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Dawkins proposed it would be better to use "theorem" rather than "theory", due to this confusing ambiguity.
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Wouldn't that require you to pay additional taxes in the US?
Agreed. I've spent a lot of time in gdb and have never had any problems with it.

I think he probably wants some GUI where the watches automatically update, or where -O3'd code magically executes as though the compiler didn't do any optimizations on it.
Right. Actually, I was thinking of putting the data on the SD Card, but it doesn't really matter how it gets there... Just that there are IO ports to mess with. I suppose a USB device could be made for that, though... If it doesn't already exist.
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But forward slashes work fine on Windows, except for "command line" programs that accept options in the form of /option.
Out of curiosity: what operating system does automatically queue separately initiated copy operations? Wouldn't it be quite confusing if some copy operation just wouldn't start at all before some other - possibly very time consuming - operation was concluded?
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There's strong indications that Stuxnet was built by a team of developers, though.
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It depends on the chip they use. Most have tons of GPIO lines to use and they're pretty simple to access in Linux, even from user space. Now the question is if they'll expose them on the board.
Seems the guy stole all their donations but yeah, still very unclear as to what has happened. I have lost faith in this team - lots of teen drama it seems...
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Where I am lawyers have to do two years of supervised training in an existing law firm on top of a degree and a postgraduate qualification.

You might be able to do that remotely - but it would be pretty difficult to do some things (e.g. how do you attend court?).
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apple pays to poland. at least I'm getting money from them every month :)
Martin Fowler in "Refactoring" supported one of my prejudices, which is that "comments are bugs". So we could have nipped this bug in the beginning by not commenting here.

Then there is the question of why are we even thinking about the optimization issues about calling tmpfile? Are we doing billions of these calls? Or more on the order of tens of them. But in either case, wouldn't it be evident prior to any optimization or measuring effort that the time taken up by the OS to actually create the file would swamp any gain done by this optimization?

One might then argue that the bugs are 1) using comments 2) attempting an optimization that simple pre-calculation shows no real benefit.
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This is a political story of the most Reddit-y kind. It's understandable how it ranked here; the title sounds fascinating. But the story isn't. I guess I probably agree with the story, but that doesn't mean it belongs on our site.

Flagged.
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The device will have USB and HDMI ports, in addition to a headphone jack. You'll be able to use it like a (tiny, cheap) desktop PC.

Edit: I'm not sure how easy it'd be to wire up sensors and such to USB. Don't some of Apple's ear buds send commands over the headphone jack? Does that require a special jack, or could it be done easily with normal hardware?

Edit 2: Would the GPIOs work for this? [3]

1. http://www.raspberrypi.org/?page_id=8

2. http://www.raspberrypi.org/?age_id=43&mingleforumaction=...

3. http://elinux.org/RaspberryPiBoard#General_Purpose_Input.2FO...
Sometimes designers on HN ask how to get into open source projects... Sounds like these guys could use a brand database.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=55
I thought there was a law against doing that (net neutrality).

There is no law enforcing Net Neutrality.

And really, the concern isn't that a company like Comcast will meter Netflix, but not Facebook. It's that they will meter Netflix, but not "Comcast Video Streaming" if they were to offer such a service.
he has a list of his apps on his website.
It has a bash interpreter. My first thought was "I wonder if anyone's tried fork bombing it" (no, I have not and will not try, that would be rude).
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Its lack of easily seeing the surrounding code you're stepping through. Its cumbersome ways of use (having to type commands for inspecting variables rather than just being able to point at them). Its difficulty of learning it.

And all of that for no benefit - I spend hours learning vim too, but at least there I got flexibility and a supremely powerful editor in return; but there is nothing gdb can do that the Visual Studio debugger can't. And there you just set a breakpoint and press run, while for gdb it takes you a day just to get integration with your editor set up the first time. I'm not sure what you mean with 'flexible' - a debugger is by its very nature interactive, so the typical advantages of text-based tools don't apply. But of course YMMV etc.
I'm 90% sure that one of the changes made to the way Lion copies files was this exactly - it now queues operations for maximum throughput. I do wish I could find a link that said this - I apologize for that.
Sad to see the "recent code" mostly shows a bunch of "Hello, world!" and no one trying to push the limits.
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Because our main job skills do not revolve around self-promotion and manipulation of others.
Now, that doesn’t really happen, does it?
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Weird - I see the real homepage for a moment and then it switches. Assuming there is some redirect in JavaScript that is waiting till the dom ready is fired. The code makes me sad - tables and inline styles :( - but thats the FrontEnd Dev in me....
This is pretty cool.

