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Yet another Dart post making no sense at all.
That's the saddest part about the dictatorships, and it's actually the reason they work in the first place. They make people believe that the benefits of that system is a lot better than the alternatives, and any dissent would be terrible for the society. Hitler did this, too. Rise of Evil is a good movie about it, showing how people actually started believing in his "ideals" and they were very passionate about it.

Ultimately, all types of dictatorships are done by promoting the idea of "collectivism". That "group rights" are more important than individual rights, which can also be read that you can discount individual rights, as long as it's "for the greater good". It's also when some group rights become more important than other group rights, and lead to racism, anti-semitism, and so on, "because our group is better!".

It's no coincidence that USA, which is probably the most individualistic country ever, has also been the freest country, and with the most liberties. But I fear collectivism influences are starting to creep in there, too. Even most of the Republican party wants it now. It's only that their idea of collectivism is a little different than that of Democrats. For example, they want to "unite" people behind another war. But they both want Big Government and more Government intervention and control over people, even if some still pay lip service to the idea of "limited government", but only for minor issues, so they can keep appearances and pretend they offer real choice and alternative. And this is why a third of the country is Independent now, because they don't buy it anymore.
Yup ... money isn't everything (for everyone). I knew at least two people in grad school who had sold their startups for decent but not exorbitant paydays and then had come to grad school for personal satisfaction and other non-monetary reasons.
as the other two stated, the sleep calls just simulate actual code running, so the profiler produces some output other than 0ms for everything.
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Mozart was very popular.
Chrome currently has an option to start loading pages as you type (disabled by default) but this sounds a bit different. The current feature immediately displays pages as you type. It sounds as though this will instantly preload but not reveal until the query is submitted.
Though according to the manual short_open_tag is true by default, this is a valid point. The safer way to write this would have been to open all tags with <?php instead of <?. I'll update that.

thanks for the feedback!
Preparing the public for another brilliant war
that we can definitely afford.

I'm going to assume that by "afford" you mean monetarily. In that case how do you know it can't be afforded?

At least the Iraq war was arguably mainly about resource acquisition , have there been any studies about how cost-effective that resource acquisition is in the long term?

The wars cost billions of dollars, but the invading forces now have control over billions of dollars of oil resources as well. Has anyone done a realistic cost analysis on how those two stack up against each other?
Building information modeling
It's a question of where you want the conversation to happen and whether you want to encourage this conversation in the first place. There are plenty of (successful) sites that act merely as a megaphone for whatever the author has to say, while he doesn't care about what random readers think. Meanwhile, lots of blog authors pray for some kind of feedback, some kind of legitimate comment that never comes.

Providing a comments section or forum builds a community around information sources that are already valuable and/or have a high reputation. It seems a little short-sighted to miss this opportunity to build a relationship with your users that goes beyond satisfying their immediate needs. People have no loyalty to their information sources, they'll switch when something better comes along - but they do hesitate to leave a community, even a stagnant one.
The Google App Engine Glass Ceiling
That seems at least slightly unreasonable. I think it's appropriate to ask the candidate to write pseudo-code (or real code, depending on the problem), especially if you are just examining how the candidate thinks through problems. I'm perfectly comfortable doing this during an interview, but, then again, I often sketch things out on paper. But, different strokes for different folks.

In the past, I have been asked to sit at a machine and write code, which was far better than doing it on a whiteboard.
French/Swedish translator here.

. I learned by living in the other countries. Semi-immersion in your home country is possible (movies, books, tutor, conversation exchange) but harder.

. What's your goal? Business, pleasure? Focus on finding the vocab you need to know and figuring out what level you'll need to reach.

. Fluency in itself isn't a true state - ability to communicate clearly is the best gauge, most of the time this means spoken communication. This can range from simple formalities to industry-specific negotiations.

. Traditional reading and writing exercises are only useful to learn the language framework, i.e. its basic grammar. Try to get these out of the way quickly, and use them more as a reference.

. Modern novel reading is good for vocab and cementing grammar knowledge, as well as being amusing.

. IMO the key to the most important communication channel is learning to speak in a way that is received loud and clear by a native. This means learning the sounds of the language, phonetics, and seeing where they differ to your own sound-bank. A recent blog experiment I read about [http://www.xamuel.com/french-in-30-days-day-30/] made some interesting discoveries - his intensive daily learning only resulted in an understanding of many single words. His actual communication skills weren't functional. I'd say that they could have been, had he focused on the right things. I left my further thoughts on the linked page.

. You can do all you need to for effective learning every day, just by living in the foreign country, with no need for reminders - but this is of course rarely practical.

. A further key point: learn to hear the fixed expressions that are used in common speech. With enough of these you can sail through most situations and even learn to ask for help when stuck on something.

