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I thought that tank guns these days are usually smoothbore rather than rifled - with the notable exception of the British Challenger 2:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenger_2
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She talks about a calculator and a few other things, written in C#.

It could be the same things many of us did when we were kids. But you should listen to it; I can't find the right words to tell you how I felt.
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> There are only a few types of questions

Yet the answer is more flexible than traditional CAPTCHA. Remember, you have to type the correct password to check if CAPTCHA OCR is working
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You keep using this word "spelling". I don't think it means what you think it means.

This is GRAMMAR checking, or at least grammar-assisted spell checking.

Very few, if any, shipping mainstream spelling correctors do that.
Yea i just thought about it.
As long as you re-arrange before comparing to the hash.

My mistake.
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It "isn't used to to mean a arduous task in general" says who? The OED defines it as a "troublesome business, a piece of hard work" with examples of that particular usage going back to 1964 in the Economist, who I presume wouldn't have used it unless their audience would understand. Pg has provided contemporary examples from the web at large using it in this fashion as well. Also the original German doesn't mean the actual journey but the act of dragging or being burdened so I don't see how this usage is likely to be at odds anyway.
There is also that Amazon Simple Email Sevice http://aws.amazon.com/ses/ on the market.
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I've had no problems with any of above
It's the first time I came across client side certificates as well. As others have pointed out you have to jump through a bunch of hoops to get a certificate from StartSSL, but if your free time is cheaper than a certificate from another party it can still be worth it (especially because the cost repeats with other parties). I've been a happy customer for more than a year now.
Simple piece of code to put in your .htaccess if you want to join in:

# RewriteEngine on (enable if you don't have it yet)
RewriteCond %{TIME_YEAR}%{TIME_MON}%{TIME_DAY} ^20120118$
RewriteCond %{TIME_HOUR} >7
RewriteCond %{TIME_HOUR} <20
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This will redirect any request, to your protest site of choice on Jan 18th, between 08:00 and 20:00 (local webserver time). Assuming Apache of course!
Also worked super for us. Getting the cert. was a smooth process.
Ah, the XM25. Last publicity blitz we saw on this was a year ago, and Gary Breacher called them out on it: http://exiledonline.com/xm25-gee-whiz-how-can-we-be-losing-w... (Even the file photo is the same!)

The XM25 autocannon is neat. Absolutely nobody denies this. It's also pretty useless, because any insurgent who engages security forces in a conventional gun battle is going to die. Nine times out of ten, they're dead; if by airstrike or just being outflanked and outgunned.

They know this, which is why for the last nine years, the weapon of choice used by the other side has been the IED or the suicide bomb; where high tech weapons like the XM25 are rendered entirely useless. While it's nice to see the Economist running an advertisement for Alliant Techsystems in their magazine, the XM25 will actually do very little to win CI wars.
They do, it's just that you cannot register a wildcard certificate for free. When I registered my certificate I could pick one subdomain in addition to the main domain.
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It's a 25mm explosive round, not a rifle round, so $25 isn't out of the question. I don't know how much an M203 grenade costs in bulk, but that would be a suitable comparison.
She was the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional in history at age 9. Her genius can be better appreciated in a geographical context. Pakistan has a non-existent culture of Start ups and original products. Thinking out of the box can sometimes even become a Taboo. The support system for doing a start up, building a product or even meaningful contribution to a real-world project , especially at her age simply does not exist. It's therefore not a wonder that she did not produce anything you can measure by your paradigm of a 'Programmer Prodigy'. Passing the MS Certification at her tender age was reflective of her genius. That she wasn't able to translate that into a contribution to a project that had demonstrable external value is irrelevant simply because the cultural and geographical limitations rendered her unable to do so.
While technically possible that doesn't get you very far, you'd end up with a self-signed certificate. That works fine except for the scary warnings (which look a bit unprofessional). And of course if the client programs of your service do not have an interface for accepting self-signed certificates, you're back to square one.
Ah, humanity, always figuring out better ways to murder other humans.
Only with the first year, if I'm reading their site right?

> With each domain name transferred to Gandi, we include a Standard SSL certificate for free the first year.

https://www.gandi.net/domain/ssl#nav
IANAL but that has some problems. First of all the convention mandates 'declaration of war' in a sense that you have to tell someone you're attacking. If it was skipped then it was against the part of the convention mandating such notification.

