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First off, bubbles can have many causes. Cheap, stupid credit, feeding off itself can be the main one. The government regulates credit; so ultimately it failed its duty if credit blows up. I'm just not sure if this is your point, or if you think prescribe to the "the market knows best, any problems are caused by the mere presence of the government, and wouldn't be caused in a free-market utopia" philosophy of Alan Greenspan, the guy who arguably caused the GFC. Government inaction, and government action both can cause damage. The government does have a part to play (IMO), and sometimes it does play it badly.

Which empty cities? The one in Inner Mongolia? That was the fault of the local government.

The one in Shenzhen, where the prices are really fucking high? There is no empty city in Shenzhen, because rich investors are buying up apartment at 10-40 times the median income. Crazy investors.

There's a huge demographic component to the bubble, too. There's a massive cohort of 20-30 year olds, and bugger-all 10-20 year olds. Because rich people have less children (and there's the One-Child thing, but even if there wasn't the numbers would be similar). Guess who is looking at buying a house? Guess what will happen to demand, in 10 years? That's what I'm talking about, when I say that demographics can have an effect.

Now, we come to interest rates and inflation. Artificially low interest rates in China, yes. They can buy gold, or invest, or buy houses; but due to the massive gains that houses have been showing (due to demographic effects, and income gains I think) they pile onto houses, causing a bubble. The government pushing construction projects MITIGATES this, though they could end up overshooting (yay, apartments for poor people).

During the Great Depression, the gold standard screwed things up, as the government had their hands tied and couldn't do QE. Did the government also cause the Great Depression, by sticking to the gold standard? No doubt, if you look to blame them for everything.
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For those cases where the people don't speak English, is it particularly difficult to learn the language when you're actually immersed in it on a daily basis?

Just hearing it all day every day won't make you suddenly magically start to understand it.

Of course, the difficulty level depends on the language. For example, many South-East Asian languages have tones and a highly bothersome writing system (especially compared to the 26 characters you're used to).

But no matter what foreign language you decide to learn, expect to make a huge effort.
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I got the 35MB by connecting to their MX and then looking at the value returned by the SIZE ESMTP extension:

mike@alfa:~$ telnet gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com 25
Trying 209.85.143.27...
Connected to gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mx.google.com ESMTP z4si16632304weq.140
EHLO mail.cardwellit.com
250-mx.google.com at your service, [178.79.145.246]
250-SIZE 35882577
250-8BITMIME
250-STARTTLS
250 ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES

Their MX states that it accepts messages up to 35882577 bytes in size, which is just under 35MB.
Because, according to the old paradigm, part of using email systems was the chore of deleting old messages. Much like it's perfectly natural to a lot of people to find a company's website, download a setup program and run it instead of running a package manager.
It did replace C/C++ in a meaningful way. I think there's probably more Java jobs out their than C/C++. Though C/C++ is still much better than Java in a lot of areas, no doubt. You can't write a good looking app, or get write a kernel.

Maybe "replace" is a bad word though. Java complimented C/C++, creating a whole new market.
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Just in time as I was planning to dive head first into node. Thanks!
You need many other web sites linking to your content and many people liking/+1'ing you on the social net.
Yes, and why no dogs. We used to have dogs in the office, it was fun.
>How does the new economic power of women affect the sex selection of infants?

// It was an article not a book. Isn't the purpose to raise in your mind these sorts of questions? He presents his experience to enlarge your outlook and enable you to address such questions in a more informed way. He's surely not attempting to offer an exhaustive insight into Indian culture just a snapshot from a long visit.
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I completely agree, in fact I've been trying to show people how well Haskell can encode imperative programs.

See https://github.com/DanielWaterworth/Musings/blob/master/why_... and https://github.com/DanielWaterworth/Musings/blob/master/comp...
I'm sure you aren't.

I just don't want to connect sites together. Would much rather create a separate account at each website like the good old days. Puzzles me why new sites are cannibalizing their potential like this because I can't be alone in this thinking.
I wanted to write a plugin for MW years ago and found it painful. There was no clean way to insert raw html into the page as far as I remember.

@Original poster: I think the book "The Architecture Of Open Source Applications" looks interesting, I haven't read it though.

http://www.aosabook.org/en/index.html
I read somewhere that you could extrapolate all the information about the universe from a tea cake. Somewhere...