. Do not try to word-for-word translate what you want to say in the target language, find the fixed expression for what you want to say. This takes time, and a fair bit of practice, but what doesn't?

. Flashcards give the false impression of learning to communicate. I would avoid these unless they contained fixed, common expressions. Even if they offer spaced repetition, which seems to work well, they encourage the wrong kind of learning. Yes, adults can take shortcuts to learn faster than children/babies, but they still must learn the 'codes' of communication in the culture and language.

I'm working on a system that incorporates these points in an audio format, but it's yet to be tested and I've no idea if even that could work as intended. So far, no silver bullet.
Paul Graham about Web Startups almost 5 years ago
Yes. And understanding why is important.

Your collaborators/peers will be your most important source of learning. They will also form the basis of your professional technical network.
In 2008 Microsoft Labs "Volta" Project(the GWT for .NET) used to translate MSIL to Javascript. Ironically it was dropped in favor of Silverlight the same year. http://web.archive.org/web/20080512000549/http://labs.live.c...
Amazon C.R.A.P program destroying Best Buy
Increase it. Partially due to prefetched pages not being what users are interested in, and partially due to seemingly faster & more pleasant web browsing causing an increase in overall browsing behavior.
C# has closures but not when evented. That's the problem with these Language X to js projects. No language is really like JavaScript. Except CoffeeScript, of course. I'm sure you can write clean C# dom code but it won't be like js or like Silverlight. It will need new patterns.
Both are valid points (editing code in order to profile), and you're absolutely right regarding blindly adding profiling wrappers "just because." You can certainly do that, but it's likely to be far too granular in a lot of places. The profiler attempts to hide the insignificant blocks so as to not make the output too noisy.

We use this profiler integrated into our in-house framework, so it's built-in to things like database access and action execution, with all the config/set-up separated. It took about 20 minutes to add the core set of blocks, not too bad; but I can definitely see and understand exactly where you're coming from.

thanks for the feeback
Why don't computers have a "party mode"? (locking everything but youtube and spotify).
Awwww.... Pretty pictures of an uptake of western culture, consumerism and aesthetics... Must be such a nice place for them.

People should see more videos and images like these, before they are quick to ask for bombing them:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2a0_1185106657
WARNING : NSFL!!! Serious, It cannot be unseen!! Its your choice to view the link.

Motivational isn't it.... You think the Iran regime is not interested in spreading and expanding its joyful way of life thoughout the world given the chance? The "incredibly youthful, energetic, entreprenuriel and when it comes to the younger generation, liberal" people of Iran deserve/need your help in overthrowing the regime (with as little blood spilt as possible) that thinks this is how society should live. You can't argue the above away with.... look they have LV scarfs and pretty girls.
Coming to a Smartphone Near You: Gorilla Glass 2
Daily Mobile Minute #83: Is mobile TV a good idea?
You're right. When there was a GAE outage last year, the Chrome Web Store also had an outage. I think this was the one: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/07/java-app-engine-...
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/termcolor

print colored('Hello, World!', 'red')
Puma uses a thread pool to handle requests. The only other Ruby web servers I know of that do this are Rainbows!, and Zbatery, and they're a bit obscure, unfortunately. Unlike Thin, EventMachine is not used.

I have it running on my Heroku instance for a day or so with no issues, though I don't get any traffic yet. :)
Then IMHO it's very unlikely to be "screamin" fast using the MRI
Comments and Moderation are a major pain point for people running community sites. In order to manage trolls (and spam bots), you had registrations on, and that really cut down on both the good and the bad ones participating. Still not nearly an effective solution.

I think this is a side effect of Facebook comments. I have noticed that whenever there is a "validated" commenting system, where the user cant just create a fake id and rant away, but is connected to his/her social profile somehow, the trolling rate drops significantly. And on the positive side, because there is a linkback to your entire social community about your viewpoint, it also extends the reach of your content among active users. Its a win-win from the content creators point of view.

Just makes sense.
Saudi Arabia Hackers steal 1 million Credit Cards
Wow!

I'm currently playing with some plan9front VMs (the plan9 fork from the cat-v.org people) and his intro to plan9 looks fantastic:
http://lsub.org/who/nemo/9.intro.pdf

I had trouble finding information on Plan9, thank you so much for this link!
> Adding GET parameters changes the URL fetched even though the browser still wants the same resource -- that would be wrong.

Not only that, but depending on the way the framework works it could break the page itself. I believe CherryPy's mapping for instance provides GET variables as kwargs to the handler, unless the developer added catch-all handlers it's going to blow up the routing and yield either a 404 or a 500.
Writing jquery plugins using Coffeescript
There absolutely has been App Engine downtime in the past year. They seem to be claiming that the datastore specifically (an App Engine service) hasn't had any downtime. It's not really a good measurement of App Engine's reliability as a whole.

