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>why do we lazily accept the continuing existence of Sudan, a >British colonial construct joining Arab Muslims and African >Christians in Africa's second largest country

If you're going to divide political borders into "real" ones maybe you should start with those within the united states instead of mucking around in Africa. There is always Cascadia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_(independence_movement...

and then you could consider making a state out of New York City since the culture, religion and ethinic mix is radically different than upstate New York (That is the kind of criteria the author cites).

and realistically, you could look at most of the big states in the US and split them up if we're going to start remaking political borders just because they're old or ineffective. I nominate South Jersey as "Snookiandia". Wow this could be fun!
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My girlfriend and her circle of friends loved Social
Network. If I had reputational stock I'd be IPOing
right now.

In a relationship, IPO equates to "marriage". Note that the time/money requirements to satisfy each level of advancement in that arena (marriage, child1, child2, ...) grows exponentially.

The relationship Cost/Benefit ratio works remarkably similarly with a business ipo actually. If you're headed in that direction, I strongly recommend performing in-depth due diligence particularly around the areas of money-management, child-rearing.

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As ridiculous as this is, I hope that this at least means we'll get the 3.0 update sooner to our SGSII phones ...
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Windows does this too, of course. Any modern OS does.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/f/7/af7777e5-7dcd-4...
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Try learning J or Prolog. Those are quite a bit further away from the norm, and will greatly expand your perspective.
8-bit realtime and 32-bit multitasking architectures ain't mixable anyway.

That is some wisdom, right there.

I'm working on an ARM board (http://rascalmicro.com) that plugs directly into an Arduino. If you're serious about building this system for your greenhouse in the next few months, I'd love to have you as a beta tester. My email is in my profile if you're interested. If not, good luck with the vegetation.
Shameless plug... an old site of mine (2005!), which attempts to democratically draw "non-political" borders within the US, based on user responses:

http://commoncensus.org
In that case, your database is the ticket machine.
Yeah Apple invented it, i give them that. But do they need to patent it and sue manufactures of other smartphones that use the same technique ?
Sadly, Apple became the new MS years ago..
'Ditch the Ethernet, add Wifi, GPS and a mic jack'

And the price would no longer be even close to $25
What I don't understand is, if EU don't have software patents, how that ruling is even possible ?
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Difference between Stack and Heap. One among the most famous programming questions. You will find a lot of explanation of this question in many different ways. Some would be brief and some with hell lot of detail. Let’s try to understand it in a very general way.
Exactly. Speedtest.net does not take advantage of the multiple CPU cores.
From an ethical perspective, I find Samsung's inability to innovate and subsequent willingness to carbon-copy the iPhone and iPad to be reprehensible and wrong. It's sad that Samsung seemingly can't come up with much original on their own.

From the perspective of fostering general innovation in the marketplace and increasing the greater good, software and design patents need to go bye-bye. Apple's just playing the game according to the current rules, and the current rules really need to change.
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> They also go through a lot of school for a very long time

And that school is very expensive. Also, many highly-paid positions carry the risk of getting sued by the patient's side for having made a silly mistake (can happen to anyone) or even for things that were unavoidable but which the patient's side believes otherwise.
Plumbers and Garbage Man don't get much respect either, even though they are very important functions and everybody needs them.
I edit one of the largest sites about current art, Contemporary Art Daily: http://contemporaryartdaily.com

The best and first place to start experimenting with art is drawing. Don't worry about focusing on realism, unless you want to. Sitting down with a pencil and a blank sheet of paper is exactly like making any art, only with less decision making up front. The magical thing about art is the total absence of any criteria. Here's this sheet of paper, and this pencil, and literally anything you choose to draw is totally acceptable and equivalent to anything else you might draw. So you have to start asking some pretty interesting questions to figure out what to do. Photography is also interesting and accessible for similar reasons.

Apart from that, I think just like with programming the best thing to do first is to start consuming the sort of thing you eventually want to make. If you aren't familiar with much art, it will be harder to understand the possibilities and decide what interests you. Get to a contemporary art museum, if there's one nearby, or go to the library and grab a book on contemporary art. If you arrive at any specific questions or want to find more art akin to something you find that you like, feel free to e-mail forrest@ the above URL.
Yesterday Google mail was having conniption fits about "invalid cookies" in one of my machines (personal + business gmail). Trying to get to the settings page only led to the same error page advising clearing browser cache and cookies. Ended up having to clear all cookies - just the obviously googly ones didn't work first time.
Students aren't rats.

