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hasn't this resource been around the block for 10+ years? I remember googling' "advanced bash scripting" function in college and finding a resource just like this one...
Of course there's a flipside to this assumption: the weeknight meetings at bars are packed with negligent fathers.
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Courts in Europe are not precedence-based. At least not in all countries. Here (Poland) there is no such thing as precedence in courts, not to mention basing a verdict on precedence in foreign court.
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To make this useful, both parties verifying a key need to use exactly the same word list. So either there needs to be a standardized wordlist or the words have to be generated by the algorithm itself (eg. using syllables as others suggested). Standardizing an algorithm is usually simpler than an arbitrary word list.
Just push the damn button. It's that simple. You're making something out of nothing. Those are first world problems. Pretty much every one of them presumes someone finds your site in the first place. Worry about that when it happens. Better yet, just fix things when they break. Because they will.
What is the Higgs boson and why is it important to science?:

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/91482-what-is-the-higgs-b...
Not quite. Louis CK wasn't asking for a donation, he said that it cost $5 to watch his special.

But the point was that he made it available for everyone at a small price. You didn't need HBO for $10/month (typically where a comedian of his calibre would air their new special) and Comcast at $60/month on top of that. You didn't even need to pay Netflix $12/month or whatever. You didn't even need a PayPal account. Just pay for what you get in a DRM-free format.

I don't think this was even a sacrifice on his part. Sure he could sell DVDs through Amazon but how much of that does he actually profit? His costs for this experiment were the actual production of the performance (he smartly paid for it himself so he owns it, comedians are doing this more often now) and whatever server costs he has. His advertising costs are $0 through Twitter, positive press and retweets he's getting for this.

It's a win for everyone and I think bands would be wise to do the same.

It's not about lowering the cost for labor, it's about getting rid of the artificial, unnecessary middlemen.
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This isn't an isolated case.

In a similar story Warner Bros abused the DMCA to take down HotFile content that didn't infringe their copyright.

http://torrentfreak.com/warner-bros-admits-sending-hotfile-f...

Label's and studio's have every right to defend their products. However, they must do it in a responsible way. Stories like this make it difficult for politicians to legislate for more power's when the existing ones are already being abused by those they are set up to protect.
I used to be a test engineer and was weaned on the dogma of people like Martin Fowler and Misko Hevery. Tests are very useful and can become indispensable on large, complex projects. As I was evangelising tests to the devs on my team for a year I had all these kinds of clever answers for people who didn't want to write them.

Now that I'm a 'proper' developer, working at a startup building software from the ground up I hardly write any tests. My main beef is this thing about refactoring vs rewriting, I like to have the freedom to change class responsibilities and relationships in my code as the project develops and the responsibilities and design solidify. Problems come up and get worked around and you can't always foresee these things. I find that sitting down and writing a very well intentioned set of classes, in a pretty hierarchy, with defined interactions is not a good way to build new software. But unless you write your software like this you will inevitably spend lots of time rewriting tests as you rewrite your application code.

Tests are good when you have an architecture and API sent from on high, for which only the implementation needs to be worked out. Tests are not worth their weight when your architecture is code-driven and you design as you go. The best way to design software - that's another, very lengthy discussion.
Wow this is the first time I heard about unstable vacuum and that

> the universe could in theory spontaneously explode at some point releasing huge amounts of energy as it fell into a more stable lower energy vacuum state. This catastrophe would spread across the universe at the speed of light in an unstoppable wave of heat that would destroy everything in its path.

Also

>instability could also set in at energies around a million TeV

.. so if LHC was million times more powerful it could explore such instabilities i.e push the vacuum out of the metastable state and trigger the scenario above!? It seems I wasn't giving enough credit to the religious nuts saying that LHC will destroy the world
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Same for me. Maybe now I can scrap that and build my own vimrc but having a set of useful plugins really helped me.
That's fine for messages you send or friends that know not to communicate over Facebook, but it doesn't mean your Facebook inbox goes away (unless you close your account). It still leaves open the possibility that someone will try to contact you on Facebook and their message will wind up in the Other inbox.
What, is she an alien? She doesn't understand the concept of games? Why would explaining it be a problem?
The entertainment conglomerates will kill off plenty of digital distribution pipelines in the coming years, but ultimately, they'll kill themselves if they don't wise up.

