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I confess that I only skimmed the latter 75% of the article, but it seemed like the author is ignoring a more fundamental issue: what does it even mean for something to cause something else? In so many cases, we humans assume a rather trivial obvious definition: X causes Y if X happens before Y and Y is extremely likely given X. Other stipulations may be assumed, like X dramatically increases the chances of Y, or Y rarely happens without X happening previously.

All of these intuitive definitions are useful for everyday language (smoking causes lung cancer, drunk driving causes traffic accidents, exercise causes weight loss, etc.), but if you think a bit deeper it seems like something is missing. Why does it sound silly to say that marriage causes divorce, hospitals cause deaths, graduating from high school causes college dropouts, etc.?

I'm convinced that a precise definition of causality doesn't really exist, or at least that there isn't one that can be usefully applied both to everyday language and formal mathematical/scientific/philosophical language.
Looking at how web is shaping up in the post-PC era, it seems that the number of bits & bytes going into css (or any asset) is very important. In such a scenario, I find it more compelling to write those assets with own hands rather than pick up and bulldoze with css resets or frameworks or even normalization.

In that sense Bear CSS seems quite a good approach because then probably we're playing just with 'relevant css' of only elements/markup we're actually using in the app. Will definitely give it a try.
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I agree. The design sense is going in the right direction; it needs simpler descriptions and clearer writing so that people who really don't have any experience can understand the tutorial. As was mentioned above, n00bs probably won't know what an "object" is.
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Same in Sweden. There's even been some scandals about local governments refusing to pay for (more expensive) treatments for people who cannot afford them and are on welfare, instead having their teeth pulled out. Rather sad for a country with a 45-50% total tax burden. :/
The behaviour of clone has also change; instead of passing the whole instance to the constructor, it only passes the attributes. Could be worth noting for people who are upgrading (I hit an error because of that) :).
Otherwise, great job!
I dispute this claim. There are only very few ways your ~/.gitconfig can be corrupted:

1. You edited it by hand and fucked up the syntax. In this case git could print an error instead if offering to add the username/email.

2. You deleted itself. When git asks you for the username/email again it'll actually tell you that that file was for storing the username/email.

3. Filesystem error. A faulty gitconfig with be the last thing the user is worrying about.

All in all I don't see how all of this would imply that prompting a username/email isn't a good idea.
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Hmmm I wasn't too impressed with DDG results in the past. I just tried it again with "efficient self organising maps implementation". The DDG results are completely useless nevermind almost totally irrelevant to my query. Then I remembered American English spelling and tried again with "organizing". DDG results improved, but the fact I have to remember such details is annoying (I don't with Google, Yahoo or Bing).

Having run the query on the other engines, Google & Bing are on par (I use Google exclusively but should probably check Bing from time to time), Yahoo 2nd most useful (somewhat generic results, though), DDG 3rd (student projects in the search results vs. published papers in the other engine results, results that are overly broad) and Blekko the worst (it seems to just pump out results with one or two of the words I queried, no concept of relevance).
In our neighbourhood we've been calling working with particularly difficult legacy code software archaeology: where it's not not clear what some piece of software was supposed to do.
http://media.pragprog.com/articles/mar_02_archeology.pdf
> most utility out of your time?

Sleep. If you aren't getting enough of it, then the greatest ROI can be a nap or just sleeping properly.

Remember technology itself is a tool. To effectively use it, you need to be in good shape (Mentally, and to some extent physically)

That and I turn off the wifi on my computer, clear my desk, close the door, pause music, and just sit for a few minutes and physically write out what I want to do, how I am going to do it, and execute. Check marks keep me going.

Speaking of sleep...
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Then have git output a message telling the user that the setting is now global. That way you accomodate for both cases in a usable manner.
+Matt Cutts commented on this particular issue on Google+:
https://plus.google.com/109412257237874861202/posts/RpNNBRr6...

"I can't easily imagine Jef Poskanzer was click-spamming AdSense, while at the same time I trust the judgment and abilities of the AdSense team. +Jef Poskanzer , I hope someone digs into the case to investigate deeply and reaches out if there's any more info we can share."

