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I like this idea. The problem I see is when you have different, but equally valid implementations.

In this case, it would make sense to back the name up with the developer/company name. But with no further decoration, as discussed. That way, it's clear which function implementation you're referring to. You can still have the mainstream (popular? chosen by the project's team?) implementations be referenced by function name alone. Any other implementations would need the dev/company name. That way you can have different parts of the project still able to reference different implementations of the same function.

The alternative would be to decorate the function with the implementation detail. And I think that's going against the simplicity he's after. Worse still is you'd still need to know you'll be supporting multiple implementations up front.
Sure there is. A while ago, while I was using the 4.0 beta, I ran into a problem: modal dialogs wouldn't work. In beta 4 they worked just fine. Beta 5, just fine. When beat 6 rolled around, they stopped working. I reverted and used that until beta 12 fixed my problem. 6-11 were useless for some of the things I used it for (example: TiddlyWiki editing) because Javascript alert() and confirm() dialogs would literally not show up.

EDIT: also, the bash script is there because I install Firefox to /usr/local, and it's easier to type "update-firefox" in an already-open terminal than to reboot Firefox as root so it can modify my files. I'm aware it's redundant, but it also a) requires my active participation, so I can't miss it and b) lets me downgrade, in case of something like what happened above.
Wow, was I supposed to feel sorry for her? I had quite the opposite reaction.
- Just because you paid $200K to go to school doesn't mean you get the ideal job once you graduate. Working you way up from the bottom is a time tested method. TANSTAAFL.
- I didn't hear what her degree was in. I'm guessing it wasn't engineering or some other skill that's actually in demand. Maybe she should have done some research in the field she was studying before she dropped $200k on it?
- She shouldn't be acting like its winter break. If you can't find a job, use your time to make yourself a job.

I understand that the ability for college to get you a job has been a bit oversold by previous generations, but seriously, take some responsibility and change your life rather than just sitting around and complaining.
I really like WP7, but they're being held-back by their hardware. They're beholden to their hardware "partners", who seem more interested in selling Android devices for, presumably, higher margins and crappy USP software customizations that consumers didn't ask for.

This is why I was really hoping that the rumors about MS buying out Nokia were true, that would get them great hardware to go with great software, then they could really push again this holiday. For all Zune's hardware problems in the beginning, the Zune HD was really a nice piece of kit, as is the Xbox 360. Microsoft does know how to make great consumer hardware when it wants to, people just forget that they do.
I have been using Chrome at work every day since it first came out and Safari at home since it first came out. I long for the day that Safari drops the extra search bar. I am forever typing into the wrong one.

Why have two search boxes when a regular expression can easily and accurately decipher what you are searching for?

Why does having two types of bar add anything but noise to lives of even the most advanced users (of which I include myself)?

The URL bar is a relic akin to the human appendix or tail-bone.

Begone.
They could automatically unhide the URL bar when you start typing into a form.
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> At the end of the day, it all depends on your developers.

Sort of. In your WS example, if you had better developers then they could have defined the interface to accept Nullable<DateTime> instead of DateTime. So the language does let you express that null is an allowed value.

The feature request for the language is to make it possible to express Nonnullable<MyClass>. Regardless of your developers, the best that they would be able to do is throw an ArgumentNullException (which I see thrown for all over the place) without that support.

I'll accept that there may be a situation where a client sends junk to a service, and the service treats the junk as null, but that requires both sides to be in on it - in which case, they would be able to agree to a signature change instead. But they can only agree to the signature change if the language supports it.
The logo is CC Attribution 2.5[1]. I'm not sure what the status of his essays are. His site has (c) Paul Graham, so I'm not sure what's up there.

[1]: http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=2233123
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You have to know more than if the page is HTTPS. I could put a fake facebook page on https://evil.example.com. Normal users could go to it, see the HTTPS icon, see that it looks the same as the facebook login page, and think everything is OK.
I know I am, but one of the niceties of a socialist system is that if I get fired, I get paid my salary for a year and a half in unemployment :) , plus three months' salary straight away.

I actually wish I was fired :) (though the black mark in the CV here is really bad). The really bad thing about this system is that it's based on seniority, if I switch jobs, I lose all those perks (start back at zero, only get some minor unemployment after 3 months on the job)

I'm also neither a homeowner nor a parent, and could scale back my spending to zero pretty quickly (moving in with my grandfather and selling my car). Not a long term strategy, obviously, and I am thinking of becoming a parent (in 2-3 years) which will force me to be way more conservative with money.
It was a deliberate choice. When packing for a trip to NY and thinking about what you're going to wear onstage, one does not "accidentally" wear socks with sandals. Pg is a very smart guy - clearly he knows what the impact would be.

