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"org-mode developers, in turn, just ask a relevant big question: 'why use separate files when you can conveniently stick the stuff in one file, dammit?'"

It surprises me that you could come away from org-mode thinking that the developers thought you should stick everything in one file. One of the main strengths of org-mode is the way it frees you to put stuff into separate files, wherever you want, and then use the agenda to consolidate them into a single view.

Having said that, yes, org-mode is freaking awesome.
I interpret this sort of question not as asking for a further step in a causal chain, but rather as demanding a teleological explanation where none is available.

While I disagree with almost everything Chomsky says about everything, and I think it was meant to be somewhat sympathetic, it's really unfair to propose an affinity between Chomsky and O'Reilly in this manner. What the hell.

Equally unfair is Norvig calling Chomsky a mystic for his invocation of Plato. Chomsky is a rationalist, not a mystic.
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You can be broke and you can be poor. Being broke just means you don't have money—been there, left that. But I equate poor with the mindset that repeatedly produces being broke and living paycheck to paycheck.

If you want to make money and stop being poor you have to stick with a tight budget. Stop spending more than you make, and evaluate whether or not you need that super-cool iPhone you just adore. At $70 a month a single iPhone could put food on your table, or the money you save by downgrading to a clamshell "stupid phone" could help pay off the credit card.

Money doesn't solve money management problems. Solve how you manage your money and you automatically keep more. A spendthrift with great social connections is still poor.
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I believe there is an opportunity.

I believe the biggest hurdle with Enterprise adoption of SaaS is data integration and effectively all SaaS vendors combined are building the tower of babel. We are a SaaS company, we only use SaaS products and we probably have about 15 of them. Some of them integrate because they partner with NetSuite, other are stand alone and that is OK for now but for true Business Intelligence we need them to integrate. Infomatica is doing a booming business, inpart to the SaaS demands.
Fair points.

I just don't think studying these concepts makes you better. Designing makes you better. Practice and good feedback. To me, UI and UX can read like buzzwords on a resume. I'm not saying they're not important components. I'm just disagreeing with how one should learn them. Perhaps I could have been more clear in my original comment.
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I've spent the last month or so head first learning VIM - I forgot about org-mode before deciding on VIM. There are a number of clones but nothing seems complete. Any recommendations?
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If 'nothing' == 'buying a lawn mower, a truck, a trailer, and a weed wacker' then you'd be correct. Although I'm not sure which part of the the Bronx you think I should setup my mowing business in because the last time I checked, there isn't any grass.
It's as ridiculous as if he had casually tossed "overeating" into that list as well. Of course when something sticks out like a sore thumb, that individual part will get attention. Your point is that you can only reply holistically or something?
It's not an "app store". It's a website with downloadable software.
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This is a good example of why (how?) language is so weird. Maybe I am just satiated, but for an inquisitive mind, to me "Why is the moon in the sky?" and "How is the moon in the sky?" parse out to be semantically equivalent. Science (astronomy) does try explain how (why?) we exist and under what circumstance the universe came into existence (if it did).
> Why is the moon at the right distance to provide a gentle tide, and exert a stabilizing effect on earth's axis of rotation, thus protecting life here?

A possible answer to this stems from the anthropic principle. We evolved in a place with a moon because the moon helped us evolve. We don't see no moon because complex life such as us would not have developed without it. A stable rotation and gentle tide are conducive to the evolution of complex organisms; tides were instrumental in getting life out of the seas and onto land.

"Why is the sun the way it is?" can be answered similarly. A smaller star has too small a habitable zone where liquid water can exist. A larger star would have burned out sooner than the 4.5 billion years it took to develop sapient life. A double star has a much smaller set of stable planetary orbits. That the sun is an appropriate star for our life on earth is not divine providence or an enormously unlikely coincidence; it's the result of a universe-wide scenario of statistical multiple endpoints.
YMMV, but I find that the latest Emacs on OS X with a good color theme is quite nice looking. Anti-aliased font rendering is fine with me.
While I'm not going to defend this instance ethically, using a computer virus to destroy another country's nuclear capabilities with no loss of life and no obvious blame a year later is pretty impressive. If a "cyber war" means shit breaks so you can't fight and nobody dies, I'm fine with that.
when I went to Uni, the main language we used was Turbo Pascal (followed by loads of assembly and a small amount of C). The year behind us had Turbo Pascal replaced by Ada as that was going to be the Next Big Thing.

The Ada class started in '94 if a timeframe helps
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At least one developer is very upset about Google Translate API change: http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api/browse...
LinkedIn agreed to the IPO price. Presumably they felt that undervaluing the stock had enough PR benefits.

