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Sorry to hear that. The ridiculous pressures placed on gifted kids in this regard is widespread and, IMO, not healthy for society as a whole. But usually doesn't involve beatings. However, it is possible to undo the damage. I walked away from a national merit scholarship and dropped out of college to go find out who I was other than an obnoxious brainiac. I wish I had some words of wisdom to help you. No advice comes to mind (but then I don't typically do advice anyway).

Consider this a cyberhug and meant in the best way possible. If you aren't the huggie type, then a cyberbow if that works better.

Peace.
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I still don't understand why anybody would use those fancy new elements instead of divs. The only thing "gained" would be breaking the page in older browsers.

What excites me about "HTML5" (and I don't care what the official definition is) are extended capabilities of JavaScript like GeoLocation, Local Storage, Web Sockets and so on.
> It is the best PDF viewing solution out there. If you read CS papers in PDF format, it's great.

Unfortunately true, despite having a heavily crippled PDF reader. The zoom is completely broken (100%-150%-200% only?), and there's no scroll function whatsoever -- I don't think this is an oversight; it seems to have been deliberately crippled so people consume Kindle books and not their own PDFs.
The question is, can we build the ability to switch cryptographic building blocks into Bitcoin?

Wouldn't that be the equivalent of switching from one currency to another, like the manner in which the Eurozone nations switched from their national currencies (the franc, deutschmark, drachma, lira, etc.) to the euro? In order to ensure an orderly transition, you'd need to address the issue that bitcoins' perceived "value" (for want of a better word) is derived from the fact that it is (increasingly) difficult to mine bitcoins.

If the new currency is easier to mine, how would you bring the old and new currencies into synch? Trying to synch with a new crypto-currency which has a different coin creation rate (and a different rate of change in the difficulty of creating coins) seems like a recipe for wild fluctuations in value.

To my mind, Bitcoin is more like a virtual commodity than a currency, except for the fact that it has no intrinsic value. Even gold has intrinsic value for electronics and aerospace applications. One can argue that a bitcoin has even less intrinsic value than a fiat currency because it's not legal tender, so it can't even be used to settle debts or pay taxes. Some might say that it has negative intrinsic value because, in order to create a bitcoin, you have to expend many CPU hours doing the mining. Ultimately, that's incredibly inefficient - see http://goo.gl/I34VL

The obvious intrinsic value for a virtual commodity is CPU hours - i.e. the expenditure of resources to some useful end (or, at least, an end that someone is willing to pay in order to achieve), that can not only be delivered internationally and anonymously, but can be distributed across multiple CPUs provided by, for example, the members of a p2p network. You could then build a "CPU-backed" currency, where the issuers promise to pay the bearer X CPU hours on demand.

Of course, you then have the question of whether the issuer of a "CPU note" can be relied upon to actually deliver said CPU hours when presented with a note. Notes could end up being valued in a manner similar to bonds, where less credit-worthy issuers' (e.g. fly-by-night operations based in China or Eastern Europe) notes would be discounted relative to those issued by blue chips (e.g. IBM, Amazon).

Ultimately, though, the value of a currency whose value is based on a commodity will be determined by the fiat currency cost of the resources required to generate that commodity. The only way you could escape would be if the virtual currency were to become more liquid than the fiat currencies. In that scenario, the virtual currency would become a benchmark, in the same way that, for example, the price of US or German government bonds are actually derived from the price of the bond futures because the futures markets are more liquid and actively traded.

Given that the global foreign exchange market is the deepest and most liquid market in the world, that objective would seem to be a long way away.
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You should probably show the location that is being used. I would feel more comfortable with relying on it then.

Great project, I'll use it.
What I don't like about the download bar is that it takes too much space. Maybe they can make it smaller or customizable a bit.
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> Was it a Mozilla project in the first place?

Nope.

> I thought it was just a very popular third-party addon?