I have to agree, though the robotic reply with non-specific answers doesn't help one bit. Edit: In reference to the article, not this post.
It's easy to avoid trade secrets in unrelated code being exposed. Don't infringe on the GPL in the first place!
They're usually not spending 50K on a car. They're investing 50K in the car, and taking a loss when they sell it a few years later. That loss, added to the cost of insurance for damage, theft etc., is what they're really spending on the car.

It's still be over $9,000 though.
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Public charging spots will happen if/when popularity of electric cars takes off. It already has happened in some places, for example Oxford in the UK - http://www.oxfordjournal.co.uk/news/travel/2699-city-gets-mo... (I believe there's at least a few more since that article was written, could be wrong). Due to not having the same requirements as petrol stations (namely being able to store huge amounts of flammable liquid), there's no reason for them to be located there, hence their being in car parks in Oxford.
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I like to think most people are smart enough to realise that no matter how much energy a battery might hold, when you've used half of it, the battery will be half empty. It's not like they're going to look at that tiny picture and think "well my gas tank never got half empty!"
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It looks as if Thomas Siegel was informed by this post.

"Thanks for raising this Matt. I work with the Ad Traffic Quality Team and we'll look into this and investigate right away. I'll reach out to Jef to discuss in more detail."
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zomg this is awesome! :D

I was actually about to start building something really similar to this. basically the recipe part your blog mentions- you'd throw in everything you have in your kitchen and it'd spit out stuff you can make with it.

but yeah I've been in the eating healthier / start cooking more mood recently, but also starting to be more active, so I wanted to make sure I was getting everything I needed. Calculating all of the nutrients/vitamins/minerals by hand sucks!

tldr- this app is awesome. good luck with it :)
Agreed, it looks like a standard 5 seater sedan/saloon. I'm so conditioned to how cars should look, I just cannot figure out how (or where) the two additional seats are placed. I really wish they are successful with this.
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I believe the marginal cost of the battery is much more expensive than that for them.
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Nonsense. For all international intents and purposes, Holland and Netherlands are the same thing. The fact that "Holland" originally refers to only a part of the country is really off the mark when talking to foreigners; many languages don't even have a word for "the Netherlands" and simply call it something that sounds like "Holland" (e.g. Polish, Icelandic, Malay, etc). Or, more often, there is an official word for "The Netherlands", such as "Alankomaat" or "Países Bajos", but nobody ever uses it, often does not even understand the word.

I really wish my fellow countrymen would stop this nomenclature chauvinism. It's really just a symptom of an inferiority complex from the less populated regions of the country (traditional "Holland" roughly coincides with where the major cities are). Get over it already.

(disclaimer: I've always lived outside traditional "Holland" myself)
My previous car had automatic keyless entry. If the key is not in the car then an audible beep sounds. Be quite difficult to miss that. I wonder if the above anecdotes are based on after market installations?
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Thanks - really appreciate that :)
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Well even if sells go down to 35K / month or 30K .... but you only work 2-3h/ day, wouldn't that be a good thing ?

You could then do something else in the rest of your time.
Two important aspects that are covered by battery capacity but not range are cost to recharge and lower bound on time to recharge given a certain wiring capacity in your home.
So I downloaded bearcss.com html, uploaded it, and got this

http://bearcss.com/outputCSS/21f0b55b80e7773d3199e87f4d8e328...

Is it supposed to merge all inline CSS properties to a .css file?
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I've got nothing against the ever expanding array of web frameworks and such. However, I find it harder and harder to get a good overview and make a decision, and as such I tend to just default to using whatever framework I already know. I sometimes feel that I'm missing out on great things.

Someone should create a repository which lists all web development frameworks/utilities/tools/libraries/doodads/etc and has some kind of popularity mechanism. Right now, my only way of knowing what's used (and works) in the trenches is going by comments on HN.
In my humble opinion, and I apologize to any Facebook engineers who read this, but Facebook has touched off an ethical race to the bottom with regards to users, their privacy, and their information that can be sold to advertisers.

