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JavaScript has been described as a prototype based scripting language. This language has various features like it is dynamic and weakly typed. This language also has first class functions. Another feature is that JavaScript is a multi-paradigm language.
That's certainly true, there is not reason the cars can't be properly stored. I'm just saying it's easy to forget about it. A lot of people don't touch the sports cars during the winter and if you forget to plug it in, you won't notice for months (and at that point it is too late). A daily driver will never be forgotten about for months on end.
err... "JULY 6, 2009 · 10:45 AM"
Does anyone know how to pronounce the name? I see ooh-duh-CITY, but I presume that they were trying for you-DAH-city or maybe OOH-dah-city...? (like University + Audacity).

Regardless they picked a hard one to figure out.
Why wasn't I consulted?
People won't serve you HTML 5 video unless you impersonate a mobile device. It's still a problem if you don't want to change your user-agent every time you visit a website and just cross your fingers that they think you're mobile and therefore serve up HTML 5 (and as others have pointed out, often in a format that non-Chrome won't play anyway).
Sorry, but enjoying the taste of coffee doesn't disable the chemical addiction and dependency inherent to its chemistry.
Also loved them all, with episode 2 ("15 Million Merits") my favorite. It was almost like a modern update of THX-1138, and as good or better than any classic 'Twilight Zone' or 'Outer Limits'.
I'm also the kind of person who can drink coffee at night, or can have a couple of cups of coffee after dinner, and not notice any effect on my sleeping. I'm definitely not addicted, because I rarely drink coffee on weekends - so the last three day period I went without coffee was this past weekend.

I usually go to bed between 9:30 and 11:00, and I drink my coffee black if that makes a difference. Maybe it's all the sugar that's keeping people up (or it could be that different people have significantly variant biochemistries; who knew?)

edit: I knew I remembered seeing this...

http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/02/7562142-coffee...

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195666311...

Abstract: "We explored whether caffeine, and expectation of having consumed caffeine, affects attention, reward responsivity and mood using double-blinded methodology. 88 participants were randomly allocated to ‘drink-type’ (caffeinated/decaffeinated coffee) and ‘expectancy’ (told caffeinated/told decaffeinated coffee) manipulations. Both caffeine and expectation of having consumed caffeine improved attention and psychomotor speed. Expectation enhanced self-reported vigour and reward responsivity. Self-reported depression increased at post-drink for all participants, but less in those receiving or expecting caffeine. These results suggest caffeine expectation can affect mood and performance but do not support a synergistic effect."
I think Nevada's DMV / legislature deserves some recognition here for taking a reasonable risk in the name of potential innovation. We give lawmakers flack when they pass stupid laws (or try to) and it seems fair to appreciate when they help tech innovation.
The Internet of Things is here
Twemproxy: A fast, light-weight proxy for memcached from Twitter
>I don't find Flash crashing my browser on Linux too often, but it crashes itself pretty regularly.

Before recentish versions of Firefox, a Flash crash would bring down the whole browser.
SSL Bump
Fascinating Facts About Snow
Did you know that each winter one septillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) of snow crystals drop from the sky and that it takes about a million little droplets to make one snowflake?
Android 3.1 devices have USB host mode. Here’s how to use it
The piece was written last year, and even posted to HN
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2074919

It didn't receive much attention then, but having stumbled across it, it makes a very cogent argument about an aspect of the nature of the web.
I may agree, but you didn't show where _Adobe_ states this for the _desktop_ ...

If you were on Wikipedia you'd see a [Citation needed] here.
APIC creates germanium laser, photonic chip due in 2 years
Ah, in that case I don't know, but I will ask.

Their latest research indicates that a full sleep cycle lasts approximately 4 hours, which does fly in the face of the older sleep data.

it's entirely possible that their hypothesis will turn out to be incorrect.
I'm on 2180 - why does an update say "2180 is the most current version?"

I've been on the fence between vim, textmate, and sublime text 2...... liking st2 more and more, though not for any particular reason.
It will be interesting to see what the community comes up with as it grows...... tons of room for awesome expansion as far as I can see.
(needs more default syntax plugins)
This could be a solution for me.

Drinking tea is part of the culture of my family, so I started drinking it at a very young age (as soon as I could hold a cup?) with 3/4 milk and 1/4 tea. As I got older, the amount of tea increased until there was no milk left. These days, whoever I visit, it seems I can always count on being offered a cup of tea.

When I started having all sorts of issues sleeping at a young age, it just didn't occur to me or anyone that it could be the copious amounts of tea. Doctors ran tests on my blood numerous times and didn't find anything. They asked me all sorts of questions (even if I was pregnant at the tender age of 15, which shocked young innocent me), but caffeine never came up. Strangely, sending me to bed earlier resulted in tossing and turning even longer into the wee hours of the morning. Sleeping pills just resulted in feeling strangely dazed, but still not sleeping.