Secondly the other parts of the convention do not talk about war as a set of specific circumstances (e.g requiring declaration of war) but just hostilities regardless on how they originated.

So by skipping the declaration of war one simply breaks one additional part of the convention, the one mandating the declaration.
"""It seems the author of that article doesn't know that spell checking, translating and understanding text are actually major features of pretty new software, too. """

Actually it seems that everybody reading the article got the same WRONG impression.

The author full well knows what it takes to do a i18n full-featured spell checker.

That is BESIDE the point.

What he says is that doing a basic (lame ass) spell-checker in the 80s used to be a MAJOR undertaking, and now, doing EXACTLY THE SAME is trivial.

His point is not about spell-checking.

It's about modern OS, language, CPU, HD and memory conveniences, vs what one had to deal with in the olden days.
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Are you sure? I mean, yes, this goes for the become an mscp at 9 in Pakistan (which is harder than elsewhere), but she got such a large amount of media attention and I think her father is some kind of big shot in Pakistan as well. It sounds like she was able enough despite the limitations you mention, she just didn't do it?
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That seems filled with a ton of problems though:

It fails to take into account what you eat. That is properly also a big part of it.

Just the number of times you go doesn't necessarily matter - it is also about how hard you work out, etc, etc.
really enjoyed this interview. what an amazing young woman and a tragedy she is already gone...
I am using just the bare minimum. PHP PEAR's mail wrapper and proper mx setup.

I was able to blast out 20,000 former customers without making it onto a single blacklist, send out about 300-400 emails per day, and am just about to do a blast to 35,000 current customers again. All free of charge.

Why does anybody pay for mail service, I wonder?
People want their documents (or queries) free of spelling errors. That is their pain and that is the challenge.

The example sentence has misspelled words, hence is within the domain of spell checking. This type of misspelled words are called "homonyms", which are one very common spelling problem. The academic terminology is uninteresting to most users, however.

Or if you mean to posit that "spell checking really means looking up if a word exists in a static dictionary of English", then yes, that's easy and solved, no argument there.
I have a feeling sopastrike.com will go down that day. What about you?
I have heard about them, but they seem kinda cultish to me -- once you are in, you are in for life, we don't know diet soda is bad for you, but it is not natural, so it properly is, etc, etc.

But hey, if it works for you.
>> The first order engineering of making that happen, assuming you disable some Windows-specific functionality, was rather small (on the order of a few manweeks).

I have a hard time believing that. I used to write to the Windows internals API a lot (the kind of stuff you see on sysinternals), and I can't imagine the sql server team not doing the same. That stuff was not easily ported to Linux, at least in the late 90's / early 00's.
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I was thinking of the accelerometer being located near the outside of the shell, rather than relatively stationary near the centre of rotation. I agree it's not entirely trivial, but it seems pretty doable to me.
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Well, re: tinfoil, you'll have to admit that turning js off is a little on the tinfoil side...

What's the supposed benefit of breaking 80% of the modern web?

Using lower resources?

Sites not "tracking" you with cookies?

Better security?
Yeap, all these metrics are relative, and driven mainly by market force
The word is used so often these days it's lost all meaning.
I don't think most of the online services work to make you use their site less.

Paying for a gym membership is a goal in itself in that you can say 'I go to the gym'. Having a paid account at $SERVICE doesn't have the same meaning since you can always switch and there is social pressure.

But certainly no hosting company actually has thousands of GB laying around.
The accelerometer cannot measure the earths gravity which was probably what the GP suggested. However you can measure the centrifugal force (http://xkcd.com/123/) which may be more precise than trying to measure the muzzle velocity or just assuming certain known muzzle velocity.
Back in 1989, some similarly "idealistic" folk released portions of Apple source code. At the time everyone wondered if this would be the end of Apples strategic advantage. The froup called itself Nu Prometheus and while they never released any other source the excesses that Apple took to (unsuccessfully?) track them down led almost directly to the creation of the EFF.

Not sure who wrote this but it seems fairly accurate to my memory of those days:

http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/nebraska/1386/applehac...

The reality though is that such source code is hardly ever a requirement to understanding or reverse engineering the underlying algorithm, and is likely already obsolete by the time it becomes public.
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Maybe the fear of being listed as spam and being on a blacklist. Or it is hard to install and configure email sys.
They waste a lot of engineering resources, but almost everyone somehow works long hours. They could be even more efficient.
related question: would you pay a single employee who is 40x as productive, and can single-handedly replace a team of 40 (with heavy scripting of course)...one million dollars per year.
I cannot contemplate the kind of mind that can make that connection but you will properly be a valuable member around here.

