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When looking at overall worldwide market growth, the next logical step is to look at sub market growth by country, it is the next smaller logical unit. Each country is it's own market. Just because the larger markets are where the growth is strongest doesn't mean you abandon the smaller markets and allow your competitors to run wild. When looking at the small markets together they are one big market.
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An arduino board with an intro book might be a good gift for beginner programmers.

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596155520.do

It's incredibly difficult to learn to program if you are doing it just for the sake of learning. Most people learn best and stay motivated with a real project.
Yeah, I love knockout. And honestly with version 2, they've implemented native templates, which basically means you can write your templates in HTML instead of strings (gasp!). I much prefer this concept. Templates in strings never made sense to me when we already have a DOM to take advantage of, but only recently have I seen some of the great work out there to make this possible, like this, Lift's CSS selector transforms (http://simply.liftweb.net/index-7.10.html ), Nodejitsu's weld (https://github.com/hij1nx/weld ), etc.
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Adam Savage weighs in on SOPA
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Windows 7 has: Emerge, KDE4Win, Directory Opus, BumpTop, SharpEnviro, and Cairo. And it's doing OK.
Gemsets are still useful. see http://tenderlovemaking.com/2011/11/30/psa-the-number-of-gem...
Companies choose candidates on a per-question weighting system. Thus, if you spend only a couple of hours, but on a problem that is valued highly by a specific company, then there's a good chance that they'll still notice you.
So I think there's a reason they call the time when Russia defaulted the "Rouble crisis".
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I try to avoid helping anyone who needs help with their GoDaddy-hosted website. Not only is the interface atrocious (at least compared to DreamHost), I hate logging in and seeing Dana Patrick splayed out...if I want people around me thinking that I'm browsing Maxim magazine, I'll buy a Maxim magazine.
Is it possible using goo.gl might get you something like a poor mans CDN? I'm thinking it may possibly respond immediately with cached results.
They just indicate some arbitrary number of factorials, with no particular restrictions.
I liked that he posted a screenshot of the paypal account, it makes it a lot more personal.
Thanks for a detailed response. I checked out the link and saw Mustache in the source.
I still dont see (if im correct in thinking) how this de-duplicates effort?

They still have to do the work to construct the JSON, no?

PS. Not trying to be inflammatory, i'm just trying to understand this better but struggling to get my head around it. I just watched a templating video by the YUI team for Node.js and am still none the wiser. :(
This sentiment is exactly the root of the problem. If "the sky started falling" at exactly the moment when governments erected police states or attained excessive powers then they would be blocked from having those powers.

Instead, these things tend to be two stage processes. In stage 1 the government attains new powers in order to further some generally positive goal. However, in stage 2 the lack of safeguards on that power leads to abuse and excess but by then it's already too late to easily roll back or block that power.

If we wait until the sky is falling then we will have waited too long. We need to ensure that personal liberties have strong protections, both offline and on. Failing to do so won't lead to immediate disaster but it will lead to making it nearly impossible to stop a disaster as it's happening.
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Jinja2? http://jinja.pocoo.org/

A lot of template engines seem to either go for "FULL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE POWER!" or "NO LOGIC! LOGIC IS EVIL!", but I've found that the sweet spot lies somewhere in the middle - you have enough power in the templates to do cool stuff without polluting your controllers, but it uses a language designed for templating and not a general purpose language shoehorned into HTML tags, and doesn't give you features you'll definitely never need.
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"So why on Earth would anyone assume that an expansion of a legal mess started in the larger markets, into the smaller ones, is driven by a sudden intense concern about market share?" It makes more sense if you assume the declining market share is a result of consumers buying competitors products. I can't imagine anyone delivering a sales report at Apple in which they say market share is shrinking in Germany and France,and have that report well received.
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I never viewed money as being "my money" I always saw it
as "The money" It's a resource. if it pools up around me
then it needs to be flushed back out into the system.

Awesome thought.
As evidenced by the patent claims already fought and lost, they might prevail on a little but not I don't think it will be much in the end. It's not really some tiny android using brands they need to sink but rather Samsung, HTC and other giants. Even if they prevail in 1 or 2 of the 10 or so claims they are making these guys will be able to eat up the costs (and one or two might be able to force a cross-licencing with their own patents). So in the end, nothing is going to stop the current trajectories where Apple will be relegated to fighting with second place in the market with Microsoft.

