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You should check out OpenSUSE which lets you specify which packages you want when you're installing it. You just select the appropriate categories like "Web Development" and it installs a selection of appropriate packages.
Thanks Peter. It's interesting to note that following the launch post and following the midway post there's a distinct slope to the the growth. Down the road, once there's a few more press milestones, there might be enough data to analyze how "sticky" the traffic is, that is, how much the long term growth improves as a result of the coverage.
My experience with Homebrew has been a world of improvement over MacPorts. Every time I'd try to update things with MacPorts I might as well have started filing an issue ahead of time. Homebrew rarely requires additional intervention.
It's a tradeoff. If you want general-public-scale levels of traffic, you will be subject to the general public's social norms or face their wrath.

The general public did not use Usenet; the audience size was small, relative to what we see today on the WWW. Same goes with most personal blogs. And back when Reddit was not well known, they did not have to have a policy like this.

I don't think centralization has anything to do with it--if your public blog suddenly got as popular as Reddit, I bet it too would be the subject of campaigns about its content.
You could use anything which separates statements or ensures the function is treated as an expression. Two examples which are more in keeping with the intended use of the operators in question:

;function() {
// Some initialization.
}()

void function() {
// Some initialization.
}()
At SoundCloud we developed Large Hadron Migrator [1] to work around the problem of locked tables with ALTER and MySQL. It creates a table with the new schema, copies the data from the "old" table to the new one in chunks (utilizing INSERT IGNORE and triggers) and then switches the two tables. The switching is not yet atomic, as there was a bug with RENAME TABLE.

[1] https://github.com/soundcloud/large-hadron-migrator

Edit: URL
I've got the index.html file of H5BP separated into CI header and footer files. It's nice to start out like this.
https://github.com/rodneykeeling/CodeIgniter-Boilerplate
Well, no, it is not the best solution by a wide margin.

There is no reason Firefox has to go into a system ProgramFiles directory when it is installed by a user. It needs to go into the user's ProgramFiles. If it is installed by an admin, then, yes, it should go into the system directory, and it is reasonable to have the updater process run as a system service. But if it's me, Joe User, installing Firefox on a shared box for my own use, then (a) I should really be able to do that within the confines of my account permissions (b) the updating mechanism should also fit into the same set of restrictions.

Just think about it for a minute.

PS. "Google and Mozilla aren't idiots" is not an argument. Microsoft aren't idiots either, but look at Vista.
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I have, and continually remove people from my friends list -- it makes no sense for them to know what is going on in my life if I barely want to speak to them in person. And wildly more important I really don't care what is going on in their lives.

I take the Larry David approach and prefer to have less friends and acquaintances
The Firebug code is really scary, for one.
Thanks, that's great to hear. At the moment the app is an entry in an NYC-based competition called NYC BigApps (hence the NYC-and-nowhere-else coverage). Some of the judges are investors (inc. Fred Wilson), and there are cash prizes, so I'm treating it as a sort of litmus test of whether it's an idea worth pursuing, expanding, etc.

Right now, the feedback is just local. But I've spoken briefly with city officials (who regulate the yellow cabs) about passing the information back to them. I'm keen to highlight good and bad behaviour so it would be awesome to have a "taxi driver of the year" sort of thing, alongside handling complaints.

As for the monetisation side of it- that's tricky as the app currently stands. But if it became a going concern I would probably pivot somewhat and make bookings through private car services (right now, the one thing it doesn't do is find you a taxi), then take a commission from that. All pipe dreams right now, of course...
I think you are missing the point.

You are not seeing the global issue, rather the individual one.

Pirating is already a reality, that you can not change (much like drugs) and the entertainment music is the only one that is missing out by not being able to adapt.

In today's reality, if the only possibility you give people to not pirate is abstain, well then you are begging for more piracy.
Definitely agree that Lolita is a written text and not a visual depiction of children engaged in sexual activity. So it's not covered by child porn laws, and is still protected by the First Amendment.

But wanted to highlight that the law can ban speech, despite the First Amendment. For example, in 1982 the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that child porn was not protected by the First Amendment:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_v._Ferber

Laws can also ban material deemed obscene. The Miller test is the standard there:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_v._California
The affiliate revenue is high variance so it would be misleading to give a number without detailed analysis, which I don't feel comfortable doing at this point.
Yes it was really not safe for work, I was interested until I got down to that photo then I was like "oh crap I hope none of my staff see I have this open"

The new topic of discussion around the office would have been: "Did you see the boss had porn on his screen!!"