Which makes things a little more complex for educational research:
http://www.elearning-reviews.org/topics/pedagogy/educational...

Like, little Johnny's Mom isn't going to like it when he gets a 'placebo' math class one year.
Looks quite nice. I am always looking for new recipes. One thing I haven't seen is recipes with good photos of each step of the process. If you add that, I'll use it.

Regarding the name, the story resonates with me, but dead grandma still makes for a very bad name. I bet the grandma had a name....
Even if you're using contractors on a long term basis the premium can be worth it if you're in industry which goes through contractions so you can get rid of staff when you want to. Like I said the actually premium is relatively small for companies, and it's much easier to replace a contractor with a employee than vice versa if you need to.

I've worked at a few companies with mixed contractor/employee teams where it hasn't been an issue, after all there's nothing stopping the employees from becoming contractors if they prefer that lifestyle and it aligns with their long term goals.
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They're buying a story more than they're buying dirt. Even better, they're buying a story that they'll get to tell for years.

This is a distinction I wish engineers would treat as more importantly, because we sell stories, too.

P.S.: If he put a wee little translation in Japanese in the box he'd sell one to just about every Japanese tourist who passed his stall. Same dirt, same words (modulo translation), different story.
Can someone give a quick lowdown on what's really happening here? I am assuming the Lion client is connecting to an LDAP server using the provided password, and regardless of the response from LDAP, Lion proceeds with the login?
> The doctor who earns $300-400k went through a four-year university degree, four years of medical school, and a residency or fellowship before he started earning money.

The market doesn't care about what you have done to get to where you are. If you spent the better part of a decade to acquire a Ph.D, you are not entitled to earn more money waiting tables at the local restaurant.

The upper bounds of earning is only limited by the value provided by the work. A good doctor or lawyer can provide a lot of value (health and freedom are, to most people, the most important things in life) and they are usually in short supply, thus they can command the high rates.

If programming jobs top out at $150,000, it means that either there is no shortage of people to do the job, or that it is simply no value in having someone do the work for more. In the latter case, if true, means that programming really isn't that important.
What's it like to have your film flop at the box office?
Like+++++

I discovered this about 4 months ago and it's made my email life so much easier.
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But thats sort of the point.

I _have_ read about quicksort. Some of these other methods, not so much.

That for me makes this a useful and interesting story.
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Downvoted! Harsh.

I know I'm swimming against the tide here, and actually I think there are huge problems with the patent system globally.

BUT - I find it a little strange that company A invents something, protects it, then company B does the exact same thing - knowing there's a patent.. should we be surprised that Apple are using that which the law allows them?
Yeah, I think it's important to have the 'professional' costume for that reason.

I mean, I've seen startups advertising their company kegs in recruiting. Like that's going to get you any respect from anyone but an early 20-something...
I know, but it doesn't sound right if you live in Virginia. Just like saying "Los Angeles is near San Francisco" probably only sounds right to east coasters. And if you look at the shake map, it makes a big difference whether you are within 20 miles of the epicenter or 100 miles.
Mechanical disks still exhibit differing beginning to end performance, they are still mostly linear. SSDs are of course completely different.
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Can you recommend any good resources for learning 3D-oriented maths? I took linear algebra back in college but definitely think I'll need some refreshers, as it's been a while.
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I see that the name has a story behind it, but most people will be seriously turned off by a website named "Dead Grandma Cookies." Definitely look into changing that.
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Nokia isn't the only company supporting QT.

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/03/future-of-qt...
Absolutely - the guy's skill set is not "selling dirt". It's packaging an experience into a story into a product, and getting that package in front of the right people at the right time so they will buy.
I like to believe this would be less than 1%. Medicine is science, and I hope while designing modern CPR guidelines they did tests to see if pursuing CPR even while all signs suggest death, for long periods of time, would revive more people.

Then they probably had to make a key decision between keeping an emergency team busy for 90 minutes for every case where death was probable, just in case there's that less-than-1% chance of revival, or dismissing the team and freeing the resources for patients who have a higher probability of survival, and increasing the probability of survival of those due to faster response times.
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Or that they have thousands of years of history where civil servitude is a scholastic meritocracy.
I've heard of higher daily rates in a couple of industries here in the UK, but not commonly.
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I think that's a great list, and for the most part, how I'm going about it.