To my mind this is as it should be. Smartphones can only be a screen 3 to 6 inches in a thin form with a slightly modified desktop metaphor (icons on a background), and are based on a wide infrastructure that is not Apple owned. Free code initially (BSD, Linux and Webkit). SSD research, gorilla glass, AMOLED, camera chip manufacturers and ARM CPUs. Apple is more or less just another PC company, and smartphones are now pretty much just small PCs. Apple has a good music and app market which they can leverage to make sure they have a larger slice of the phone market than on the PC market, but it's not manifest destiny that they should own it. They also have to consider the public relations costs compared to prevailing in a few corner patent cases and looking (rightly so) like sore losers who don't want any competition.

Apple should stop whinging and fire 80% of the legal department and use the money to acquire another company like the one that produced Siri. Then again, perhaps the PR department is behind this to create another "stabbed in the back" mythology, like their dubious claims to stratospheric innovation on the desktop.
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To compare with the internet is to compare with the 1% of these kind of ideas that actually succeeds. To me it feels a lot more about the Second Life hype of the early 2000s - we heard stories about people paying millions of dollars for "virtual land", companies held events there, some people were saying it would be the next internet and at the same time a horde of detractors were saying it was all pointless. And then it gradually just faded from view.
Honestly, I was expecting a "next year is the year..." post.

But this is a point that I can definitely relate to, especially as someone who regularly flies to africa with some Ubuntu CDs in my backpack. A completely free stack (both as beer and as speech) has a tremendous advantage in countries where owning hardware is already a big feat. The ability to tinker with everything that comes with the system is a also a huge advantage for people inclined to learn by doing, which seems to me one of the best ways to learn in the so-called "development countries".
I disagree. The biggest hurdle is that the use of Bitcoins as currency probably either already is or will be made illegal.

In my country I'm pretty certain it's already illegal (there are some provisions regarding electronic currency). It's even worse in countries with exchange controls (like Argentina).

Edit: our laws are so badly redacted that Linden Dollars, Facebook Coins and all that are probably illegal as well, but nobody cares, unless they get popular. The fun of selectively enforced laws ...
This is not a partisan issue. One of the most vehement opposers of SOPA is Darrell Issa, a staunch California conservative. On the other hand, Dianne Feinstein, whose constituency includes the Bay Area and Silicon Valley, is for the bill.
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Why you shouldn't buy from Walmart.com(tm) for Christmas... or ever..
Here's the deal,

This is NOT an anti-WalMart(tm) rant. I shop at their stores ALL the time, but this Christmas I decided to order about $1000 of items through their website.

That said, I will NEVER shop through WalMart.com(tm), and if you value your right to choose another vendor should this one let you down, neither should you.

WalMart.com(tm) has a nasty bug that they don't want you to know about, and they CAN fix it, but they won't. IMHO, they just don't want you to go and buy what you wanted somewhere else.

If you order from WalMart(tm) online, they will accept your order, pre-authorize your card (effectively taking your money), and THEN check to see if the item is in stock.

If it is not, they WILL NOT issue your credit card or debit card a credit. Instead, they will wait for the pre-authorization to expire, which in most cases is 30 days.

WalMart(tm) COULD tell their gateway to expire the pre-auth (I know, because my online services do this all the time), but they won't.

If you call, they'll say it takes 2-3 business days to process, but the truth is they will do nothing.

If you want to keep your money, I urge you to not buy from WalMart.com(tm). Go into the store and purchase if they have it in stock, but don't give your credit card to their website.

Amazon(tm), on the other hand, expires the pre-auth if they can't fill the order. I suggest you buy through them or one of the myriad other online retailers that care about their customers.

Peace.

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I can tell that the minimum wage in Portugal is around 485 Euros (and there is a very significant portion of the population earning just that), so it's not fair to say the wages are 'even' with Germany.

It is really a matter of what you invest on and export: and with few exceptions, the choices made here were not brilliant...
> it also has measurable, negative impact on a person's life span.

Every activity has a "measurable, negative impact on a person's life span" so long as the person doing the measuring is opposed to the activity. What was it that Benjamin Disraeli said? There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

I find it curious that in the age of nuclear weapons, video games, consumerism, hamburgers, drugs, alcohol, etc. our average life spans are actually increasing.
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Asking what specifically caused the crisis is like asking which hamburger caused your obesity. This is a problem that has been building over decades, and it will take decades to solve.
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If that is a priority, you can reproduce manifoldly inside the VR. Why disprefer those children? It's possible to make the simulation run as long in subjective time as the outside universe.

Thanks for the book tip. For curious others: The Machine Stops, a story by E. M. Forster: http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html
why are you calling "User retention" ? Isnt customer loyalty a better ,more commonly used moniker? this is just another attempt to carve a new market segment,by changing the name.

