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Ugh. If Oracle wins or forces a settlement establishing that APIs are copyrightable, that would be extremely bad for everyone other than entrenched players. Wine and GNUstep would become illegal, as would any other compatibility library.

At least Google won on the issue of whether filenames are copyrightable. That's somewhat encouraging, because it means that if they're allowed to create a file called ArrayList.java, one would think that means they're allowed to have a class named ArrayList as well.

Edit: It may be better than that. "This order finds that the names of the various items appearing in the disputed API package specifications are not protected by copyright." If that means class and method names, then it establishes that APIs in fact aren't copyrightable. Presumably the remaining dispute is whether Google actually copied Java code for the Android implementation.
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I live on Wall Street, as do many other hard-working New Yorkers. The Financial District isn't just fat-cat bankers and hedge fund managers these days. I don't expect that interfering with people's routines is an effective way to win their hearts, regardless of the intentions of the protest.
Facebook is a copycat (Friendster, MySpace, Orkut etc.)

Yelp is a copycat (CitySearch etc.).

Groupon probably isn't the first deal site.

If we didn't have VisiCalc and 1-2-3 and Excel, we wouldn't have Apple's Keynote.

That's how this industry works: large enough markets attract multiple companies. Increased competition causes all players to step up their game and lower their prices. This benefits consumer i.e. you and me.

This is exactly how things are supposed to work.
Would it be possible to write the same code to make it more readable without incurring a performance penalty? If not, then I guess it's okay, since these people have decided that performance is more important than readability (although there should be comments).
I'm curious as to what a language with a less tree-like, more graph-like AST might look. Could you provide any examples of such languages?
Do you have a citation to that effect. This seems contrary to what I've seen of his shows (I was quite a fan in the past but haven't seen anything recently).
Percona always seems to have good articles.

I think, as he said, everyone shouldn't run out and replace a mysql job queue for their wordpress blog. In a great many cases it doesn't matter.

I also like how he never said "Don't use mysql as a queuing system" but "be careful of these things". I've used mysql as a queuing system, and it works fine. I looked at replacing it with a different database, but in that situation it was not worth the investment.

Signaling mysql + archiving performed work + no locks that lock more than the exact row that's being updated (and also avoiding concurrent workers acting on the same task) will take a mysql backed queuing system far. I've set up a system that processes well over 5,000 tasks / day using it.

Do I think everyone should use mysql as their queuing backend? No. People should probably use a queuing library, with persistence to a database (redis?) enabled for critical tasks. Of course, as the article said, be careful about the choice of backends.
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> How big a problem is that variant of qualification, really?

I think there's a little bit of culture shock going on here between our particular contracting fields.

If you're doing enterprise-ish security contracting, you're not going to get an unemployed person in your lead pile by accident. I get three e-mails from unemployed people a week. I get 20+ leads a month from questionably-funded "startups". The number of revenue sharing posts per day on Craigslist is competitive with the number of police stations in the metropolitan area. etc.

Just to have a 30-minute conversation to determine if somebody is funded or not simply does not scale to the number of interested parties. Even reading all the e-mails and throwing them away is a massive time sink. Let alone estimating anything, thinking about the feasibility of anything, etc.
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I think it's pretty clear that either the video is staged, or they had to try tons of times to get some marketers to produce those results. Derren Brown generally admits that he uses sleight of hand to fake astonishing results, so even that is a possibility with this video.
You don't know where "doc" is coming from from a snippet like that. I use logic moderately similar to that for my blog software. If I'm writing the blog post, pretty much pass through what I wrote. If it's a comment (back when I had them), process the heck out of it. The blog post itself is a blob of HTML, basically.

I do not currently write my blog posts in a templating language (any more than anyone else does), though Hamlet [1] has me sort of tempted as it is so close to what I write anyhow.

[1]: http://www.yesodweb.com/book/templates
Agreed with everyone here. Why require people to choose the card type? I don't buy the additional step for security argument. A thief will know what type their card is supposed to be. Just lazy development.

Also, the credit card number series should be tightened up when automatically selecting card type. Wikipedia actually has a nice list of the series (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card_number).
> Shortest way to produce issue is here — http://google.com/#q=${

Making it an actual hyperlink would've been a bit shorter.
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Even those bounties are only for security-related bugs, one of which this doesn't appear to be.
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You have to approach this drawing a distinction between learning a skill and joining a community.

