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Of course there is. Good high quality healthy food costs way more than deep fried potatoes and low quality burger meat, and is out of price range of a good portion of Americans.
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For physical goods, I'm sure it's very reasonable.

But they've applied it to mobile apps, which makes it ridiculous.
“Let's settle this in a Ruby programming contest”
Apple laptops and desktops, i.e. Apple hardware.

To be fair, though, not only Linux suffers from these problems, but all non-windows OSes.

According to your statement, "Apple has full control over its hardware components so I doubt this is a problem," the above quote would be untrue of OS X running on Apple hardware, correct?

Edit: Is it really necessary to downvote me for asking a question? I'm honestly curious: does OS X suffer from these issues as well? I'm not really sure why that should incur a downvote...
Asked there, but I'll tack it on here too: What is the purpose of that absurd-seeming restriction on file names? If you can drop arbitrary executables into directories on the file system, you've already "won", so I assume it's not security. I've read the run-parts man page, and that just pushes the problem back one level. If it's just to avoid running old files, that's an absurdly large hammer to hit that problem with.
Reading tons of articles about succeeding in entrepreneurship I have learned one thing: it is a rat race in a labyrinth. A few will win; the rest will be consigned to oblivion. And you never know in which group you are until it's too late (or obvious).
The price/perf for system76 is pretty bad, and the build quality is iffy.

I get acceptable battery life (~8 hours) on my Lenovo x201 running Ubuntu 11.04, with no special tweaks. (I get 11 under Windows.)
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My favorite complaint is that firefox has become slower and more bloated over time.

I'd like to see such folk browse today's web with the original version of FF... :) The average webpage today is way more complicated than 10 years ago.
If we figure - generously - that an American consumes $100/mo of A/C at work + another $100 at home for six months, that is $1,200 for the year per capita

For the 150,000 soldiers in Iran and Afghanistan, the $20B comes to $130,000 per capita, or over 100x more

Just a fun comparison, not saying one way or the other here.
I agree, there's a lot of tiring unrelated stuff on the internet, the only way to avoid it, sadly, is to wade through it, till you find what you're looking for.
I had a very similar experience with Virgin Blue (Australian national flight service). We arrived an hour late to a flight (daylight savings mixup) and fortunately the plane had been delayed. Not only did a Virgin Blue staff member get us to the front of the line, they let us purchase space for luggage and check it in late (we had cheap no-luggage tickets), and made sure to check with flight staff that the luggage would be on our flight and that our seats were still available.

Contrast with Qantas, where being less than 45 minutes early to a flight usually means you cannot board (you certainly cannot check-in luggage).
It might make more sense as opposed to other propositions: some might say software engineering is about helping build better software, or building it more efficiently, or having more control over the building. The idea of helping with clarity and fluidity is somewhat different.

The point is not very substantial. But saying something simple is not in itself a fault; the real test is: does it make a difference? It might claim to be 'a different way of looking at things', but what difference would it actually make to real activities?

Maybe stressing clarity and fluidity could make some difference. One can imagine asking of a suggested software engineering method or tool: does it make it clearer to the developer what they are doing? or does it make it easier to change what has been built into something unpredicted? That seems like it might well make or discern a difference in the method or tool.

The next question is: does it make a good difference? . . .
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I'm adding social buttons (Facebook's "Like" and Google's "+1") to my web app (www.postjobfree.com).

Should these buttons point to individual pages that they are located on or just to the home page of my web site?
90% of your users are idiots
i agree, I’m a designer and have been offering to fork open source projects here and there for a bit, but i think its a thing that the community has to adopt. its getting there though. developers also need to come to terms with the fact that just as a project needs great coding (by a dev) many projects need great design (by a designer)
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That is a random ass number, you're saying my floor at work generates a 10k monthly electricity bill?

Seems a bit high.
On the high end (why pay a pilot 200k a year, etc) that argument may hold, but on the low end, it causes sleep deprivation as pilots struggle for workable living conditions close to work, etc.

I'm fine paying $10 more a ticket if the low end pilots make 40k or more a year and can afford a good nights sleep. They're someone I don't want many mistakes from.
I used to read the NYT quite often, but the subscription charge was simply too high for me to consider at this point. :(

(While I'm thinking about it, WTF is up with their "All access" digital rate? It's exactly as expensive as buying both cheaper plans separately, and checking just now I could even get the physical edition AND digital access for less.)
Here's animation of the packets of a Facebook page hit over 3G on a moving bus:
http://vimeo.com/17248120
TL;DR. Is this a 12-year-old Linux fan? This is a business start-up site, not a commie propaganda site.
How To Give Robot Vacuums a Personality (And Why It Matters)
Unsurprisingly, this is a well-known problem: http://ipnpr.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm

While I don't know that we can fairly say the Internet qua Internet has been extended past Earth (and associated environs), NASA certainly uses a Solar System-scale network already, and while they haven't made a big deal about some of the routing they've already done, if you read the press releases carefully they'll sometimes mention how they routed the signal from one probe through another. It's already a network.
> i'm a lapsed physicist/astronomer that's been interested in intuitionist and constructivist ideas for a long time. yet whenever i ask mathematicians about them i am treated much the same way as i treat people who ask me about new age hippy crap.

