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Forget Greece, Save Italy
It seems the Greek fiasco is headlining just about every newspaper and magazine these days. Europe and countries around the world are focused in on how Greece can finance the next few years of its government and how it can do so without defaulting. To be sure, a Greek default would have massive consequences worldwide. But it seems many politicians and investors have overlooked other countries that seem to be in pretty bad shape too. Enter Italy. Moody’s has recently indicated that it may downgrade Italy’s debt due to macroeconomic structural weaknesses and the surrounding economic turmoil of its neighbors. Just last Thursday, Moody’s said it might downgrade 13 Italian banks if the the country’s rating is cut. Most people might consider taking Italy’s warnings more seriously for the following reasons. Italy has experienced decades of declining productivity and poor growth. 2008 and 2009 GDP declined by 1.3% and 5.2%, respectively. The unemployment rate is 8.3% and youth unemployment is 29%. The nation’s debt load of 1.8 trillion euros makes it the 4th highest public debtor in the world. And while having debt isn’t a bad thing, it is when your GDP is sluggish - resulting in a debt/GDP ratio of 120% (compare that to Greece’s of 140% and 2x that of Spain’s). Beyond the sluggish growth and high debt load, Italy, like Greece, has a number of problems that make solving these issues quite difficult. For example, collecting taxes seems to be uncharacteristically hard. It is estimated that Italy will lose €120 billion from tax evasion in 2011 (not a typo). Compare that to Greece - €15 billion a year. While Italy’s Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti is widely credited with shielding Italy from the global economic crisis, it seems a little premature to consider Italy a success story. As Berlusconi loses his political grip on a country he has ruled for 17 years, Italy’s annus horriblis seems to be just getting started.
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Yes, this could be an explanation. But why would the Greek government provide the money to the banks? I mean they could invest the money (that they've got from EU and IWF) in infrastructure and economy and then declare default. If I understand it well Argentina was as well helped by IWF, but in the end they defaulted - and it seems like it was the right step. So I do not really understand what is the EU's interest to absolutely safe Greece from default? They are pumping more and more money at a time where many voices say that Greece will not be able to pay back. Even George Soros thinks: "A Greek default may be inevitable but it need not be disorderly" (http://www.cnbc.com/id/43720940).

So if you could explain, why is it important for the banking system to be able to handle a Greek default? I mean throughout the financial crisis everybody is saying that it is absolutely important to save the banking system - every politician repeats this like a parrot. But why? Most of the middle/lower class population in Europe does not have spare money in a bank account but in contrary has debts for housing or other stuff. And I would guess that this is by far more than 80% of population. These people would not necessarily suffer from banks collapsing, but they are suffering from the economic cuts that the governments are doing everywhere in order to save banks - who are actually responsible because they did not mitigate the risk and triggered the subprime crisis.

So if you have a good explanation, please share with me.
I dunno dood. The parts about manning coming to terms with being trans, coupled with his stories about his dad chasing him out of the house with a shotgun seem kinda personal to me.

Greenwald's a douche. These logs are super personal, not super relevant. All this has taught us is that Lamo is a fucking asshole.
Sad but true. I love PHP, but it's like the Internet Explorer of (web-)server side languages. First there was the ordeal of dragging folks off 3 and onto 4, then 4 to 5, now 5.2 to 5.3 ... I look forward to writing PHP 6 code in my hovercar ;-)
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I've got apps that happily send me into Safari, iBooks, and any number of other apps when it's appropriate. IPC might be minimal, but apps definitely don't have to provide their own browser. (I've never used an app that reimplemented Twitter functionality except Twitter-specific apps.)
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Yes, commodity money. A commodity has intrinsic value; so if you use commodities as money (medium of exchange, store of value...), you have money with intrinsic worth.

Supposedly it's the original money, since it arises spontaneously in a barter system. Suppose you have a matching problem in a barter system (I want X from A, and A wants Y, but I only have Z...) The way to solve it is with a series of intermediate barters which cancel out, whose only purpose is to coordinate exchanges (I first give Z to B in exchange for Y, which I then trade for X with A). Some commodities are better at being intermediates than others: they have to be persistent, subdividable, popular (so it's easy to find counterparties who want it). So you have several commodities which end up universally used as exchange.
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> The mysqli extension has been out for 5 years already

I believe mysqli and PDO were released with PHP 5.0. That's July 2004.

That's 7 years ago.
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A lot of people forget that hunting for a job is an attempt for 2 entities to fulfill needs. The employee wants money and (probably) a job they can care about. The employer wants some specific work done, probably in a specific way.