(These stories about the IPO pricing, where LinkedIn gets to be portrayed as honest entrepreneurs ripped off by an evil bank, surely is an additional PR victory they gained from this move.)
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So? All those websites have to do is ask permission from the site visitor to track them. Rather than tracking them without their consent...

And if people don't want to be tracked, and the site loses out by not tracking them, so be it... That is a better situation than somebody being tracked without their knowledge/consent.
I've tested that inline assembler performing the computed goto in a smaller test function, and optimisation is performed.

And almost all of the C code that I would like to be optimised is in short fairly self-contained statements that use their own local variables, so I would expect
Again, I've tested this in a smaller function and good optimisation is done.

Therefore I am coming to the conclusion that the problem may just be the length of the function.

I don't have time to do it now, but next week I'll experiment with function length, although as I stated ealier - I'm fairly sure that a threaded interpreter has to be all implemented within a single function.
I use Visual Studio to wrangle giant enterprisey C# applications, but I still use find+grep/Emacs for browsing code quickly. Visual Studio is a long way off from matching the simple blazing speed of grep and file buffers in Emacs.

P.S. I'm not sure why I'm being downvoted. It's what I do. There's really no debate about whether grep is faster than VS search.
There was a great comment on here by Mahmud, I think, about how he used to make a few hundred dollars per day with a bucket of water and some sponges washing windows.

It is possible to make money with work ethic and no capital.
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I have no idea about their overall code quality but there was a famous F-22 bug found a few years ago where it lost all navigation systems when crossing the international date line.

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/f22-squadron-shot-down-b...
Unfortunately I don't have any of these compilers ready to use at the moment, but I may try some of them in a week or two.
It is a different thing to personally perform an act than to simply know, logically, that it is being performed on your behalf. It makes act more real, more personal, more identifiable. Knowing that someone killed a goat at some point is not the same as having to perform the act itself. I have never done something like this, but I can understand how it would make you appreciate your food more, and really understand what you are doing when you are eating.

The article indicates the animal is still taken to a butcher, so one would believe that there is no more waste than any other time.

As to what it changes, I think you are looking at the system and saying one dead goat, one fed human, what's the difference. But it isn't the result that he is trying to change; he is trying to change himself. I can't believe you could do what he is doing and not come away from it with a different outlook.

I don't see anything wrong with the practice, and if it makes him feel a little more grounded, more power to him.
Sean Carroll is a great presenter. I watched the version he presented at University of Sydney: http://www.themonthly.com.au/origin-universe-and-arrow-time-...

I got a lot more out of this talk than I did listening to the audiobook of his arrow of time book. I think I'm giving up on audiobook versions of science books; the voice actors are terrible at it.
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But I want the lolly NOW!!!!

But seriously, Ada is well designed and not difficult. Ada is not part of the problem, this would take longer and be less reliable in C++.
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I work on a 5GB source tree at work with a couple (or more? I haven't looked) thousand Java source files. After my last machine decided it would be a good time to crap out and I started over with a new OS X install, I tried working strictly with vim and emacs and our scripts (written by vim aficionados, it seems) to navigate around the codebase.

It was like a root canal. If I was on fire.

Seriously--I'm not an Eclipse fan by any stretch, but Open Type alone saves me hours of frustration a week. Its code completion isn't nearly as good as Visual Studio's, but is a lot better than ctags. And its source generation (implement getters/setters, override inherited methods, even just basic context-aware renaming) is fantastic, too.

IME--and this is something of a generalization because I know fantastic programmers who use vim and emacs, and I use either where I have to--the folks who tout them are either using languages where IDEs are less effective (although this is still dubious--NetBeans has surprisingly good intellisense for PHP and Ruby, at least) or don't realize what the IDEs can do for them on a regular basis.
This article summarizes my approach to just about every technical challenge I've encountered since school. In grad school in particular, I could never get my head around the approach of uploading code to a Unix server and running it blind overnight. Instead, I would write it in Windows, but with a graphical display of results coming out in minutes rather than hours. The errors would then stand out glaringly. This is not to argue Windows v Unix as of course you can do it either way on both platforms. But calculations you can see working are priceless.
What does racism even mean anymore?

It's a form of bigotry which is also deeply aligned with hate, often violent hate. It's probably the same thing that sparks sectarian violence.

It can also reside, in a form without overt violent manifestation.

Now, you can be a racist if you have a type you prefer to date that doesn't suit the whims of your accuser.

I would admit that this isn't sufficient to label someone of racism. The question to ask would be: Does the vivid thought of a loved one (a parent or a child) dating a member of a given race cause a strong emotional reaction?