If you mean,trying to convert customers,who have not completed the signup,then "Lead conversion" is a better name.
Nice, but isn't Steve Jobs something of a statistical outlier due to his recent death? Also, I'd be curious to see the results after common words like "my, I, do, etc.." were removed.
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I'm curious, have you looked at http://reneerb.com/? I contend as well that Rails is not well suited to REST. As it stands, I think Renee is about 2x faster than Sinatra.
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How do taxes work on this? Does he have a corp that takes the income and has employees and is making a charity donation, and then he is taking a salary that will then be taxed?
Everyone always says that but I've had nothing but trouble with gandi.net.. not their registration system but their payment system.

Two separate times, I've had them recommended to me and both times I gave up on the transfer. Last time my payment (to my Amex card that I've had no other issues with) was rejected and this is what they said:

So that your order can pass this time, we require : A valid Government-issued Drivers License or Valid Government-issued passport with recognizable photo
AND A document from your telephone service provider that clearly states
the telephone number and the address as presented in the whois as
belonging to the registrant.

So I gave up instead. They never told me exactly why.
The point is that those corners are some of the most important screen real estate, taken advantage by other DEs. Take Windows, for example. Upper-right=close, upper-left=context menu, bottom-left=start menu, bottom-right=show desktop.

Compare to Gnome Shell: Upper-right=settings/account menu (rarely used IMHO), upper-left=activities, bottom-right=missed notifications, bottom-left=nothing.

Where Windows puts something useful in all 4 corners, G-S only has something useful in 2. Obviously one can argue about what is and what isn't useful, but from a purely objective viewpoint, one can definitely say that Gnome-Shell doesn't take full advantage of those extremely important corners.

As for my other points, for example the top bar: how can you deny that it's mostly wasted space? It's 80% unclickable black bar. That's not "nonsense", that's just how it is. Other DE's put something there: the window menu bar, an activities list, etc.

True that I can get an activities list by pressing super. But that's not "at a glance." That's "at a keypress, then a visual scan, then a click to go back to what I was doing." Most other DE's provide some sort of window overview at an immediate glance, ie., an always-visible taskbar.

I think my other points also stand. I don't doubt that some people do use G-S effectively, but that doesn't mean it isn't deeply flawed. If it weren't, then more people would like it.
alas I thought your comment was serious. it's awesome that you have had the opportunity to find it a non-issue and unfortunate that you have decided to.

http://www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Clubhouse-Computing-Jane-Mar... is a pretty good academic references, with plenty of examples of parents who actually do do this (teach sons and not daughters), hard research, and practical solutions. luckily it actually isn't that hard to start on the path to fix for those who bother to find it an issue (CMU and MIT among them).
I've used http://www.name.com/ in the past. It's cheap and with very good usability, unlike the clunky GoDaddy's UI.
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"How about offering Android OS, Windows OS, and QNX on BlackBerry devices. Sounds drastic, but it may just help RIM regain their market share. BlackBerry’s OS is primitive by current standards, think Palm OS. However, the brand name and hardware still resonates with consumers (typing without keys, hell no!). Given the option to buy an Android HTC, Samsung, or BlackBerry, I would buy an Android BlackBerry. There is strong brand affinity with BlackBerry, and Berrys are perceived as quality devices. I think most folks would buy an Android BlackBerry. This would be similar to how consumers were receptive to Kindle Fire vs. (insert manufacturer) tablets. Hello, market share.

Let’s dig into Kindle Fire and Multi-OS BlackBerry analogy deeper. Quite understandably, the phone market is very different from the tablet market. But Amazon’s Fire was a success given the brand affinity (Amazon/ Kindle), perceived quality, and PRICE. Amazon can sell the Fire at a loss, and make up for it with content revenue. RIM can probably steal a page from Amazon’s playbook, but herein lies the problem – there is not enough compelling content for BlackBerry devices. However, by offering Windows OS, Android OS, and QNX on BlackBerry devices RIM can potentially make significant headway in the content space as well. Imagine a curated Android, Windows, and QNX app store with excellent search and discovery features. Hello, Mr. Bezos.

Would this alienate RIM’s corporate clientele? Probably not, given RIM’s recent announcement of multi-platform BlackBerry Enterprise solution.

Is this a huge undertaking? Sure. Will it be easy? No, but nothing is. The folks in Waterloo are uber smart, so let’s see some results in 2012."

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Broadly agree, although I would say it's hard to decide which artifacts will have future value - many of the fascinating things about ancient Roman culture come not from the great works of art, but from the basic bowls and tools which people used to prepare food or for other daily rituals.

