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It bears repeating that emacs grows with you. You don't have to learn and customize a new editor when you take on a new type of task.

From the time I wrote my first Linux config file, to when I started coding in C (and through the next dozen languages I learned), from using RCS to CVS to SVN to git and hg, when I was a security geek, a nuts-and-bolts coder, a web developer, and a typesetter... I stuck with emacs.

I know folks who learned only a fraction of that breadth of computing tasks, yet passed through six or seven editing environments, revision control front-ends, and so on doing it. There was this extra thing they had to do -- audition appropriate IDEs and customize on to their liking -- every time they learned something new. I'm confident I can pick up whatever language I like without that overhead.
Well to do stuff like Google maps does, you have to use javascript as a lot of the magic you want involves AJAX technologies. Sorry to say its probably something that going to take you at least a year to learn well enough to do it yourself. You need to partner up with someone into web development (especially AJAX) to get it going any quicker.
I have read the piece in question. I don't understand how it answers Notjim's question. What is the alternative?
Training isn't the same as experience or learning. If you meant that you should have said that.
What are the cool things we should know about Kawa?
I'm only going from the article, which is evidently flawed (TechCrunched!), but it could effectively add a tax on social networking sites operating in the state. States compete for companies all the time and this could provide an opening for somewhere else to put together a more compelling package. Obviously the big drawback to leaving is the lack of tech people, so I guess you weigh your options. Personally, I feel like Facebook and Google would set up shop on the moon if it were in their financial interest and they could find someone to run it.
There are many ideas that I can't stand. Fortunately I weigh them against their likelihood and find that reassuring. I suggest you do likewise. The probability that in your noodling you will develop something non-obvious and worthy of intellectual protection and will nonetheless continue obliviously developing it, without the slightest idea there may be protected prior art is vanishingly small. Consequently your paranoid intuition that we should abolish all software patents may be laid to rest. There may well be good reasons to investigate the patent system. IMHO this is not one of them. Hope this helps.
Much ado about nothing, it seems. I'm wondering if Mr. Biggs actually read the very bill he linked to?

http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0201-0250/sb_24...

The only reason the "evil parents" are allowed to direct the website to remove information on the minor's behalf is because a minor is, well, legally a minor!

The only people I would suspect getting all uppity about this are minors themselves (whose opinions matter little, to be frank) and sites that don't want to spend the money to retool their new user sign-up policies and defaults.
I would have expected more, personally. Craigslist is massive, popular, and been around a long time. That ads up to a TON of listings.
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Firstly, everyone should read
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/request_processing.html before they go trying to "figure out what NginX is doing".

Secondly... because NginX configuration is declarative and ifs are imperative (the opposite paradigm). The imperative ifs are actually compiled into a little mini language and evaluated at runtime, but under the hood, ifs are hacky locations. This is the ultimate reason why If is Evil in NginX, and always will be.

In NginX's declarative setup, you declare each separate location and the behavior that should result within that location. In NginX, only one location wins for ultimate processing! Finally, one must consider the order of evaluation of locations. Specifically, it is something like server if, location = (exact match), location ~ (regex match), location, location if --only one location wins, ever... but it may pass through several locations, especially if you add in error_pages and so on and so forth.

So, coming full circle and attempting to answer the question of just why "calling the script, not rendering it, and displaying the actual file"; well, if you have not properly setup your locations such that PHP files always are routed to a PHP processing location, then you will in fact serve PHP files just like any other file.

NginX's configuration language is much like any language - if you don't really know what it is doing, it is quite easy to make it do something you didn't expect.
I think the point the parent is trying to make is that when you're using someone else's wifi network, it's their network, and they get to determine under what terms you're allowed to access it. If that means logging in, or viewing a page where you're required to explicitly agree to terms, that's the network operator's prerogative.

Annoying? Sure, a little. A "violation of spec" or something to get overly pissed about? Eh, there are far bigger fish to fry.
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Sure, but maps are still bolted on. That's convenient, but it's not interesting. The interesting question is, what would a language that is to maps as Lisp is to s-expressions look like? The OP is the first person I know of who's tried to answer that.

It's an important question because maps are flexible and flexibility is important for exploratory programming, which is nearly all programming. If there exists a language that is as regular and programmable as Lisp but organized around maps rather than lists, that would be a big deal.
Lodsys LLC patent troll Mark Small sets up blog to explain himself
Have you seen the adminstration's white paper on IP enforcement? This type of legislation is a priority for Obama and Biden.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/ip_white_paper...
I can tell you right now with 100% certainty that's not even an option.
There's a money incentive at work for each patent submission.

