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I get what you are trying to say and in general you "get it". However what you are talking about is in general a class issue, blacks just happen to be disproportionately poor. All Black Americans do not have the same culture. I just wanted to point that out because it can come off like a sweeping generalization of all Black people and that is certainly not the case.
I think I'll wait for the 2nd edition of the book before taking the class.
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30 year old programmer here (started programming when I was 9, in LOGO, and then BASIC).

While doing my BS in Software Eng. I tried Emacs and Vi for several months (really really wanting to like them) and I never "grok it". I've been using IDE's (Borland, Microsoft, IntelliJ, Eclispe, Netbeans, etc) and the only reason I touch Vi is to edit text files in my Linux installs.

Aside of that, I never really saw any benefit, but hey, maybe I am not cool enough.
Also: Journalists love their nautical metaphors. That seems like a plus (however annoying it might be).
Nitpicking, but the authors aren't actually journalists, they're professors in psychology and cite their own research in the article. Just goes to show it's not always journalists twisting the scientists' work trying to get a juicy piece, sometimes it's the scientists themselves. I don't know if they are twisting the results of their work or not, but it does seem like this piece was a bit fluffy and does as much jumping to conclusions as the stuff that it aims to take down.
Along these lines there are also: lspci, lshw, and procinfo.
Even worse in canada - all incoming firms have to be Canadian owned and financed. Try raising the money for a nation wide set of phone masts if you aren't allowed overseas investors
No, "being here" is not consent. Suppose I come to your home with a bunch of armed friends, and tell you "You are free to leave, but if you stay you consent to following my rules." It would be absurd to consider that consent.

The alternative is a society based on voluntary exchange, by recognizing the State as an immoral initiation of force.
Looks great, but I really want this as a standalone product so not to share my traffic stats with the 3rd party.
As much as I'm usually opposed, that sounds like a time when you should switch to end notes. If your footnotes are extremely detailed and one can read your paper without them, put them at the end for those who care about all those details so that more casual readers can ignore them.

And if you have that high of a footnote:content ratio and don't believe that one can read the paper without the footnotes, then I think it is time to revisit what belongs in the footnotes vs. in the main content.
What I've seen is that usually, if a company is negotiating in good faith with you, they'll give you an offer that is close to as good as they can make it. Normally you can't get very much more in terms of more vacation, a higher signing bonus, or a higher % for bonus, unless you're a superstar and then the rules are different.

Of course, negotiating for a higher position than what they were considering, and with that the commensurate salary, etc, is totally valid.

If they don't give you the best offer they can, it would make me question whether or not they're a good company to start with. Someone who is trying to squeeze out as much from their new employee as possible doesn't seem to be a company that values keeping their employees happy.
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Actually most people don't.
> Funny that it's called a "social contract" when it doesn't conform to contract law!

It is a basic principle of contract law that you ratify a contract (implicitly consent) by acting according to the contract.

You have, for some number of years, accepted the protection of the state. You have ratified the contract through your participation in civilized society.
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I see something very similar happening in many Computer Science papers and the areas in which some CS academics have chosen to focus their time. It's not as bad as what goes on in Law School, certainly, but there is definitely a divide between what is important to industry (which is often much more about engineering) and academics (who need to publish something which will get them tenure, which means it has to pass muster with senior academics in the field).
This looks interesting. But would it be useful to anyone who's not a kernel developer?
In my limited experimentation with Emacs, trying to get started with Lisp/Scheme, it seems like a bit of an ergonomic nightmare. That may be affected by my Dvorak layout and Kinesis keyboard, perhaps Emacs is the one Kryptonite of this combination...
It's a great tagline, but I'm not sure how it works?

To me, saying something doesn't need "any technical skills" shouldn't have to mean inserting a line of code onto a file on a server. For the lay person, that's pretty technical.

I'm sure it's a good product, but I feel as if there's a disconnect between 7 minute, 3 click, no technical skills and a service that offers and a fully featured CRM, digital delivery and shopping cart system.

Can it really be everything to all sellers?
man bash | pr | less

... gives you paginated manpages. I get about 96 pages for bash 4.1.5.

man -Tps bash > /tmp/bash.ps && gv /tmp/bash.ps

... gives you the manpage pretty-printed as postscript output (assumes you've got the gv ghostview viewer installed). Or you can use a PDF converter (e.g.: ps2pdf) and read with your preferred PDF viewer.

This version runs about 70 pages for the same manual.
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Just to touch on the essence of this article for interested parties: this concept is also known by the Japanese as "Gemba" and was popularized in industry (among many other lean principles) by Toyota's production system.
Hah. For the exact same price, Vodafone NZ provides the same 200mn and half the data[0]. 2500 texts though, I don't know what you get on the plan you quoted.

