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The notability link that was posted [‡] would seem to indicate that there is a difference between a work being notable and the inclusion of a biography of the author of that work.

If I was somehow involved in some notable event (like, oh...say I go on a large-scale bank robbing spree), there is an argument to be made that even if that event should be included in Wikipedia, a separate page just about me shouldn't be.

(I also don't think his article should be deleted, but I don't think it's nonsensical to have a distinction between a notable event and a notable person).

EDIT: Included the link, as mentioning the position of the comment doesn't make any sense when comments order changes.

[‡] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2910731
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Lots of parallels here: http://www.weatherlabs.com/2011/08/device-detection.html
Notability is not temporary.

Indeed, and backpropagating this principle through time, with a few other rough assumptions, suggests there are at least 1 million people who were once notable who will never get their own Wikipedia article. There is, however, a userspace article to commemorate these 'Unknown Notables':

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_Linksvayer/Article_of...
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This is a Web site that thinks it appropriate to offer a synopsis for every episode of Burn Notice. There's a page for each season, plus a page for the show itself.

Why is the inclusion of Randal even an issue?

"Reasons for deletion

...

Any other content not suitable for an encyclopedia"

I like Burn Notice, it's fun and entertaining. But does it need to be in an encyclopedia? More so than Randal L Schwartz? Talk about intellectual mob rule[0].

0: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/07/11/110711fa_fact_...
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Are you trolling? That's obviously http://news.ycombinator.com/ask which (duh) has a lot of "Ask HN"s.
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It really wasn't so much the politics of the post that bothered me (I'm a "pre-occupation" Arabic DLI graduate whose politics probably closely match your own) -- it was your mischaracterization of the 63+ week program there as limited to "hobbies and the weather," said from the comfort of a (somehow more extensive?) 9 week program at MIIS. I have a stack of Arabic books, about as tall as me, from the DLI course that shows this for the hyperbole this is. The idea that someone is favorably comparing the extent of MIIS Arabic curriculum to DLIFLC is frankly just a bit laughable.
> babbling like a retard

A lot can be said of that.
If you look at the discussion you will see that Randal himself has made multiple contributions to the page, which is against Wikipedia's policy, and could be the perceived grounds for deletion.

Aside from that, this is still only a proposal for deletion, like many others have said. I don't think this is any real cause for alarm.
Ditto.

Used this as well. Just needs a bit of tweaking to fit your need.

Privacy policy is also available:

http://automattic.com/privacy/
I'll add that during your first conversation the designer should dive right into understanding your business, and understanding your objectives, before any discussion of solutions.

If the conversation flows in the opposite direction, you have a problem.
This seems like a poor way to censor the Internet. Can't Google trivially change what address hosts Blogger in about 5 seconds?

(Also, the site in question seems pretty interesting. A wikileaks-alike?)
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"I don't just want to tinker because it's fun for me, I want it to have an impact on someone else" - Eden Full, 19, SunSaluter.

3 Questions:
1. Are you really that cynical to hate on someone's project that much?
2. "Fly out, dig a well and work up a fertile soil and dig drainage and septic channels." - Don't you think sustainable electricity would help with that?
3. What have you built lately?
see my comment below: radius of an 8g turn at mach 20 (330 m/s * 20) is 555 km. I choose 8 g because that's roughly what we think a sunburn (ss-n-22) can do, and that thing is built like brick shit-house.

now, to add to that: the radius of a 1 g turn at mach 20 is 4444 km. The radius of the earth is 6378 km. They've got to at least consider orbital mechanics just to hold altitude constant. Able to maneuver and highly maneuverable are two different things. The Titantic was able to maneuver. Just couldn't move fast enough.

Now, let's think about some other fun stuff, everybody join in.

