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I can't believe there's trolling going on here. RbMU is a free service run for the community that helps intermediate programmers make the difficult next step, and gets them contributing to open source. We're so lucky to have them in the Ruby community!

I did five or six Ruby quizzes (rubyquiz.com) in my spare time with a mentor (unaffiliated with RbMU, just a friendly guy who agreed to spend a couple of hours on his Sundays coding with me over TeamViewer), read a few Ruby books and blogs, and was accepted into core skills for January. Getting past beginner isn't necessarily easy, but there is a much more well-defined path for learning than there is for learning as an intermediate, where questions you have may not always have answers in books and guided project work seems to be the best way forward.

Since I have not done the course yet I cannot speak for the quality, but I have only heard good things. At the least, RbMU has been a great target for me to aim for while leveling up as a beginner, and a source for practice problems. If practicingruby.com is any indication of the quality, I think I'll be in good hands.
FYI, to get a monospace font, you have to wrap the entire thing in a <pre>. However, when displayed, line feed characters (\n) are converted to "\n<br>\n", which turns into three blank lines in a pre. So when editing, you need to make sure you use <br> and never any real \n's.

To start a line with spaces, you have to use "&#160;" when editing. You should also convert all double spaces " " to "&#160; " if you want them to be displayed nicely.

That's how I lined things up in my profile.

The idea is that you select the PGP signed text, and then paste it into "gpg --verify". This works fine in Firefox and Chrome, but when you copy the data in IE, the clipboard version contains no \n chars. If I could have used <span> instead of <pre> this problem wouldn't have manifested. The profile editor wouldn't let me do that though.

I wish "copy" behaviour was consistant across browsers, when copying from a web page.
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Me neither. Haven't been there actually. I was thinking a drink session might be better since most of us probably have never met each other?
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Is your question is why monitoring visitors to your website is different from monitoring everything a user does on their phone?
I find the fb_timeline feature strange to use on my desktop/laptop, but it's possible that some permutation of it could be the superior implementation for Facebook's mobile strategy.
The most important tip to creating an API was implied in the first paragraph but is definitely worth stating explicitly: Use your own API.
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As a matter of fact, I'm considering setting up my limited liability company in the UK because in Italy that is very expensive for a bootstrapped startup - at least 4.000 euro just for setting it up, without actually doing any business, and most of it isn't even taxes but professional fees you are forced to pay.

But my case apart, I don't think that the current system is good eg for 20 something students who could create a startup while studying, if anything else because it's too complicated to find and exploit those loopholes. What I'd like is not having to look for loopholes, which are much easier to use for bigger companies (look at what Google pays in taxes).
But that's not even humor just for its own sake - it's actually rather insightful. Which is why it's correct that it wasn't downvoted.
I think that among young Europeans English is already very very common.
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> Besides, 2500 lines of Haskell is likely to be far more functional than 2500 lines of PHP.

I guess it's true in both meanings of word 'functional' ;).
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Congrats!

I've told the devs at one of my clients to grab this and give it a try for $5. They're primarily tower users, but for $5 they should give gitbox a real spin (vs the trial version).

Thanks for your work over the last year. I remember I sent you what I thought was an odd bug a year ago when I first got it during your discount period, and you replied back very quickly and dealt with my issue awesomely. I don't even remember the problem now, only the service :)

Just upgrading to 1.5.2 this morning - looking forward to the new features in 1.5!
Possibly it reached a flag threshold? (Blind guess.)
That's one of the major things that 1.7 fixes and 1.8 will fix even further... smaller modules and finer-grained dependencies so you aren't pulling in nearly as much base code for each feature.
I'm not sure how is it done in Win32, but in .NET there is a IsBackground flag on a thread. Process dies when all its non-background threads exit.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/h339syd0.aspx

EDIT: It seems that in win32 the process does indeed die when the last thread exits. See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms68...
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I live in Poland, and every programmer I've met speaks English at least good enough to read documentation.
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Regarding taxes the rule would probably be the same everywhere in Europe. However nothing would (legally) stop you to base your company in Ireland or Estonia etc...

