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it kind of defeats it's own purpose.

cat a.png -- show the image in a tiny terminal, but I have a billion pixel screen.

why not just open it on the image viewer window?

you advocate this even for editing plain text in vim!

think that if you had learned to use X your days would be more productive... maybe not as cool...
This is unrelated to some of the demos, but one advantage to using CSS as opposed JavaScript, particularly regarding animations, is that CSS animations can be hardware-accelerated.
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Or give a hundred thousand startups 40K seed funding.
When Steve Jobs isn't wearing jeans and a black turtleneck...
Even though I posted this article, I find my self wondering, Isn't Microsoft equally engaged in helping to shape the Intel roadmap?

Customers help shape the roadmap for any major partnerships like this, don't they?
Main Street investors clamored for the job networking site's stock, which had only been available to the country's biggest mutual funds, pension funds and other major institutional investors in Wednesday's IPO.

This was from a story on Yahoo finance today. Seems Main Street investors weren't welcome yesterday. Their demand for shares today could well be driving the price. I like LinkedIn, but this feels unduly speculative.
I've been a huge fan of Formula 1 since the sixties. As a young boy in Detroit I would call the Detroit News sports desk to have them read the results off the news wire to me to see who won. Otherwise I'd have to wait a week for the magazines to come from Europe. Sure makes you appreciate real time information!
This is really interesting, and pretty exciting to me. I've heard so many good things about SICP and yet it has been phasing out of use in courses. The potential for a course/book that takes SICP and improves on it is really neat.

Also, there's a really interesting bit toward the end that I'd like to call out for those who might not have read that far:

"...Still, the htdp curriculum has had an interesting measurable effect concerning female students. Several instructors reported
that female students like the HtDP curriculum exceptionally well. In a controlled
experiment, an htdp-trained instructor taught a conventional AP curriculum and
the Scheme curriculum to the same three classes of students. Together the three
classes consisted of over 70 students. While all students preferred our approach
to programming, the preference among females was a stunning factor of four. An
independent evaluator is now investigating this aspect of the project in more depth."
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Not just anyone can PUT a book on the Kindle Store for free. You either need to be a big publisher that has a deal with amazon, or they have to CHOOSE to price match free from somewhere else like smashwords. They recently did this with ~300 indie books, but in general the number of freebies is controlled and limited by Amazon

edit: I'd just like to say, getting down voted when stating facts amuses me to no end.
Happy Birthday, Ed!

The knowledge which is packed in the book will save a lot of blood, sweat and tears in the coming years down the line.

You're truly a blessing!
A nightmare scenario for higher education
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Upvoted because you're right about the actual heating effect, or lack thereof. However, that doesn't change the fact that heat is the stated reason that drivers are doing it, even if that's (a) only part of the reason, and (b) a superstition. Drivers, as with other sportsmen, can be very superstitious.
As usual, Paul Kedrosky has some of the best observations:

http://www.bloomberg.com/blogs/paul-kedrosky/2011/05/some-li...
"Assholes"?? You don't know the half of it. Some of us are still running ReiserFS.
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thanks for the anecdote, could not agree more. first thing I did upon graduating college was pack a bag and buy one of those around the world tickets till i was broke.

for the last several years of my life since I did it, it's been one of my cornerstone experiences.
Yeah they could simulate the launch, good point. I guess you'd have to hit the home button to know you are leaving the app. Sucks :(
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Prompted by downloading a .doc file from Qwest only to find out that inside was a monospaced text file, I set up a small, nearly UI-free site for doing document conversions. http://doc.mar.cx/<url>; gives an HTML or other sensible rendering of an url (e.g. http://doc.mar.cx/http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-t/oth/02/02... ) and http://doc.mar.cx/<extension>/<url>; attempts to convert the url into the format with the given extension (e.g. http://doc.mar.cx/txt/http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-t/oth/0... ).

I use wvHtml for doc->html, wvPDF for doc->pdf, but antiword for doc->txt. To convert .docx, .xls, .xlsx, and WordPerfect files to HTML, I use OpenOffice, by way of jodconverter. For ODF files, I use OdfConverter. Conversion of Excel files to .csv files uses xls2csv. For PowerPoint files, I use ppthtml to convert to html, and catppt to convert to text. For Lotus 1-2-3 files (I added this after downloading some historical telecom data from the FCC!), I use ssconvert.

Any conversion that results in an HTML file (e.g. doc or pdf to html) I bundle all the images into a single file using the data: url scheme. To do this, I wrote a utility called pagecan: http://afiler.com/pagecan/
Sleazy? Or just fair business with domain names..
> The swerving left and right actually does not keep their tires warm, especially at those lower speeds since they aren't generating enough downforce.

