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Well that's definitely not only for benchmarks. Whenever you have animations that use JS you will benefit from this approach.
And private profiles will be deleted. You are getting down voted because you are making this out to be a bigger issue than it is.
Phew. Thought this was going to be another explanation of the movie Primer using git.
Mr. Jobs you amaze me. It's taken a while but you've buried those who depend on copier machines for product development.

What would the world look like today if all of the developers who had Windows 95 machines had Next boxes and software instead?
Well, the problem here is that C using gems are going to often be memory corruptingly buggy until and unless either the gem source is updated to declare the proper parts volatile or Ruby's own C API is reworked to evolve this bug out of existence and then gems would have to be updated to use the API anyway.

Both problems are hard and the current state of affairs is apparently some random amount of the time we'll get memory corruption bugs.
Really glad to see this. Math is an all-too-often underrated tool, but studying it like this after uni wouldn't even occur to most people.
From the perspective of that topic IMHO it would be better to 1) use Postresql 2) use tests that are more complex than random gets/puts by key, i.e. a few consecutive updates that modify intersecting sets of indexes.
Maybe they're targeting the kind of people who stayed awake when PG talked about LISP.
Or just .onion using Tor.
Quite the opposite in fact. MS has been rather blunt that they haven't been pleased with Linux's use of what they believed was patented technology and that they'd take action. IMO, the real question is what took them so long, since the first threats were made years ago.

With that said MS has never threatened anything beyond Linux, at least that I can recall. Linux appears to have a special place in their heart.
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Well, that won't affect me, because I'm a paying google apps user, which makes me a second class citizen without a profile. Good-oh.
It appears that there is no specific prohibition against polycarbonate windshields for cars. The exemption in this case is required because the polycarbonate windshields that Terrafugia currently uses do not pass the required abrasion tests: basically, they scratch too easily and are too prone to reduced visibility.

Terrafugia requested the exemption because it is still searching for a vendor that passes the compliance tests and meets the vehicle's unique requirements. Apparently, vehicles with the current windshields will be required to undergo regular and frequent inspection and repair.

See the page numbered 38273 in the PDF:

http://www.terrafugia.com/pdf/2011-16222_NHTSA_EXEMPTION_GRA...
After #150 seems to be normal again.
It's worse than that. We don't actually know where it occurs. There are clearly some gems where it does, but it could also be occurring elsewhere in the VM.

Just figuring this out is a non-trivial project.
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They were agile before it was cool to be agile.

Which turned out to be arrogant, stupid and wrong.
In order to use the Vehicle as a plane you still need to have at least a sport pilot license - which is kind of like a restricted pilots license. In order to get your sport license you need to learn, and are tested on, the airspace limitations that apply to all pilots. Those rules effectively stipulate* that you can't fly over a large portion of DC, including the White House, and should not fly or loiter anywhere near power plants, prisons, etc...

If you break those rules, even innocently, the FAA can come down hard on you by revoking your license and fining you thousands of dollars. Depending on how sensitive the area is and how suspicious you appear they can send other aircraft to your location and (in the case of the DC FRZ) potentially shoot you down. Once you've been indoctrinated into the system you learn to be extremely aware of where you are, what is nearby, and to stay away from sensitive areas.

*There are ways, at least for private pilots, to legally fly over a lot of restricted areas but it's much easier to just fly around them or not bother.
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Thanks for the self-reply. It allowed me to downvote you twice!
Yes. Basically the US can only afford to have so many stupid rules, because they are so productive.
being actively developed, though.

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/07/google-tests-google...
I like the approach taken in this thread : http://lesswrong.com/lw/3gu/the_best_textbooks_on_every_subj...

One of the rules the poster imposed was for the participants to name the other books they've read on the subject and explain why they thought their chosen textbook was superior.
Does this means if I own a blogspot blog, the URL will change to a google plus domain? I truly hope that ain't the case...
You should see Joe's rants on Erlang too. Not as bad as MRI but there are plenty of things to gripe about in beam.
How about Intel?
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And the anomolous ones seem to be getting pushed down the stack (the problem ones start at about 70 now) so it should work itself out of the system.But it would be interesting to know what went wrong.

