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I'm launching this in very beta.
The idea is to give an easy way to use QR technology to the people: rent stuff, promote conferences, bands, etc. Plans for businesses will come soon.
Thanks for your feedback.
Vim is _horrible_ if you stay in insert mode for long periods. In particular, it messes up the undo/redo feature.
All those women who "opt out of the marriage market", who choose a career over a family, these women won't have any descendants. To the extent that this behavior is genetic, it will disappear within a few generations.

If there's one trend that you cannot extrapolate, it is this one.
Try `event.currentTarget`, and `event.target` instead. They're much preferable to having a `self` (representing some random DOM element), and a `this` within a function.

$('button').click (e) =>
@clickedButtons.push $(e.target).attr 'id'
Spain forced all jews to convert or to be exiled in 15th century, although they were the most succesfull bankers and merchants (perhaps because of that).

When all the gold from America arrive to Spain in the next century there were no one to use it wisely, so the Spanish Empire turn into an economic disaster.
Please have a read and let me know what you think. It might be alarmist but he makes a great argument.
Lessons to learn from high profile attacks
article identifies four lessons we should learn from the hacks over the last 6 months (and more?).
First, author says we should stop worring about motive and realize we're all targets. Then he flames at security vendors who use the attacks to spread FUD. Then he explains that attackers study our networks better than we do. Finally, he says that we should stop buying technology we can't manage and instead hire more and better security staff.
Most people don't have the courage to try and fail. The fear of failure holds them back from their true potential. Having courage advocates trying even though you will likely fail the first time and probably the next. The point is you keep pushing forward and learning. Through failure comes learning and finally success.

This same attitude is seen in those who are elite in any discipline. Athletes who want the ball at the end of the game, do not do so because they never fail. They do so because they have the courage to give it their best and still come up short. Michael Jordan said it best:

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Is the failover mechanism just a hardware replacement where you need to repopulate the cache or are they doing some kind of "slave" hotswap that the replaced hardware already has the cache?
Is there any way to make this function like reddit's top bar?
you actually had to type out the code yourself to find out what it did.

Or think.
Doesn't seem to be available as an ebook, a strangely common problem for “hard” CS texts.
So their just asking people. You know that it's been demonstrated that people will even lie about their personal lives when they believe they are completely anonymous right?
1. Your home-folder is your nerd-journal. Not only some parts of it, everything.

2. Use sensible file-names, don't overthink this but refrain from beeing stupid. Clear house often and regularly.

3. Once you decide that your nerd-journal needs a feature, you write this as a script. You think from a usability-standpoint how you want to evoke that script (a hotkey, a menu-item somewhere, whatever).

4. Your backup-solution is your versioning system.
Bingo, this is, as an acquaintance of _why, the main reason. Though I think it is more complicated than just one thing. Before when he got outed he was able to talk to the person and get them to respect his anonymity, but this time around the person wouldn't budge. He wanted his artwork to stand on its own, and has his reasons and I respected them so that's as far as it went.
I think that's called Groupon. Taking billions of dollars of investor money and tying it up with no hope of making a single dime. You'll get millions of users and entrench yourself deeper and deeper in a broken business model.
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Google Music works great at what it's intended to do. Play your music from anywhere.

That said, I've recently realized that I don't really like my music. That is, I'm much more interested in effective music discovery apps like Pandora, Grooveshark, and Turntable.fm.

Can't wait to see the Google+ spin on Google Music...
To be fair, they did refer to them as back-of-the-envelope calculations. Could have used a little more emphasis on that fact though.

Would love to see some more detailed studies on this. I've long been amazed we (as a country, race, world) haven't been more concerned with our rising population issues. Maybe it will fix itself without drastic intervention?
Jesus, maybe it WAS faked.
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Wow. What a fucking pointless distinction. I despise businesses that survive solely by inhibiting the progress of others.
I interviewed an early MySpace dev a few years ago. He said they had a services team from Microsoft in full-time to help with scaling. Once the growth spike kicks in, it seems important to up the ante on technical hiring in order to control one's own destiny.
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And hopefully you train to make those in a way that no syntax errors are generated...
>>Mozilla would like to introduce WebAPI with the goal to provide a basic HTML5 phone experience within 3 to 6 months. [...] Specification drafts and implementation prototypes will be available, and it will be submitted to W3C for standardization.