Every time I stare at that patent submission form I can't help but to imagine somebody doing a cool thing which does something similar, getting squashed by a lawyer.

I've a couple of those forms which I filled, but never submitted.
Besides the contracts with Unity, several game developers on the PS3 and Wii, EA, and others. Besides the MonoTouch and MonoDroid projects. Besides the support to other products like iFolder and Linux desktop apps they released. Besides the various support contracts Novell received for Mono from various companies. Besides the embedded licenses Novell scored to license Mono for things that were incompatible with the GPL runtime....

Nope... no real profits.
We have no problem hiring remote developers at Twitpic (in fact, the entire team is remote)

http://blog.twitpic.com/2010/10/hiring-software-system-engin...
It's the profile pic of a parody twitter account. Not sure what the source of the image is though.

http://twitter.com/hipsterhacker
The profile of a successful product is very different at a startup than it is at a large or medium-sized company. This is an important reason why startups exist.
Devil's advocate here: business logic is often significantly incorporated into software. Much of this logic could be implemented on other platforms such as manual labor etc. But can't all of it be boiled down in the end as mathematics? Should we extend that assertion that far with regards to this argument?
"Yet all too often, we look for people who have ALL of the skills we already have instead."

Exactly. The other thing the companies/groups do is that they hire for their needs right now instead of thinking about what they might need later... But the biggest mistake is in not thinking-outside-the-box when it comes to candidates. There's an assumption that the person you're looking for has exactly a certain background and set of skills. As an example (sorry, not a web guy), you're hiring a chip designer and you overlook the guy who's been writing software to design chips (EDA)... The chip design guys tend to think the coder doesn't know anything about chip design, but as it turns out to write software to design chips you've gotta know a lot about designing chips.
Bear in mind that parents can be liable for the actions of their children in a variety of ways. If a parent can be hit with negligence because they allowed someone to abduct their child because they were seduced away by somebody obviously creepy on $SOCIAL_NETWORK, then they need the power to discharge their legally-obligated parenting responsibilities.

I'm not saying this PROVES this is a good law or anything, I haven't read it, I'm just saying that this should be taken into account when trying to figure out the correct child-parent rights balance. If you come down on the side of the child, you are also saying that you agree that the parent is legally blameless if something goes wrong. I'm not sure everybody is quite ready to take that step. You should also consider the full age range; I think a lot of people mentally consider only late teens, but it has to work for 7-year-olds too, and all other ages. Everybody is on the net now.
I apologize in advance for being short with this question, but what do you consider a "software patent?"
" In fact, the very fact that we have patent trolls that can run around and sue business after business after business for the same patent, while the businesses have no evidence that shows they have communicated with each other about the patented subject, ought to be proof positive that the patent is obvious and shouldn't be patentable."

Whether the person suing is or isn't a patent troll is irrelevant to your argument. You are basically arguing that if lots of people have done something without colluding it must be obvious. Not so.

I recommend this piece on hindsight bias. It is an extremely well documented fact that things rapidly become obvious after the fact.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight_bias
This would be a little hard for me because I like to keep my system configuration files in the same repository (such as fstab and php), although I could setup some standard naming scheme like root.etc.fstab to link to /etc/fstab
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That is precisely what they don't do. All they do is stop someone else from claiming it as an innovation with the associated IP rights. There is nothing to stop someone innovating like a fiend. But surely it is blindingly obvious that copying something someone has already patented is not innovating. Everything else however is fair game. Knock yourself out and innovate.
It's Rivers Cuomo from Weezer.
I don't trust TEPCO reports at all; TEPCO has not given me any reasons to trust them. They knew about the meltdowns and the leakages all along, but choose to deny it until months later. EDIT: And keeping evacuation zone at 20km when there are high radiation 80km out? Come on.

That brings me back to my original point. I was not taking sides on pro/anti nuclear. I fear for my friends' lives in Japan. Because their government is weak and useless and saving face. That is why I was asking for independent monitoring links for plutonium and uranium. So that they can use scientific data to determine their own fate.
No different from anyone else creating a resume. Your businesses had names. You did things in those businesses. Put that info in your resume.

If they are only asking for a resume then that resume isn't likely to hold much weight. More likely it's simply going to be a reference sheet for use with the interview.

When I have been asked for a resume I just update my LinkedIn profile and export it as a PDF (it's pretty much in resume format.)
The announce could be Thursday, and product launch on Sunday.
Awesome.

