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There's a reason it's on a blacklist though! It's usually system stability issues, but it could also be security-related. Don't just globally ignore the blacklist without knowing why.
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I am a high school math and science teacher, and in the last year I have started to teach an Intro to Programming class, based on Python. It has been really satisfying, and students are loving it. Students are just now starting to understand enough to see where they might go with this.

I quickly run into an interesting problem, though. To teach this well, I am starting to learn the skills needed to work at a startup. That makes me look a little more closely every month at the "who is hiring" post, and wonder if I could leave teaching and double my salary.

This is part of the reason many people who are teaching programming in schools aren't good developers; if they are, it's too tempting to leave and make good money.
I completely agree with your inertia comment.

I stopped watching television once I got into university. Living in a dormitory-style residence, the TV was in the floor's lounge, and my room was furthest from it.

I am not exactly sure when, but I went home one weekend, and I remember thinking to myself, "Why is the TV so irritating?" It was then that I realized that I had been living without television - and I liked it.

To be fair, my viewing habits did change as well. Being a student, I looked for entertainment that fit within my schedule (on-demand). My friends introduced me to anime, Rome, and DC++. The rest is history.

I think a few people in residence did choose to get cable in their rooms in order to keep following sports. I might have continued to follow hockey myself, but the NHL lockout occurred the previous year, so it wasn't the same for me.
The example in the linked ThreadLocal documentation appears to have a mistake.

In getCurrentThreadId it should read

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Some comments:

Dental care is not part of "universal health care" in many first world countries, including the one I'm coming from, Switzerland.

Countries with great public transport, such as Japan, should logically have lower car ownership rates than countries like the US of A. I don't have a driver's license.
OK. Maybe I should have said DBMS? I'm speaking specifically about the management of the back-end storage files, e.g. splitting storage over multiple size-limited files, tracking and re-using free space, etc. are all things that DBMSs provide, without a need to reinvent such things for the purposes of storing email.

If there's a better term to describe this I'd be glad to learn it.
I was on a Comcast phone/TV/Internet promotional rate for a year, and they wouldn't renew a reasonable rate at the end of the year ("promotional rates are only to acquire new customers" in spite of what they said when I signed up). I needed to port my phone number, so I canceled TV and internet in the interim - and paid more than I'd been paying for the three services combined package.

Then to complete the cancellation, I had to take the modem in to their office in person and wait in line to return it.

Comcast promotional deals: not worth the hassle.

Currently very happy with a community network cable provider internet-only service, against my "lassez-faire" inclinations.
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What I want is a website that can now render that http response into a fully formed webpage and display that in my browser.
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Hmm, that scatterplot suggests a less straightforward relationship; the for/against dots look like they plausibly came from slightly different distributions, but not very much different ones.
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News protip: when a headline asks a question, the answer is almost certainly "no".
I should have been clearer. I mean that lists presented on the front page aren't necessarily reflective of the whole voting Congress. One can just as easily say for every opposing member there are twenty whose opinion is unknown, which I think carries a different connotation.
If the chamber is ratcheted, and thus can spin in only one direction is this still true? None of my meager math nor experience can suss this one out.
Really, this is no different from the offline coding test, except that since the code is open source it might be useful to someone later.

I'd never do this Github interview for an open source project that was not very widely used, for the same reasons I'd never work on the company's closed source for an interview: exploitation.

In that sense, working on a toy problem is a big feature to me in an interview process, I know I'm not being cheaply exploited.

Also, other things equal, I prefer to do a code problem at interview because I know it will have helped filter out the fluff from getting into the company I'm applying to.
I think cyber-bullying is something that could easily be handled within the portal itself (in this case it always seems to be facebook), why can't kids just be taught if someone starts saying something "mean" they can just block the person and tell their parents. I don't know how we have gotten to a point in our society where people think the government is needed to solve every miniscule problem that pops up in our lives.
Lets not stop at choosing your own canals -- which my TV provider has started to do, except the channels worth watching are not part of the offer -- and let me choose my own shows. That is what could have been so nice about iTunes and it would have enabled me to watch more SciFy.