These days I have stopped drinking tea/caffeine after a certain hour in hopes of getting more sleep, but I still drink a cup of coffee in the morning and I still have troubles getting to sleep (takes a couple of hours no matter hour exhausted I feel). Maybe it's time to cut out the caffeine completely.
You're quoting the reference I myself quoted elsewhere in these comments. I quoted it as evidential support for a trend in Android that I decry - one that may drive me away from Android, along with its movement away from the menu button towards cryptic app-specific icons and inconsistent menu button placement.
google was forced to a war by the "patents will kill android" headline one year ago in not only in android but on multiple fronts such as chrome/os, linux, video too.. and 2012 will be bloody. i hope software and related patents get tamed in the coming years.
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We actually starting A/B testing going to free back in January before their announcement.

PS If you change your mind we can easily import all of your Zendesk content into UserVoice.
What are you talking about? Are you suggesting that Adobe provide an implement Flash via Web APIs and Javascript? We're talking about the challenges of having a plugin interface for Chrome and how NPAPI is limited/flawed and you're suggesting... Web APIs?

Maybe I'm really confused because I don't understand.
How to use the Galaxy Nexus as a desktop replacement
I'd suggest listing both as organisers - it doesn't matter which one you use to create the event.
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Android-powered Google Glasses: The augmented reality HUD dream is coming
Which makes it all the more important to find a way to get the Hummers and Escalades off the bloody roads.
Google Glasses: Augmented Reality and Social Intelligence
Fortunately, no one suggested velomobiles as a solution to this problem.
MongoDB and PHP
It may be the coffee that's helping you to sleep. Some dutch (based on the region) have the habit of drinking a good cup of coffee in the evening right before going to bed. I tried this a couple of times. Around 5-10 minutes after the coffee I felt incredibly tired and had a really fantastic sleep. It's as if the coffee helped me fall into deeper sleep. However, when I'd wait too long after having the cup of coffee, it'd take me hours until I could finally fall asleep.
I've gotten two kinds of offers because of my Github account. The first is a genuine, honest-to-goodness message written by a human in HR that thought my skills were a good match for their company.

The second arrived late last night and appears to be an automated message from Githire[1], though a real name was used in the From field.

I think this is a new trend and while I don't mind it at all now it could easily get out of hand.

[1] http://githire.com/
I realize we are in a bubble, but trust me bubbles don't last forever. You need to think longer term. Ask anyone that was working in tech circa 2002.

The questions you should be asking are:

-How is the pay? What are the benefits like? What are the expectations for hours?

-Does my future boss seem like a person I can get along with? What about my co-workers?

-Does the company have a business model that makes sense (i.e. will their checks eventually start bouncing)?

-Am I going to be working with technologies that are in widespread enough use that I can get another job even after the bubble bursts (hint: you want technologies that are in use in "boring" corporate settings as well as start-ups)?

All of these are far, far more important than if they give you a fancy chair or MacBook Pros; whether they use SCRUM or XP; svn instead of git; etc.
I simply explained what my concerns are and why I'm opting out. I think that is a perfectly appropriate thing to do and has nothing to do with villainizing anyone.

I also think that it would be appropriate for you to disclose that you work for Google if you contribute to a discussion like this one taking the side of your employer.
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UK court OKs legal claim served over Facebook
Kim Kardashian Flaunts Famous Curves in Teeny Black Bikini
Kim Kardashian has been adhering to her New Seasons Image and with that comes reaching the gym challenging.

For once in several weeks, the Maintaining Up with the Kardashians celebrity walked out in a tiny two-piece to exhibit the outcomes of her extensive services.
Piracy and the Four Currencies
Ah, that was an unfortunate ordering of sentences. I was just giving an explanation for my consumption rate, not a reason for why I wasn't affected. I should have proofread that. I'm sorry.
I agree with Danny here. In fact, part of the reason we built Work for Pie is to address this issue.

I also agree with some of the other comments - Github certainly isn't the end all be all. But, we're all trending away from traditional education, and software developers are on the leading edge of this trend. There may be a fairly standard path for "finance guy," but great developers can (and often do) come from any background. Resourceful developers can learn all they need for free via sources outside of a CS degree someplace.

So the question for a company seeking great developers becomes "how do I evaluate these non-traditional folks?" Resumes don't get there, but open source work can work to fill that gap. It's certainly not key for everyone - there are plenty of folks who stand on their own without a public repo in site. But, increasingly, it replaces more traditional indicators of talent like CS degrees.

Just my 2 cents, and I'm admittedly a bit biased.
Crushing the Big Company Clone - Jacket vs Matlab(R) PCT(TM)
I wanted to stay away from server side settings. But I will say I have mixed feelings about both of these.

