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`attr_accessible` and friends are a nightmare anyway. They push a controller-layer concern into the model-layer. It breaks the hash-initialization syntax that is so useful in irb, in unit tests, in background jobs, etc.

Instead, I've been using ActiveSupport's Hash#slice method in my controllers.
This seems like a great idea on the surface but I really wonder if companies like Facebook or Microsoft would have become what they are, if they'd stuck around.

I'm not convinced they would but it'd be nice to be proved wrong.
I explained this to some as, "values from from right to left across the equals sign. In this case 10 flows into a, 20 flows into b, then the value of b, 20, flows into a, making a 20 and b 20." I think it's a matter of saying what '=' means in words that people can understand since it doesn't mean '=' in the mathematically sense (which is '==' or '===' depending on language).
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Bill Gates pledges a donation of $750 million to the AIDS fund.
Facebook takes on 'clickjacking' spammers in court
I think I disagree pretty much about every single point you make. First for something as simple as laplace equation solver numpy vectorized loop is 35ms per loop vs 6.3ms for C. As your list of operations increase, your need of intermediates grow and your speed decreases, but let's not go to details. Obviously if you just call a vendor-optimized library, you can use whatever you feel like and it'll be equally good, be it PyPy, be it numpy, be it matlab.

You consistently spread rumor that we intend to reimplement all of scipy/matplotlib/scikits etc in RPython and this is plain false. I think those projects are completely reusable using one hack or another, for example the blog post I posted where within a day I was able to draw basic stuff using matplotlib on PyPy. We seriously want to reuse as much code as possible from the entire ecosystem, but also a part of the project is to provide people with a really fast python that can perform numeric computations.

Also, which facts about numpy I didn't get clear?
My favorite thing about used bookstores is that the books are cheap: I can try out new authors (based on nothing more than the cover and the blurb on the back) and not feel I'm wasting money. This goes double since I'll be trading in my previous set of novels, so those new authors are even cheaper, and I won't have any compulsion to keep the books around.

My second-favorite thing is browsing a (relatively) small selection; Amazon is so amazingly huge that I'm not sure where to begin, but browsing a dozen shelves of <insert interest here> is fast and easy.
> Pushing the envelope in terms of interface is a really tricky thing to do. Each time you do it, there's a huge user outcry, and it does turn some users away or stops them from upgrading.

It's true, yet I think it still needs to be done, even though I'm often among the complainers. The key is balance: advancing UI without forcing users that are looking for a solid consistent experience to beta test your UI ideas. Ubuntu is an example of a lot of really bold UI decisions, and I think they're too eager to force things on users. Ubuntu is in the tricky situation of making a product for "the hard-core" (Linux geeks) and "the noobs" (non-tech-savvy users wanting a free OS).
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Yeah, yeah.

It's too bad this article didn't get more traction, mainly this:

"Apple's products still have a large U.S. government R&D content and I'll bet that the guy who says Apple has no obligation to help Uncle Sam does strongly believe that Uncle Sam has an obligation to stop foreign pirating of Apple's intellectual property and to maintain the deployments of the U.S. Seventh Fleet and of the 100,000 U.S. troops in the Asia-Pacific region that make it safe for Apple to use supply chains that stretch through a number of countries..."

Getting to build cheaply in China is an externality of US foreign policy, for good or bad. American corporation don't have to cost it all in.
Based on many friends' salaries:

Grade 8 is what is offered to fresh PhD's -- I think around 115K. In addition there used to be a 401k match of upto 4% (I think).
I think we're looking at option 3.

With advanced technology, we can modify humans to more easily survive in space. With sufficiently advanced technology, we can just upload them into robot bodies. That will make space missions as cheap as they are now, and without the risk. Because instead of sending up bags of meat that have to be protected from vacuum, radiation, freezing, boiling and dehydration, we can send up AIs or uploaded humans running on rad-hardened processors.

It goes back to the discussions about terra-forming. Is it better to adapt an entire planet (which is big, by the way) to human needs, or is it better to adapt humans to just live in that environment as-is?

Oh, and this sufficiently advanced technology gives you some other side benefits, including practical immortality, so that is worth pursuing by itself.
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The single concept that kept me from understanding basic coding was the mutability of variables.

After years and years of algebra teaching me that variables were inherently immutable, I automatically assumed that was a universal law that was never broken.

Then again that proves that I at least thought there was a system.
I suspect that part of the secret to that one is called Librarians.

