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We've started doing something similar. We build a lot of sites upon WordPress and upload a basic version of the twentyeleven theme (with a few base plugins) and start getting content populated ASAP, this gives the designers a good base to start from and also highlights potential content-styling before they're a problem rather than the day before go-live.
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to sell the posters
c cannot be changed without changing E=mc^2, equations for time dilation, equations for adding velocities, and many others, that have been verified experimentally with great precision.

Even as small diffeence would show up in past experiment. So If the true c is greater than old c, old c still has to be there for these equations. So no - updating c is not an solution.
Yes, you are because the example was contrived. The point is that process substitution (as it is called) is available on systems that support named pipes. You could think of better uses for it.
Very cool! If you're looking for possible improvements it would be sweet to see how much size each of the options added.
Now I'm intrigued. Thanks for giving me a book that's just gone to the top of my reading pile!

This idea of a brain, able to emulate a more powerful brain makes a kind of intuitive sense, or the number of neurons required for complex thinking is far lower than our understanding allows.
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I've tried to leave NoScript a month ago but there are too many asshole website developers out there. But your recommendation is a good one, as I've heard nothing but good things about Ghostery.
Bash got this functionality in v4.

It's not as useful as find.
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There's always google you know :D. The point is to know what to look for:

$ help "*"

will print out all shell built ins (list help for them). And if the short description is not enough, go google for each.
It is hard to tell from some of the release statements when they mean a particular thing is an improvement over CPython or over previous performance by PyPy, e.g.:

>Specialized list implementation. There is a branch that implements lists of integers/floats/strings as compactly as array.array. This should drastically improve performance/memory impact of some applications

Is this improvement over CPython or over previous implementation in PyPy? There are several such comments.
for other lay people watching - the original paper was over hyped. There is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that basically thinks that the state of a quantum object is more or less sampled from an underlying reality that we cannot fully capture. This viewpoint is not widely held, even a lay person such as myself found it to not make much intuitive sense - it seemed like another way of sweeping hidden variables under a rug.

Anyways the paper now mathematically refutes this viewpoint. It still leaves untouched another probabilistic view point that the state represents no underlying reality and that quantum mechanics is an extension of bayesian probability theory to a complex space (this is the view I think makes the most sense).

In essence the paper simply solidly codifies what most of the physicists already accepted. So not much changed.
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YouTube Redesign Integrates Both Google+ and Facebook For Social Sharing
This is a good infographic on that http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/how-much-do-music...
when they result in depression and exhaustion >_<
I don't think there's ever been a monolithic work-to-the-bone culture among hackers, whether at HN or elsewhere. It's definitely one part of hacker culture (and engineering culture more generally, which is full of billion-hour-shift "war stories"), but there's always been a strong opposition to that culture as well, of the "work smarter, not harder" variety, and of course lots of gray areas in between.

Some people really thrive on 80-hour workweeks, but if you don't (and I'd say most people don't), there's no particular reason to hold them up as a good thing. If you're starving and have to do it to keep from being homeless, then grit your teeth and do it, sure, but if someone's unhappy with their situation and has options, a rational solution is to look into those options...
I don't understand what you mean but your opacity reminds me of a similar event, which you may recall.
I have been a premium subscriber for about a year, and for me it has gone up.

I buy even less music now.. but I spend more on music.
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Absolutely. What the newspaper piece seems to ignore is there's no reason to suppose that if Turing had lived longer he would have become the British Bill Gates rather than, say, enjoyed life as an academic computer scientist or mathematician?
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When it has a profoundly adverse impact on your life. It's okay to put the keyboard down to go outside and play.
I'm not a particularly emotional guy, but something about this story just got to me - especially the part where they launch and it's sold out in 6 hours. After so much....so much slog...finally.

Ok. Time to man up.

BTW, notice how the story follows the classic startup curve?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/caseorganic/6247592885/
Personally, I take issue with the entire "lazy" thing. I find most people who talk about laziness are using it as a way to avoid thinking deeply about their own motivation.

"I am not getting work done, even though I want to. What aspects of this work are bringing me down? Do I have the resources to do this work properly? Can I think of any ways to make the work more appealing? Can I combine it with anything else that I enjoy, like by getting a friend/colleague to look at it? Should I take a break from it and come back to it later? Should I consider dropping the project entirely? Is it actually what I want to do?"

Or "I'm lazy, I should work harder."

I strongly believe that the idea of laziness leads to burnout. Every time you force yourself to do something, you're using up a little bit of your willpower. It's a stopgap, not a strategy, and it does run out if overused.