Amazon, Netflix, and now Microsoft are getting into the original content business (MSFT is actively poaching TV execs to lead its new content division). Facebook has a few folks in Hollywood already. Google has been trying to make content deals for years now, and it's only a matter of time before it gets more sophisticated about doing so.

What's to stop digital music services from going directly to artists, and acting as labels? All it takes is one or two big hits to prove the viability of the model. And promoting self-owned artists through organic and inorganic discovery within the digital services can effectively replace the massive marketing efforts that major labels currently rely upon to break out new artists.

A recent, slightly analogous example: Few execs in the network TV business took AMC seriously until it produced "Mad Men." After that, people took notice, though many assumed it was a fluke. Then AMC produced "Breaking Bad." Suddenly, this basic cable channel -- this two-bit backwater -- was on the map in a big way. The rise of on-demand and time-shifted viewing sufficiently democratized content discovery, allowing a relatively small outlet to produce high-impact hits. AMC's rise arguably could not have taken place in a pre-DVR, pre-on-demand world. I suspect many more small shops will generate big shows in the coming years. And some of those shops will not be traditional TV, or even cable, networks.

I'm not as familiar with the dynamics of the music business as I am with those of the TV business. But I have to imagine that they follow a roughly similar pattern.

[Full disclosure: I work in TV, though increasingly, I will probably be saying that I work in "content." The world is slowly becoming network-agnostic, and it's only a matter of time before it becomes medium-agnostic in earnest.]
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Linux is about choice, so I wish the MATE project well, however, it could be seen as thinning out the resources available for XFCE development... and so it goes...
I think so. And it wasn't intended as an insult. Gruber's one-sided treatment of Apple is pretty well acknowledged and understood. He's used as the benchmark, somebody who is virtually obliged to like whatever Apple does, and even he can't muster a favorable opinion about it.

The problem with the original article is that it assumes that whatever Apple does must be good, which is flawed thinking. To use it as a counterweight to the problems in Android apps is fundamentally flawed. Using Gruber as the far end of the scale was intentional and not insulting. After all, calling a Banana yellow isn't insulting is it? It is what it is and Gruber is who he is. He serves his purpose as the thought leader championing the Apple way.

Plus it wasn't non-sequitur, Gruber was specifically talking about the trend towards Skeuomorphism in Apple's design language as a bad thing.
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If you are writing tests and can switch from iteration to recursion without tests failing, you are missing the point.

Code quality is derived primarily through unit tests. Refactoring relies more on integration tests. Refactoring SHOULD break some of your unit tests. Refactoring should not break your integration tests. If you are refactoring and breaking integration tests, you are either not refactoring (try redesigning) or you are writing poor integration tests.

Also remember, you don't just refactor code, you should refactor your tests too. Why would one piece of code be write once and forget while another is not?
The best, by far, solution to this problem that I've seen or used is: https://github.com/singpolyma/mnemonicode ; original docs here: http://web.archive.org/web/20101031205747/http://www.tothink...
Yeah you can do the full lambda calculus in Python:

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It's important that we don't let this happen in a bubble. We have to show that citizens are behind Megaupload (in this case). The recording industry has no qualms on speaking on behalf of public interest, and I can imagine they'll suggest the public would prefer censorship with false positives than to risk "hurting musicians" through piracy.

If there have been other cases where artists have had music taken down by recording labels that did not own copyright, now would be a good time to bring them back to light.
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Yeah it appears that the use of higher-order functions seems to be equated with functional programming these days.
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It's hardly outrageous. If a woman finds a man willing to do this, she has every right to marry him and have him participate equally in the raising of the child.

Has anyone advocated against this?
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* Apple does in fact still publish Human Interface Guidelines, and while they're not followed to the degree that they were pre-OS X*

Right, which is the problem IMHO. Even Apple can't muster up enough will to follow them these days with their own apps.

