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I sure hope you would not write it that way, with a double negative. "Regeneration will occur if /etc/motd is a symlink to /var/run/motd"? Still not nice, but IMO easier to understand.
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For Reference

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_A330_test_flight_crash
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More than one Unix Philosophy tenet broken here. It does, however, seem wholly consistent with modern Linux Philosophy.
(asking here because your other reply is nested too deeply)

> The margin between stall and overspeed is something like 20 knots at that altitude.

Whaaa? I thought aircraft have a much wider margin.

How does it change with altitude?

If the margin is so low, then wouldn't a sudden wind gust simply knock the plane off the sky?
Did you add jQuery support through the libraries? or did you just add it in your project, I have found auto-complete works a lot better when you explicitly add the project to Netbeans via the libraries mechanism.
It does seem like that happens. Wikipedia links to a few incidents involving the stick pusher:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stick_pusher
I teach Rails a lot. I've ranted and raved for the last year how Rails 3 is much harder for a beginner to grasp than previous versions, but the things that make it difficult for the beginners are not specifically Rails itself. Usually the difficulties come from a few specific things:

First, it's the absolutely fragmented ecosystem, made up of everyone who has opinions on the best way to do Rails development. "You need this gem, and this gem, and ZOMG you're using that library? So last week! Use this one!"

Sure, it's funny to exaggerate that, but if you joined a community, you'd probably look around. A person who does daily work in Rails is going to have a preferred development stack. They may write tests with Rspec, they may use Cucumber. They may even use CoffeeScript. And they'll tell a newbie that they should too.

But a wide-eyed developer who thinks Rails will solve all his or her problems will get freaked out at all of the options available.

When I teach beginners, I don't teach RSpec or Cucumber, and I try to even avoid talking about Bundler. I stick with the core components of Rails. I stay on the happy path.
Rails has all these hooks for experts that you can unravel after a few months (or years) of daily work. But a beginner can understand ActiveRecord, controllers, and views easily.

I love the Dreyfus Model. It basically says newbies don't need choices in the beginning. They need clear instruction, clear tutorials. Once they master those, they can move on to reading the docs, exploring the options, etc.

I've been pretty successful teaching Rails to folks who know how to program.

Where Rails falls flat on its face for the beginner is when the beginner doesn't know SQL or HTML. That's a whole different ballgame. Then something like Sinatra is a nice slow introduction.
Point taken and that is the outcome we want to minimize.

1. We are providing a framework in which some of the feedback will be able to become meaningful through sharing it with trusted others to see if it is valid.

2. The person giving the feedback has to be careful to not identify themselves.

I think meaningful feedback can be given that a person can then think about and/or ask others about without the person giving the feedback being identified.
You can add yours if these patches will be accepted into WebKit.
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>laundry... a bit quicker

Ever tried hand washing your clothes with a bucket and a stick, then running them through a mangle yourself?

It ain't quick. It is orders of magnitude more effort than putting your clothes in the washing machine, which takes about a minute and no physical exertion whatsoever.
just wanted to say thanks again to everyone trying to sign-up for the service, i wasn't expecting this that much, we pushed an update last night and it seems nobody was able to sign up. ha, what better day, right? - it's fixed now. thanks again and sorry.
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Note that this isn't directed at you personally, but rather towards the instant gratification culture at large:

I'm sorry, but "They took forever to update to iOS5"????

A quick google search shows that iOS5 was released on October 11th 2011. That makes it less than two months ago. In what world/dimension is 58 days "forever"?

Don't get me wrong, if you paying for a service, it should work, full stop, but complaining and saying that two months is forever trivializes your (valid) complaints.
That's an interesting point. But if you're so panicked that you're ignoring the voice saying "stall", are you really going to check your GPS and then do a back-of-the-envelope to verify? Probably not. Because if you weren't panicked, you'd be out of the stall by following the stall recovery procedure.
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Pretty sure he didn't imply that cancer drives evolution.

wikipedia on cancer: "A large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body.... Cancer occurs when problems in the genes of a cell prevent these controls from functioning properly. These problems may come from damage to the gene or may be inherited, and can be caused by various sources inside or outside of the cell"

I think he implied that cancer is an inherent flaw in the gene based reproduction used by complicated organisms. That our genes' ability to mutate, which introduces new and evolutionarily selectable attributes during sexual reproduction, can play up because of things like "tobacco use, infection, radiation, lack of physical activity, poor diet and obesity, and environmental pollutants.", and lead to cancer.

