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I had a similar experience (I was 9). The difference is that in the U.S. public system you get placed in "ESL" (English as a Second Language) program which dumbs down the entire curriculum, especially English, and tries to hand hold all the students through it.

Plus American education is in general less rigorous than the equivalent-year Russian education, and seeing as how kids in Russia learn some English in school, it's a much easier transition from Russia to U.S. than vice versa.

The struggle then is purely a social one, kids in the U.S. don't have a belief of camaraderie, whereas in Russia a classmate would rarely get someone else in trouble casually, this happened routinely in U.S. schools. Plus of course, insert all the usual teasing about not understanding or knowing the language, being a communist/capitalist, etc.
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Is it me or is it a growing trend that 'academic' papers are omitting their publish date. Its frustrating to read a paper without this context.
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Similarly, I was intrigued with the concept of the school independent of the language or country of instruction. This school design is the sort of experience I want for my children.
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You should read the article. The article discusses how low latency can be achieved in a data center. The specifically discuss why they are interested in intra-datacenter latency vs. attacking latency across the internet as a whole.
I would defo be up for this. Am a developer ASP, PHP, HTML, etc...

I don't live in London but only up the road in Liverpool.

I work for myself now doing photography (15 years in the IT industry), so am free almost every weekday.

Dave
(thedavebaxter@gmail.com)
From what I read about airships' use in the 1920s, high winds aren't a serious problem, but unexpected storms can be, because they can't maneuver out of the storm's path as well as a heavier-than-air craft. Most of the US Navy's airships were lost to relatively small, local storms if I am remembering correctly. Which would be a plus for high latitude use, since their are fewer storms there.
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I'm 99% sure this site is some sort of parody or joke.

After all, this is what it looks like on my iPhone: http://i.imgur.com/KNqzy.png

And searching 'TechCrunch' for 'Mobilova' returns zero results, despite Mobilova's claim that they were featured on TechCrunch.
I'd like to be involved. I write JavaScript (including canvas, but not WebGL and other 3D stuff) and HTML for the most part, and I can write PHP, but don't have much experience in it. Based in India, by the way.
Thanks for the great feedback pavel, The Video is a bit outdated and I'm still tweaking the new one. (GMBH is the old brand) working to fix that, when you hit mobilize now, there are two options, a mobile webapps is created in the choosen category and listed in the mobile portal http://www.nicezine.com , I'll add a description at the front page to make it clear.

The second option that we offers is based on stylesheets, that's the option with the floating tab, if you use it, we'll create a mobile stylesheet and host it on Amazon S3 /and backup on Google storage , and send you the link for media query linking. Working to get all these infos on the front page now. As for remove the dots, I'm a bit concern that, non techie folks don't know what TLD means, do you have any other alternative suggestion? Thanks
How long did it take you to work your way from "two week project for $5" to "$2k a month! work from home! be your own boss! call now!" levels of income?
nope, it's not, I miss that bug, it's due to the sidefloating button, fixing it right away, thanks for pointing out.
Every school in America does this, but in English of course. I came to Canada at the age of four and enrolled in kindergarden without knowing a word of English. I don't remember much but I know I was able to assimilate fairly well and able to pass without being held back. At that age, the mind is an amazing thing and children just soak everything up.
Because libraries are absolutely brimming with computers. In Los Angeles, the libraries tend to have a clutch of general computers, a significant fraction occupied by the homeless (that's what I'd, can't fault them).
It says they can fly at up to 115mph so adjusting course to compensate for leeway, I imagine they could handle some pretty stiff winds even if it cost them speed.

Probably safer in a storm than a heavier-than-air craft, since the wind won't be able to knock them over and stall them, or steal their lift. Worst you'd have to worry about would be the passengers getting seasick, as long as you can maintain altitude.
Sleeping more than usual on the weekends is usually a sign of sleep deprivation, though it often doesn't feel like it.