Here's one: at mach 20, you need something along the lines of the shuttle's thermal protection system. We're talking plasma hot. Wrap this thing up in 3 inches of glass and I'll bet you've lost significant payload volume.
Following this advice will probably cause you to rule out a lot of good designers.
The one takeaway I see from these "Wikipedia article deletion stories" is that as time progresses, it will become increasingly difficult to maintain the notability requirement as society progresses from a smaller number of more authoritative sources to a large number of less authoritative ones.
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Clarification: the Google page for "obtuse" does list a source for the meaning "hard to understand", but not only is that source not a dictionary, it offers the meaning only to say that using the word with that meaning "is not considered good style".
Ever searched for the right words in your paper.
Netspeak will improve grammar, spelling, word order and suggests missing words.
Excellent analysis - JLG is right on the mark here. (I liked it in part because he too brought up the obvious question not many are asking - Why did HP prematurely declare spinning off of their PC business when the uncertainty can kill off sales and undervalue any sale of PSG. It pissed off the investors too.)

For fun he suggests Microsoft buy HP's PC business - amusing! If they did end up buying it though Microsoft might have a chance at going after Apple with integration. Highly unlikely though - not because that will piss of their partners (they have nowhere to go) - but Microsoft doesn't really need a volatile, costly and low margin PC business to provide integration - there are cheaper/better ways of doing it.
Latency and reliability aren't so good though.
Keigo is obnoxiously complex, but the grammar itself follows regular patterns.
This is very good advice. You need to get a community that is intimate enough that there will be crushes found. That's your successful customer. People aren't likely to invite their crush for fear of outing themselves, so they would have to be exceedingly lucky to get their crush there through random invites.
The funny thing about this article is that its very existence points out the fact that many web designers are very much aware of the concepts of "business objectives", "return on investment (ROI)", "lead generation", "increase sales". Designers' websites are clearly crafted with the sole purpose of procuring clients, and they presumably work given that many such designers are still in business!

I think that in many cases (and I'm not a behavioural psychologist or anything), consumers make irrational decisions when shopping... usually based on an emotional response. Personally, I would much rather hire a designer who has experience making "beautiful", "modern", "clean", and "usable" websites than one who claims they will somehow magically pump out a website that immediately provides a high ROI.

Web design is an iterative process that starts from a nice, clean base and improves through A/B testing and similar experiments.
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Presumably they didn't include any Greek or other letters because they weren't in the basic ASCII or EBCDIC sets. I guess they wanted their keyboard to be standard across both kinds of computers: micros and mainframes.
Unfortunately it's not that simple anymore. You actually have to do most of the order-book-building legwork to figure out if the quote is relevant: every order modification message, such as canceling an order or execution, omits the ticker. Makes sense: after all, the add-quote actually tells you the ticker, so there's no need to repeat that info.

This is where it gets tricky. FPGA based systems don't really give an edge here, and tilera-based solutions are still nascent
I always try to code cleanly. If there is learning going on, I may not feel it is clean at the end, but it wasn't from lack of trying.
I recently went through this process and paid a law firm to do this. I saved a fair bit of cost by writing the terms and privacy policy myself first (based on other examples around on the web) and then getting them to adjust it rather than start from scratch.
That would be a great service. Bonus points for it being relevant beyond the United States.
>The HTV-2 is part of an advanced weapons program called Conventional Prompt Global Strike, which is working to develop systems to reach an enemy target anywhere in the world within one hour.

Wait, but don't ICBMs have like 40 min strike time for any target in the world since, like, sixties? (Ok, in the sixties they couldn't aim this fast).
We wrote ours and had a lawyer read over it.
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You may find you like product management. You have to remain reasonably technical, but the focus is on human problems (customer needs, business problems, getting the office behind a release, etc).

I still like coding, but I've found being a PM far more satisfying in my day job.
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The notion that maybe he shouldn't is a false controversy. Even if he wanted the page removed, the page would stay. You can't be written up in tens or hundreds of news stories over a decade and not have a WP page written about you.

Wikipedia is not suggesting that Schwartz be deleted. One random guy is. FILM AT 11.
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Great profile, but it's a shame the author had to start with "Ernestine Fu, 20, is taking off her pants," as a sort of sexual innuendo (albeit witty and ironic one) to grab readers attention to this very successful young woman.
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齉 == nose left, bag right.