The oldest was about 3.5 years old!:

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With the way things are going, I am expecting .ly to be in U.S. jurisdiction before long...
Which is a division of Google.
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They don't mention one of the main reasons they have such a huge market share/monopoly and a still shitty product: they're litigious bastards who have tons of inane patents for things like buttons and the like. They've sued the hell out of their main competitor D2L and the courts ruled against them and a lot of their patents across the board.
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Both OAG and Innovata provide a dump of all possible flight schedules for the next few months (which includes multiple legs and airlines). It is trivial to add the multiple day/airport feature: I've had a vanilla mysql install (on a P4 with a 1gig ram - my dev machine, sadly) return exactly the sort of stuff you mentioned in less than 100ms, so I'm sure the computational complexity is pretty irrelevant at Google's scale.
That reminds me of Geek Code:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Geekcode

Also, it would be great if HN allowed articles and comments to be tagged.
IE 4 was better than Netscape 4, but the average user - the vast majority of not-terribly-technical sorts - goes with whatever's on the computer to begin with. Microsoft probably could have won the browser war (albeit much later, and less completely) simply with bundling a not-quite-as-good-as-Netscape browser.
Intel fabs chips here. They assemble electronics in China.

Edit: And that's assuming that they assemble electronics at all, which I wouldn't bet on.
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I haven't gotten in yet either. My gmail is in my profile if some blessed, kind soul wants to send me an invite.
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Is any of that data free/cheap for experimentation?
37signals blog (Signal vs Noise) precedes Basecamp by a couple of years, their first post is from December 2002, http://37signals.com/svn/archives/000001.php. It was a pretty popular blog by the time they launched Basecamp.

Joel on Software precedes FogBugz, if memory serves me well. StackOverflow precedes Coding Horror, of course. The lesson here is that building a reputation comes very handy when creating web apps.
Hey, this is good. And it inspired the guy to go deeper into some of the subjects!

Sometimes, a problem is that people only go to sponge learning...and then stop. As a professor of my friend's said...people are getting better and better at being able to talk about something for five minutes...then that's it. Thanks to wikipedia, lots of people can seem smart, but not actually understand something in depth.

I find XKCD also to blame for part of this. If I had a dollar for every time someone made a joke about the Axiom of Choice...
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I'm surprised nobody mentioned a Thinkpad! I code in vim and the trackpoint is awesome for the few blasphemous times I have to use the mouse.
I did the exact thing with Slashdot, when I first got on the Internet in '98. And I'd read Linux Journal although much of that was over my head as well.

But slowly you learn, and get to know the stuff, and then it gets boring and so you check out something else you know little about. That's what happens to me.

I think you're on to a good strategy alex.
Blackboard is one of the crappiest products i've used at school. Thank goodness I didn't have to put up with it for more than a couple of semesters before my school changed out to a different product to manage grades/courses etc. Administrative stuff like grades, assignments, etc. with Blackboard was a mind numbing exercise. One would need the patience of a monk to deal with it. The UX still looked like it was 1991 and nobody liked to use it, students and instructors alike!

I don't know how many startups and companies have been stopped in their path to improve service and experience by these litigious patent enforcing jackholes.
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How does it compare to Model M keyboards? Or the recent editions of those keyboards (see more: http://jseliger.com/2008/05/07/product-review-unicomp-custom... )?
I was in elementary school and a guy came in for "Career Day" to speak with the five of us who were interested in computing. He brought a NeXT computer (I have no idea which one), with some rectangular cartridge (must have been the magneto-optical media). He explained why it was such a fantastic machine, and proceeded to spend the allotted 30 minutes attempting to boot it.

I have no idea who this guy was or what he did for a living, but it was my very first experience watching a demo go horribly wrong. I have to say, that event influenced me in over-preparing for any sort of demo. I don't remember the details, but I remembered that it was NeXT, and I remembered that it didn't boot. (OK, I'll admit that I partly remembered the name because the capital XT reminded me of my clunky IBM PC XT clone I had at home).
I'd rather see a technical analysis of Erlang that didn't read like it was written by Kanye West and sponsored by Axe Body Spray.
I'd rather think it was just premature.