Yep.
I refuse to go Android with another device until they implement hardware acceleration and improve the user experience. The staggering that occurs when scrolling and moving between applications is just plain unnatural and I have a mini-aneurysm every time it does it. Plus, the battery drainage is atrocious on the phone I have. That said, I haven't sprung for a tablet yet, so we'll see where both the iPad and the best Android offering compare when that times does eventually come.
I'm terrible. I'll edit things randomly then make commits before I'm about to do something.
That's not entirely fair. The article does have the following "Christopher Soghoian, a graduate fellow at the Center for Applied Cybersecurity in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, worries that Palantir will make these agencies ever hungrier consumers of every piece of personal data. “I don’t think Palantir the firm is evil,” he says. “I think their clients could be using it for evil things.” Soghoian points out that Palantir’s senior legal adviser, Bryan Cunningham, authored an amicus brief three years ago supporting the Bush Administration’s position in the infamous warrantless wiretapping case and defended its monitoring domestic communication without search warrants. Another event that got critics exercised: A Palantir engineer, exposed by the hacker collective Anonymous earlier this year for participating in a plot to break into the PCs of WikiLeaks supporters, was quietly rehired by the company after being placed on leave."
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I don't get what are they trying to achieve. So what's the result of someone uninstalling flash? What if 50% of people did it (crazy over-estimation)? It won't be obvious from visit statistics for a couple of months, people who approve page rewrites in big companies will not hear about it for a year or so and even then won't be likely to react. More agile teams either use flash or html5, based on their needs and I guess telling them about "occupy flash" would be a wasted effort.

So the only thing you get from it is you don't get access to some web content... Or did I miss some goal?
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Maybe functional programming would be easier to grasp had you not learned imperative programming first.
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So it's two characters shorter?

I left the two ;} because my syntax highlighter was yelling at me that I'm doing something ugly and I was inside the 140B limit anyway.
I would probably create a whole new class called "thinking 101" or something. It should teach:

-numeracy: how much is 1 million/1 billion/1 trillion, etc.

-common cognitive biases.

-logical fallacies.

-basic science.

-basic coding.

-De Bono's 6 thinking hats.

-how the brain works.

-meditation (ie not thinking).

-how to learn stuff faster and better.

-how to remember stuff: memory palace and the like.

-etc

I could think up a HUGE list of stuff in this genre that would be very helpful.
The problem is that teachers are often completely computer-illiterate. This is a chicken-and-egg problem; you won't teach proper, interesting computing activities without competent teachers.
Well, you can easily see that the plane's skin is not a Faraday cage since you can make cell phone calls, use your GPS etc.
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Hmm. I think Ext is great for stuff like dynamic datagrids and they have some proper interactions (a lot of it based on the YUI! design library, which is one of the best resources out there). Unfortunately most of it looks very developer-y and doesn't really have good defaults. I can't recommend it.
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Although true in general, some subset of students will figure out interesting things, and then show them to others, if you at least put them in an environment where that's possible. My middle-school computing class was not particularly well taught, but the curriculum included a few simple things in Hypercard, and Hypercard was the kind of environment where students who finished the official assignments early could find all sorts of other cool things to do in it.

That does also require having free time. There's a trend lately towards assuming that any free time students have is wasted time in which they could be learning instead of goofing off, which I'm not sure is the right way to look at it.
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Thanks so much for your input. Sorry I took so long in replying... Something unexpected came up. I wrote the 'What is this' really fast, and will make sure to change the spelling mistakes. I'll also definitely change the leetspeak; I was feeling undecided about that anyway. Thanks.
Hehe. It stings me 'cause it's true :)
No, not just two.

It stripped the space before the first { and between the "return" and "false".

False is represented as !1.

"(c)?foo:bar" is replaced by "c?foo:bar". Plus - semicolons are removed as you noticed.

But - really.. It's ugly enough as it is :)
Sounds like you are reinventing the ExPhil:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examen_philosophicum
Thanks for that information. It might help me a lot in a project i am working on as a project lead/conceptor für a bigger cmpany.

so thanks a lot, again!
During sixth form college (ages 16-18, in the UK) one of the philosophy lecturers started a course with the same sort of goals. It covered critical thinking, written communication, logic, a bit of psychology etc.

