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I've seen the name Cherry, but I didn't realize they offered that kind of a product. I'll have a look -- thanks!

P.S. Actually, for a desktop system, I've recently been using a Kensington Ci73. The keyswitches aren't as good as I'd like, but they're better than many. Also an inexpensive unit.

I've thought about getting a Thinkpad (now Lenovo) detachable keyboard, but the reviews weren't positive enough to make me "push the button", as it were. It appears to glitch with speedy typing. Also, it has one of those shelves, although the 2nd revision while dropping the integrated touchpad may (or may not) have beaten the shelf back to a more manageable size.

For the price, and with the reported glitches, I'd want to try one hands-on, before purchasing. Though I may change my mind on that.

http://www.amazon.com/Kensington-Keyboard-Profile-Design-K64...

http://www.amazon.com/ThinkPad-USB-Keyboard-with-TrackPoint/...

http://www.amazon.com/IBM-Integrated-Point-Device-40K5372/dp...
That's a pretty dishonest link there. The question/answer you linked isn't the same question posed.

When the question as originally posed is asked to Alpha, it barfs with no answer:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Who+was+the+U.S.+Presid...

One could argue that the leap from form one to form two of the question is trivial (and it is for a thinking human), but if such a thing were so trivial for a machine then why doesn't Alpha do it? And if Alpha doesn't do it, what makes you think a random spambot will be capable of doing it?
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What's the release roadmap and dates for 5.4?
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Because ikiwiki has editing via a web ui (less is more), because fugitive does not "support" git but embraces it and integrates within its workflow[1], and because it's written by me ;-).

Edit: [1] by that I mean that once you have used fugitive to setup your repository, you don't need fugitive anymore, you just use git as usual.
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Yep, there's a link to fugitive.vim on fugitive's gitorious page for this reason.
The fancy animated graphs didn't survive cleanup.
All else aside, being rude to service staff because you dislike the business they work for is utterly inexcusable.
I like what he says very much. Perhaps his title is a bit incendiary, but the principles he writes on are very lucid, and I found myself thinking hard about them.
Excellent read.
> He never seems to acknowledge that technologies like virtualization actually work to create independent environments.

This is because they don't.

Environments can be independent in the information-security sense (what you and others confuse with full conceptual independence) without being independent in the propagation-of-brokenness sense. Easy example: your power supply.

Give me, say, a Common Lisp (rather low bar!) environment which is entirely uninfluenced by the brokenness of x86. [1] Then we'll talk about independence of layers.

When the last idiot talking about static languages being "inherently efficient" has vanished, then we'll talk about independence of layers.

--

[1] For instance: the fact that you need threads at all. On a dataflow architecture, threads and their attendant idiocies - locking, race conditions, etc. are forgotten like a bad dream.
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It's not a matter of SQL vs. NoSQL. They are complementary.

The fact of the matter is, there are some components of systems for which Redis, Riak, etc may be better suited than SQL in the long term. Starting out, keeping everything in SQL provides less friction, but as time goes on it may be necessary to scale the component separately from typical relational data storage, and that's the point at which these switches are evaluated. These companies would be replacing SQL only in these components — not across the board.

The myth of a silver bullet datastore solution is just that: a myth. Different data stores have different strengths and weaknesses and it becomes necessary to mix and match at scale.

To quote Benjamin Black: "Scale is pain, princess. Anyone who tells you different is selling something."
My big complaint about arrays wasn't declaring them. It was the endless array functions you have to use afterwards.

array_push

array_pop

array_slice

array_shift

array_unshift

array_map

array_key_exists

It kind of feels like they missed the point, saving 5 characters when you declare the array once, ignoring all of the other operations you do afterwards.

And this RFC, simple as it is, took 3.5 years to come to fruition.
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While I agree with your suggestion of reading books (which is IMHO in general a good advice), I have to sort of disagree with your description of a PhD: The goal of getting a PhD at least in science, technology, engineering and mathematics is to autonomously advance the state-of-the-art of any chosen field, to contribute new knowledge to humanity without a supervisor giving directions.