Interesting game, reminds me of Super Meat Boy. I can only imagine the amount of work that went into making it. Having made (and shipped) a few simple games myself I can say "Bravo" However I think he looses focus because of that obnoxious post.
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"AP level physics course in electricity and magnetism" is referring to AP Physics C. Generally corresponds to the second semester of freshman physics: it covers electricity and magnetism fairly in depth but you won't see any circuit design, signal processing, etc.
You are right, in a legal sense, which is why there is no lawsuit over this issue.

But reddit specifically said create your own subreddit and post what you want (as long as it is not spam). That is why this is such a big issue.
What if I told you that 90% of the people who use the site use GoDaddy as their registrar and the percentage of affiliate revenue that I get is in the same range? Would you still recommend that I take it off?
I understand the authors position, but FB's value is different for lots of different people. Your journey on Facebook might be very different than mine and I don't think that means there should be a blanket statement about Facebook's value. Part of that value is that everything is inter-connected.
Well, while you can walk down the streets of Skokie and shout "exterminate the Jews", you can't walk down the street in Winnetka and say "exterminate that Jew". I think that would fall under fighting words, which isn't protected.
im just offended..

there is an asian girl sitting behind me she's probably thought i'm the member of sodomy club or something.

I just left her behind without any further explanation.

what a sad day to start. :(
I have had a few, but largely they were easy to resolve. One thing I dislike about about homebrew over apt (and similar) is that it requires a fairly unpolished workflow to do personal mods and patches on a package, while the apt tool-chain allows for this stuff in a fairly polished (if idiosyncratic) way.
jshint is great. Putting this in ~/.jshintrc makes it a lot more sane:

{
"browser" : true,
"node" : true,
"undef" : true,
"eqeqeq" : true,
"noarg" : true
}
It's been a long, long time command line tools are not required to use package management. Synaptic is a very easy interface to add new software and Ubuntu's Software Center, while a bit rough around the edges, is a very App Store like experience.

Besides that, package management also offer an easy way to keep your system updated. On a Mac, App Store excepted, there is no central way to keep your system up-to-date - Software Update will update Apple's software (often by downloading huge packages) and you are on your own to update whatever is left. Red Hat and Debian mastered this in the early 2000's.
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You might be able to tell whether there is a market for your product today.

Does your product have any competitors? Find people who are using your competitors' products. E-mail them this afternoon and see if they're interested in what you're building.
I work on Firefox Mobile. What in particular made you feel that Aurora was less smooth than Chrome?
I feel ya. Having worked in healthcare for years and as a medical student myself / recently gone through rounds, I know exactly where you're coming from. In addition, I am a patient myself in the hospital once a week.

Moreover, having grown up in this era of cyberchondria, I know that the danger of self-treatment is ever present and real, but that's not the problem we're set out to solve.

Physicians know quite a bit, yes. They can tell you what medicines to take, anecdotally what they've seen, and what the latest research tells them. However, they're far removed from what the patient actually goes through in terms of daily struggles, and what is out there to help them with that.

We built our technology with the mindset to surface useful information and bury scams. We actually built a medical search engine that did just that, but it didn't take.

We interpret "apply to managing my medical condition" as directing you to the right resources (e.g. Crohnology for Crohns, WeSprout for parents) that you might not have otherwise heard of. And we definitely have safeguards against spam.
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nice. I have been interested in something like this for a while
The behavior you're describing (not being able to submit from a certain user account from a certain IP) is a result of reddit's quite sketchy spam filtering mechanism. Unless you have been notified that you've been banned from a certain community, your posts are simply being absorbed by the spam filter.

You have also mistaken the views and actions of a specific community for the views and actions of the site owners. Anyone (yes, even you) can go start a subreddit whenever they want, and restrict content however they want, even if that includes suppressing information they don't agree with or banning users with whom they disagree. The idea behind reddit is that people show their support for a specific community by frequenting and contributing to it. If you don't agree with the way a community is being run, you are free to find a better one or even to start your own.
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My grandmother recently asked if I could research Barret's Esophagus, which she suffers from. She wanted to know if there'd been any new / experimental procedures that didn't exist 5 years ago. If Meddick would help with that, I'd sign up (and my grandmother would probably pay monthly for it)
8GB would reduce battery life and, in some computers, it's not even an option. My Dell notebook is maxed out at 4. And I don't want the extra memory because I prefer long battery life.
From our research about these laws, as long as we cite back to the original site (i.e. we're not displaying their information on our own sites, only linking to them) and respect the no-scrape robots.txt files, we're in the clear.
I didn't edit it to change the meaning of your comment.

