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After recently installing debian 6 lenny, and having installed many debian systems in the past, I can honestly say Xorg is beyond comprehension at this point. You can't even find docs to make the thing work as advertised, and certainly not on my system.

So my server foray was a bit different this time, I tried 6 with the kde desktop, not happening, I tried a few blends (to get the old kde desktop), not happening either. The server is for development, and the on the old one I used debian 5 and kde, since it seemed light enough, and usable to be able to configure easily. I tried xfce, things just not installing, so I gave up, and finally built a "black box" server.

All said and done it worked out, and I'm better for it. I eventually wound up installing Xorg, and the terminal window improved to where I could read most everything before it scrolled off the screen.

I seem to remember a time when you could get it to scroll a page at a time but can't find/remember the command or switch. Really the only thing I wound up missing was the scrolling ability, and since Xorg wouldn't configure beyond the very basic, a scrollbar at the side of the terminal window would be a VAST improvement, and would allow you to scroll the text editor as well.

Now I know that the arrow keys are taken, but I could probably use the control key in combination and get control to scroll up and down. MCPAN, perl and other outputs get pretty long, and having configured my terminal window to allow a few hundred lines, it really helps sometimes.

I anybody could give me a heads up where to start, or just come up with a way, it'd be great.
He said there was no drinking during the programming contest to choose interns, unlike what they depicted in the movie.
And after the DOH, have some drinks and meat at Hacker House at 354 Poe St in Palo Alto! https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=309750265707523
People who are "de-programmed" do not stand around in orange robes in the middle of the eastern Oregon desert, miles away from anything else (I've driven through the former site of their ranch, and it is extremely remote), waiting for The Leader to drive by in one of the 90 some odd Rolls Royces that they have given up all their money to purchase for him.
very beautiful, felt voyeuristic reading it though–private Jobs public eulogy.
The UK loves online banking more than Facebook.
Yep I know exactly what you mean. What I find kind of interesting is I would feel nervous having myself from 5 years ago in my team today.

That guy was pretty damned sharp, worked long hours, researched implemented push boundaries, and delivered some stuff I'm still proud of. But he had something to prove, he put meaning into things that didn't want or need meaning. Over engineered everything.

But a calmer/mature more strategic me says I don't need mavericks on business automation software. I'd be watching me like a hawk, because I made mistakes, big ones from time to time (my favourite was a system failure costing €50,000 in lost revenue... all my fault, I was literally told to clear my desk and was marched out the door).

You need those mavericks to push boundaries, its fun to be one, but boy its disconcerting when you have one in your team and all you need t do is deliver is a CRUD application.
One day I hope a pill is invented for after a head shock (I suppose in a severe head shock the person won't be able to swallow) so an injection, sublingual or patch -- it stops the devastating chemical chain reaction: the equivalent of icing a sprain: ice for the brain.

Maybe a sound or frequency generator might work too.
Richard Stallman, "A free digital society" (speech in english)
I don't have "five closest friends". Who am I, then? :)
Good overview video presentation on LMAX: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/LMAX

Presented by Martin Thompson and Michael Barker on Dec 16, 2010

Some Java framework are already using Disruptor:
http://jdon.org
But the thing is that most bridges which has a weight limit on them has that limit on a sign next to them.

And if you want to know the depth of a ford, well you can go and measure it.

So I really don't get why they would make them secret.
What? What was with the Eventbrite 'brogrammer' paragraph? You seem to say that 'marrying' social life and technology is a bad thing, but it's the segue into her (apparent) use of user groups and networking to further her career. Also:

Bottom line: If the main topic of conversation you have with your friends is not how you can better yourself, you need to get new friends.

Uh. No. If you drop universal statements like that, you're probably... Well, I won't go into it. At any rate, there are a wide variety of reasons to have friends.
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https://members.oreilly.com/account/register/index

You need to register a Oreilly.com account. Once you do that you should be able under Your Products and then Print Books to upgrade them to Ebooks for 4.99.

It's a crazy good deal. I've also seen people just buy the book off the Android app store and export the epub out of the app. I think the Adiko book app will do that for you.
Snowcrash, I presume. YT: Yours Truly, and HT? Hiro Protagonist.
It's actually more pleasant than the 100+ degree sultry summer weather ...

Northern California doesn't have that problem either.
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Hehe - only 30%? I see...
According to a bank at least...

Also, if you live and breathe the internet, it all is easy to forget that for a lot of people it only plays a minor role in their lives: Only 32% would "shop online where they could"...!?
That is a fair assessment of monotone, both in terms of influence and performance, although recent releases have gotten better now that there are a few select large projects that use it (Pidgin, primarily).