Anyway you should properly find some other way to make it nice to be there since otherwise you will lose the female part of the equation.
> The code makes the game what it is.

No arguing with that. Same as building material makes a house what it is. The question is, does the success depend on material used? You can build a great house amidst the desert.

But that's an analogy. More real-world example—imagine two startups:

- Startup 1: bad programmer, good QA.
- Startup 2: good programmer, bad QA.

Where would you invest your money?

> If you write bad code, your product may be overbudget, buggy, inadequate, and so on.

Here I disagree. Overbudget? It depends on product success. Buggy? If you have good QA, it's not buggy. Inadequate? You can write the cleanest code, but your product won't work as users want it to.

When we say ‘great product’, do we mean that it has nice clean code, or it's something else? How many great products have bad code?

> There is no dichotomy between the product and the code.

As long as you are ‘just a’ developer, and there are other people focusing on product and its functional quality. In that case you receive specific tasks with deadlines, and yes, you should focus on writing good code.

Not so if you're a solo developer.

1) No one will focus on the product, except you.
2) You most likely would be heavily biased towards writing good code. (Because you're a developer, you're supposed to write good code, right?)

You need to force yourself to focus on the product, to avoid becoming the Startup 2 from above example. Intentionally writing bad code is one way to do that. In that case you at least can be that Startup 1—you'll be forced to pay more attention to functional quality (as opposed to structural), so you'll be good QA.

You can argue that one can focus on both. My opinion is that it's too risky. You need to have priorities set as clear as possible.

> To suggest that you can make better software by neglecting the code is absurd.

Yes, it sounds really controversial (especially to a programmer). I'm far from satisfied with that statement. What would be a better way to be a good QA while being a great programmer?
True, but the smooth-bore guns used in most other tanks all fire fin-stabilised rounds.
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I think what is remarkable is not her accomplishments (i mean she is only 16), but her mindset. There are very few 10 year olds that have the mindset to create something and have any sort of introspection on life. Most are preoccupied with friends, playing, and having a good time. There is nothing wrong with that, but it does set her apart from her peer-group; despite the fact that she may have come from a well todo family and is not succumbed to the limitations in Pakistan. I know many children who have a privileged childhoods (pretty much everyone in first world countries) who do not think the say she does.
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The Hague forbids bullets that expand on penetration, on the basis that it creates larger and more traumatic wounds. This round acts more like a grenade. It explodes (and wounds/kill by shrapnel) near the target. It shouldn't actually hit the person. Completely different class of weapon. It's more accurate to call this a grenade launcher than a rifle.
Being a "genius" is not the same as a "programming prodigy". In order to be a "programming prodigy" you have to "program" something. The above comment was asking for evidence that this very smart girl "programmed" something. Neither claiming Pakistan is a poor programming environment nor that she is an MCP (very impressive BTW) constitutes such evidence.
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And the Act of Settlement of 1700ish defines that only the protestant descendeds of Sophie of Hanover can be monarch. This is an example of Parliament defining who is (and more importantly for the Stuarts) who cannot be monarch.
True, but "most files" still doesn't cut it. I have great hopes for the upcoming Google Drive, it would solve many of the problems I'm facing right now in project management (I wrote about it on my blog: http://luckyisgood.com/blog/google-drive/) - and support for all file types is essential if Google wants to call its service "cloud storage".
>> Most hackers who start startups wish they could do it by just writing some clever software

I wonder if the word "hackers" ought to be replaced with "young hackers of the type to apply to YC"?

If you're fresh out of school, or have only worked in big silicon-valley companies doing specialized tasks, I can see it. I have a hard time believing someone with even a few years experience in smaller companies haven't come to grips with "schlepness".

>> Maybe that's one reason the most successful startups of all so often have young founders.

I don't think that's what the research shows:

""" Old guys rule. And they are far more likely to be the founder of a successful technology company than most of you understand. How do I know this? Research that my team conducted, based on a survey of 549 entrepreneurs in high-growth industries, showed that the average founder of a high-growth company launched his venture at age 40. """

http://techcrunch.com/2009/09/07/when-it-comes-to-founding-s...
Because the risk isn't worth the money saved, and I imagine if you got deliverability statistics on those e-mails you'd find that many of them don't make it to the recipient.