It seems obvious in hindsight, but it's too bad nonetheless.
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The problem mostly was that people who were once overusing their SMS/text bundles/credits were now no longer paying huge bills because of Whatsapp. BBM offset this for providers by having a seperate BBM internet plan required.
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I agree about the other stuff but

> - Mobile operator fees are unregulated an artificially kept way too high.

What do you think OPTA does? There's been several cases in fact where operators (both mobile and otherwise, iirc) were caught price-fixing. It's a few years ago, but at least something is in place.

Maybe it doesn't work as well as it should though, is that what you meant? I'd be interested to hear.
Thanks for pointing the original page which I did know before.
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There's plenty of evil little small companies... a lot of venal recruitment firms, terrible family lawyers, exploitative pyramid sales, sloppy builders... there's a million bad businesses.

NB: These are examples of individual companies I've come across, not generic derision of these industries.

It's the just that for smaller companies the evil comes off as hapless, petty or driven by an individual powerful in that small organization. And the impact is generally small to individual clients/customers and so the noise is confined.

Think the big company 'evil' is driven from a different place than your standard 'small minded egotist' boss in a small company.
Very nice!

Any plans for a mobile version? (iPhone / Android) I can imagine this has even more value when you have it around all the time on your mobile, combined with push notifications?

Good luck with the app!
There is a NMA (competition regulators) investigation going on into mobile operators, and there is proof that for pre paid services there was price fixing going on.
After a first glimpse: multiple classes per node (or things like class=" ") are handled incorrectly and DOM hierarchy is ignored altogether (ul li ul anyone?). I wouldn't recommend this tool to anyone, sorry.
I was a bit disappointed that this balloon didn't pop when getting to the bear's paw... ;-)
But what hope is there for people les famous?
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Actually, isn't the escaping done serversiden when using placeholders?

At least in Perl, there's no need to escape placeholder values explicitly. I believe the prepared statement is stored on the server, and then the values sent later. Of course the escaping could be the work of the driver.. anyone know?
>number of bits & bytes going into css (or any asset) is very important.

Not to mention a logical hierarchy and grouping based on the content of the site as opposed to what this tool supplies. Eg. LISTS, TYPOGRAPHY etc. (http://bearcss.com/outputCSS/60f6411ee02d14afff6dcc17b1be21d...)

Considering you're going to need to re-arrange the order of all these class/id names, you probably aren't going to save much time with this tool.

Having said that it is kind of neat.
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There's still a appeal running against the ruling; so nothing is currently filtered.
Meanwhile the european court ruled ISP have no obligation to filter traffic since DPI violates privacy law, http://curia.europa.eu/juris/liste.jsf?language=en&num=C...

Dutch parliament is not pleased with the high prices and are pushing for EU regulation (http://www.nu.nl/internet/2501814/kamer-wil-af-van-absurde-t... , dutch)
They also plan to create a third slot for the mobile frequency auction in 2012 which should increase competition and lower prices (http://www.nu.nl/internet/2651466/partijen-willen-prijs-mobi... , also in dutch)
The NMA (dutch ftc) also raided mobile providers in december and they're being charged with cartel forming http://www.fiercewireless.com/europe/story/dutch-authorities...

I'd say there's a large effort being made in defending net neutrality.
The only thing i agree on is that it's old news. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/dutch-parlia...
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What a nice surprise! This is my brother's site. :-)

If you don't fancy eating lots of eggs, etc, you can go to the sandbox mode and play around with combinations. He's planning on adding recipes soon.
Not true, The Pirate Bay is filtered on Ziggo as of today and will be filtered on XS4All tomorrow. They have appealed the ruling, but have to filter in the meantime.
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If not, any one interested in designing/architecting/implementing one?
I wonder if that's a honeypot of sorts...
First of all, from what I've heard declining a job offer after accepting is a looked upon as a huge indicator you are not suitable to work for any company. If you do that and word spreads, it could directly affect your career. Maybe if you absolutely have a dream job lined up with double the salary you should take that risk, but still think very very hard about it.

