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yes. I use space to move the content up a screen, and layouts like this mean I then have to go and scroll back a few inches.
And the major unfair point is that the developed countries, after having exploited and polluted their way to prosperity, want equal cuts from the developing world.[1]
[1]http://big5.xinhuanet.com/gate/big5/news.xinhuanet.com/engli...
PHP.
I used rails exclusively for webdev the last 6-7 years and I just now worked on a PHP project. Deployment of PHP is the same as deployment of static HTML. How is that not simpler than what we got in rails. For rails you need to understand version control, webservers and scripting. For PHP you need to understand copy.

For a serious project I think rails is great but you can't deny it involves lots of abstractions which sometimes break down and then necessitate expert knowledge that most people don't have.
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I thought of a portal system, similar to what's used in the game, only you'd have a door frame installed in your house with a dial pad next to it. You'd dial the person whose door you wanted to connect to, they'd authorize it (perhaps after a small conversation) and the two door frames would create a portal to each other's room, as if the rooms were connected.

This is nothing more than an interesting thought experiment, but I figured that it would already make all forms of transformation obsolete, except perhaps for ones used for leisure. Everything would be much cheaper, as you could basically just carry everything from production to distribution to people's homes within a few seconds.

It would also probably make most forms of communication obsolete, as you could just walk into the next room and see your friends, and you could go out in any place in the world, so it would also revolutionize travel.

Physical shops would be turned into their online equivalents, as locality would no longer play any part in anything, but they would only exist for the pleasure (and marketing) of physically shopping. Actually, I can't decide whether online stores would perish instead...

Anyway, it's an interesting world to contemplate.
I love the 3.1 rcs but using 3rd party css files that reference images are kind of painful to deal with in conjunction with the asset pipeline. I find myself making awkward directory structures in the vendor directory to avoid making modifications to 3rd party css libraries (like jQuery UI). I'm hoping a lot of this will go away when those things are packed into gems that I can just put in my Gemfile and forget. I'm sure Compass and Blueprint will get to that point pretty quickly but I'm not sure that something custom-generated like by jQuery UI ThemeRoller will ever be smooth to set up.
AFAIK CAN-Spam only applies for unsolicited emails, so a newsletter from a service you opted into does not need to abide by it. May be I'm mistaken.
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This is the way to go imo. For some reason a lot of people have the idea that it's somehow more secure to build your own login system than it is to use Google's or Facebook's. But doing it yourself opens up new vulnerabilities and you'll be reinventing the wheel making all the mistakes that have been tested out of veterans' systems.

The convenience factor is also superb.
flowerpower is possibly thinking about Neanderthals - who have been reported as having larger cranial capacity than "modern" humans:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal

However, this isn't particularly relevant as we aren't descended from them and AFAIK the link between cranial capacity and intelligence isn't clear.
There's nothing to laugh at. It's just bad. Offensive is besides the point, that's how bad it is. Humour used to be ancillary, now the shooting is so bad, the design feels haphazard and the whole thing is so linear that self-references and unfunny shit are front and center. It's rather embarrassing.
$649

Or you can buy it in Australia for $859AUD. I guess that includes GST so that's about $780.90 AUD + 10% GST. Which is about $830USD + GST.

:(
I think many people are missing Lomborgs basic point.

It's not just blind faith in technology but rather technology is the best choice we have now, so instead of using trillions on political statements of intention, let's use them where it matters and that is in trying to innovate and engineer our way out of some of the issues.
Plentyoffish emailing you your password.

OKCupid sending login token'd links

Notice the trend? When you're a dating website, engagement trumps security in many cases. But if you are a bank or any service with some liability, you're probably going to play it conservative as you should.
Yes, but the scope of access would have to be severely limited, to the point where's there's no real sense in doing it, e.g. you'd have to prompt for settings change, but also probably read/write access to private messages, wall, etc... It'd be a lot of work with little return (the more return, the less security).
Yeah, good points.
"I am a proud German, I love Germany above everything, and I do everything in my power to improve the image of Germany."

First step: Don't ever talk like that.
Yes but no... If you have a bad condition like me you can do everything yet it will hurt like hell...

Two things work. Nose spray (unblocks nose and the whole canals). And sinutab an hour before landing...

