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What about the issues posed for idealist entrepreneurs... ?One does not want to endorse a malfunctioning system, but working within the existing patent regime, seeking its protections, and enduring the legal costs that it imposes seem more than just de rigueur. Patent attorneys are absurdly expensive, but they can prevent months of waste in development. But maybe what I'm saying is just prospect theory run-amok. I only have the data of my own experience.
It's not the laws themselves (with some exceptions) but the paperwork required to comply. For example Singapore has many of the same laws as the US but they really focus on streamlining the bureaucracy so it's not as heavy a burden.
Please don't say "no homo". It's really offensive.
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As much as Chrome has been my favorite browser for Mac for a while now, with the release of Lion I've really been longing after some of the features of Safari - namely the well integrated full screen mode, and the iOS style zooming.

However, I can't stand having a separate URL bar and search box. This plugin seems to be working really well at emulating the Chrome omnibox!

(I have no association whatsoever with the development of this plugin, just found it by googling for safari omnibus)
Wait a minute: you thought the plot was predictable? How far in advance were you able to predict things? Of all the faults in the books and TV show, that's a new one to me.

As for the racial stereotypes, I can see what people mean, but how exactly do you portray different (fictional) ethnicities without evoking those responses?
Could Wordpress issue an update to patch this?
Thanks! In fact there is a filter (the far left tab), but perhaps that needs to be made more obvious, or there should be a better introduction in the app.
Twitter lands $800 million venture capital deal, breaking record
Interesting take on the pendulum. When I read this sentence

'The idea is that entrepreneur's mind is a pendulum that swings between two states - ? and ! - but most of the time they're at one of the two extremes.'

I assumed the ? was representing the whys and hows as in, why is something done like this? Why do we have have to do x? How would the world be better if??

And the ! was representative of the idea and vision. Which of course causes us to swing back to the 'hows' of accomplishment.
Is there any reason why a check on the extension wouldn't solve the problem?

$fileDetails = pathinfo($src);
$ext = strtolower($fileDetails['extension']);
Do you often switch from linux to windows for your coding environment?
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> json config files? oh yes

I find JSON makes for awful config files. For the sole reason that they can't be commented.
It looks good to me, but don't just take my word for it [1].

[1] http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/6318/looksgood.png
I wonder if it would be better if he disclosed this to the theme vendors.
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Online world promoting -- the facebook marketing spot in certain -- will turned into extremely hard just in case you never own the simplest software for your personal disposable.
I still cant believe they didn't just fly an eagle in and drop the ring off straight away.

The eagles were Tolkien's favorite go-to when his plot ran into trouble. He just never got enough of them delivering a deus ex machina.

Consider:

- Bilbo and friends are stuck in trees which goblins have lit on fire. (The Hobbit.)

- Everyone is fighting everyone and the goblins have come with the greatest army. (The Hobbit.)

- Gandalf is stuck in a tower and Saruman has been revealed to be a meglomaniac. (The Fellowship of the Ring)

- Gandalf is stuck on top of a mountain after being sent back as Gandalf the White and beating a balrog. (The Two Towers)

- Frodo and Samwise are stuck on an exploding volcano after destroying the Ring. (The Return of the King)

(If you read his other works, like _The Silmarillion_, you'll find more examples.)
I didn't get your point. I have found Perl(And many have) very useful for whatever we do.

So we continue to use it. Just because there is some new shiny stuff around, we don't use just for the sake for using it.

Trolling Perl to advocate Python hasn't helped for decades and won't help now either. A better debate will be to argue on technical merits. Trolling and whining gets people curious to verify if all that is true, thereby forcing them to read and some readers adopt it too.
Thanks for the feedback. I'm the only full-timer currently. I found your email and will message you.
Agreed. Community college educated - government job - average experience - are a few reasons "Why I'd never work for Google, Twitter, or Facebook."