3 to 6 months is a fairly short timeline for getting all browser vendors and the W3C on board, not to mention getting stable and secure implementations into the wild. At least they're doing all the legwork by putting together the initial specification drafts and implementation prototypes. These additions would be truly incredible if accepted. I know they like to lump every standard under HTML5 these days so I wonder if this is intended to be an addition to that or if WebAPI is completely orthogonal to HTML5.
tl;dr - Vim's GUI features are different (arguably better) than your Windows-ey conventions. If you want to get started with your "old" key shortcuts, get started with "evim" that ships with Vim.

Cut, copy and paste work a bit differently in Vim. There's a whole lot of clipboards (called "registers") in Vim, some of which have a special purpose. This is a very powerful feature but it doesn't work like the rest of your apps do so it may be misleading at first.

Find and replace is another feature that's not so easy to get started with in Vim, but, again, it can do regex matches and a whole lot more than your regular text editor can.

Vim has also got a neat undo feature, which actually stores a tree-like history.

New document, save, print and others can easily be found in just about any Vim GUI.

If you want a smooth start with Vim without having to learn everything again, you can use evim (bundled with default Vim) that uses all these Windows-ey "default" keybindings.

It's also worth mentioning that most of Vim's keybindings are default keybindings in Unix since the dawn of man (before Ctrl-S was ever used for saving anything). E.g. j and k for scrolling up and down, / and ? for searching, etc. For example they work with the "less" pager in Unix.
First, you have to learn the rules. Then you have to master the rules. You have to really know what they're for, how they make things better. Then, finally, you can start breaking the rules.
My first thought as well.

Bitcoin is often said to have many of the properties of gold, not least its scarcity.

But here is a clear example of how bitcoin trumps gold, people can move large amounts of bitcoin in a short amount of time with very little risk. Bitcoin users are already doing this.

http://blockexplorer.com/block/0000000000022043f9ea2c298f338...

Total BTC?: 416300.33

At todays bitcoin market value that is 4,605,201.67 USD.

Still some way off 12 billion I grant you, but astonishing considering gold has been used as currency for thousands of years and bitcoin is less than 3 years old.
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"Venezuela is falling to pieces, structurally, morally, economically, etc. We wasted a decade that could have turn our country in to a super power."

This is so true, based on my experience having stayed in Caracas, Venezuela on my way to Bogota, Colombia just a few months ago. I was shocked at the difference between those two neighbouring countries, Colombia is rapidly improving whilst Chavez is destroying Venezuela.
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They've been standards in Unix before Microsoft existed.
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What about the cost of moving that quantity of gold? They are already talking about 40 trips.

Don't they have sea ports in Venezuela? According to Wikipedia and a few calculations, a container ship can carry 412,075 tons of material.

Should be cheap to move, expensive to guard though.
Yeah can imagine there are jobs where it is required to stay "hidden". I think it is very interesting cause most times you can make a name in communities when good and at the same time popular people from the community are working for your company.

On the other side there are plenty of people who did or still do a lot to be popular in the community.

Last but not least I think the guy has earned some rest.
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Oh, cool! I didn't know about view, actually... I'd been using vim to poke around in files because I'm familiar with the navigation key commands, and was always keen to make sure not to edit something. But opening as read-only is great!
how many EC2 servers do you have running for all this?
+1 for Kleinberg-Tardos. I had already read Cormen before, and dabbled in TAOCP before I found Kleinberg-Tardos, and found it the most interesting (while remaining rigorous) of the three. I loved the structure of the book as well - focusing on real world problems and their algorithmic solutions, rather than a reference index of algos.
Sad to hear, i was really excited when i found tiddlywiki. But i can not move from chrome.
Moving your hands from the keyboard to the mouse (and back) takes longer than getting to where you want using Vim navigation on the keyboard. You can also use intelligent movements (e.g. f" = to the next " on this line, or /foo = to the next line with foo or 362G = to line 362) instead of pounding the keyboard like crazy.
None of the four would be in my top four. They aren't even advantages. Certainly not competitive advantages anyways.

Going along with the theme of employment vs self employed, I would like to add one I think is highly important.

5. The pivot: In the startup world, this is basically switching focus based on the realities of your startup when you get it out into the world. You start with x idea but you find your customers are using it for something completely different. Based on that you change the service. Or something to that effect. Most people here know what I'm talking about.

Entrepreneurs are able to see changes in their industry and are able to pivot based on those changes. They independently learn new things. Try out new technologies. Take different approaches to the problems they are trying to solve. Explore different models for income. There are many other examples.