In the same way, future historians (or perhaps data archaeologists, to frame it another way) might find a lot of value in the things we might consider mundane or don't feel 'compelled' to digitally preserve.
You're missing the point. It's just hand-wavy set of statements thinly veiled as an explanation for the lack of aliens, which is really nothing more than another cliche railing against consumerism and how society is just so bad. You could just replace whatever cause celeb that you'd like but that doesn't mean there is any real merit to it. Even if the aliens wiped themselves out with Farmville, Lays, or thermonuclear weapons; it seems unlikely they would go straight to the Zynga deathcamps without any exploration etc in between.
If you want to see a template engine that doesn't treat HTML as a dumb string, take a look at DRYML: http://cookbook.hobocentral.net/manual/dryml-guide
The question was, could a student without a Bachelor's just show up at a grad school, offering to take the Ph.D. qualifying exams and believing that they are well prepared, AND, without a Bachelor's degree, be permitted to do so? In particular, to take the qualifying exams, would they have to be 'enrolled' and would that be possible without a Bachelor's degree? And, although not said, maybe the student needs financial aid and hopes to get it based on their good qualifying exam performance.

So, they are ready to take the exams. But they have no Bachelor's, are not enrolled, without a Bachelor's would likely not be accepted or enrolled, and need financial aid. So, can they take the quals? If so, then how? That was the question. I suggested maybe an Associates degree, some really good GRE scores, and offering to take the quals BEFORE applying for admission.
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I don't think its so much a lack of work with NASA so much as a lack of funding.
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The words they ranked are also some of the most common words in the English language (Who, What, Why, How), words that get used in posts by theme (Ask, Developer), or pronouns (I, me).

What they should have done is to exclude these extremely common words and then rank what was left, like Google, Facebook, Steve Jobs. Those would have been far more valuable, but much noisier data.
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You would use the default interpreter (http://www.php.net) as the golden standard, since no specification for the language exists.
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Yes, native Chinese speaker, though English is my best language. I think you can guess based on context as well. Not precise as you'd like, but not a blank slate either.
It also gives both sides the chance to talk a problem through, bounce ideas off of one another, and see if there are any interesting insights to be had on the other side of the table.

Some companies do this intentionally without hiring anybody in order to double-check their plans. It's basically free consulting.
I have to say, it's not encouraging when one of the points cited in favor of Linux on the desktop is the rewarding feeling of getting audio and video to work. After listing their use of various IDEs, this person clearly does not represent a typical computer user.

The talk of his friends' fear of virus attacks also partially explains why they used Linux more often. There's just a lot of anecdotal storytelling going on here to build up Linux on the desktop to be more appealing than it probably actually is. We've all heard the classic anecdote of the guy who set up Linux for his grandma and how much she likes it, but the fact is that he had to set it up for her, and he set it up just right. The moment she wants to plug in some printer or digital camera she got from Walmart, or she wants to install some new software, he's right back at her house working on her computer again.
Ok, here's my crack at a great HN headline:

"Ask HN: Why doesn't Google make Python run on Android? And what you can you do about it? (Jonathan Ive)"
I thing the usefulness will be enormous, but only in the very long term. Remember, Faraday was asked the same questions about his work on electricity.
Obviously the big thing the Higgs is giving us is clues towards a theory of quantum gravity. We don't and can't know how useful that would be, but you only have to look to the last unification (QM) to see the potential. Perhaps my answer is "something that is to quantum computers as quantum computers are to regular computers", but we haven't even built a useful quantum computer yet. At the same time, transistor design for "regular" computers relies heavily on QM. So perhaps a better answer is "something that is to today's computers as today's computers are to things that were around in the '20s". But what that is, we can't even imagine - if we knew what the theory would look like, we wouldn't have to discover it.
I assume the production costs will be written off. I assume the bonuses will be written off as income for his crew. I assume the charity will be a write off. At the end of the day, he's probably going to get taxed off the remainder, which after all the write-offs, probably won't be much left.

Although again, I assume...
Wow, this list has both some amazing sites but also rather meh-ish sites. And also thanks for the amazing comments, there are some really cool suggestions (as the Ubuntu online demo -- never knew that existed. Thanks!)
Yes you can. Complex characters are usually made up of many foundation characters, so you could describe it to your friend that way.
No. Regardless, a second DNS query will have to be performed by the client when Google responds with the permanent redirect.
Agreed, and I'd like to point out that the USA did attempt a form of loose federation under the Articles of Confederation. It didn't work very well, and although it took a lot of cajoling to convince the various states to submit to a federal authority, it has worked much better.