Monotone uses a sqlite relational database for the code repository, with built-in synchronization/replication. It uses a PGP-like PKI and digital signature system for its trust rules (allowing for a trust-less store-and-forward architecture that still none of the other DCVS systems support). It redundantly stores both revision history and content diff views (two equivalent ways of serializing DCVS trees), and automatically keeps the two synchronized. It is extremely smart about merging and branch handling (the monotone-dev list is wonderful place to find analysis of edge-case merge behvior). And it did all of this back in early 2003.

Monotone was ahead of its time. It's only “problem” was that its core developers chose to focus on correctness and user interface over optimization, delaying work on performance and scalability until such work would actually be needed... which was much sooner than they expected. Linux was orders of magnitude larger than anything that had been done with monotone at the time. This may be an urban legend, but I've heard it said that ‘git’, the ‘stupid version control system’ was named such in part because it was a grotesque simplification of monotone's sophisticated framework, which Linus Torvalds did hold in high regard.

Monotone is the Lisp of distributed version control... venerable and unsurpassed by anything that followed, but utterly irrelevant today.
I studied finance and economics in college and spent 5 years in banking. Last year I quit my job and taught myself python/django, HTML, CSS, and Jquery. Last week I did a demo of my financial software for my old boss and he loved it. It's going to allow his analysts to do their analysis in a few minutes instead of a few hours.

My wife and I moved to a new city while I went through this process, and it was mostly a lonely road. Friends matter, but don't let a trite saying deter you from making things happen. If you want to do something, just go do it. Your friends will soon follow.
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I wouldn't say I'm a devil's advocate sort. I just don't seem to fit anyone's ready-made assumptions/categories/whatever. I say something like "I lost a lot of weight and it's nice to feel better but I'm not entirely comfortable with all the invasive attention from total strangers". Someone gives me advice on how to avoid male attention. It hadn't occur to me initially to clearly state that the majority of the discomfiting attention is from women who want to be like me, not men who want to get with me.

I have a serious medical condition that is supposed to be killing me, and I do still have bad days at times, but I'm getting well when doctor's (and everyone else) says that can't be done (getting well is why I have slimmed down so much). To me, that is an ordinary fact and I talk about it casually at times online, the way I would to the two sons who live with me and know all the details. For other people, that's a headfuck and most folks divide up between being highly impressed or spitting in my face and accusing me of both making up crap and being a danger to others to talk about it (which makes me want to go "Okay, which is it? You can't have it both ways.").

In short, I guess I'm the anti-group-think wherever I go. AKA lightening rod for controversy.
I use Prowl on my iPhone http://www.prowlapp.com/ and 2Prowl extension for Safari http://extensions.dreamtbyphil.co.uk/ to easily push the page I'm looking at in Safari to my phone.

There are extensions for Chrome and Firefox as well http://www.prowlapp.com/apps.php
Apple’s HDTV: Just a Big iPad
Beautiful eulogy. However either it, or Jobs' biography, is erroneous about who called Mona to let her know she had a brother.

This eulogy claims a lawyer called Mona. But the biography, in chapter 20, claims it is Mona's mother, Joanne, who called:

"""
[Joanne] had never told Mona that she had a brother, and that day she broke the news, or at least part of it, by telephone. "You have a brother, and he's wonderful, and he 's famoous, and I'm going to bring him to New York so you can meet him," she said.
"""
I made mistakes, big ones from time to time (my favourite was a system failure costing €50,000 in lost revenue... all my fault, I was literally told to clear my desk and was marched out the door).

I wish we shared more of these tales of mistakes. It seems to me that the current software development environment involves an attitude of shame over mistakes or simple ignorance, to the point that it becomes a political battle simply to get a developer to admit fault. The only place I know that discusses mistakes would be something like the Daily WTF, where snark and condescension are the name of the game (not that I don't enjoy reading it...).
I have no idea what someone that's becoming "de-programmed" should wear. Neither do you.

Those where mere students waiting to get close to someone they considered to be a rock-star. They're just going the distance.
I like chaining because it emphasizes that a set of method calls is part of one discrete action involving one object.

For example, take adding a header to some text: it's one action, but it involves multiple steps. First I create the actual element, then I give it a class name, add some text and finally insert it in the DOM. I think chaining not only makes the code easier to read (and type, although that isn't particularly important), but also makes its semantics clearer.
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That puts them ahead of audiophiles, then, many of whom believe that blind testing is inherently flawed, and it's sighted testing that reveals the true sound of the amplifier.

