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I never said it did. Of the many complains in-thread about Javascript, it's the main one that also applies to Lua. I'd say Lua's coroutines are a bigger feature for asynch. development, though.

I wrote an embedded non-blocking / event-loop webserver in Lua as part of one of my projects (a distributed filesystem). I got sidetracked by other projects, and lost interest in writing non-blocking webservers after I got into Erlang, but plan on getting back to the filesystem soon. If I find time to neaten up that code, are you interested in swapping notes?

One tricky part is error handling - I spent a lot of time on that (and was pretty impressed by Erlang's error handling model). I don't know how well node.js does that, beyond managing control flow by hand.
This myth is needed by the MPAA and the RIAA, so you should expect it to continue.
It's not to notify you, but to notify your 'bros' that you're done with the dryer. I assume the app is supposed to be used with an iPod touch in a frat house setting and you'd want one iPod per machine. A very specific use case for these dude's "11 guys in a house with one washer-dryer" situation.

For an individual, it's much easier to just set the built-in timer app on the phone or iPod and take it with you.
The irony is that it's not clear that the Etsy person that was "ripped off" didn't rip off the designs herself:

http://www.regretsy.com/2011/05/27/urban-outrage/
Fashion houses should somehow revise their chain of implementing creative work. I don't know how it is in UO, but afaik from other news from last years, where apparel companies sold copied flickr/blog/digart/etc creation, they don't do such stuff in-house, they buy it from outside (some sort of providers, companies or freelancers, don't know). I think it's a common practice for cheap modern apparell - well, creation and production must be cheap. Sometimes bought derivatives happen to be ripoffs, f.ex. look at this example (it's in Polish, but just look at the images on the left) http://wyborcza.biz/biznes/1,101562,8016144,Amerykanka_oskar...

Just look at those cases http://youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com/blog3/?cat=5 The case above is just one of dozens that are brought to daylight and probably hundreds that don't. Of course the brand has to take full responsibility, there's no doubt, so they made a good decision pulling back the jewelry.

On the other hand, fashion is an industry without copyrights http://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashio... , so I wouldn't bash them from a moral POV.
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Exercise Blue Angels flying to wear some special formations, in the drive by a pilot upside down with a slope of 3.8 degrees, the American pilot was very adept at using a super-fast FA/18 soar toward the sky blue. impressions look premiere on TV.
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Anyone know the typical internal temperature?
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also known as the Coolgardie Safe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolgardie_safe
Seems like a viable plot device for a campy space opera.
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I'm somehow very doubtful that this works effectively. If it is so effective, then why is it so rare? Probably it keeps the goods somewhat cool, but not particularly cool.
I believe his description of document-based databases is mistaken WRT versioning: it's a central concept for couchdb, but not for mongodb.
It's also a common sight to see canvas water bags hanging from the front of a 4WD in Australia. The bag is porous causing some of the water to evaporate slowly as you drive. Hey presto, beautiful cold water when stop to take a break.
"they could probably push things out much sooner (minutes after they're committed) to small parts of their overall traffic, and slowly increase the traffic on those pieces of code as they prove themselves to be stable, or quickly revert them if they're not."

The risk to user data is way too high.

This could have serious consequences. You could push client bugs with erroneous API calls, or server-side bugs that cause data loss. Rolling back isn't enough to fix the damage. The user's data has reached a permanent bad state that they didn't intentionally reach. You could roll back the data of every person who used the change, which would undo all of their work. You could analyze the data and try to fix it. This might work, or it might get the user data into a different bad state.

Plus, bugs in the view of the site might not cause errors that pop up in your error console, since it's hard to write tests for "looks wrong." Obvious errors - "when I click on my profile picture my name disappears" - are caught by external people instead of internal people, which adds a level of indirection between a problem appearing and a fix being written.

That being said, there are great uses for gradual rollouts. The video mentions that they do this for mature features with Gatekeeper - the developer can conditionally enable a Prod feature, and see what it does.
I'm puzzled by their describing Riak as a column oriented database. It is a key/value store. Perhaps they are thinking of the highly beta Riak Search? http://wiki.basho.com/Riak-Search.html
See Also: Chotukool in India. Example of large conglomerate making products for the base of the pyramid and succeeding:
http://www.gizmag.com/refridgerator-rural-india-chotukool/13...

And Mitticool - this one is similar to the nigerian one in that it uses evaporative cooling. http://www.sankalpindia.net/drupal/know-india/mitticool-cool...
Puzzle: Count from 1 to 10 in base negative 2.
Apparently this used to be a Microsoft interview question. With the recent question about calculating "by hand" in hexadecimal, I was wondering if people might like this related question.