Example: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/07/java-app-engine-...
Minemu: The World’s Fastest Taint Tracker
I agree. I think the attribute most important to my job is being able to turn a complex specification into an app with clean architecture, with no two way coupling between components, generally useful parts abstracted away into reusable code, usage of existing open source modules instead of rolling my own where appropriate and so on. I don't think this test would reveal much of that about me.

That said, for the first time in my career I was given a test to do and that seemed to be specifically designed to see how well I could architect code and yet I still screwed it up. That might show that I'm a bad programmer, or it might show that it's dangerous to use a short test to generalise about someone's ability.

I like to take jobs on a contract basis, that way there's less risk for the clients as they can cut me whenever if it doesn't work. As a result of that the interview process is usually pretty quick and informal and I can show on a day to day basis that I am good at what I do.
Unix is digital clay - Matt Might
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see how is this different from Thin, AFAIK it also uses Ragel for the same purpose.
But 3rd party JavaScript libraries (like GA or ours) cannot read such headers and will invariably get executed. How would Google Analytics recognize and discard such irrelevant requests?
Building Facebook Timeline: Scaling up to hold your life story
The hypocrisy of republicans (and some democrats) amazes, they boast about freedom but they hate liberalism. They want everyone to believe in the same religion and are happy to use authoritarian tactics to achieve it.
We can't vote. Simple as that. I actually do care a lot, and I feel violated if the law passes, but I'm completely helpless.
1. Modify every Apache + IIS + Nginx + other configuration with non-standard log formats.

2. Modify every analysis software/script.

Simple and easy!
I believe pre-fetching of links is already more common in browsers these days, so I don't think that this feature will introduce these issues again.

Note that this new feature also _renders_ the page in the background.
I read far more fiction produced with zero expectation of financial return than 'traditional' fiction. Sure most of it is terrible, but so are most books. When Harry Potter fan fiction outpaces the actual published books by 1,000's to 1 all it takes is a sane ranking system to find something interesting to read. If the cost of abolishing copy-write on fiction books is no fiction book would be published in any form then I would find that perfectly acceptable, because I know there are plenty of viable alternatives.

So, while I think you can make a case for copy-write it's not necessary and at the extremes it's clearly harmful. Just think of how many great movies would not have been produced if if Shakespeare's plays where still under protected. You don't get to see Pride and Prejudice and Zombies in a world of unlimited copy-write. (http://www.amazon.com/dp/1594743347/ref=asc_df_1594743347184...)

PS: I think a 5 year copy-write length for movies, TV shows and video games is a perfectly acceptable, but I don't think they need copy-write protection either.
I'm not as smart as I thought I was
I really like the possibilities with .it
Why is it better than Google Analytics?
The third comment is particularly insightful.
Cool. I couldn't find any reference to this in the FAQ when I was reading :)
What Just Happened? Researchers Demo Time Cloaking
Because with Google Analytics, you can't personalize an session.
we actually launched an extension for chrome which did the same thing in october 2010 when google instant search launched. it was a one night thing. i was in college. the adoption was not good.. so i kinda ignored the project. we actually did it with the omnibox api but it was an experimental api at that time.so i released it with an button ,which you can click and type to load pages instantly..

here is the link,
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nipkbmplhlokenofof...

it does not work anymore coz of an api problem. u can see the working video. never bothered to fix it. just wanted to say that i did that before Google :)
It seems to me that this provides information real(er) time than GA. As in, you use it on pages as part of the actual data you show: http://www.visitorjs.com/details/api/setup
ISSN, ISBN Barcode Recognition for Silverlight, GS1 Datamatrix Support
The latest version of Aspose.BarCode for .NET4.4.0 has been released. This new release includes BarCode Recognition functionality for Silverlight platform and overloaded save method for BarCodeBuilder Class that takes argument of type BarCodeImageFormat. This new release added support for ISSN ISBN barcode recognition and GS1 datamatrix support as well. Below is the list of new and improved features supported in this version

•	Overloaded Save method for BarCodeBuilder Class that takes argument of type BarCodeImageFormat
•	BarCode Recognition functionality for Silverlight platform
•	Rectangular datamatrix could not be read correctly
•	Support ISSN barcode recognition
•	Support ISBN barcode recognition
I would have a better idea. Split united states into five independent parts, ten states each. You would not be world dangering military might anymore, and single trade sanction from single independent entity would not matter much. No more "too much power".
It's not. It's a different app. It just happens to be installed on your site using JS.
Just reminds me the "Men In Black" movie.
CloudOn brings you Microsoft Office on the iPad
I agree with the validation / ownership piece. Would be nice if it was site-agnostic though (ie, Disqus rather than Facebook).