It's always good to try out new languages but it can be time consuming getting things up & running before you can make your "hello world".

I wrote my first Go program just now, might try Prolog next :)
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> In your average company, a programmer is considered a glorified mechanic or janitor, a code-monkey if you will, well below the guys that "bring in the money" like sales and marketing. It is an expense, something that the company has to live with because someone has to implement the ideas that the guys in charge come up with to help the guys that "bring in the money" bring in more money.

It's worse than that. Even in the tech sector, the situation you describe sometimes happens. I have yet to fully analyze that kind of situation, but i've already come with some criteria that might help identify such environments.

What is sad is that it's merely a reflect of the mainstreams governance models at wide scale (and only worse: democracy is even less frequent in companies than in countries...), which have proven to be poor, and will prove to be catastrophic in a near future.

Of course in the real world things happen on a continuous scale, but if by bad luck the environment you're in exactly fit below exacerbate description, run!

1. A strictly tree like, military like hierarchy, ruling everything in strict tree order regardless of its a tech, hr, or other issue. This is one of the most effective way to waste talent and to take non optimal decisions (and not even near to optimal) -- add not taking into account bottom-up proposals if you want the perfect mix to achieve a high level of ineffectiveness.

2. The hierarchical tree is strict enough so that programmers typically can't even be spontaneously inspired by new ideas, which often is not enough to kill a business, but just to impede it, so sadly the situation might persist.

3. Each programmer is considered as a "just another programmer" in the company, regardless of achievement, knowledge, skill. The paradoxical part is that does not mean that individual requests are not done to the good people when needed, but it looks like not much people would recognize that when they have no question. Improvements in achievement, knowledge, skill are neither fully exploited and often not rewarded at all, directly leading to a high turnover.

4. Small valorisation of tech realization for those who actually do them, regardless at which level (that can go as far as considering programming mainly as a cost center that needs to be beaten into submission to behave, and preventing it from getting helpful resources).

Lesser versions of those situations exist, leading to more effective tech companies that are more programmers friendly. The two often somehow go together. At the end of this better path, you have some companies like MS, Google.
(not exempt from pb, but they arguably are not that bad)
I'm currently using dojo/dijit/dojox (for good or bad, work requirement). Kinda the same purpose as jQuery/jQuery UI, but I believe that it does not focus on bringing in HTML 5/CSS 3 functionality quite as much.
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Nice little anecdote. It's really annoying when people say "you'll never be the next Mark Zuckerberg." Sure, it's unlikely, but there's not some cosmic force stopping you from doing so. It's all about your starting position, your motivation, and your willingness to succeed.
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For what it's worth: that's stock Emacs behaviour, at least on the current version (23.3). Seems like a highlighting bug.
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Planning to add realtime visualizations and analytics to this as our NodeKnockout project next weekend, so it would be cool to have as many people using it as possible :-)
you wrong! in order to you the pay should be proportionally to the good that they do to human? This is a nosense idea....Just pay proportionally to their skills! Is a shame that a nice doctor earn 500k$ and a nice software engineer fight for 100k$
This looks both real and a pretty serious issue (I wonder how it went by almost a month without getting picked up by the security community). There's an discussion about it on Apple's own forums, linked below, but the gist of it is that users can authenticate over LDAP using any password using the login screen, and can't authenticate at all using su:

https://discussions.apple.com/message/15887083
Good to know, thanks for the clarification.
Thanks for such long comment.
Ad.1) I will consider adding costs. But those are very little - hosting $30, some domains I buy and renew. Plus tax and health insurance that is specific for each country.
Ad.2) It looks very interesting to flip websites based on my stats. But what really matters is the good idea that sells. And it is hardest to get plenty of such.
Ad.3) She is happy that I am at home. It is harder to work like this because there are many disturbances. But it is a way better to be your own boss + in my case double the income + have a lot more free time.
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If you're willing to work doctor hours doing valuable things, you're going to make much more comparable salaries to doctors.

Doctors work absurd hours for years, then many go on to keep working absurd hours.

Doctors who don't run practices don't make the same paychecks, and again, same works for coders. If you don't run a consulting house, don't plan on making 200-500k a year.
Interesting.

I'm going to automate my new greenhouse with two Ardiunos + some single-board, low power computer like this one.