The 12 or so hours I spent in those lectures were among the most valuable hours I invested in anything, ever.
I never had a problem with this, and my first few languages were BASIC, assembly and C. LISP came naturally to me a few years later.

I think the problem is that people are /used/ to imperative programs, and aren't given real practice in functional programming.

There are also FP zealots, some of whom maintain that learning IP first causes damage. I think this attitude is toxic and doesn't actually help their "cause" (as if good tools needed a "cause" -- good tools should just be good tools).
See, someone should "know" that it's a piece of art. Just by looking at it wouldn't be enough. Someone has to tell someone else that it's an art. And exactly that type of art is something I cannot digest.

So, Pollock: http://www.terraingallery.org/Pollock-Number-One-1948.jpg

And random art from 1500s: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Mon...

I wouldn't call the first one "art", but perhaps it's just me. So 1500's...
A tangential story, pardon me.

I was in San Francisco a couple weeks ago playing a couple shows at the Independent. My buddy Fritz owns a bar/restaurant called the Connecticut Yankee, and was giving me a ride from the hotel to the airport with a breakfast and Irish coffee stop over at the Yankee on the way. We cruised right past Zynga's HQ, which is a few blocks away.

"Wow, Zynga's right there, huh?"

[aggravated grumbling from Fritz]

"Why? What could a bar owner have against a big business full of people making lots of money being a few blocks away?"

"Well, all these tech companies hire their own chefs now. None of those people even leave the building all day. It's totally slaughtered my lunchtime crowd."

I'd never really considered the micro-economic effects of the Google Chef before, but there you go.
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When I think about all of the problems with the education system I am not sure that "teaching coding" would top that list. The bottom line is that coding is a profession which is not suited to everyone. I remember being a TA at university in the late 90s when IT was booming. Everyone wanted to learn to program. Once they learned enough to realize it meant sitting in front of a computer alone all day - most moved on to something else. Few people have the concentration / (lack of :-) social aptitude. I believe most people have the intelligence.

Basic computer skills need to be taught. Coding? It should possibly be a required semester in university for all majors. ...beyond that? Does everyone really need to know about recursion?
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Wow, the CSS Reloader add-on is awesome! This could've save me a couple of hours if I had it earlier.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/css-reloader/
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The only thing more awesome than this would be a JS environment written for the turing machine which is able to run itself.
4-5 years ago I read a story about a guy who was trying to get back from vacation in time to make it to work on a Monday morning so he would not have to take a day off the next day and "miss more work". Was driving though the night, killed his wife and two kids when he fell asleep at the wheel, I don'e even think he had equity in the company. Totally changed the way I ran my business and the way I worked. This blog post is dead on.
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But I think they had a valid point.

Cmd-F searching for the highlighted text involves one key-press. What you describe requires two key-presses.

The former is quicker and easier, and I think that makes it preferable.

Pretty much everything to do with computers, from Operating System features, to program and UI features, are ultimately about making it quicker and easier to perform tasks.

Wanting more convenience is not laziness. The goal of computer systems should be to provide more convenience.
Yeah, it's an obvious patch to society with tremendous potential for trickle down benefit. Why isn't it being done?
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That's probably true, to an extent. I mean, not that people would literally be forced to use performance-enhancing drugs, but that they might feel increasingly pressured to do so.

Still, people already have to make a lot of hard health-impacting choices in order to compete. For instance, I would be surprised if Ritalin, in commonly prescribed doses, was likely to be more harmful than the unhealthily insufficient sleep habits of many (most?) harried modern workers. (I'd definitely welcome additional studies on both of those topics, though.)
I don't see any characteristic shapes or figures in them; in fact, I'd say that would detract from it. If it's a sensory experience, a feeling transmitted in a very raw form.

It's something like seeing atonal free jazz.
I don't really understand the point of this unless it is done purely as an act of protest.

As soon as you make or receive a call your going to be confronted with lots of dirty looks from other passengers and an angry flight attendant who will pretty much make you turn it off anyway.
"Controversial work of art skyrockets in value."