If they had started to gain traction that factory would have been a significant competitive advantage for them. Further, I think that it could have helped them lower prices even more think, sub $1500 workstations.
A co-founder of the company I did the work for had a few contacts in both companies, so we were able to secure the data through them. It definitely isn't publicly available, but I imagine if you talked to a regional representative at either company, you could get them to generate a sample data dump for you (a gigantic CSV file, for example)

Kayak used to have a free API, but they shut it down "because of constly misuse". I'm not aware of any other service that's targeted at individual developers - most of these APIs are intended for huge companies with correspondingly deep pockets.
:( I once owned 2 next cubes with matching printers. Gave them away many years ago when I started downsizing. I miss them more than some ex-girlfriends :)
who did the musical score? John Williams ?
Indeed. To me this sounds very much of a piece with any of the routine bullshit "stragetic positioning" and "synergistic realignments" that typical brain-dead mega-corps do all the time. Even today nobody asks where to find the nearest FedEx Office, they want to know where a Kinko's is, years after the brand has allegedly been killed.

Joel Spolsky had it nailed the best, these sorts of moves are a "strategy tax" on big companies.
I've read both of those links in the past, thanks. And while, yes, "idiomatic" (read: terse and annoying) code is in use in all those areas, I don't have to see it.

Code should be pleasant to read wherever possible. That simply is not, to my mind, pleasant to read. It's one step away from Perl line noise (which I avoid, too). You may disagree with this, and that's fine--different strokes for different folks. I have no interest in seeing it in code I have to maintain; you might, and that's OK by me.

(To be fair, however, I have little interest in working with or, god forbid, maintaining C or C++ code under any circumstances. They press the buttons of a group of developers to which I don't belong.)
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Thanks for the pointer. My new $job uses mysql and Sequel Pro looks like a great mysql tool. Bonus points for being open source!
registers are scanned, too. the bug is not that the ref is in a register. the bug is that there are no refs anywhere. not on the stack and not in any register.
If they ever ship, I expect the market to be squarely in the "playthings-for-the-wealthy" category.

This thing just does not solve any real problem other than gadget-lust.
Time to once more point out that we are simply running out of unskilled/low-skilled labor. And even in the high-skills environment, there's only so much.

That is not the only problem, for sure - the economy certainly is bad. But at some point, we will need to acknowledge that there is simply not enough work to keep everybody gainfully employed 40+ hours a week. And the lower the skill level, the less work there is that can't be automated.

This is a problem that's looming for a long time - at least since Drucker talked about the Knowledge Economy (in 1966!) the writing has been on the wall.

We've been failing to acknowledge that ever since, since it's considered classist/elitist to point out the problem.
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The quote didn't specify electronics and consumer products.
I hate Unity too, it's really ugly. I just disabled it - and now Ubuntu looks nice again :)
There were NeXT slabs that were available from salvage circa 1998. They were likely the machines in the computing lab in Wells Hall, next to the language lab. There were also a half dozen color turbo NeXT stations in Holmes Hall.

Those machines were some of the nicest to work on Mathematica with. We also had installed the ISCA BBS client on those machines, before the remote telnet access was turned off.

When were you at Michigan State?
Definitely. I would love it if my Reader shared items made their way into G+ as shares.
Perhaps you should write that, then.
I actually prefer the feel and sound of the NeXT keyboard over the model M. Though I much prefer the layout of the model M to the NeXT. Coding was a pain on the NeXT keyboard - no pageup/dn home/end keys. But it was fantastic for writing papers and working with mathematica, frame, etc.
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Sure, but it reinforces the notion that you can't put too much faith in a startup sticking it out.

Normally that's because people think they might go bust and you'll lose that thing you got used to having. It also applies to when a startup gets acquired and the service is then shut down. Folks who've been stung by this once might think twice before using/buying stuff from a small company in future.
Plus, they subcontract their manufacturing to other companies, ASUS and Foxconn among others.
Looking at the graph, it looks to be a very, very small number. Look back a few weeks on the graph at what likely is a very small number- Maybe only 100 or so visit a day.
I wonder how that plant compares to electronics plants Tory. Would it still seem up to date or would it be hopelessly outdated.
I agree that the GP's assertion is unsubstantiated, depends on a "common-sense" assertion that my well be false, and even if true is probably irrelevant.

Even IF people learn faster when younger (as the GP asserts), older people have more existing knowledge and experience. Given equal interest and dedication in learning some New Thing (such as internet law issues), and a superior starting point (such as knowledge and experience about other law issues, other social issues, and past changes in the structure of society), I would expect the older person to achieve mastery of the New Thing sooner, or more deeply, or both.