Because they wouldn't fucking hire me...and I'm cool with that.
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In reference to you seeing Python in your environment I would assume it is because you already have Python in your environment

At one of the companies, they were using only C before (and some PHP/Java). Python was chosen for its merits (large support library, user-friendly language, lot of developers know it, relatively light embeddable VM), not because it was already entrenched in the organization.
I have a version that does this:

function clean_source ( $src ) {

// remove http/ https/ ftp
$src = preg_replace("/^((ht|f)tp(s|):\/\/)/i", "", $src);
// remove domain name from the source url
$host = $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"];
$src = str_replace($host, "", $src);
$host = str_replace("www.", "", $host);
$src = str_replace($host, "", $src);

This version doesn't allow external sources at all by the look of it.
FYI, Greg Bear is also on the team.

http://www.subutai.mn/team.html
Yes:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/12/080512fa_fact_...
I saw a comment on Reddit about this 6-7 hours ago suggesting that Carmack had a horse in this race and that we might be best to presume the very slightest of bias in his response(s).

That said, I also view his perspective in this field as tending towards unquestionable. He's always seemed to have had a pretty sparkling reputation as well as the obvious talent.
The app seems to have been taken off?
This is fun reading. It reminded me of another blog, "WK's High Frequency Trading Blog" (howtohft.wordpress.com) which got about 9 posts in with some great details, and then went silent.

I found it in my Google Reader feedlist, and the last post was from March, but Wordpress now says the blog has been deleted. Anyone know what happened it?

Veyron, I'm glad you're writing these posts. It's cool to have HFT demystified.
Emacs has hundreds of thousands of man-hours of development time put into building features for it. Throwing that away just because you want something prettier isn't worth it.
You wouldn't work for them, because they won't hire you.
The difference between machines with AES-NI and without is night and day; I'd basically consider filevault FDE mandatory on any machine with AES-NI unless it's physically secured all the time and really needs disk speed to the exclusion of all else.

The other great thing is filevault and timemachine now interoperate fairly well.
Wordpress gets no opportunity to execute a single line of code at any point in this process. TimThumb can be executed without needing to go through Wordpress at any point. The only relevance of Wordpress to this is that many Wordpress themes happen to ship with TimThumb. If you have a Wordpress theme installed on your server (note: activation not required!) which ships with it, you are vulnerable.

Wordpress could theoretically intercept calls to PHP files below its own root, but that would be a breaking change for a LOT of code and sites.
I think that's one of the massive challenges in gaming. I played Minecraft a bit (before realising I was tending a lovely in-game garden while there were weeds outside my real-life house) and at no point was my experience impacted negatively by the fact that the animals were dorky boxes with legs. Photo-realistic isn't everything.
> like arguing vanilla is better than chocolate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_up32HZ1H4
If you have never used this utility, I will have serious grounds to doubt your Perl skills.

Doubt away.

I have never used that utility. Yet I have been programming Perl since the 90s, and am one of the top 10 posters on Perlmonks. (My nick there is tilly.)

Care to re-evaluate your criteria?
I tried

1. visit www.bing.com first

2. search for few random words

3. search those URLs OP mentioned

4. They all works now.

Looks like a bug how Bing handles cookies.
If you start with that assumption, you immediately confront the issue that you may 'need' food, but you don't need tasty food, or much food, or even "easily digested" food. One does not even 'need' "clean" food, as humans are easily able to tolerate being ill most of the time; and, unfortunately, many people worldwide operate with this constraint their entire lives.

In fact, we didn't even really 'need' food at all: what we needed were a few nutrients, maybe in the form of a pill. Food is a luxury, and if our stomachs disagree we can always get stomach-ectomies.