Arduinos will drive motors (window openers, fans etc), analyze data from temperature/humidity sensors in real time, i.e. "convert" USB port to a bunch of 5-volt analog and digital signaling lines. 8-bit realtime architecture is well-suited for that purpose.

32-bit ARM-based computer will drive Arduinos via USB, keep logs on SD card, act as http server, keep me informed via email, maybe even tweet, and also download weather forecasts from the Internet. New code will be uploaded to it via ftp. 32-bit multitasking architecture is well-suited for that purpose.

I was looking at different ARM-based single-board computers recently, all of them are with ~$150 price tag. This one seems much cheaper. I'm not sure about its aptitude as a cheap computer for third world countries, but it is indeed usable as "next-level Arduino". Because 8-bit realtime and 32-bit multitasking architectures ain't mixable anyway.
actually it does exist, i.e. the SerIO from SparkFun (which is a pretty neat device, btw):

http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9521

but then you're back again at arduino, with the SerIO having a higher price tag than the device itself.
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Knowing programmers who work in finance, you are in fact correct.

I'd say software consulting is the sweet spot, your effectively hourly rates catch up to finance rates in a few years of productive operation in a hot field. The few months I worked like a finance guy made me realize I do not like money as much as I thought I did.
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Competition is good and all that, but from my vantage point it seems like a slow-loading and ad-ridden version of codepad.org: http://codepad.org/

Edit: That said, ideone does have an API.
could anyone recommend some reading on theory and implementation of sorting networks?
If you're going down that path, it's not a democracy, but a meritocracy. The opinion of a noted PhD in the field is markedly more weighty than the opinion of an unrelated bachelor.
I tried starting a list of "shops in india that would be of interest to Hackers and Makers": http://www.listry.com/list/83050/list-of-shops-in-india-that... on the lines of "Coffee shops in Cambridge, MA"... And I added two shops that I had painstaking discovered a few months ago for buying a few things I needed.

I was a bit annoyed that getting things you want from your own country(minimizes shipping and taxes) is still so hard in the era of google. So I wanted to share it with the world hoping that others would populate the list further and I could benefit from this. But it was voted -2. Now I have no complaints against that... Maybe such a list is unsuitable for this type of site. But I think it may be a smarter idea for you to make it more obvious as to what constitutes a bad list. Why "Coffee shops in Campridge" is kosher and why "Shops interesting for hackers in India" is not.
So, your evidence is an HN commenter? They have mentioned that social services like Buzz and features of Reader and Picasa would be affected. You could imagine the share feature of any service which will be extended to share to G+ will be impacted -- that doesn't mean the service will be cut off entirely, probably just its social features.
It depends on your mental model and how comfortable you are with the commands. It's similar to the disconnect between navigating a file system on the command line and through a GUI.
I have a feeling the word "dev" is being used loosely here.
I think this attitude arises in part because upper management in a non-software firm doesn't have any way to measure the quality of the programmers they employ. It may be because they don't use the software, because their process minimizes the influence of individual programmers, or it may just be that they have no appreciation for all the mistakes avoided in the development process.

If management can't see the difference in value-add between a seasoned hacker and a new CS graduate, they won't pay for it.
What you describe sound a lot like PageRank (PeerRank)?
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The original source was posted 11 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2880507
As a german I am ashamed that a german court will be abused for litigation as a means to compete, costing me both in taxes and in the higher price I have to pay for products in the end. And people wonder why the economy is stagnating in the western countries. All our money goes to taxes and lawyers.
The current problem is that while both arrows have a similar effect on positioning, down voting also causes the post to sort of disappear, which is ok for lousy posts but tragic for good, but unpopular posts.
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Not so easy to replicate if your cost of living is higher.

I used to get variants of this comment all the time. "Pfft you people living in low-cost countries like Japan have things so easy..."
With -pedantic you can get:

warning: C++ style comments are not allowed in ISO C90 [enabled by default]

Might be worth noting at this point since I'll already halfway though the GCC manpage again, that -Wcomments seems to be exactly for the sort of situation the author of the article found himself in.
The basis of modern science is rigorous observation, not "courage to use your own understanding". This quoted trait is happily exhibit by the religiose - "my own understanding is that God did it, and I don't care how", a profoundly unscientific statement.

Science proliferated under the Enlightenment, but it's refined its goals and methods since then.
I always thought the amount of times a comment gets read should be factored in to the karma score for the comment.