But I don't think these need to be done before you actually make your first 'game'. It's perfectly okay to use other peoples' methods for a while until you solidify what you think is wrong with them, and how you think you can improve them. At that point, it's probably time to code your own and find out all the little intricacies.

You will eventually want to know all this, though.
Err, this was several years ago, and I was relaying what other folk with the same device (ASUS 901) reported, not my personal experience.

(And not only was this was before the release of Windows 7, it actually came with some version of Xandros installed...)
VidYard isn't really much of an innovation, in fact, Bits on the Run has been doing this - better - for quiet some time. VidYard is caught in between trying to emulate YouTube and being a streaming hosting provider without convincing me of either strengths.

BOTR offers an elegant API, skin-able players, pay-as-you-go usage, statistics and, as an option, a totally configurable ad platform plugin for the player that works with more than one ad platform. FWIW, I know VidYard does a lot of this, too, but what's the YouTube angle doing for them? Other than having a chart comparing them to community-based video platforms?

EDIT: Down-vote if you want, but provide a reason. Otherwise, I'll assume: "he said something about my startup, get him!"
Do you use Handbrake?
Who uses Handbrake, and if you don't use Handbrake, what do you use?
Most employers (particularly banks) are perfectly fine paying contractors a significant premium, since it gives them a flexibility to end their contracts quickly and without a hassle. Particularly compared to what they have to do in order to make employees redundant...
Certainly the 52-year-old developer all else being equal. Isn't this a complete no-brainer?
Yeah, the ad-ridden part bothers me the most. I immediately closed the window once I saw the page plastered with ads without even trying it out to see if it was any good. That's just not something I'd ever want to use.
"One obstacle to the realization of a Palestinian state is the fact that the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are not connected."
Yet if they were then Israel wouldn't be connected and there would be a war between Fatah (West Bank) and Hamas (Gaza).
The post says that Samsung was found guilty of violating 2,058,868, not the other two, and that 1,964,022 was rules to be null and void and Apple can no longer make claims in the Netherlands based on that patent.
In addition, they don't have to update EVERYTHING, just those few things... The next update could be an emergency release addressing just those things, and then a later update could bring everything they've been working on.

That's how I'd do it, unless the next update already had those fixed and it was very, very close anyhow.
I'd like to add another point to this: in the case of doctors, you've also got to include the various types of doctors. (As the son of a general practitioner, I'm particularly sensitive about this.)

General practitioners make wildly less than the various specialists which abound in the medical profession. Now, GPs can certainly make a good living; in rich areas >$200,000 a year isn't uncommon. At the same time, for, say, dermatologists, >$200,000 is the average salary [1].

(I, for one, think this is backwards: GPs, both in private practices and as hospitalists, are the primary diagnosticians and almost certainly save more lives than any other kind of doctor.)

And don't even get me started on residency; doctors deserve every ounce of geld they get for putting up with that.

Anyone, not directly relevant to OP, but I think that saying, "hey, doctors and lawyers are rich, we should be too" is a bit off the mark. Many doctors are rich. Not all.
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Great article! I totally agree with the points.
Yup. A four-port USB option would be nice, though, to make it just a touch easier (and cheaper) for those who want to pile on the features.

With only two, after you've added a keyboard and mouse, you're already out of expansion options for the desktop pc use-case. (Of course you can add easily a hub, but I just have a feeling that you really shouldn't have to.)
Not many people in the security community use Mac servers in such a way that they need LDAP, and of those people, very few are running Lion on their servers.
I know of Sencha and Titanium, anyone have preferences?
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Thanks, I thought it would be easy to give a ballpark answer. I will keep an eye out for a discussion of scaling in regards to server needs.

Actually, if anyone can point to such a discussion on HN I'd appreciate it. I couldn't easily find a relevant discussion, because the word "server" appears in so many threads.
I used to use TeraCopy, but on my Windows 7 64 bit machine, it's half the speed of the built-in copy for network transfers. It's fairly clear that Windows is doing a significantly better job with buffering.

I still keep TC around for the odd job, but it's no longer my default.
That's pretty incorrect. The judge did find that Samsung only violated EP 2,058,868 - method of scrolling / browsing gallery, but not the other two. In fact EP 1,964,022 was declared null and void, meaning "Apple can no longer make claims in the Netherlands based on this patent".
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Which projection did you use for that?
It seems that his heart was beating, although irregularly to a degree that they couldn't detect a pulse. Is the article saying that estimating the CO2 output via this new method is a more modern / sensitive way of detecting a pulse?
Well aren't they just awesome? :D I'm starting to really like them.