Starting out with a calculation based on retail price is pretty shrewd and helps fuel the conversation.
Nice design... I am in Brazil and it couldn't find my locations using Chrome for some reason.
But congrats anyway !
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you guys are all missing something: the money factor. This is why none of these games will mirror startuping adequatly.

Poker, with its structural luck factor and money factor is by far the closest match. I think the variant that best mirrors it is tournament poker, MTTs especially. If you look at PNL graphs from MTT players, you will see they mirror startup PNL very well.
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If I remember correctly from one talk, it does this by remembering how users correct themselves.
That's true. Yet my issue remains: how many people know how important Latin really was for its lifetime? A good metaphor that you want to resound with the broad populace should resound with the broad populace. I don't think I'm alone in thinking "What's a dead language got to do with coding?" as a first thought, and I studied Latin for 3 years. As an example of something I think is easier (nearer) for people to grasp, let's add a new R! Reading, 'Riting, 'Rithmetic, and 'Rogramming.
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Mostly because a faraday cage the size of the plane would be quite heavy, I guess
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It doesn't provide complete shielding, no. But it does provide some shielding.
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This is one of the great things git makes it easier to do.
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Of course not, but that's only relevant if any of the copyright holders decide to sue him.

The deeper question is whether that should be against the law in the first place.
What do they code there, mostly? Flash?
Apparently Latin is a very popular subject in schools. IF that popularity is genuine, it refutes the idea that children are always looking out for the easiest option, which bodes well for CS in schools because (if it's done correctly) it will be challenging. Personally I have my misgivings about the phrase "The New Latin" but I have strong objections to the "Hey kids! Everything is fun, fun, fun!" approach which is so often the alternative.
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Not if you bring your toilet computer, aka smartphone.
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Another theory: because there is no line of folks buying the same app in front of you.
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> those Farmville character cutouts in the photo are possibly the creepiest thing in the universe.

Second creepiest. How about the grinning ghoul standing next to them?
If you knew how meat is produced, you'd not feel as good.
On the other hand, you can still get into the Olympics in a wheelchair ;)
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Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3278301
> Does everyone really need to know about recursion?

Yes, and I'd argue indirection as well. If you teach coding without recursion, you're just teaching basic logic coupled with arithmetic, we have classes for that already. (As an aside, I think iteration should be introduced as a special case to recursion.)
Yes, you could perhaps call it Pareidolia. When I look at the aforelinked image http://www.terraingallery.org/Pollock-Number-One-1948.jpg , I see many things, or rather the hints of things. I have a hard time believing it is not intentional, or that the paint was thrown on canvas at random.

While the form is chaotic, the palette and composition are delectably on target. I am very much reminded of this image: http://cache.foxsaver.com/thumbnails/2008/01/04/205959019l.j...
The reason for using the "fancy" new elements is quite clear! It makes the code more readable and easy to understand.

And as for the part where we "might" break the page in old browsers. I would like to pose a questions.

"Aren't we all working towards a developed future?"
I guess we are on the same line over here!

Using these small terminologies will help us create a semantic web and help in understanding things better.
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I have a BS in EE, a masters in Aeronautical Engineering, and fly for a living. I currently work in developmental flight test. Allow me to explain a couple of reasons why you should turn off your cell phone when flying:

1: It is not a "safety charade." See my other posts about EMC in this topic.

2: Even if you don't care about anybody else's safety, or even your own for that matter, it's still in your own best interest to turn off your phone when you go flying: if you leave your phone on, it will spend the whole flight looking for a signal, and you'll land with a dead battery.
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This post is not correct, but of course the biggest problems are the claiming that Redis is not persistent, and the use of KEYS command.
I always take my tablet with me when traveling, and at least with that I don't think I am alone.
It would make a great offline map if it had GPS. The iPhone runs out of battery so fast and has a tiny screen.
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Here's a cheery idea... A charity site where you gather donations for diseases which kill before the age of 21.
The last time I was working on one of these, I discovered the phrase http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit

Not that these are all a waste of time or anything, you just need to remember not to take them too far.
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The US Treasury has less cash on hand than Apple. Apple makes prepayments of a billion dollars for parts. The numbers you're tossing around are, in context, very cheap.