizing the completely wrong thing - and even changing the spec to accomodate a browser issue (which will never support the new unit anyways).

At this point, there's no advantage to use 1rem instead of 10px, aside of IE9 support.
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Servers are, indeed, a different kettle of fish. But he seems to be talking about desktops (and laptops).
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Heh, I did exactly the opposite. I'm pretty happy with it, though I may still return to Gnome 2.

My main reason to ditch Unity was the screen space that unity takes and does give good options for customization. I've been running with just a single top bar in Gnome for ages and can't stand the unity bar looming over me. I figured now is a good time to experiment. Awesome seems to pack a lot of functionality that I like so we'll see how things go.
Do you know a good one for Windows?
I might be oblivious (I'm male), but I've found that mostly among fairly old CS professors, some of whom are indeed not very progressive on gender issues, and not even very good at hiding it. I haven't noticed a lot of trouble from male professors in their 20s, 30s or 40s, though. Most of them seem genuinely concerned that the percentage of students in their courses is so low, and interested in whether there's anything they can do to improve the environment. In many cases the gender balance is noticeably lower than when they were CS students, since female enrollments have dropped considerably over the past 20 years.
I believe your understanding is right, recently being a month, provided it's the exact same URL. Popular news are usually submitted from different sources so there are actual duplicates. I agree that it's certainly not easy to automate the classification.

The Coding Horror example is a very good one. Jeff write very atemporal stories, I'm pretty sure that happens intentionally. It's not unusual to see one of his posts from several years ago pop in the front page every now and then. Same with Joel's. It may be inspired by a recent event, but the lesson is meant to stand.

I think a good heuristic would be: given a random, highly voted story from the archives, would it get upvoted if reposted today?
Your arguments would be a lot more credible if they weren’t so condescending.
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Ah, a large landing zone indeed!
Here's an article Bruce Schneier wrote about a similar system at Google. Apparently, the Chinese hackers (widely speculated to be backed by their government) hacked into Google using the backdoor put in place for the US government.

http://www.schneier.com/essay-306.html

And the rest of the article lists all kinds of other examples that exist worldwide.
Not much use unless they all implement it...

Might be more interesting if V8 would support CS as an input language to compile natively in addition to JS -- this would have CS "natively" in Chrome and Node.

But then, things work fine as they are. Compiling CS to JS is not a huge performance hit and it's either part of your build chain or a one-off hit at your apps startup.
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that's pretty slick
I wonder how well the SMART stats would predict that failure -- or whether they were sudden unexplained failures.

If you run smartctl -A on your SDD device then for e.g. Intel you can see attribute 0xE9 or 233 -- media wear indicator, starting at 100% (mine's at 98% after 14 months, so this should hopefully indicate 2% of the wear out from writes). You can also see how many of the reserved blocks it's used (when it fails to reflash a cell when rewriting).
A much better C standard library would help a lot into thinking at C code from an higher level point of view. Especially if you have easy to use data structures in form of a lib, it is really easy to resist to use a list and O(N) lookups just to type less code where an hash table is a better feet.

Why the C standard library does not get improved with a few data types like linked lists, hash tables, dynamic strings, and so forth is something I can't understand (one common reason why poorly written C code ends slower than equivalent code wrote in a scripting language is because of strlen() and other stupid string operations into a loop ending into exponential time complexity).
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This is only part of the story. As far as I can see it, the biggest difference between men and women is that there are less women who don't give a shit about 'social acceptance'.

The OP's post is mostly about schools, social issues, etc...

Since I have seen a computer as a 12 year old guy, I did not give a shit about other people's opinion on my programming skills, I did not learn programming in school, etc... I just needed to program. My mind did not rest until I did not give it a programming poblem to solve. When I created a little game, I felt that I created a new world from scratch.

The real question is why this kind of enthusiasm and this kind of social-proof ignorance is more rare (although existing) amongst women.
Those are some fairly amusing location reviews by Google users.
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Translation: people who disagreed with me were incorrect on a different topic. Therefore, everyone who disagrees with me on this peripherally related topic is also likely to be incorrect.

See the logical fallacy?
Hmm this is bad. I was hoping SSDs would give us more speed in RAID0 setups for film/video editing where we need sustained speeds of over 1.2GB/s regularly (for one track 4k dpx only)... but if they fail a lot, it's too cost prohibitive.
Do you have any link describing this backdoor and the procedures to use it (grandparent's claim "without judicial oversight" is the critical bit here)? Schneier just mentions it without reference.
It's a shame they couldn't capture him. "Shot in the head while resisting" is very inconvenient for those of us who wanted to be sure he faced justice.