I used to feel like I was doing alright on ~6 hours but I often slept 8-10 on weekends. Since then I've started to wake up the same time everyday and there's definitely a difference.
That depends on what kind of products you make: If it's a website, then you have absolute control over what stack and database to use. But if you're selling any kind of app that needs a database, then you'll need to support different databases. Some customers won't ask questions and take your default database, others (unfortunately ?) will want it to use their Oracle/SQLServer installation that cost them a bazillion.
This is an interesting discussion -- interesting in part because it addresses a mindset that I don't seem to have.

C++, for example, has multiple inheritance, and I have used it to good effect. OTOH, if I needed to implement Dijkstra's Alg in C++, then I don't think it would even occur to me to inherit from both a priority queue and a directed graph base class. (And even now that it does occur to me, it doesn't seem to be a good idea.) Rather, I'd use something akin to the interfaces presented here. Of course, interfaces are not formalized in C++, but the C++ culture does include the notion of a concept, to be used with a template.

If the language were Python, I'd proceed similarly. And then there's Java, which doesn't even have multiple inheritance. I've never heard anyone claim that Java is somehow ill-suited for the implementation of graph algorithms (but maybe it is -- never thought about it).

Perhaps what this discussion is overturning, is not so much a multiple-inheritance mindset, as an Eiffel mindset. (But I don't know much Eiffel, so it's hard to say.) And the discussion also suggests that Go's formalization of interfaces can be a Good Thing.
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I could go on like this forever...
You might want to check out The Superfluid http://thesuperfluid.com/ . It does exactly this: share you skills among projects without involving money.
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Does what he's describing as the Go Way basically equate to generic programming in general, or is there something specific to Go about it?
Bah. If the system is that unstable, then maybe we're going to destroy ourselves - but it's just as likely we'll be able to save ourselves when something entirely else would have killed us anyway. There's no reason to think technology per se, or any particular branch of it, should be avoided because it's the one.

Look, I'll be the first to agree that technology is dangerous and human beings are pretty stupid and shortsighted when using it (and when not using it, and before breakfast, and all other times), but I just have nothing but contempt for people who think the answer is to dissuade other people from being smarter than they are, by means violent or not.

If you (and by this I mean the generic you) think technology is dangerous, or some specific technology is dangerous, then by all means investigate how it is dangerous, how that danger can be avoided, and before all else become a better person and demonstrate by your life that a race to destruction is not where humanity should be. I know that's all kumbayah and people probably won't even understand what I mean, but seriously, the answer is just to become a better humanity. The answer is always to become a better humanity. I personally think we're doing OK on that, current news notwithstanding (because the current news is always alarming, but the trends are towards a more human humanity).

Well. This isn't an argument, just a viewpoint. I got work to do and probably shouldn't be engaging in philosophy.

Oh, except one more point: global warming is going to be expensive, but it's not going to kill us. It's not the first time Earth has run a fever, and we're not Venus yet. Even in the (I believe) colossally unlikely event that we crash our technological civilization or even drive ourselves and a bunch of other things to extinction, the planet's going to be just fine, and life will go on.
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't most of those complaints related mostly to the SQL generation rather than the "mapping" part?

I find that the problem when discussing ORMs is that we gave them two completely different responsibilities: generating queries and mapping the results... In fact, those two are already separated in Rails (AREL?).

I don't see much of a criticism to the mapping part (and the benefits given to you in form of validation/metadata/migration/schema versioning)... In fact, unless you're going to access the records directly via the database driver API (giving way to hideous coding), you'll probably reinvent the wheel or do the O-R mapping by hand to fill POCOs/POJOs/etc, as I've seen on so many enterprise projects (in different levels of elegance).

But then, again, somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.
The other thing to realize is that you don't stay on the home screen for long. You see if there are any inrestesting notifications and then move on to what you want to do.
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They will borrow ebooks from the library on free readers. The cost of readers is likely to fall far enough, and their use be ubiquitous enough (think: schools), that providing readers will be a fairly low cost gap-filling operation. It might even be cheaper than the public libraries themselves.
The thing is that someone has to execute some code to change it, and if so then malicious code has already been run. By then it is irrelevant if LD_PRELOAD_PATH will be used or not. If I trick you into running 'rm -fR *', does that count as an exploit?
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Is anyone actually living with this? [1] A circadian rhythm of 28 hours sounds quite rare.