The EU flexibility rather concerns other aspects. For example in Germany if you wanted to have a limited liability company (GmbH), you needed to have 20,000€ capital. The british limited had a lower requirement so lots of small german businesses incorporated as a Ltd.
Now there is a new limited liability company in Germany called the "UG" without the minimum capital, which otherwise would never have happend or at least not as fast.
Family commitments.
Out of interest, which part of the EU are you from? And if you are from the UK, which part?

I ask because as a Scot, and therefore in a country that is already part of a fairly succesful Union, I'm fairly certain that having an even wider and deeper European Union would bring many of the same advantages that being part of the Union brought to Scotland.

Obviously there are many of my compatriots who don't see things this way but to me if you are in favour of the UK (which I am) it seems like a logical step to be in favour of the EU.
Yeah, I guess you're right.

So the take-home message is that HN isn't Reddit. One should be a witty smart-alec rather than a funny wise-ass.
True. I'd forgotten how incumbent 'big' business sets barriers to competition in the manner you describe. Though this kind of barrier still leaves them susceptible to competition from other, non-incumbent, big players (if any remain?).
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The easiest place would be the college you dropped out of if they offer online classes. They should accept all your current credits and you would only have to take your final year courses. I did the 19 year plan myself and the college let me use all my old credits earned at that college no matter how old they were. I know masters programs are different and have time limits but most undergrad programs don't have time restrictions.
I'm going to guess that the parent is calling out one of the standard geek fallacies, that being "Well, I made/found/installed a workaround for my device, and everyone else could do it. Problem solved."

It's a fallacy because not everyone has the technical skill to do it, and the amount of people who do have the technical skill are (I'm guessing, but I don't think I'm wrong) statistically insignificant next to the amount of people who don't.

So, the overall problem isn't solved, and the people who have the technical wherewithal to actually speak out about it as technical experts are, by and large, sitting in a corner with CM7 and saying "All good over here."
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They already do explain themselves just at classified hearings to the Senate and House Intelligence committees. Although I don't know about NYPD although they do have an intelligence community liasion that coordinates with FBI and DHS.
That's fine. Dojo doesn't make this decision for you. Instead it gives you a full range of tools to choose for yourself how you want this to work.

Some UI widgets (Dijits) choose to use a client-side HTML fragment, but others do not have that requirement. Some of the work on projects like xstyle and put-selector seek to reduce this reliance further.

Dijits can be invoked either through extra markup in your base HTML page, or through a JS constructor. In the HTML templated widgets, there are attributes that bind DOM nodes to reference variables in your JS, so the widget knows where to insert content, or subwidgets, etc., and where to attach DOM events. The HTML isn't stored in JS, it's stored in an HTML file that gets combined through build tools (so you don't need to do this mix in process, it just works).

But again, that's an optional feature that's used primarily by the widget system and some of the widgets in Dojo.
I work in an environment where everyone uses a Macbook Pro and I've seen at least two cases of something like this happening, and the solution has been simply to swap adapters!
I believe it was "Amazon Fire's Silk is actually slower than most other tablets in realworld[sic]".
> When buying a car, don't we get the keys of the doors and a way to open the front cover where the engine lies?

You don't get the "keys" for ECU, unfortunately.
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That would definitely be a great help - as long as they don't set high fees and capital requirements in order to lower the competition to "national" alternatives.

So, having this kind of EPC with very low initial fees and capital requirements would certainly be something worth lobbying for. How do we start? ;)
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Where in Germany are you based? Berlin perhaps? To me Berlin looks like a great location to run an online business from.
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On that note I'm all for introducing English as additional official state language in all EU countries. There's a lot being done to educate people in English across Europe, but this will be a slow process, taking decades, no matter what you do. Right now politicians seem to be pre-occupied with keeping the EU together though, so we'll have to wait first for the dust to settle a bit.
Not to mention IronJS, Jurassic and Jint...
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This post seems a bit too proud of itself. Love the first comment in the article though:

"Here is a list of stuff that tracks you installed on the page talking about how cyanogen will never track you. Note you need not interact with any of these to be tracked. Just browse the page you're reading.

