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As a teacher in a ghetto school, and as a child of parents who grew up poor (and of grandparents who survived the great depression), let me help him make some distinctions.

I have noticed two distinct types of poverty. The first is the OP type: generational poverty based on dependence and a mind-set of either victimization or unbreakable poor choice habits. They are stuck. Getting these kids out of the situation, is as he says, nigh impossible. I've taught 1000s of these kids, and their upbringing, the habits they learn, and don't learn, the role models they have, are difficult to escape and change. A handful of students out of each grade somehow leave - and never come back. The one characteristic they all seem to share is that somewhere along the line (genetics or personality) they have a work ethic or type A character. Even so, they do not have the social skills to advance very far in their careers past college and entry-level job.

The second type is the working poor. They don't really exist anymore as I know them in my parent's generation. They bust ass in 16 hour days of hard labor, save money and penny pinch, always planning for the future. Now days, this attitude is found in many middle class families. My uncle won't even collect his SS check because "he doesn't need it." My relatives would rather starve than take anything from the government or even their local church.

The first type learns how to do the opposite: game the welfare and social system for every penny and benefit and get, even if it requires dishonesty. These people coach their children on what to say at school to the adults to ensure they get all of the free benefits, and to ensure we don't call welfare for an inspection of their homes or income.

/rant off
I don't know how websockets works with varnish though, but you could run varnish on port 80, nginx on 81 and have the websockets hit :81 to get proxied through nginx I guess, you would still get good caching of normal content through varnish! :)
Are the four languages you know from the same root language or from similar cultures?

Let's take Hindi and English.let's say I'm talking to "Fred" who is 15 years older than me.

In english I would say " Fred how are you doing?"

The Hindi version would be "uncle friend how are you? (using the respectful forms of the word "you"). And because I'm using the respectful form, I would genuinely feel more respectful of all my elders.
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Propane refrigerators are extremely common in the RV/camper world, likely because most of them already have a propane tank for cooking.
The one I had was Seidio and I had zero problems with it. I'm actually now using a Seidio extended battery on my Nexus S as well.
You could never isolate it completely with only a single site, but that doesn't mean you conclude that you can't measure anything, or estimate at all. If I made all the changes in a few days, gave it a few weeks for google to notice the changes, and organic search traffic didn't increase in any noticeable way ... that's strong evidence that it didn't have much of an effect.

Now if someone is going to tell someone else that they should do xyz, what are they basing that on? Their gut? Or did they do these things in the past, and measure an improvement, even when they didn't isolate all the variables as you are demanding of me! Why not demand the same from the person making the suggestion?
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Degeneracy pressure is why the whole thing is stable against gravitational collapse, but I don't think it's why individual neutrons don't decay. (I'd say what is if it weren't for the trivial obstacle that I don't know. Handwavily, I think it's often the case that large ensembles of particles can get into nice stable low-energy states for subtle quantum-mechanical reasons.)
I've used ExtJS with ASP.NET MVC for a few years, and it was quite nice. Just have the controller functions return JSON serialized data instead of a regular view. If decoupling the UI from the server side portion of the app isn't a concern you can also use Ext.Direct, which will allow you to call your server side controller methods from JavaScript by just doing:

ControllerName.FunctionName(arg0, arg1, callbackFn);
It's a reversible equilibrium reaction. Neutron <-> proton + electron + antinutrino + energy. The forward reaction is beta decay, and is favored by lone neutrons and by the neutrons in some atomic nuclei (i.e. radioactive isotopes that undergo beta decay). Presumably the half-life of a nucleous is determined by the degree of favorability of the beta decay reaction within that nucleus. The article already mentions that the reverse reaction (neutron formation) is favored under the conditions of a neutron star, since the pressure favors the side of the reaction with fewer particles. The gravitational potential energy released as the neutron star collapses supplies the energy required for the reverse reaction.

Disclaimer: I am not a physicist.
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He reduced the example in the post to the core of the issue, which is the time complexity O(n) for each load (thus O(n^2) overall), and his replacing the existing data structure with what seems (I didn't look at the patch for very long) like a hash[1] which should be O(1) for each load (O(n) overall). A tradeoff of speed for some additional memory.

There is quite a bit going on in module loading. I think reducing it to 'ass clowns' is a bit unwarranted.