I think it has more to do with maintaining a kind of legitimacy/authenticity within the hacker community than anything else. It's just good business sense to be the opposite of what geeks don't like/understand: VCs in suits. When you're in the business of funding businesses, you want to be approachable.
> Please do not break conventions. They are there for a reason!

There, I fixed that for you. If you're so upset about breaking conventions, please stop using contractions in your sentences and revert to conventional English. Thank you.

Language changes. Technology changes. This change will bring problems and challenges - as did the contraction ('they're' 'their' and 'there' got a lot worse) but we will solve those problems.
it also seemed to be a great idea to use outside cool water for "free" cooling of nuclear power plants. Happens to be not such a good idea after many years of that [ab]use. While on the global scale the datacenters itself don't have the impact yet, it will definitely affect the water ecosystem local to the datacenter. There is no free lunch. Though Googlers may be under impression that there is.
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I think you are confusing TWit with Twist..

Twit is Leo's tech shows..which are still tech focused. Twist is Jason Calacanis' shows which have a VC/Angel 50% focus.
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damn... I thugh it would download the video on my iPad so I can watch them "later" like readitlater does... :(
Nobody made any of the points you claim -- about a humanities education contributing to CS excellence -- and you have been told this already, yet you insist on responding to this imaginary argument.

Why you continue to do that is beyond me, nor is it clear to me why you think that abstract reasoning about nodes in a graph is the same as abstract reasoning about life and existence. Your argument -- inasmuch as you have presented one, between your fits of pettiness -- hinges on this idea, presented without any sort of justification, that all abstraction skills are equal.

It's as silly as saying that a programmer must know linguistics, since programming results from the study and expression of a language. And therefore, the linguistic field of study presents no benefits over CS, since all programmers know linguistics.

(Just saw your edit and I'd like to note that none of your posts here are gray. I don't even know if you and I are responding to the same thread at this point.)
Everybody says this, but I've obtained three different mortgages in my lifetime and never had a credit card. In lieu of credit history, the bank has just asked for other evidence that I pay my bills, like statements from the utility company.

Maybe I'm just lucky, but in my opinion, wanting a good credit score is a pretty bad reason to get a credit card.
I assume that the reason is to reduce error from having a person read the height from a scale. It would also make the nurse's job easier because they wouldn't need to have to fiddle with the analog scale. I know my kid hates getting his height/weight measured, so anything that speeds up the process is good.

Another potential benefit is that the digitized scale could be directly attached to a wall without regard for it's height relative to the ground. There could be a defined calibration offset stored in the reader, so the contractor wouldn't need to be exact when the bar is installed.
I agree with your thoughts on the 2 bars being wasteful, but we shouldn't abandon the url bar entirely. Sure give it double function (search and direct url), but eliminating it entirely seems like jumping the gun.

this seems like a conniving way to drive more traffic to google.com so people like my parents will then type in the urls they already know into google's search box
You might get better luck posting on the FlashGameLicense jobs section, MochiMedia general section, and TIGSource forums.
"Remember, it is the job of the media to get a compelling story out there. They don't care about the truth."

Both Reuters and Al-Jazeera come across as attempting to be as objective as possible about the stories they cover. In fact, the former has been criticized for the policy of objective language.
Then perhaps you'll permit me another warning, which I think is even more important: don't fall in love with the idea of being a professor.

What I mean is, don't feel obligated to be become an academic. I use the term "love" deliberately, because you may end up feeling a similar kind of commitment to academia that people feel to their lovers. That is, the relationship isn't doing you any good right now, but you want to continue based on how you used to feel and commitments you made to yourself based on those feelings.

A lot will happen in the ~5 years it will take for you to get your PhD - just as a lot can happen in a serious relationship. You may come out at the other side not wanting what you did when you started, and that's okay.
I agree that it's nice to have the URL bar double as the search bar. I've been patiently waiting for Apple to combine them in Safari so I don't have to remember two very different keyboard commands for getting to them.

Safari could also use the Chrome-style status bar overlay.
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Right. I should clarify that in my own case, that meant getting the computer science degree, working for three years to pay off my debt, and then feeling quite comfortable taking a few years off to go backpacking around the world. I knew I could come back to my trade.

I also have a degree in history, so I did pursue liberal arts at the same time. But I knew that wasn't enough for a complete life, in my case.
I'm definitely not in the part of my life yet when I have to worry about money...but still I do. I actually just made my first proper budget (proper as in not just write down what I'm expecting to spend, on the back of a napkin, but doing it by month, comparing it to what I get per month, planning stuff.) and you know what? It actually made me feel good.