Now, the process of advancing the state-of-the-art is unusually hard and there exists a good deal of very good write-ups of the intricacies involved (such as "So long and thanks for the PhD") which requires people to be driven and focused. But, at the same time, before actually starting the research that gets them their PhDs, gradute students spend time in advanced courses and later on read lots of research papers and additional textbooks. This is an invaluable process of unsupervised learning (hence the first paragraph), and I think that getting a PhD also gives you the abilities and experience to autonomously go from zero knowledge in an area to contributing new knowledge by reading. Of course, studying at a university saves you a lot of time, because somebody else--the professor--who is already very knowledgeable in the target area has already broken down his knowledge in edible--and ideally pedagogically-sound--pieces ready to be sucked up. But if time is not of the essence, and since you are already a driven and focused person, you should be able to do it by yourself.

So this was (quite unexpectedly) rather long, a more detailed discussion and probably a very good book to read for anybody can be found in: Mortimer Jerome Adler's wonderful "How to read a book". A brief summary for tl;dr reasons: I love and totally support your reading advice, but since the PhD experience enables you to work your way through literature in unknown territory, it might very well be worth the effort.
Feel free to google Great Zimbabwe, Old Ghana, Mwene Mutapa or Timbuktu. I could give you a tonne of other examples but your ignorance, I fear, is incurable. All the same, Rome != Europe, and Africa is not a fucking city. And how - what I presume to be a - German, interprets the feats of a culture whose development is only remotely connected to his own, is something beyond my African capacity to comprehend.
Philosophy certainly got left behind as science marched into the forefront. We certainly don't live in a age when one could be a world class mathematician, physicist, and philosopher at the same time. Who is the greatest contemporary philosopher that comes to mind?

I find it ironic that this debate is taking place at UNLV because it sort of mirrors the way colleges push certain sports. Likewise with scholarship it's all about the professors who can crank out successful grant applications and co-author paper of the highest quality or expertly exploit gullible grad students.
Hm, I want to do --install-remote on my server but I am getting:

There's already a git repository here, aborting install.

Why? I already have my site in a git repo, I want to install fugitive onto it instead of a new one? :)
Not everyone listens to the kind of "pop music" that doesn't stand up to repeated listening.
Are the images turned off by default? I can't seem to load any images.
The author begins by accurately portraying the general ignorance of the study of philosophy, and how this attitude greatly diminishes the perceived value of such studies.

I was in agreement until the post took a sharp turn into veiled conspiracies, where those in authority are seemingly fully aware of how incompetent or corrupt authority can be undermined by questions, and actively seek to stamp out independent thought.

I find myself even less in agreement when he uses Socrates as an example.

Socrates was not killed because of his teachings. He was killed because he was a callous man who held little regard for the egoes he crushed by speaking truth bereft of tact, and in doing so made many enemies. The actual charges used against him were the same sort of trumped up charges you commonly see used to railroad a political enemy. Indeed, he was able to fully demonstrate that Meletus has no real evidence against him, but when you've offended the powerful who have influence over the proceedings, you have little hope of escaping the noose.

When it comes down to it, Occam's Razor makes for an effective tool. Is this a great conspiracy against philosophers, or is it ignorance of philosophy, and thus its merits, leading to this careless dismantling U. Nevada's philosophy department?
You hit the nail right on the head.
Some people have decided to live in a society where employees typically don't work consistently at the border between having a job and quitting.

If you do prefer a society where employers are not regulated at all, there probably are places in the world you can "choose" to live.
I would add to that: Don't link to a screenshot of someone else's blog and then pass it off as your own. Link to the original -- you know, the person who actually put in the effort to write the article.
Agreed. This is opinion.

Mine is based on years of experience, but I got the impression that the original article was written based on some cherry-picked reports of what a few companies said (as opposed to actually being there and doing it).

Maybe I'm being overly critical?
Hopefully Google will take a note sooner.
If the charge was $1.00 (the charge formatting was a little unclear), this is likely a typical verification charge used to verify that your credit card information is correct. Most services void these charges as soon as they get a success/decline message from payment gateway processing the transaction, and you should see this charge removed from your statement in about 24 hours.