You're mostly correct. However, I believe the main reason for weaving is to prevent too much buildup (various debris from the track) getting on the tyres. Weaving helps to get some of the debris off the tyres.
Sort of, but I'm not sure I'd quite agree with your history.

Prost and Senna were alone toe-to-toe for 3 years, 1988-90. Senna wasn't a realistic threat before then (neither was Prost in '87), while '86-87 the dominant battle was between Mansell and Piquet at Williams. But, yes, 1988-90, Senna and Prost carved things up between them. After that...

1991, Ferrari (Prost's team) were nowhere, there was a late season challenge to Senna from Mansell's Williams but they'd had too much early season unreliability

1992, Ferrari were worse than nowhere, McLaren were comprehensively trounced too. Mansell walked it for Williams

1993, Prost wins relatively comfortably from Senna with a major car advantage.

1994, Prost retires and Senna dies.

There were then:

* 2 years of Benetton & Schumacher

* 2 years of Williams, Hill then Villeneuve

* 2 years of McLaren & Hakkinen

and we're now a) out of the 10 year window and b) into the Schumacher & Ferrari juggernaut.

Now, I've heard a number of expert commentators suggest that Schumacher's record is flattered by the opposition he faced, I wouldn't disagree that Hakkinen, Hill and in particular Villeneuve are perhaps not the strongest champions F1 ever saw and I'm not sure this period of F1 was necessarily the most competitive. BUT - I definitely don't agree with your characterisation of F1 history there.
Placing the liability for a link on the linker is more than just misunderstanding the nature of the web, it flies in the face of lots of other American principles.

People commit serious crimes with all kinds of things, screwdrivers and wire ties, let's say. Do we penalize the screwdriver maker when some crazoid kills an innocent and beautiful child with a screwdriver? No. In fact, we've just recently had the Supreme Court tell us that Guns don't kill people, people kill people.

This law is tantamount to a hitman asking directions to a street address from some passer-by, and then making the passer-by legally a murderer.

This law doesn't make sense.
A recurring chunk, you mean. =)
Absolutely! The styling could be entirely offensive, cause blindness, or unpleasant reactions.
I think having numbers to prove your case is generally a good way to approach things. If you can get objective numbers that really show and prove what you are talking about, you can swing most people your way.

If not, they are probably not the best of people to work with.
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If anyone is curious about some other neat things you can do in css, I wrote up a little article about drawing lines with it: http://monkeyandcrow.com/blog/drawing_lines_with_css3/

I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to come up with practical applications ;)
Not just anyone can PUT a book on the Kindle store for free.

Unless I'm mistaken, anyone can do just that with Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing program. And then can't they set their own price, even free?

https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/signin
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News flash: every company's stock value is based on demand for its stock. This is how the price for everything is set.

Maybe when we discover true stock-picking clairvoyance this will change and every stock's price will be based on its true future potential, but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for this to happen anytime soon.
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We've been accepted into MFi and will need to code up a few simple iOS apps. We're a windows shop, so that means buying a new Mac or two. I have no idea which model provides the the best bang for the buck--any advice? I doubt that we'll use it for much more than compiling and loading apps onto devices.
Sure, it's Twitter's service to do with as they wish. I hope they have a nice time with it. Over the last few months, they've done a great job of convincing me that I don't need Twitter as a user and that I should absolutely avoid them as a developer.
So the solution is not to rely on a single disk for filesystem redundancy (when was that ever considered a good idea, ZFS or not?). Use RAID in a typical setup.
That's why I put the "really" in there. It was government funded in the sense that any side project people work on in grad school is government funded, since the government is paying their living expenses. If that makes the startup a spinoff, Apple was a spinoff of HP, because Woz was still working at HP when he started designing the Apple I.
I don't think anyone believes there is actually a bubble in diplomas. Obviously there aren't any DBS's (diploma backed securities), or diploma flipping schemes.

However you might be able to make the case that there is a bubble related to university costs, or the market for university grads. Tuition costs continue to rise while wages remain stagnant and jobless rates remain high. If this trend continues long enough, the demand for diplomas is bound to go down and universities will be forced to lower their costs.
Hope you are not angry with me for taking it through readability, saving it to pdf and converting it to mobi.

Wishing you a very happy birthday!
>Until last week, Mac malware was as common as unicorns. Now there is one.

That might be true if "malware" includes only exploits that call attention to themselves and disseminate indiscriminately.

But OS X has many times been the first OS to fall in the pwn2own competition, and since there has long been a market in OS X exploits, clearly some Mac have been being compromised.
I'm not too familiar with the matter, but here's a comment from the article:

"Modern macs implement it as an EFI variable. Unsurprisingly, their implementation is incompatible with the EFI spec's implementation of the concept."
Based on what's written in the article, this looks like another case of an "intellectual property rightsholder" placing the financial burden of enforcing strict copy protection on a third party. This is similar in action to the infamous COICA and PROTECT-IP acts in the US.