Somehow I suspect the problem is not "the mathematical community doesn't like constructivism", because e.g. watching MathOverflow it seems to come up a lot, and it apparently has all these connections to computability and to category theory (though I wouldn't know anything about that).

> i am as uninformed about maths as astrologers are about physics. and i'll readily admit my enthusiasm is driven largely by a reaction to banach-tarski. but i don't understand why mathematicians are, in general, so confident in being dismissive.

See, given this, if you're being treated as if you're talking nonsense, I'm inclined to suspect that you actually are. There's a long history of people abusing half-understood mathematical ideas (see: the incompleteness theorems), so you may want to check that you actually know what you're talking about.

Also, while Banach-Tarski is nonconstructive, banishing choice is, IIRC, enough to get rid of it; I don't think ditching classical logic is necessary there.
How would you have any idea if it's "significantly higher in the suburbs" ?

Subway and mass transit systems cost billions of dollars to build and maintain. Power, water and sewer infrastructure; policing and fire protection; subsidized insurance and natural disaster response; parking, health and sanitation -- These and others are the massive costs of high density urban living. This is a scalability issue. And my understanding is that it's difficult and expensive to build these things to scale to urban densities.

I think you're being myopic about the costs of cul de sacs and interstate congestion.
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If they can streamline and scale this model, I truly think this will be the most important turning point in our government in several generations. This model has the potential to align the incentives of the private sector with the incentives of an efficient public sector, while keeping them both relatively separate.(geometrically speaking, parallel purpose, not perpendicular.)
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I'm curious to see the smooth infinitesimal analysis approach to complex analysis. Using the limit definition (the dreaded epsilon-deltas), you get the correct definition of continuity (for the usual topology).

How (if at all) do you do the same thing with dz's?
Supreme Court overturns CA's violent video game law; violates First Amdt [pdf]
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It's not a matter of people just moving around, it's the entire attitude towards urban planning and development. Laws can be a real barrier to the evolution of effective, human-scale, mixed-use communities.

Houston is a good example of where it's not simply people choosing to live in suburbs, rather the city itself is one giant sprawling mess. Until the last decade, Houston had a law requiring all single-family homes to use at least 5,000 square feet of land. Laws require roads to be extremely wide, and laws require buildings to have parking[1]. This makes it really hard to have pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods.

Also, while it's an old article (1996) and becoming slightly outdated, "Home From Nowhere" is a classic essay on the subject[2].

[1] http://www.planetizen.com/node/109

[2] http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/96sep/kunstler/k...
I'd love to hear the rationale behind the dot restriction.
What does "not fair" mean? (A fable)

They raced up, and down, and around and around and around, and forwards and backwards and sideways and upside-down.

Cheetah's friends said "it's not fair" - everyone knows Cheetah is the fastest creature but the races are too long and Cheetah gets tired!

Falcon's friends said "it's not fair" - everyone knows Falcon is the fastest creature but Falcon doesn't walk very well, he soars across the sky!

Horse's friends said "it's not fair" - everyone knows Horse is the fastest creature but this is only a yearling, you must stop the races until a stallion takes part!

Man's friends said "it's not fair" - everyone knows that in the "real world" Man would use a motorbike, you must wait until Man has fueled and warmed up the engine!

Snail's friends said "it's not fair" - everyone knows that a creature should leave a slime trail, all those other creatures are cheating!

Dalmatian's tail was banging on the ground. Dalmatian panted and between breaths said "Look at that beautiful mountain, let's race to the top!"
How difficult would it be to do a geo-thermal like system? Instead of coolant + heat exchanger, can you just force warm air down some pipes buried in the earth (running some distance) and having the thermal exchange occur "naturally" to surface as cool air at the other end of the pipe? In which case, (solar) fans might be all that is needed to run the system (though burying the pipes would require some work)
Scalia: "Reading Dante is unquestionably more cultured and intellectually edifying than playing Mortal Kombat. But these cultural and intellectual differences are not constitutional
ones."
My guess is they wanted to avoid running .dotfiles and #emacsbackup~ files and threw out the baby with the bathwater.
And the glazier who fixed all the broken windows also left his money to good causes.
I wish there was a list like this for every city.
I'm not sure how many .Net developers you're looking for(especially remote), but this is something I'd be interested in hearing more about also if you don't mind emailing me at Arthur.Baczyk@gmail.com...
While he built from source, its worth nothing that Python 2.6 seems to be the newest version in the yum repos (last time I checked).
It could be a common joke that quants tell, especially those in the companies where it happens.

