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Why would you browse for what EST mean if you can simply open confirmation link and see if it works?

But the suggestions overall are valid - thanks!

What's better:

1) "The link will expire 2011 August 19"

2) "The link is valid until 2011 August 19"

3) "The link is valid for one day until 2011 August 19"?
I didn't take it literally -- I was pointing out that the grandparent poster had.
I'm worried that the system is too slow for too little benefit. I'm also worried the CPU usage might also be higher than a simple SHA-2 hash.

I also worry that it's not really as "future-proof" as people seem to think. Every algorithm gets busted open eventually, given Moore's Law, they can try more ways faster. Plus, once we have quantum computing, all the cryptographic algorithms we know and love are busted wide open. Hell, AES has been busted already in quantum computing!
Yup, OK. I'll stop. Despite lots of people saying they appreciate it, you've convinced me.

I won't cross-reference, I won't point out when people break the guidelines, I'll just silently downvote and flag, leaving people - often newbies - with no idea why their contributions disappear or get negative karma.

That might or might not lead to still more bewildered posts saying they don't understand, but that's OK. There's no point trying to educate them. Let them learn the hard way.

As a mathematician by training, an engineer at heart, and a teacher by vocation, I hate seeing the waste of constantly repeated submissions and the redundancy of split discussions. I had hoped to add value by helping people become enculturated, but I've decided I've failed.

I'll stop.

PS: Besides, it plays hell with my average karma.
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I can't believe that never occurred to me: rounded corners are like serifs for borders. They make the structure more obvious when boxes are packed together and aligned.
Companies seem to give in too quickly, though. The tablet thing has only just started. Most non-ipad tablets simply sucked. Instead of giving in, they should create better tablets.
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Looks like a pretty easy to spot "hidden" advertisement to me. Don't believe anything you read on the internet unless you can and will verify it. Same applies to newspapers, but I guess the internet being a more dynamic place it is a lot tougher to sort out truth from lies so you best be safe not believing anything out there unless, as I said, you verify it.
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This probably isn't the best place for this question, but its somewhat related. We currently have a dev and prod environment that I can't install applications (like git) but i want to setup a better deployment process aside from just copying files. For various reasons development needs to be done on the dev server. I have tried using sshfs with git to commit changes in dev and deploy them to prod but it seems too slow. My next task was going to use something like fabric to script the process, but I am unsure if that is the best tool for the job.

My thinking was that a script would sync changes on the dev server to a intermediate staging server and commit the changes. For deployment to prod i'd like to copy just the files that changed up to production. Should I just write a shell script or are there better tools for the job?
Framework to create Plugins for all browsers by writing a single JS
I was speaking to one of my students (11yrs old) about the length of video games just yesterday. He explained to me that campaign mode in video games is just for fun and to be replayed, the real game is online. We both agree that most next gen games are short.

Remember the original Ninja Turtles game for nintendo? 20+years later and I still find myself a few weekend nights/year trying to get to another part of the game.
"APL influenced the development of pipes"
That's a bad idea. People will always click through warning and permission screens; increasing the complexity of warning screens simply increases the likelihood that people will click through it without reading it.
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And they execute within the context of the page you're currently viewing, which prevents malicious cross-site behavior like that of this extension.
It's the difference between a musician and a composer. They overlap often and both are absolutely essential to the performance. But practicing one doesn't necessarily carry over to the other.
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Are Free Phones in Our Future? A VC’s Take on Why Google is Buying Motorola
Hi Nelson - maybe we just need to help you find some better spots :)
They might provide information but there's a good chance it's either half bullshit, missing information or just completely wrong. Re-read W3Fools.
“HP and Friends Will Kill the iPad"
Just ignore him. Really, he's not worth it, and his behavior shouldn't be rewarded (publicly calling someone out and framing them in a bad light without context).

I appreciated your work, for what it's worth.
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> I'm sorry the game market is driven in that direction.

Established companies and the media go in that direction, but there are plenty of indie/underground/weirdo games that stick to the old principles of depth and originality.

http://www.showmethegames.com/ has a nice index of good non-blockbuster games.
> Scientists and naturalists have discovered the Fibonacci sequence appearing in many forms in nature, such as the shape of nautilus shells, the seeds of sunflowers, falcon flight patterns and galaxies flying through space. What's more mysterious is that the "divine" number equals your height divided by the height of your torso, and even weirder, the ratio of female bees to male bees in a typical hive! (Livio)

Except that most of this is simply not true:
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm

It's a very tasty popular myth that people like to repeat, that there's a magical sacred golden constant producing all the complexity in nature and more.