(I'm not a big fan of Facebook.)
> shit tends to crop up everywhere. It’s a very reddity kind of shit.

I would say that is a very internet kind of thing... just avoid those places where it becomes too much.
The paper (presented at RAID2011) is also available: https://minemu.org/minemu_raid11.pdf
It's worse than that - the probability is biased as you say if the sample were chosen randomly, but they did not claim that.

Given that the only distinguishing characteristic mentioned is a boolean (engineer or lawyer), and that they only chose one sample, the probability might just as well be 50% - the probability of the person picking the sample deciding one way or the other.
My choice is between MBP 13" and Air 13", and looking at the online store, Air actually has the better resolution (~1440x900 vs. ~1280x800). I was surprised at this, but I have used Xcode on 1440x900 on a 15" MBP and I was ok with it.

Thanks!
Yeah, I was wondering about "meta-sites", psychologically linked to places that don't have comments/discussions.

Maybe disassociating the comments and discussion from the original stimulus is a good idea?
So, what do you think of Dave Chappelle?
I also use XDebug + kcachegrind, but I wouldn't consider that a 'quick' way to identify slow-ups (mainly because of how my set-up looks).

I'll agree that manually creating steps around code you suspect to be an issue could be a pain in the rear, but it's not proven to be too terrible here.

Also, the profiler still shows you total execution time for the page regardless of adding profiling blocks. We also speak with our databases through a single class, so we can easily wrap query calls with the query profiling methods and identify slow queries.

Anyway, your points are completely valid. Thanks for looking it over and sharing your feedback in a constructive manner. It's nice to be able to leave my flame suit at home. heh.
DNS 101 for developers
Fully agree. Education should be primarily about furthering knowledge, not finding a job. The same should be true about school as well as Uni.

I studied Computer Science because I was interested in it, not because I thought I would make a lot of money.

Frankly I deplore the attitude that the only point in education is to get a job. Many (most?) advancements in science occur because of curiosity, not from perceived practical value.
We don't know your application, so of course we can't tell if you made poor design decisions or not. But have you considered that the poor match went both ways?

Google said that they adjusted their prices because people were getting wrongly incentivized to do things that were expensive at their end. And the way free market is set up, pricing is one of the ways that signals are sent to tell customers that they should make different optimization decisions --- including, perhaps, switching to a different technology which is a better match for their requirements.

Yes, that can be painful --- but it's the free market. You might as well complain that some silly folks moved to exburbs hours away from their work, and bought gas-guzzling SUV's, and then got upset when the price of gasoline went up to 3-4 dollars/gallon. Whose fault was that? OPEC? Or the consumer for choosing to live far away from work and to buy a car that had horrible mileage?
If anything, 2011 has proven that oppressed peoples (in the Middle East) are willing to put their life on their line, and actually succeed eventually. Even in psycopatch-ruled Syria the protest is likely to eventually succeed.
Theoretically, will the balloon be able to escape the atmosphere if it is provided with a valve to control the pressure based on altitude ? does it always have to burst at some point ?
I think they will struggle to charge for this on a request/month basis.

As far as I can tell it's delivering almost all the functionality in the single javascript file except for the geocoding so you could host the js file (http://www.visitorjs.com/visitor.js) on your own server and get 90% of the functionality for free.

If they recorded the details and provided a hosted UI to view stats that might be worth paying for.
The problem with Iran is not its government, people, religion or culture. It's the fact that Iran is independent from the US and the West in general (but also from the East; "neither West or East").

For those who are curios about Iran, events occurring there, and its relationship with the US (from a "non-mainstream"/"non-demonising" perspective), I can recommend:

- http://www.raceforiran.com/

- http://www.iranaffairs.com/iran_affairs/

- http://mideastreality.blogspot.com/

- http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/

- http://www.bibijon.org/iranimage/

Those who have questions regarding the 2009 elections:

- http://brillwebsite.com/writings/iran2009election.html
(he is also a frequent visitor to the "race for Iran" blog)
As cool as this might be, it has a major flaw. Take a look at the current mobile browser stats[1] (worldwide) and you'll see that Opera Mini/Mobile dominates. It, as well as any other proxy browsers such as UC browser, which are massively popular, will provide you with inaccurate information. I'm in South Africa and my IP is showing me to be in USA, and even the locale is wrong.

So, perhaps if Visitor.js had exception handling for where visitor.browser.name == [an array of known proxy browsers] then this might not be worth it if a good portion of your traffic is mobile.

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_browser-ww-monthly-201001-...