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As an American, I am truly sorry. Depending on the size of embassy/consulate you may have lost the which person sees your case lottery. If you could find someone else there to talk to about the situation it might help. Also perhaps try going to the American Chamber of Commerce. I believe they help business people get visas (although you may need to become a member).
Could not agree more. I have the same relationship to the [floating-point] tag. It's very satisfying to help out with the detailed questions that no one else is answering, instead of trying to beat the rush to answer the silly operator-precedence questions.
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Where multiple servers or threads will have to send nearby notifications back to a single process to have that information sent down a specific connection.

Why do you have to keep all clients connected to a single process? We've solved this problem years ago by load balancing client connections to multiple processes across multiple machines, even multiple data centers.
I see absolutely nothing wrong with swearing. I actually have more of an issue with the automatic disapproval than a healthy spread of profanities.
The cartridges have a fixed size, so if the game was made to fit in a bit less than 12MB but more than 8MB(or 10MB I didn't lookup the size of rom chips) then the cartridge would cost the same
The first thing I saw in the code was that it used one of my favorite modules, Moo, which is a neat subset of "Moose".

http://search.cpan.org/~ribasushi/Moo-0.009013/lib/Moo.pm

Even I can (almost) write good looking code with Moo(se). :-)
Interesting, it's been a while since I looked at Dojo. I was still (incorrectly!) equating it as an alternative to jQuery, not as a full application framework.

Are there other larger toolkits like Dojo that you could point me to?
A little above 5k [1]. I used to be quite active in Java, Android and Python department when I was still learning a lot on those topics. Now when I'm a bit more proficient in them I usually do not have motivation to answer questions, for they mostly don't seem interesting enough to be worth the hassle. Ironically, my "best" answer [2] is related to JavaScript & jQuery - something that I don't really use all that much.

Probably the biggest problem I find with SO is the speed-typing contest that many questions introduce if they are (1) relatively simple to answer (2) posted under popular tag. I admit I am "guilty" of using this to my advantage few times, but after a while it loses its appeal. For one, it doesn't really encourage posting comprehensive and well thought answer, as you are very likely to lose the "race" this way. Although posting a simple answer fast and iterating it through edits alleviates this issue somewhat, it still feels more like a trivia contest with speed limit rather than an attempt to teach someone a small but valuable lesson.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/users/434799/xion
[2] http://stackoverflow.com/a/8277968/434799
The high-traffic tags are full of low-quality or frequently asked questions. The amount of duplication in e.g. the C++ tag is staggering, but there doesn't seem to be a conscious effort to enforce a no-duplicate policy of any kind. Picking out worthwhile questions is difficult with all that noise. Worse, the "unanswered" section is full of questions that have been answered, the asker just never bothered to click accept. After a few upvotes to one of the answers and enough elapsed time that should probably happen automatically. There are also a lot of questions which cannot be answered given the information provided, and the original user is evidently no longer interested in getting it answered.

As you say though, you really can help people who have difficult questions in the niche tags (I've been spending far too much time in 'iokit' and 'objective-c++'). One upvote plus your answer accepted (total +25) is all you can hope for, though.
I doubt it's an automatic disapproval. It's annoying because swearing is used as linkbait all the time.
That's a good point. I think the surface you are describing (that the wind would sweep out) would be a torus. The 2-torus is "combable."
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Swearing serves a purpose: to express strong emotion. In this case, the author is expressing that it's really important to take breaks. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
If you're looking for high quality discussion, SO probably isn't your best bet. Although I have learned a _ton_ about a new topic by doing a search on a topic, and then ordering the questions by votes or favorites. For example, this is the most voted question for haskell, which has some decent discussion:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1012573/how-to-learn-hask...

The second most voted question for the 'c' tag has some interesting discussion on compiler optimization and floating point arithmetic:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6430448/why-doesnt-gcc-op...

Most of the time I use StackOverflow as kind of a warm up to writing my own code. It's a good intermediary step between reading HN and actually getting something done.
I'm curious about the bluetooth 4.0 LE pressure-sensitive stylus (http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/03/blue-tiger-stylus/); I've started to get really excited about 4.0 LE for electronic leash and other applications.
I just want to say I use duckduckgo, but the reason is because I find Google's recent policies to be unsupportable and I no longer want to use them. So far duckduckgo has been inferior in just about every way to google, most notably search speed and search quality. Also I have seen some extremely dubious scammy ads in ddg, which make me uncomfortable for sure.
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I made this move, because I had a computer science degree but due to the dotcom bust all I could find were testing jobs coming out of school 10 years ago.