Anyhoo - don't panic. I have my towel on the ready.
If you're going to say that then why not a juggernaut full of 32GB MicroSD cards.
This is a huge unexpected request, we'll definitely look more into it. Happy to talk more, just email us 01@helloworld.im
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That reminds me of an old adage from a former colleague back at H.P. He said start with the null program, and debug it until it does what you want. :)

I do concur with the author's point (3), where he recommends starting with the high-level syntactic forms and fill them out from the top down.

That has more uses than merely preventing syntax errors. I also use it for case-driven development. Often I'll write a routine with this sort of inner dialogue: OK, there are only two cases here. Let me write an "if" for that. Now I'm not quite sure what to do in case 2, so let me focus on the easier case 1. Now here I need to do a three-way comparison of these two strings. OK, the less-than and greater-than cases are easy -- I'll go ahead and do those. The equals case is a little harder. Tell ya what, I'll get to that one later. Meantime, let me go back and address the top-level case 2, because I think I have a bead on that one now.

That sort of thing. And of course, as I go, I develop a test input for each case I've developed.

Also, in those postponed cases, I like to insert a "die" or "abort". That way when I develop a new test input for it, I'll know I'm hitting it because the program will die. Then I can punch into that case and make it handle my new test scenario. I know when I'm done because the code doesn't say "die" anymore -- except when I really do want to assert the impossibility of a certain condition.
From the article:

>The color subcarrier is a signal with a frequency of 3.579545 MHz.

So he explained how one choice depend on another seemingly arbitrary choice but didn't follow up the branch ... anyone want to do one better and explain why this frequency was chosen? Is it a multiplier of how fast Tesla's dog chased it's tail?
The Flask (http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/) Python Web framework is designed on best practices. It and the other Pocoo projects (http://www.pocoo.org/) are exceptional.
The fannkuch benchmark is one where Go beats Java, and has a hugely better memory usage. But these benchmarks are highly suspect (they dropped LauJIT recentl despite it being the fastest dynamic language).

C does not have a standard threading library, which is why there is no benchmark.

Plan 9 did not have a lot of funding. Java did.
Nice read. I assumed this is how massive RTS's handled their multiplayer but now I know for sure.
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> But no matter what foreign language you decide to learn, expect to make a huge effort.

Haha, I guess this can't really compare to a few years of high school Spanish (not that I really learned anything from that either).
In this is truly Google's intention, then they are probably already working on an interoperability platform and even if Facebook wouldn't join them, new social networks would find it an incredibly compelling platform to join. Just think of all the marketing opportunities.
> GNI per person in Australia is ~$42k (assume it is similar for USA). GNI per person here is $650. So you live like a king.

Yeah, US is $46k according to Google. Can you afford a chef, maid, and chauffeur? That would be absolutely awesome! (Sorry if I sound a little too giddy; I come from a lower middle class, rural background, and the thought of doing software development while living like a king in a faraway tropical paradise sounds absolutely magical.)

> btw: I don't think you'd ever get away with pretending to be located in America.

Why is this (honest question, I really don't know much about freelancing yet)? The time difference? For phone calls, I'd use Skype to get an American number I could give clients, and my parents would have no problems scanning & emailing any documents that might arrive in the snail mail.
What constitutes as a sale for an online content based business?
I understand that a sale must come first in any business.

For an online content based business... say like AOL and online magazines like Smashing Magazine, Forbes, etc - what constitutes as a sale?

With a physical product - when it's sold (duh)

I know that they rely on advertising - but I'm fuzzy as to where the actual sale takes place. Is it upon visiting the page? Clicking on an ad? Subscription?
it's worse than that: among my non technical friends email is used only for "serious stuff" as talking with teachers (or students, for my friends who teach) and for work.
For the others facebook messages have supplanted email.

I am obviously not sure this is a global trend, but I keep using the test "who did you receive an email from, recently, who isn't work or a fellow technical person?".
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> I've tried to learn Chinese and (a little bit of) Khmer. Khmer is much easier than Chinese, you'll pick up lots. But it's not essential.

Is Chinese used there as well, or was that just a hobby? According to Wikipedia, it looks like Khmer, unlike most SE Asian nations, is not tonal. That'd make things a lot easier for a tone deaf person like me.

> It is VERY social, unlike any other place I've lived. Don't worry, the local girls will love you.

