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> And when we want to adjust our lexer to admit other haracter types, such as Unicode identifiers

Actually regex libraries such as PCRE have a good unicode support and are better than me when it comes to do things like matching character properties (letters, uppercase letters, numbers, punctuation, etc).
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People are not buying gold because they think it will become the basis of a new monetary system, they're buying it because it's one of the few assets that are small, portable can be easily and discreetly sold and which rises in value during economic uncertainty. The goal is to hold an asset which will survive the devaluation of currency and is no one else's liability and it is doing just that, right now.
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Where is gold not accepted? In which country? It's not as handy but it is valuable because you can't make more of it.
Actually, they do offer it (on Fox.com and Hulu.com) the next day to people who prove they are current Dish customers. They're surely extracting some money from Dish for this arrangement (the way ESPN 3 does from some ISPs), and they created a situation where you can indirectly pay for access to the cotent the next day (assuming Dish is available to you in your part of the world).
Venezuela should be a much richer country but was controlled by a cabal of wealthy families that siphoned the wealth off

I have heard that argument before...many times. Is a very poor argument.

Chavez has been in power for 13 years with the highest oil prices in Venezuelan history. Most of that money went to their personal pockets. How do I know this you might ask?

It happens that it is LAW. You see, the Chavez government created a LAW that would allow them to set the national budget price, at the time was at 70$ I think (don't quote me on that) and any amount above that would go to a PERSONAL presidential account that Chavez controls and has no OBLIGATION to tell anyone what he is doing with that money.

Let me remain you that we spent several years with the prices above 100$ per barrel and that Venezuela produces about 2.5 million barrels of oil PER DAY. I'm not going to pretend the need to do the math here for the HN folks, but just in case, for illustration purposes that personal account would receive somewhere on the lines of...

75 million dollars a day.

Try to grasp how MASSIVE that amount is.

You see, when you talk about poverty and literacy I simply know that you have not been nowhere near Venezuela.

Venezuela is falling to pieces, structurally, morally, economically, etc. We wasted a decade that could have turn our country in to a super power.
Dixons/PC World/Curry's had one yesterday online, and in store today. Reduced to £89 I believe.
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£89 in Dixons? Haven't been able to confirm myself.
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>Not to pick on this too much, but elitism is a good thing.

When calls someone/something out for being an elitist/elitism they are actually calling out a false sense of superiority. So no, it's not a compliment or a good thing. It puts you in the same group as Nazi's/racists/xenophobes.
I mean "current" as in today, not historical. I didn't call it a currency, I said it was valuable. I agree that gold is entirely useless - you can't eat it, and it is unhandy; however the gold price today says that for all practical purposes, gold is very valuable right now. Probably because of lack of faith in paper fiat currency right now.

This may change; it may be a bubble that collapses if and when faith in paper fiat currency is restored (you could read that as gold filling a temporary but valuable role as a hedge against unstable currencies). Or new deposits of gold could be found; or new ways of extracting it could arise.

However the supply of gold is quite limited; it's not like diamond where the only difference between very expensive diamond and cheat-as-dirt coal is a detail of removing impurities and rearranging the atoms.
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When did the last HN meetup occurred in Shanghai? Was there even one?

Let's start or restart such gathering! Shanghai is a small world and we already have crossed one another paths more than once, it would be nice to get you all involved to share your past experiences, projects, latest geeky stuff, etc.

Where? Let's head to the Abbey Road, at the corner of YueYang road and DongPin road in the French Concession (Puxi). A couple of beers at special prices, finger food, old faces, new faces, Chinese, Foreigners, you are all welcome to join in!
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When? Wednesday September 7th 2011 - starting at 7pm.

Please send us an email to hn (at) wiredcraft.com in order to book tables, the 10 first to confirm and arrive will get their first beer on the house.
Gold is not accepted at my local supermarket, and probably not yours either. They take cash or card, but not gold. You have to convert it into currency first. You can do this in any country if you know where to go, but you get the point - it's not as handy as paper money. Suppose you have a 1 ounce gold coin (worth USD 1882 today) and you owe your friend $100. You have the money, but how do you pay him? Do you file bits off the coin, or do you ask for change from $1882 ?
The OP was obviously making a "wake up and think about what you're saying post". What did you contribute exactly?
Well, I'll leave it a few more days to give them a 'reasonable' period to sort it out, then put in a complaint to the UK's ICO office: http://www.ico.gov.uk/complaints/data_protection.aspx

Although I'm pissed they neither responded to my complaint nor bothered to remove the spreadsheet. Makes me wonder how ignorant some of these corporations really are...
Wow, the "survival of the fittest" argument, and on hacker news of all places. The entire point of civilization is to escape "survival of the fittest". Do you know what we call people who still live by those rules? Uncivilized.
Except disregarding over three decades of human-computer-interaction progress is not the "proper" way of editing text.
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people are already scavenging over data and finding dubious and interesting(funny?) transaction info

to give just two samples (on funny side) of how the data looks:

police seems to be mostly buying meat

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they smoke huge amounts of tobacco in some retirenment homes

http://supervizor.kpk-rs.si/podj/31627528/

Of course the real point is in exposing the corruption!
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What a great idea.