A real life example might be a web developer moving from hourly client work to building a product (perhaps on the side while still doing hourly work.) That developer might also move from web development to building Iphone apps. There are limitless ways to change in this industry.

Unfortunately, many of the jobless are in their situation because they haven't been able to do their own pivots. Perhaps it's because they have put their heads in the sand and ignored industry changes. Perhaps their routine of punching the clock has put them in a bubble where they weren't even aware that the industry has been changing.
After you buy the hard copy (this is one of the books which I really think it is worth having the hard copy) you can have a look here: http://library.nu/docs/-----/The%20Algorithm%20Design%20Manu...
I don't think this is remonetization, but I do think the dollar bubble is popping. QE has caused excessive supply, so massive inflation is coming. Moving to gold is a good way to avoid the dollar bubble and also all of the other bubbles (real estate, debt, etc). Gold is also a bubble, but it will pop after the dollar adjusts.
Microsoft has always been a software company. I doubt this happening - Microsoft doesn't need Webos and they are interested in Nokia more; they are closely working with Nokia.
Vim's :grep does what you want, and also displays the results in a nicely navigable form in the quickfix list or the location list.
The correct term is nationalization. As far as I'm aware, there have been many nationalized foreign companies in Venezuela but the owners are getting paid. Given that I haven't heard anyone complaining, the prices are probably fair. So, this is very far from confiscation.
Frankly, this is Mozilla's reaction to Google's http://www.webrtc.org/

To put it in perspective, Mozilla has no mobile platform and is crying for relevance.

Apple -> iOS/WebKit
Google -> Android/WebKit
Mozilla -> ???/Fennec

By getting desktop browsers to implement telephony and other collaboration APIs, I'm sure their hope is to get mobile browsers to likewise expose the precious voice and video APIs of the mobile handsets. And perhaps by doing this, lines between browsers on mobile devices are blurred to where Fennec has a role.
"Donate" time in exchange for employment status.
Balance of power continues to shift in the e-book wars
Yeah, but then you would have to live in an Arabic country for a while, risking getting stoned to death for being too liberal, or having to be covered in table cloth all the time if you are unfortunate enough to be born a lesser creature i.e. a woman.
their major acquisitions will be all Talent acquisitions; small talented startups.
This is great! If anyone has a link to a story done using this info please share. I really hope that Slovenians find a way to export this tool to other ex-YU republics. We really need it.
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It's not just QE, either. The movement of pricing oil in alternate currencies is potentially devastating.
'Until an asteroid' is probably one of the best sign-off ever. It's true that we really don't know what's coming down the pipe for us, so code and be happy, or whatever you do, but be excited and motivated about it.
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3 to 6 months is a fairly short timeline for getting all browser vendors and the W3C on board

As far as the specs go, most of the things they list have W3C APIs at reasonably advanced stages. I keep track (somewhat) of the Camera APIs, and they are at a point where Opera has an experimental implementation on Android, and Ericsson has a Webkit version with some support.

The implementation is more tricky. They can fix Firefox on Android of course, but in theory they could pay people to work on Webkit to help out iOS users (and the default Android browser). I'm not sure what Mozilla sees as their vision: is it to create the best web browser on the planet, or is it to make the web platform as good as it could be?

I don't see how they could help Microsoft out with their implementation though.
The article is ridiculously flawed.

Lets not forget that the world put on an extra billion people in just the past 11 years.
What if someone finds a gigantic Deposit or a way to cheaply produce Gold?

Ah, yes, the Fusion Codicil: http://bit.ly/oQOxIr

(man, linking to something with quotes in it is hard, here)
There is the WeTab which is in that price range with a GNU/Linux on it. MeeGo.
Yen isn't accepted at your local supermarket either. You would have to trade it for a local currency.

This is a widely practiced and understood phenomenon. The only reason you would have a problem with this is if you're requiring gold to have attributes that no other "value units" have.
WebRTC is a realtime voice/video communications API, and Mozilla are working with Google on shipping an implementation.

Frankly, your tone is trollish.
Who says it will die down?
"The WebRTC initiative is a project supported by Google, Mozilla and Opera."
http://www.webrtc.org/
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I could have written this. I learned a little vi in the mid-80s and have pretty much used it ever since. No other editor has stuck with me that way and I've seen most of them - ISPF, WordStar and many derivatives, WordPerfect, etc. Except Emacs. I just never got into Emacs because every system that had Emacs also had vi.