I'm not sure what racism is. I'm not sure academics have a good handle on all of the mechanisms by which it operates, but, in the words of the Penny Arcade guys, it is a thing. Its operation in the real world is undeniable. For many in the context of minority, it is very palpable.

EDIT: It's probably connected to some suite of group organization/defense instincts. It probably operates on the same level that religion operates on.
It depends on when you set it and why. If you just set it as soon as anyone visits your site, and there is no essential reason for you doing that for the site to work, then you are breaking the law.

If you only set it when somebody logs in to your site, to maintain a logged in session, then it will be fine.
People develop those bad attitudes, viewpoints, or whatever, in large part because they are poor. The contagion aspect, if it exists, is secondary. You are simply advocating the preservation of the elite by gating access to it. Of course if everyone had access to the same networks there would be no elite anymore. If it raises the prospects of the vast majority of Americans by, say, 5%, that would actually be great for the country, and maybe not having an elite wouldn't be so bad (to the extent this is even possible, of course there will always be some that are far ahead of the curve). But it would be bad-mouthed as socialism.
Interesting... what functionality does Netsuite offer? Sorry ...noob question :p
Based on feedback I've been getting I've dropped the price to $0.99 from $2.99. I don't know if I'll keep it there though. Thoughts?
That's great. HTC is going to be shipping unlocked bootloaders, SE has committed to allowing users to request an unlock code for all new/current devices and the Samsung Galaxy S 2 comes unlocked. Motorola probably won't be able to resist the pressure.

Seems this will be standard for android devices very soon.
> Whoever created the paradox made a mistake

"Mistake" means there is a "right answer", a point of reference. What is that? Otherwise, your use of the concept "mistake" doesn't make sense.

> Paradoxes are defined as un-answerable

Yeah, of course we can define things ad-nauseam. That doesn't just make "reality" any more "real", it just helps us send men on the Moon, curing diseases or building atomic bombs.
"if you look at the big picture world that happens to startups, there are really three things that happen: IPOs, acquisitions and bankruptcy"

This is why you shouldn't spend all your time creating a short-term business with the goal of being bought out by a bigger entity.

I suppose everyone has different goals, but mine is to create a company that will evolve and last for many years. This wouldn't even be possible if I wrote the next service based on Twitter or Facebook.
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I have had a sort of reverse experience, but which has led me to believe that poverty is a "contagious mindset, nothing more" as well: My family were academics, so our bank accounts were mostly empty, our clothes were pretty old, etc, but we grew in upper middle class New York. I pretended to be blue collar in my twenties, thinking I would be the next great socialist author. However, when I got sick of, well, being poor, I just started taking classes at the community college, schmoozing my teachers and my bosses, and voila, I am a solidly middle class data hacker 15 years later. I don't have the bank account I would have had if I went to college earlier and started investing, but whatever, I am so not poor. For the blue collar people I worked with before the transition, however, the idea of getting a bunch of education and then becoming a manager was inconceivable and frankly immoral; they have probably not done as well as I in the last 15 years.

I hope God appreciates humor, because if I say grace, it always includes something like "and thanks for giving me an upper middle class cultural background", because, well, I would be f*ed with out it (as are LOTS AND LOTS of people in the US).

Also -- note that I have not mentioned race. I think it has become largely irrelevant to the dynamics of poverty, thank god, but only because my experience shows me that you can be totally screwed by the above culture of poverty and be of the same british isle/ german descent as my upper middle NYC friends.

EDIT: And I think we should be throwing our weight into fixing this massive cultural problem, along with the wasted human potential it causes (really expensive to hire prison guards and social workers). However, the left says "there is no cultural problem" and the right says "screw em, its their own damn fault", even while the US rots from the inside.
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The article actually nails the real reason: the USAF bought far fewer F22s than it originally planned, so things like this that apply equally to 1 or 1000 have to have their cost spread over far fewer individual units. I'll bet that the F22 software is not actually that much more complicated than that controlling a modern car, yet Ford or whoever can spread the cost over a million units.
It's as ridiculous as if he had casually tossed "overeating" into that list as well.

Actually, overeating and obesity have been shown to have a social transmission component.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1919885,00.ht...
This is nothing to do with NGEN.

This is the assembly produced by the Microsoft C compiler for the part of my interpreter that adds two 32-bit integers together.

This code is executed whenever the .NET IL 'add' opcode is encountered when the two top evaluation stack values are 32-bit integers.