Edited for (some) clarity: Count in base -2, starting from 1, taking 9 steps.
Unless HTC made a incredibly stupid deal to cover countries where Microsoft's patents don't apply - it is likely US users only that are paying for the US patent system's wrong doing.
The best such comparison that I've seen is http://kkovacs.eu/cassandra-vs-mongodb-vs-couchdb-vs-redis.
It's not as cold or as convenient as a standard plug-in refrigerator. If you're living in an area with access to HN, congratulations, you have electricity, which eliminates the need for something like this in your area unless you're really trying to save on energy. Another contributing effect is probably that not everybody understands the concept of this design. Much of the world is under-educated, with limited access to knowledge like this.
Wikipedia has some coverage of the flight control modes mentioned at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_control_modes_(electroni...
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Only useful if you can afford to pay someone to edit and index your book.
Unlikely. There is massive use of evaporative cooling techniques (We cool our domes with a pair of Essick 3301 coolers) - but the preponderance of (A) Electricity, and (B) ice at BRC would make it unlikely that anyone would futz around with this technology to cool food instead of air, particularly as all you would be doing is preventing food from spoiling, not particularly cooling it that much.

I've often wondering if the critical ingredient that makes BM so popular (they won't even sell tickets at the gate this year they are so oversubscribed - might even sell out for the first time) - is that they sell ice at a number of distribution points on the Playa.

Far more likely they put that energy into figuring out how to evaporate / dispose of their grey water.
It's true that the little guy has a shot at massive success without an intermediary like an agent, a publisher, and massive marketing.

The flip side of this is that there will be more and more and more small, "vanity" books being sold in small quantities. Disintermediation is about the long tail. The little guy still has very little chance of scoring a major success, but lots of people will be able to write and make a few bucks for it.

Being a part-time author is now a serious proposition.
EDIT: Of course, the question in the third paragraph should read:

Does a programming language implementation using a JIT subsystem require more or less energy than an interpreter?
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The guy in the doc "No Impact Man" tried using one of these in NYC and I recall it didn't work too well and he ditched it.
My grandparents lived, until the early '90s, on a farm with no running water, no plumbing and no electricity. Lighting was provided by kerosene lanterns hanging in each room, and they had a number (three, from memory) of kerosene powered fridges for keeping things cold.

My google-fu is failing me this evening, and this is about the best I can come up with http://www.earthgarden.com.au/kerosene.html
Philip Greenspun has a short article on the subject at:

http://philip.greenspun.com/teaching/three-day-rdbms/beyond-...

And there's a discussion about the article on his blog:

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2011/01/13/rdbms-versus-n...
Missing: caching. Caching. Caching. And more caching.

I speak of Wordpress and database-backed PHP applications of its ilk. Wordpress loves to spray MySQL in a thick stew of queries for every single page load.

Without sensible -- preferably aggressive -- caching, your Wordpress site will die in the arse.

My setup generates cached .gz files, which nginx can serve directly. It flies. It didn't used to.
Imho this article is too much of an oversimplification. It's forcing artifical labels on some things that don't really fit very well.

It's fairly useless if you've already heard about most of these and it's a false start if you haven't.

If you do want such a list, a much more accurate and complete one is at http://nosql.mypopescu.com/kb/nosql
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'Thanks', and 'please', are used in Dutch only when there is much to thank for (saving someones life, or at least possessions or the like). While in English they are part of almost any question or exchange, no matter how trivial.

As something like a native English speaker I was surprised how often people in Dutch say please and thank you in the Netherlands! (Flanders is of course a different cultural ball-game with politeness rules that remind me of German or French)

The informal would-you-mind-please word is "alsjeblieft" and it is normally used in any interaction with a child or someone in a shop, or even friends of whom you're asking a favour.

And while the informal thank words "dank je wel", "bedankt", "dank je" and "dank" are slightly less used than in much of the English-speaking world, they're still used for lots of stuff that is rather more trivial than saving someone's life. And seem always to be used after asking someone to do something like move their bag off a seat in a packed train... ;-)

And the Dutch certainly say informal hello's - with a slightly smaller bewildering array of sound-words than their goodbyes - with a lot more polite abandon than you'd find in urban English-speaking societies.

I suspect there's a kind of politeness-blindness working here: cultural norms and paradigms are fairly invisible once you're embedded into a society. Once you move, like wybo, the differences snap into focus.
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I love this, a beautiful example of disruptive innovation:

-Authors get up to 70%, as opposed to 5-15%
-Far less trees are killed

-Eliminates the role of the publisher / physical distribution channel, which claimed the lion's share of the profits without adding creative value

-Marginal cost of distributing an extra book is on the order of cents

I've not read a hardcover book since getting a Kindle.
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Indeed, "the energy put out by the sun in 2 or 3 seconds" - sounds like a Culture handgun ;-)
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But won't work where it's humid, right?