Except that nobody actually bothers to measure anything, they just keep repeating and reposting the same images of spiral galaxies and nautilus shells.

Nor is there anything "inherently beautiful" about the golden ratio, research into perceived aesthetics of ratios simply showed that people prefer fractions of small numbers. It's imprecise enough that you really can't say whether people like 1.5 (3/2) or 1.667 (5/3) or 1.618 (phi) best.

The one thing where he is right, is the pattern in sunflower seeds. If you divide the 360 degrees of a circle in two parts so that their ratio is 1:1.618, and you use that angle (about 137.5 degrees) to rotate outwards as a spiral, put a big dot at every point, you'll get a pattern that looks pretty much exactly like sunflower seeds.

The thing about this particular pattern is that the seeds end up being rather uniformly spaced over the plane, while using other angular ratios creates swirly patterns and waves of filled and empty regions.

So I can imagine if you apply this to the rotation of tree branches, it'll result in a more uniformly distributed pattern, that will capture sunlight more efficiently than a pattern with holes in it.

I kind of wonder, though, if it's not the other way around--because nature uses golden ratio angles in tree branches, the fibonacci numbers pop up. Because really it's super easy for fibonacci numbers to pop up anywhere, especially the small ones, what's significant, however, is when the golden ratio actually plays a meaningful role.
And how should that work? The sun is point light source, so the light comes from one direction only and you need to face your solar cells in exactly that direction.

If you want to maximize the given volume a tree doesn't seem like the optimum ... covering the whole surface of the volume should be the optimum (to receive every reflected light).

Also the tree has a lot more solar cells than this kids flat panel and he is still only measuring voltage.
That is irrelevant.

You can use a monopoly to get monopolies in other markets. You go into those other markets and take losses, until all others have quitted.

Then, when you have another monopoly, you can earn back the money. It might not have worked so well in the hardware games consoles.
no excuse ;-)
The best way to save money on your groceries is to write a list before you go and then only buy from that list. My wife and I plan our meals for the week, write the list of what ingredients we need and then we only buy what's on the list.

I will only go off-list if there are items on offer which I would normally buy anyway, but it makes sense to do. In the UK, we have plenty of 'Buy one, get one free' or '3 for 2' offers. So for example if toilet roll, sauces, pasta or rice have a good offer on, I will buy them, saves a bit of money and saves buying next time.

Write a list and only buy the list. It will save time and money
I am surprised that it works like that. I would have expected the browser to just remember the last time they accessed a resource and send that time along.
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Publishers Decide They'd Rather Pay Songwriters Than Lawyers
Our friend here should first buy a laptop that is worth the same that of a MacBook Air and then compare it.

"I cannot escape hardware failures no matter what brand I buy" - That includes Apple sir!

"Built-in mics/cameras don’t work, batteries don’t charge, hard disks crash, motherboards die" - sounds like a $100 laptop. What else can you expect?

"I still have laptops that take 15 minutes to start." - My Windows 7 Dell XPS laptop starts in under 1 minute or sometimes max 2 mins.

"Shut Down Time and the 255 Different Ways Of Doing It" - takes lesser than starting up. I have set it to hibernate if i close my lid and to shut down if i press the power button.

"Battery Life" - I have a 9 cell lithium battery which gives me no less than 6 hours of usage. None of the Macs can give that.

"Performance" - If you are ranting so much about a "cheap" laptop which you bought ages ago and not the modern high-config (like the Macs) laptops, then I have no idea what "performance" you are talking about.

"Portability" and "Noise" again a sign that you bought a cheap laptop and not a good, configured laptop.

You seriously need to get a life my friend. Buy a good laptop (which will cost you money, but still less than that of any of Apple's laptops) and then compare it with a Mac.

Over 90% of the world is just using Windows for bullshit reasons like that of your's.

If you buy a cheap laptop you will get cheap features.
Are lambdas always created as SAM types or do they have some other form?