Knowing exactly what I can spend on what is a really comforting thought. When I'm in a shop and I see something I want, before I would have to quickly count up the big expenses of the coming months, see what I have left, and decide if it's worth it. Now I know exactly in what category the item is, and how much money I have left. If I don't have enough and I feel like I really need it, I can take a look at my budget and adjust it slightly.

On a sidenote, I'd love to start a business one day, but as long as it's not completely necessary (and safe) I would never want investments. I'd much rather bootstrap my product instead: the risk is much lower, and the relaxed feeling much higher.
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In an overwhelmingly important sense, pure math has the least 'jargon' of any field. The reason is, math exposition has an absolute requirement: Each use of a word not the same as just its dictionary meaning becomes a 'term' and just MUST be defined, and 'well-defined', before it is used. So, what the article is calling 'jargon' is just such terms, but in well written pure math they all have rock solid definitions, and math is the unique field where this precision is true.

For the rest of the complaints about 'jargon', these are essentially just necessary given that math, due to its precision and age, is now by far the deepest field of study. So, there are a LOT of terms defined.

If the article wanted to claim that for each math result or paper there is a 10,000 foot intuitive view that can be explained in 90 seconds to just anyone on a street, then okay, but the article did not do this. This claim is not quite true, but it is close enough so that some such explanations, maybe with some pictures, and some connections with more elementary topics, can be useful, even in research papers. But the article didn't make this claim, either.
> The location bar has to go. It has many problems. For one, it’s always visible and constantly takes up a large amount of space

Not a problem on my old 4:3 laptop screen but I dread the time when my current laptop dies and I have to deal with one of those 16:9 models.

Right now I have 1400x1050 but in the future I would have to deal with 1440x900 or 1600x900. The height difference is more than the height of the location bar.
That is crazy. A couple of months ago I had to go to ER, was there for 2 hours or so, and went home. A week ago I got a bill of £12 for the penicillin they gave me for a week, as that wasn't for inside hospital. I'm not insured (in the UK), and I don't pay taxes (anywhere).
Oh I didn't mean that at all, it just brought up a question I thought was interesting.
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At first I thought, "that's crazy!". But if you let me unhide it when I press Alt-D, I'd rather save the space most of the time.
My father used to tell me I should have around 15K€ around in case of emergency. Less at the beginning of my career of course.

I have trouble seeing 2K as a lot: I don't think it could cover real emergencies (losing a job, emergency in my family overseas...)
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How gross of Gross.

This is what happens when the "perception is reality" maxim gets to people's heads.

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Do I get Birkenstocks and a fresh pair of socks if I join this cult?
David, it sucks to be in your position and I can sympathize. Most of us developers suck at UI/UX design and end up looking for "our guy/gal" designer too... and we don't have any money either.

A 21 month University of Chicago Booth MBA runs about 160k
( http://www.chicagobooth.edu/fulltime/admissions/costs.aspx ), two of those is 320k. For just another 30k (10% more than you are already in debt/paid for) you could probably find a development shop to do an MVP. But 5k -10k on E-lance isn't going to do it. ( http://www.elance.com/j/levine-group-llc/24158220/ )
A significant portion of articles on any wikipedia are about cities, towns, local governments, local businesses, minor celebrities, landmarks, &c. For major locations like New York or Berlin, there will of course be articles in many languages, but other things that are insignificant outside their locality are likely to only have an article in their native language. Take for example the Catalan wikipedia, which contains a large number of stubs with basic info on locations in rural Catalonia. [1] The English-speaking world is vastly larger in land area and population than the German-speaking world, so I speculate that the difference in size is due to the number of location-relevant articles.

[1] http://www.kmjn.org/notes/geographically_dense_wikipedia.htm...
$120K/year is damn good money for one person to be making, and in most of the US, a family pulling in that kind of money is still doing very well. If your wife thinks that isn't enough to be considered middle class, she's been living in a bubble.
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That sounds like Alvin Hall[1]. He's not done a show (in the UK at least) for a while, but he's definitely done that type of show.

[1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_hall
Then what advantage is there to sea water over a loop?
I think "the panic with space on monitors" is driven by the proliferation of smart phones and tablets. You (I assume, from your comment) and I don't have space problems on our desktop screens, but lots of folks (me included) are more frequently using small, portable devices where every pixel counts.
There's this too: http://www.patentgenius.com/patent/7525207.html
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On top of an Emergency fund, I find taking money out for KNOWN expenses makes sense. Like putting aside money for car repair, basic home repairs, etc separate from emergency stuff.
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I cheat a little. I'm still a student, so $2k is still a significant chunk of my net worth.