Although technically, to qualify for any phone rebate you need 24 months, which includes a rebate on the plan as well, so you would take the $85 plan for 24 months ($400 off of the phone and $15 off of the plan), yielding a $60 plan (same as the $65 one previously quoted but 300mn voice) and a free iPhone 4 (a 16GB 4S would be $150).

Belgium has cheaper prices (e.g. 40€ prepaid with 285mn, 2000 SMS and 2GB data[1]) but absolutely no phone subsidies (they're pretty much illegal) so an iPhone costs you the full price, 529€[2] (~730 CAD)

[0] https://www.vodafone.co.nz/phones-plans/plans/smart/

[1] https://mobilevikings.com/en/offer/price-plans/full-option/

[2] http://store.apple.com/be-fr/product/MD128
I prefer keeping file viewing and file editing as separate actions.

'most' will colorize bash output as well (it's strictly a pager, in the pg / more / less / most continuum).
And vim -p file1.txt file2.txt to open them in tabs.
Individual sovereignty doesn't mean I'm not dependent on other people, it means I own my body and thus am responsible for its actions.

To deny individual sovereignty is tantamount to denying the concept of free will.
It finally worked. Absolutely wasn't before, but not sure what changed.

Awesome! THanks.
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That's what I'm saying, its worse than those numbers make it look. Canada has the highest average cost, and because a Canadian regional plan is more expensive than a nation-wide long distance plan in the US it is masking the true cost. Canadians can't afford to use their phones, so they typically don't make anything but quick calls or text messaging.
Sketch Up would not be a good option because it produces mesh models which look like garbage when printed, a good low cost Nurbs modeling software that produces true curves for digital fabrication would be Rhino 3d. The educational version of Rhino is $195. http://www.rhino3d.com/

Edit: and if you want to make your cups parametric like the examples the grasshopper plugin for Rhino is the way to go http://www.grasshopper3d.com/
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I agree entirely, there is not much point in second guessing Apple. Their decision worked out very well for them. Safari is an excellent browser and WebKit is an excellent browser engine.

I do think though that the KHTML/Gecko thing is a pointless debate. For one thing, both are very good, so I'm not sure what there is to argue. But the real issue is KHTML/Gecko is a false dichotomy: Apple has huge resources and amazing engineering talent, so it could have written a new browser engine from scratch, and I'm pretty sure that browser engine would have been awesome. And, doing so would have given Apple complete freedom to pick the project's license, either more closed than KHTML's LGPL license (even entirely closed source, like most of OS X), or more permissive (even BSD, like Apple prefers in its open source projects). There are a lot of interesting possibilities there, that we can only speculate about.

So again, I agree second guessing is pointless. But it just seems like debating KHTML/Gecko is even more pointless, given the other options Apple had.
A difficulty is actually predicting that, though, especially if you're looking for medium-term influence rather than usable-immediately. For example, many "practically oriented" software engineers would've derided Okasaki's thesis, Purely Functional Data Structures, as pointless mathematical masturbation, until a decade later it became one of the core parts of Clojure, which suddenly (some) software engineers found useful.
Info pages are written as a single document, but displayed by the 'info' or 'pinfo' readers in multiple pages.

You can simply view the original file (it has minimal markup) in a pager for a single-file view. I generally write an "info" script or function to replace the info viewer with something more useful.

I share your dislike of the info format.
Don't know about PacMan, but LoveLock made me think of the following.

Make a bracelet that has a pulse sensor and a couple of tiny LEDs, pair it with the iPhone and the further connect it to another iPhone/bracelet combo over the Internet. Use one LED for the owner's pulse, and another - for that of a better half on the other end.

PS. Deluxe version could also show a distance between the bracelets.
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>A child (if that's what you mean by "girl")

I think she got into anime in high school. It was definitely well after the critical period for language learning (which btw, many linguists believe is only a critical period for learning a first language).

>for all I know your Cantonese-speaking friends are actually Chinese

None of the Cantonese learners I mentioned were Chinese nationals (though 2 are ethnically Chinese). Even if they were Chinese nationals, it's still far from easy. Cantonese is more different from Mandarin than romance languages are from each other in terms of mutual intelligibility.

My own study history has been French classes with little effect in high school, Japanese classes with much better results in college, Spanish through immersion with mediocre results, many years of living in a bilingual Mandarin environment as well as some classes, and more recently, a bit of Taiwanese, Cantonese and Swedish almost entirely via media until learning enough to try some of it out on people. Taiwanese and Cantonese both have features that are totally alien to me, despite have some distant relationship to Mandarin via classical Chinese. Swedish is totally out there.