Are the apps generally good looking on their own? Most of them are, there's a few "what were they thinking" moments.

The problem though is that even Apple isn't following the HIG these days and that spells doom and gloom for anybody who wishes to hold them up as the high water mark for design houses to follow. Pre-OS X it was a very solid design language. Pretty much everything looked like everything else, and it all looked pretty good. You really had to work hard to make an ugly piece of software.

Both because of culture and because of the built-in toolkit

And you are also right with this, having a built-in toolkit, with all sorts of good looking, consistent, well-behaved interface elements is the key here. Android gives you layout control (great for different screen sizes/resolution) but doesn't seem to provide anywhere near the level of toolkitting needed, while iOS takes up the lessons learned in the pre-OS X days and provides an awesome toolkit.

Then Apple manages to ignore the whole thing and try to make everything look like something I threw away 15 years ago because computing devices were better.
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How much do you make per listener if one of your songs is played on the radio? Honestly, I'm asking because I want to know.

In any case, you can not compare Spotify's subscription model to direct sales, it is just not the same thing.
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Literally typing Ctrl+[ works for escape by default, it's what I've been doing instead of trying to remap keys.
I suspect that this whole exercise is moot. However one adjusts their color spectrum, I'm still staring at tiny digital reproductions of paintings on a fairly cheap LCD monitor.

One of the things I've learned by reading a book on art, and then wandering around various art museums looking at the very art that was pictured in the book, is that paint is different from ink or pixels. You can look at a poster print of a famous painting all you want, but you still haven't seen the painting. Paint has color and texture and light-catching qualities that defy easy reproduction.

For example, I wrote an essay on Vermeer when I was in high school. Then I went to see some Vermeers. And, frankly, "View of Delft" is not very interesting in print, even if you see it reproduced in the correct size, but in person "View of Delft" is amazing. It has atmosphere. And across the room from "View of Delft" in the Mauritshuis is "Girl With A Pearl Earring", an absolutely ubiquitous work, reproduced on book covers and posters everywhere, but I can't look at those posters anymore, they are hopelessly flat and dull. The actual "Girl With A Pearl Earring" is far more beautiful.
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Clarifies things nicely. If Murdoch is for it then it must be a bad thing. No ifs, ands or buts.
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I find it particularly curious that this was taken down. It was supposed to be something that the music industry is smart enough to understand for the "attack that you need to sit out for now" that it is - instead, they took the bait and went into attack mode themselves.

The reaction, of course, shows how disgustingly superior (to logic and reason, really) the industry perceives itself - basically everything that an artist creates and is related to the profit of the music industry must fit into a narrow idea of control. When they produce music that sells, the industry wants control. When it's only an appearance that could funnel traffic to something they can sell, they will allow it, because they know they will have control down the line. But if it is something like the Megaupload case - having the artists create something that does neither, but also seemingly "strengthen the enemy", they are caught outside of their logic.

Now, anybody who isn't with their back to the wall would work with such a situation creatively. But with the media industry, we have a curious case of not needing to get defensive (after all, they still turn record profits), but having bought into the idea that that is the attitude they have to display in order to survive.

It would be interesting to hear precisely how much standing they have on this, really. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the artists that appeared in that clip do have contracts that say - whatever you do, we own, if we don't like it, we will fight it. After all - the industry isn't stupid and they certainly have the access to the best legal defenses you can get these days.

The good thing about this hack by Megaupload is that it's a loose-loose for the industry and while they have no shortage of material in that area (it seems like we hear a horribly backwards story like this every month), that steady drip really may end up give us some progressive approaches.
I am partially color deficient, although I don't know the classifications given in the article. I was told it was "medium red-green" several years ago. The modified images look the same to me, except for the last two. In the Cafe Terrace, the sky looks more purple to me in the original, and in the self-portrait, the background swirls look more purple to me in the modified version.
There's been a bit of anti-mouse talk on here, but I recently took the time to get mouse support on vim in Terminal.app working. I have my notes here: http://www.reasonablyopinionated.com/2011/11/mouse-support-f...

