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It's been years, but we'll see what I can remember (and attempt to write out on my iPhone, no less). There's a whole preface to the book where the author recounts his efforts in tracking down this old book that his grandfather used to come over and read to him. He tries for years so he can get a copy for his son, who he only sees on special occasions because of the divorce. In the preface, the author describes finally finding the book, at great expense, and sending it to his son, and his being terribly bored and underwhelmed by it. This dissapoints him, because he remembers it as the greatest story ever told. Then when he cracks it open, it is nothing like he remembers. The book, he says, is full of fifteen page essays about what everyone wore in court, or what they would eat at a banquet. But the book he remembers is a swashbuckling tale, with true love and all that. So he works out a deal with his publisher to cut out all the boring stuff and re-release "the good parts" version of The Princess Bride, the parts his grandfather used to read to him, and that, he says, is the version you, the reader, are about to read. Throughout the book there are Author's notes like "323 pages about the politics of trade imbalances removed here". So the reader is left thinking, wow, what a gem of a book this guy happened to find, buried in all that nonsense!

In fact, the entire "autobiographical" conceit of the finding and editing of the book is a farce, a carefully constructed fiction. William Goldman wrote every word himself, and in fact his life details don't match those that he presents of himself, including the divorce and even having a son. I assume you have seen the movie? Everyone has seen the movie. The movie is also written by Goldman, who is a master screenwriter, so it's one of those rare movies that is every good as the book it's based on, just shorter (as movies must be). So if you enjoyed the movie (and you did, right?) then you'll also love the book. And if you hadn't read all this, you might come away from reading the book thinking that in fact none of the good stuff was even penned by William Goldman at all, but instead just cribbed together from a heavily abridged book by "S. Morgenstern", a man who never actually existed outside the imagination of William Goldman.

Ask me what the book gains from being presented in this off the wall fiction-disguised-as-truth approach and I'm not sure if I could answer, except to say that it makes the whole reading of the book in some way better. Like the movie, how if it wasn't a story told by a grandfather to his sick videogame obsessed grandson, would lack some of its special appeal. Except in the movie version you never see the grandfather/grandson parts as anything but a story-outside-a-story, in contrast to the way the book is presented, which lets the reader come to his own conclusions.
> Have you validated what 'mostly' means?

Have you? Real question - I'd be very interested in that.

The list of (allegedly) fully compliant compilers is not very impressive (IBM, PGI, Sun), but in practice, you're aiming at C99 support to the level of GCC, which will get you - in addition to GCC and its (supposedly) drop-in replacement Clang - AMD and Intel (I think ICC has C99 support to GCC level, but there are probably discrepancies in the feature sets)...
Ha that is so true.

Ironically I just posted a rant against that crap:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3628371
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>The little UI touches like changing the volume or brightness make Windows 7 feel somehow... inadequate.

Can you elaborate on that?
NoSQL does not support flexibility of schema change.

http://chronicdb.com/blogs/nosql_is_technologically_inferior....

Flexibility of schema definition and flexibility of schema change are two different things. Defining schemas only involves data. But changing schemas involves not just data, but code too.
You should balance that against the fact that the license also forbids Derivative Works (the ND in the CC-BY-NC-ND) - which likely means that the images themselves, even with attribution, are breaking the license.
Packet-switching was the invention; ARPANET the implementation. Implementations by committees/teams/groups are commonplace. For you to call it a good counter-example, you need to show that packet-switching was invented by a committee.
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I worked on airplane design. Getting the design light and strong was worth $$$$. The extra money to pay a real engineer was nothing compared with the cost of keeping heavy objects at 30,000 feet. In electronics, shaving cost off a design you're going to make millions of copies of is worth $$$$.

Repairing a car engine is very different from designing one. There's a reason why, if you want to work on race cars on a professional team, they expect you to have an engineering degree and use it.

Designing a house isn't much engineering. There you can easily afford to way, way overbuild it to compensate for utter lack of finesse. (Funny story - in Florida they found that Habitat for Humanity houses stood up to hurricanes better. The reason? Habitat workers knew nothing about construction, and so used far too many nails.)

You're right that any semi-competent mechanic can build a working tractor from scratch, with doing no calculations at all. But it'll be either excessively heavy, or not strong enough, or cost far too much to build.