My strategy to allow myself to own a decent car, a computer, etc revolves around a credit card I secured with a very high credit limit. I have $2k I can "borrow" against my future, and then I have a 30-day grace period in which I can sell possessions to come up with the money. In other words, I use my credit card and its 30-day grace period to increase the liquidity of my possessions.

This has two caveats: 1) Keep that credit card paid off to allow use of the grace period 2) I suffer a net loss when I resell something, but that's a small gamble I decided to take.
Or you can get 1680x1050. Same great height, less-filling width.
PG!!! Socks & sandals? Nooo... ;)

Aside from the visual violation, nobody should hide their digits under socks in spring/summertime. All feet look good; nothing a good pedicure can't fix.
I think you're looking for decision theory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_theory
Downvote me all you want...

Why is everyone suddenly up in arms about the internet losing its freedom and being regulated? How is this any different from every other service that exists?

The internet is the shining last example of true liberty - it CAN work - and yet everyone seems to think that the world would go into chaos if everything wasn't heavily regulated. Where does this assumption come from? The internet is super prosperous because of this freedom. Why do people assume regulation is the best answer, when evidence indicates otherwise?

I'm seriously at a loss here.
Yes, we were talking about different things.
I'm sorry but your wife sounds awful!

You are in the top 10% of wage earners in the US.

It's a nice place to be. I make about the same and my wife treats me like royalty (and works herself and makes about 2/3 that).
I second this. My parents set up a notebook in their office that was my running checking account. Whenever I got a birthday check or earned some money, they would cash it in their own account and credit the value. Whenever I wanted to buy a toy, they would deduct the value. (You were lucky that you got compounded interest, though! My parental account had a zero interest rate.)

At the age of 10 I was acutely aware of the value of things and more concerned with keeping the balance on my imaginary account high than with having every toy or computer game I could see. To this day I don't like buying "stuff". It was an awesome parenting move.
"1. What is the panic with space on monitors? Stop making everything at 1080 widescreen TV."

Seriously, we've been doing ourselves a disservice by optimizing monitors for displaying films when 90% of the time we use them to read text.
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We had insurance, although nearly a year later we received a call from the hospital saying that our insurer had refused to pay, and that we'd be responsible for the bill if the insurer didn't come through. The insurance company claimed that the hospital hadn't provided the complete paperwork, and the hospital claimed it had provided the information multiple times.

We received two more calls about it, each about six months apart. It's been a couple of years now, but it still feels like it's hanging out there - that we may get a call at any time claiming that we owe this huge sum of money.
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Hmm I'm undecided on this; I can see both sides of the idea but I do wonder whether it will make sense to a newcomer to the web?

Also remember this idea first appeared on Chrome. Chrome is developed by Google. Google is a business, that realistically, has a vested interest in users not understanding urls - it means less direct site hits and hopefully more traffic via Google.
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yeah, FGL is an awesome community :)
how long ago were the mortgages and how old were you when you tried to obtain them?

i think the climate is different now. i have a friend who is reasonably fresh out of school and tried to buy a place, but got turned down for mortgages due to lack of credit history (and presumably a lack of "other evidence" as well).
I don't mean that I don't use it all. I just don't use it for every single thing, every day. I was doing that, and was paying it off timely. But I found my spending was higher then I'd care for.
Except "business person" has no idea how to market applications, what works with online marketing, and how to effectively communicate what the application does. Let alone how to sell apps commercially to skeptical deep pocketed IT buyers who ask questions regarding such "arcane" things like HIPPA or SOX or assurance or compatibility with large enterprise solutions.

His big contacts file is useless because his domain is in selling real estate not selling real estate apps.
ignoring people's concerns en masse and introducing something almost nobody cares about or wants is not "the only way to make progress".
Ha! The New Jersey Transit ticket kiosks at 8th street station in Philly make the same Windows ding noise. It sounds like a program is stuck on an error, and it's like a dog whistle to me.

That said, about your comment "Someone who does sound design could pick up this banner and impress everyone with set of free UI sounds that are classic and usable." -- I'm betting that's exactly what MS was trying to do. They commissioned Brian Eno to do the Windows 95 startup sound, and brought on Robert Fripp for Vista's startup sound (along with Tucker Martine and Steve Ball). Mind you, I'm not sure who's responsible for the various system sounds.

It's very easy to say "make classic, usable, impressive UI sounds" but incredibly difficult to actually do that.