Because there would be little or much slower evaporation?
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I only wish that this point was intelligible to those in charge of writing the laws. Unfortunately, I think we are light-years away from this (valid) viewpoint being considered anything other than a lunatic fringe. It's a shame.
Fun fact: Authors get 35%, not 70%, on any sales outside selected countries like the US and UK. Also, if you set the price above $9.99, you are getting 35% only in any country. This may be OK for a novel, but it rarely works for technical authors. And 35% royalty on a technical book you self-publish is absurd.
Anyone know how this was accomplished or have any tips on where to find good information on audio processing libraries and learning materials in general?
I haven't watched the video and I've been up all night, so forgive me if I'm contradicting the video. I'm probably wrong and the video's probably right. At least as of 2009, you are correct and that is how things were pushed. Code would have to be reviewed before it was pushed, but push would happen in stages, and chuckr and others would monitor its progress and revert commits that were found to be broken, as they went out. Errors were monitored and correlated to sets of patches, and would be investigated in real-time. There was the usual weekly push for typical changes, daily push for important changes, and unscheduled pushes for critical/very urgent changes.

Unless you mean to suggest continuously integrating developer commits to trunk into the live branch, in which case, no, that's a horrible idea. Not every bug manifests itself that quickly.

As for merging, my memory is pretty hazy but I believe pushing and merging went hand in hand, and stuff that conflicted meant someone wasn't communicating yet working on the same code as someone else. Code was often documented with its owner. The code review utility at the time would (I think) take that✝, and (I think) run a blame and automatically CC those people on the code review, so it could be caught before it went out.

✝ Unless that was just done by convention so you know who to ask about a bit of code you might need to revise. Sorry my memory is unreliable on that bit.
Do you know what a patent is? Google and FB own many similar ones and they will sue anyone in violation of their patents..

This is another example of large corporations think they can violate anyone's Intelectual property and get away with it..

What make America GREAT is that you get to own your ideas!
Or if you dont want to deal with Wordpress to implement the caching, use Varnish. (also mentioned few times in this thread)

I've used Varnish for some high-traffic Wordpress sites by sitting it in front of Apache running Wordpress. With well planned TTLs, and logged-in cookie detection, most of the inconveniences of caching can be eliminated.

Also, using Disqus or similar services for comments will be helpful. You wont have to worry about comments not showing up until the cache clears, leading to confused users. That is, if you use the javascript implementation of these comment services.

Alternatively, plugins like WP Super Cache have automatic post cache flushing if there are updates, and you can also tell it to bypass cache for logged in users. But it is IO-bound.
The 'net looks like the wild west because most are ignorant that it is really a bunch of city-states like Greece. Each ISP/Host/Site has its own rules. Some are allied, some aren't. Governments are the overall nation.

This simplification should good enough to explain to most people.
It has never occurred to me before how odd it is for Disney to take public-domain stories, rework them into blockbusters, then lock them up with copyright indefinitely. What a strange combination of ideas.
Google was ok giving you a connection to translate because you were helping them build up the system. Now the most powerful database of human language is going to be locked up. We should all learn a lesson from this...
A friend from Albuquerque, New Mexico was just telling us about swamp coolers which are commonly used instead of AC to cool homes, and works on the same principle.

I'd never heard of it before.
The publishing industry is already dead. It's been dead for years.

By 'dead' I mean that the number of copies any one book is expected to sell is pathetic compared to other industries. A book that sells 100k copies is doing extremely well, whereas an album, video game, or movie that made similar numbers would be a disasterous flop. Advances, the main value that publishers provide to authors, have shrunk to the point where you could draw a bigger advance (on better terms) at an ATM with your credit card.

I'm hopeful that the democratization of publishing will allow new types of author to succeed, now that ownership of a printing plant isn't a barrier to reaching your audience, and revitalize the publishing industry. It really can't get much worse.
Well, but doesn't Disney's copyright just apply to Disney's own instance? They can't claim copyright on other adaptations of Rapunzel, just their own and the specific style of character drawings and so on, right?
Yes, but anyone else who is interested could make their own version of Rapunzel now to, provided they didn't call it "Tangled" or directly take dialog, visual designs, etc.
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I believe you're correct. The accusation of hypocrisy is based on the fact that Disney has vigorously lobbied to keep characters like Mickey Mouse out of the public domain, while happily plundering the fairy tales and characters of earlier centuries.
Better still: install rvm, and set 1.9.2 as the default.
You are being silly... Do you own the Microsoft Windows program that you are using to post on? No... Microsoft owns it because of patents. Doesn't matter that it's on your computer. You do not own it.
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I understand the argument about reforming patents in an accelerated age, but how exactly do copyrights stifle creativity?