(In some cases, of course, greater experience means more unlearning to do; I wildly speculate that the relevance of this is very very poorly understood, both over- and under-estimated.)
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Can anybody point me to the best resources to get started with Amazon Web Services and MongoDB besides the user guides?

Is there a Python framework that works with MongoDB seamlessly as far as support for libraries/modules go?

Thanks.
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This would be funny if it made any sense and if it wasn't a ripoff of an old Merlin Mann tweet about DHH.
I interviewed 35 founders for my book, "Startups Open Sourced". Ask me anything.
Sponge learning is awesome, but you must always remember to act upon it. Knowing that CoffeeScript is hot in the web dev scene is great, but in the end it amounts to little more than industry gossip.

True understanding comes from actually trying to do it yourself, technologies stop being buzzwords and they become tools.

That said, kudos to the OP for trying to Learn Python the Hard Way!
What specifically are the IP issues that Android has? I looked in the article but there was only a passing mention of some claims in a link. A couple of the claims looked like they were about long and short filenames. If that's true then software patents are truly evil and should be abolished yesterday. :/
My uncle did some electrical work for NeXT when they were first setting up, and he said he knew they were going to fail. They'd just finished putting in a very expensive new hardwood floor, and the guy in charge of design came in and said "it's going the wrong way- rip it out and do it right."
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Misleading headline. The DOT only approved one of the components, not the whole thing.
Totally. Figuring out what to spend time on is definitely one of the hardest parts since there's so much out there. But reading and hacking on 4 chapters of the django book in a day taught me more than reading for a year.
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Of course it worked out, half the people here run the latest version of NeXTStep on their phones and pads, another half run it on their desktops, and NeXT is considered the most successful contemporary computer company and is dominating the industry in innovation, all possible because of the AppKit and FoundationKit and the various NS kit APIs that came since then. They even acquired their closest rival, rebranded according to their trademark, and then deep sixed the rivals products, replacing them with their own.
Isn't that always the funny part of life? Whenever I have hack parties with my friends, I always end up learning everything at like 2:00 AM when we finally start in earnest. ;)
I understand that, in fact I mentioned that the aspect of zooming was completely ignored in my first post, and I found it ironic that it was.

But anyway, lets forget about that fact for now. If you need to zoom in 400-800x on some pixels to even be able to spot the differences, then in practical terms there are no differences. You can't expect your typical visitor to sit in front of the monitor with a magnifying glass sweating at your pixel perfect buttons. Honestly, no one is going to give it much more than a glance, so attention to detail you can hardly spot with the naked eye is almost completely pointless.

Now to come back to my main point: what isn't pointless is maintaining quality when zooming in with the browser. This is something I often do myself when I'm too lazy to put my contacts in to just casually browse the web. Just about every website looks like a mess of blurry/pixelated crap when you do that. Had he just went with the css3 approach, the quality at non standard zoom levels would far outweigh the minuscule pixel details at normal zoom levels between the css3 and photoshop versions.

Anyway, that's all I really wanted to say. Had the point been that CSS3 styling was still iffy with older browsers being around and the photoshop button was superior for that reason, I wouldn't have said anything. But to dismiss it based on some differences in pixelation you wouldn't even spot normally, while ignoring that if you had actually zoomed in the browser there would be no pixelation at all with the "inferior" css3 version, was just too much.
I'm right there with you. I have been an avid reader of HN for going on 2 years now. While I can't sit down and develop killer software from scratch, I am slowly learning more and more about technology and programming, and a lot of it is thanks to the great HN community.

I just started ready the updated edition of Learn Python The Hard way, and really enjoy it. It's the first book on programming that I have read that throws you right into the thick of things, get's you started writing code from the outset. Feel free to send me a message or email me if you want to bounce and ideas off of each other with Python or anything else, I get the impression we are both starting off on the same page. Should be a fun adventure!
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I was going to suggest this as well. Each resource can be a class that has a function defined for each method.
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At least one startup's doing just fine vs. Blackboard. Instructure Canvas just closed series B, is CEO'd by former Mozy founder and is LMS of choice for a growing number of schools (and soon to be @ Auburn if twitter's to be believed).

They avoid litigation (apparently) by open-sourcing their stack and charging for hosting/integration. Rails-based goodness.

[not affiliated - but was just identifying LMS options for a client]