Working-while-in-college jobs do not prepare us for job interviews properly because shotgun resumes work perfectly fine there. The company only cares that there is a human doing the work (which any human can do) and the employee only cares that they get a paycheck.

When they move on, the employee is doubly unprepared. They don't understand that an interview is 2-sided, and they don't have any experience dealing with the situation, whereas the company does have both those things.
Is the "alpha" about the number of offspring, or the number of females "available"? You seem to be confusing the two in your example.
> I can think of 300 sites that need to be re-coded off the top of my head if this is a hard stop on it. And I don't have time for that. Nor does anyone else.

The linked email repeated a half dozen times that this would be "soft deprecation", affecting the documentation, not throwing any error in the code.

How, exactly, would that "break" any sites on the Internet?
> to not test code which has not yet been written.

You're not doing TDD if you're writing tests afterwords, you're just writing unit tests. I'm not trying to dissuade you from that but just pointing out you're using the wrong term if you're not doing that.

I'm not a TDD proponent for most types of work that aren't heavily interfaced based, webservices to iPhone apps, I TDD them, but the actual app internals? Only on certain parts.
The "C++ is only usable in a subset" meme must die.
Thanks for taking the time to comment. You didn't pick up any new information at all?

If not, do you have any tips or ideas to share about the interview process?
Go to Meetup.com, find a local user group for whatever language/technique/framework you like working in and go to the meetings. When you are at the meetings actually get involved and introduce yourself and ask people about what they are working on.
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Why are so many people comparing g+ to facebook? Isn't it more of threat to sites such as linkedin? Google+ imho asks what interests you and facebook asks who are you.
This seems like a relevant time to have a discussion on the merits of PDO vs mysqli. Help all those who need to get off of ext/mysql make an intelligent decision on where to go next.

I'm less interested in features (data layer abstraction) and more interested in performance and security concerns.
I'm confused: doesn't the use of a single local relay to which all clients connect create a single, non-redundant point of failure?
This article misses one thing: MS didn't develop this part of the tech, PrimeSense did. You can see their stuff at http://www.primesense.com/?p=487

MS built the software that actually made sense of the data, but PrimeSense is who developed and built the technology that's in question here.
22 hours ago, so he must be a pro-programmer :P

he should join this contest http://hacknow.org/
That is the total opposite of other studies I've seen that showed it was stressful at the bottom.

In other animal studies the pecking order seemed to mimic the amount of stress each animal was under: more pecking; more stress.

One interesting human study showed that the most stressed person in large company was the doorman. They theorised that he had total responsibility for the safety of the building but practically no power.

I'll look for the sources
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I was having a hard time loading it, so in case it goes down, here's the text:

Greetings PHP geeks,

Don't panic! This is not a proposal to add errors or remove this popular extension. \
Not yet anyway, because it's too popular to do that now.

The documentation team is discussing the database security situation, and educating \
users to move away from the commonly used ext/mysql extension is part of this.

This proposal only deals with education, and requests permission to officially \
convince people to stop using this old extension. This means:

- Add notes that refer to it as deprecated
- Recommend and link alternatives
- Include examples of alternatives

There are two alternative extensions: pdo_mysql and mysqli, with PDO being the PHP \
way and main focus of future endeavors. Right? Please don't digress into the PDO v2 \
fiasco here.

What this means to ext/mysql:

- Softly deprecate ext/mysql with education (docs) starting today
- Not adding E_DEPRECATED errors in 5.4, but revisit for 5.5/6.0
- Add pdo_mysql examples within the ext/mysql docs that mimic the current
examples, but occasionally introduce features like prepared statements
- Focus energy on cleaning up the pdo_mysql and mysqli documentation
- Create a general "The MySQL situation" document that explains the situation

The PHP community has been recommending alternatives for several years now, so \
hopefully this won't be a new concept or shock to most users.

Regards,
Philip
This is actually fairly close to what I do in my own code (I actually extend the PDO object, but same idea). The example I gave was just using the base PDO library instead.
You could easily create folders and fit all of those on Screen 1 on iOS. 1 click to open any folder.

As I've said a number of times, the usage patterns are too different. If you're using your screens as folders, then maybe you want the left-swipe functionality. If your screens contain every app you install, then that might not make so much sense.

I'm not saying Android is wrong to have left/right screens, merely that the behavior would generally be wrong for iOS.
Rather than the term 'logical' I would think of 'reasoned', human made systems in general tend to be designed through reasoned, deterministic processes. This means that from any point in the system, no matter how large or complex, you should be able to logically determine what the adjacent points in the system are, from an endpoint you can backtrack your way to the origin.