How would the public benefit if all of a sudden Mickey Mouse was in the public domain? I can see a bunch of toy companies salivating, but how will it improve the public good?

How has Mark Twain's work been remixed or creatively remained since it entered the public domain?

Would publishers not have released "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" if "The Scarlett Letter" was still protected?

Again, patent reform makes some sense since increased access to core tech has proven to spark innovation in unforseen places, but I can't think of many examples where copyrighted material entered the public domain to the benefit of us all.

Also, copyright law seems to be pretty flexible with fair use provisions, limitations on what can be copyrighted (e.g. no recipes), etc.

As a case in point consider Avatar. It was widely mocked as being "Dances with Wolves with Aliens" and it is the highest grossing movie ever. How is that possible when the IP world is as muddled as the author suggests?
The publisher isn't a distributor. Rather, they provide editorial and marketing services and a hell of a lot of inputs that are largely invisible to the end user. The lions share of the profit doesn't go to the publisher -- who typically nets as much as the author after paying for all the pre-press stuff -- but to the distribution channel. Which is Amazon (insofar as they're trying to take over and merge the roles of distributors/wholesalers and retailers).
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Historically, publishers provided at least two valuable services: distribution and marketing. They captured the value they were providing by "taxing" distribution (i.e., adding a profit margin for themselves). ebooks make distribution cheap and easy making publishers unecessary in that role.

Marketing is still valuable, but publishers never directly charged for that (as far as I know), hence their dilemma.
The uncoolness in most hacks like this is they can accidentally create a single point of catastrophic failure. If your cron job fails to run for a while, your entire website will go down.
I think I'm currently in the "I just don't get it camp" when a significant deficit of a language is the lack of implicit returns. Is typing return that bad? I quite like the readability. Is it that you can only return once per function? I already do that, but recognize that some developers don't. If that's part of it then a lot about these languages is to keep the riff-raff out? If that's true then I think we can probably all agree they will never be mainstream since in most cases mainstream == rif-raff.
I don't think that people are distrusting the Internet because of a rogue company taking it over. They are distrusting it because of the government taking it over. Tor and Freenet are to prevent eavesdropping from governments.

What I would like to see happen is absolutely no subsidized infrastructure. Once you subsidize, you have a responsibility to make sure the taxpayers get their money's worth (theoretically). If you ignore this responsibility, as government often does, you get the situation in the article.

One person lives a lot shorter life than a government. For example, Standard Oil was a monopoly and yet, even they were naturally losing their grip as time went on. I don't think you should be worried about a single person taking over. Sure it may mess things up for a few years, but so what? Better that than forever, by law. At least in my opinion. Competitors will pop up and the old guard will become old.

I'm not saying I favour net neutrality or not. Just that if the government could just resist getting involved in every single thing, they will find economical solutions.

Today's problem is that many governments subsidized the creation of the infrastructure and then handed over the keys to the private companies. Sounds familiar? I don't get how anyone can look at the past 200 years in North America and still make that decision.

So based on that history, regulation is necessary to make sure that citizens get their money's worth.

But goddamnit, what's wrong with these people?!
I run VS2010 in a similar way, though it is much easier to strip off the widgets.

Most of my co-workers don't understand how I can work that way. I tell them it's all about learning (or modifying) keybindings.
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China is a North American politician's wet dream.
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Varnish would need to support HTTP 1.1 proxying (specifically the "Upgrade" header) in order to run socket.io WebSockets. haproxy might be more what you're looking for in regards to reverse proxies.
Good mobile web apps/games?
What are some great web apps and games that are formatted for the mobile browser? I'm looking to compile a nice list, but couldn't find many. Are mobile browsers still not good enough?
while happily plundering the fairy tales and characters of earlier centuries.

It's even more striking if you consider that those fairy tales and characters are the products of many, many retellings and adaptations throughout history. The Grimm brothers didn't write them; they just wrote down one version of a lot of them. In a real sense, Disney's modern retellings are just the latest iteration on this process.
Good tips. The only quibble I have is that "a severability clause" generally means splitting the contract up into pieces, not ending it. The proper term is "a termination clause".

The other thing to add is a "attorneys fees clause" so if you do have to sue you can collect your attorneys fees as well.