Start with learning how to automate testing first. If you're testing web apps learn Watir, WatiN, Selenium, Cucumber, etc.

Next step is learn how to write automated integration tests and finally unit tests using an xUnit framework (JUnit, NUnit, TestUnit). Start pairing with experienced devs and help them write unit tests for their code. If you can pick up some BDD style testing here that's even better.

When you start feeling more confident, tackle smaller bugs on the bug list. Eventually your velocity will get noticed and you'll be a full fledged dev in no time.
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I've certainly noticed a difference in speed. I've been using DDG solid for around a couple years now and the only thing I ever really lament is the speed, so I'm very glad you guys are working on it. And it is definitely getting better. And, as always, I can't live without the disambiguation feature, it saves me so much time.
The active matrix in today's E-ink displays are actually very reactive. The sony t1 scrolls "smoothly" on webpages: http://youtu.be/OKCDXwCmPUA?t=20s

It still needs to refresh the entire screen to get gradients though.

I'm also liking the higher dpi on LG's screen, after using my new ipad the sony t1 seems pixelated.
They are trying to solve the same problems, just coming at it from different angles.

Google has given up on providing accurate search results to the anonymous user. They now believe that customization is the way forward (Global Warming results depending on your political leaning, etc.).

One aspect where Google's size is really killing it: they should be manipulating results manually. For example, a JavaScript search should return MDN in the top 5 results and W3Schools not at all. That doesn't happen, I believe because Google can't manually do stuff like this because of the fact that they compete in many different markets. That's the advantage of only being a search engine; a search engine's job is to be biased.
If a mathematician has done his graph theory, combinatorics classes, and a special topics class or two, it's probably a good idea to snap them up. A good mathematician can sometimes turn O(n^2) performance into O(1). Of course a good mathematician can also create an algorithm that runs as a fraction of O(w) time and be happy about it as long as it proves the theorem.

Academically w.r.t maths, mathematicians start where computer scientists end. The biggest bane to graduation of a CompSci student is usually a basic combinatorics class. One guy I knew was given special dispensation to take the class after having exceeded the maximum number of fails allowed for a single class. He was to devote the entire term to just that class. He had finished everything else. Intro Biochem and Discrete Maths I were the two most failed classes.
The trend of swearing needlessly is getting a bit old period. Regardless of personal opinions it's not particularly professional…
Just? You're not giving nearly enough credence to the otherworldly state that dkarl has brilliantly described.

There's a famous story about von Neumann (don't know if it's true) that he had a hard time finding his house. One day he walks up to a little girl and says, "Excuse me, little girl. Can you tell me where the von Neumann residence is?" And she says, "Yes daddy, it's that one over there."
Now, that argument I can understand. And if that is indeed the reason for the GP, then fair enough.

But is it really any different than 'sex sells'?
http://www.howfastismypc.com

17: 2 out of 10

18: 10 out of 10

IE9: 4 out of 10

:) M$ guys have been pushing this demo everywhere they go for IE9 vs every other browser. Only because they were the first to market with GPU acceleration. M$ your doing it wrong.
Your reply is surely in jest.However, if it was not, the Iceman who lived 5,000 years had Lyme disease.

"Perhaps most surprising, researchers found the genetic footprint of bacteria known as Borrelia burgdorferi in his DNA—making the Iceman the earliest known human infected by the bug that causes Lyme disease."[1]

[1]http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/11/iceman-autopsy/hal...
I know what you mean.

These days, I've been searching for things about Flask with Heroku. So I tend to search for something like "python flask heroku sqlite", and often times, I get results that are not specific to Flask. (NB: I don't know if this example works but you get the idea)
Thanks for having people answer feedback with real emails. My feedback has been mostly about the existence of malware-wrapped download links for popular tools like FileZilla, PuTTY, vlc, etc. I've gotten good support responses that have removed particular links, but how do I bubble this up into a feature with the goal of never showing a user a non-official download?
I have it installed on one of my websites as a test. Installing was real easy; only a DNS change needed.