Biological systems are 'designed' through stochastic processes, which means that from any point in the system we can only make a probabilistic guess as to what points are adjacent to it. This works well for solving small problems, like predicting the next word in a sentence (language of couse being a natural, not human designed process), but this requires us to have a large corpus of example data, and doesn't scale well to trying to extract an entire book from one word.

So trying to fully understand large biological/natural systems is much harder than trying to decode an equally complex human created system.
I can't think of slicehost without thinking of Pickled Onion. This guy's tutorials were the reason I used slicehost. I remember being really thrilled when they added him to the team. Does anyone know where he is now? As a customer and stakeholder in slicehost, I felt let down by the sale to Rackspace.

I'm guessing without watching that these interviews reinforce the 37s mantra that building businesses you want to do for the rest of your life rather than building for the liquidity event is the "right" way to go. I can't help but agree in this case.
"You don't even know what the thing is yet."

Sorry for the Social Network quote, I didn't like the movie, but I kept thinking about this line.

Look at the success of 4chan or IRC channels or Usenet groups or twitter (140 messages) or Facebook or the blogs or reddit or whatever. They are all different, groups form differently in each of them and they have attracted different types of people sometimes. Sometimes new technology goes in a new direction, sometimes and old one is rediscovered.

You cannot really know sometimes who will adopt your site, especially if doesn't come with built in communities or a particular focus.
Cool. :) If it's not too rude, why unemployable? Does homeschooling just create people who are too independent to be a good fit with a lot of employers, or do employers/college admissions see a homeschool education as less valuable than public/private?
And you could use folders to create logical groups of apps on screen 1 and never have to swipe at all.
Sparks isn't like shared circles as I understand. They just bring up articles on selected topics to be used as conversation starters. I like the idea but I think the implementation of sparks is a bit rubbish. I think Twitter does a better job in this space actually.
I just remembered a pretty good example of this with the story of BitKeeper and Git, you can read http://kerneltrap.org/node/4966 for more information. It was the catalyst of losing the cheap enough/free option that motivated the work on Git.
"Most of the middle/lower class population in Europe does not have spare money in a bank account but in contrary has debts for housing or other stuff."

Actually, unlike their government, most Greek households do not have high debts:

"Greek consumers are relatively frugal, with household debt equal to just 61% of GDP, compared the American household debt of 95.7% of GDP"

http://online.barrons.com/article/SB126584181497144099.html
@mildweed: the title here is total clickbait. They aren't deprecating anything right now, it's not MySQL but ext/mysql (one of 3 possible mysql libs).

please remember in the future to do that better.
FWIW most of the mysql_ functions have a direct counterpart in procedural mysqli_, with the exact same API.

mysqli even features the real_escape_string abortion
And right now we’re looking for stability. We had a recent employee leave Japan immediately after the earthquake

I guess the employee was looking for the same thing.
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The article was advocating for something more back and forth, like a chatroom or forum, rather than a newsfeed.

With Google+ just starting out (even at 10m users), there's already a feeling of exclusivity and community. Groups would definitely help keep that feeling going as Google+ goes public, though, as long as it's implemented right. With public circles, groups, tags, etc being advocated, I hope the simplicity of Google+ isn't lost.
There's nothing stopping you from having standby relays, active relays etc. You are free to create a topology of your choosing with minimal restrictions.
jeah its just a name affix
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Nice article, your about page link in the footer appears to be a 404 though.
> They aren't deprecating anything right now, it's not MySQL but ext/mysql

MySQL is the "human-readable" name of ext/mysql.

Source: PHP's documentation http://www.php.net/manual/en/mysqli.overview.php
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You store the local time and timezone. You show the value in whatever timezone the user configured the application.

If you store only Unix time, you don't have enough information. If you store both the Unix timestamp, the local time and the timezone, you have too much information. You can derive Unix time from local time and the timezone.

Ergo: store time with time zone.
If you have to keep engineers around who can handle it, it is.

Writing boost heavy code vs STL code vs object oriented code vs prototype based code vs highly functionally styled code vs custom allocated code vs reference passed code vs smart pointer code, interface based code vs heavily multiple inheritance based code vs flat hierarchy mixin template based polymorphism etc.

It gets expensive to keep people who do all of that around with the level of correctness you need to not have weird bugs that take forever to find. It usually means "You have few domain experts" on the team as well (for if the project is say, for financial software, or RF controllers, or modems, etc).
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"Moody’s has recently indicated that it may downgrade Italy’s debt due to
macroeconomic structural weaknesses and the surrounding economic turmoil
of its neighbors. Just last Thursday, Moody’s said it might downgrade 13
Italian banks if the the country’s rating is cut."