Personally, I think it probably went down more or less as reported. Namely that he was killed in the firefight. Probably not on purpose.

I know a little bit about close-in operations like this one must have been and, well, it's hard to keep a guy alive who is (1) shooting at you and (2) would rather die than be captured. Hell, it's hard enough extracting hostages alive and they want to live.
Here are comparable numbers for SSD from another source [1] (this site is affiliated with an online computers shopping site).

Intel 0,3%, Kinston 1,2%, Crucial 1,9%, Corsair 2,7%, OCZ 3,5%.

[1] http://www.hardware.fr/articles/831-7/taux-pannes-composants...

Edit: and on last page of the previous link there is a list of the current models sold between 10/01/2010 and 04/01/2011 with the worst fiability track record:

6,7%: OCZ Agility 2 120 Go. 3,7%: OCZ Agility 2 60 Go. 3,6%: OCZ Agility 2 40 Go. 3,5%: OCZ Agility 2 90 Go. 3,5%: OCZ Vertex 2 240 Go
The press corps went to great pains to stress how unusual it was that a speech was announced with one hour warning and they had no idea what it was about. Chuck Todd said he got an email from the WH that literally said, "Get back here now. I can't tell you what's going on, but it's a BFD"
Well, two points come to mind:

1) Singletons do make sense when they represent a true physical singleton - for example, you only want one piece of code drawing directly to the screen, the Window Manager, which should indeed be a singleton.

2) Most of your problems stem from the us of GetInstance() not from the use of the Singleton pattern in and of itself. For example, without GetInstance(), the other way to get a reference to the Singleton object is to pass it in to the object that is going to use it. This indicates the dependency in the client class's interface, and also makes mocking out the Singleton for test purposes a real possibility.
I use 2.5" laptop hard drives not older than 2 years. They last about 6 years.

And if a hard drive starts to go, sometimes you hear it failing. I actually backed up a 30gb hard drive where I had to wobble it up and down while being backed up.
Most of them were sad, rather than epic..
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People who make computers their life are doing life wrong.

There's no doubt that computers serve as a solitary outlet for many lonely, ostracized, and anxious people. The fact that computers become the only good thing in their life is not a positive and it's usually not a choice. It's something thrust on them by their psychological circumstance.

The real tragedy is that there is an entire cohort of people doing computer programming because they suffer from anxiety disorders and programming is capable of affording them a solitary way of making money as well as giving them something to escape into.

Anyway these people are not really helping themselves or the industry. They do sub-standard work, they suffer from depression and anxiety, they find collaboration difficult and uncomfortable and they accept being underpaid due to low self-esteem. The low self-esteem causes them to lash out against others when they have a chance, like insulting people who don't know something.

It would be better for everyone if these people got therapy and came to enjoy the other things that life can provide. Warm and fulfilling relationships being the big one.

Life is about a lot more than just working. If this applies to surgeons and Presidents and astronauts, it should apply to computer scientists as well. Never judge someone negatively for having a life.
I have been using an enterprise-class Intel SSD (X25-E I think) for about one year now in my workstation so help speeding up the build/linking process of a large C++ project. This has made all the difference in development speed for me. The disk gets punished a lot, lots of file copies and read/write operations. To date I haven't had any problems (nor have I heard of any from colleagues who are using them in the same way). I wouldn't care much about data loss though since only temporary files are on there.
No-one can tell you if vim is better for you or not.
Both editors are kinda religious choices.

I like vim but if you are emacs user and are happy. Why would you want to switch?
I would suggest that you might get a better response if you described what made labels.io better rather than just "read about how it works (it's not quite your typical jobs site)".
I see you had replied about an hour ago. Now its 548.
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And for that matter many of the similar competitions that have occurred were run by companies who are interested in hiring worldwide, which is why this seems like a special case, I suppose...
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Perfect example of how graphs can be subtly deceptive:

1) "Variance in number of comments" is visualized as a circle's radius.

2) ... But a circle's area increases as (pi)r^2. That's an exponential increase.

A fair visualization would show a linear increase, not an exponential one.

EDIT: To be more clear, the goal is "more pixels" = "more variance". Growing the visualization by a radius is inherently unfair.