I think I spent the first few years getting to the end of a line with shift-A and Esc, copying lines by trying 13dd u 14dd u 15dd P jjjjjj p, etc. (Side note: even as I was editing this text I kept hitting ESC and bbbbbb.) I'll likely never know all the things Vim can do, but it's already enough that it's my fallback editor when I need to do a lot of editing or text manipulation.
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Actually, the logistics (which the article focuses on) isn't as unique a problem as one might think. Australia alone produces about 300 tons of gold each year and I would expect most of it is exported.
Pivoting seems orthogonal to self-employed. I'm gainfully employed and 'pivot' on the side.
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That is so far from my general impression of the matter, I had to do some news searches to make sure I wasn't taking crazy pills. Fortunately, it seems I wasn't. "Companies are very afraid."[1] Here[2] we have a company whose oil rigs were "nationalized" because they refused to do more work until they were paid the $49 million it was owed. Another article [3] indicates that Exxon-Mobil and Conoco-Philips might get paid for their assets four years after nationalization.

[1] http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/12/nationalizat...

[2] http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/06/24/us-venezuela-natio...

[3] http://www.stockmarketsreview.com/extras/venezuela_to_compen...
I find this very easy to believe and it is the story of the poor major oil producing countries. In Nigeria, 25% of the national budget is dedicated to the personal expenses of the lawmakers by law. The rest makes its way into a very corrupt system that the multinational oil corporations are complicit in building after infiltrating the government and civil service at all levels [wikileaks]. They easily avoid accountability for persistent decade-long oil spills that exceed the Gulf of Mexico incident each year. In the long term, this 'oil wealth' is toxic to the society, infrastructure and environment of these countries.

The demand for oil is in every sense an economic addiction and the governments of the industrialised world will suspend all principle to keep the pipelines flowing. They empower ruthless sociopaths with billions of dollars and feign outrage when these despots hold their people hostage and slaughter thousands to maintain their hold on power. Why are the world's most dangerous men invariably from major oil producing countries?

I think the capitalist ideal of money as the only measure of success is a very irresponsible way to run a planet. In the past at least, the system seemed to work in favour of a few countries that were first at the controls. Now that there is just so much momentum that this ship has started to fly itself, I find it amusing to watch the US and Europe scrambling to come to grips with just a small part of the helplessness of the other 5 billion.
Does anyone else have a little trouble with the following sentence:
"A regular expression library is a big thing. Using one to parse identifiers is like using a Ferrari to go to the store for milk."
I for one would rather read that as "A regular expression library is freaking awesome!" But I think the author meant to say it was overkill! ;)
At first I only took it as a "me-too" to Khan Academy, but it really isn't. It definitely takes away some great features in KA, but it's defined differently in the sense that the design reflects the web industry rather than how a typical course would teach.
It is truly painful to read some of the misinformed posts on economic issues here.

Here is all you need to know:

- Gold is money, and has been considered money by all civilizations on earth for thousands of years.
- Gold does not decay, rust, degrade, or decompose in any way over time.
- Gold cannot be printed, duplicated, or fabricated in any way.
- Gold, because of it's unique color and atomic weight is almost impossible to imitate.

Gold is real money that holds it's value over time. It is not in a bubble. What is happening is that the bubble of fiat currency is deflating against gold. Gold holds it's value in a remarkable manner over time. You will find, for example, that a fine tailored men's suit has cost about one ounce of gold for hundreds of years.

When you figure out the fiat currency is the real "stupid" you will probably wish you had some gold. But, by then, it will probably be too late.
And those women will be 300 feet tall because they were 3 feet tall when they were 4 and they were 4 feet tall when they were 8.
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STM sounds all nice, yet there are few implementations of STM currently that give better performance than a good serial implementation.
I proposed a Podcasting StackExchange back when Area 51 first appeared. We got to about 30 followers before it was deleted.

http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/6030/podcasting

Hoping this proposal gets further.
Well, we already have one in Serbia: http://portal.ujn.gov.rs/
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What would really be good if deals were published before any contract is signed. That would enable fair competition.
Here's the original article:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2103672/microsoft-i...
Sadly, I felt the same. Foolish now, isn't it?
Agree to that. However, given that webkit is the widely used mobile browser, the webkit project should implement something similar asap. This covers a real need and its actually kind of baffling why we still don't have those simple apis in the browser already. Given that both big webkit contributors, apple and google, have vested interests in non-browser mobile apps, it's not surprising.
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