Until, of course, you find that one guy who defines the point of his existence to be the very first guy to get a billion points in Halo: a person might be in a hospital, dying anyway, and while eating may prolong his life another month, he will consider his whole existence to be a waste if you take away his Xbox; at this point the concept of objective needs totally disappears, and you end up back in the land of "differently elastic demand curves".
Cyril Crassin's stuff is also interesting and it's here, now, running dynamically on GPUs.
See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAsg_xNzhcQ

See his papers page: http://artis.imag.fr/Membres/Cyril.Crassin/

I am curious what methods Euclidean are using, however.
For something as obvious as for gaming (where in the video other games have people running around while these guys are hovering around a static environment), I expect something that at least looks like a game, hell id go for simple animation such as the top comments blade of grass.
from what i understand, the voxels more or less dynamically adjust their resolution according to their distance from the modelview origin (where the player is). if the engine generated dynamic shadow maps per light source, would'nt the voxels need to be high resolution with respect to each light source, so that the shadow map isn't a bunch of huge blocks? i imagine that alone would be a pretty big performance hit
How specifically do they go about this? Bureaucracy is notoriously resistant to streamlining. Does having a more authoritarian government make this easier?
My major peeve with the show is how the exciting villains introduced in the first five minutes never return.

I was also annoyed that Inigo Montoya died so soon.
timthumb executes outside of wordpress, it's directly called via the the url
Just curious – why do you use Vico instead of MacVim?
It is hard in that you still have to draw every poly in every copy of the object. Instancing allows you to reuse some per-vertex calculations but it doesn't help at all with fragments, which is where most of the power is typically used.
I don't think it's strange to think that there are many devs that could work for Google, Facebook, or Twitter but choose not to. All the companies I've applied to consist mostly of such people.
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Interesting hacker stats - OS, browser etc.
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The tech basically has to be a variant of sparse voxel octrees. Carmack has mentioned it in an interview years ago, It's reasonable to assume he's built his own prototype, as he does with pretty much anything else.
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This link is throwing an error for me now too. Downloaded the app earlier from US link.

It was also the third app in Top Free list on iPad, but gone now. I'd checked both of the following before posting, and both worked:

US: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/skype-for-ipad/id442012681?mt...

New Zealand: http://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/skype-for-ipad/id442012681?mt...

Maybe they'd released accidentally?

UPDATE: Yes, Skype pulled it: http://twitter.com/#!/Skype/status/98253150229757953
"Find all the integer triples that form right triangles whose smallest side is less than a million." Is this the kind of stuff that you work with on a daily basis? If it is, then sure ask away. But if you're just looking for a programmer, why are you asking discrete math questions?
The problem is that a lot of that money is being wasted on things like excessive administrative staff and whatnot.

Do you have any citations for that? I'm not arguing with you, and my memories of high school make me think that you are correct, but I don't have any statistics to back it up. The only statistics I've seen indicate the opposite, but oddly enough they were provided by administrators.
Not really. The jruby guys have made a language very close to ruby that doesn't use any libraries, if you can live with them, there is Scala, also jryby, etc.
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How did you submit the solution with a library? Doesn't upload mechanism assume only 1 file?
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This probably took all of a day to build. They could have done it on the weekend. It made me smile, and I explored the website. I'd say it paid off.
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Useless huh? Static geometry and lighting was the state of the art for a while, starting with Quake. It certainly puts some constraints on game mechanics but it's significantly better than useless.
Probably should implement something like screen too
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Oh dear, where do I start...

First off, stealing.

I don't give a crap how often you and others like you spout this bullshit, it doesn't make it any more correct. It's not stealing. It never was, it never will be. If you are unable to understand the consequences of digital media, that's a pity, but not the fault of the evil, evil pirates.

Second, that's a pretty nice appeal to emotion. Frankly, I don't give half a fuck whether you starve to death. If your business model cannot keep up with technology and you refuse to adapt (or worse, try to fight the change, which is ultimately a losing battle to everyone's detriment, including you), that's your fault. The evil, evil pirates are just a convenient excuse.

Third, if you really /need/ all this bullshit to get people to buy your stuff, then your doing something very, very wrong. Deliver a good product at a reasonable price and people will be happy to pay for it. Stop developing against the evil, evil pirates but instead for your valid costumers.