The primary engine that generates results in your life should be based on aligning your desires, goals, resources and actions. Good self-management looks like good management of others, and I've never heard of a good manager who calls his employees lazy.

The problem with asking about burn-out is that it's a spectrum. Life is full of little "just push through" moments: approaching a stranger, hanging out your washing, sitting down at your desk without opening reddit, being bothered to cook, not deleting your nearly-written comment. Any time you can't do it, your willpower has failed you. If you don't stop to understand why, it will keep happening. And get worse.

For me it started small: missing appointments, not eating well, finding it hard to get through my to-do list, even easy decisions got slowly harder to make. Ideally burnout is kind of self-regulating because as your productivity decreases your opportunities decrease as well. Unfortunately I was organising an event and getting less done only meant having more to do.

Afterwards... it's hard to describe, but even considering any kind of executive function felt like a cross between lifting a car and hearing a burglar walk up the stairs. I don't think I got out of bed for a couple of weeks, and I didn't show up to an Easter lunch with my family because figuring out which train to catch was too hard. Things got better slowly - probably about nine months in all before I really felt right again.

Since then, I've made it a point to think long and hard when I get that "just gotta keep pushing" feeling. Almost every time it's been preventable: the result of poor decisions, overcommitment, badly organised work, lack of reward, or just plain doing something I don't actually want to do. If you're feeling something like that, make "I might be doing this wrong" your first port of call, and only go to "I should work harder!" later.
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Currently, PyPy is faster than CPython at pretty much anything (except when C is involved, for example, but they are working on that, too). You can see their benchmarks and comparisons at http://speed.pypy.org/.

What I think they mean by those statements is that this will improve performance over the previous version of PyPy - therefore - improve over CPython as well.
"What matters is how much of that spending is making it back to the rights holders."

Rights holders or artists? It's not like the artists receive a lot for each CD sale.

I'm not saying the music industry can't provide a valuable service, but if there where any real competition they would be out of business a long time ago. IMHO, it might be better for "music" if they all went bust.
By far the best: Apple's app store.
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This has to be a well-executed joke...

Or someone who has severely lost track of perspective.

You know it's done well when you really can't tell.
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This is slightly OT, but if someone from Sugru is reading, the page looks weird in Chrome. The background is very jittery when you scroll (Chrome 15.0.874.121). It stays fixed in Safari and scrolls down in Firefox, and both look fine, but Chrome looks a bit weird.
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Don't be rude and I won't. Also reading my sentence in its context will help.

The parent thread read "Linux was a kernel that the GNU project added well after both projects were underway".

I was highlighting the fact that GNU is not responsible for the GNU/Linux combination in the sense that most distributions are not endorsded by the GNU project. Debian still has a GNU/Hurd version which got a little more official just a couple of months ago. They also have a GNU/kFreeBSD version.
Because they're still figuring it out.

If they: X is our business model, it can decrease the perceived value of their company in the next round, because now you can calculate how much they're worth.
The obvious solution is to terraform Mars so it has a substantial atmosphere.
Thanks for sharing, reading your ideas has spawned lots of inspiration for the projects I'm working on. I'm still considering which I'd vote for you to implement. Lots to choose from!
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Hi all.

I'm looking to learn to develop from scratch. I know html, css, and some php. I understand the basis concepts of web development, but I want to really gain a better understanding of things from the ground up. And learn to do it right.

So, I want to learn how to best approach file structure, front-end/back-end coding (including language vs framework), etc. I'm even open to learning the hardware side of things (to a certain extent).

I'm just sick of the shortcuts and "user-friendly" approaches to creation. I feel more lost than if I were to learn the fundamentals. I never get the questions I actually want answered, answered.

Are there any good resources out there to learn this? Any and all help appreciated. Thanks.
Ke$ha Releases Music Video Celebrating 2 Million Twitter Followers
And if you are VIM user, you can do the same :D:

$ vim -h | grep -i server
--remote <files>	Edit <files> in a Vim server if possible
--remote-silent <files> Same, don't complain if there is no server
--remote-wait-silent <files> Same, don't complain if there is no server
--remote-send <keys>	Send <keys> to a Vim server and exit
--remote-expr <expr>	Evaluate <expr> in a Vim server and print result
--serverlist	List available Vim server names and exit
--servername <name>	Send to/become the Vim server <name>
$
Perhaps you have hit a batch of work to do that mind just can't be convinced is profitable no matter how hard you try?