[1]: publicly exposed as an array, but a hash internally for actual loading and checking to see if loaded already.

edit: fixed bigO notation
That's a good idea, but if you can run WebSockets on a different port you can just have it go straight through :p
but the fascinating thing here is that evan Iran, who explicitly see it as an existential threat - which is way more serious than "won't you think of the children", seem unable to even think of disconnecting it entirely.

There is a certain amount of political capital in shouting loudly about thinking of the children, and the evils of the net. However, if Iran can't even turn it off because they rely on it for commerce and other key functions, How much worse would a lack of net hit the west?

Like the war on drugs the arising war on the net, driven in part by the death throws of big media, will be a lot more bluster, grandiose talk and rather lucrative funding of projects than effective action.

(you notice I've ignored spying. I reckon Google know more about me than the government does. My generation will flap about going "ooh ooh the privacy!". My children will grow in a world that has never been different and will find ways to adapt)
Well, my company, an enterprise agile dev consulting firm, could really care less if you had a degree.

My guess is that most places you REALLY want to work won't care where your degree is from. Work on cool stuff, share what you do on github, and look for ways to learn and grow. It will be evident.
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See above:
LNKD's p/e ratio is 1318
GOOG's p/e ratio is 20

LinkedIn's fundamentals are damning.
That does not invalidate any criticism of what Iran is doing, of course.
It's a general trend in how we use language today.

These days we reach for words like genius, brilliant, incredible, amazing, and unreal for even the most average things. The meaning is gone. We've used up the language reserves.

Same for job titles when everyone's senior this or VP of that.
Object equality is non-trivial matter and subjective. Java delegates the consideration of object equality to Object.equals(), intended to be implemented by yourself as required.

That PHP chooses not to try and provide a means of determining object equality is not a poor choice. Using the === operator to test whether two variables are references to the same object is then also not a poor choice.
Millions of people are on antidepressants too.
Where you were educated matters much less when you have an awesome list of projects/experience to refer to.
You probably don't read slow - but because you can't focus you have to reread sentences.

at most times i'm in the middle of 4-5 books minimum

There's your problem. Start reading just one, commit to finishing it. If it doesn't keep your interest, then commit to closing it for good and start reading something else.

About working on hard problems - personally I'm at my best when my mind is relaxed and entertained. I have a hobby (photography) and I also like spending time with my 11-months old baby boy.

If you can't find the time to read a book or do something you like other than programming, your mind doesn't stay still, even when programming, no matter how much you like it. You'll always be thinking about your next next project, or about that new and shiny tool you are dying to try out but don't have the time, or about how you're going to save the world someday with your awesome software. Your mind and body crave for other activities other than programming, even if you don't realize it.

Also, TRY DOING NOTHING every once in a while. It's a lot harder than it sounds, but does wonders for your attention deficit.
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Does it in PHP PDT, too.
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By my own experience, if you have the appropriate skills and knowledge, most companies could care less on where you graduated. Some larger companies' HR departments can be university snobs, but I never encountered that on all the startups that I've applied to.

Just keep studying, do great work, and grow your portfolio; and I'm sure you'll do fine.
I know of a few companies where it's hard to find someone below the level of director, dozens of AVP/VP/SVPs, and at least 10 C-level execs. I think it's a way of attracting people without having to pay them more. This seems like a societal effect of over-credentialization.
I think that depends on what you want your career to be.

If you're looking to work for startup and/or small firms, it's probably not going to matter. You've got a gig right now, they're going to care about what you did and learned at that gig. I know that my company doesn't care about what your degree is in or where it's from. Hell, all that has become is a measure of how much debt you and your parents were willing to accomodate.

If you're looking to work for a big firm, I dunno, Google or something, it's probably going be something they'll use to vet resumes.

This is not new advice, but now that you have your degree focus on creating stuff. Do something in the open source community. Blog the things you learn here and there. Your experiences and your portfolio of work is far more important to a smart hiring authority than some damn diploma.
This is really the basis for much of literary theory and modern criticism.

Ferdinand de Saussure used Structuralism to demonstrate relationships among the sign, the signifier and the signified. This is basically the necessary process of using the intangibilities of language to inadequately, but necessarily, represent the tangibilities of the real world.

It's pretty interesting stuff.
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In my experience no. Clients know what Flash is and they will specifically ask around for a 'web designer' who 'does Flash'.

