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"Geert Lovink interviews Christopher Kelty on the issues covered by his book Two Bits". I found the critisism of amateur anthropology by people like ESR quite refreshing.
blocking YouTube on the campus network is disgusting and verging on communism

Blocking access to information is counter-revolutionary.

I think the word you are looking for is totalitarianism.
I want to clarify, the commands I use daily in svn number at two: update, and commit. I actually use IDE integration for most of the adding/deleting/copying, though I use the command line for that in svn and git when it suits me.

The "problem" with git is that there are commands like git-branch which I use infrequently... so I can never quite remember how it works. (Just like revert.)

This isn't really an attack on git, its perfect when I use it daily, but the moment I stop, I have a week of floundering about idiotically while CVS/SVN/etc feel substantially more simple. (Perforce as well, but to a lesser extent)
Huh, I thought she just thought the rules were stupid, but was abiding with them out of respect. That is, the rules required her abstaining from tea and coffee, but since they didn't mention Coke she drank it without guilt.

And the bit of "abstaining from caffeine" sounds like she thinks your caffeine intake is purely from tea and coffee. But I don't know you at all, so I'm probably misinterpreting her. :)
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It's interesting that the deviation went down when the pay scale was 'fixed.' Makes you wonder if it was the same workers that were productive or not. Maybe it was a good opportunity to make a good wage if you were willing to take social flak.

I'd like to point out that this is coincidental. The standard deviation might have gone up to the benefit of the (hardest) workers. The farmer would probably still been better off too.

Another interesting thing that you can clearly see in your numbers what a blow to the farmer (and advantage to the workers)it is to have weak workers. They set the pay rate.

The next con could be to collectively hire bad workers.
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In the spring of 2006, says Shigemura, American spy satellites succeeded in photographing Kim. An analysis of the photographs led to an astonishing conclusion: Kim had grown 2.5 cm!

Wow, these are some really good satellites, able to measure people to the half centimeter from hundreds of kilometers above.
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Your simplistic view of Russia is what happens when you learn some select facts and plug them into a formula that's designed to accommodate Western societies. If every fact you know about Russia (assuming even that your facts are accurate, which is unlikely if you read Anglophone media) suddenly became true in America, things would certainly become worse. Sort of like if you added garlic salt to ice cream, it would taste worse, and this doesn't prove that garlic salt is bad.

For people who want to understand Russia, I suggest learning more about the 90s, and what was actually happening there while The Economist and the rest of them were falling over themselves with praise. It will put into perspective what they're saying now. Here's a teaser:

http://media.hoover.org/images/graph2.GIF

If nothing else, it will remove the desire to pontificate on "the big ugly bear" and "the dread nightmare Putin".
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Yandex doesn't index the entire Internet though, but only some selected part of it, mostly pages under .ru and all ex-USSR TLDs, plus domains submitted to them manually. Not very impressive I must say. news.ycombinator.com, for one, isn't in their index.

Edit: in addition to ex-USSR TLDs they also index web sites that map to IPs physically located in ex-USSR, regardless of the domain.
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Isn't it interesting how Russia is so easily accommodating to such simple theories? Seems like there's no need to learn anything more detailed at all -- the simple views are consistently upheld by Russia's actions.

Russia is a great country. It deserves better than Putin and a continuation of oligarchy.
One thing that I don't think will ever work is a large intermediate screen as the primary method of switching tabs/pages.

It's interesting that you'd say that, because it's not at all what I'd expect. There are two factors you might not be accounting for here: that the transparency of the tab display would make clear that the screen is a temporary one, intended to aid navigation, and that the quasimodal interface, where you have to hold some hotkeys down, keeps transparent navigation overlays from distracting from the browsing. Check out Enso for a live example: www.humanized.com

Additionally, the tab display can be scaled down to whatever level the users end up desiring: recall that navigation is done by dragging and zooming.

I will admit, I'm coming at this from the direction of 'what is the ideal navigation system', not 'what will, for the immediate term, make the most people comfortable'. I suspect that the system is fairly easy to learn, unobtrusive, and that in time greater efficiency will win out.

I agree with your assumptions. In particular, keeping the tabs system on different screens from history is terrible. But I must not fully appreciate your sense that the history gutter will fragment history from tabs. It seems, instead, that since it's part of the same screen, and the same unified system, that it's a step in the right direction. And I think there simply have to be some compromises for people who want their finished tabs done away with. Visual clutter is a serious impediment for many people, me included.
This is brought up in the article's thread:

Is VC funding needed or optimal for the majority of these companies?

To add to that: Is there a gap between the common ceiling for angel funding & the common floor for VC?
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Say they photographed him just before sundown, when there's a long shadow. Knowing the exact position and time of the photograph (and therefore the angle of the sun), you could probably get a pretty accurate measure of his height from the length of his shadow... even from a satellite photo.
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Can anyone suggest a way to develop an intuitive grasp of theorem proving? Especially inductive proofs for regular expressions.

