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My secret for reading difficult math and physics texts: write out, by hand, every equation as you encounter it. Firstly, it slows me down so I'm not tempted to skim it like a novel. More importantly, my standards for what I write are much higher than my standards for what I read; if I see something I'm not completely convinced of, I may shrug and move on, but I'm not willing to write something down unless I really understand it.
Okay, I failed to properly address "improvement". By "improvement" I mean the time required to develop something new. Of course everything improves, simply because it's built on top of the base of an older version.

A simple example, it took months to write a simple browser with a little less features than the browsers available during the Win 9x era. Does it take weeks now? I doubt so.

Ok, to put it more simply, what I meant was improvement in the time required not as in the thing that was produced. Uh, get what I mean?
Consolidation of resources and talents. That is all I can think of.
Catalyst is a full blown MVC web framework. For light-weight (micro) web frameworks in Perl have a look at:

* Dancer (http://perldancer.org/)

* Mojolicious::Lite (http://mojolicio.us/)

* Squatting (http://p3rl.org/Squatting)

* Web::Simple (http://p3rl.org/Web::Simple)
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It probably means that the precedent has been established already -- so future courts are likely to just accept it rather than having to go through a re-hearing of Benford from the very beginning.
Great article.

Ultima 7 was a graphical game that had a similar effect on me. The graphics were somewhat abstract and generic and left a lot for the imagination to fill in. The writing was wonderful and put flesh on the world. Playing the game was like reading a novel.

It seems like game makers need to focus less on graphics and more on music and writing.
"Anyway, If you ever receive such a call, do not follow along"

But then perhaps stringing them along means less time for them to be calling other people who may not be aware of this scam?
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While it'd be great to see this show up everywhere, I'm not holding my breath. Mostly because of the spectrum issue -- from the article: In the demonstration, 60MHz of aggregated bandwidth was used, compared to the 20MHz maximum that is currently possible using LTE.

So we'd need to triple the amount of spectrum allocated to each base station to realize these gains. Well, we can hope.

Is there still progress to be made on increasing the utilization of currently-allocated spectrum? I'm lazy and don't feel like computing a Shannon limit at the moment...
It's more fear (of loosing your job, of being outdated) than opinion.

Obviously, learning new things is much more efficient to keep a job :)
What problems are they solving that no one has? And what effort is frivolous?

The file system stuff they were doing was incredible and highly useful. I'd really like to have a file system where I have indexed metadata committed directly with my file writes about now. Alas, since BeFS is dead, I pretty much have to roll my own with SQLite indexes alongside flat files. At the time, sure, it may look like no one has the problem, but if it would have become viable I think that we'd now be wondering how we lived without it.
This article brings to mind what I dislike about the modern game industry.

First off, what is a game? Let's consider two broad types of games: competitive games and puzzle games. Competitive games (like chess) feature more than one player and the outcome of the game is unknown (both in terms of the winner and the final game state). Puzzle games (generally speaking) don't have a strong competitive element and the final outcome is known (i.e., a lone player solves the puzzle).

I contend that first-person shooters (in single player mode) are nothing more than big puzzle games. This isn't bad per se, but the problem lies in how these games have evolved.

Rather than make the "puzzles" in FPS games more challenging and innovative (i.e., focus on gameplay), the major game studios have instead focused on increasing the audio-visuals and cinematic attributes of their products. As a result, gameplay has consistently been minimized in favor of eye candy.

No better example comes to mind than the recent smash hit, L.A. Noire. The extent to which the producers of this game clearly wish they were making movies comes off as obsequious. The tiny sliver of game mechanics they did include is mind-numbingly repetitive and utterly without challenge.

These things are no longer "games", they're shitty movies.
Those two pictures are not out of context. They are from the case that Baio cited himself. On Baio's blog (http://waxy.org/2011/06/kind_of_screwed/) he cites an "influential paper on fair use" as his reasoning and authority for his own fair use argument.

These pictures show what the paper writer is actually using as the "transformativeness" example. Baio never bothered to dig into the writer's citations to figure out the details. Trying to claim his own work is similar to the Blanch v. Koons case is a mistake. They aren't alike at all.
They are not ignoring P3. They are laying plans to move to it. Patience is a virtue. I am learning Python 3 and would love to be using Flask and even Django. It will happen. There was a 5 year plan for P3 adoption and we are only half way there.
Great, thanks for the suggestions
For everyone person who loved text adventures, another nine people gave up in the first room.
relevant: how to disagree:

"""
After he has said, "I understand but I disagree," he can make the following remarks to the author: (1) "You are uninformed"; (2) "You Are misinformed"; (3) "You are illogical - your reasoning is not cogent"; (4) "Your analysis is incomplete."
"""

http://books.google.com/books?id=Z5PpkQadm5EC&lpg=PA154&...