As proven by the editor of Stereophile, because if the blind tests were right, how come he likes this other amplifier better? http://www.stereophile.com/asweseeit/705awsi
Java AIO

$ ab -n 30000 -c 300 http://127.0.0.1:8080/
Concurrency Level: 300
Time taken for tests: 4.908 seconds
Complete requests: 30000
Requests per second: 6112.65 [#/sec] (mean)

Node (January 2011)

$ ab -n 30000 -c 300 http://127.0.0.1:8124/
Concurrency Level: 300
Time taken for tests: 8.140 seconds
Complete requests: 30000
Requests per second: 3685.69 [#/sec] (mean)

http://www.olympum.com/java/java-aio-vs-nodejs/
I see no comments here, and maybe that's deserved, or not, but this article refers to another article, one which I think should get some attention, because I like her explanation of how she used Reader, and why she prefers it to Plus.

"Courtney Stanton, a Boston-based product manager, called Google Reader 'the best social network created so far' in a passionate rant on her blog. 'For me, this is the destruction of the only online space I truly give a shit about.'"

http://kirbybits.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/wherein-i-try-to-e...
The War on vowels continues...
"Bottom line: If the main topic of conversation you have with your friends is not how you can better yourself, you need to get new friends."

Thanks, but I'm happy with the friends I have and with the kind of conversations we have. If your friends love talking about "how you can better yourself," then fair enough -- whatever works for you. On the other hand, if your friends love talking about the things they do, interesting things they've learned, neat ideas, activities, etc. then don't ditch them just because they're not talking about "how you can better yourself." You'll "better yourself" by being immersed in a social environment of new ideas and options and acting on the things you learn, not by dumping your friends and finding people who want to talk about self-improvement.
I'm a 99% introvert, with an EQ of 42. This post really fails to account for outliers; sometimes people are simply far out of line with respect to the average.
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Don’t give yourself permission to fail
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Oh that makes sense
My understanding is that they are making a great deal of money, which they reinvest in the organization. The linked post has a link to a document which includes their balance sheet. You are, of course, correct that they're not-for-profit.
Getting detailed maps in lots of coutries is difficult. Lived in Ethiopia for a while, which up until 1993 was governed by a communist regime. Around 2000 it was still law that in order to get maps on a 1:10000 scale you needed a government license/permit and could only be bought at the "Mapping Authority". 1:100000 maps on the other hand were available everywhere.
Lots of other countries have restrictions for instance on key bridges and other infrastructure, disallowing access, pictures, stopping, etc.
Thanks for pointing this out - I'll fix it.

(On the email: yes, I sent them. Don't know what happened to yours, sorry about that. But the book is out, and available at places like Amazon.)
Random Arduino/electronics tip: the Sharp S202S02F relay ($4 at Parallax) is an awesome little solid state relay that will do 8A at 240V.
Either version is true enough.
What is a brogrammer, anyway? I am imagining something like the Cheezburger "Bro" site, but sitting at a computer??
stupid question: what is considered "silicon valley"? Is it in northern or southern california? (I was under the impression that it was southern california)
But do the mainstream buy it? What's their selling point aimed at them?

Everybody who I know who uses or tries ubuntu is either:
- A software developer of some kind.
- An advanced or else adventurous user who wants perspective.
- A family member of one of the above.

Neither of those is "mainstream" in that sense. And making product mainly used by X while keeping Z in mind is a troublesome tactic.
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Northern California, the bay area, and silicon valley are all pretty much synonyms in this context.
Can somebody find the actual text of the Brochet studies? I've seen them referred to several times, but without citations.
Perhaps because it is a misquote; my .txt reads:

"What the fuck do you want?"

"Y.T., I'm sorry about this. But something's going on. Something big time. I'm keeping one eye on a big biker named Raven."

"The problem with you hackers is you never stop working."

"That's what a hacker is," Hiro says.

"I'll keep an eye on this Raven guy, too," she says, "sometime when I am

working."

Then she hangs up.
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Innovation is not olympics.
Insanely moving.

The ending takes my breath away.
No bots involved. I thought someon else might find it useful.
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I don't think any of the "asshole" or "genius" articles were diminishing of his humanity. We as humans are made up of all aspects of our beings. The good an the bad, public and private, personal and not.

What distinguishes Jobs is he existed in layers from exceedingly public, second hand, apocryphal to private.

What I love about this is it feels like a balancing of that gradient.
Oh. I took it to mean that Buddhism is the quest for truth not the truth.
How much time could it take to just email yourself a link?

I can see the purpose of SMS, I guess. You get an alert right on your phone.

This seems like a neat service but I prefer something a bit more robust like Instapaper, which I use for things like this.

Cool anyhow! Thanks for sharing! Good luck!
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Let's not get mixed up about what the projection did and didn't do. As you point out, the importance of rhumb lines comes not from the fact that the thing they keep constant -- the bearing (with respect to north/south) -- was something that could actually be measured.