I'm having a great deal of difficulty. It's as if I'm missing some key skills, as discussed in the article (I'm not especially stupid in general).
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2.5 cm give or take a certain error is nothing.

According to many sources*, people are taller in the morning than when they turn in at night - up to 1 inch more!

Keeping in mind that 2.5cm is not even an inch, this is indicative of absolutely nothing - nor does it even meet the burden of suspicion.

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I can only find actual pictures of this on Free Republic (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1409371/posts), but I've heard multiple times that Kim wears platform shoes. Perhaps North Korea has developed some more advanced sole-thickening methods during the last few years.
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Thanks. I hadn't noticed the high pitched noise until late last night. It is pretty unfortunate and it looks like I'll have to redo the whole thing.
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Harsh but fair.
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I don't know, to be honest. My knowledge of the 90s is first-hand, and of today--reliable second-hand. I have relatives there.

After my experience with Russia and Western media's version of Russia, I had been wondering how to get reliable information on nations whose cultures are isolated from the Western culture (in particular, China). I haven't come up with anything yet, so now I pretty much ignore what comes from the media, and try not to form opinions.
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It's easy to find any set of facts to accommodate any simple theory, if the implications of it don't have any effect on your life. Most otherwise reasonable Russians also believe things about America that are just ridiculous.

I'd ask you what actions you're talking about, but this isn't the place for that.
I'd like to point out that this is coincidental.

Oh, the standard deviation did go up, just not enough to account for the increased average. The deviation went from 3.13 to 4.10, but the number which matters for the hardest working is ratio between them and the least working, which went down from 9:2 to 5:2.

With manual labour there is a limit on the amount of fruit that one person can pick per hour, hour after hour. That caps how much the most dedicated person can work, they simply can't work any harder without inventing better tools to do the job. (Which is where us technologists come in :-)

Essentially, it is harder to be 5x more productive than someone motivated than someone unmotivated, so when everyone is motivated and the pay is kept to the minimum, it is not a coincidence that the hardest workers will get paid less.

Welcome to the free labour market, I guess. PG has an essay recommending to work where your (presumably) better than average productivity can be easily measured, so that you can be remunerated fairly for it. This seems to be a corollary: don't work somewhere where it is hard to work more productively than everyone else, or you'll get shafted if they start working just a little harder.
Frankly, I think the idea is fundamentally broken. Having a "usability expert" click through a site won't give much more insight than reading a bunch of Nielsen's top 10 usability mistakes and then looking for them in your site.

If you want a truly usable site, you actually have to do real usability tests with a bunch of real users.
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I'm Mormon, I went there, and there were lots of people whose behavior I didn't like. There were also a lot more whose behavior I did like.

Mormons make up 95% of the 30K student body, so if there's anyone there you don't like, they're probably a Mormon. Mormons are a big enough group (especially at BYU) that standard statistical rules apply - some are jerks, some are racist, some are angels, some and the nicest people in the world, and most are decent people with the usual character flaws. There are over 5 million Mormons in America and 12 million in the world, so they're too big to stereotype as individuals, any more than Americans, Mexicans, Catholics, Muslims, left handers, computer programmers, etc.
Your usefulness guarantee isn't reassuring because it says, basically, "If you find my help completely useless you get a refund," rather than, "If you find my help not worth $450, you get a refund."

Also the block on "how usability helps" basically says nothing. It might as well just say, "Usability is good!" You're going to have to fork over a lot stronger value proposition than that before getting someone to pay for the service. Don't just get reference customers; get reference customer numbers. "With Really Cool Customer Foo, signups went up by 128% within two weeks."

The selling yourself bit, I'll be a little harsher (in hopes of helping), it basically says, "I've done this for some of my buddies sites and they think it's neat." Again, not a strong value proposition. Just cut that part out if you don't have a better case to make; that portion actually makes you sound less qualified that I would have assumed by default.
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only if he stood on very even ground

and even then it's difficult:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoid
AFAIK it's their policy to index only Russian language content and they do it pretty good. They can index domains in any zone as long as their content is in Russian.

Anyway IMHO Google gives better search results in Russian. I guess they have more users here for the same reasons Yahoo does better in Japan. It's all about culture.
I'm not claiming that the single distinguishing feature of Mormons is that they're universally unkind to outsiders, but when you deal with an unusual group, it's the outliers who can really show you that there's something unusual going on. Just for example, it would completely blow my mind if I found out that there was an auto mechanic who had the same curiosity, panache, explanatory talent, etc. as Richard Feynman. This isn't because I think mechanics are all dumber than physicists, or that there aren't some smart mechanics or some dumb physicists (I know one person who I believe was a mechanic before becoming a physicist). But hearing about another Feynman-style physicist would not be such a big deal.