Heck. I've even got a client who tells me to put some jQuery on the site to jazz it up a bit! He didn't seem too impressed when I billed him for optimizing my array access code using jQuery.each()...
A technology that I haven't seen mentioned yet is the thermoacoustic generator. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoacoustic_hot_air_engine These are basically a resonator driven by a heat differential. Very simple, no moving parts. With the proper arrangements you can get out heat for cooking (obviously), refrigeration, or with a piezoelectric module, electricity. They're still more or less experimental, but very cool nonetheless.
I lived in Flagstaff, another high altitude dry city. Personally I hated swamp coolers because of the increased humidity and would rather have the dry heat instead.
>80% of its effect is ascribed to the placebo effect.

Citation? Thanks.
Macros and logic engine versus type system... to the death.
I was prescribed antidepressants on two occasions, and neither time did I enjoy the experience. I felt dulled; like I was living inside a padded chamber. Thoughts just didn't come. Sleep was all I craved. I felt "normal", rather than down, but if that's what "normal" is I don't want to be it.

In contrast, coming off the Prozac for the first time gave me the craziest burst of creative energy I've ever had and resulted in a 400-mile move, a startup, and the happiest period of my life.

But I wouldn't recommend this approach to anyone else who's feeling at a complete dead end and wants a burst of creativity. The second time round I didn't feel the same way - I felt dulled to the point of numbness and took myself off the tablets before I turned into a real zombie. Finding positivity in my work, outside encouragement (counselling), and forcing myself to get outside every morning (seriously!) all kicked me in the pants and out of the hump.
In 'consider phlebas' it mentions the Culture use "CAM" or collapsed antimatter, as a weapon. It's a ship-to-ship rather than handgun-sized deal though- probably a good thing, since 200% of the mass gets converted to energy when it hits regular matter, not a measly 0.08%...
In my opinion, using antidepressants by themselves to treat depression is like buying a faster computer to run a computation that is implemented with an O(n!) algorithm. Sure, it may have some effect on application performance, but it doesn't address the underlying problem. It's the algorithm that's broken. Taking your application code to a supremely experienced developer for a code review would expose the underlying problem of the O(n!) algorithm in your program and help you rework that section of code. Visiting a good therapist is like having a code review for your brain.
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Fascinating work!
I would love to see an example backing your thesis, if you don't mind digging one up.

I've had this debate with folks many times before, and literally every time it comes up, they're unable to find an example of using prototypal inheritance in a style that wouldn't also be considered classical.

If you think that writing:

var point = Object.create(Point);

... is somehow magically prototypal, while writing:

var point = new Point;

... is unnaturally classical, I'll argue that you're missing the, ahem, point.

They're two different ways of writing the exact same pattern. And, if we're being honest with ourselves, the "Point" object in that code should rightly be called a "class": it's the abstract object that defines the shape of all points. Of course, in JavaScript, we also tend to call it the "constructor function" (which it is, technically), and sometimes, the "prototype" (because it serves in that role).
We're mostly on the same page.

I indict the language designers for making it easy to write bad code. I agree it doesn't have to be that way, people can write good(-ish) code in PHP. It's just that the language team seems to go out of their way to make a language that doesn't appeal to a programmer's sense of symmetry, elegance, consistency, flow, and ease.

All of these things are easily worked around. As a sum though, they contribute to the overwhelming sense that the tool is created by -- and by extension, for -- dumbasses :)

Thankfully, the amount of PHP I have to maintain is decreasing and the time I spend on my own projects is increasing, which is when I get to use better languages.

In previous lives I have had to maintain/develop C++ as well, and I understand that it's painful. All pain is relative, I suppose. I'm sure a woman who has given birth to quadruplets would scoff at this notion of pain.
15. Just get out of the house! Seriously.

The act of walking every morning to get a Starbucks and paper is what I credit with recovering from a sinkhole like this. I've a tendency to duvet and hope the world goes away. Of course, it's hard to motivate yourself to get outdoors when you feel like that - I was actually told to by a counsellor and had to report back to her, so I felt I had to do it.