Apart from things that have a desperate need for privacy (and there really shouldn't be that many of those) - shouldn't every single financial transaction of every single publicly funded organisation be open to scrutiny?
Good to remember Alan Kay's guideline here - "OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things."
>You can also use it whether you are on Mac, Windows, Linux or whatever future OS comes out.

I can use modern WYSIWYG text editor on any unfamiliar platform anyway, my aptitude with computer GUIs is sufficient enough for that. Notepad++, Textwrangler, MS Word, whatever... they're not exactly difficult to pick up.
The chairs in this analogy represent access to food, healthcare, education, shelter, clothing. The necessities of life.

The game technically has more chairs than people.

The problem is that an elite 1% are occupying 50% of the chairs.
I use fossil (fossil-scm.org) for the same purpose. It is super nice that the wiki is integrated with the source code I'm working on and the bug tracker.
What's the easiest way to take such code (one line) and format it to something readable?
When you don't believe in currency there are unlimited ways to invest your money somewhere else, when you don't believe in corporations there are much more conservative alternatives like farm land. In my opinion oil is a better investment than gold, the applications are endless but i personally wouldn't because of its volatility.
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What on earth are you talking about? This sounds like projection to me because I didn't read anything like that in there.

It sounds to me like this person grew up poor and knows what it means. This stupid idea that poor = lazy/bad is so entrenched in the US society (and was when I was growing up too) that it can ruin your social life from very early on. If I were in his shape I would do anything I had to to make sure my children's peers thought of them as at least middle class so they would have better social connections later in life.

Failing that, I would just let my kids know that when they get college age we're moving somewhere so they can start a new life.
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I checked online yesterday but didn't see any reduced prices. I called Curry's just now and they had a recorded message saying they've sold out. I can't believe I missed it!
hey @chetan51, i was having a look at your bookmarklet code (out of interests sake), and notice this snippet:

> panel_html...eturn panel_frame.attr("src"

what confuses the shit out of me is those 3 dots dont look like valid javascript, but firebug shows no errors in it. could you enlighten me, or am i missing something obvious.

see: https://gist.github.com/1164846

all i did was add line breaks etc, no other editing
They weren't denying them sleepovers. He was denying letting other kids come to their house. I'm sure they would be happy to have their kids go to other people's house. They just can't let it get out that their kids have poor parents. This can be a really huge deal.
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> It happens that it is LAW. ..at the time was at 70$ .. and any amount above that would go to a PERSONAL presidential account that Chavez controls

This sounds like propaganda. Got a link to this law?
Some libs such as PCRE can match by character properties, for example \pL would match any unicode letter.

Doing that in a loop seems to be much more difficult. And unless you work on utf-32 data, you have to handle variable-size encoding of characters.
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If by "most wanted permalink structure" you mean /%post-name%/, I believe that is currently being addressed for 3.3.

If you have solution for anything in WordPress, submit it. The "person in charge" is you. There are few Open Source projects that do as much to encourage new participants.
Rumors are that Chavez wants to confiscate/socialize the venezuelan gold industry => http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2011/08/20/venezuelas-gold-...

Foreign companies that would lose their mines would very likely try to get hands on the gold that's located outside of Venezuela (with a court order etc)...
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I hope it is not excessively elitist to think that programmers should aim to do both. Also, the two skills are not independent.
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While most gov's are locking down on people it's nice to see one (ours) that does it's job in this one, but major instance. Do something to serve it's people better.
id did it by hand and found some weird shit, see my comment.
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5. Diversity. As a freelancer, I have worked on several large projects and a couple of smaller ones in the past few years. I saw many different processes and learned the advantages and disadvantages of them. I had to learn and use new technologies in every project. I worked with a lot of people, some of them really talented, some not so much, but I learned something from all of them.

All of this was interesting and exciting. Working 9-5 for a company would have exposed me to exactly one development process and one set of technologies. Not much to learn here, and less fun too.
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When I saw the title, I thought it was going to be about cats.
You'd only care if you ever needed to interactively debug your app in the browser. So, unless you're a fan of old-school debugging (ie not debugging, just writing out to the console) you do care about how the javascript looks.
Sorry I can't find a direct link to the law http://www.noticierodigital.com/2011/04/el-nuevo-herald-chav...
Can you be a bit more specific about what you want to learn?
My take on this is that the excesses of enterprise Java poisoned a generation of programmers' opinions about static typing. We're going to see people start rediscovering the benefits of static typing in a sane framework as more of these kinds of projects hit the wall.
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This is like saying zombies are alive...

No. Enterprise (and enterprisey) code is born dead. With huge amount of effort, it may be coerced into walking. It also eats brains.
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> That's okay, but he is also indirectly encouraging a beginner to not care about the quality of the code he produces

You really should not be using (or maintaining) code written by beginners, should you?
I the people lose trust in a country the currency goes down exactly because of this. This can also be a good thing, for example when the economy is not competitive and the government has always enough money to provide the basic needs. Not comparable to a resource.