Similarly, the average Mormon is probably fairly indistinguishable from the average American, or the average resident of whatever country that Mormon lives in. But when you look at the outliers -- the ones with really nasty in-group hostility, the ones who work eighty hours a week and do volunteer work on weekends, the ones to whom seven kids would be a 'good start' -- you figure Mormons might be half a standard deviation more in-group centered, industrious, and fertile. And at that point, it's just Bayesian inference: you find out someone is a Mormon, you change your estimates of the chance that they have other characteristics, too.

they're too big to stereotype as individuals, any more than Americans, Mexicans, Catholics, Muslims, left handers, computer programmers, etc.

I stereotype all of these groups in the same ways. It may be misguided, but it's a good way to experience your surprises in bulk and in advance. Always efficient.
> I'd ask you what actions you're talking about, but this isn't the place for that.

+1
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Exactly. Many people aren't choosing to still use IE6 - the choice is being made for them. I work onsite in a non-profit sometimes, and they are all still on IE6 until the IT dept decides it's safe/worth it to upgrade. (EDIT: And I do my part to convince them it is safe and worth it.)

I feel like every month or so, a big site says "Death to IE6," then people point out that it's not always an individual decision to upgrade, then someone like marijn points out the most reasonable solution. Make sure the content comes through, make sure it doesn't look completely ridiculous, and educate clients as you go. And if you're lucky, like 37signals, you can decide for your clients. We'll get there eventually.
We're not planning for 100% coverage, especially during our beta. But we do plan to add more markets (counties) as we roll out more.

I have yet to find a good alternative - there are a few places that offer up the data already indexed, but they either have limits on the searches per day, or a ToS that does not allow the data to be repackaged commercially. If there was an API out there, even if we had to pay for access, that allowed to search for the data we needed with no cobranding (or less cobranding than Zillow) we'd use it. For now, we'll put up a few more nodes and index the data ourselves.
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it is not clear to me why this self-admitted anti-Russian vitriol should have any place on ycnews
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There are operating systems in other, higher-level languages: Singularity, JNODE, Genera, SqueakNOS, Movitz, but:

C is not garbage collected. If you write an OS in a dynamic language you need either a GC in a low-level language or one that does not produce garbage itself. If you want a realtime-OS, garbage collection will make things much more complicated.

Other dynamic featues like multiple dispatch at runtime may also slow down the system and create an unnecessary bottleneck at such a low level.

> Why hasn't anyone created a better systemprogramming langauge?

Java is a very good systems programming language for Processors that have Java bytecode as machine code.

Oberon is a better language to write the Oberon system in than C. There is also a lot of low-level programming going on with Ada. Oberon and Ada are both derived from Pascal and seem very un-dynamic to me. Depending on your definition of better, they may be better sytem programming languages.
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I'm fairly forgiving of typos in blog posts, but to use the wrong product name in the first sentence, about 75 pixels away from the correct product name in the title, is a little too much.
Yahoo uses the Graded Browser Support policy (http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/articles/gbs/) for a reason. It's because we check what % of our users use each browser and support the appropriate ones.

You can bet that if Yahoo is still choosing to support IE6 it's because a decent slice of the internet still uses it. That said, IE <6 is on our C-grade list. This means we actively block them from getting JS/CSS and display a "nag" message with upgrade information.
These were exactly my thoughts when I got my touch. The iPhone is just too costly for me. I don't really need always on data that much. Now if only we could get voip and a built in microphone on the touch...
Yeah, I realized post-facto that --all and --tags doesn't work. Alternatively, you can list your tags with things to push, like

git push origin master my-tag ...

That might also work with --all. If it does, you could get away with:

git push --all origin my-tag

As for the rest...I'm not sure what your best way forward is. One way might be simply to don't delete branches. They'll clutter the list of branches, but so what? Just ignore them if you don't use them.

The 'git remote prune' way is probably best. Run that, and then check for local branches that aren't tracking a remote. That's scriptable.

I don't think there's a simple and elegant answer here, because what you're doing basically turns Git into subversion. That's pretty much unavoidable when one is doing what you're doing.

You could be more "distributed" if you only worked on specific features or modules (or whatever) at specific locations. Then you could just merge when necessary instead of always having to keep your branches in sync :-)
... which led to the boring, gray monoculture we suffered under during The Microsoft Era.

now that microsoft has finally done its evolutionary duty and has begun its course of repeated foot-shooting, let's hope it's at least another decade or two before another, similar monopoly gains traction.
Of course. All that is trivial compared to the leap of logic required in a High School mind: I could use math to figure this out!
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