I'm no reseller of those I'm just sharing for the ones who've been in horrendous pain like me...
It isn't so much that he fails at scale as it is that at this point, the majority of effort that goes into any big game is in the content/art and not in the code.

The reason he can't say "let's rewrite this from scratch" anymore is partly because of the size/complexity of the code, but a lot more because he can't make any sudden changes that will cause the artists to have to restructure their existing work significantly... that's where the scale failure occurs.
I know both erlang and node and take node seriously
I only did one unit of accounting to see what the fuss was about. Quite enlightening really.

Cash positions are a different beast from revenue -- and indeed that's why Income Statements (aka P&L) and Cashflow Statements are both produced -- to give that two-way perspective on a business, along with the Balance Sheet.

All three are connected and you can, given a sample, derive them from each other. But to understand how a business is behaving you need to study all three.

That being said, accounting is all about devilish details. If Groupon are booking their revenue as being immediate upon the deal, rather than a subscription style cash+liability, then they can make quarterly revenue appear much higher than it might otherwise be seen as in retrospect.
Conditional formatting based on a formula is great for highlighting cells with values that don't make semantic sense.
I don't like the phrase "dumbing down". Based on the article, they are loosening their admission requirements, and seem to be allocating extra coursework to help students catch up.

I think that what matters is if the students manage to acquire the necessary skills after they do the mathematics coursework (which many should have done at school). There are probably a significant number of students who thrive after they catch up - implying that they are "dumb" is quite offensive.
The "Quick"look on Giant Bomb is a nice overview over some of the levels for people who want to see more than the demo.
http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-duke-nukem-forever/17-43...

For those who don't have the 50min to watch it.
Both of the guys commentating don't like the game at all. It's supposed to be boring and archaic, and then there's the lazy humor...
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Inheritance is considered "hard" content in a C++ course? What do you talk about for a semester without it?
I'm hoping we can get this in countries with draconian censorship - such as where they confiscate websites outside of the courts or due processes. Much like the US. boom. Irony strikes back.
http://discovermagazine.com/2010/sep/25-modern-humans-smart-...

But yeah, I don't see the number 10,000 or 20% and I don't see what that would have to do with increasing maths intake in Universities by devaluing degrees...
Looks like some sort of Excel plugin. Googling 'excel decision tree' gives you several options.
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That sounds possible, but gathering all the data for topic-specific training might be somewhat maddening. The problem you get with larger groupings of words is lack of cohesion. If you trained it at a sentence level, you might be able to produce coherent sentences. But as you generated more sentences to produce a paragraph, it would likely meander.

I created a kind of Mad Lib generator using CFGs. A paragraph consisted of: [Intro] [Supporting sentence 1] [Supporting sentence 2] [Supporting sentence 3] ... [Conclusion]. All the sentences had placeholders for various nouns and adjectives that could later be filled in programmatically, and I extended the grammar spec to both permute sets of sentences and generate null productions with certain probabilities.

The base sentences were created by humans, about 15 per grammar rule. A single person could create a topic-based paragraph/grammar in less than two work days. The chances of it creating the same template twice was about one in a billion. Of course, the probability varied depending on how many seed sentences were present.

If the person writing the seed sentences is literate and passed the 6th grade, then everything the program generates is indistinguishable from human text.

It works marvelously.
Dammit, Emacs. http://xkcd.com/378/
I am not a physicist, but that's detecting reception of (I think FM) UHF and requires specialised equipment. Detecting Wifi which uses a spread-spectrum modulation at a higher frequency would be even more difficult. Add to that the existing, allowed Wifi networks that probably already exist which overlap the banned ones.

The real problem in security is usually human factors — loose talk, spies, informers, interrogation — not technological ones.
While one could certainly argue that id's games haven't changed much over the years in terms of macro gameplay elements (running & shooting), I think Carmack and his cohorts at id are vastly underrated when it comes to micro gameplay design... the art of just making a game feel fun to play.