This charge is vaguely referred to in their payment TOS: http://www.facebook.com/payments_terms/
"If you pay by credit or debit card we may obtain a pre-approval from the issuer of the card for an amount up to the amount of the purchase...", although not clear that this also happens when there is no actual purchase, when the card is just being used as a verification method. Definitely an opportunity for Facebook to clarify the behavior when adding credit card information for different reasons.
I think that most people who argue that such a migration "isn't that bad" haven't actually done it. Or at least they haven't done it for anything sizable.
> the evolutionary steps that are the necessary prerequisites to getting to where we are now.

Where under your car's hood have you stuffed your horses?
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Uhm, what?

I was trying to counter balance some of the crap I read in the original posting--was that really not clear?
Stonebraker has something to sell them, though.
I have a some ideas but I doubt I could do startup (NOT side projects) and school at the same time.

Need to finish school first; but after that, yes.
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If your git repos already exists, use `--install-hooks` and `--install-config`. Since it's the remote repository, you may also need to `git config receive.denyCurrentBranch "ignore"` depending on your configuration. :-)
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You know there is more to free speech than some words in the American constitution, right? A company can absolutely curtail someone's freedom of speech, it just isn't against the law for them to do so (usually).

So save your indignation for when someone suggests otherwise.
From the article: This is a key point to understand: philosophy, as a discipline, does not provide answers.

Well, notwithstanding the fact that it certainly provides some answers, philosophy is more oriented towards learning how to come up with answers, and more importantly, learning how to recognize if the answer you’ve come up with is right or wrong. I have forgotten much of what my first year philosophy professor said, but one thing that has always stuck with me was his opinion that “If we didn’t have philosophers, we’d still be burning witches.”

That philosophy is useless because it in not practical is the same sort of thinking as expressed by reluctant students taking algebra and pre-calculus: Why do we need to know this stuff? It’s not like I will use it in everyday life. True, for the most part, many things you learn in a math course you will not need to live your everyday life. However, learning these things teaches you how to think, how to reason, and that answers can be derived by methodically applying known principles to discover the unknown. Athletes perform many exercises in the gym using motions and machines they will never encounter in their respective sport, but the point is of course these exercises help to make the body stronger and build endurance. The same principle applies to philosophy.

To me, the spirit of philosophy is asking “why” when everyone just accepts, much like the student in this anecdote:

One day when I was a junior medical student, a very important Boston surgeon visited the school and delivered a great treatise on a large number of patients who had undergone successful operations for vascular reconstruction. At the end of the lecture, a young student at the back of the room timidly asked, “Do you have any controls?” Well, the great surgeon drew himself up to his full height, hit the desk, and said, “Do you mean did I not operate on half of the patients?” The hall grew very quiet then. The voice at the back of the room very hesitantly replied, “Yes, that’s what I had in mind.” Then the visitor’s fist really came down as he thundered, “Of course not. That would have doomed half of them to their death.” God, it was quiet then, and one could scarcely hear the small voice ask, “Which half?” -Dr. E. E. Peacock, Jr
Nice, but ultimately useless as it does not reproduce iSafari selective font resizing (for h1/h2/h3) that tends to screw up a lot of websites.

(edit) On a more general note, emulating behavior of a browser/OS combo is not a very good idea as it is trivial to miss quirks that need emulating. It should really be taking an actual browser screenshot on selected device, but then it would've not been different from a ton of similar services... which arguably sprung up because they are doing things rifht and therefore are useful.
Following up on this. I ordered a couple of Piccadilly Essential Notebooks (small size) -- one hard cover, one soft cover.

So far so good. I like the paper and the size. The soft cover easily fits in my back pocket. The hard cover fits as well, but of course isn't as comfortable. Time will tell if they hold up to daily use and abuse.

Extra bonus. I'm using the softcover right now, and even page 1 will stay open on its own. This seems very well designed. The link I posted in the parent has a much longer review of these.
Appreciate the kind words.