While I do agree using the mouse for cursor positioning isn't always the best use of the mouse, there are situations where it's just better. For instance, using mouse scrolling in vim is very convenient, and mouse selection and paste is also very convenient. It's even better when you can use it across the network!
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When I'm not writing a library (which will have a well-defined API), for perhaps the first third of a project, my "refactoring steps are too big" - except they don't "turn out to be an adventure [I] regret every moment of getting into". I'm usually writing or rewriting something that I haven't written before, so the approach may change quite drastically as I find out the previous approach was wrong. Hence the rewrite, and hence why it doesn't turn out to be a misadventure.

But if I'm closing in on the home straight, I definitely want lots of unit tests so that I can fix bugs and make minor course corrections without breaking the rest of the functionality.

Writing tests first, in advance of any functionality, has not been profitable for the kinds of programs I write. Unless I already know how the whole thing will be composed at an architectural level, I don't know what to test, because I don't have any unit boundaries in mind.

The old Ron Jeffries TDD Sudoku attempt contrasted with Peter Norvig's approach, only on a larger scale problem, comes to mind.

For example, one project I have in mind was adjusting the Delphi compiler to support anonymous methods, including supporting variable capture. At a facile level, the unit boundary is simple: an expression tree before, an expression tree after. But that's usually not a good way to test a compiler, because the creating the trees correctly is a challenge in itself, and one that is already solved by the parser; and similarly, figuring out if the end result represents the semantics correctly is more easily done by actually executing it. So you tend to test in a black-box fashion, but with a unit-testing idea in mind, where the syntax is just a way of describing the parameters to a function. So you write some minimal anonymous method syntax, with expected output, and of course the compiler barfs. It's going to be some time, quite a bit of code, before that minimal test is going to pass, violating the core tenets of TDD (the very simplest thing, skipping over the syntax, avoiding a syntax error and passing the test, would be asinine). And the first approach chosen probably isn't right, for one reason or another that only becomes clear after a few days or a week. What might work well on paper or in a Lisp prototype falls over when faced with the limitation of how the existing codebase represents things. So you throw it out and start again. Testing isn't buying you much here.

Ironing the bugs out, making sure all the corner cases are covered: tests galore! No problem there. But the early stages, that's a lot more problematic.
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And then your arrow keys are free to bind to something else useful, like moving between split windows, buffers, etc.
2.99 euros on amazon.fr for the extended one, looks reasonable ( $2.99 + VAT ).
Those companies are getting into content because they have no choice. Content owners have priced Netflix's old business model out of existence. Music, on the other hand, is ridiculously cheap. Spotify pays based on how much the music gets played. If they become a label they have to start giving advances to artists, a considerable risk.

Think about it, if traditional label struggles with people no longer buying full albums, how is a subscription label going to survive on $10/month?
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How much is that affected by the record labels, I wonder?
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> Forget the labels, Spotify is dead.

Let me guess, Netcraft confirms it? I'll believe it when I see it.

Spotify (and similar services) is transforming the way we can listen to music, and, at least for me, I vastly prefer the Spotify experience over anything else I've tried. Also, with Spotify, I'm spending more money on music than I ever did before, and I'm not even considering bothering with piracy. I'm living the promise that if only accessing music legally is easy enough, the pirate will stop being pirates.

So small artists are getting screwed over. Is that in Spotifys interests to sustain that? I would not think so, because the value proposition falls apart if the available collection isn't comprehensive. But right now, they're preoccupied in a land grab, for which they need to focus on the big labels, as the land grab will be possible without small indies, but not without Rihannas full back catalogue.

If you're an artist and you don't think Spotify is a good deal, feel free to withdraw your music - that will push them to think about how to adjust their business model to better accommodate indies.

Spotify is nowhere near having finalised their business model. Declaring the whole thing dead on the back of a few blog posts is just a little bit premature.
I think it looks much better now!