Sure, you're just running and gunning down a horde of aliens/demons in all of id's games, but doing it is a LOT more fun than in most other games in the genre. A lot of this is actually due to gameplay-via-code and thus attributable pretty directly to Carmack. Turning feels right, movement feels right (not realistic -- right, there's a difference), shooting feels right, jumping feels right. It is amazingly hard to get these micro-gameplay elements to truly feel "right", and few manage to do it as consistently as id has (some other notables here include Nintendo and Bungie).
he went there because Groupon. then came the chance of drawing him back.
I think you're really missing out the second paragraph from that review.
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Some qualification such as "good" is just crucial. Similarly for 'significant'. Otherwise, light a match and warm the planet. Warm it? Sure. Significantly? No. For global warming data, there's all sorts of crapola, fixed up with Finkel's Fudge Factor, smoothed, filtered, collected from unspecified places by unclear means, etc. E.g., there is tree ring data which is very crude and next to useless for discussing global warming.

For the $500 K per year per prof in field and experimental science, that's not their "compensation". The $120 K a year you mentioned is closer. My $10 million was within the ballpark, within a factor of only 2 from the data you found. Next, the CEO salaries have nothing to do with global warming or climate change.

An great example of bad data is Al Guru's movie. Again, he blew the Vostok ice core data and neglected to note that the CO2 increases were hundreds of years after the temperature increases. So, clearly CO2 did not cause the temperature increases.

Al Guru's pictures of polar bears and glaciers are meaningless and not "good" data. Similarly for his observation of snows on Kilimanjaro. So, Guru wanted to bring in lots of anecdotal this and that instead of what is clearly the crucial measure for global warming -- temperature, just temperature.

The bad data and analysis goes on and on. Guru is trying to make money (he has), be famous (he is), and push his favorite project, scaring people about global warming. It's likely a religious thing with him, considering his background. Whatever his motives are, his evidence and arguments are BS.

For the IPCC, it's really no better. 'Radiative forcing' is total made up crack pot BS. Really the IPCC is about getting 'carbon credit' transfer payments from wealthy countries to poor ones.

Yet the global warming people want us to go to electric power at the plant from about 2 cents per KWH to about 50 cents, convert to electric cars for which there are no feasible batteries for how the vast majority of cars are used, even to convert long haul trucks to batteries which is absurd, and on and on. It's the same as the Mayan priests killing people to pour their blood on rocks to keep the sun moving across the sky.

Just what is it about total BS crapola you find so attractive? Dump it. Flush it. F'get about it.
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This I found at the University I went to, too. It made everything mind-numbingly boring and this was a shame because I actually enjoy learning and difficult problems. I ended up not going to a lot of lectures and learning and working on problems on my own at my own rate.

I know that this is only certain universities though. Their are many academic institutions that have stuck by their values.
I thought the new thing for resumes was a bio...a 1-2 paragraph blurb, and them some very brief points about experience/education.

That aside, i can't quite put my finger on it, but there's something I find hard to read about it. Maybe there's too much going on for my taste. Maybe it's the font (which is nice, but fancy). Maybe its my own preference for minimalism. Maybe the color..maybe the "wasted" space on the right.

Finally, the picture. Dude, you're a handsome guy, no doubt about it. But the tri-color circle looks a little childish for me. In fact, putting a picture on a resume is iffy for me..I've seen it before, and I think i've always laughed. Also, and remember I'm just trying to be helpful, if you do stick with a picture, I wonder if a more professional look might have a positive effect. Less colorful shirt (even a white Tee would be better i think)...maybe drop the piercings. I know, its who you are, and you shouldn't work at a place that doesn't like that..but oftentimes the person who puts your resume in the huge pile is doing so very mindlessly based on some pretty set rules (and they aren't who you'll be working with/for anyways, so why not compromise a bit, 'cuz they won't)
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I went to high school with a lot of people who weirded me out. This one particular breed was a combination of a lack of social skills, misogyny, and self pity. I always wondered what would happen to people like them... now I know they're making video games for Gearbox.
The actual math starts at about 1:05
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source: https://twitter.com/#!/dhh/status/58286524151775232
What do you mean it will hurt like hell? If you open your eustachian tubes, the pressure is equalized, so you don't feel any discomfort at all.
Is that really the case though?
I do see making something less approachable to programmers who don't want to learn good, yes.
When I was in highschool, I actually couldn't imagine how anyone could enjoy maths as a subject. Even though I was quite good at it, relatively (managed to get A's).
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According to Mikko Ervast, an analyst av Evli, the royalty could be as high as 8 euros per sold iPhone.
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That's interesting, do you have any code or examples?