If you're using a firewall, the default port matters less. My practice is to restrict SSH to VPN connections only, or from a single bastion host. Finding networks that block odd ports starts loosing its charm after you've changed the port, and several years ago it was a pain to get some mobile ssh clients to use alternate ports.

Root login I generally believe should be turned off, and it certainly should not be allowed with passwords. I tend to think a well configured set of keys(one for each user who needs root) poses the same risk as users with sudo *, or the root password in su. As much as I hate to admit it there are some occasions where remote root access has saved the day.
It's actually the opposite. RSA is more complex and has more failure modes; the discrete log problem that DSA/DH/ElG use is about as simple as it gets.

Again: I don't think it matters. The Debian fiasco was a devastating fuckup in the core of the most important Unix crypto library, did not just affect DSA, and didn't itself have anything to do with DSA.
There are good reasons for having unit tests, however, unit tests do not make a good product. It is the same automated tests, source control, etc... It could be said about most development paradigms. They are just tools in the toolbox. How you use those tools and the information they provide is what makes the difference. I've seen many cases of an urge to implement the latest & greatest "THING" in the internet, only to have it fall flat because it was complete overkill, wrong tool for the job, or simply poorly timed execution (you cant implement the "perfect world" overnight, it takes several iteration for the people and processess to catch up).

When you get there, if you think it would benefit them based off of their work style / processes / product, I would come up with a plan to start using unit tests and use this as an opportunity to climb the ladder.
Mozilla unveils Apps Marketplace for Developers next year,
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A few comments over at my x-post on Reddit's Python subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/q13gs/show_rpython_w...
I got bitten by it just yesterday. I was setting an alarm. I pick the alarm, click on 'Time', set the time, hit the 'set' button. Then the time goes away and I'm back on the alarm screen, and I hit the back button to exit the app. But that 'cancels' my change and the alarm goes back to the old time.

It's a combination of setting alarms having too many screens, and android having trained me to hit back-back-back when I'm done with an app.
I would say the people defining an accepted practice are the people paying the bills. If the company wanted it, the technical person made it so they would get paid. I would admit it was probably the technical people who finally convinced the majority to abandon them. Plus the fact that over time they could see that the idea was failing them, much like you point out. But until that moment it was accepted practice among major websites. The fact you remember them so vividly in your dislike of them almost proves my point.

But alas, I agree, they were a total waste of time. As I said, the people who pay the bills don't always listen to the people that they should listen to.
On OKC star ratings are not exposed to users - you get to rate someone, and they get to rate you, and those are (to some extent) visible, but there's no such thing as "average user rating" or anything remotely close to it.

> " My understanding that any woman who gets an extreme number of messages will have a red dot"

Except... every guy has a green dot and nearly every girl as a red dot. This is not a salient indicator of anything - for all you know she's just very particular, but doesn't get a lot of messages (I've certainly seen profiles like this). Or, she might be getting literally hundreds of messages a day. Or hell, maybe she's getting spammed with one-liners but never gets a real message. In anycase, whatever the reason, when 90% of your population has a red dot, it ceases to become a filter for anything.

The "replies selectively" messaging on the site is borderline useless, and certainly doesn't accomplish the competition signaling that would actually work to drive some traffic from one group to another.
When are you going to add the option to vote from the widget? ;D

Congrats, guys.
FIA: The Freedom of Internet Act
A Brief History of Infographics and Data Visualization
Facebook Fast-Tracks Its Payments Business
looks pretty nice, will test it out as soon as I need a new one.

Your premise begs the question though: how much time of how many people was spent developing this? what was the opportunity cost of working on this rather than your stuartup core product? if you divide that amount by $100 how many months of the top tier desk systems could you have bought? :-)
Agreed. Things people write for fun are often quite different from what they write for work. I've written a few compilers and interpreters for fun but that doesn't mean I have the chops to do it for a living. I could learn to do it, but toy languages differ greatly from SpiderMonkey, V8, or LLVM. It's the difference between Ruby <=1.8 and JRuby or Rubinius.
11 months ago :)

http://www.uservoice.com/widget/
Same here…

Additionally, I also use boatloads of plugins that I've come to rely on. Among the most important ones are Fugitive, syntastic, and gundo (seriously, branched undos have saved my life in the past, and visualizing them in a tree? Hell yes.) But there's also more basic ones, like surround, tagbar, and eclim (if I were a full-time Java dev, I'd need eclim.)

It's a chicken-and-egg problem, really. Vim is here, Vim is good, Vim is good enough. It's got its warts. VimL is the biggest.