Many web-based companies would effectively be out of business if their web server was listed on a few major blacklists.
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Ok, fair point -- I blame the misleading title :)

I read the point of the article to compare "spell-checking then (80s) and now", whereas others read it more along the lines of "looking up static English words then and now". Your nickname sounds japanese, but I assume you're talking about English as well, with those 15 minutes.
The UK has a legal/constitutional system that appears, on the surface, to say one thing, but in reality says something else. On paper, de jure, the monarch has all the power, the parliament operates in their name, they appoint and dissolve the parliament, they sign all the laws, etc.

However in reality, parliament has all the power. The queen has no veto on laws, if they were to refuse to sign a law, they would have to resign (or there'd be a civil war). In theory the queen appoints the government and prime minister, but they must appoint the person who parliament has choose. In theory PM goes to the queen to dissolve parliament, but the queen cannot refuse. The monarch has mo power anymore is more of a formality.
Introductory paragraph from the article.

> Putting all UN operations in a country under a single management structure is not as simple as it might sound. In some countries, different parts of the UN may be negotiating with rebels to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid, while their colleagues might be involved in planning military assaults against the very same groups.

Some people here work in massive organisations. I'm interested if they ever feel a bit like they're simultaneously "making deals with rebels" and "planning military raids on those rebels".
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It should be self-evident that not all people are like the author of the paragraph you cited.
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I think, now that's she's passed, the real question to ask is "what would she have programmed, but now will never have the chance to?"
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... And then there are the increasing numbers of barefoot runners. It could be argued that the greatest running shoe never sold is already in your possession.
My thought exactly. Or one of those punchcards dropping on the floor.
I hate to write this, since the tragic happening but really, the hype is widely unjustified.

I started programming when I was 8, I know a lot of people that started meddling around with computer around the same age, and I was born a decade before her which, in computer years, is like a century. Everything programming related was a hundred times more difficult to accomplish than it is now - I wrote assembly on a C64, because that's all my poor family could afford, with nothing more than a printsheet of the opcodes. And no internet, keep that in mind. And I won't say I'm a prodigy because of that.

I am also an MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional) and I can tell you that the exam was nothing but difficult - basically, it had nothing to do with actual programming and more with knowing what checkbox to flag. I studied for it the evening before the test.

I've seen so many stories like this, most of them not as tragic and not as heartwarming. For example, a heir of a very wealth family that I know has been featured in at least 10 Italian newspapers as "the new Mark Zuckerberg" or "the 20 years-old startupper" or "the genius behind <his startup>", all because his family has deep ties with the editors.

That has taught me never to believe a thing of what I read on something even vaguely institutionalized.
It did to Hollywood. Many decommissioned AN/FSQ-7 control panels were used in various movies and TV shows. Or maybe it was just the same one used over and over...

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I particularly like the fire button being one of a gigantic bank of identical buttons. Of course pressing it by mistake would be "user error".
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Not only that... but I thought Dropbox was a feature built on top of S3? Not true?
Funny, that's actually what I thought this article was about. Who gets excited about another "normal" running shoe anymore? I bought my Vibram FiveFingers after reading "Born to Run" and never looked back.
Hugging that comment gets hated? I guess I could have expanded.
I agree. Bitcasa will be a big player. One of the advantage Bitcasa has over Dropbox right now is that it can show the versions of your file right from the app. You don't have to go to the web. And we even didn't speak about pricing.

I didn't try Bitcasa yet since I got today an invitation.
I don't know how the light gun worked, but the vector display used was pretty unusual. The 'Typotron' (a.k.a. 'Charactron') could display 25,000 characters per second. It didn't draw them in the usual fashion of a vector display. Instead it displayed them by deflecting the electron beam at the right location in a stencil, then deflecting it again to the right spot on the screen!

http://history-computer.com/ModernComputer/Electronic/SAGE.h...

http://www.wps.com/projects/Charactron/

EDIT: Ooh, better information in this PDF: http://design.osu.edu/carlson/history/PDFs/p19-hurst.pdf

The Typotron was like a Charactron, but could store data, too. Apparantly the light gun was used only to click on light points, not on dark bits of the tube, so it was 'trivial' to determine what was clicked on (the second page of the PDF talks about how the light gun was basically invented and prototyped in one day somewhere in '48 or '49).
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