I'm 100% sure you can learn languages to a fluent level as an adult through large amounts of exposure to the target language. I've seen it first hand many times and I've essentially abandoned classes for any reason other than visas in foreign countries. That said, reading is great! It's probably the fastest way to build up your vocabulary, even in your native language. After getting enough listening input to have some handle on phonics, I'm all for reading as much as possible. Actually I think not doing that is why my Mandarin progressed fairly slowly until I got into... some video games!

Back to the topic of the article, I would be amongst the first in line to by a Skyrim-style game for learning Swedish or Korean or any other language I want to learn! Anything that's both a source of L2 input and fun is gold.
That is one way of looking at it. Consider the hardware your ticket to Siri, and as long as you don't place abnormal demand on the service, there's really no reason Apple should care.
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I played a test of a real-life Capture the Flag game that used your phones for capturing the flag and others.

Your phone would contain a radar with your distance to the flag, and to catch other players you'd tap a tag button on the app.

It was fun, and I could see the potential. There is still plenty of issues with GPS tech but they were doing some fine-tuning using wifi towers / etc.

In this case, you only looked down at your phone to view radar, otherwise you ran as normal, and that's (mostly) safe. :)
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I had to follow up with a company a few days ago. This is what I wrote. They got back to me in a few hours.

Dear <name>,

Thank you again for the opportunity to speak with you regarding the <position name> position on <date you interviewed>.

From our conversation, I had hoped to hear back regarding the next step of the interview process. I am excited about this position and would appreciate knowing if I have been selected for the next step.

I understand you are busy. Thank you for your time,

<your name>
It would consist mostly of line of business applications. Everything from the aforementioned high frequency trading applications to record keeping (stock positions, cash balances, margin), regulatory reporting (tax forms, various bank reporting requirements), interfacing with other banks and exchanges, and lots of systems to handle the various steps of processing the various financial transactions like clearing.

Since finance these days is pretty much just bits on a wire and in some database there are a lot of requirements for redundancy, performance, reconciliations etc. lots of things to make sure your money doesn't just disappear. There's a lot of risk aversion for understandable reasons so most development is in battle tested/supported technologies like Java, relational dbs and C# more recently.

That is not to say that there is no cutting edge development as some banks have developed their own programming languages, databases, and large amounts of internal frameworks. From personal experience there's also a much larger push for developer efficiency with adoption of dynamic languages, nosql dbs and even practices like continuous deployment.
The world is a dangerous place, and fortunately there's nothing anyone can do about that. Risk averse people don't typically realize that avoiding risk and avoiding life are synonymous.
We're talking about this photo, yes?

http://lightbox.time.com/2011/10/06/in-a-private-light-diana...

Where do you see the harmonicas? I can't find them, and I play harmonica! (So it would be very cool to know that Steve played.) My eyes must be playing tricks on me today. :-)

Thanks!
Dollar-paren expansion beats backticks for being nestable.

E.g.: I like dumping temporary files with timestamps:

some-command-to-generate-log > /tmp/log-$( date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S )

Now, if I want to wrap that in a larger loop -- say, iterating over a number of files or parameters:

command $( expansion one $( expansion 2 ))

Works

With backticks you'd have to do escapes:

command `expansion 1 \`expansion 2\` `

... which gets tedious.
I sketched my logo with a pen and paper, then coded it up as an HTML5 canvas drawing.
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Guys, you were one of the best competitors! We see, there is still lots of work to do to build up great gameficiation and stuff, but thats what we all have to do! Thanks and wish you good luck developing the project!

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As would a 3d CNC router: scan with the scanner, print it roughly, then the router cuts it to high quality perfection.
I'm in the same boat.

Someone told me about http://www.crowdspring.com/

but I've never used it. Might be worth a shot?
By standalone you mean installed on your servers?
"Nobody ever set out to send an innocent person to prison for arson"

But they're sure happy to keep them there.
You don't want to be moving the warm plastic..
Thanks so much. I had to do this just earlier today and ended up using a tmp file.
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They were. During the pitching night I was seriously considering just giving up on it and going home. Ended up joining a university mate.