And that birds-eye view in Sublime really does look sweet! I wonder how useful it is in day-to-day programming.
Faster than light neutrinos may just have been a bad connection
I agree they would probably benefit from open sourcing it. However I don't think they can. In order to "fully open source" it, they would have to include an open source H264/mp4 decoder. Which would probably not be allowed by everyone who owns H264. Alas.
> If I were unwilling to come to work unless I was to get €1,000,000 per day and the system wasn't set up to do that, then I would have to stay at home all day. I would have no right to insist that just because I find the current system unsuitable that it should be changed.

And if you were unwilling to consume content unless you were to get it without any technical measures to enforce the terms on which it is offered and the system wasn't set up to do that, then you would just have to do without the content. You would have no right to insist that just because you find their current business model unsuitable that it should be changed.
I'm far from being an expert, but I learned this type of meditation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation
from a guy my mother hired to teach all my family. There are many different meditations and practices, and I've actually never read a book about just meditation but I recommend books by Osho and Deepak Chopra (just google'em) to have insight on Indian practices and philosophy. I would recommend to reach out any yoga institution around town and ask. It's better to learn from someone than from a book, and, as cliché as it sounds, if you are looking for it, the appropriate practice will come to you.
Even multiple threads - any sort of concurrent access/modification on the same dataset becomes problematic if you just use a HashMap.

Sites that have any kind of download/upload component, even though does not have too much traffic, will need to serve multiple requests using threads/processes.

That is where we normally use relational database. However Redis presents a way to be faster than conventional databases by storing everything in memory. This is as close to a concurrency-safe HashMap that you can get with the least amount of effort.
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AT&T Shakes Up Mobile Executive Team
I would say that's their response to what the market is telling them what they want and don't want, of which the market has been quite vocal about the past couple of years. Flash has been slowly evolving into something other than a web browser plugin for years, we're just now reaching that cutoff point. The fun will be if the platform can survive as something other than a web browser plugin.
That's a case where having multiple keys (for multiple point-of-origin systems) which can access those hosts would be a Really Good Thing.

Distributed shell (dsh) and git can be helpful in keeping at least portions of things synched up. You can also mimic dsh with your own hostlist(s) and iterated tasks (for host in $( cat hostlist ); do echo "$host"; ssh $host 'do stuff'; done)

... or the like.

If you're managing these boxes as part of a team, having a secondary/tertiary persons with access (or more) can also help.

There's the use of password safes to keep track of access credentials as well (another hassle to keep synchronized, of course).
Because nobody else ever does? Windows apps, linux apps, javascript libraries, etc etc do not put spaces in filenames. The only spaces in filenames I have for downloaded files on my computer are the people that insist on sending me an excel document full of jpg screenshots.
As somebody who doesn't use Github regularly, it's a horrible alternative to a resume. Looking at his profile[1] it's hard for me to figure out what he's actually done and it's a bigger time investment on my part. If somebody on my team forwarded me that link instead of a one page resume, I doubt I'd talk to him.

He has 58 public repos, but I can't see if he's had significant commits to them. Picking some commits at random from the activity doesn't help much either.

If you are going to restrict your job hunting to people who use GitHub and who contact you, it may be ideal, but why restrict your potential audience so dramatically?

[1] https://github.com/pydanny
JRuby now runs MRI's test suite
I find my acceptable waking points occur in 1.5 hour sleep cycles, and how many I need depends on how mentally taxing the stuff I'm working on is. For ordinary work, stuff I know how to do fairly well already, I need 8 hours. If I'm learning something new or putting in long hours that require concentration, I'll need 9.5 hours. If I'm thrown into a completely new situation - say, I need to decide the architecture of my startup and learn 3-4 new frameworks all at once, or I've just moved cross-country and started a new job - I'll need 11 hours. I can also function on 6.5 hours but feel pretty crummy, and there's a noticeable performance penalty for anything that requires concentration (math, computer programming, etc). On 4 hours of sleep, I'm a zombie - I do okay with everyday tasks and social interaction (with people I know), but can't really learn anything new and retain it. Curiously, I feel better on 4 hours of sleep than on 6.5, 9.5, or 11 - I'm more alive and less groggy, I just notice that my performance on external measures declines.

I recall in the 2010 there were a bunch of athletes that all said the secret to their success - besides training hard - was getting 9 hours of sleep at night. IIRC both Sasha Cohen and Shaun White mentioned it.

I think I'd also read brain research that REM sleep (which tends to be back-loaded towards the end of the night) is when your brain converts experiences from that day from short-term memory into long-term skillsets. That'd be consistent with my experience that more mentally demanding tasks require more sleep, and the experience of those Olympic athletes, and that I don't really suffer a short-term penalty from lack of sleep, it's more a long-term problem.
The parent is citing wikipedia. Saying "per wikipedia" is using "per" to mean "according to", not using it to mean "for each"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_martin
http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/quantum-computing-for-the-det...