Rhumb lines are not, however, the shortest distance between two points on a sphere. Those would be great circles. In particular, note that along a rhumb line one can never reach the north or south pole. Indeed, rhumb lines are dependent on your choice of poles, which the actual shortest course clearly cannot be!
1) You are right, having a mission definitely kept me on track. It also gave me peace. The moment I decided to start learning about technology, I felt confidence. I knew that one day I will leave the mediocre jobs and be part of this new field. This thought alone gave me confidence when I went to job interviews. During the interview with Genentech I remember thinking about some html code that I just learned and how I want to go home and learn more. Having an alternative made me a more confident job candidate.
My hobby is learning foreign languages, I like learning something new every day. So when I noticed that this is part of every tech position, I decided that it is closer to what I need, even if it is not the perfect match.
I did question whether I am cut out for this many times, but I had nothing to lose. If I was coming from a career field that I loved I might have felt otherwise.

2) I was learning Chinese at the end of the day to compensate for not learning anything at work. I was studying on my own, mainly with Rosetta Stone and grammar books. It was an on and off process and I did feel burned out sometimes. Recently I had lost motivation, especially since I am much happier at work. So I joined my first Mandarin class to get a new direction and see where I am. It is intermediate level and everyone in the class is much better than me, because they have lived in China for 1 year. So I have a lot to learn still but I would say that during the first nine months I laid a pretty good foundation.

3) I am not good with time management myself, which is why it took me so long to enter this field. I find the study groups I attend very helpful with this. Check out meetup.com for your area and search for a topic of interest. Find the right study group which will allow you to learn on your pace, yet require your dedication. When you are surrounded with people who are also on a mission, it motivates you. Even better if you share the same mission.
As far as I know, x.y.ODD (e.g. 1.8.5) was never an unstable release.

x.ODD.z (e.g. 1.7.1) was unstable up until 1.9 though.
Monotone got the user experience right. The git interface simply exposes the atomic operations of commit-tree management. Monotone, on the other hand, provides an abstraction on top of that which maps quite well to how people actually use a DCVS. Doing anything more than the standard edit-commit-fetch-merge-push cycle on git is like casting an arcane spell. The equivalent operation on monotone is either a) nothing, because monotone automatically handles that high-level operation for you, or b) intuitively obvious and simple to construct.

More fundamentally, monotone records both manifest and diff history, which from the git point of view is entirely redundant. However it allows monotone to do much more sophisticated merge handling than out-of-the-box git, and better captures the human intent of a changeset. It allows monotone to correctly handle copy operations, for example, which is relevant in the context of history-rewriting operations.
Part of the difference between a religion and a cult is that 'normal' religions are a part of people's lives, but coexist with the other things they have going on. Cults, like the Rashneesh group, are all-consuming. Those people lived out there in the middle of the desert, and "Rashneesh" was their entire life. They weren't just lining up at the Apple store for fun, or going to see the pope come to town or something.
'git diff' already supports --word-diff natively.
My close friends all moved away after I graduated college two years ago... am I a nothing person because I'm not a socialite like Jane?
You can do exactly what he's asking for a one-time cost of $45 with OBiTALK. I used it on my iPhone while traveling in Europe to make several flawless calls to the US, each lasting an hour or more.
I dont quite understand your reasoning here.

Please explain how moving any of these companies to Silicon Valley would have made them better than Facebook?

I would are that Foursquare in NY and Foursquare in SF would still have the same premise and penetration that it has if it were build in SF, I think many of these companies are limited by their concepts and not their location.

However if you feel as though Foursquare etc would have been better if they were based in Si Valley, please explain why.
I have to humbly disagree with this. People who don't know html and css graduate school out of the art department with Graphic Design. Go look up any decent college teaching web design - they put 2 years of emphasis on HTML & Css as well as the adobe design suite. Knowing Dreamweaver or expression web like the back of your hand is part of the curriculum.
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hello there fellow intovert. quick question, where did you measure your EQ?
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well, the chemical mentioned in the article, HA-1077, is at least a small molecule so it's not impossible that it will pass the blood brain barrier. And we have now exhausted my knowledge of medical pharmacology =P. But if the molecule passes the stomach as well it seems like we could just bulk manufacture these pills.

Alternatively, we could stop messing around in countries where we have no business being, and treat traumatic brain injury by avoiding creating them in the first place.
Oh, definitely not disagreeing that SV/SF is #1 in terms of density & scale of technology companies. This is undeniable.

Just offering that there are some significant consumer web tech companies being started in other places these days. More now than ever in fact.

Shameless plug mode:

And BTW, the technical challenges at foursquare are actually pretty interesting. We have all the issues you'll see in a social network (primarily the fact that our data is hard to partition) combined with the fact that much of what we do is based on your (or your friends) entire history of usage. It gets pretty hard pretty fast. If you find this sort of thing interesting I'd love to talk to you. http://foursquare.jobs
The lack of a working ruby-debug19 has been the only thing keeping me from using 1.9.3.
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