On this particular thread, I'd like to make sure my comments are as clear as I can make them: Reddit did the right thing, and the only complaint I can make is that they took too long and their reasoning wasn't great.
Thanks for the introduction to TileMill: http://mapbox.com/tilemill/. It looks really handy.
Why all the capital letters?
Am I the only person that thinks RVM is a symptom of a serious problem? It should not be this hard to manage a software environment.

And by "hard" I don't mean "hard for end-users", although it's quite a lot of hoops to jump through for someone who just wants to get up to speed with the current state of the art. I mean the amount of work that has gone into things like RVM and Bundler and other tools to make developing serious software in Ruby possible.
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Shit Reddit Says is pretty awesome and definitely on the right side of history. It’s not hard, it’s pretty simple.
No. Re-read the comments above about the OS X caching setup. Rather than have a bunch of memory marked "free", it is using this RAM as caches.
This may be a slightly naive question, but why list both "500 web servers" and "8 nginx"? Seeing as nginx IS a webserver, is it fulfilling a different function (serving static pages?) compared with the Apache servers?
P2PU has an implementation (clumsy, at this point) of the "study group" concept -- but there's nothing about learning online that makes it impossible to collaborate with fellow students, right? I agree it's a problem, but I think it'll be solved sooner rather than later.

As for the English example, you'd probably run into that problem for all types of writing-intensive courses. That seems like potentially a major gap in this entire model of learning. Multiple-choice and defined-output problem solving sometimes just can't cut it...
Congratulations its always nice to see people launch with a simple core value add and doing well :)
I have written one FORTRAN program in my entire life, back in 1991 when my first job included supporting a PRIME minicomputer. When we got a Solaris server later that year the terminal I used was only line oriented so I couldn't use vi and learned ed instead. I only started learning vi properly a few years ago. Old habits die really hard.

One of the scientific staff ran environmental simulations written in FORTRAN that took a week to run. When he ported it to SunOS it speeded up massively, so he just dialed up the detail level of the simulation so it still took a week. As of a few years ago they still used that simulation, and may still do so. I don't know how long it takes to run now though.
This sounds like the start of a great joke.

"So a Romanian satellite, a Polish satellite, and a Hungarian satellite go into space..."
> So where is this global wireless electricity transfer technology, after so many decades?

Probably in the same place as the liquid fluoride thorium reactors.
One of the reasons for removing /r/jailbait originally was that users were trading illegal files behind the scenes.

I've heard of the same thing in /r/trees; Eg. seed exchanges and more.
Public forums are getting overrun by people like you. You are very disingenuous and doing false accusations. It's like reverse cognitive-dissonance. Reason is lost with you. Goodbye.
My programmable calculator worked just like that, where the only flow control was in the form of goto. Seeing C for the first time was such a revelation. I remember being so excited to see all these things like for, while, etc. and it was immediately obvious just how much better they were.
Meddik would help with that. Especially with rarer disorders like Barrett's esophagus (or less diagnoses, rather), you'll hear about new treatments as soon as our engine surfaces them. Thanks for the support!
> There are a couple ways to do almost everything in Python; loops or map, Twisted or threads, unittest2 or nose, and so on

There are always more than 1 ways to do something, but Python tries to be directive towards the recommended way for the core.

For the given snippet, using reduce for loops is frowned upon; nothing is stopping you from doing it, but the general opinion is you shouldn't do it. I think that counts as there being an obvious way.

def pipe(val, fns):
return reduce(lambda val, fn: fn(val), fns, val)

def pipe2(val, fns):
for fn in fns:
val = fn(val)
return val

fns = [lambda x: x + 1, lambda x: x * x]
print pipe(5, fns)

print pipe2(5, fns)

As far as maps and list comprehension go, that isn't clear-cut but people incline towards comprehensions.

<nitpick>
Twisted(reactors) and threads implement two different things which serve different purposes, and unittest2 is a lib while nose is a test runner.
</nitpick>

That said, there is always going to be many ways to do something, but it helps if the core tries to stick with a uniform way to do things.
"all publicity is good publicity".

Piss people off == more visits == more sales?
Maybe the nginx servers are configured to serve static content, as reverse proxies or load balancers.
Tech sometimes gets a bum rap for being a bunch of nerdy white men verging on undiagnosed autism who exude toxic body odor and equally toxic misogyny. That's an unfair overgeneralization, right? It becomes difficult to say that that is in any way unfair if our community routinely signals that its idea of a strong principled stance on an issue of major importance is to protect the rights of /r/niggerjailbait to masturbate to photos of a 6 year-old collected from someone's social networking site.