I'm not saying it's totally 100% correct, although I suspect it is close, just explaining what I think he meant.
I think I'm going to send this one to my (also very sane) girlfriend so she understands better why I crawl into bed and then 30 minutes later get up again and go back to the computer. Thanks for putting words to that feeling that feeling that many of us know so well - if nothing else, it's nice to know that other people experience the same thing.
I think the whole point is that in almost all circumstances an ADIRU failure will lead directly or indirectly to alternate law. Hence the correct procedure should be to assume alternate law and cross check.

Once your instruments start failing left, right, and centre you should go into what I call "advanced free fall" mode, check horizon (true, false or otherwise), check altitude, check parachute, repeat... If you hit gimbal lock (or similar INS failure) in the dark, well just bend over and kiss it goodbye.
There was a thread on here recently about this:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3144099

I think my comment on the subject is near the top: to summarize, it's not as dramatic as all that. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffin_corner_%28aviation%29

(Perhaps a better explanation than the article:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:CoffinCorner.png)

And to answer your question about wind gusts: yes. That is why you don't fly into thunderstorms.
Congrats on making it happen!

There's a typo on your about page: anually -> annually.
>> 3. asking their friends via email if it is accurate; or 4. asking people via facebook/twitter if it is accurate

Assuming that the questions are personal, I don't see how the medium makes a difference. If they don't want to hurt your feelings, IMO they wouldn't say it by email/twitter etc either.
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I agree completely that innovation should not be restricted to certain areas :-) And although I think that Dart isn't good for the web, I would encourage anyone who wants to e.g. try plugging a different VM into a browser engine to see what happens.

Secondly I would agree that WebKit has its own OS X-related baggage, but that just goes to show that nobody's perfect. It's not an argument for adding more. I would also agree that in the hypothetical case of Dart support being added to WebKit that Google would be expected to maintain their code, just as Apple would be expected to maintain OS X stuff.

But again, I think the original conversation was had at cross-purposes. What started as a conversation about hosting a branch of WebKit to do some innovating turned into a conversation about standards and the broader web. In the former case it's a purely technical question of where the work is done, but in the latter, I think the "participate in the web standards community" bit comes in to play. Why did Google come directly to WebKit to ask about integrating Dart instead of talking to e.g. the W3C or WHATWG?
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I was obsessed by games when I was kid. They've almost lost their grip on me. Even when I go actively looking for some distraction I can't find anything good. There has been one exception in the last couple of years, minecraft.

There's virtually no innovation, but I'm not sure that's the reason, I think you just move on. I remember a crossover point where I looked at realistic graphics and thought "I could just go outside and go for a run" and then did.
Let me preface this with saying that I only read the about and the faq of the page.

I don't see this really as a personal use application.

That said I think it has potential in the business sector. Getting feedback from people that you work with and for is very valuable for your career. How often do you really want to provide candid feedback to your manager? But how much would that candid feedback help a manager that is learning and trying to get better and advance? The same would happen in teams as well.

I think this would work well for a business to provide that positive feedback loop to help their employees target their weaknesses and improve their career chances.
Nothing. You are correct in missing an important part of this discussion.
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Incometax department in India is a harlot working for the Congress party government which itself is ruled by an Italian lady suspected to have Nazi and KGB connections in past. Any business, person standing against government receives income tax notice. A people driven movement Indian Against Corruption was also targeted in similar fashion so was Yoga Guru Ramdev baba.
This is India. One of the most corrupt country in the world.
Reuters has more details, stating that Nintendo is denying this:

"This is absolutely not true," said a spokeswoman for Nintendo. "There seems to have been a misunderstanding. He has said all along that he wants to train the younger generation.

"He has no intention of stepping down. Please do not be concerned."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/08/us-nintendo-idUSTR...
There are just _so many sleazebags_ involved in startups right now

There was a lot in the .com boom, maybe a little more now but history has a way of remembering the noble and valiant while only the super villains get their place cemented in history.

To me it seems about the same, the A players are for the most part respectable, the B players have some sleaze, and with the C players, well you better cover your ass faster than the new guy on D block.
Afta Serif has some issues. With weaker eyesight I find myself mistaking characters. That k keeps turning into ß.
The real WTF is that planes are kept aloft by aerodynamics. One day we'll look upon that the way nowadays we think of zeppelins.
I am going to pitch for you. Let me know if I can help in any manner. I will surely spread the word etc. But if anything extra is needed, feel free.