I'm not saying you should re-derive book formulas. But you are often going to encounter problems that don't have book solutions - like calculating the moment of inertia of a spinning part that doesn't match the shape of the book formulas. Or the bending strength of a beam with an unusual cross section. Then, you gotta know how those book formulas are derived in order to derive the right formula for your unusual shape.

Your alternative is to overdesign, or to compromise your design into being book shapes. Have you ever noticed that your car doesn't contain many parts with book shapes?
Try not watching TV then.
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How can there be a serious development tool without line numbers in the demo?

Seriously, who is this targeted at? Because it can't be developers.
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I'm a little confused as to the exact involvement of SUSE. Is SUSE just acting as some sort of official steward for LibreOffice-in-AppUp? Is there any particular reason TDF couldn't take on that role?
This is how I know this isn't genuinely a developer tool
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3628696
ah but if you've seen the Mongo DB is Webscale rant you can imagine that this'll be an ad ;)
If you have a URL and want to find all the pages you can there's only so much you can do (without considering external links).

1. Crawl all the links

2. Check for directory listings on all path combinations (those discovered in href's and src's)

3. Check robots.txt for any other discoverable pages

4. Brute force expected or possible URLs

5. Try and parse more links from any javascript (probably hard)

That's all I can think of.
rest assured, will not happen from Prosecutor's part
again in this or any other cases

When asking for something, such as a key, the prosecutor has to have at least a reason behind the request (like retrieving the contents of that safe, or hard-disk).

Also, if the legal system is so dumb about semantics such as this, there's now a powerful precedent anyway.

He is unwilling to comply with court, bottom line.

But he has the right to not comply with the court, as then he would incriminate himself. The prosecutor first has to prove that the defendant is actually guilty, otherwise that's just fishing for evidence and crimes committed which may or may not exist. And that's exactly what the 5th Amendment is about.

If, for example Government has ISP logs of
tons of torrent data downloaded by defendant router,
one can fairly assume that illegal files are stored there

That's just stupid. I download everything big from torrents, like Ubuntu Linux distributions ... should that give anybody the right to inspect my hard-drive?
Brute forcing a key shouldn't be a concern, nor should a known-plaintext attack be. If it is, your crypto is broken. That said, compression before encryption means there's less data to encrypt, so you win back some performance lost by the compression.

Nevertheless, I'm sure the considerations were something else entirely (such as compression seldom being done by TLS).
See also Perspectives[1], on which Convergence is based.

[1]: http://perspectives-project.org/
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Yup. It's basically a route described as a list of hosts. One of the hosts is actually on the internet proper, and then the message would be transferred to each successive host along the way using whatever local links were available (including dialup modems) using a store and forward protocol.

As dedicated internet access became more common UUCP became obsolete.
You DO know that the type of ads is influenced more by your own browsing history than by the type of content? So if the kid looked for games on google previously then this ad will more likely show up. But if the kid used google to search for books on dinosaurs there might be a link to dinosaur books.

I give you an example. Go to stepstone.com and browse for a specific job. Then go to thedailywh.at and find an ad of stepstone cycling through job offers of that kind you searched for. Go to ebay or dell and look for some products. Then go to the thedailywh.at again and see ads with similar products ..
How is Convergence different from the Perspectives add-on[1]? I ask because I honestly don't see any significant advantage to one over the other.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/perspectives/
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Notice how I said that Rails 3 is finally a framework that I like.

Also, Django may not be as feature rich, but it does have the Python ecosystem, which is more comprehensive as a result of being used in academic environments.
There is a change history for httpd here: http://www.w3.org/Daemon/Features.html. Goes back to 0.1, but interestingly jumps from 2.06 to 2.12.

If the first couple of years of work on the first web server are missing then that seems to me to be a minor tragedy, given how absolutely vital this technology has since become. It would be instructive to be able to track the development of the server and understand the learning process by comparing versions.

I wonder if its worth asking Tim Berners-Lee about this, since he wrote it? http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/#Before
Microsoft is infinite: it has no walls, and therefore, no windows.

The Microsoft that can be known is not the eternal Microsoft. The wizards that can whiz are not the eternal wizards.
Thanks, very interesting and informative comment on how the ad business works. In my head I'm hearing Frank Zappa sing "I am the slime from the video" and Mick Jagger sing "Satisfaction".