But no, no then they would make less money.
The title was "takes 2nd place". Saying the same about anything else would also be ambiguous, though I admit web servers don't have many other legit ways to take 2nd place. My first impression was that they were going to talk about performance.
Anyone switch to Clear or some other 4G variant and have success? seems cheaper than just Comcast.
I think it's good, or at worst interesting. There have been a couple articles talking about how Ubuntu+Unity will push Linux into the "common user" limelight. I'd gander that most hackers wouldn't bother will games like these
Facebook hates anything that makes their ads less effective, which this extension did by automatically clicking past them. It's clear that Facebook's priorities have nothing to do woth satisfying users and everything to do with satisfying advertisers. Why else would they repeatedly make sweeping changes that are universally despised by users?
You could just pirate the shows worth watching. That seems to be popular these days, or so I hear...
Even better, check out the github repo, then set it up with passenger.

https://github.com/defunkt/hurl

Makes local api testing a breeze.
I would pay for a better hurl.it (common templates, saved responses, etc, etc...).

It's been an absolutely indispensable tools for debugging (crazy) API's while developing https://zapier.com.
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> if you use it you increase your chances to 1/2,

I may be misreading you here, but if I'm not, then you are incorrect. If you switch, you win 2/3 of the time, not 1/2. This is one of the many "doesn't make sense" conclusions of this problem, which makes it so great.

Consider this:

There are 2 people playing simultaneously, and you both have to agree on the same door initially. Monty then reveals one of the other losing doors. Because of your personalities, you switch every time, the other person never switches.

Since Monty always reveals a loser, one of you HAS to win. Since the other person never switches, his chance of winning remains at 1/3. Since someone ALWAYS wins, and he wins 1/3 of the time, you, the switcher, are left with the remaining 2/3.
Is there really an "enterprise" market any more for mobile devices? Most people don't want to carry two phones. I'm not sure it's enterprises that get to decide which devices people will carry any more in most cases, especially with higher-end knowledge workers. If you look at banks and law firms, (traditionally two of the more conservative enterprise users of mobile devices) they're increasingly allowing iPhone and/or Android devices because of demand from their users.

I agree that the Android ecosystem is messy, but it also has better support for allowing "company specific" applications than the iPhone, which represent a huge advantage for large companies interesting in deploying internal directories, field sales applications, and other internal software to their mobile devices. At the same time, Apple has been improving iPhone enterprise support for years (exchange support, corporate app support, security, etc.), so it's not like they're ignoring this market, either.

If I'm a CIO choosing which devices I want to support beyond Blackberries, am I really able to say with a straight face "we're not going to support iPhones or Android, but we'll offer Windows Phone 7"??? Not if I don't work for Microsoft.
As a poor college student I can't really deny the appeal of piracy but:

a) Saying 'hey, I can get this illegally for free' isn't really a valid economic argument.
b) Pirating HBO just, I dunno, feels wrong. They're a company with a unique economic model that consistently produces amazing television; even if it's on an incredibly micro scale, I think they should be rewarded for that.
Cleaning up all that plastic crap that litters the planet, walking around in shady areas and watching out for each other. Basically all healthcare facilities I've seen were either understaffed or just barely above that, too.

I don't think we'd need to dig all those holes...
A warning: enabling WebGL on a known-bad set of drivers means arbitrary pages can now crash X.

We probably need some "click to play" like feature for WebGL, but it's a terrible user experience: you load a page, you get an offer "do you want to see the stuff yes/no" and sometimes when you click yes your machine hard locks.
Interesting fallacy.

However, you seldom hear anyone criticize work today, all the theories and economieswant people to work more. Why not work less? Why not work at all? How come that all the effeciency and growth still make people work? Isnt the mother of all invention necessity, to not do something mundane and boring while we could be playing and having sex or dancing.

Did humans always work since they began calling themselves human? 200 000 years ago, or any modern hunter gatherer society knew of work. Work is unnecessary for life. It is in fact harmful.

Just an idea to play with.
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I am not sure about this one. Networking seems important to me.
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For that, look at the Popularity Contest (popcon) results. popcon, originally from Debian, tracks the packages installed by the (self-selecting) subset of users who have installed the 'popularity-contest' package.