It's wrong on a bunch of counts, but primarily it puts liability for some act on the wrong group of people.
Not surprising at all, but 'religious' is a pretty poor descriptor. And this has been around for a while.
Not necessarily, since the $45 price was at the top of the range and the issue had already been repriced. We won't know whether the $45 price was optimal or not for a while -- it may seem expensive in 90 days when the price settles down.
Did he acquire the ability to spot patterns and connections, or did he just spot the patterns and connections by getting used to the tests? It's very possible that the ability to identify patterns was an innate part of him, an "intelligence" he already possessed, which allowed him to benefit from repetition.
Sounds like you need a developer to help you scale :P

The real question is you have a pool of developers and designers, but how many of those are looking for work vs those looking for help ?
Isn't that just a denial of the terms/definitions? Isn't it also a solipsistic argument, i.e. doesn't it equally apply to all other people?
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Yes. Have a look at Tiger: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/tiger/. There are also much more active solutions. Specifically, take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasploit_Project. With Metasploit you can explore your entire network and try to break into it. I saw a great presentation on this framework and while it's complex and the learning curve is high the stuff is fascinating.

Basically, let's say you have a mixed Windows/UNIX network with a single UNIX-like web server and a strict firewall. Metasploit will automate looking for vulnerabilities on the exposed web server ranging from known shell and SQL injection attacks to straight-up buffer overflow attacks on system services. It will then automate deploying remote exploit, then a local exploit to get root, and opening up a shell connection to the broken server (can tunnel traffic through a variety of methods including DNS). It will then help you scan the rest of the network from this newly rooted machine, doing the same thing.

The takeaway is that once you get any access to any Windows machine, you've owned the entire network because there is usually at least one local root exploit on Windows and then it takes minutes to crack the admin password. After that, you better pray that each machine has a different admin password, or else it's game over.

EDIT: BTW, the presenter had some fun ideas/suggestions for what a person breaking into the machine might do:

* Take a picture of the user using the web cam and set it as the desktop background.

* Take a screenshot and set it as the background.

* Play the sounds recorded through the mic to the speakers.
Happy Birthday Ed! Thanks so much for sharing.
thanks Ken. Any idea about slide deck.

Wanted to put them in this new format www.9slides.com/demo , will help everyone around.
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Many companies try it, but very very few succeed. Nike, MB, BMW and the Yankees don't count IMO. Apple, Porsche and Harley Davidson do, and I can't think of any other examples.
This is where I am. All of the techniques in the article sounded familiar to me because, thankfully, I do them intrinsically. What I need are ways to stay interested in a given project. Any suggestions?
Personally, I think Python is a great place to start. It's an easy, simple, clear language, and it lets you get stuff done quickly. Plus, it's relatively quick for being a dynamic language and has a lot of high quality (and free) books/guides for new users[1][2][3].

In terms of frameworks, I think if I was just starting, I'd try out something small like Flask[1] or Bottle[2], and get the basic concepts of how web apps should be designed and deployed. Afterwards, I'd "graduate" and take a look at Django via the Django Book[6].

[1] http://diveintopython.org/

[2] http://greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.html

[3] http://learnpythonthehardway.org/index

[4] http://flask.pocoo.org/

[5] http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/

[6] http://www.djangobook.com/
...it would be nice if titles linked to their comments...

I purposely omitted references to the original Hacker News threads because I wanted the book to stand on its own.

Hope this helps:

http://edweissman.com/index-from-the-best-of-edw519-to-the-o...

[Many thanks to everyone in this thread for the well wishes. You guys are helping to make my day!]
Relevant book: The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't - Robert I. Sutton. It provides an academic view of the subject.
Now that's an interesting clause that I'm sure some lawyers would like to beat up on. IANAL, though.

EDIT: I should have done more than exclaim. I can understand where this clause is coming from. Amazon does not want business partners giving other stores exclusives (even though they just did that with some Android games). This is their Level Playing Field Clause. A similar thing happens with eBooks and pricing. If Amazon finds your book for less on another store, they will price match it or even price it for less. They can't, of course, pull a clause like the above with eBook publishers because Kindle is not a universal file format. I'd say you'd have to terminate the agreement to get out of it. IANAL, again.
Awesome! Congrats, Michael.
MIT Scheme is not standard Scheme - for example the concurrency constructs in MIT Scheme.
They still abstract out to the same idea: imposition of morality.