His article does sound a lot like other ones though. I doubt he's deliberately copying them, but he's not entirely unique.
Apparently I had to post here instead (call it targeting)

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_206192479409300
If this is the case, then the "basics of economics" sucks. If Virgin really cares about customer service as much as Branson's letter purports, then they should have no problem paying people who do their jobs at a level far above industry standard appropriately.

Maybe I'm being naive but I'd much rather pay a flight attendant who constantly goes beyond the call of duty and does his/her job at an extremely high standard, say $50K rather than paying someone else 30K, just because they're willing to do the job for less money.

You get what you pay for, right.

And I'd happily pay a premium to an airline with this philosophy.
I have no clue why run-parts does this; but BSD periodic doesn't.
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Fairly ironic considering this entire article was basically rewritten in twenty minutes from two or three original blog posts, so that the NY Times could run ads against their own version. This entire article adds exactly nothing to the originals.

And what's more, whenever I check my RSS feed from the NYT I regularly see entries like this:

>The 6th Floor: Sentence of the Week

"Five diverse candidates this week."

It seems like the NYT is just trying to distract Google from the fact that 90% of their own content is not much better than the content farmed stuff they're criticizing.
This is the first I've ever heard of OnSwipe. I went to onswipe.com to see what the fuss was about, and couldn't find anything that gave me a clear idea as to what it actually looks like. That content might be on the "onswipe for..." pages, but they don't even render for me; all I get is the word "cover" on a little swoopy thing in one corner and a gear icon in another corner (FireFox 5.0 on Win7). I eventually gave up and used google to find a video comparison.

It does not instill confidence in a product intended to make content beautiful and readable when using onswipe.com itself is an exercise in frustration.
Somewhat echoes Sturgeon's Law.

A less offensive way to present this to users might be to ask them how often they've used a computer drunk.
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I would encourage you all to look at the site dtnrg.org It's for the DTN research group, which among other things is beginning to architect and implement the so-called Interplanetary Internet. Some early trials have been run among NASA, ESA, and JAXA mission-control centers, as well as one flight test on EPOXI (used to be the Deep Impact mission)
This is a matter to be dealt with publicly. What is being perceived is that Microsoft, at best, doesn't really care for the Skype folks. The worst that can be read into its silence is that they favor it because they never had the intention to keep the team and this spares them some bad press.

If Microsoft does nothing, that's because they prefer Skype to continue its behavior because Microsoft perceives it increases the value of the assets being purchased.
Static or Dynamic Code Analysis Tools?
Keywiz made me realize I know absolutely nothing about emacs.
Six Things Entrepreneurs Know That Are Dead Wrong
What is Animation database
Animation database is the form of the database which deals with the storage of the files which are found to be of animated in nature. The animated database is sued for those files and thus the animate
As the umpteen other comments say, yes: Amsterdam is extremely English friendly.

That said, outside of Amsterdam, some rudimentary Dutch helps a lot, especially if you're using public transport. Also, even just trying will automatically garner you a little respect with the locals, they're a bit sick of people who don't even try. ;)
Typical anecdote in that respect: we have a German and a Greek developer on our team in Amsterdam. They practice Dutch by speaking it to each other, because everyone else will automatically switch to English.
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I went to Geek.com with Safari and changed my user agent to iPad.

Watch the infinite redirects ensue. I sure hope the real iPad users aren't seeing that.
Most of our cities (maybe all?) haven't been planned that way though. They usually start out as a small town, then they get a large influx of people and businesses who all want different things, and the city ends up growing by leaps and bounds with very little planning. Then it happens again and again, in waves of growth. Even if the expansion was somehow planned well, the existing part of the city won't be prepared.

Also, there are plenty of reasons to travel around town that don't involve what you need in your daily life. What about when your friends want to meet at a bar on the other side of town? If that's 5 blocks, no big deal. If that's 15 miles it becomes a problem.

High population density doesn't make public transportation efficient, good planning does. If the public transportation system is designed for a city of 2 million, and the city grows to 7 million, the public transportation system won't be effifcient, or pleasant to use, at all. The unpleasantness and eneffieciency is one of the reasons so many people have cars to begin with. Private transportation takes you where you want to go, when you want to go there, in an environment of your choosing. As is mentioned in other comments here, walking when the weather is bad (cold north, too humid south) is very unpleasant no matter what.
How can I get a recent copy of the Verisign .com TLD master zone file?

You need to send a fax to get it from their website so I figure there's got to be a quicker way(http://www.verisigninc.com/en_US/products-and-services/domai...)