Comscore Beacon
Disqus
Facebook Social Graph
Google +1 button
Google analytics
Quantcast
Twitter Button

Not saying cyanogen is evil, or that these are unusual or unreasonable, or even missing the point about how carrier bloatware will inevitably lead to truly evil things like Carrier IQ. It's hard to get away from this kind of crap these days. The irony just struck me, that's all."
Three then.
I prefer this free alternative: http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/
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I really want to like Gitbox (wow, a Git GUI that don't try to put every Git command in its menu bar!) however I always feel its lacks of branch/commit graph make it "too simple" for a $40. For me commit visualization is possibly the only thing I'd ever want to use GUI client for, and lacking that make the app nearly useless for me.
I'm really impressed with the good level of English spoken by younger people in Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary. I believe this will give them an edge in technology over people from countries like Austria, Italy and Spain.
I've been hearing some rumours of OEMs considering releasing phones with CM installed by default. They're definitely starting to actively support development (I think both Samsung and Ericcson have been providing devices, and the latter have definitely been hinting at providing much more support).
but it is precompilation of the core library, not the whole app, so presumably it could be done only once for the system and cached somewhere. (maybe like .Nets global assembly cache, which caches jitted dlls)
Well, one feature that Yesod has really been focused on are type-safe URLs[1]. I imagine this would provide some level of security benefit as the framework knows "Ah, in this GET request we should have a Date, an Integer, a UserID, etc".

The implementation may still have bugs, I suppose, but you can be sure that it's at least being heavily thought about.

I imagine forms may work the same way, though I'm not sure about that.

[1] http://www.yesodweb.com/home/snoyberg/blogs/2011/08/shakespe...
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That's a very good example we should look at.
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I agree that we should start thinking European on many issues. It isn't easy, but we should start somewhere, and this looks to me like a very good place to start.
> Honestly, no one would even care if there were the greatest intel of all time, the most incriminating information, published on a free-for-all wiki without any editorializing.

Here is a concrete example of exactly that : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking which more or less means "The money we private banks lend you at interest, is in fact created out of thin air." Note that most central banks are not allowed to do the same, so states must pay interest to the private banks as well (even though states are thought to print that bloody money). If I recall correctly, there is more debt than money, which may explain (I'm not sure) our desperate need for Economic Growth™.

I'm oversimplifying, of course, but if the people actually knew that stuff, they wouldn't have permitted it. But laying out the schematics of the System publicly is not enough.
Beautiful!

When it has a full-blown camera tracker then it can rule hint hint
I have the impression the author didn't really intend on his list to be exhaustive.
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I'm from Greece, just moved in Vienna.
I already do both, but I also think that also lobby at an European level can only help.
I meant to qualify this question to say for server-side scripting, I thought the list of interpreters makes that clear. Next time I run the survey I'll clarify this and add the popular values in the 'Other' field.
In fact, American Express's big market share in the corporate card market is the main reason it is accepted anywhere, given its higher merchant fees.
It looks great for browsing repos. However, to be really useful for me it would have to have something similar to gitx's commit view - show what's staged and what's not, show diffs, give the option to stage selected lines.
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Agreed. But having "more european" startups would already help, even at that level.
> You can setup a company in any EU country and run it from any other country.

I keep seeing conflicting reports about whether this is actually possible in Italy in reality.
If you add missing questions or corrections here (or on the post's Disqus thread) I'll pick them up for the next time I run this survey (and give due credit).
They should be interested in this kind of action too. Thanks for the link!
Raymond Chen has a pretty good blog post on this:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2010/08/27/10054...