I used it to increase my google pagespeed score, which it did. It does effect Analytics though but mainly the tracking of the visitor ID. But Cloudflare has a text on that, but have not yet read it.
Our main idea was using a single domain for best SEO opportunities. Because we already optimized and spent too much money on our old domain, using the same domain will boost our new-other language section on the same site. I think using different domain names will a problem to us.
Strangely Cambridge is the start up place in the UK. They get the most venture funding (even over London). Then tend to be in fairly hardcore technology though. I would call it Europes silicon valley, and not choke too much laughing, with ARM and related companies there.

All the giant advertising agencies are in London, so it makes sense for Google. They're also in New york and elsewhere too - so I don't think that part gains them much.

The UK is the second biggest market for Google, and they pay about 4% tax apparently on that profit. So I think this office was part of an arrangement with the government.
I don't think it really counts as link bait if it's in the title of a presentation you gave in person to a live crowd.
I was very active during the beta and launch, and was in the top 3 pages by rep for a while, but I became less active just because I didn't have much time. I still go on almost every day, but i just look at the featured questions on front page and maybe will answer one if it's something I know, but usually don't.

Most of my reputation points come from residual answers.
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I have one thing to say: Finally.

To give some context, my first job out of college was in a small WebForms/MVC shop in LA. It was very progressive in that my managers always pushed me to question the conventional "MS" way of programming/architecting. However, what frustrated the hell out of me was all the other MS companies around us: they were so damn dependent on what MS gave them.

I've heard countless MS devs in local meetups screaming bloody murder when MVC first came out, "Microsoft, you HAVE to train us on MVC! It's a black box, we're effed!" This shocked me, because these people wanted to literally be force-fed with MVC. Microsoft (intentionally or not) encouraged this kind of behavior with their close-mindedness, and this dependency/babying was crippling to the MS dev community.

Accepting pull requests signifies a tremendous step on MS's side, because they're finally admitting that there are actually smart developers OUTSIDE OF MS BUILDING who can help out with the framework. Their closed-software drove me away from them to RoR. Now, I have some peace of mind knowing that the bleeding of good devs away from MS stack may finally slow down. I can't wait to see the next generations of Scott Hanselman and ScottGu pushing the envelope for MS.
Interesting that the name of Linus Torvalds is not in the list of previous winners.
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Would love to hear your thoughts here as well :)
YUI3's APP framework is also a good and IMO a better option.
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The website is back online http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/home.

Here are some additional information https://plus.google.com/102034052532213921839/posts/e7ceA3cQ... and some examples:

- Pop vs. Soda: http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/view?survey=c...

- Physical Activity: http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/view?survey=6...

- Professional Photography: http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/view?survey=t...
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I wrote a NES emulator for ExciteBike 64, so that the original 8-bit ExciteBike could be played as an unlockable level. The hardest part was getting the audio to sound approximately right!

Fun fact: NES Excitebike supported saving and loading your custom tracks to the Famicom Data Recorder. The USA version of the FDR was never released, but the USA version of NES Excitebike still had all the save/load code+functionality built in. When you tried to save a track it would just hang for a while before returning to the menu. After figuring out where the save/load routines were, and where the track was stored in RAM, we were able to put hooks in the emulator to save the tracks to the N64 cart.
How do you hover the mouse pointer on a phone? :)
The drug kills the cell but the not virus -- your body still has to do that. Given the way that vaccines work, this is probably not going to have a big effect on immunity.
Agreed... If I have a question that I really can't find the answer anywhere else, odds are I'm not going to get a good result on SO either. This is why I've only got 2 questions on my profile. One I eventually answered myself, and one with no helpful answer (but someone did make an effort.)

Most of the questions on SO are easily answered with a proper Google search. It's a skill that should be taught.
Does anyone have the same problem with SO that I do? I'm an experienced dev in some general / mature technologies, mainly the C-like languages (I know C# inside out) but essentially, nothing too specialised. Anytime I've gone on SO to try to contribute I find it hard to find questions to answer. It's either a race to answer a trivial question quickly, or an obscure - possibly badly worded or incomplete - question that can't be solved.

I therefore spend too much time F5-ing to find a new unanswered question which is time consuming in the extreme and not sustainable long term.

Is this just a phase to be worked through or do I need to continue dedicating large amounts of time? Or do I just suck and haven't yet taken the hint?
We do actually ship to Europe - we ship everywhere.