If you joined this community college program in Ottawa to learn a trick or two about programming, you approached it with the right mindset. You approached it looking for technical improvement.

It sounds like, however, you joined the program looking for rock stars. If Ottawa was a technology startup focused town, you'd know it already - there would be technology startups. Environment is so critical.

I come from another government town (Washington, DC) and there are a significant number of absolutely brilliant people here...who want nothing to do with a tech startup. They're government employees, or contractors, or even just policy wonks. That's not a slight against their intelligence; it's just that the culture in DC is not geared toward startups while Silicon Valley is.

There's not going to be an easy way or good time to rip yourself away from Ottawa - it's going to be frustrating and probably won't be an easy move. But if that's what you want to do, you'll have to find a way.
You will benefit from both that factor and the exact match domain (EMD) bonus. Basically, example.org requires less links and less aligned anchor text to rank for the query [example] than any domain other than example.{com,net,org}

Now hypothetically assuming I was doing cow food online, I might make my domain cowfood .com and brand it as "Cow Food Online." That way you get a bonus when people search for [cow food], which is likely to be orders of magnitude more than [cow food online].
Why do you entertain any of those projects? Why don't you just ask "is this a budgeted project? What is your allocated budget?"

(Seriously asking because I'm curious).
I tried that too and found it useless. The product work got starved and ended up receiving far less than the half that was supposed to be its share. But I admit to sucking completely at divided focus.
"which has actually been implemented."

Yes, I implicitly added a requirement for myself that I not merely duplicate off-the-shelf tech, because that would be boring. One characteristic of that solution is that it requires additional hardware, whereas head tracking (and maybe eye tracking) could be done with the same setup pictured in the article. But I would totally agree that given a pedal, that will be the superior solution on almost every level. Truly, nothing else speaks with the input clarity and precision of a simple button.
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This is really nifty. One nit that I'd pick, however. The urls break without the hash.

With the demo, for example, these urls produce two different results:

http://cmpolis.github.com/Pagify/#about
http://cmpolis.github.com/Pagify/about

The first url has the full content and structure of the page, while the second url only has part of the content of the page.

I realize that this is partially what makes the plugin so simple, and maybe it's fine for most applications. But this would be extra cool if the urls were more consistent. :)
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Not only do the prices stay fixed, but what might look like chalk on the board is actually indelible; the signs have been mass-produced in a factory.

I've eaten at so many restaurants that have written signs in chalk and left them the same for months that I assume those signs are months old. I've never been in a WF or Trader Joe's (which has the same practice) and thought "huhn, good price today"; rather I think "ah, they're on sale this week."

Ever notice that there's ice everywhere in this store? Why? Does hummus really need to be kept so cold? What about cucumber-and-yogurt dip? No and no.

What?? YES and YES... hummus is BEANS and beans go bad quickly even when cold. And yogurt is dairy that's already started to go bad.

Similarly, for years now supermarkets have been sprinkling select vegetables with regular drops of water--a trend that began in Denmark. Why?

Because leafy greens DRY OUT in drafty or warm environments. Yes water makes them rot, but the alternative is dry, wilted spinach.

Believe it or not, my research found that while it may look fresh, the average apple you see in the supermarket is actually 14 months old.

Yes, apples are kept in environmentally-controlled chambers so they can be sold all year. Of course if you buy an apple in March it's not fresh. What does this have to do with priming?
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A drawback is that the content isn't directly crawlable by search engines.

I made an app earlier that uses Javascript to make static sites dynamic using Javascript, but got lots of comments saying that it's anti-seo:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2830429

Hence I offered a secondary PHP option.
This is excellent! We are on a heroku stack at bizeebee.com now, and if we had to write a facebook app now, there's no question that we'd use this. I had written some apps right after fb platform was released and had to go through hoops to set up my own dev/production environments, manage configurations, deployments, source control etc.

Heroku had taken care of all of that for non-fb apps, and now with tight fb integration, I might just write a few quick fb apps again!

Thanks for the good work, fb and heroku!
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So noone would buy up a lot of the stock of a particular product to artificially inflate prices?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-10682433
There is a striking parallel between this and American cars in the 50's and 60's, when the focus powertrain-wise was simply to get as much power out of an engine at the least possible cost, efficiency be damned.