My thought about topic detection is to have it learn which words go together, and then augment the Markov chain model by some method that would weigh the Markov chain probability with the topic probability to select the next word, so it would at least generally stick to topic-relevant words. Perhaps you could even select one topic (a sample sentence, really) in the beginning and have it generate sentences based on that for the entire document.
Honestly? This is the first online wireframing tool that I've been able to use and instantly display what I want.

Great work!
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Presumably there's some middle ground between communism and "fuck it, innovation will save us no matter how bad we screw up the environment!".
This is a terrible limit. Code generation is necessary for all sorts of things e.g. parsers. Having to hack in code to the code generation just to split methods to get around this limit is ridiculous.

I had to literally abandon months of work on one project which was generating simulation code to Java. I was generating millions of lines of code, so splitting up the method would require a main method which would call all those split methods, and then that method would get too long, etc. It all just wasn't feasible, so now I just generate C.

http://www.databasesandlife.com/java-method-64k-limit/
as a non-german living in germany, why?
DHH saying it does not make it any less of a silly buzzword. I much prefer his original "opinionated", as it much more clearly gets at the heart of what Rails is, that it doesn't try and be everything to everyone.
Yes, us too.

Often it is because of tag libraries that generate big try..catch..finally blocks.
The best thing they could do is enhance playback from the Finder a little bit, so you could play not just one track but a whole 'folder'/album. Maybe you can do this on Lion.

iTunes is an abomination at this point. I prefer using Spotify even just for local files.
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"Engagement trumps security" holds true for 99% of the sites this audience builds. There's a reason I used Foursquare as an example.
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That also fits well with larry page's thinking. he likes big projects. he likes that even before google, so he probably likes that even more now.
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What where the final year courses like, and what was the level of thesis work being done? Making the first year easier for people not coming in with a CS or programming background doesn't have to be a bad thing as long as they ramp it up towards the end.
That's what I'm saying. It's a minor optimization of the mergesort algorithm, and it's not the usual way that mergesort is presented. And I'm skeptical that it's really an optimization. Have you benchmarked it?

This condition is going to be true most of the time:

left.get(left.size() - 1) > right.get(0)

As the lists get longer (where this optimization could pay off), the condition is more and more likely to be true.

For the case of nearly sorted lists, it could be an important optimization. But to say that the original mergesort is incorrect is not true.
> We now limit users (and IP addresses) to a maximum of 6 questions per day and 50 questions per month.

StackExchange (especially StackOverflow) usually relaxes restrictions based on reputation, and I feel this would be a perfect place to do that. I find it strange that they've stated this one simply as a universal rule.
This is the best approach to the problem, though it doesn't satisfy the implied(?) requirement that new devices should auto-authenticate seamlessly. You have to keep track of all of the cookies, of course, but there is comparatively little risk in letting previously authenticated machines (with an expired session) perform automatic login via a token in an email. The OP should point this out in his article.
POST can be sniffed and is only slightly less vulnerable than GET. HTTPS at a dedicated address should be a minimum level of security for a login form. Anything else is readily vulnerable to sniffing or spoofing.
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That's not what I got from it, but it does make sense. Coordination costs suck.
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The author does not acknowledge the point that e.g. air quality has improved precisely because people have complained about it.

The technological developments and business investments in filtering and related technologies would not have happened without environmental groups putting up a fight.

In a similar way, groups shouting about unsustainability are the ones who actually get people to think about alternatives, which in turn plays one part in moving technology forward.

Of course technology is moved forward by other things as well. But don't underestimate the impact of young people taking up PhDs in relevant subjects partly because of the high visibility of the debate about sustainability.
We got lucky a few times and now have enjoyed a comparatively long period of time without serious problems. Relatively long time being one generation, so we don't really remember what it feels like to go hungry, struggle to survive in a war and stuff like that.

Unfortunately that doesn't mean that bad things can't happen again, just because we don't remember them. In Japan they had ancient stones in the land warning about places where previous Tsunamis had hit. Unfortunately nobody of the "younger generations" cared about them anymore...

This attitude of "technology will sort it out every time" is just stupid and not really supported by history. I have no doubt that humans will survive, somehow. Doesn't mean that there can't be turmoil, millions of deaths and so on on the way anymore.
Reminds me of TheDraw from back in the day:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw
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if you bought one without a contract, will you be able to legally unlock it?