龘 == three dragons stack

驫 == three horses stack

It's pretty simple and straight forward.
The real question to ask is why does anyone take wikipedia serious as a source these days? I would trust Schwartz's opinions on Peruvian copper mining, quantum physics, square dancing, or any other subject long before I would trust any article on wikipedia because Schwartz has more credibility.
Ask HN: What is the github repositories durability factor?
I'm more curious about what the alternative is because this is my default mode of programming. I don't see what's backwards about it. You establish what you need in the module first, then code. What else can you do?
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My main issue with the start-from-0 convention is that while it makes sense if you consider an array as a pointer with more pointers coming after it, it doesn't make as much sense when it is simply a list of objects.

When I have a five-page document, I number the pages as one, two, three, four, five, and say that the length of the document is five pages. If I have an "empty" document (assuming such a thing makes sense in the real world), it would have length zero, and since there are no elements to assign indices to, I would not assign them numbers.

I have to admit that I much prefer the Lua convention: in a sequence of N items, they are numbered 1, 2...N-1, N. The length of the sequence is equal to the index of the last item in the sequence. "Negative" indices are treated as if one was counting backwards from the end of the sequence, such that the items are numbered -N, (-N)+1, (-N)+2...-2, -1, i.e. the spoken forms "last," "second-to-last," "third-to-last..." This means that 1 to -1 encompasses the whole sequence. This does have the unfortunate side effect that 0 refers to no item, but even when describing an array implemented as a pointer we refer not to the "zeroth" element, but to the first and the last.

This also has an added benefit that the range notation used by Lua's numeric for loops makes perfect sense when compared to the notation used by Python's range statement. In Lua,

for n = 1, #tbl

produces all of the indices in the given table, as does

for n in range(len(ls))

in Python, for a list. In Lua, this can simply produce the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 for a table of six elements, which is intuitive even when using the numeric for to simply generate a series of integers:

for n = 1, 6

However, in Python, the fact that range is used to generate the indices also means that range(1, 6) produces 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ("Where the heck is the 6?") and a simple range(6) produces 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ("Still no 6, and where did that 0 come from?") To get 1, 2...6, you need range(7) ("What does this have to do with 7?")
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(This is output from the last night hackathon @likealittle hacker house)

Simple micro-app that generates & shares fake run reports!

It become handy if you:
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I intended that more as a comment on how frustrating it can be to study Arabic, where years of effort leave you barely able to follow a TV broadcast, and not as a slight on the DLI, which is probably as intensive a program as anyone can pursue.

I can see how you can read that comment as a dig at the DLI, but that wasn't my intent.
I don't understand how there can be a job bubble without a financial bubble. If current venture funding levels will be sustained, doesn't that suggest that current hiring levels will be sustained as well?
I'm but a lowly humble indie developer unschooled in techniques such as test driven development, yet I often find myself doing something like what the author describes.

The bit that rings true for me is that he decided to "write out a script using the yet unwritten API".

I have found my designs to be much more succinct & workable when instead of writing a bunch of classes then figuring out how to get them all to play together, write the code where the proverbial tyres hit the road & then go back to fill in the details.

I'm sure the more experienced software engineers out there would facePalm at this method & it's obviousness, but it gets the job done ;)
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As for copyright over similar disclaimers, we, as attorneys
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and current law is concerned, thus, language will often be
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copyright as far as the terms of use are concerned. The
same principle is applied to real estate P&S contracts, as
well as construction contracts and the like.
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You can edit even textareas with the “It’s All Text!” Firefox addon (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/its-all-text/). I’ve never used it, but I’ve read it’s the standard for Vim editing of browser text for Firefox users.
Even though the pricing looks fairly high compared to the print edition, it's still a bargain for anyone living abroad: the cost of a local copy -when you can find it at a local news-stand- is 2 to 6 times that of the printed price, depending on the country.

For $29.50, I get 12 magazines; if I was to buy it locally, I would get only 2, and I wouldn't even be certain to find a copy anywhere.

Now, if only PC Pro (http://www.pcpro.co.uk/) would do the same...
I used the Automattic privacy policy as a starting place as well. I'm having my lawyer review my draft version, which will be a lot cheaper than having her write it from scratch.

If you'd like to find other CC licensed privacy policies, you can use this search:

http://search.creativecommons.org/?q=privacy%20policy

That will give you some other candidates.
I would much rather choose a designer with a history of work I like the style of than someone that can spout buzzwords like ROI.