So mobile devices are sort of the Arab Oil Embargo of computing.
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I should amend what I said below with a disclaimer: as long as Amazon AWS doesn't go down, and as long as heroku maintains its progress on ensuring the uptime of their cloud solution... :)
If you want good price to features ratio along with a Cyanogen port, try the Motorola Defy. Nice screen, tough, waterproof, and light. It has a high res screen (265 dpi, I think...) as well unlike a lot of the cheap androids out there. Sadly, the device sports 2.1 android. But, I've seen Gingerbread run on it. Motorola recently released the Defy+ as well.
Why was the only image in this article a picture of a female track race? Unless his book is published by Nike, I think the author/FastCompany missed the boat on priming us with an actually relevant symbolic!
Nobody would ever do that.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/business/2011/07/goldmans-sec...

But hoarding a perpetually renewable, perishable product? Doesn't seem likely.
I can't cite an example but I'm pretty sure he claims that he never "fakes" anything. But saying that he does use regular magic mixed with mentalism to great effect.
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We can inspect the skeletons and determine if there was cancer present. I have also read that it was largely non-existent in paleolithic cultures, indicating agricultural products and lifestyle, but I'd like to see further confirmation of this.
Yeah, my degree is in Music Theory/Composition, and while I understand where people are coming from when they complain about music notation, I can't see myself investing any significant amount of time learning an alternative system when I already have the current system down well enough that I can sight-read and sight-sing a vast majority of music.

tl;dr I'm not giving up the ability to look at an orchestral score and have a pretty good idea of how it sounds just to learn that skill all over again.
Assuming the episode was completely real, I'd argue that he set up a creative problem that had only one posible solution. Ask any creative professional how he would make taxidermy tasteful for the general public and he will likely have to recur to heaven, as death has no other upside. Heaven, being an abstract concept, only has a couple of physical references: gates, angels, clouds. And if an eight foot bear is subliminal priming, I'll be damned.
How exactly?

Due to django's "we want the templating system be general, to be usable for stuff other than html", it can't provide support for such 'guarantee that the output is well formed / valid / has no injection attack entry points' features.
No. Django solves the 90% problem, which is usually a fine approach but will llikely lead to security vulnerabilities down the line.

I'll refer to something I wrote last time I had this argument: http://pavpanchekha.com/programming/injection.html.
I'd say that the biggest issue and the only issue I have with heroku is that when you guys have done some releases, you would prevent apps that have been placed into maintenance mode during the release from being taken out of maintenance mode.

This becomes a problem when the maintainers of the app in question are not aware of your release schedule. The solution, it seems, would be to either a) do a better job of communicating downtime; b) do rolling deployments and failover so that apps may continue to function; c) a bit of both.

While our app is not important enough for the above to bother us a great deal, we do have paying customers. As soon as one of them comes knocking telling us that we screwed up, and in reality it wasn't fully our fault, we will be a bit more adamant about the above suggestions :)

For the time being, great job!
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Most of us wonder about the poor children studying at schools with not even a pair of slippers to wear, but eventually do little about it. We all know about the little gems that are a big part of the world's future but with so little to enhance their present lives. By mere chance we came across a Govt. High School in Sreekariyam Trivandrum, where 80% of the students come from very poor background. With the little we have, we proposed to sponsor a great sadya (kerala lunch with lots of dishes), sweets for these kids. To be honest we wernt selfless to offer that, it was selfish enough reason. Spending an afternoon with them, many of whom had no idea why the celebrations, was a walk back to our past. The innocent side of ours which is slowly fading away, Everyone who was there was reminded of that beautiful time in lives where the soul is so pure and you can wish no evil - childhood.

The food, sweets did cost us a little, but spending time with those kids and seeing them smile and have a great time was priceless. =D
absolutely doesn't make sense, theres probably more stories of failure of big companies trying to copy another companies product than there are success stories. Thats why big companies purchase startups that are innovative and market leaders because its copying just doesn't work. Otherwise I'll wait to hold judgement till I see their product. As someone who's not a big flipboard fan, I look forward to a competing product.
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I think the only reason to ask for a card type is to discourage customers from trying to pay with an unsupported one. Merchants can still be charged fees for declined transactions.