I assume there is some way to specify the SAM type explicitly, for cases where it can't be inferred properly?
I agree that caching and privacy are mutually exclusive. On the other hand disabling the cache generates unnecessary network & server load.
From what I've seen, there's just no crossing the skill chasm as a software developer. You've either got it, or you don't. No amount of putting your nose to the grindstone will change that.

What a scary thought. Good thing it's not true.

One of the many reasons I became a programmer was that the sky was the limit. Still is. Want to learn something new? Learn it. Want to build something cool? Build it. The only real limitations are your belief that you can do it and your willingness to perservere until you do.

We are not like basketball players or musicians or chess masters where only the extremely gifted (who also work hard) can rise to the top of their craft. With few exceptions, we all can.

I didn't always think this way. I had a college math professor who once said, "Many of my students are simply not suited for the sciences." And I was stupid enough to believe him! In retrospect, his comment said more about his weakness as a teacher than anything about his students.

How do I know this? Because I learned the hard way. When working with my first mentor, I was always too quick to blame someone else for their limitations slowing progress. Until he said, "So teach them!" He believed that almost anyone can learn and get good at almost anything. This seemed counterintuitive but after a while, I was able to adopt this belief system, and it has made all the difference.

There are many reasons why so many programmers suck, but "not being able to cross the chasm" isn't one of them. Just a few of the real reasons:

- They never learned right in the first place.
- They never built anything of real substance.
- They were a tiny cog in a machine and never saw the big picture.
- They got pigeon-holed into a small area for a long time.
- Other things in their life took over.
- They had shitty teachers.
- They had to build on top of pre-existing shit and couldn't do it right.
- They were stuck in environments where excellence never mattered.
- They went into management too soon.
- They got trapped into old technologies and methodologies.
- They made too much money to make a career u-turn.
- They just didn't care enough.
- <add your own>

My programming has always gotten better every year. Sometimes I read my old code and can't believe I wrote it. And I still have tons of room for improvement.

I'm firmly convinced that almost any of us can get better, much better. And even become "elite", whatever that means. Please don't listen to anyone else who tells you otherwise.
Hipster has a meaning, even if it only describes what it isn't. It's much like Christianity. If you say you are a Christian all you're really saying is that you're not an Atheist. Hipster has the same symbolism, you're essentially saying what you're not. Hipsters of almost all stripes tend to progressive and independent in some way. It could be related to their religion ( http://www.twloha.com/ ), culture, fashion, or politics.
Exactly, and only, what this is: a subject with a clear call to action instead of a subject that seems to indicate that this email was generated as an auto-response to a previous action and contained a body that did not require user interaction.
And this is what I was referencing actually. I should have included the link, but I thought it was common knowledge that Ohio was the furthest east state that is a part of the Midwest.
Just to be clear, I'm purposely not responding to the content of your message.
So, Rage HD is 1D game, correct? Or rather 0.5D, because I cannot move backwards.
Vision-less desperation doesn't take you anywhere
This is fascinating.

I observed the "double hump" in an intro computer science class I took in college. Out of 20 people in the class, only 3 had prior programming experience. As the semester progressed, some were able to learn basic Java while others were not; aptitude seemed to be fairly independent from both effort put into this class and performance in other courses.

Since then, I've wondered why this was the case -- it seemed like there was a "programming gene" (not literally) that gave some people innate ability, and without this you were sunk.

It seems like there would be more research on phenomena, but this is the first work I've seen that hypothesizes why this happens.
Here's something, as I mentioned previously, it was written in 2009 for Redis 1.02 so it might not work as expected. Please feel free to fork, modify and improve.

https://github.com/alexwilliamsca/redis-failover
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I couldn't help but think about WP7 and how they chose an angled/square interface in "sharp" (hehe) contrast to Apple's rounded UI. Will this simple principle hurt them?
That is a possibility, I probably need a co-founder / more team members.
How do you hire a [good] web developer in South Africa?
I've been trying for weeks now to find any good web developers living in Cape Town to take the relatively impressive opportunity I'm putting out there.

I'm from the US and it wouldn't take 24 hours to find 5 highly qualified developers to consider for this position. It's been nearly a month and quite a few Rands in advertising for this position and so far, nil.

Any tips, suggestions, hints, ideas?