And if you are wondering why I am ready to help, I have a personal selfish motive, Learning, Working with smart ass guys like you. So we have a fair deal.
I like the mangled quote better, though I don't appreciate the mangling. It doesn't sound negative to me; it would have just been plain speaking about a competitive advantage. The correct quote says essentially the same thing with another thing that isn't interesting (the chairman of a company likes one of their flagship products).
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Income tax department in India in not known to be diligent in any sense. They havent been after A. Raja., Kalmadi, Sheila Dixit , Chidamberam, Robert Vadra etc.
But the moment someone refuses to bend before the mafia government of India they suddenly get active. Very fishy.
well if I have a system where inconsistent data is OK, I just let the normal cache expiration time logic handle that. Turning down expiration times to a few minutes, even 30 seconds, can still take lots of load off of particular "hot" objects that might be fetched multiple times quickly (such as from a series of AJAX requests) while making it unlikely that large inconsistencies will show up on the screen.
Let them enroll in community college then. Here in WA it is possible to get an AA/AS as you graduate HS, and not attend the last two years of HS. IMO the first two years HS is very, very necessary for a somewhat decent social development of young people though.
1. On a first glance, the design reminds me too much some of the domain squatters' - I guess in the real world this would cause me to turn off the website instantly

2. Why do I have to sign up o give an anonymous feedback? You could create an anonymous account for me, I could give the feedback, and then - if I like the site, I'd register.

3. Honestly - I think the idea sucks. The market is terribly small, and there are competitors (for example, do I look good? /r/malefashionadvice or hotOrNot). Why not try building something with better potential for money/fame/changing the world?
thanks man, love reading comments like that.
Really minor UI things -

How about making the price slider 'snap' to $10 increments? I couldn't intuitively get it to $150 (kept going 147 or 153) which was a tad annoying. Maybe start it at a lower number too, so there's no chance of a user seeing a page full of $1000 gifts and being turned off.

The site's a little generic, your domain screams for a good logo/mascot.
Agreed. Did not even read the linked page. Saw the headline and immediately thought "... and this matters to me how?".

Lot's of people quit their jobs for their startups.
This kind of stuff always reminds me of Nick Bostram and the "Simulation Argument" http://www.simulation-argument.com
Indian government has designed laws that can prove anyone to be a criminal. Most of the laws haven't seen any reforms since the British formed them. IT is one field that has grown so much in India because government never planned for it neither made any laws. Now things have changed. Government wants to extract rent from every business in the country.

Departments like Income Tax are completely discredited. Given a choice as a citizen I will trust the roadside thug more than a person who calls himself income tax officer.
Yes! Why do you need my e-mail, a password and anything else to give feedback?
Have you tried it? It's about the best strategy I've found. It's scary as hell but it works well.
It's actually not a sudden reduction in lift either. Even in a stall, lift equals gravity. It's just that the normal relationship between angle of attack and lift is reversed to that higher angle of attack lowers lift rather than increasing it. This makes it inherently unstable and difficult to control, but there is in principle nothing preventing you from flying a stalled airplane all day.
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Here are my thoughts from someone who has been in the market research industry for 10 years:

1. First off, congrats on quitting and going full-steam ahead on something you're clearly passionate about. That's a huge accomplishment on its own. The "having no regrets" part of it is especially important.

2. The charity element is a differentiator, but you're going to have to work hard to beat some existing initiatives in the industry (Op4g - www.op4g.com - is the one that comes to mind first). The MR industry has a bit of an "old boys club" feel to it, and there is a flood of DIY survey tools coming out each day that make it harder and harder to break through the noise.

3. I would spend some time on your site explaining why compelling people to participate through charities is better than direct cash incentives. There is a ton of great research on intrinsic motivation out there that supports this idea, with the book "Drive" by Dan Pink being one of the best summaries of why this concept works. However, your potential customers are not going to understand why that works to generate higher quality responses (as evidenced by some of the comments here on HN).

4. If you're truly in this for the long-haul, I would try hard to build your own panel of respondents underneath this. That is going to take you a lot of time to do, but it's going to be the only thing that separates you in the long-term from all the other DIY survey tools. Plus, if you ever try to sell the business the value of it will be substantially higher to a potential acquirer.