A few years back I was on the board of my HOA (77 unit loft structure in downtown San Diego) and this was an issue that came up every quarter. We repeatedly asked for them to stop doing it - that it was wasteful, that it was unwanted solicitation against our CC&Rs, didn't matter. The phone company left 77 phone books in our lobby every time. Within the same day we had maintenance dump the whole lot in the recycling bin.

The main issue is that the recipients of the books aren't the clients, the advertisers are. That this is unwanted activity makes no difference to them. As long as they can claim to deliver a phone book, they can use that as a statistic for advertisers. If you want to stop this activity one tactic might be to alert major advertisers.
HN game devs: Playtomic now supports iOS & Unity games, and has heatmaps
I just assumed it noticed when I entered the login information 2 minutes prior, then waited until the most annoying moment to give me a completely useless fraking notification.
Acadamia niche, limited customers - worth a startup?
I've been tossing around a startup idea designed to serve the biomedical acadamia niche. I'm a molecular neurobiologist with a comp-sci background, so I'm familiar with the various difficulties the biomedical acadamic community faces. I think my idea is a tractable problem that hasn't been addressed by others in a sufficient manner (yet).

My concern, however, is that the market is necessarily limited. The academic biomedical community is not huge and has modest wallets. I imagine the product would be licensed to institutes and universities as a site-wide service, rather than individual labs.

My question: Should one jump into a startup knowing that the niche is small and has a ceiling on potential customers? Customers who are at the mercy of limited budgets?
if you're paranoid enough to disable this, you shouldn't be using windows. there are far more and better ways for windows and other windows software to phone home.
First thing is I wouldn't admit you're a failure. Leave out all the times you were a founder.
How much are we supposed to adjust our opinions based on your feeling sick, exactly? Have you tried not feeling sick? Perhaps it's a localised glitch?
You wouldn't expect to "receive hardware to install" for a software launch, other than a small number of posters, banners and other promotional paraphernalia.
That is clearly not a reasonable test. In fact it is almost certainly a great test for someone having innovated in a valuable way. If you file a worthless patent then no-one will be interested in your innovation and there will be no-one to sue. If however you file something valuable you would expect to potentially have lots of people to sue. In your example the question arises, why have so many people trespassed on this patent? We know they have an incentive - it is valuable. But why in this hypothetical case did they trespass? Did they think the patent was breakable? the patent holder weak? the market opportunity so great that they would build now pay later? Perhaps they didn't find the patent? So many questions. But as a cursory study of hindsight bias will make plain it is extremely common for something that is not at all obvious at the time of its invention of appear so later.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight_bias
You know, I was an early skeptic of Mono. After all, what use is a copycat technology stack?

I'm later to admit how wrong I was. Suddenly mono was deploying into iOS, Android and places where the existing developer ecosystem couldn't have otherwise.

A hearty congratulations and wish you all the best. You deserve it.
I support it given the following sniff test: if a skilled software engineer could use an implementation of the idea the same way an ordinary would and then immediately walk back to his/her computer and implement it, it is not worthy of a patent.
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ctools.umich.edu

wolverineaccess.umich.edu is a close second.

Almost every embedded job listing service is awful. http://www.nacelink.com/ is similarly bad.
You CAN use their service, there are a large number of open diaspora servers, and you can even set up your own if you want.

Problem is, once you're on there, none of your friends are, and even if you manage to convince even a fraction of your facebook friends to come across, it still totally lacks functionality. At the moment all you can do is post pictures and status updates, thats it.

I would love to see regular updates of exactly what they're working on without having to monitor their git repo. Just assuring us they're working on it every couple of months while asking for more money and more time is very very dodgy.
I'm not sure you can make this assumption. Attachmate seems most interested in cutting Novell down to the bone and extracting whatever value it can from what is left. I don't see a whole lot of future growth opportunity from that company in the long term. Just because Mono is not necessarily profitable now doesn't mean that it couldn't be cultivated into a profitable company later. Mono seemed to be recently finding its niche with its Unity (games) licensing and its MonoTouch and Mono for Android products.

(Disclaimer: I used to work at Ximian and Novell with Miguel & others, and contributed some to Mono in the early days.)
https://adcenter.microsoft.com/ Requires Windows. Total wtf.
Remember: Nobody has died as a result of nuclear electrical generation. Rooftop solar panels are more dangerous than a molten down reactor, and more people die on bicycles.
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I use Rake to manage the symlink part of this

https://github.com/mmb/config/blob/master/Rakefile
When you consider many of the people that write such bills, they'd probably say the problem lies with the child. They probably didn't even think of such a consequence, but I doubt they'd care if you told them.
Sounds like free is the way to go. You'll get your name out in the community and probably get more use this way. And if it turns out to have commercial appeal, you can always do an upgraded version with more bells/whistles and sell that one.