Fourth, if 'free culture/software' is a 'self-serving proto-philosophy drizzled over gigantic entitlement issues' to you, I can't help but feel sorry for you.
Also note that it doesn't even have to be an active theme - since timthumb.php executes directly and not through wordpress.
Color me skeptical. However, I'd like to pose a question to HN:

If the claims from this video are legit, is this level of innovation deserving of a patent? (Yes, a software patent.)
Even if it's absolutely impossible to animate this technology I don't think it would be "useless". I don't see why it wouldn't be possible to have the static elements (buildings, tree trunks, ground, debris, etc etc) of a level rendered using this tech, and polygons used for everything else. It used to be this way in the bad old days (Doom etc) - Polygons for level structure and sprites for animation. This would at least free up the "polygon budget" to improve the features which couldn't be voxel-based.

If anything you could create a pretty interesting art style with hyper-realistic backgrounds and cel-shaded characters, or similar. Even as a replacement for pre-rendered background scenery or out-of-level elements it would be useful.

And (thinking of the Game of Thrones titles story) whatever mojo they've got must surely be able to be applied to other industries, eg. CGI - if Weta or Pixar could improve the poly count of their static backdrops without just buying more rendering farms, that's gotta count for something.
I didn't say everyone's needs are the same.
The idea that class size is a key leading to higher student success rate is a misnomer. Studies over the past 15 years have consistently indicated that class size has little (sometimes even converse) relation to student success rate.

http://www.npr.org/2011/03/29/134956184/school-founder-says-... , http://www.pioneerinstitute.org/pdf/010326_stergios.pdf

A lot of the top performing countries in education have extrodinarily high average class sizes. Taiwan has 44, South Korea has 49. http://www.arthurhu.com/index/classize.htm .

Although you aren't entirely off base, in Taiwan many math and science based classes can be 150 students or more, which I'm sure pulls the median.
What bothers me is how simple this is. This is simple arbitrage that anyone with access to wikipedia could figure out in a few days.

What makes these strategies profitable is exclusive access to information - not actual investing prowess. It's about who can afford to buy the fastest hardware on the fastest pipes in the closest proximity to the exchanges and top tier e-brokers. It's frequently even about who you know.

If your only competitive advantage is systemically restricting the public's access to information, you're doing it wrong.

(but my inner nerd thinks this is super cool, and my inner Gordon Gekko wants to get started today)
His latest tweet on it is interesting:

> @Foggen insufficient information to say if it is tracing or splatting.

They state their method is based on a well-known technique used in engineering and medical visualization, and splatting seems to be used there. I'm still not 100% clear on what splatting is, but there's a bunch of papers applying that term to voxels, e.g. http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/projects/objewa/
ya ya: http://vimeo.com/26952527
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> I have been programming Perl since the 90s, and am one of the top 10 posters on Perlmonks... Care to re-evaluate your criteria?

Yes, for you, I can :) My post was meant only to advocate interactive learning (which I came believe to be faster than the usual code/modify/run cycle). Few things (if any) can beat 15 years of intense experience. Most people, though, whom one is likely to encounter in the real world who claim to know Perl will only have used it for a year or two, probably in combination with something else.
They don't preload the images for the three iWork apps. Any, any small hint of web loading breaks the 'app feeling'.
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The problem is that timbthumb.php is usually contained within themes or plugins. There's quite a few small php libraries with little insecurities dotted all around the web and sometimes theme and plugin developers tend to use a version and stick with it.

Realistically the best thing that could happen is that plugins like WP-Security Scan could check for timbthumb.php's presence and warn you.
learn once, use everywhere.

...until the company stops providing sufficient support. Though, this may not be a big problem for some users. Maybe people who use closed source text editors don't extend their editors to the extent that Emacs users do, and thus, the time they spending using their text editor is not viewed as an investment.
The dynamic adjustment is traversing the voxel representation when you render the view. This kind of per-pixel shadow map requires rerendering the scene for each light source - but in more or less the exact same way that the player view is rendered. Then some work rectifying that information. So it would be a big performance hit, but not obviously any worse than normal rendering. Although did someone say it was only running at 20fps as it was?
I'm in exactly the same boat. I've been doing Perl for 14 years, and never use a REPL. Occasionally I'll hit 'perl -e ""' on the command line, which I guess is a similar idea...