With this in mind, I think saying "I love mercurial" without at least referencing git, the more popular DCVS, will be less convincing since anyone can say, "Your analysis is incomplete - haven't you tried the most popular DCVS?"
Because I just dislike magic.
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Why would you search for your passwords at all, then? Wouldn't it make more sense to search for your email and username?

And for that matter, why do you have so few that you can easily google for them instead of generating random ones per site?

(Fun fact, googling for your e-mail address reveals a hash of your password on MtGox.)
60% plugged them in, don't you need autorun or need to execute something to make it effective?

Otherwise couldn't you plug it in, look at the directory and format it and not be exploited?
Dropbox is being sued for not being open and honest about it.
It's hard to go wrong with any of them, really. You should play through the original Zork trilogy. I really liked their mystery titles, especially "Deadline"; I seem to recall that you had a lot more interaction with the other characters in the game (i.e. the suspects). The "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" game was pretty good, too; even though I'd already read the books, some of the puzzles were tricky to figure out. I think I still have my "Don't Panic!" button that came in the box with that one.
Heck yes. It all started out with the Z-Machine, the first major virtual machine architecture. The most recent is Glulx. Glulx itself is here: http://eblong.com/zarf/glulx/ with a new interpreter here: http://eblong.com/zarf/glulx/quixe/

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I started thinking about this after hearing MtGox talk about how they were 'gradually migrating' users over to a new hashing scheme.
My father in law has a couple of times.

The first time -- he said "oh really? I guess I'll format the drive then" and they hung up.*

The second time -- we'd talked about the scam and he just yelled at them a bit then hung up.

* Gamers who download cracked software become really good at re-installing windows. :P
http://code.google.com/p/iphonefrotz/
The work that Andreea did is what your PR firm is supposed to do for you. Craft a pitch, identify targets, etc, etc. The el-cheapo PR distribution outfits are, as she found out, pretty much worthless.
Haiku hardware support is patchy. I doubt anything would have better coverage than linux on shitty hardware.

I find UI to be the driving force - you get a GUI that interacts with the filesystem much more directly than you can in any other GUI.

A problem I've found for workstation usage - the terminal has some problems. For example, I can't connect over ssh to a remote linux system and have GNU screen run there usably. There's a problem with the way colours are implemented. I understand they're workign on a tty rewrite before the beta but am unsure what the scope of that is, will it deal with this.

I received a haiku programming book from amazon just today. I'm interested in exploring this and in digging towards the OS API - seeing what they do differently to unix. Maybe I'll find cool mechanisms for prototyping that aren't available in linux but I'm skeptical there'll be much.
Is this really a chicken and egg kind of situation? Linux is more widely used because it's more popular because BigCorp supports it?
If so, i find the situation a bit depressing. After all, it should be the merits of a software that warrant it's success, not the other way around.
Forgot to say, also check out cschmidt's recommendation elsewhere in this thread for the Scott Adams adventure games. I played a bunch of those too, back in the day.
http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Introducing-RxJS-Reac...
I got a similar call in February. They tried to get me to download and run a remote support/screen sharing tool. But nothing about going to the event log.

When I quizzed the guy he said he was from Microsoft and they got an alert that my computer was running slowly.
Pivots are for the lucky. There's a better way.
I think I found an easter egg here -- try searching "my wife"
Wait, it's only 5 million years old? That seems ludicrously young given astronomical timescales.

I'm also curious how such a thing came to be. How did we get a binary system with a much smaller, and presumably much older star (since it is now a black hole), accompanied by a much larger, younger star?
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What I miss in modern games is... really fun, great jump n runs and fun adventures like "Monkey Island" seem to be a dieing or already dead genre.

It is all about MMOs, RTS, role playing, shooters and sports games nowadays.
Is there any info about the percentage of servers running FreeBSD?
I think FreeBSD provides better software management (ports/packages) than most linux distros, along with dtrace+ZFS.
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What's up with mesh?
Mario Marathon 4 raised over $91k in 4 days and not quite finished yet
Head to Georgetown. I lived there for a bit. It's a spectacular area.