Is it the same Moody's that failed to prevent from the subprime crisis and did
not downgrade in time the banks that had stakes in subprime credits?

Is it possible that soon the actions of Moody's, S&P and Fitch will not have
much value?
So cool. When I was running a tech department I had a supply cabinet in my office that had the same function. We had spare hard drives, keyboards, mice, batteries, cables (especially USB and display dongles).

We also had a good one day turn around on getting new RAM or other supplies.

My motto for my team was "It costs me more money to hear you bitch about how slow your computer is than just buy you more RAM or a new one"
Partners for what? What space are you working in? What is your domain of competency? Are you the product visionary guy, the business execution guy, the technical execution guy? Is there a particualar location you need to be in? Is there anything you've done in the past that indicates you've got the right DNA for your role and the space you want to be in?
So to review:
1) What?
2) Why?
3) And why with you?
That's what I was thinking. An awful lot of effort for such a bummer of a website.
The two must have books for MySQL admin and discuss MySQL's built in replication, what problems you'll encounter, how to tune etc.

- High Performance MySQL (Schwartz et al)
- MySQL High Availability (Bell et al)

I think using MySQL::Replication can be applied on top of what's in these books, but not using their particular setups.
My understanding (please correct if I'm wrong) is that Sparks is about consuming content, and using signals (especially social signals) to better target that content to individual tastes over time.

A group is a social group, where all agree to be members. Let's say you have a set of 8 friends who love baseball and you all love to chat about everything baseball. In real life you get together frequently to watch baseball on TV, go to ball games, etc. and primarily discuss baseball. That can be done on Facebook, but not yet on Google+. You want "shared circles" where the name of the circle is the same for all 8 baseball friends and their chit chat about baseball only stays within the group.

People naturally group around interests like this. And online, it is a great way to filter noise and get relevant information.

I have a number of online acquaintances around my interest in passwords. At the moment, email is the most useful way to exchange targeted password information with them. One of us just started a password reddit - but that's kind of public and subject to the usual reddit nonsense. I follow 2 of them on Twitter but find most of the information not relevant to me because they have many interests besides just passwords.

In a private group setting, things could get more in depth, and stay focused on the subject in which we all have an interest.
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it's the same rating agencies that think the U.S. is the same credit (AAA) as it was 5 years ago.
Let me get this straight, he invents a new technology, doesn't patent it, then sends a prototype to one of the most vile software companies in the world, then gets fucked over big time... and he's surprised??
There's probably more to it than that. Humans do typically play Go on 19x19 boards, but Go is still relatively hard for computers (compared to Chess) even on smaller boards like 9x9, where the branching factor is reasonably comparable to Chess. And the branching factor in the kind of Go tactics problems collected as exercises in books for human players isn't that much larger than the branching factor in chess, either. Decades ago chess programmers could remark that their programs solved typical chess tactics problems faster than humans could turn the pages in the book. Even today solving typical Go tactics problems is somewhere between a very serious programming challenge and an open research question.

Broadly speaking the difficulties in Go tactics seem to be similar to the difficulties that computers have historically had in Chess endgame tactics, which clearly wasn't a problem of branching factor: branching goes down in the Chess endgame. (However, today there is an important dissimilarity: the space of Chess endgames is small enough that modern computers can tabulate the solution for a significant fraction of the problem space beforehand.)
recapcha started for a noble cause and thats why it got so much traction.

Instead of fighting bot menace, current captcha's are making life difficult, if with my intelligence I end up failing 1 in 10 times, how can my dad or my 7 year old daughter use it.
I actually poked around and couldn't find anything relevant on MeetUp... I was hoping there was a super-secret underground group of coderhippies that congregate somewhere I've never heard of... alas, my search continues.
As far as I know google pays 69% of revenue to adsense partners. But when they need extra money they can still use the highest paying ads for themselves, sending them to gmail, youtube.

So yes, google is in control. Adsense partners are not.
You're kind of in an active-passive multi-master setup which is find for now but as replication queries increase between the two nodes, you might start to see load issues. You're going to have to drop in a third machine and a decision is going to have to be made on how to replicate your data.
It is also very possible that the average Greek or whatever country person is not responsible for the country's problems.

What we have here is a communications breakdown. So anyone from those countries themselves want to explain what went wrong, when and where?
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I'm not sure what's confusing you.

In my example I was using an example given above (80% of females reproducing, 40% of males reproducing, thus, twice as many females reproducing as males.)

I only talked about the division of offspring among the males because that's what's relevant in this case; they denote the relative hierarchy. The division of offspring among females is not relevant since we are talking about males. It was just a toy example anyway to show how the math works out.
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