You may disagree with the rightness of that particular law, but both conform to the abstract type of 'morality'.
Could you possibly upload that? I'd love to read this on my Kindle.
I have similar feelings about this. There are billions of people on the earth and hundreds of millions of them are cool. So, why waste time with people who aren't nice when there are so many nice people to meet?
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That's a scary assumption.
Have you looked in the mirror, man? That entire posts exudes the exact same behavior you are condemning.

You've asked for them to be fired? That wasn't your place, and the penalty is far too harsh for the crime. You were attempting to ruin their livelihood because you don't like them.

"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." - The Bible. Nobody would get to throw a stone. Nobody fits the criteria of being 'perfect'.
For hackerdom at least, it's good PR. Consider Sony's case, they might have shut out a large number of talented people by the way they handled the PS3 hacking affair.
I think they're advocating the same thing as you just saying it differently. How to design good software in an ideal environment. And to learn industrial practices later on; to begin with only good industrial practices then later on ones that might conflict with good software design, etc.
Someone who contributes good code is by no means an asshole. Real assholes are selfish. Maybe some people are rude, that's it, but smart people see beyond rudeness.
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I don't think people treat money they see on a screen or on a receipt like cash either. There's a mental disconnect.
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They also have a very useful guide focused on network infrastructure hardening. It's intended for Cisco IOS switches, but many of the principles can be adopted to other platforms:

http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/switches/switch-guide-version1_...
Minimum price YOU can set is .99, which is why it is such a common price among indies.
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I think it is to keep mentally active (aka boredom)

Kinda like when you are waiting for a FPS game to load and you just make circles with your mouse pointer.
I want to reiterate that the guy was really good at his job. One of the best people I've ever worked with. He was generally pretty easy to get along with. But my lack of hard data meant I couldn't sway him on that problem, no matter how right I was.

That company had a history of not having metrics to work with. Every new sysadmin or db admin came in and asked for metrics and we'd shrug and laugh nervously. (I mean, there was a reason why hired so many new ones!)
Not directly but ignoring a request from a court of law can quickly annoy a judge.
These people behave in a way that would not be tolerated in real life.

This statement is heavy with implications. Like many of us, the author abstracts these interactions into a second class version of reality, even though they are really happening. Why do people who are usually polite in person sometimes unleash an uglier, more confrontational side of themselves when there is a buffer of distance? Even before the introduction of email & chat, I've seen this happen in phone exchanges. In the absence of the need for a flight response, do we naturally tend to fall back to the fight response?
I think this paper makes a good point. I know I personally wouldn't have been ready for SICP had I studied it as a freshman. There's too much assumed domain knowledge in the exercises and too much assumed design knowledge in the sections, but after mastering the basics and coming to SICP I'm really excited about what it offers and I'm working though it as much as I can. (Which isn't going nearly fast enough. :P )
I am not sure where you live, or if you are comfortable with buying things off of Craigslist...

1) You should be able to find a perfectly capable used iMac or macbook (pro) on Craigslist for anywhere between
$400 - $800.

2) If Craigslist is not your thing, Apple has an excellent refurbished program, I have bought refurb. a number of times with no problems.

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/mac?mco=O...

3) If you want to go brand new, any of the MacBook Air's or iMac desktops would be perfect.
Yeah they are. I just checked the Pirate Bay, ISO Hunt and a number of smaller torrent sites. Each of them is blocked when my vpn is off. I'm in Beijing and getting my internet service through one of the major providers.
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Can we just not post articles of the form "[Is/Are] X a sign of a new bubble" from now on? Let's just all assume that everything up to and including oxygen metabolism is a possible sign of a new bubble, and get on with our lives, shall we?
linkedin reminds me of Classmates.com
Thanks Giang!
I'm typically very good at getting along with people, but I suppose my reaction to an asshole depends on the type of assholery being committed. Take for example someone who is egotistical and condescending. I may not necessarily like that person, but I can tolerate that person so long as the work being done is of good quality. On the other hand, take for example someone who takes credit for the work of others or in some other way actively seeks to step on his/her peers for personal gain. I have no tolerance for that.
Do you have a pointer to good info on the left foot braking thing? I wonder if it's applicable to normal driving as well. I remember thinking that right-footed braking seemed dumb when I was learning to drive. The best explanation anyone could give me was that in a panic you might slam on both pedals, which didn't seem like a great argument.
and now there's one on our phones!!!
I think the attitude you endorse just enables the assholism. Assholes ruin their own livelihood by being assholes, no need to blame the victims of their vitriol.

For any given job, there are hundreds of other equally deserving candidates who aren't jerks. Getting fired gives assholes a chance to learn their behavior isn't acceptable, and is only fair to the more-deserving candidate who then fills the position.
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