OK, so maybe you don't believe that. Alright, let me try again: suppose you're in the business of building applications which let unsophisticated Internet users exchange totally innocent information like pictures of their children, and suppose further that your ability to remain in business is in large part dependent on the government treating Internet businesses as harmless geekery which generally falls beneath the notice of the bureaucratic state. Why are you standing in chest-deep water on top of the temple to Zeus while wearing full-plate armor in the middle of a roaring tempest shouting "SMITE ME"? Do you think the likely reaction of your political representatives is going to be excising problematic content with surgical precision while leaving the rest of our industry to continue writing software in peace? Do you think your fellow citizens are going to look with favor on arguments about there being actually a lot of shades of gray in masturbatory material involving children and carefully examine the technical differences between e.g. DNS, websites, servers, subreddits, and the like when calling their Congressman's office to draft a measured, proportionate response? Do you affirmatively enjoy the prospect of having to spend multiple weeks reading about nothing other than the Save Our Pre-Adolescents Act when it gets introduced later? And when it commands supermajority support among the American polity?
For fucks sake. Is that really so hard to understand? Pedos can’t trade their images anymore (whether legal or not). That’s the extent of the limitation. How the fuck is that supposed to turn Reddit into something radically different? It’s this one tiny thing. It’s not some big change that changes Reddit.

It’s not so hard. Some people just want to be deliberately obtuse. The slippery slope is a fucking fallacy!
The last time my X broke was a couple years back. Ubuntu pushed a defective update. Before that, the last time something like that happened was when I was using Debian Sid.

Breaking X is something you expect with Sid. And if you are running it, you re supposed to be able to fix it and submit a patch.

If you are breaking X, you are doing something wrong.
Telling how? I believe if you do something stupid then you should be ridiculed for doing it. How is this case something special?

Perhaps we have a different understanding what it means to tease someone. For me it means (and the free dictionary seems to agree) to annoy, make fun of, mock playfully without degrading the person.
Cool stuff. A lot of value can be added by designing your own map, vs the typical dump in a Google map and drop some pins.

This inspires me to try out TileMill on one of my own projects.
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It's probably less expensive to maintain, because programmers' brain reading the code while not having to parse the extra image information - which semicolons are, and they add a lot of clutter - gets less tired and in turn is less prone to make errors in other coding areas.

I see two camps here - people who fear the unknown or come from semicolon-mandatory languages and can't get used to the semicolon-less style, and informed people who don't fear to embrace what is aesthetically more pleasing and logically more sound, despite the persecution by the members of the first camp, which I'd say also happens to be more religion-prone.
Funny I was just mentioning Pascal to someone last night and how I disliked the language with a passion.
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Real businesses are either cash flow positive or (somehow) financed. If you are neither, then for the purposes of market segmentation at SaaS companies, you are not a real business.

Every time the topic of SaaS pricing comes up, someone makes the point that 3-month-old startups with no revenue can't afford $10/$20/$50/$100 per month. That SaaS companies could set up a pricing scheme that would allow even 3-month-old startups to use their services. That this might pay off in the long run when a few of those companies make it big.

SaaS companies could do that, but if their service is truly valuable, they don't need to --- companies with traction will pay for value whether or not it comes with warm fuzzies attached --- and if their service isn't truly valuable, they should fix that problem, not their pricing table.
It's interesting how their first course is actually quite technical and has extensive prerequisites. I'm worried about not doing well because of these requirements -- is anyone in the same boat as me? I'm taking the course more out of curiousity and to be a part of something big than an expectation to do well.
This is a content-free comment. You claim ThinkPads have better ergonomics, but you say nothing about why. You say they are more robust (more robust than a solid aluminum shell? Not in my experience), but you don't back it up. You claim better performance and say something vague about RAM, which is similarly unsubstantiated.

The IBM has a vastly inferior, smaller, less responsive trackpad, inferior display, inferior overall fit and finish of the case, inferior trackpad buttons.

You'll have to do better than this.
I don't get it. How will this company make money?

Or does it not matter because it looks like everyone working on this project has a ton of money already from previous successes (congrats btw).
IMHO, they did the right thing in the wrong way for the wrong reasons at a very troubled time for the community. Also now there's blood in the water so I doubt this will be the end of it.
> more than a little repulsive to see people up in arms about it.

Agreed. Equating free speech with the ability to trade in sexual images of children is about the low-water mark for political philosophy applied to communications tech.

All that being said, I miss the pre-AOL usenet.
Y'know, it's one thing to be against laws that are ostensibly made in favor of prosecuting child pornography because they can be abused to censor things that are politically unpopular... it's a whole other bucket of beans to be against removing stuff that's basically child pornography because you think something that's politically unpopular might be removed.
Frankly, it's quite immature and it's the sort of thing that belongs on http://programmersbeingdicks.tumblr.com/
SA is in favor of SOPA and PIPA? Huh?