Well, that and it's likely that when doing a literature review is hard and time consuming, people aren't quite as concerned about it's completeness as well it's easy and quick.
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It's not just that; it's the temporal nature of what constitutes a balanced diet (i.e. what the variables are, and what amounts are "correct"). Here's a short history of the USDA Food Pyramid, for example: http://www.healthy-eating-politics.com/usda-food-pyramid.htm... (note: this is from a site pushing the low-carb diet, and is suitably slanted in that direction, but is useful for illustrative purposes)

And that's just in the USA. Every country has their own ideas on what is "balanced".
NYC Product Designers Unite, Name Themselves After the Police
Euler's formula is a mathematical law, not a physical one. There is no proof that the Earth is perfectly round, and plenty of evidence to the contrary.
Arch was the very first distro I tried. I had no idea that there was "another" way to do it. Having to pay attention to the manual install helped me later when I was trying to figure stuff out. Highly recommended to jump in the hard way before getting pampered with something easy as hell like Mint.
Yes, big companies put some things into a different perspective. Just today I heard a sysadmin saying they lost 50GB or so storage per server due to some partman issue. But that's ok... adds up only to ~ 10+ TB and only temporarily (fix via lvm resizing possible).
You forget my favorites: /usr/libexec and /usr/lib/$progname
Well. Fast Python loops in CPython has been tried before and failed. I seriously don't see a way of getting a working JIT that really optimizes a lot of code out there and native support for CPython extensions. There will be some side that suffers. Also, numpy is fairly special as it does have a good potential to be optimized by the JIT in ways that are not quite possible using C or Cython.
Twinkie diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds
Add a counterpoint to the pervasive "carbs make you fat" mantra.
I've never had a good experience with #archlinux, and the forums are generally quite slow. I do recommend the arch-general mailing list however.
Google was massively underpriced at the IPO, (as in $80/share or so if I recall) but this was mostly for insider reasons -- they IPO'ed using a sort of reverse auction method that cut out traditional I-Banking pre-sales. The bankers largely revolted in exchange; this led to at least one of the Google VCs pulling the shares from the offering altogether and holding them.

Smart VCs!

Anyway, that said, I'm a bull on Facebook. It's incredibly hard to stop using. And they're (purportedly) profitable, and growing, and have barely started monetizing their user base.
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How much of food commodities prices (and for that matter, gold prices) are the result of pure speculation?

http://triplecrisis.com/food-price-volatility/
Harvard Gets Its First VC Firm: The Experiment Fund
hey pud, did you do your own art?
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Its cool. I hear your point!
What you really mean is what's the cost of a million schoolchildren watching a nation give up after a space shuttle explodes.

The damage is in the response, not the event.
Why Twitter’s new policy is helpful for free-speech advocates
Imagination Tech. has some interesting GPU stuff in the works.
"people do in fact buy books based on the color of the binding"

Come on, tell us which colors sell better than others?
Yeah, self-hosted with ability to use generic IMAP/SMTP accounts would be awesome.

And multiple accounts at once.

But don't let these wishes distract you for now. :)
The build system does record all the actual dependencies and:

1) Only executes stuff after their actual dependencies changed (over-specified dependencies are ignored here)

2) Yell if dependencies are under-specified (can't access files not specified as dependencies)

3) Correctly handle parallelism -- this is where overspecifying dependencies may hurt somewhat, because it can under-parallelize. However, if inputs change -- the dependencies can also change, so if you use previous dependency lists you will also get parallelism wrong. So parallelism makes it a harder problem.

If you don't care that much about fine-grained parallelism, you can simply over-specify your dependencies, and tup will do the right thing.
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If you don't know anything about programming then it is ok to assume a = b as a comparison, so the answer is False?, or that a can be assigned to b? left to right? right to left? who knows? how about assigning just adds the new value to the existing one and removes the assigned value? so a=30 and b=0? What's this int about, interrupt? interfere, interrogate?

This is just retarded. Tell me the rules first so I can infer on right premises.
DHH just tweeted that they actually serve some of the assets from the Highrise site. That's bad http://yfrog.com/mm5icqhj
> But now their innovation has stalled out, while that market segment is being cannibalized by other folks....

...he says, on the eve of the next generation of consoles, four months before they'll be fully detailed and fleshed out.

When E3 rolls around, come back to this post and we'll see who was right.
In order for this statement to be relevant I think you must be of the opinion that zombie blood contains compounds that boil below or near 100°C. Otherwise you still wouldn't need graphene oxide cap.

So I'm wondering if zombie blood is known to have these type of compounds. But more importantly, how common is it for typically impotable water to have these type of compounds?
#2 startup city: Austin, Boulder, or San Diego?
RuggedAltair's are very similar to my thoughts. Some people will make a good return on Facebook in the short term. Alas, the general investing public will not be among them.

Indeed FB is just a website. It's not even a search engine. Over the long-term people are fickle about websites. They will eventually want something new and fresh.

Being a website allows FB an incredible amount of surveillance, like Google, for the benefit of marketing, but even with all the surveillance, FB is not able to generate the return that people would expect of it. Google does much better because people who visit Google are looking for products and services in a fixed amount of time. FB OTOH is just a way of killing time and no one is necessarily looking for products or services or is in any rush.