This might be a personal startup that you know is already defeated, or a client that asks for a never ending series of changes and revisions that you aren't getting paid for, or a well-paying client whose project keeps growing and getting farther and farther from launching?

Just a thought.
Seems like an excellent use for Kickstarter. Too bad that didn't exist when they got started!
That is a very unethical comment. Not impressed. The last thing somebody who is suffering from burn out and possibly depression needs to hear is that it's their own fault for being lazy. It only leads to making the problem deeper + worse, and can be a very dangerous mindset.

I'd be careful to consider whether it's the right course for you too, given you report feeling exhausted and depressed. Even if so, and you see it as necessary e.g. in the early stages of a startup, don't presume to think your situation is everybody else's. And even still, be careful with it.
Again, this goes to a moral basis. Or at least a value judgment. The original question asked about which was cooler and supposed that money had a factor.

My point was that money is a factor, but not because it can be converted into signed limited edition Jane Austeen books for your private island. It is because it serves as a point system when you play the game of life.

Sure, we should think about how someone got the money. But that isn't what the question is about. The question is about how does an individual judge that something is cool. For many, it's about keep score. For a large subset of those money serves as a valid point keeping system.
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At least here in Uruguay, the answer is yes.

Don't only think of the classic "poor", think of:
- people earning 500 dollars/month (lower middle class here) which Visa and Mastercard don't accept as customers;

- young people (under 18 or 20) and women (that's A LOT of people);

- people in informal work agreements (that's 1/3rd of the population here), black and gray market, which cannot demonstrate their income and avoid taxes.
I'm curious as to what topology is detectable from a standard IPv6 packet?
A lot of people do spend time on foundations but for most physicists and their day to day work worrying about such things is like a programmer worrying about the Halting problem or whether the problem is in NP or a mathematician worrying about the second incompleteness theorem or even Russell's paradox. Sure those are deep results but they have to get on with their work.

But things have moved on with foundations and if you read about what is called the neo-copenhagen interpretation you will find a lot of the hoopla and confusion of quantum mechanics goes away and the door is opened to even more astounding interpretational consequences.
When I was younger, I worked a summer at a small engine repair shop (really fun job, btw). Between the shop and the parts room, there was a small corridor with doors on either end. We called it the "Hall of Dumb", because as soon as you walked through there, you'd inevitably forget what you were going to get.
Very true that, I hope we'll make more than that ! Thanks for the tip. Yes, we're working normal "salaried" jobs.

I expect the time investment to be less than a full time job (though at first it will probably be a lot more!) and flexibility and independence is very valuable for me.
Dear downvoters: how serious really is this "Android malware problem"? I understand you can put a malicious app on the store and some clueless idiots will install it, but, then, we have windows on buildings and every once and then some clueless idiot falls through one. We don't call it "the window problem".
Synapse "rewiring" is not typically how we think memories are formed in adult animals. Mostly it is done by modulating the strengths of the existing connections (this process involves signaling cascades and protein expression, so it does take some time). So if you want to form a "memory", a particular connection is strengthened. There isn't a concomitant loss of another connection. It's not a zero sum game.

All my statements are based on my understanding of mammalian learning and memory. But I think you hit on the key with "Perhaps her neurons are different".

Indeed, invertebrate neurons are wildly different from those of mammals. In fact, if you are accustomed to looking at mammalian neurons [1], invertebrate neurons can look positively alien. For example, check out the Lobula Giant Movement Detector (LGMD) neuron of the locust [2] and other insects [3].

A) The scale is different: The thickness of some of its branches are about the size of the cell body on a mammalian neuron.

B) The organization is different: The dendritic arbor is divided into nearly independent subfields with very independent functions.

C) The behavior is different: The spike output patterns of an LGMD would be distinguishable to a first-year neuroscience student. And the output connections are extremely strong, pretty much one-to-one.

Add it all together, and this one neuron does the job of at least a few dozen mammalian neurons. How many, exactly, is difficult to tell. Not every insect neuron is as fantastical as the LGMD, but I would say that "600000" value ought to be scaled by some number greater than five. Given that, one could say our spider friend has the equivalent of several million mammalian neurons.

Raw neuron count is merely the crudest of measures of neural processing capability. How sophisticated the processing nodes are (i.e., the neurons) and how they are wired together (i.e., the network topology) are way more critical.

[1] Note that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuron depicts exclusively mammalian neurons.