Took your suggestion to heart. No theatrics, sticking to the crux of the topic now. Edited accordingly :)

Update: The title read before "The Real Entrepreneur | Why most are simply Fake"
AFAIK in the western world this sort of "freedom" is only available in the USA (if at all, I am not that familiar with the laws over there).

In Austria it is illegal[1] not to offer compensation for working overtime, and I'll bet it is the same in NZ as well.

[1] http://www.wko.at/ubit/kv/IT-KV_2011.pdf
Sadly, this is pretty much Japan in a nutshell. People don't complain either. It wrecks your productivity, health, and family. Also does nothing for the economy. The funny thing about the threat of power outages after the earthquake is that suddenly people are trying to find ways to work shorter hours and be more productive for God and country.

Unreasonable hours create a downward spiral. Walking away is an option but fighting back takes courage. Either way the company ends up the biggest loser over time as the best leave for greener pastures.
The above comment by myself is in response to 'i_crusade', not you...
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That's not really C, nor is it a property of function pointers in that example — it's a nonstandard GCC feature that happens to be returning a function pointer in that particular instance. If you know of a way to do it without requiring a non-C feature like expression blocks, I'm all ears.
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I choose to live in the US, and again, this is not a problem if you choose your job properly.
But PHP isn't a transmitted language like javascript, why even bother? It will only make the parser slower?
I think there comes a time for any unix user when you reach a break-even point - the added productivity of shell commands is greater than the head-scratching, googling and man page searches.

I remember finally 'getting it', and asking myself why anyone would want a computer where you don't have such tools.

My main gripe with the shell at this point is inconsistencies in syntax from one command to another, especially when it means different dialects of regex.
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Ah, thanks.
Had to do some more stuff, e.g. copy default_files to _templates.
Also the fugitive-install macro wasn't set.
Still have problems with some CSS I think..

will look into it later.
I see an interesting discussion about the merits of mob justice and vigilantism if they serve as a check against corruption, i.e. if the specter of such would compel the ruling class to curtail the worst abuses before enough group delusions are shattered that the society can no longer sustain itself and all hell breaks loose.

Sorry if you don't find it interesting. Especially sorry if you perceive everything you don't like/care about as a troll.
Japanese salaryman "overtime" is very strange.

In my experience, employees are not doing more work, they are at the office trying to look busy until the boss goes home. Sometimes the boss is sleeping at his desk, and people are sitting around looking at blank documents on the screen.
The similarities between these three DNAs is in the high 90s,which is pretty different from the 50% that you are talking about
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You don't need a 'crash' you need a correction to fix all the manipulations of the economy by the federal government. When the federal government subsidizes a product (housing, ethanol), taxes/regulates it to an extreme, or spends your money it creates an inefficiency in the economy. The other problem is the lose monetary policy of the Fed since Nixon took us off the gold standard, that also needs to be corrected. There has been one study I know of that showed a very strong correlation between tight, non-inflationary monetary policy and GDP growth over 200 years of American history. Politicians and the media rail on business and wall street for causing the problems, when nearly all the crashes in American history can be tied mostly to faulty federal monetary policy and exacerbated by legislative policy (Smoot-Hartley).

The United States is not a democracy, it's a republic the founders knew the danger of mob rule. The solution to the problem are term limits, so politicians don't worry about their jobs and the next election, instead they worry about the people they represent.

PS. Ron Paul is in Congress, Rand Paul his son is in the Senate. Ron Paul is also retiring after next year.
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I don't understand, what question does philosophy conclusively answer?
> Who is the greatest contemporary philosopher that comes to mind?

That is a question that is as difficult to answer as "Who is the greatest contemporary scientist?"

Some candidates are Slavoj Žižek, Peter Singer, Annette Baier, Alastair Hannay, Daniel Dennett, John Searle, Simon Blackburn, Thomas Nagel, Leo Zaibert. The are also many famous philosophers are partly academics in specialist fields, eg. Richard Dawkins, Umberto Eco, Noam Chomsky, Steven Pinker, George Dyson and many more.