What about the political climate? Is it less oppressive than China, or about the same or worse?
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All due respect, you could've chosen a better source for your bit of history than an article that uses a book by the name "The Homeopathic Revolution: Why Famous People and Cultural Heroes Choose Homeopathy" as its only source.
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Lets not turn a class issue into a racial issue, while the stats are true, that $1 of white household wealth falls to very few white families (primarily the Goldmans, Sachs, Morgans, Bushes, etc). In 2008 the US decided that those that pay tax (those who work) should bail out those who do not (those who are rich).

Why not have a trickle up effect where the gov't lets people stay in their homes, and tells the banks to eat it, and folds them up because they didn't meet their capital requirements.

Why should we let real people go bankrupt and bail out fictional entities. If there is money for JP Morgan, AIG and GS there is money for the people mentioned in the article. Open up the Fed Discount Window to real people and close it to the banksters.
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Hard to get to the text but good ideas once you do.
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Note: comparing user bases while still in limited release? Not going to lead to any decent conclusions.
According to README, quicklisp installation is available for wuwei.

https://github.com/mtravers/wuwei/blob/master/README.md
If you just want to target code.google.com, they already offer Atom feeds of project issues.
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Yeah, email is now the snail-mail of the mid-2000s.
That's what I mean, Java didn't replace C++, it found its own market. Thus there is little point in porting everything (for appropriate values of everything) to Java (or JavaScript); you aren't gonna need it there.
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There is already a 44 comment thread on this on the front page.
Should generate some debates, depending on if you're from the static/dynamic typing, IDE vs. wetware, TDD or not, etc camps.

3. If you use IDE's or vim/textmate/emacs and a decent language plugin, you'll argue the IDE should match braces and insert skeletal control structures.

5. Self-contained function, so no side effects, isn't that part of the definition of functional purity in them "academic languages" (heh)?

6. How do you define edge and corner cases? Is there something like QuickCheck for your dev environment?
I prefer a different trickle up effect. Instead of letting irresponsible home buyers remain in their homes, why not redistribute those homes to responsible renters who wanted to buy but couldn't afford at bubble prices?

This helps the same number of people, but avoids the moral hazard that your scheme creates.
Terrestial TV in the Netherlands completed the digital transition in 2006 apparently:

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

Same article says though that 90% of the Netherlands uses cable TV and that’s mostly still analogue (guess that’s how he gets Teletext?)
They do! In fact, their stream stories used to allow <fb:pronoun /> tags so that when an app published something, you didn't need to refer to him/her as "them". But that changed about a year ago, so now facebook is a major paragon in familiarizing folks with the word "their" being singular.
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Because you aren't actually in America.
Just like Chrome.
Yes, I already gleaned that much. My question is how a client I would only communicate with over the internet and/or phone could possibly know this.
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Misleading statistic alert: Super rich people happen to be white.

Come on folks, something usable in a statistic that doesn't just make us groan.
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nmap is too aggressive. It's a prelude to actual hacking attempts and labeled by IDS systems as such. Don't use it for this or you may end up in legal trouble.
Not quite accurate, read the article:

"By 2009, the median net worth for white households had fallen 24 percent to $97,860; the median black net worth had fallen 83 percent to $2,170"

That's MEDIAN, not AVERAGE. Average is even worse, as you say drawn up by the few very wealthy. But with median, the wealth disparity is already astounding. It's a racial issue. We can debate the reasons, but the fact remains. Middle class and even lower class white households still have much more wealth on average than their black counterparts in the same income group.
Learn the difference between median and average. It will change your life. :-)
>They can not just stop building them, because there are literally tens of millions of people getting their income from constructing those buildings.

Don't you see why this is obviously disastrous? There are so many analogies that can be drawn -- that I'm not even going to try. If you don't see why this is obviously ridiculous then read some stuff about the invisible hand of the market (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_hand). It is only a valid point from the narrow perspective of the workers involved and the employers of those workers selling their services.
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Reading it now; excellent introduction! I'm what you might call an "experienced developer" - I've been writing code since I was a little kid typing in Basic games to an Apple II - but I still find this back-to-the-basics approach more helpful than the usual high-level intro.

Thanks!
The moral hazard of a bank bailout, protecting people against being shot in the street for losing all of someone savings, the lying on loan applications encouraged by bank officers, the promises of low fixed rate permanent loans/re-fi that never materialized, the shoddily done foreclosure apps, the false bundling of securities?