[2] Locust version: http://jn.physiology.org/content/97/1/159/F1.large.jpg ; figure from this article: http://jn.physiology.org/content/97/1/159.full

[3] Fly version, top row; rat (i.e., representative mammalian neurons) for comparison, bottom row: http://c431376.r76.cf2.rackcdn.com/995/fnsys-03-017/image_m/... ; figure from this article: http://www.frontiersin.org/systems_neuroscience/10.3389/neur...
If something is new its an improvment over CPython oderwise its a improvment over pypy. See here for lists: http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/10/more-compact-lists-with...
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What you describe is that you basically have no life at all, so whats all the work for if you dont even enjoy it and instead feel depressed and exhausted ?
Sounds like a sad life.
"The apple is sex because the apple is always sex." I can't speak for lit-crit classes, but I'll just say that in Catholic theology, the fruit (an apple is not mentioned) is not about sex. I suppose the apple=sex idea is another persistent narrative that got established somehow.
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I tried to link to the original source at http://www.i-programmer.info/news/167-javascript/3360-javasc... but it was immediately (and I mean immediately) killed. What gives?

BTW, code is at https://github.com/nurv/BicaVM
Rules that have no reason are just obstacles
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I'll agree that the current federal government is a bit of an aberration compared to past Liberal and Conservative governments, but playing up differences from the Americans to justify political policies (good or bad - I suppose that depends on your personal politics) has been a big part of Canadian political life since Trudeau's first term in the late '60s.

Whether Canada is actually all that different from America or whether 'different from America' is just used as a cynical political tool is another question.
This is correct. My point was never about who has created the best life or even who added the most value. It was about a way to keep score.
I don't know if this qualifies as legitimate, but Comcast has already decided to allocate /128 to customers with "directly connected CPE", which sounds like people who have just a cable modem and didn't pay for a "home gateway device". NAT could be useful if you plug that cable modem into a Linux box.

http://blog.comcast.com/2011/11/ipv6-deployment-technology.h...
At home I have 10 computers.
I want that only _one_ IPv6 address is visible to servers in the internet...
OT: Redirecting IE users to the Chrome download page with a pithy JS popup isn't not winning you any brownie points.
Definitely an interesting next step into this geek list-like area. Keep it up and stay with it.
True enough, but you also have to take into account that for anything in the physical world the risk profile just goes up up up. It took them 8,000 lab hours to make what they wanted. It could've just as well taken them 16,000 hours to make a product that's only half as good as sugru is, not because of a bad team or a crappy idea but because molecules simply don't always do what you want them to do.
Actually, I just wanted to see if, on a thread about Burn-out, anyone would recognise it when they see it. Evidently, not.

I'm in the fun dichotomy of knowing damned well that I'm at the end of my tether, burned-out beyond belief, and not having the time or energy to do a bloody thing about it. I work, from the moment I wake to the moment I fall asleep on my laptop, to the moment I'm woken 20 minutes later by a client phoning or raising a support request, I've pushed friends and family out of my life completely, and I'm slowly but surely becoming an aggressive asshole who views anyone who doesn't spend their entire life as working as worthless.

These aren't my values. They don't even remotely reflect who I am as a person, or who I was, at any rate, but I'm helpless to do anything about it, as someone has to do all this crap, and I'm not prepared to inflict it on any of the guys we employ, as I'd rather fuck my life up than someone else's.
Popular music is on the radio to be listened to for free. Popular music is, by definition, a low value commodity. Progressive (maybe "independent") music can have a higher value, but will have a lower install base. If music is meant to be widely distributed, it IS a commodity. There is rare/special music that people are willing to pay a huge amount for, but not a huge amount of people would do so.

Wide distribution at a low cost, or high cost with a low install base. Those are the options. I think putting a record in Wal-Mart or on the radio causes it to lose its specialness. "Special" is not what popular music is about.
It would be great if I could scan my current js and build the jquip based on that. Actually, there should be a tool that removes all unnecessary code that's never called. Might be hard or impossible to get that working reliably though.
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"Free time" is a misnomer, because every moment that you're not working, you're costing yourself time, and time is precious, and should therefore be spent working.

Yeah, right. Because we all know that the one thing most people regret on their deathbed is not having spent more time at work.

I like working just fine. In my "free time" I'd rather make music, write in my journal, see friends or go on dates, cuddle with a beautiful woman and smell her hair or maybe just take a stroll through nature and get a sense for the hardly fathomable Universe I am a part of.

I don't know you. But your posting makes it seem like you are working hard in order to distract yourself from the fact that you're a pathetic philistine.

I hope I'm wrong, for your sake.
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