There's a canal just south of M St. (the main street in Georgetown). Walk down to it. Specifically, walk down to it right by the Barnes and Noble store. You'll see a coffeeshop just past the canal, go in! It's nice. Take a walk down the canal and then eventually you'll get to some steps that will take you back up and out by the Dean and Deluca. Also a good coffeeshop there and you can sit out on the pavement there.

The basement of Pizza Paradiso has a spectacular hidden bar.

There's a French restaurant on M St. with a great "summer salad".

Enjoy!
Apple doesn't make money by mining my personal data - that's the difference.
That's a very simple example.
Then x
equals
y
divided by
2

How can anybody with a grade school level education not understand that? Are you sure the reviewer couldn't turn it into a sentence? Or perhaps the reviewer didn't feel that was the proper formatting for a sentence? I'm not sure how else you would include equations in a sentence, but if my reviewer didn't understant grade school level mathematics I'd be horrified that this person was in a position to be reviewing anything at all.
Where's the best place to post your resume?
...if you want to get a serious web developer job, and are sick of being spammed by recruiters about silly code monkey jobs (using Access and VB macros etc.)

Preferably a site that employers in the valley or bay area check.
On youtube, from a google tech talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRhbcDzbGSU
tl;dr There is plenty of advice out there on how to publicize your iPhone app, and all of it is worthless.
And for multiplayer versions of these, wherein players compete against each other or work together, there are still many MUDs and MUSHes online.
Would it help game servers to run it with Redis? Like say, a FPS or RTS server.

I'm not sure of the typical game server stack though.
Very good article: there is some good exemples on how you could use Redis.

We just added it to our stack for caching and storing sessions.

It's blazing fast !

We're now trying to use it for different other purposes; autocompletion, counting and ab testing.
I got one at my Uncles place. He only has Macs and they claimed to be from Microsoft so quite quickly I knew it was a scam.

They claimed his Windows computers were sending bad packets onto the Internet. I played along and asked how they were able to see all my bad packets. They claimed that Microsoft gave them direct access to the central Internet router so they could clean up the Internet.

After a bit of this (they wanted me to install a program) I got bored, yelled at them and they hung up on me.
Thank you for updating my knowledge, rdl.
Can't you just hash the hash using the new algo and then when they log in update to a "correct" hash?
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What is Constraint programming
Constraint programming is the programming technique which is used when relations among the variables needs to be developed when they had been designed in the form of constraints. Mainly constar9nts ar
Thats OK.

PS. Here is a presentation doing a loose comparison between Dancer & Flask called "Dancer for Python programmers" (http://www.slideshare.net/xSawyer/perl-dancer-for-python-pro...)
Relevant, focus on the positive outcome instead of a stupid futile private little war that only distracts people from doing great work with whichever freaking tool they needed to use in order to achieve it.
yeah, i know, but shitty SEO is not worth a separate 'submit' - also the overall theme of this thread is 'just another poor business decision / f*ck up by groupon' and this seems to fit the bill
The best idea for a serious web developer is to make a great web resume. That's what I did when I was tired of my last job and it landed me a really awesome job. You can take a look over here : stevengilligan.me and if you search online for "html5 resume" or "interactive resume" you will find tons of examples. Making it in web when you're a web developer shows some of your skills, which normal resumes (like LinkedIn and the like) doesn't do.

Edit : Of course, employers won't really "find" your resume online because they normally search on website that are made for job hunting, so you need to make sure to post the link to your web resume on your LinkedIn profile and other profiles so that employers can find it.
All the money raised from the Mario Marathon goes directly to the Child's Play Charity which is run by Penny Arcade. Child's Play gives video games, books, toys, etc to sick kids in Children's Hospitals world wide. Helping kids heal isn't just a medicine thing so donate a few bucks if you're able to. It's a great cause!
The difference between North America and Western Europe is quite striking. Is that really mostly due to HFCS?
Clearly there are numerous successful entrepreneurs without college degrees, but would they have been even better served with 4 years of college under their belt?
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For Perl developers - The debugger has been ported to PSGI/Plack - http://blog.plackperl.org/2011/05/miyagawaplack-middleware-i...
Creating crises where there aren't any
The PDP-Linux maker should be sued for copyright (and trademark) infringement. Buyers may believe they are getting RedHat Linux because that is what the cover is, but they are not getting Red Hat Linux.