(Note that the evaluation stack type analysis is done in a pre-execution stage, so when the code shown is executing it is already known that the top two stack values are 32-bit integers)
Humor? The NSA tried to introduce an encryption chip[1] and get telecommunications providers to use it. It had a backdoor so that they could decrypt anything that used it.

I vaguely remember hearing other stories where chips were made with secret backdoors in them, but I can't seem to find any.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
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Me!

Well not really, but Ada is alive and well in the guise of PL/SQL. You can see it if you look closely, type "desc sys.diana" into any Oracle DB, DIANA is "descriptive intermediate annotated notation for Ada".
They would save more time by simply not coming here. They can save lots and lots of time by not reading anything. Additional knowledge takes time to read and then adds time to your decision making process. Too many choices. These people should just write out a schedule and keep to it perfectly. No distractions, no extras, no discovery. No need for people to read things to understand them. Simply let someone else read them for you and tell you what to think.
A few years ago I switched to emacs because I needed a cross-platform editor that worked with multiple languages and was available on command-line Linux. vi(m) was (and is) unintuitive.

As you work with emacs and customize it to work with your flow, your hands, and your keyboard, it starts to feel as comfortable as old shoes. Over time, the incremental efficiencies add up, and it becomes clear that a non-customizable editor just isn't as useful.

Contrary to parfe's experience, I've had good experience with Emacs packages, but then again, I don't use very intrusive addons, and keep my emacs pretty up-to-date.
Nothing I saw on the post, but

http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_OS.aspx (supposed to be a Linux distro)

and

http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64Select.aspx (stating it comes with Ubuntu Maverick)
Also, its difficult to monetize the API, for example, with ads.
Does anyone know if voice traffic actually passes through super-nodes, or are super-nodes just used for authentication, and punching holes through NAT? If it does, can you point to a reference stating this?

Anyway, billions of people have unencrypted conversations through this telecommunications system called the plain old telephone service. At least Skype is one step better.
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What good alternative Translation APIs are out there?
Feature-Centric? As in?
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Yes. The poor can accept no risk, and can't even leverage on a safe bet. The rich can do both, multiple times.
This is why we can't have nice things, abuse of something useful for ends undesirable to the masses leads to it getting banned for all uses.
It primarily depends on the following:

- What Cocoa features does the application use? Something written for OS X 10.2 using "oldschool" APIs is much easier to port than a new app that perhaps makes extensive use of 10.5+ features, binding magic, Core Data, etc.

- What other frameworks does the app use? If it makes heavy use of something like Apple's media and animation APIs (Core Animation, Core Image, QTKit, etc.), it will be very difficult to port because GNUstep doesn't cover these.

(Edit: one important factor is the degree to which the port needs to integrate with the target platform. GNUstep doesn't look very native on Windows, for example. But if the port is something like a custom application targeting Linux, then the look of widgets and fonts may not matter at all.)
No, that's just government.

Australia is the same. If you want any sort of Security Clearance (i.e. you want to work for the government), you need papers proving where you have lived for 10 years. If you've lived in a couple of share houses and thrown out all your old bills, this can be almost impossible. (Yes, you can sign a Stat Dec, but it's frowned upon).
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"...I think you're legally obligated to keep all paperwork for at least 3 years. I still have bank statements from the '80s up in the loft."

Presumably this is for tax purposes, in case they're audited? If that's the case, your friends are out of date - HMRC (the tax authority) has accepted scanned documents in place of originals for some time now.
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In theory this competes more directly with the mac App store than the iOS app store.
As the author of blorgit I'm surprised to see it on HN this morning. That page was created 2-3 years ago, and I don't think blorgit gets much use these days.

I'd recommend just using the publish interface built into org-mode (see [1]). I use the publishing interface to generate both my home page [2] and my lab's wiki [3] (which runs off of a git backend using post-update hooks). These have the benefit of no dependencies outside of Emacs+Org-mode.

Also, as another commenter pointed out, org+jekyll works well.

[1] http://orgmode.org/manual/Publishing.html

[2] http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/

[3] http://wiki.adaptive.cs.unm.edu/
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This is one of the best reasons to add a "Related Posts" section at the bottom of every blog post.

(WordPress has multiple plugins that can generate this automatically for you.)
You can re-bind it to something easier to remember for you.
Please stop posting sh^t here.
Doesn't Firewire also allow this?
I think either boycott or grouping together to sue them back is necessary. If they pay, other patent trolls will appear, and this will get a lot worse if they see making money like this over obvious patents like these is a viable way to make money.
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"In the future, the scientists plan to investigate the possibility that quantum space has three dimensions of space, as Sorli explained."

I LOL'd.
HTC pays Microsoft $5 for each Android phone it sells