A few of the larger merchants can benefit from choosing a different transaction acquirer based on card type (e.g. lower fees for Amex) but they should not trust the card type selected by the customer.
Was just going to say, I'm fairly sure I've used this months ago already.
Every successful store does this. And most successful websites too. Groceries are a low margin business so any price raising idea gets copied over and over. Retailers and consumer products computers are leaders in data mining to test, measure and retest techniques.

That said... The Columbus Circle Whole Foods is awesone. Pricey but awesome compared to other local options.
Penn and Teller aren't fooled.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfGybFz6GRY

All the "suggestion" stuff is called out around 7:30, but you may as well watch the whole clip to see what's being discussed.
You're making the same mistake made by people who mistake good static type systems and type inference. Yes, it would be nice to infer the correct escaping function; but forcing people to escape somehow would be sufficient.
I would have never understood this before I had a child of my own.
I miss that old classic stuff. Old animations with absurd graphics for the time. An S3M or MOD playing in the background. Really ground-breaking stuff. One of the classics:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtCW-axRJV8
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No question about it. Repetitive long hours are deleterious to critical and creative thinking abilities. It always makes me think twice when I see stories about game dev / wall st / startup developers working insane hours. I think the story is better than the reality.
> consider a world where you don't think about the company and technology enabling you to [...]

And yet people (at least here in the US) have a tendency to apply brand names as generic technology (i.e., "to xerox a paper", "google a term").

So the counterbalance to your argument is that sometimes when a brand is so pervasive, it is synonymous with the technology.

Not sure that's the case for Facebook, but the possibility exists it might be.
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My understanding is that Apple is able to do whatever they want to their own products. They are under no obligation to support jailbreaks, Rockbox or other modifications. Encrypting the iPod has no noticeable downside for the average user, but for a hacker, it's a pain. But Apple is under no obligation to support an alternative firmware.

Making a product do something the standard setup will not allow is the whole point of the hacker space anyway, isn't it?

PS: I don't agree with Apple's decision to encrypt the standard (non-touch) iPod line. I wonder if it was part of their licensing terms with movie studios.
This is such crap, if ZDNET looked at the site they'd see it's blatantly just Casemate pandering for press attention. If it slipped out early why would it have a Question Mark or not name the phone but refer to rumours saying that we all know it's coming.

They basically just acknowledged rumours.
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Quite likely a setup and not some psychological effect. He's relied on similar tricks in the past, such as using video effects to "predict" the lottery [1] and a fake casino set under the pretense of calculating the trajectory of a roulette ball [2].

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG-5qebwflA See drdirs's comment.
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVThCpMPON0 See mazotu's comment.
For instance, this appears when you do common subexpression elimination -- if you refer to the same code in two or more places (e.g. call the same function, compute the same math expression), and it's known not to have (or depend on) any side effects, you can compute its value only once and refer to this value in these places. I recall it's covered even in Dragon Book, which is kind of old.
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I hope they don't force Metro to be used on non-tablets. The screens I've seen so far show a confusing jumble of colors and different sized and entirely unrelated boxes squished together. I've been using windows for a long time now, maybe too long even, because I just want to keep the traditional desktop layout.

It might be a great tablet interface, but I think they're severely overestimating how big the tablet market will be in 2013.
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Using the hash allows for all the content to exist within a single resource -- in this case, a single HTML page using jQuery to hide/show content based on the fragment identifier. What you want can't really be achieved without something on the server-side (rewrite rules with Apache, routes with Rails) and it outside the scope of what this plugin is trying to do.
Gandi is a bit slow, they don't obfuscate your name with private registration, and it's a giant pain to change the name of the owner. (Sign up for a new account and transfer all domains to the new account)
There seems to be a lot available for multimedia with C++.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh45275...
Interesting but too limited in it's feature set also no ability to set titles and other basic features in the demo, may just be the demo but this is evidently important. I think it's quite cool but having hundreds of apps which just have twitter feeds in them is not very useless. One idea would be to open some kind of marketplace so startups or services can offer their widgets.

So for example Dropbox could offer a feature which hooks into it. This could go further but an interesting start.
Uh, there are many papers and examples of using HOAS in statically typed settings, such as ML, Haskell, Twelf, Coq, etc. There is still the issue of exotic terms, but there are known type system tricks for helping with that as well. And the exotic term problem would be even worse in Scheme.