http://popcon.ubuntu.com/
And use that newly generated website to make another http request!
Most of those things are hardly hidden. Null coelescence operator? Pre processor directives? I certainly wouldn't call those hidden features...
Obviously a full-scale violent revolution isn't going to happen but I wonder if like-minded people moved to an area / city where they could re-invent the political system there, vote out the police chief (or city council members who appoint the police chief, however it works) and reform the local government to where no one there is willing to enforce the more egregious laws. It has already happened to an extent in California with medical marijuana so there is some precedent for a region (I say region because there is a divide in how its handled even within California itself) being able to make its own set of rules that conflict with mandates from the federal government, with some succcess.
what is your skillset that you intend to offer to those startups?
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Al Franken is totally owned by Hollywood and the music industry. The RIAA loves Al Franken. He's a complete hypocrite. Mr. "Net Neutrality" my ass.
I saw this in the paper yesterday, but I was immediately disappointed to see that their primary forms of switching away from cable not only required cable Internet connection (because let's face it, DSL and others have no way to stream that quickly), but also required nonfree software (Silverlight for Netflix, Flash for Hulu). The world can offer so much more to these people who have been wronged by corporations, but for some reason, they keep moving from one bad corporation to another! Even the Occupy movement, who are supposedly protesting against the influence of corporations, are using nonfree, corporation-run sites to spread their propaganda. Why are people so blind?
We have a corp policy now but when I first started out I did pick up E&O as well as a couple other little coverages. Contracts (larger ones) require them and conducting events (trade shows, conferences) do as well. Shouldn't cost too much.
Java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService is great. Coupling it with Hazelcast is truly great in creating a dynamic cluster that performs parallel distributed work with ease. One of the pains in setting up server cluster in AWS is the cluster discovery and membership maintenance. Hazelcast does all those automatically.
One thing that TWNYC doesn't readily admit to is that they have to allow other broadband providers access to their cable. If you insist on hearing about Earthlink rates (rather than the RCN(?) deal) they will probably 'fess up to something cheaper. Plus, the friendly cable guy will probably hook up 'over the air TV' via cable (no monthly - but all the TW paperwork will be done right and he'll have $20 in his pocket).
I'd like to see one of these for PHP, we don't have the larger C++ world immediately available, but it would still be interesting.
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Why would that surprise you? Hollywood nearly owns the Democratic Party.
Just make the damn app FREE for a little while on iTunes. A large userbase is obviously half of your product- classic social networking problem, the service is only good if other people use it- so that will help you establish the userbase you need.
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I wonder how much better the startup scene would be if 'get rich quick' was supplanted by 'create something of value that generates a good standard of living'.
As a pure matter of observation, StackOverflow seems just as deletionist as Wikipedia, except they actually keep stuff up sometimes. It's interesting to ponder why these sites develop deletionist culture.
Unfortunately, it's not a dream to use: http://jseliger.com/2008/02/25/another-public-service-announ... . Maybe things have improved since then.

BTW, like the OP, I have expensive Comcast service because I have no other effective choice, and they just sent me a box and let me set it up too.
"I think this conversation could easily go into the "whats the meaning of life" topic, so let's try not to go there."

Yes, exactly. What we do with our time here is quite important to discuss, and this is usually the entrance to idologies and political parties. I wish we could talk about that more. Do you really want to work 30+ years of your life, then retire hopefully with a small amount of money (if its not "eaten" by the economy), while the top dogs do whatever they want whenever they want?
It would be nice with a more balanced approach to work. Not work for work, but work for play. Free will and all that, work if you will, but I highly doubt most workers today would choose thier situation if they could.
One of the features not listed here is a little talked about (or perhaps just overlooked by me) feature of 4.0, covariance and contravariance.[1] One of the annoying things I've always had to deal with on collection classes is knowing that an instance implements some interface (because it is where T : ISomeInterface) but having to cast the collection in methods. 4.0 fixes that with the <out T> directive. I still haven't completely wrapped my head around the concepts but they seem pretty powerful to me.

[1]http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd799517.aspx
The point of not using cable isn't to spite the corporations, it's to improve your own quality of life.
Yeah but politicians who don't have to take a stance yet (i.e. by sponsoring) might just go with status quo...wasn't DMCA passed with a unanimous vote?
I have a Clear4G mobile box sitting right here next to my keyboard. I have this as a backup since my TWC connection completely crapped out for 3 days and I work remote. While it is easy to install (walk to BestBuy and purchase, turn on) I've found the speeds to be highly variable, sometimes losing bandwidth all together. I live in an area zoned for "Excellent coverage" so not sure what the issue is.
Nobody can control language but over time we can certainly change it to be a little more respectful, sensitive, accurate and appropriate. Once upon a time, it was perfectly fine for white people to call black people "nigger" and "boy". Change happens because people raise the topic for discussion.
Am I missing something, or does this appear to be claiming that Apple (etc...) conspired with the government of a foreign country to spy on the U.S. government?