Breaking tasks down was the second most effective thing that worked for me -- having an external person to describe the task to and what I should be doing was the catalyst here (anyone can break a task down in their head but jumping over the six foot high brick wall to get started is the hard part).
I wonder what the results would be if you substitute Apple for Google.
For some reason I can't respond to your other post, but yeah that makes sense too. Let me know what you end up doing, would be nice to discuss it more :-) I'm on irc a few places (freenode and efnet mostly) if you want.
I agree with what everyone says here, but I think that reflects the OP's concern that he will have to prove himself by going the extra step, developing a worthwhile portfolio of work before being accepted as a person who knows his stuff. On the other hand ,a person with a degree from a known institute would be assumed by "most" people to have those skills , even without having anything to show for them.
Basho themselves have complained about being called a document DB. Probably because you can store absolutely anything in Riak. Regardless of the reason I think we can safely call it a KV store and be done with it.

edit: And by Basho themselves I don't mean some official statement, I just mean people who work for Basho.
I'm pretty excited about this post. I first began using vi in 1983 and Emacs in 1986, and have switched back and forth between the vi/emacs families of editors as my needs have changed and their capabilities have changed. I've been on gvim for the last few years because of it's superior GUI integration, but it is not good for writing prose, which I do more and more of these days. I have not found something I really like for writing, and end up using MS Word by default, which does not make me happy. I had not heard of visual-line-mode, so I'm ready to give emacs a try again. I just installed Aquamacs, and I'm using it to write this comment in full-screen mode. I will also give org-mode a try because I'm always looking for better ways to organize my writing.
Consider getting a master's degree from a recognized institution.

Also consider joining some large company that will pay for that master's degree.
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Doc here. An alcoholic in DTs could spend a week in the hospital. I've seen an alcoholic who lied to her surgeon, said she had a couple of glasses of wine a night. Right. Couple of bottles. Her liver couldn't handle the anesthetic. She died, but only after 2 weeks in the ICU and her 8 year old and 10 year old daughters asked her dad why. He only brought them so they would remember. He couldn't wait for her to die.

So, the long-term effect of a bender is to upregulate production of alcohol dehydrogenase in your liver, which allows you drink more before you're drunk, but also allows you to pickle your liver faster. That takes a long time to recover from. That and the physical dependency. And the obesity. See, the liver saves you from killing yourself by turning that EtOH into fatty acids. And, since you probably ate a fair bit too, you'll get a lot of fat there. If you don't eat, you end up with Vitamin B12 deficiency. Even well-to-do, upstanding drinkers with the self control to not eat while drinking may end up with numbness in their extremities due to that.

Now, as for the short-term recovery from a bender: you need to hydrate before you go to sleep and then probably during the night. If you wake up in the middle of the night with heartburn, it may well be from the temporary gastroparesis induced by the alcohol. Drink some water and stay upright for awhile. Some advil will probably help. Then work out the next morning and, then have some coffee. Then eat. Preferably some yogurt to replace the gut bacteria you poisoned the night before. Then accept that you'll be cranky for the rest of the day. You're neurons generally aren't happy when the neighbors die.

But 36 hours after, when you wake up the day after the day after, you should be fine. Minus the alcohol dehydrogenase, fat, dead brain cells, and extra 1/2 lb of fat.
There are very few career mistakes that hurt you permanently, if you make an effort to recover from them. Usually, the way it works is that a low-quality degree shunts you into a low-quality initial job, which then makes you lower your expectation about what you can achieve, which prevents you from going for better opportunities as they arise. This cycle is very much breakable, it just requires that you do something unexpected.

Basically, if your degree sucks, it will force the hiring manager to look much more closely at your other accomplishments. If you have none, you're screwed. If you have a track record of shipping products that other people want to use, nobody is going to care about your degree.
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“The response to placebo in these trials was exceptionally large, duplicating more than 80% of the improvement observed in the drug groups. In contrast, the effect of placebo on pain is estimated to be about 50% of the response to pain medication.”
I'm against that too...

But I'm also tired of every story like this having a "hey look at this other problem" post at the top.

We have threads here where the problem of US spying are hashed-out. I'm against it in those threads too...

But there's nothing wrong with focusing on this particular Iranian scheme - the Iranians certainly "deserve freedom" as much as anyone else.

My guess is a private Islamic Republic Internet will generally outline the stupidity of the clerics and that anyone's who anyone will want to get the real Internet. IE, it might fly back in their faces.
I agree, though I would add "outside" here. Running or biking outside makes me feel awesome, running on a treadmill makes me feel even more that life is futile. I know we don't always have the choice or ability to do this, but it's great when you can.
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I upvoted it because I found myself agreeing that the arguments for both are kind of similar, whether those arguments are correct or not on their own merits aside.
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Google will hire people without big-name degrees if they have big-name accomplishments. I know folks from SJSU or with no undergrad degree at all that are working in pretty high-up positions. They can't get hired straight out of school, but there're a bunch of things you can do in the meantime that increase your desirability to employers.
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