It's precisely these kind of subtleties that make statistics such a fallacy minefield.
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At least people should know that before using it...not everyone has many secrets to hide. What's the point hiding who you make friends with, and public conversations? Trying too hard to stay off the grid is rather creepy...
Symbolism can be important. Especially when at the same time this happens, a wave of democratic revolution is sweeping the very region this man was said to "represent".
I think this neatly illustrates the problems with other software have Vi or Emacs key bindings. Everyone has a slightly different set of bindings they use to do things and if you have even slightly different behaviour then it's just more a hindrance than a help. I can cope with learning new key bindings but I can't cope with something that activates my Emacs muscle memory then doesn't quite do what I tell it :)
Pretty old, but still pretty funny.
Is hiding my friends less creepy than trawling through my friends, friends' friends, friends' friends' friends, and so on?
Good point, though the site was discussed before on HN and this was really intended just as a quick note :)

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Indeed, I've been hearing this is a fake that has been circulating the webs for a while now. Good to see some of the mainstream media outlet catching up with the drums
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A thing I don't like about Unity are the context-menus. When your application is fullscreen they are ok, but when your window is smaller it's strange to have the context menu still on top of your screen. I also never understood why Apple is doing this. To me it just feels out of context.

But overall I think Unity is great. People don't like changes so there will be a lot of boo-ing and bah-ing, but I think in the end this is a great step forward.
Reading that statement in English and not in my native Geek, that statement simply refers to the replacement of a more failure-prone device with a less failure-prone device.

SSDs have long been marketed as being more durable than mechanical HDDs, and are quite often used in environments subject to sudden shock or vibration.

The particular underlying marketing going all the way back to the classic "solid state" marketing and the removal of vacuum tubes (valves) from computing decades ago, and this irrespective of the acceleration sensors and other schemes intended to reduce the numbers of head crashes with HDDs.

With LCDs, SD/CF/flash/downloads and now SSDs, the remaining non-solid-state devices are being removed from computing, and following the path as the Cathode Ray Tubes (CRTs), floppies and CD/DVD drives and HDDs. As rugged as CRTs and HDDs have become, vacuum tubes and flying heads still do not deal with shock and vibration particularly well.
Pixels are relative units. Use them whenever you want. There is no problem with pixels. There are many with IE.
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I think this adds to the advantages of using linux and scrapping windows,after all with the security features of linux nothing like this would have happened.
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Other comments are assuming this is flash wearing out, but is this actually the flash wearing out or is it something else (buggy firmware, cheap memory cells, what have you)? The time-to-failure seems way too low for it to be excessive writes (15 days for an 80GB IBM!).

Actually, come to think of it, what is the failure mode for a drive when it's all worn out? Is it catastrophic data loss or is it just an unwritable drive?
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What's with the downvotes? It's related. Just because it's satire doesn't make it cheap and useless. Upvoted.
On the contrary, it's new every time you generate a paper!
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The parser needs to know about it iff you want your parser to disambiguate certain scenarios. An alternative approach is to handle the ambiguous scenarios generically in a specific parser construct (e.g. build a special AST node), and resolve it later after you've collected type information.
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That's not a syntactic ambiguity. Typically (when you're not trying to compress multiple passes, be clever and fast etc.), identifiers are not resolved during parsing, so it doesn't matter whether x denotes a type or a variable when the sizeof operator is applied.
Another great issue. Thanks

How are you selecting comments now that pg no longer lets us see the scores? How do you plan to adapt?

[edit] Also, would you please pad the numbers in your file names with 0 in the hundreds column so they'll sort properly after you hit issue 100?

eg:

Before: hackermonthly-issue11.pdf
After: hackermonthly-issue011.pdf

I know you have 7 more years before you hit issue 100, but it's nice to think ahead and I think you'll find that time goes by pretty fast.
Some pretty harsh commentary on reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/h25bz/can_your_...
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"He once told me that even though the females are fairly quiet, and the boys in the class showed off a lot, when it came down to projects and exams, the female average was often higher."

I think that this is actually one of the reasons that so few girls are in Computer Science. My girlfriend is a CS major and she very often feels inadequate compared to all of the other super exceptional girls in the program. It isn't because she's inadequate either. Her grades are fine. The issue comes when every one of the other girls is at the top of the class. She's not being judged against the whole class like the guys are, but she's being judged against just the super exceptional girls.

I can only imagine that lots of girls feel this way in their first intro class and give up.
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They invaded two countries, one of which was tangentially connected to some of the people involved in the hijackings which has resulted in quite a lot of innocent deaths.

Pretty major story of the past decade.
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Poor guy. I feel sorry for him, the sudden fame must be an unpleasant shock.
I wonder what the nutcases will make out of that.
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It is, however, in the Mac's built-in dictionary, which is The New Oxford American Dictionary.
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Perhaps. But they are degrees of usefulness, and it's probably possible to do better. Especially if you do an analysis in hindsight, where it's no longer possible for the participants to game the system.