Second a phone interview IS NOT a job offer. I am a 4.0 GPA double major undergrad and 3.9 GPA masters student with great recommendations and tons of individual side projects and part time school-related job experience, but no full time job experience. So far I've been accepted one place, I turned it down due to a condition that would mean I could not work until half a year passed. I have had over a dozen interviews and half a dozen phone interviews. Most places go resume -> phone interview -> company interview -> final steps, so that indicates you have passed 1/3 or 1/4 of the hurdles. Due to my skills nearly every resume turned in becomes a phone interview, the phone interviews pretty much always result in an interview, but most interviews dead-end because they find "another candidate with more experience." If your situation is anywhere near similar to mine, then you would have 50% chance at best of getting the pentester job, possibly closer to 10%.

My advice would be to take the sysadmin position and leave the soonest you feel comfortable (from what I've heard you should be there a year, at least half a year, any less than that looks really bad). If you look for a job and have even a single year of job experience, that should work in your favor. You have already accepted it AND you do not have another offer.

Do not try to game the system, simply tell them you accepted another offer already but would like to consider them the next time you are looking for a job. If you say, "Well I was just hired by someone else so you better make me a really good offer to make me turn traitor to my current company and leave them," that reflects horribly on your character and they will run. If you tell your current boss, "Hey I know you hired me last Wednesday, but I'm thinking of leaving" that will also reflect horribly on your character and could damage future opportunities (You do know the next company you apply for could ask your current boss what he thinks of you right?).

My advice is just to forget about the other offer and pretend it never happened, stay with your job at least half a year, and at that point if you hate your job, maybe start looking around again and ask that company if you could interview with them.
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G has done this for the past 8 years, if you have AdSense, it is not a question if you get banned, but when you will get banned.

What surprises me much more is that there is still no valid alternative. After 8 years! MS has tried to build something and failed. Y! of course failed. Then there's Entrieweb's SpeedyAds which are so bad I think they are not even working on them any more. Nobody seems to be able to build a system that is as efficient as G's in matching content with ads, even thou it would be highly profitable.
Define "does work".

Healthcare in the US, even in its incredibly broken state, still "does work". We can compare anecdotes all day long, but that tells us nothing, anecdotes are not data.
I'm still amazed at the high level of tolerance (up to the point of worship) people give to certain hyped/trendy companies (Google, Apple, etc) versus others that get bashed or even attacked en masse (a recent example would be GoDaddy, Microsoft in the good ol' days).

They've been doing this for years, yet there has never been a blunt response from their users against this policy. Same with Paypal. So they keep doing it.

I'm not asking for a boicot, simply stand on your ground and demand a decent customer service experience, be convincing. Large corporations such as these ones, with so large benefit at the end of each year, need to understand that we're not sheep nor wallets with legs. We're people and we should be dealing with people, not with some heartless bot with cookie-cutter answers.

What kind of response would you get if you treated your users the same way on your startup? Think about it.
I'm trying to learn Backbone, I really am. But there's so many tutorials suggesting everything that I don't have a clue how I should structure a project and what to think about as a codebase grows.

Granted, I'm fairly new to Javascript, but - no offense meant - I can't get excited about node.js. Backbone is the first thing about Javascript that really makes me want to write it. And I know enough to know what I lack is primarily practical experience, but every step I take with Backbone feels like a misstep, because it seems like there's no one right answer by design, so I'm paralyzed.

What to do?
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A good article, but clearly biased in favour of the dev community, who use and will always be happy to use software that doesn't come pre-installed with their computer.
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If Sony has received licenses to software X, then there's no problem:

> "you must provide the source code to all other works on the device that require source distribution"

If Sony has a different license from the copyright holders of software X that means they're not required to distribute source, presumably all they need to do is produce that license if their claim is challenged, or get said copyright holders to confirm it.
By the way, I recently had a company do that. I interviewed on campus, they loved me, and I didn't hear from them again. They called me 3 months later, I aced a phone interview. They bring me in for the real interview and 1) they didn't have a contract yet for the job, they were in-between contracts and "would probably have it before you get accepted" and 2) didn't accept me anyways as they found a "candidate with more experience"
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