Once again, the programmer's work is sacred and we need Linus's permission, but an artist who creates cover art did trivial work and deserves no protection.
Yes, that's exactly what you'd want to do
The major benchmark for browsers has been Internet Explorer, which has had 9 versions in 16 years. Compare that to Google Chrome, which is already on 14.0.803.0 (dev) / 13.0.782.32 (beta) / 12.0.742.100 (stable) after existing for less than three years. Mozilla is moving away from Microsoft's release model and towards Google's release model. While the current timeline for Firefox is a major release every three months, the target timeline is for a major release every six weeks.

Technology gets faster. Version numbers are arbitrary. Mozilla will be fine.
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It's about modeling specific physical processes in buildings. It's computer science in the sense that the paper focuses on efficient implementation. However, the audience is the indoor environment community.

The reviewer is a skilled experimenter, whom I enlisted to check my understanding of the physical processes. (By the way, this person knew what I was saying, just didn't like the way I said it. For our internal reviews, we tend to get pretty picky.)

It's definitely not for a general audience-- there'll probably be five people in the world who can use the paper directly (once the results are embedded in software, there'll probably be several hundred who will use it).
... of course it will work. And there's no compilation step involved, either, as I've never encountered a Debian package that was not a binary distribution (but maybe there are some, requiring build-essential? This package surely does not depend on build-essential).
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Yeah, but the problem is how to get it in front of people.
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I must have been mistaken for static files, for templates however it is the case:

https://github.com/defnull/bottle/blob/master/bottle.py#L263...

You can override it but you would have to do that for every call to `template` or by monkey patching `TEMPLATE_PATH`.
I can't speak for Ubuntu, but it's supposed to be reasonably stable and there is absolutely no reason to believe that package installation for this sort of software would differ between machines.
we should be extremely concerned about the prospect of companies being held liable not just for actual damages but theoretically possible and potentially non-economic yet non-existent damages

Well, perhaps if they are held liable for unreasonable sums, and that decision survives appeal, I'll be concerned. But nobody has held anything yet. The issue has gone to court.

Witch hunt? Angry mob? The issue is in court. That is the complete opposite of an angry mob.

How, exactly, are people supposed to seek redress if they have signed a contract with Dropbox, the contract was breached, and they were dissatisfied with the response? If they shouldn't go to court and file suit, what should they do? Bribe the czar's ministers? Recruit their relatives and start an old-fashioned Kentucky feud, complete with snipers and ambushes? Start an astroturf campaign of character assassination on Twitter?

And, again, this isn't some patent troll seeking a quick settlement.
Dose imply not have a more concrete, absolute meaning in mathematics though? Expressed with the => sign or something.
Interesting. You should also post this on reddit.com/r/fitness.
1911: "Edison's Frankenstein proves the simple fact that these things aren't 'film', they're shitty books."

I think at their best, video games do better than "shitty movies". If someone made a list of "Top 10 Moments" from film & video games, I'm betting Aeris' death at the hands of Sepiroth makes that list.
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One basically puts public domain information online in searchable form and gets massive traffic + ad revenue. Took a while to set up, very boring, but very easy to maintain. Note that being the first mover was very important, the #2 competitor for these niches gets about 20% of the traffic of the winner (and I assume 20% of the revenue).

Another one literally finds links for a particular political topic and sells the combination of links at something like $1000/month. I have no idea why they're so successful-their process consists of Googling said topic for a few hours a week and posting the links on their website-but somehow it works.

Like ThomasLangston mentioned, unsexy markets really work, because you're not competing with the best and the brightest...in fact, you're often not competing with anybody.
Magic can come to haunt you when you get stuck. For e.g. flask has thread locals where the request variable gets populated with the current request's context dynamically.

For the most part though, Flask is very magic free and the source is small enough to quickly figure out whats going on.
Installing development headers is an essential sysadmin skill. Any failed python extension install should make it clear which headers are missing, and you will want to search for the matching package, usually suffixed with "-devel" (at least on Debian and RedHat systems). So if you see an issue with libjpeg, you will look for libjpeg-devel, zlib -> zlib-devel, etc.
Glad you found the site. Your feedback is immensely helpful! We've been struggling a bit by being too general. I think I need to revise the language to be more focused for the tech-savvy parent segment that we're targeting as our early adopters.

Your feedback makes it clear that our current iteration lacks proper customer segment focus and doesn't sell the benefits well enough to compel you to take a chance on signing up.

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