It shouldn't sadden us though. We have to protect our children from this crap, the best way is to not let them see it until they are old enough and then to teach then how to distinguish between information and bullshit from someone selling crap.

We can only go so far in asking others to protect our children and our elders, we have to step up to the plate also.

We still haven't figured out how to turn the tables on this and monetize our attention, it is extremely valuable, more so than we think.
What do you mean, "fraud"?
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Gives a whole new meaning to 'seed capital', eh.
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Not sure about the average investor, but some people believe the Google Chef contributed to their early days.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3223595
The publishers chose that he wants to show ads in combination with that content. Apparently it is worthless to ads. What solution would you propose?

I can't think of many commercial products that would benefit from dinosaur associations, except movies, toys and games...
Why the downvotes? I'm reasonably sure there aren't any inaccuracies in there, and I think it's important to remember all the downsides of our current cars versus electrics, especially when some commenters are claiming that the ICE has already proven itself and isn't on trial here. It most definitely is, and I think it's losing handily, regardless of some potential new complications with EVs.
I have that exact alias. But it still adds 3 seconds to the startup time of any command run under it

Maybe my laptop is underpowered, but three seconds to do essentially nothing is still a long time
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First as a disclaimer. I have ADD and will never be a great C programmer (I can hack, but my ADD makes it extremely difficult to get the consistency in results that C demands when doing bulk coding, but that's a topic for another time). I have done some C programming and I will do some more. However there are hard limits for me that a lot of other people don't have.

Now this being said, in the environments where I work, I have met a lot of top-notch programmers and a much larger number of mediocre programmers who crank out huge quantities of unmaintainable code. And of course unmaintainable code is contagious: if you work with it, the quality of your own code suffers.

And so I have come to a contrarian perspective on a lot of this.

The difference I think is that the top notch programmers tend to be interested in improving. There is nothing worse than reading through the SQL-Ledger codebase and realizing that despite some modest improvements in security over the years (though not enough IMO) the coding style has never improved (\%$form? Really? Still? And no 'use strict?' what will it take?). Instead they make up for a lack of self-improvement with extra brute force effort in things like testing and debugging.

So this leads me to conclude there are two fundamental types of programmers out there: brute force programmers (the majority), and those programmers who substitute quality of effort for quantity of effort.

The majority of programmers are mediocre and never hit high notes because they believe that what matters is how much time and effort they put into programming. The other programmers spend less time and effort coding, and more time and effort thinking about coding. They recognize that this is where the key investment lies, and that time spent here saves a lot of effort elsewhere.

One problem with programming is that you rarely get immediate feedback on the mistakes that matter---areas like style, clarity, maintainability, and elegance of design. It's only if you go back and question your ability in these areas can you improve. But time spent thinking about these things, going over past efforts and critiquing them, is time that is not spent programming.

I sometimes think programming should be learned first through an apprenticeship, then through journeyman programs where an individual learns from many accomplished programmers, and finally certified to take on students.
Ballmer was back in the company then. People outside MSFT underestimate the technical know how of SteveB - he ran release management for the first version of Windows. He understands software. He might be doing a terrible job the last decade but that is not due to him being some 'MBA' stereotype.

Also - BillG really trusts Steve. They've worked together for over 25 years.
So, they have a registered trademark on the word "Realtime"? Great.
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For "could be used for", read "was designed for".
Exceptions only prove the rule.

The number of people working on mission critical stuff are always going to be lesser.

I am not against learning things in detail. I am only saying these days productivity has become more important metric than them in most general cases.

Now please don't tell me about cases like space craft/airplane design. You and I know well, they don't apply to the masses.

And after all experts have got to be good at something.
Scrapy, what a fantastic framework it is!

One thing bothers me with your code tough, the following could be replace with built in Scrapy-tools.

Edit:
The code got wrongly formatted in here, check it out on PasteBin
http://pastebin.com/2QzWgWxN
Nokia released voice navigation for Mobile HTML5 Maps
It's still in beta and works quite well on iOS5 and Android 2.3. Make sure you have location sharing enabled, search for something, create a route, and press the "play" button in the upper right corner.
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Once technology issue is resolved engineer should humbly deny his contribution and let others take or share the credit??