It's not like you hand everything over to a designer and say "achieve my business goals", it's a collaborative process where you make sure your business goals are met.
There'll be a backlash. Microsoft will kill the program and claim that "Microsoft relies on a number of 3rd parties for its marketing. In this case, the 3rd party acted without consulting Microsoft and as soon as Microsoft was made aware of the issue, they cancelled the program"
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Ask HN: SEO vs. Branding with Domains (keyword.net vs. prefix+keyword.com)
Calling all SEO and branding experts (I understand we may get different answers from each)...

As an example, say you are creating a product website about something called "Furble Gurble" - but the .com for that keyword is taken. Would you recommend getting "FurbleGurble.net" or resort to stacking words on the front or end, such as "FreeFurbleGurble.com".

Please explain your reasoning from either an SEO or branding point of view.
I've run a 13" aluminum MacBook with 4gb RAM and a normal HDD for quite a while, in using with Xcode, Emacs, Chrome, and background servers running without feeling painful swapping. If you are constantly jumping between more apps than these (or use Eclipse ;), you might run into problems. If you aren't, I think you would be fine.

FWIW, I am very seriously considering buying a new MacBook Air. Now, i5 or i7?
What is a durability factor in regards to a RCS repository?
Huh? HP launched more than two dozen printers (or updated them) that work with the iPad. HP is, in fact, the only brand that has printers which work with the iPad. The TouchPad works more or less with the same printers, it doesn’t do any better than the iPad in that respect.

It doesn’t seem like the availability of printers makes a huge difference.
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I disagree. When I think about the mention of honest, well-paying jobs, I visualize jobs where a person is hired on the merits of their experience and character, where their efforts go towards progressing, learning, teaching and helping while growing along their peers with the security of full time long-term work earning a wage that affords for savings after expenses, advancement and the freedom to lobby for change in the workplace. An honest job is provided by the employer with the responsibilities of paying taxes and benefits shared with the employee. It has nothing to do with being menial or even manual for that matter.

A dishonest job is where an employer takes advantage of the employees or market conditions to offer insecure, low-paying wages where the employee is subjected to conditions designed to restrict their wage-earning ability, restrict their freedom of advancement and deny them their legal rights while simultaneously trying to avoid paying proper employment taxation or offering benefits to the employee. An example of this type of employer would be WalMart.
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I'm extremely disappointed. I for one can't stand reading on a screen for long, especially where I typically read magazines (I'll give you a hint...I visit perhaps once or twice a day ;-)

I also subscribe to Linux Pro Magazine (http://linuxpromagazine.com). It's very pricey in comparison, but I'm generally pleased with the content.
Thanks, good to hear (worth noting that I didn't mean my reply as a dig at MIIS, either). I really did enjoy the article in other respects; I have a severe love for the language, even to this day.
Someone more familiar with Arabic may need to correct me, however I was under the impression that the shape of the letters is not at all affected by the letters it follows, but by their position in the word.

Arabic letters look different depending on whether they are in the initial, medial, final position in a word (as well as having a 4th form when they appear in isolation). However, there are patterns of similarity so it's not as difficult as having to learn 4 completely random shapes for each letter.
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My guess: Microsoft was probably ecstatic about this. Until it becomes a PR headache (it's just about to start). At that point, Microsoft will probably condemn this as misleading and something they don't endorse. They'll probably cut them off from whatever referral program they are currently on.
And specifically with the prefix example, would the word "free" in front be a turn-off (think of that catchy song for the credit report domain on the tv)??
At worst, he used company funds to pay for his affair. That's a big no-no.
This craziness is what happens when you try to implement a specialized algorithm on a general-purpose state-machine. What stupid thing is a "cache" anyway, but an optimization because we are not using real computers but hugely complex state-machines called CPUs. FPGAs are as close as a real computer as we can have today.
I still doesn't know github repositories durability factor but I can use it as a backup system: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/github/fsjZ0cnDExQ/qREAeTK4Y...
How should I have phrased the first line any other way, and not appear arrogant.

The original: "A bigger point here is how we all mistook the results."

Suggested revision: "It's odd that an article that now appears mistaken originally received over 600 upvotes. I wonder how many people would downvote it, given the chance."
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