Everybody thinks he knows about economics but does lack basic theories, i don't want explain in every discussion how inflation works.

PS: Please stop downvoting me just because you disagree.
yeah same here. don't get me wrong i think its pretty neat and even have the duck app on my droid.

i guess its hard for me to switch since EVERYTHING i do is with g ( email, search, google+, etc.)

its more a convienience thing for me. but yeah i think it def is a bigger following on tech sites in relation to the average person.
With HP focusing on enterprisey software, it'll never again be as entertaining to watch.

But I trust somehow reason will once more shine its light onto HP's board, that they will fire this idiot and abandon his silly idea of turning HP into SAP.
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Large amounts of unintended irony in this piece featuring tablet advice from Arrington (red flag) that amounts to "HP should sell large numbers of hardware for low margin".

You mean, just like the PC business they're trying to exit? And the console business that can't shoot straight because the era of $60 apps is fading fast?

Because you know, Best Buy is super excited to buy tablets from HP for just under $200 and retail them for $200 while being shut out of the app/ad/bandwidth/content ecosystem.

To make an ecosystem only strategy work today I think you need to have your own distribution network and HP isn't really in a position to burn bridges with Best Buy over the rounding error that is their tablet business.
It'd actually be an interesting experiment to see what you could buy with smaller-denomination gold coins. I would bet some number of independent businessmen (but not large chain stores) would be willing to accept, say, the 1/10-oz American Gold Eagle as equivalent to around $180.
Yeah, it's important to correct those mistakes, though. And ensure that the mistakes don't go unnoticed.
How does BLS? By seeing how many people claim benefits? What about those who aren't eligible?

You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. Please go educate yourself before further embarrassing yourself by expounding on this topic.

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> WebOS is a terrible, flawed, slow as molasses OS.

Maybe version 3 is. My Pre 2 is nice and responsive.

> WebOS will never gain traction because apps on it will always be much slower than native compiled apps on iOS or even JITed apps on Android.

JavaScript can be JITed. And you can write native code for it just fine. It's just not that much fun.
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Yes, but that is not the point. The point is, best practices should be taught as early as possible, so that people don't acquire bad programming habits.
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If they never make mistakes on their own, what are they really learning? Also, why are you so sure your "best practices" will remain best practices a couple years from now?

Give http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html a read and come back enlightened.
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Literacy is up only 2% in the past decade.

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My supermarket doesn't take dollars either, doesn't mean the dollar isn't a useful currency.

And we're talking about a country reserve, not exactly hand money.
I don't think that RoR will be looked back upon the same way as PHP. PHP is a language with a buggy interpreter with a ghetto as a standard library with a community consisting of a bunch of script kiddies. </flame>

Ruby on Rails is closer to Java J2EE, in all it's enterpriseyness. It may not use a whole lot of XML files here and there, but it's got a similar flavor IMHO. Lots of stuff happens by "convention over configuration". The XML shit from J2EE is just replaced with a little bit of domain specific code within Ruby.

I can only speculate what's the root cause here. Is the web stack just so horribly broken with session cookies and whatnot? Or the problem of displaying the content of a relational database in a HTML page a difficult problem? Or is it just trying to force a one-size-fits-all solution to a problem that is not well defined?
I agree with you, beside the Best Buy comment. They already operate with small margins for the hardware, where they make most of the money is selling you all the other crap with it, from the case for your brand new tablet to a 3 year extended warranty.
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The way i'm reading it it's free to watch the next day on Hulu for existing Dish subscribers, or you can watch it on Hulu the next day if you're a Hulu Plus subscriber:

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> Also, why are you so sure your "best practices" will remain best practices a couple years from now?

It's the same as saying "but why are you so sure your science will remain science a couple years from now?". Sure, there is constant progress and change, but we have to know what is at our disposal right here, right now.
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I understand the benefits of monetary inflation in an expanding economy. I also think that "the spontaneous remonetization of precious metals is a Nash equilibrium," or in other words, inevitable. Read this, from 2006:

Why the Global Financial System is About To Collapse

http://johnlaw0.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/why-the-global-fina...
I had a friend that was unemployed for a very long time and couldn't find work. She just stopped looking after awhile. To make ends meet, she borrowed money from friends, including me. After a few months, she found a new job and was able to pay everyone back.

Being jobless and desperate puts you into a deep hole emotionally. Sometimes you just need a break to get your head together again. Because you think that endless searching for jobs is your duty as an unemployed person, it often feels like you need "permission" from society to stop.

Just think how often people ask you what you do for a living. It happens all the time at parties and when meeting strangers. In our society, it is looked down upon to be unemployed. This circumstance is only a positive quality in the very wealthy (think how good "retiring early" sounds).
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I think I got one from Comet but it's hard to know even if I paid for it, demand has been huge and sites are being down seconds after they lower the price.

Also, people are buying them at the normal price because they know they can return them if they don't get a refund. And since stores don't want to deal with it, everyone is very confident stores will just refund it.
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