FB has a gigantic email list. And heaps of personal info to annnotate it with. (And Google is about to do that with Gmail anyway... adding in all the info from your account). But FB is still trying to figure out how to turn what they have into more than the usual email marketing (a euphemism for opt-in spam) returns. Google does not have the problem.

It's naive to think that FB's email list is somehow exclusive. As a database, it might even raise legal issues in Europe. And without email, FB is dead in the water. Aside from the few FB fanatics who stay logged in all day every day, FB still relies on email to keep their users engaged. Because it's just a website. And it's not as "essential" as a search engine like Google. Anyone can grab all their friends' contact info (phone, email, address) from FB and never have to use FB to make contact. What does FB offer that can't ge gotten elsewhere, other than a way to get friends' contact info?

My prediction is FB's business will fizzle and they will essentially just keep selling this email list to marketers.
FB the company may fade away, but the email list, with accompanying data, will be around (sold and resold) for a long time.
during 2 years > over two years

Shouldn't all numbers less than 10 be written out as one, two, etc?

http://www.ehow.com/how_5083296_write-numbers-using-apa-guid...
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Yes, Competition + Adwords means 2 bloody battles to win. One thing I'll do because of your advice is my own bidding. At least I won't get burned that way - Thanks!

So, you say good data, conversion codes and getting to a good Quality Score is where my game of patience will be tested. I won't go broke and I'll keep the acquisition costs in mind.

Thanks for your feedback!
I've heard : Portland, Boston, Wash DC, as well
East Asians who eat two bowls of rice everyday must be the fattest people in the world then.

This article is so ridiculous.
> The irony of the pair of legendary entrepreneurs dropping out — decades apart — of the even more legendary university to start two of tech most significant companies, Facebook and Microsoft.

Not only do I not spot irony, I have no idea what that sentence fragment was meant to convey. Somehow I doubt, too, that the reason some wildly successful entrepreneurs dropped out is because they wanted to move to the West Coast.
There's of course the view that a programmer is a mathematician :-)

But I agree we need various tools to cover the necessary ground.
Does anyone know where I might find the actual test that they administered? I'd love to see if I could produce similar results..
Browsing is a biggie, though. Amazon does not deliver in that respect. Or at least browsing on Amazon is very different (say Filter Bubble).

Still, I don't see many bookshops surviving either.
This also happened to me. I have since made sure that I have absolutely no part of the order process for any of my software. I don't want to be notified. I don't want to have to click a button. I don't even want to think about it, except at the end of the month when I count my money.
I'm not sure why you would say not Taubes. The reason people like him is because of how relentless he is in quoting real studies and interviewing the actual authors of those studies. There are like 200 pages of notes in the back of GCBC.
High relevance, got it! I'll look into pruning that long list of keywords they pushed. I thought 8-9 clicks was a bad sign but I see now that It might be the best start.

Thanks for your time.
Wouldn't that interfere with the core BSD system vs p ackage binaries/libs paradigm?
If I could edit that, I'd add a smiley or something to make it clear I didn't intend to be an ass. Meant that to be funny.
Their valuation is 5+ years ahead of a dream that only may come true. So unless you're bullish enough to hold onto it for a long time, or you're gambling on short-term volatility, it seems like a bad bet.
"So many new customers that the new-customer alert gets really annoying" is a great problem to have, though!
If you believe in a companies fundamentals and future outlook 'trading' volatility isn't an issue.

Of course it will be when your buying options contracts or day trading, adding Facebook to a long term portfolio is a strong move.

My main belief in Facebook stock comes from the fact Facebook is the company being built on top of at the minute, the ecosystem for Facebook is super strong.

They just need to figure out how to monetize mobile.
From having read the various replies to this and similar threads, I think a basic problem (as Travis pointed out) is that Fijal has been (1) highly dismissive of numpy and particularly cython, which a lot of really smart people have put a lot of time and effort into and created an amazing scientific community within python, and (2) confrontational with people who are trying to lend an alternative opinion which has been informed by a lot of experience in the scientific python world. PyPy might eventually be a wholly superior alternative for scientific computing with Python, but it would be good to acknowledge the insight of those who are 'in the trenches' even if you go a different route, because part of the success of scientific python has been the community.

I know very little about the development aspect of PyPy or Numpy, but I know that at this moment in time Numpy/Scipy/Cython have revolutionized how I do research on a day to day basis. It seems unfortunate that there seems to be such animosity surrounding this issue.
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love this version. Been coming cross all kinds of different "shit * say" lately and most of them were pretty pretentious.

Love how this video depicts programmers as people who value "shut up and get things done" :)
Even if that's true, the food industry does all kinds of lobbying and has ties with agricultural companies and has instilled upon us this conventional wisdom that whole grains are great for you and calories in = calories out with no distinction between types of calories.