Basically, Win32 wants all threads to die out before the process exits, but the C runtime will exit out the process for you when your "main" thread dies.
It has actually gone away after reloading, thanks for the hint. But it had survived several computer reboots.
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pedantic: LLVM is not an acronym, it is an initialism. An acronym is when the abbreviated letters spell something pronounceable as a word (GNU, NATO, SCUBA, PATRIOT act...) an initialism is just an abbreviation using the first letter of every word in the abbreviated name or phrase.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym_and_initialism
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There is likely some damage on the adapter plug, and some damage on the port on the Mac as well. On their own they aren't enough to cause a problem, but together--bam--they line up and it stops working.
Of course they don't. But they do have CMStats (http://www.cyanogenmod.com/blog/cmstats-what-it-is-and-why-y...). While it is much better than Carrier IQ (less intrusive and prompts you to opt out on install), it still proves this info has value and even the most "fight the man", dogmatic open source project wants it.
Every single thing I have measured(which, granted, does not cover that much), openjdk comes out way ahead of gcj in terms of speed.

Similarly, running eclipse under gcj is not something you want to do, it becomes slow.
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I wish you could go to any govt office in any of EU countries and do your business in English.
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hm. i thought that it good implemented. Please say whats wrong? No - it not joke
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Here's a quote from the article to intrigue you, "Jobs would have been pleased to hear my challenging second opinions about his pancreatic cancer and his diet, because my thoughts are in agreement with what he intuitively and factually knew to be correct. Hopefully, my account will bring some peace of mind to his family and friends after his untimely death."
So when are we going to get a good, affordable or free Windows Git client?
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> I was referring to the software on Github and Sourceforge, not Github and Sourceforge themselves.

So was I. And this software is being supported by SF and Github.

> I think the author totally misunderstands the spirit of building software for the enjoyment of it.

Which means nothing.

Consider Linus and Linux. Linux wasn't paid for directly, but don't for a minute think it wasn't supported by someone's cash.

In fact, I challenge you to find me software that didn't use someone's real money (not this billable hours thing you brought to the table for some reason) to get developed at some point.
Cars to computers always seems to be a poor analogy. But you can replace the ECU with one of your choice. In fact, there is an industry designed specifically for getting better performance from your car by customizing the ECU.

Isn't this the same thing as the Cyanogen mod?
Hmm.. 5$ respectively 5 CHF?
I want to try it but when I click on "Buy app" it tells me that the price is actually 20 CHF and not 5...
Someone else with a similar problem?
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Honestly, this is not a pc/apple-support site.
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Apple is propagating changes through their servers for an hour already. Please try to check it out again in an hour or so.
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I am German and voted for lobbying, but it always seemed to me that our problems were domestic. The 'Abmahnwesen' was terrible when we were a tiny web service shop. Basically, if you violate any of a changing set of rules, e.g. you don't properly label the 'Imprint' link of your website, competitors or vampiric lawyers can directly bill you a few k€. Even when we felt safe about it, smaller clients were scared of the internet as a whole.

The 'Störerhaftung' is terrible too. If somebody downloads crap on a coffeeshop's WiFi, the coffeeshop owner is liable (with some exceptions). Consequently, free WiFi is a very rare sight. But this is more of a lifestyle problem, I am not sure if it really inhibits hacker socializing in the wild.
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While Gitbox obviously misses branch visualization and submodule handling it makes my daily git workflow so much better. I can only recommend it. Especially at this price point.
Is it really better? You put a lot of anecdotes together in a non-proper sample, the result is still junk data.
Useful graph visualization and multiple branch handling is already designed and is planned for one of the nearest updates.
It really depends on what compiler you use, in my experience g++ coupled with make is as fast as gcc for compilation.

clang++ is even faster.

Visual Studio 2010 has a decent compilation speed if you use a Dos prompt.
Well that's certainly revisionist history. I heard nothing but complaints about the old app too.
Ah ok, thx for the quick reply :)
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Gitbox looks really nice. Sadly, I'm not using Mac OS X?

Any chance of a linux version, maybe via GNUStep/etoile?
This is barely a guide. It just describes the problem, names some solutions but does not elaborate on those. Not too helpful really...
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Okay, but that begs the question. Why did enough people flag this article to have it auto-killed?
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You should try Excelsior JET compiled Eclipse then.

(see: http://www.excelsior-usa.com/)

[disclaimer: I've worked for Excelsior LLC back then when initial support for AOT compilation of Eclipse was implemented]
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