Sounds like "letting judges adjust the principle on mortgages" is step one to avoiding that moral hazard. Hopefully we don't have people feeling strongly enough about moral hazard that they shoot the guys who sold the "safe" investments in Mortgage backed securities.
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Yup. The concept of the median and percentiles is flabbergasting to people who've not heard of averages other than the mean.
had experience very similar to the demigod one in spring rts (an open source rts engine). took two days with a replay in hand - and i don't mean it in a bad way, we didn't use a custom allocator so i could use the windows debug heap calls.
> > btw: I don't think you'd ever get away with pretending to be located in America.

If you are an American citizen, you have an obligation to pay income tax on your earnings. The same goes for many countries.
Excellent recommendation, I saw it come up on HackerNews, a while back. I think these micro web frameworks are a great way for developers to explore and experiment with coding concepts. I guess we should also mention the Ruby Sinatra project: https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra
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No, the marching cubes algorithm has a very specific meaning, because it's patented. It builds a 3D surface from a 3D grid (each grid cell is either 'filled' or 'empty').
Interesting I think I'll put it on my wish list, thanks.
mah... the second half is difficult to read IMHO
I made a Safari extension that hides the notification area on www.google.com too.

https://github.com/benatkin/quietgsearch

Like the google one, it didn't involve writing any JavaScript. I just had to specify the name of the css file in the metadata.

Google tries to get developers to put their extensions, no matter how trivial, in the Chrome Web Store. Apple, on the other hand, requires developers to sign up for the Safari Developer Program, get a digital certificate, and sign their extensions. Apple does have a Safari Extension Gallery, but their approach is different:

> Safari Developer Program members can submit their Safari extensions to be considered for the Safari Extensions Gallery.
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I think it would be great if there was a way to easily capture my "most common error categories".

Years ago I got bit a couple of times by assignment instead of comparison errors (i.e. if(x = 1) instead of if(x == 1))

I noticed a pattern and made a conscious to always put the variable last in comparisons, so for years I have written if(1==x) so that the compile would fail if I wrote if(1=x).

Having a way to see my most common errors would give the opportunity to look for similar error-proofing measures.
Are you sure you didn't confuse it with Yelp's refusal of $550m buyout or social network MySpace sale that created a loss of $550m?
Well, the crazy thing is that the 83 percent drop would suggest that the median black net worth pre-2009 would be ~$5000.
You are probably looking for this, as linked from the Wikipedia page on "Cost per Mille (CPM)":

http://tlvmedia.com/pdf/CPM_CPC_CPA_dCPM.pdf

The short answer is "it depends". Sometimes sites get paid when anyone visits the page (CPM). Sometimes sites get paid when someone clicks on the ad (CPC). Sometimes sites get paid only when someone clicks through the ad and does something on the other end, like sign up for a service.

So you're not fuzzy at all. The world is fuzzy, and all of your answers are sometimes true.

Incidentally, all questions of timing become complicated if you look closely enough. Talk to an accountant and you will find that determining "when a physical product is sold" is by no means as easy as you think. Do you count the sale when the product is ordered, when the credit card is charged, when the check arrives in the mail, when the product ships, when the product is received, when the 30-day guarantee period has expired and you know it isn't coming back? What if the customer orders a monthly subscription ("one case of wine per month for the next 12 months"); do you count the revenue when the subscription starts, when it ends, or a little at a time? When a customer does return a product for some reason, do you un-count the revenue that you counted before? What if you've issued a quarterly report in the meantime? Do you owe taxes on the revenue that you collected in June but must now refund in July, and when are those taxes due, and do you pay the June rates or the (perhaps different) July rates?
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There are three cogs in a triangle. They couldn't move. That's all the explanation I can come up with - artistically I love the image.
I've read the guide a few weeks ago, and it's absolutely great! I certainly learned a lot, and it saved me a lot of time Googling for answers.
I think it would be a great addition to the book to discuss some of the frameworks that take Node.js to the next level: MVC (Express?), debugging, etc., and provide some examples. How does the author actually go about doing real-world projects? (I'm thinking along the lines of the Manning books that not only introduce a language, but also discuss plugins, etc)

As a Java developer, I cannot imagine writing a website with "pure" Java vs. using a framework such as Struts 2, for example.
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The only time Apple ever lost the plot was when it put the M.B.A.s in charge.

Tim Cook runs Apple's operations, is widely credited as a supply chain genius, and has been acting CEO of the company since Jobs started his latest medical leave. He received an MBA from Duke.
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