Or was the spying on the U.S. government just a happy accident in the process of spying on everyone else?
My main takeaway from this article and these comments is that it's devilishly difficult to make international economic comparisons.

As one commenter mentioned such activities quickly disintegrate into highly subjective "meaning of life" debates.

This is incredibly important because a lot of policy analysis depends on making international comparisons. If such comparisons are really intractable problems then what does that say about the potential for effective policy making?
Background checks will show where you've worked, unless you were getting paid illegally. Still, I agree with you. It isn't something to scream out loud.
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"setw -g mode-mouse on" in your tmux.conf will let you use the mouse for scrolling and selecting text once you're in copy mode.
Source is here:

https://github.com/defunkt/hurl

It's a pretty thin proxy.
Interesting... I used to get Earthlink over TWC cable but abandoned it to get TWC's WideBand service (had to switch to RoadRunner). Earthlink does not (or didn't at the time) have anything close to those speeds. Still, I've haggled TWC down before by trying to cancel services, won't hurt to try again.
Have you considered using something like Charles Proxy[1] instead?

[1]: http://www.charlesproxy.com/
Interesting idea, could be very useful. One thing with this kind of service is always how they handle validation of data from the 3rd party service (eg, in headers). So as an example http://hurl.it/hurls/db870b49c7203ec9acb47ba7769c126146b1768... executes javascript in the context of their site... (just a pop-up box with hi, but could be any script..)
You're all thinking too much!If you look at their site, they say they're high school students.
Crazy. Maybe BlackBerry BES is only secure way of communication?
I have Clear 4G as a backup and have found the speeds to be highly variable and sometime have no service at all. I live in an "excellent coverage" area and keep the little WiFi hotspot on my window sill.

Also, their customer service is.... not great.
I take it you've never had "What's curl?" as a response when trying to show someone an API is working fine?
dude, they're high school students! Don't expect to see 20 sites and 12 apps on the site!
Where are these riots of which you speak? Crime is at multi-decade lows in the U.S.
Android already has solid VOIP integration via seamless Google Voice integration. It takes over all inbound and outbound calling, messaging etc.
I think this "lost decade" talk is mostly a matter of perspective, Japan is the nation in the world that, of any I can think of, could most afford to "lose a decade". An older population, a shrinking population, and a very high savings rate means that deflation was not as hard on its economy as it would be on an economy like the United States. In the US and many other economies inflation helps consumers with their debt, population growth requires that the overall GDP grow significantly to keep pace, and a younger population means many young people need meaningful work to sustain themselves while an older population can live on savings and supplement with poorly-paid employment to hobble through to retirement.

Some of the arguments may also be unfair:

The author breaks down GDP on a per capita basis to make the argument that Japan might have grown faster than the United States since 1989 - but Japan is 2 decades our from their financial collapse and the US only some 4 years after a similar event.

Unemployment in Japan has always been much lower than the US, so comparing them now as some sort of evidence regarding a "lost decade" is not meaningful.

It may also be that, since the population is shrinking, the life-expectancy gains are more of a collection of a dividend from past public health improvements than any reflection of recent health care system improvements. (I.e. all those old people living longer from better care in the past vs. relatively younger people dying from other causes to lower the average.)
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Well, maybe you're right. I assumed that people programming against REST API's know basic tools like curl, but apparently I got that wrong.
ok, understood. I just forgot such code exists :)
All marketing is "keep people busy" work.

In Australia, people don't like service-people. There's this weird pseudo-independence thing, where we'd like to believe that we haven't oppressed any workers to get our cup of coffee. It's not a problem if the coffee was grown by plantation slaves, and made by a Philippino guest-worker on an exploitive H1B1 equivalent visa, but the waitress had better be quick, efficient, and get out of our way so we don't feel sorry for her. If it's a waiter, he'd better be even quicker, because we detest seeing men do degrading work even more.

So all the marketing is depersonalised. Cafes might have lavish interiors which were extremely labor-intensive to build, but the work is all done behind closed doors. People will pay lots of money for seamless advertising and marketing, so you can't see that a real human being had to put the sign together.

It's kind of strange.

I'm sure service people hate their jobs, and do kind of meaningless stuff, but no less than the rest of us.
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Found it today in the store, works great for me. I needed it so badly, maybe there are other people like me out there. :)
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