UPDATE: I downloaded the forms. Filled them out. Signed up for a HelloFax $4.99 account. Created a new fax using HelloFax. Uploaded the 2 documents. Attached my signature. And sent it. 26 minutes after making my original comment. Not too hard :). I'll update this when I hear back.

UPDATE 2: You can also pay $24.95 a month and get them here: http://www.premiumdrops.com/zones.html
The article misses that this is fundamentally an issue with the PHY level of "mobile" broadband systems.

If you've got a very simple radio, say, a ham 2 meter handset, you find there are interference patterns caused by multipath interference that cause the signal to get stronger and weaker as you move half a wavelength this way or that way. This causes a fluttering noise when you're listening to somebody transmitting from a car.

A more advanced radio that uses a spread-spectrum signal finds that at any moment of time, some parts of the signal's frequency range is in-phase and some is out-of-phase.

If your goal is to make a low-bandwidth signal robust, you can spread a low-bandwidth signal over a wide spectral range and you won't notice fading. On the other hand, if you're trying to send as much data as you possibly can in the bandwidth you've got, you're ultimately going to implement something like OFDM. Now, in an OFDM system, you're using frequencies in parallel to transmit more data, not to improve robustness. If you're sitting in one place your system can figure out what the fading is and work around it. If you're moving, the relative performance of the subchannels is always changing too fast for OFDM to work.

This is how you can have a good voice connection on your phone (which is using a PHY truly built for mobile operation) but not have it on for data (which is using a PHY built for high performance operation from a fixed point.)
"Add in the population of the surrounding suburbs and the number jumps from half a million of over 6 million. If all of us lived in the city, not only would it be even more overcrowded, but it would collapse."

Not at all! If everyone in metro Atlanta moved into the city proper, the population density would still be less than that of Paris, France.

Paris Population: 2.2 million,
Paris Land Area: 40 sq mi,
Paris Density: 55,000 per sq mi,

Atlanta Metro Population: 6 million [wikipedia says 5.3 mil],
Atlanta City Land Area: 130 sq mi,
Hypothetical Density: 43,000 per sq mi,
(Actual Density: 720 per sq mi)
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>>in particular pidigits<<

1) Always read the program source code!

Why the performance difference between the C# Mono #2 program

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/program.php?test=pidig...

and the C# Mono #3 program?

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/program.php?test=pidig...

2) Always read the program source code!

Why the fast fast fast V8 regex-dna performance?

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/program.php?test=regex...
All three are facets of the same thing. You fail fast so you know when to pivot, and where to pivot to, and you persevere to make it through the pivot. You can easily add a hundred other adages and cliches to this pile. These are just new buzzwords for old wisdom.
About baidu mobile os, samsung is the hardware partner
Or it's the type of job where one candidate looks like another. My guess would be some sort of business position?
Take a look at Florida. They kill you with taxes when you sell your house. Still, location is the biggest factor in price.
My brother was stationed in Kuwait several years ago (waypoint to be deployed to Iraq). During the summer they had days where the temperature was around 140F (60C). The mean in August is 131F (55C) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwait#Geography_and_climate

Think about how hot that is for a moment. Now imagine having to do heavy physical activity in it, moving large equipment, carrying 80 pounds of gear, hiking everywhere, etc... Your odds of developing heat stroke are extremely high.

Having a cool place to relax and recover in is absolutely necessary. Otherwise, plenty of soldiers would be suffering and/or dying. The overall shape of the military stationed there would decline, and would lose that advantage over their enemy.
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Anyone know where you can download this without sending a fax?
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My experience from starting WeekendHacker is that developers do know they need it.

In fact I have a lot of developers asking for design help (and luckily vice versa)

The format I use is a little more free form and it's curated which I hear a lot of people say help a lot.

Plus projects are fresh.

I have also tried to involve myself in OSP over the years.

The problem at least from my experience was that while developers have a clear process on how to work together amongst themselves. While they have created their own lingo. It doesn't really include the design process (unless they like me want to learn how to use GitHub) and how that ties into development.

There is clearly a disconnect between the two disciplines and I have yet to find a tool to allow for easy transcendence. You can't in my experience use the github principles for versioning of design, since iteration works completely different for most designers.

I have a couple of ideas of how that could be done, maybe I should start a WH project :)
Is that true for other forms of transport too? Probably true for trains. Cars as well? all the road construction and maintenance costs are eaten by the taxpayer.
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And no mention of Xero or LessAccounting. I suspect this may be a paid review.
... especially when you consider that the New York Times owns about.com.
Well, my situation counters many of the statements you made there (granted, it's hard to objectively say whether or not I am "worrying about my future").

I am sure that it's not for you as you say but it sounds like you are rationalizing it.
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