In the end I got to exercise some skills not often used, so the net gain was about neutral, but if I return for the next time, it will be with my own idea.
I just ordered several cups as Christmas gifts. I have a few relatives for whom these should be just perfect -- the combination of 3D printing, unexpected topologies and coffee is like a holy trinity that touches on all their interests :)
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Don't be a dick, you know exactly what I mean. From the FA:

"Analyzing Chromebooks' difficult situation, the sources pointed out that although Google is mainly pushing Chromebooks in the enterprise market, its Google Docs applications cannot meet the needs the enterprise users."
thanks for your thoughts. we'd like to have more gatherings/marketplace type stuff on the site but that takes a certain critical mass - people know that on craigslist their ad will be seen. our site is still trying to build traffic.

that's an interesting idea about trying to use facebook and then group by location. but are facebook apps really the ticket anymore? it seems to me that most facebook users are extremely hesitant to use apps anymore - especially apps that post content automatically to walls, etc. and since our site only collects an email address from each registered user, we just felt the integration wasn't worthwhile.
>> Founder equity splits

The time to do founder equity splits is before you make a product that delights customers. If you think that is something you can work out after, you don't understand human nature.

Also, if you have problems working out founder equity splits, you probably have the wrong team.
The positional variations on this meme are almost endless. Off to register, ijustgotreversecowgirled.com at namecheap now.
People walk into poles reading Facebook and Twitter on their phones already, as well as doing the same while driving. One day you die anyway.
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I don't get it. The Chinese guy says they measure "tonnes of money". But if I have an OI of 30%, it will take 100 of sales to make 30 of profit. If I have an OI of 10%, it will take 300 of sales to make 30 of profit.

It looks like the Chinese have problem in making good investments. And I understand that, somebody should always remember that the Chinese is an extremely controlled economy. Maybe that's why they are happy with low ROIs, maybe that's the only thing they can do.

Apparently, my hairdresser understand finance better than those guys.
I am quite passionate about this and my husband and I are trying to fix it. If you want to be kept in the loop http://www.pixelpublish.com

I write popular fiction right into Tex and use pdflatex to typeset my books. But that is also not a solution. As error proof as it is, it is rather cumbersome and not very user friendly.

The problem of (most) of today'e ebooks is not that they are typeset in Word, but that they are converted from Word.

Contrary to common sense, authors' write (produce text) in Word (WYSIWYG editor -- not text) and then they upload their .doc files into epub creators to produce epubs (text). Yes, we go from text to text via something that isn't text. Bound to be a few glitches.

Word has hidden commands that an average user cannot anticipate unless they are surgically careful with their formatting. Most of today's epublishers have written an entire book length instructions on how to do this error free. It's exhausting.

In my opinion, writing, as a process, must be revolutionized for this to be fixed.
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How do people use CTRL-A for screen without being driven batty that the emacs-style 'start-of-line' command is not available? I use that constantly!
Exactly, regarding final project or similar, where students could demonstrate some creativity and come up with original solutions.
Actually, I put more emphasis in "bit" word, before "disappointed".

But otherwise, it is really a great course - such an amount of practical information in such a short time.
> The first thing the sys-admin who helped me said was, "type 'man'."

And that also happened. It used to be virtually impossible to jump in alone, because someone had to create an account for you. It's now possible to start in Unix with no one's help. As long as you can figure out how to burn an iso to CD, you're in. The installation gives you an account, with sudo.

After you install CrunchBang, it pops up a terminal the first time you log in, and allows you to make additional choices that weren't made during install.

I think all distros should pop up a terminal upon first boot and direct you to read "man man."
This is not an ideas contest, more about networking and having fun while learning new stuff. All about execution. After events like these people are always hugely motivated and in high moods. Hard to describe it if you have not participated yourself.

Still 2 previous Garage48 hackathon teams have won investments from Seedcamp, the leading startup accelerator in Europe.

If even 1-2 teams from each event become real startups, that´s a big win. If not, people meet others and it often happens they start other projects after the event based on new ideas. Everybody wins.
Just because the image is copyrighted doesn't mean you are violating copyright law by displaying it. It would be quite nice of you to display a link to the site that Google found the image on - but if this is a non-commercial site, you have a very good fair use claim. If you really wanted to be in the clear, you could change your image search default to show "images labeled for reuse." Either way, don't be cowed by copyright maximalists.
The difference in car insurance from vancouver to victoria is 50%. People drive more expensive cars in vancouver and apparently are more likely to have accidents.
Capitalism, personal liberty, and morality (e.g. traditional Judao-Christian morality, though I don't claim that's the only workable system) are like three legs of a stool. It will fall over without one of them. A moral person's "own interest" includes doing things that are consistent with his sense of morality. Personal liberty and private property rights are essential to allow capitalism to flourish. Decades of attacks on and marginalization of traditional morality in favor of more contemporary "social obligations" (code for "whatever feels good") have resulted in capitalism motivated by greed, rather than a more complete "self interest" that includes morality. We see the results.
The blogpost is from a month ago. Google hasn't rolled it out yet?

edit: Yep, Google still hasn't rolled it out to most accounts. :( source: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Analytics/threa...