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You absolutely need to remove the TechCrunch and KillerStartups logos if indeed they have not reviewed you. It's highly misleading to your users and an abuse of their brand.

In addition, the testimonials each have New York Times icon logos next to them. This doesn't add credibility; it's obvious the New York Times didn't write those reviews.
You have to realize how fast it happened, I'm sure their brains have barely had time to process what happened let alone telling the rest of their body to get the hell out of there. 400-500mph is REALLY fast.
The problem with this code is that it is quite obfuscated. The "i" variable is essentially always 0, because it is being incremented and decremented over and over. Here is code that does the same thing, but without the useless variable:

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Read what you just wrote:

It took ... the invention of the atom bomb to figure out how to live with other humans peacefully.

Exactly.

But much more saliently, we can't help engaging in memetic evolution any more than bacteria could help evolving into eurkaryotes. If a higher-level consciousness is possible at all, it's going to happen. It's going to happen. So instead of framing the issue in terms of "maybe there are roads mankind was not meant to go down", it's my fervently held opinion that the issue is really, "maybe we damn well be mature enough to survive when we reach the end of whatever road this is."

Because it's going to steam engine whether you want it or not.
Yup. It's hard to embrace chaos though.. because we still love the illusion of control. (That sounds a bit too philosophical but well, it's true.)
If you'd like some help on the UI let me know - I would love to get my hands on this!
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Wow, looks like I got that completely wrong w.r.t. innodb specifically. Wish I could still edit my first post. :( Thank you.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/innodb-consistent-rea...
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Sure. I've programmed PHP for the last 8 years, and C/C++ for 18 years before that. A few months back I picked up Python in about 5 days, dabbling part time. Django on top of Python took another day or two.

I now consider myself an advanced Python developer. It's actually much easier than PHP, but the lack of curly braces, and strict adherence to MVC were my initial hurdles.

I can't imagine going back to PHP at this point, even though everything I did in PHP was highly object oriented.
I did it for a few months while writing up my Ph.D., and I wish I could continue, but various commitments mean I'm stuck with 7x24. 6x28 suited me very well, felt much better than I do on 7x24.
Is this what I am supposed to see - http://i54.tinypic.com/ibkkt2.png ? This hardly relates well to anything "kick ass".
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Got the bug info , I've tested the site so far in a simulator and it looks good (my mistake was to not check it on an iPhone after adding some UI related features), working on it to fix those bugs. As for TechCrunch , you mean you couldn't find my link on TechCrunch? You shoudl try TechCrunhc Europe (TechCrunch UK)...with the old branding: GmbhNews , thanks for your feedback, fixing all the bugs, and don't hesitate to share any other bugs/issues you find.
It was wonderful that it eventually worked out, but for some children such an experience could be devastating.

One other thing that I wonder about this example is it includes three Caucasian American kids in what I believe is a mostly Caucasian school. There were also three of them, instead of just one, which I think made the adjustment easier. It's comforting knowing a sibling is nearby -- my own kids had this experience when attending a summer school in Asia in 2008 and 2009 -- it was very reassuring for the younger one, knowing his sister was in a classroom upstairs.

Another situation I was wondering about: If African or Asian children were enrolled in the Russian School, would they have been able to find their place as quickly as the NYT correspondent's family?
I meant choosing a project that is not too difficult, but is interesting. Solve a real problem, even if it's small. One advantage you have is that instead of being a programmer, you have expertise in something else. Are their any problems in your own field that you can solve with software?
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I'm the same way - I can't remember the last time I became so excited about something that I became visibly animated.

Like Gabriel says, that doesn't mean I'm not passionate, but others may interpret it as such, or think that I don't care at all about anything.

When something happens and I feel like there's a risk of someone misinterpreting my lack of visible reaction as something it isn't... I give a visible reaction.

That is, if something legitimately good and exciting happens, and I'm the only one in the room not celebrating, I'll force a smile/laugh/shout if there's someone present who doesn't know me well enough to understand my stoicism.