The only downside is our rates are unfortunately nothing like Amazon's. We'd love to get our shipping costs down and are open to suggestion!
What's "IM community"?
It seems to be just really hard. I see a ton of duplicates in the MySQL and Java tags as well. New programmers who are also new users of S.O. vastly outnumber the experienced, and they're exactly the ones who are going to ask questions that have been repeatedly answered.

Any forum that welcomes new users is going to have this problem. The same kind of thing happened on Forrst, which should probably have been a little more resistant.
If it's used all the time, it must be easy for you to provide a few examples. I've seen a few cases where a post title used profanity in a way that's arguably unnecessary, but I can't think of any examples of outright linkbaiting.
Hmm, what kind of refresh rates can we expect? Similar to rigid e-ink?

Now the question is when we get flexible, touch Mirasol... which will presumably be after we get Mirasol.
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Jerry Weinberg has a concept called "oblivious programming" in which people are writing programs but don't know it. Spreadsheet users are the canonical case of this, which implies there are more oblivious programmers than conscious ones.
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Mr. Stallman is looking charming as usual.
Net neutrality isn't the issue, it's a symptom. The problem is government mandated monopolies. Eliminate monopolies, let the free market work, and net neutrality will no longer be an issue.
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I'm in a similar boat.

When they first got out of the gate, I answered a whole bucket of questions, but stopped after about six months when I launched my first startup.

Nowadays, the number of unanswered questions on the site is pretty low overall -- we're basically in the long tail of Stack Overflow karma.
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I've tried hacking the Safari Binary using the online instructions to make DDG my default search (GLIMS sucks), but I can't get it working at all. I can't find the lines that I'm meant to be replacing.

Has anyone else had any luck?
Viruses do indeed communicate genetic material between bacteria and contribute to their evolution. Generally humans don't want evolution occurring within our non-gamete cells, when that happens its usually a cancer. Some people have hypothesized that there might be other sorts of symbiotic viruses in humans, but none have been observed so far. On the the other hand we do know of some animals that do have actual symbiotic relationships with viruses[1].

Generally, I imagine that if we give someone manmade viruses we wouldn't give them this drug at the same time.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polydnavirus
SFW, but don't read the text if you have a weak stomach.
Technically, being first is an advantage if you're the first to answer and it's accepted and there's 10+ upvotes. If getting another badge is an "advantage".
about a year ago i checked my niche site and you still have the same results,

my niche word is no 1 on both Google and Duck ,

while google places my website first for the given niche word ,

then Duck places my facebook page first and my actual website as a second result - which seems odd, especially because the website has few fans
Ok... Is there anything in particular you were wishing to point out, in a constructive manner?
Sounds like a perfect beginning to a real "I am Legend" scenario. Imagine someone releasing a virus that could cross the blood-brain barrier (modified Rabies?) that just infects the cells and causes some minor symptoms that appear to be a standard cold. But anyone who takes this drug will have those brain cells self-destruct right?
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You mean like this? http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=fuck

Perhaps if we narrow it down to titles only: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+...
What are the chances that real hardware response will get down to the 1ms range in the near future? I'm thinking that each interface, from the touch pad to the CPU to the display, will introduce significant lag.
about a year ago i checked my niche site and you still have the same results,

my niche word is no 1 on both Google and Duck ,

while google places my website first for the given niche word ,

then Duck places my facebook page first and my actual website as a second result - which seems odd, especially because the website has few facebook fans
I am vastly surprised there is a 100k+ user. Whoever you are, please out yourself, I'd like to (virtually) shake your hand for a job well done.
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I have just a tad under 4K points and been using SO for 3.5 years. In the beginning it was easy to ask or answer questions but now the questions are less abstract and more focused on stuff far off the beaten path.
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> Most of the questions on SO are easily answered with a proper Google search.

Which is kind of counter to Jeff Atwood's recent blog post about the role of asking questions on SO.
Your book listings seem to be missing big time on SEO potential, no? I think you should have individual pages for each textbook, with proper on-page optimization (title, H1, small paragraph of text...).

That's probably a lot of work, but can you test it on a subset? Then you see if it's profitable and you could hire someone to write the remaining descriptions.

That brings us to the monetization: you should do the math - traffic levels, CPC, CTR (for that you could try to have ads on a few pages).

I don't have that much experience with ads but from my experiments with a few websites, ads might make sense in a situation and not in another... So you have to test.