For twice the price of an arduino, the $25pc+SerIO could still be a really nice way to create some entertainment.

In fact, since it has audio out and SD card, it would already be cheaper than another project I was working on. lol

The Arduino would probably boot faster, though, so that's a consideration as well.
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i made this yesterday after not being able to find an existing service that offered it. there is a mac os app that had a similar premise, but it was not free and i wanted to be able to subscribe to the calendars from multiple places.

i've been told it may be laborious to use for those with large lists of domains, but i'm not sure what i can do to make it easier to use. bulk importing is as easy as just listing each domain, one-per-line, in a big textbox.
Sending commands does require a special jack.
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the "interaction" is a virtual representation of a sliding lock. apple did not invent the sliding lock.
couldn't get a Scala hello world running, was exasperated by the slow response, ran away
I don't think any phone will get 3.0 because this is the "tablet version".. 4.0 (or what icecream sandwich will be) will be the united 2.3 and 3.x branches.
You'll have to wait a little longer, although Icecream Sandwich will be released soon
Sorry, no blog entry. Snarky forum posts aside, I usually stay silent on legal matters. But I will tell you that there are a lot of us LCARS devs and more and more apps are appearing in the store.
A fear-crushing program with killer line up of speakers.
I think the point is that local storage is dying.

A couple years ago, my working documents existed as files on a server and my e-mails were copied from the POP3 server to a local archive. Now they exist on servers that live in data-centers far from me.
The problem is not only finding someone who truly deeply understands the language, but knowing how to tell that they do.

I've seen way too many "Senior" developers who really have just done the same junior-level coding for 15 years in a row. These people also tend to have a poor grasp of where their skills really stand.

People reading HN probably are self-directed enough not to fall into this trap, but we are not the majority of developers.
Android 3.0 is only for tablets.
Hyperion HFM rules are both fairly logically complex (manipulation of 12 dimensional data), usually associated with fairly arcane financial requirements that only apply to large companies and, as a final wonderful touch, implemented as dirty great lumps of ulta-conditional VBScript.

This is not a pleasant combination.
I believe it would be corrected as "It has been over a year since..." :)

Thanks for all your hard work documenting these findings! You're an inspiration to all of us waiting to get started for ourselves.
.) Well, yes the new method is better than the prev. tech available, still it is as well only providing an estimate of the true situation... so, not all of the prev. abandoned ppl had a 100% chance to recover as in the described case.

.) Yes, it is fascinating to see how the emergency-medicine tech evolves over time... I mean, keeping a man "alive" for that long outside of a situation room, wow!

.) Plus: as always, the ppl actually handling those emergencies, deciding what to do on site. "Life over Death" with a clear head... wow^2
I find the name is quite polarizing. It intrigues people and pulls them in, but it also creeps them out a little. I'm going to have to really think this one over. Thanks for the feedback.
The key point: everyone needs to up vote good comments more.

Garbage in, garbage out. If you don't upvote good stuff, other people will upvote bad stuff.

P.S. Sorry, I never tl;dr but it's important to highlight this key point.
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I'm in the quiet period, so no comment.
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I went to heroku in the past, checked their doc, did their mini tutorial to deploy and the experience is seamless.

I used GAE-J in the past, from preparing the environment to deploying to GAE server, the experience was a breeze.

I got CloudFoundry invite last month and I lost appetite pretty quick after checking their documentation.
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Programmers are janitors.

Everyone wants software, but no one really respects the developers. Just like everyone wants a clean building to work in, but no one really respects the janitor.
Yeah I'm part of the Apple cult, but if Apple keeps this legal circus up, as much as I'd hate to, I'm probably going to leave it.
It completely depends on what you're trying to do with the app. A game with 3d graphics (unity)? 2d graphics (box2d, cocos2d)? Multiplatfrom in javascript(phonegap)?
I think you nailed it. We've been watching it happen for a while as browsers and web apps matured, but it's only in the last few years that the declining importance of local storage seemed so real.

I actually can't think of a single thing I do on my laptop that depends on local storage. I even sync my Simcity 4 cities to a cloud service.