For instance I'm posting this late in this threads life. If 10 people read it, and 7 up vote it, that's a very high percentages of up votes. If I had posted this 10 hours ago when the thread was created, I would have received a lot more up votes even though the comment is the same. Sure, maybe the comment isn't as valuable now because less people will read it. But I think the goal should be to judge a comments value regardless of if the user was lucky enough to find the thread when it was first created.

The simplest way to calculate this is to use page views of the thread after the comment was posted, and maybe factor in how high on the page the comment is to estimate how many people have read it.
I'm willing to bet that the contractor getting paid £2000 a day was probably updating their Hyperion HFM rules - a black art if there ever was one.
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Dutch court orders EU-wide preliminary injunction against Samsung Galaxy
I'm actually not caring much about an Android port at this point as WebOS is surprisingly good. As long as I keep my app cards sane it performs pretty well (I did run the performance tweaks to turn off debugging).

I'll inject about $20 into the app ecosystem as some of the apps look decent. I despise flash, but it really saves this device. Despite some button lag, Flash performs surprisingly well.

Note to devs, create a decent Spades/Bridge game so I can get my dad off my back.
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As an UX designer, I see CV kind of user interface. It is probably the first impression what new employer gets of me, and it will affect expectations and assumptions.

And, when designing new UI, I want to ask from target users - you - what makes a good UX CV?
Seems their website just went down. Here is the pastebin they posted: http://pastebin.com/7GWTjqLE

I, however, have no idea what all this is about...
Arduinos are simple and slow. The stuff that you call "Extra power" (Linux, HDMI, USB, 700MHz, 256 MB RAM, etc.) adds complexity.

Many people have tried to make ARM versions of Arduino, usually with Cortex-M3 microcontrollers. None seem to have been very popular. Getting more power usually means more cost and always means more complexity; there's no way around it.
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They should have added an option where David died while being in vegetative state.
The rules say that, but that's not how it's been enforced. Dr. Popular was removed for weeks even after sending proof that that's what everyone calls him, and Dr. Kiki was not reinstated for weeks even after fixing her profile.
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I'm getting a 404. Anyone have a copy of the article?
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2916102 for part I
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This sounds like a shortcut. Those exist.

Also, besides copying files to removable drives, etc, the primary reason I copy a file is because I want two separate copies. Otherwise I would move it.
The Dutch court also ruled way ahead of the deadline it has given itself. It would be interesting to know why, since this does not happen often.
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I got excited... I was hoping for renaming and moving files that are in-use. That continues to be the bane of my win7 experience.
That's a lot cheaper than something like this:

http://www.phidgets.com/products.php?category=0&product_...
I wish people posting pictures would take the time to include a ruler of some kind for scale. Looks about 3 x 4 inch, is that right?
Cops didn't say that.

Cops said don't embarrass city in front of international visitors and don't run business without a license, host suggested motivation was actually racism (but also had a few other good points).
Still, if you write a piece of A a piece of B a piece of C then a piece of A then piece of B ( A B C A B C ) it's fully certain that you wont have on the disk AAA BBB CCC, whereas you can expect most of the file patterns to be AAA BBB CCC if you write from the queue.

In the case of A B C A B C you need a disk seek when reading pieces of the file, in the case of AAA you don't. As long as there are mechanical hard disks (and they still have big advantages for a lot of uses) such things matter a lot. You can seek only 100 times per second! Just to compare, during time waited on one seek on 2 GHz machine you can do at least 20 millions of calculations...
I don't know if I'd call $80 reasonable. I pay $35 for my 25/5 with FIOS and am very happy with what I get and wouldn't pay more just for fast speeds.
This also handles the tab key properly whereas codepad (currently) does not.
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Funnily enough, many political representatives in China are engineers.
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What alarms me is that on both of my computers with Lion, about half of the time just clicking on a name on the login screen works without entering the password. Happens on my friend's Lion install as well.
> That's practically a guaranteed way to produce more fragmented disk layouts

Not necessarily. You can preallocate space at the destination when the copy starts. File copies are one of those cases when you know up front what the file size will be.

IIRC, there are ways to do this in most file system since the early 90's. I remember HPFS in OS/2 could do that.
<snark>Well, it is intended to be a lightweight protocol after all.</snark>
Knuth's TAOCP covers it in vol III of recent editions. (http://www-cs-staff.stanford.edu/~uno/taocp.html)