I don't feel like a fraud or phony for doing this; doing it is like accommodating a guest. If I raise my voice when talking to someone who has hearing loss, I'm not faker, even though I don't normally talk that way. If I use simple English to talk to someone who primarily speaks Spanish, I'm not being duplicitous.

It's not a disavowal of my personality or "wiring" to do this; it's a recognition that not everyone is so familiar with me to understand my particular emotional set point.
This is interesting. I'll look into this more. Thanks!
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I don't see anything extreme, but there's probably something I'm not picking up. It's articles like this that make me think about subscribing to the NYT.
Very true. Higher technology will put more power in the hands of even crazy individuals - but I submit to you that the American electoral college already does that.

The answer isn't a futile attempt not to understand the world and its potential better, but rather to understand why crazy people want to kill people, and try to fix the disease instead of the symptoms.

But it's going to be a long freaking time before humanity is that mature, so yeah, in the meantime, maybe we're all going to die.

But probably not. And therefore we should continue trying to learn about the world and its potential, raise our kids to be better people than we are, and get on with things.
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Depending on someone to give you shelter, food, money, and possibly your work visa would make you rather vulnerable. This might create an unhealthy relationship with your one-man boss/landlord/roommate.
Unfortunately, I need access to 4 (or more) devices in each class for testing and buying/selling that many devices becomes a little expensive. Its also a lot more complex than I would like.

Thanks for the link anyhow! I'm pretty sure I'll be able to use them for a different project.
Might be why I've heard the advice of informing 911 of the situation. They would tell the police officer, and everything would probably be ok.

> Mary Ann Viverette, the President of the International Association of Cheifs of Police [...] but she also thinks Karen was smart to follow her instincts in that situation.
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Learning to code is the same as learning a second language. You must recognize the amount of energy it takes to learn french, and apply it to learning ruby. Your final goal - which for the HN crowd would be something like building a SaaS web app, is equivalent to writing a novel.
But before you get to your novel you must learn how to speak and think in the language. You need to know the vocabulary and how to write sentences and then paragraphs. Start with ruby or javascript, and become comfortable with the vocabulary. Learn about strings, arrays, loops, methods, functions and classes. Understand the basics of input and output. Commit all the small code snippets or phrases to your rote memory. You need to know what a for loop is in your sleep. Write it over and over again until its ingrained in your memory, until you can write it without looking at any documentation. This will be the boring part, but you need these tools to continue to the more rewarding states that involve creativity.
From here start reading small programs ( As a front-end developer I started by reading jquery plug-ins I was using for websites, sticking with ones with less then 300 lines of code). Read every statement of these programs and if you don’t know what something does, google it.
Write every line out for yourself, making sure you know what everything does. Writing out code it the ultimate way to learn. Do this as much as possible.
Translate these small programs into English. Actually write out the translation. Then a few days later try to write the program yourself by only looking at the translation you wrote. Try to memorize patterns you notice. Think of features you would want to add to these programs- try adding them! These 300 line programs are like essays.
When you are ready to write you own essay, start off by building a calculator. If you still don’t have any idea how one would go about building a calculator, go back to reading more programs written by other people. When you are looking at other programs try and find elements that you could use to build a calculator.
If you are ready for the calculator then you are transitioning from merely knowing the vocabulary of a the language to creating something meaningful with it. When creating a program start by thinking of everything you need, gather all your requirements. “I am going to to need to create buttons that a user can press”, “ I am going to need a method for a plus operation”, “I am going to need to store values pressed in an instance variable.” Take your requirements and ideas and build it.
From here, build bigger and bigger programs. As they get bigger they are no longer programs but applications. Keep reading other code are writing it. Learn about frameworks and databases. Buy books on application development and read them. Try and get some consulting work- If you have a responsibility to a client it will help motivate you. Create your own small applications, and then slowly morph it into your novel.

Writing code is the real key- think of writing at least 50 lines of code a day.

This process takes about a year.
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Just a tiny little suggestion if you don't personally know anyone who can help you code, try a good website. StackOverflow.com is a pretty awesome Q&A site with lots of smart guys on there. Just make sure you do Google stuff first and don't ask questions without showing that you've actually done some research on your own.