On a serious note I have seen couple of interviews but to me Woz never appeared to be bragging. He simply likes explaining technology.
Rockstars are not such a bad model to emulate for hackers. Most rockstars are talented, passionate about their craft, spend at least a decade just honing their abilities through constant practice, spend years grinding on their projects in relative obscurity and poverty until they finally find something that resonates with the public and/or gain enough exposure to attain popularity and success after which they work even harder to capitalize on it making art and experiences that stand the test of time and attain a commensurate level of recognition, appreciation, and financial reward.

The cartoon image of rockstars as the idle rich with some inborn exceptional talent or some luck of fate that allows them to attain a life of fame and fortune with very little effort is, of course, a much less noble behavioral model to want to emulate.
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I'm ranting about shit fucking loser pricks like Giles

A litany of bilious libel as useful an indicator as asking Kim Jong Un for opinions on Dick Cheney.
"MongoDB is web scale" video is funny, because it's true.

This is just poorly executed copy with 's/mysql/apache/g', 's/mongodb/node.js/g'.
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I know, I was thinking exactly the same thing as I read this.

I wonder which large companies have held out against this type of decay through the decades and how they managed it.
"The technical hierarchy is kept very simple and 'shallow' so that there is minimal bullshit and over-organization."

With this posting it seems like deep hierarchy bullishit and over-organization is inevitable in any growing organisation.
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Open menu, go to "Route", set destination place and hit "play" button. Navigation requires you to share geolocation. Works well on iOS > 4 and Android 2.3+.
obviously, gah
After 10+ years of seeing such headlines, I'm growing tired of "Microsoft threatened" kind of stuff. It's not Intel's AppUp store including LibreOffice that will bring MS in the problems....
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"It's a bloated meta framework that requires enormous amounts of peripheral knowledge to understand."

Unfortunately I think that might be because web development requires enormous amounts of peripheral knowledge to understand. It might be overkill for the first prototype of a new web app, but after a while that web app will probably acquire lots of peripheral hacks, too.
Sync is a misleading term here. What the new Android Dropbox app added is an Automatic photo/video uploader, to a pre-defined folder on the server side. One way.

If you want true two-way sync for Android, try Dropsync (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ttxapps.dropsync). Another app called FolderSync also seems quite good.

Full disclosure: I am the author of Dropsync
It seems I've been downvoted, and I think I know why. I can't edit my original comment so a reply will have to do.

My comment was meant to be a sincere thanks for mentioning the HTTPS Finder extension. Reading my comment now, without that clarification, I can understand how it could read as a criticism of the HTTPS Everywhere extension instead. That was not my intention. I merely wanted to express my thanks for making me aware of a complimentary extension which adds useful functionality to an extension I already use.

If the downvote was for another reason, please let me know what was the reason for it so I can try to avoid committing the same error in the future.
> (and I'd bet a dollar that one will go away as well)

I think it's probably not going to, but, it's a patent that Google can engineer around without a difficulty.
"What I find tiresome is low-level, record-at-a-time programming when doing what could be expressed concisely as, say, a 5-way join with aggregation"

Again, that depends on what you are doing. Converting back and forth between rows/tables and, say, data stored in hashes, is tiresome. It's also unnatural when the data doesn't "fit" in the relational model. Of course it works, but writing all this banal sql is not fun.

"I really think you need to learn something about RDBMS fundamentals...."

Right.. I was talking about the software. Maybe "models" is the wrong word.

"But now take the next step and do an objective comparison between old and new"

Believe it's pretty objective already.
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> easy to get

In response to something titled "the drought" ?

> amphetamine works, and it's worlds different from things that are not amphetamine (homeopathic pills?!).

I would love to see placebo controlled trials for this particular use case (students needing a bit of help to concentrate).
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Yes they are. But only from new businesses looking to cut costs. In older businesses, Office is entrenched and there's no getting away from it.
I wonder what led Bill Gates to choose Ballmer as the new CEO.

Probably counting the number of zeroes in his account balance and realizing that he's answerable to stock-holders now.
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To post screenshots of a developer tool without including line numbers is just plain deceptive
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On the legal front, what all should I consider before crawling a website, apart from honoring robots.txt?