Just my two cents... You're off to a great start!
The majority of my professional work is all locked up in the Cisco Wireless Lan Controllers, but the next page I plan to add will be some personal coding projects.
It does fit into that dictum, or at least grep does. Your file is still a stream of bytes. Rather than providing a regular expression, though, you create a context-free grammar to specify the structure of different things, presumably even multi-line structures. Grep then parses the file, making it less "grep" and more "the first stage of a compiler". Seems like a neat idea, but I probably wouldn't find myself using it too much--and if you think vendors are going to provide context-free grammars (that actually work!), well, you're a more optimistic man than I.
Well, yes, but 30 years ago I was at a desk staring at sheets of paper. Working at the computer is better for my posture, etc.
People who are just different than me I can deal with. Its when some drunk guy falls over when the train accelerates, assumes he was pushed, and starts screaming at the woman who was behind him and telling her that he's going to put a bullet in her head that makes me think I might be reluctant to use public transportation if I wasn't a relatively burly guy.
By easier, do you mean that you have to exert more back pressure to have it stall, or that it quickly gets out of the stall? I think it can vary a bit depending on weight and the exact model you're flying. In some models it's difficult to maintain the stall because the nose will just drop.

You should get an introductory flight lesson, then you could ask do have a stall demonstrated and see which flight simulator matches best. There are a lot of signs you don't get outside a full motion simulator, such as wing buffeting and "mushy" controls.
Secondly I would agree that WebKit has it's own OS X-related baggage, but that just goes to show that nobody's perfect. It's not an argument for adding more.

We're in agreement then, because what (I think) these patches do is creating a better abstraction for scripting engines. I'm not very familiar with WebKit code base, but if there were similar abstractions for other things, they could get rid of various #ifdefs, for example, for drawing code (CG, Skia, etc.) http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WebCore/html/can... or Dashboard http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WebCore/html/can...
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I wonder that would happen if Iranian government would build a virtual embassy to reach to American people.This is a very stupid way to deal with international affairs.At least if you do it do it right.
This is very cool, but the article is also very light on details. I have some experience with this competition and the field.

Intel ISEF is like the world championship of science fair projects. Its a very cool competition and a wonderful experience. I attended the 2003 ISEF in Portland, Oregon for my project on distributed computing. Hands down the best experience I had in high school.

However, there is a huge disparity between the projects in medicine/biology and everything else. I completed my project entirely on my own with no mentors. Many other CS and engineering projects were similar. The projects in medicine and biology, however, were conducted at a local university under the guidance of faculty and staff, simply because these experiments are not something you can perform at home. They also raked in a disproportionate amount of the awards.

Having switched to biology in college and now working in a lab post-graduation, I've seen the type of work most undergrads and high-schoolers perform. Even if they are intellectually committed, much of the work is actually performed by others in the lab. Undergrads, and especially high-schoolers, often serve as support roles rather than investigators. Obviously this varies to some degree depending on the lab.

My point: Awesome that this student won, and awesome that this is helping to guide her into biology. But, I doubt she did most of the work. Nanoparticle treatment of cancer is not exactly a new idea, so she is likely working under a post-doc who has been working on this for some time.

Looking back at my post, this comes across very curmudgeonly. Perhaps I'm just disappointed that ISEF winners tend to be those helping out professional projects rather than those who design and build the project entirely on their own, or with minimal mentor help.

Edit: to clarify my point, assume a HS student gets out of school at 3pm and work until 5pm, five days a week. That's a lot for a HS student. Unfortunately, 10 hours a week isn't going to get anything done in biology. A single western blot takes longer than 6 hours to run. Hell, I work 50+ hours/week and progress is still very slow.
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Come on. Seriously? Not being gregarious or socially outgoing isn't the same as anti-social or misanthropic. Some of us welcome and appreciate a structured way in which to socialize. Without a group lunch, a hypothetical nerdy new employee might not reach out to people socially, and his equally nerdy co-workers might not reach out to him. With a group lunch, nobody has to.
Perhaps I'm dating myself a bit here, but there was a time when there was no such thing as an "e-commerce app" and no wi-fi to eavesdrop on. Black hat hacking has evolved also, so although some techniques have always been possible, new vectors have opened up over time as they are discovered and disseminated, and I would suggest the corresponding knowledge burden needed to enter the arms race for a developer is higher now. Also, the tools have evolved in such a way that the barrier to entry is lower and lower. For example, FireSheep.
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