But everything you've described sounds like more frustration trying to make money rather than focusing on just trying to get it in people's hands -- which for most devs is the fun part (after coding).
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A lot of people are probably tired of seeing the same old arguments regurgitated over and over again.
The thing is is that corporations and governments are composed of individual humans and many times their interests are intertwined.

For instance, as anyone who's studied the financial crisis knows, there are plenty of people in the SEC who used to work for big wall street firms or got very cushy high paid wall street jobs after they leave the SEC. Thus, the wall street firms were not prosecuted for their possibly illegal practices during the financial crisis.

The government vs the private sector is just a false conflict to divert your attention away from the individual actors with lucrative ties to the entertainment industry in the public and private sector who are driving this.
Sounds sensible. I think I can get to the point where I can test whether it'll get "one dollar" before the time commitment get crazy.
I think this has the drawback that if you want to look up, say, bits n through m, you'd need to process the whole string up to that point. Lookup would be O(n) rather than O(1). Is that a problem? (I don't know, maybe people only use base64-like encoding in places where they'd just read the data in once at the beginning, convert it to a better internal representation, and never touch the base64 version again.)

On the other hand, if it is a problem, how's this idea: Use strings of 129 base-62 digits to represent strings of 128 base-64 digits. I pick 128 because it might be convenient, and 129/128 is close to optimal:

arc> (* 129 (log 62 64))
128.01522067331783

Or if decoding 128 digits at a time when you just want a couple is excessive, you could use 17 base-62 digits for 16 base-64 digits (which has a space inefficiency of 1/16th, or 6.25%), or 9 for 8 (inefficiency 12.5%), or whatever.
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How is profit being calculated?
You can't compare stealing $5000 with streaming $5000 worth of music/video; they are completely different concepts. By streaming you are not stealing material from anybody nor it can be proven that it affects negatively on sales.

disturbing the peace and disorderly conduct have a felony versions when weapons or drugs are present.

I think that this is a big "if".
One day I will make something amazing happen...
It's speedy compared to base62.

See, the problem is that Base64 is linear is speed, but has large (non-alphanumeric) charset, while base62 has small (alphanumeric) charset but is quadratic in speed (at least in its straightforward implementation, the only one I was able to find).

Maze62 is the encoding that is both constrained in charset and liner in speed. Hence, the title.

Does it make sense?
Fun fact: Russ was the coder for a Chicago 'burbs-based demo group when he was about 17 (I met him at NAID 1996, when I was also 17. He later described PayPal to me as a method for transferring money with your Palm Pilot, like at a restaurant, and I thought it was the stupidest idea I'd ever heard).

Group was called Beyond, and he went by Armitage. http://pouet.net/groups.php?which=881

Other guys in that group are also in the SF startup scene.

He went on to co-found Yelp.
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Could you give me any examples of what you would consider to be production ready?
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> or something to get overly pissed about? Eh, there are far bigger fish to fry.

It's easy to say that when it isn't your responsibility to deal with rightfully frustrated & confused end users that simply want to be able to use this WiFi network like they use every other WiFi network. Connect and forget.

I also have a never-ending hate for WiFi networks that use portals as they break tons of functionality and always have caveats & problems like the ones parent described.

The worst part? Acting very arrogant about it is the standard IT response, and it blatantly and demonstrably decreases security. Users keep splitters, ethernet cables & routers in their offices, in their laptop bags and around the building.

So go ahead, take this attitude towards the end users of your network. Just don't be surprised if the next IT crisis is caused by someone who "just didn't want to deal with the WiFi hassle".
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They've been dumping 100's of tons of water through these reactors since the meltdowns.

Isn't there just the tiniest clue, in the massive quantities of 1+ Sv radiation from the water, that some of the materials have been washed out of the reactor?

Isn't there just the tiniest clue in the fact that the basements are full of water, that the RPV and containment are holed?
Finally, I've been trying to convince my landlord to stop allowing phone books for the past two years. Beyond the waste, the amount of trust we give to strangers delivering phone books is absurd. I've always thought if I wanted to case an apartment/condo building to figure out who leaves their doors unlocked, I'd show up with a pickup truck and some phone books. The security guard would just let me in without question.
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I haven't been able to follow the story as closely as I would have liked. Did TEPCO actively deny meltdowns and leakages, or did they just not confirm them? I thought that it was the latter, but could have missed overt denials.