Here's the, so far, best performing method. A job listing of a fairly popular tech jobs listings site for SA: http://www.bizcommunity.com/Job/196/544/141116.html
Thanks! That's interesting but goes more into the direction I would think then the direction the company seems to think.

My calculation went bottom up: say a low baseline salary of 25eur/h + 50% freelance cost = 37.5eur/h + ~20% tax = ~45eur/h.

I guess that the company would calculate 70eur/h to 90eur/h for projects (e.g. 560-720eur/manday).
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37 is not inconceivable if you factor in the massively popular RPG games like WoW. A genre I believe that is dominated by non-conventional gamers like older women.
They should combine this with the cell-tower that looks like a tree. Could reduce the cell tower's electricity draw.

Not sure these exist everywhere. Here is a Google Image search: http://www.google.com/search?q=cell+towers+look+like+tree...
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Thanks for the mention! :)
This paper is old. The media went running with numbers that are way outdated - The platform now has over 95,000 servers in 1,900 networks across 71 countries.
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I am no one's girlfriend, and I am stuck on lesson five :P

I think that if this is aimed at beginners it needs to be dumbed down more--I am a reasonably intelligent absolute beginner curious about coding and whether I'm interested in learning some, and in this lesson you have completely lost me; I no longer understand what I am doing or why, and I don't know how to proceed:

Everything we've talked about so far has one value. But what happens when you need to store an ordered list of values? You use a data structure known as an array.

The editor now has an array named numbers with the numbers 1, 4, and 6 (look at how we set the values). To access a particular value, you can use the name of the array and its position, or index (they start with 0). To get the number 4 from the array numbers, you would write numbers[1].

Try writing a line that will set the value of a variable called six to third number in the array.

I feel like there is not enough building on the previous lesson and not enough practice/repetition for me to get a toehold on what I'm doing/learning before moving on to the next thing. Here you have already moved me up to a level of abstraction where I cannot continue the exercise without seeking outside help (from Google, a book, a friend...).

And my hint is: To do this exercise, you have to declare a new variable (using var six =) and set it equal to the value of the array (done with numbers[2]). Remember: array indexes start at 0, not 1.

I'm totally lost. This hint is not helpful to me and there are no more hints. I'm stuck and can't continue within the lesson itself without more hints, exercises or explanation.

Also, I think this is brilliant <3. Keep going.
One company tell me I'm bad programmer, then other company teach me Ruby in Rails. Now everything wonderful.
This paper is from 2006. Its results have since been shown to be not as impressive as first thought:

http://crpit.com/confpapers/CRPITV78Bornat.pdf

We now report that after six experiments, involving more than 500 students at six institutions in three countries, the predictive e ffect of our test has failed to live up to that early promise.
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Same here, I learned about the golden ration in my high school Art class. Weird, because it was never mentioned through my college years despite how important and ubiquitous it is.
No, he asked _why_ the Fibonacci sequence and not another arrangement altogether.
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That is quite likely. They have a huge range of contacts amongst government, educational, financial and just about every other large organisation you can think of. If you wanted to get into retailing software to large business, they would be the people to talk to.
If he wanted better mainstream press he should have thrown the word "fractals" in there. I bet most reporters know the word fractals than Fibonacci sequence.
Red Dead redemption is a poor example. The only reason I didn't play the "last mission" is because I didn't know it was a damned mission. Something HUGE and traumatic happens... Then the game sort've feels like it's over and there are no missions on your screen... I only found out about the mission later from a buddy after I'd sold the game that if you just kind of hang out for awhile eventually you get another mission. This is a massive failure on the developers side IMHO.
The Periodic Table of Typefaces
The Periodic Table of Typefaces is obviously in the style of all the thousands of over-sized Periodic Table of Elements posters hanging in schools and homes around the world. This particular table lists 100 of the most popular, influential and notorious typefaces today.
Headlines like "taking on FB, Google and Twitter" seldom end in success. That said I think that Chatroulette left a lot on the table and that if you can get the dynamics right there's clearly still something big to be built in live video chat
The common trait I've seen in all exceptional programmers is an ability to
keep a tremendous number of details in memory at one time

Would you care to elaborate on this? I'm a programmer with 'precise and mathematical mind' and I'd say that my one big weakness is exactly that: I struggle to large numbers of disconnected facts in my head at one time.