Yeah, so two wrongs don't make a right, but I think he's justified that he feels like making extreme conclusions will make people question the conventional wisdom that has been steering us in the opposite (and in my opinion, wrong) direction.
The defaults for FreeBSD are / as UFS2 with no softupdates, see picture 2-19 in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/in... for an example.
that's not quite true. He implicates sugar more than anything as well, and has come around to that more and more over time. His next book is going to be about sugar. Part of the thinking is that while fructose may be causing a lot of problems, the fructose/glucose combination may be especially bad.
And in general, if you want to use any filesystem that your operating system supports but your bootloader does not, you need a /boot
Anyone have any insight to why the article says the Kinect for Windows will be $250 vs the $150 regular prices of Kinect for the XBox?
Did you go to Harvard? If you did, you would find it ironic, since Harvard students and alums believe it is the best and smartest place on earth.

I generalize, but only a little.
I recently got a system w/ a gtx580 that would be running the gpu 24/7. Was excited to try arch as I had heard a lot of good things about it and thought I liked the cut of their jib.

4 hours into install, I realized how much Ubuntu had spoiled me and remembered installing Linux for the first time as a kid and how confusing setting up X had been. I also remembered I had stuff to do so I installed Debian and called it a day. Cuda and nvidia drivers are frustrating enough, figured I'd pick my battles.

I suppose I liked the idea of arch much more than the practice.
Wait... really? My instinctive reaction is that sand would not be good for your digestive system, but I guess I don't really know. Was (ahem) excretion an issue?
People would line up to go to the moon. They aren't going to go. Get over it :)
Well, part of what he said in the article was that it was more important that the student can create a consistent mental model. So even if you have no idea what the '=' means, you can infer a possible meaning from the answers and use that every time you see it (on that test).
see my other comment on this post, aerospace tech actually has not advanced exponentially, but asymptotically.
Slightly off-topic, but it bugs me that the article feels obliged to contain a picture of the number. Firstly, why the hell would you want to display plain text as a picture? Secondly, if I click through to the source, I get a slightly better picture. Did IHC take a photo of the original website with their phone camera and upload it? Mind is boggling. Encouraged by the better quality picture on geekosystem I decided to click through to THEIR source. And there's a plaintext version. Kudos to <a href="http://www.futilitycloset.com/2012/01/08/math-notes-76/<...; for having a modicum of common sense.
/usr is maintained by the OS, and contains stuff that isn't required for boot but to round out the system.

/usr/local is where local modifications to the OS go, these can be site-wide (company wide) and can be hosted on NFS for example for network boots. User installed stuff belongs in /usr/home/<name>/*. Users shouldn't have root access to install stuff in /usr/local.
Yes, I know this, but have you or anyone you know or can link to that has actually gone through and reviewed the studies in full? Not just picking out certain pieces or statements? From people I have talked to that have, they stated that he had taken out parts of the studies that agreed with his theories or were able to see how the studies were flawed and not setup correctly to begin with.

I'm just stating what I have been told and believe it since it was people in the fitness community that are highly regarded and much more knowledgable than I.

Edit: Spelling.
"What on Earth would Apple do with NeXT?"

Use their software holdings to become a major success story? I'm sure the people helped, but Apple wouldn't be anything like they are today without ownership of NeXTStep. And it was no secret at the time that Apple was looking for software as they were also courting Be.
There are lots of ways of doing things, and more than a few of them are sensible. Without zeroing in on a specific well-defined problem, you usually won't have any hope of identifying anything like 'optimal' solutions - let alone uniquely optimal solutions.

"user in mind" and "have a real problem" and "get things done" and "responsive design" and "designed for Humans" and "make it happen" and "never compromise the API" are vague platitudes which don't even provide interpretable advice, let alone specific usable information.

It can be slightly obnoxious when a battle-hardened grayhair begins to hold forth on vague general principles in this way - it can still be productive to listen insofar as knowledge is being shared. What information is being shared here, and what experience or reasoning is there to ground it as knowledge?
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Packages/binaries/ports tree installs into /usr/local/.

See man hier [1].

For example, on a FreeBSD install, it is perfectly safe to rm -rf /usr/local/. Your system will still boot without issues.

[1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hier&apropos=0&...
Website creation what to start with
Hi, I want to creat a website and include sql server which I have downloaded - would I be better off to start learning Ruby - I have seen a site similar to what I want to creat and have been told that it uses sql server - for your info the site is -Angloinfo.com - I like the set up for the business i have in mind but before I waste my time learning the wrong programming It is quicker to ask you lot - so please what's the first code I need to learn before sql server and the best place for a domain name apart from wix.com etc Can I use my computer as a server to get started? I'm not stupid to have high hopes!
thank for your replies.