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Civil cases are when the court is acting to resolve a dispute between two parties. If I sued you, it would be a civil case.

Criminal cases are when a law is broken. Therefore, jaywalking is indeed a criminal offense, albeit a very minor one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_(common_law)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_law
Sounds like you make your time work for you. So do I, I've had plenty of days where the clock hits 4 and I feel mentally drained and know I'm not going to get much done, and I go home. I don't work well in the morning either, so I often come in at 10. I do work very well in the evening (10-11pm) so sometimes I'll a bit of work then, if something comes to mind.

Nobody's ever complained about the amount of work I get done. The problem I have with this article is that it assumes the more hours you work the more you get done, when it's just not that simple.

Obviously this is personal experience. What I'm trying to say is that everybody's different --- the Treehouse guys are working a 4 day week with $3m a year in revenues. You can't just say 'well, if they worked a 5 day week that'd be an extra 25% more work for them' any more than you can say 'an extra 25% more work will lead to an extra 25% more in revenues for them'.
I'm not comparing based on the same productivity. I'm assuming that boilerplate (done while tired) takes 33% more time.
I think it's just an understanding of how the underlying physics work. Alpha and beta radiation will cause bits to flip in solid-state devices, because the state is held with electrons. Whereas core rope memory stores that state as magnetic fields in ferrite cylinders. So radiation will basically just bounce right off the giant ferrite cores (giant relative to solid-state semiconductors, that is).

*I am not a physicist, someone correct me if I'm grossly wrong.
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It sounds to me like all charges are criminal in your mind if they involve a finding of the court. This is not true
> However, the paragraph from the Lua manual still shows sloppy technical writing.

That may be true, but we just have to live with it. We can't expect every piece of software to be documented properly (or even at all).

> For example, coming from Python an "associative array" would have to be called a "dictionary". For the Java and C++ programmers it would be a Map.

I think the term "associative array" is used here (as well as in PHP docs) because it's distinct from Python-style "dictionaries" or Java/C++ "maps" in that it's the only data structure used in Lua. There's no lists or sets like in Python. I think this is the intent that the manual wanted to portray.
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> Co-workers and bosses are not usually your friends

I second that unfortunately. :( The flipside of that though is that you probably won't be their friend either, even if you'd like to think of yourself as a good person.

After getting burnt by fake friends at work, I went for years without putting personal items into my cube because I wanted to ensure that I always remembered this. Nowadays I think that was the wrong thing to do though. It is not worth living so much of your life in an environment that you can't turn at least partly into your home for several hours a day. Just realize that home is temporary, well- unless you work at home.
There are a ton of "hello world" tutorials around. As someone who's currently trying to learn node + express it is very difficult to find tutorials that properly explain everything that are still up to date.
The link I provided gave some pretty good reasons, I thought.
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The short answer is 'no'.
This just in, apparently - the Linux client is "coming soon..."

http://www.slashgear.com/google-drive-for-linux-incoming-252...
At the risk of sounding like a jerk, I notice that the author focused on Lua and Haskell. While I think that both Lua and Haskell are useful languages, I think they are rather poor choices for beginners. Consequently, I think that the people who wrote the tutorials deserve the benefit of the doubt - I somewhat doubt that they wrote their tutorials for complete newbies!
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You could look at Noostr (http://noostr.com/). It's been stalled for a while now, but will eventually see a 1.0 release :)

Big missing feature is paging...

Edit: It's a PHP app that uses MySQL.
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Yeah, I was annoyed by the 12-character limit at Fidelity too. They also prevent punctuation and other characters.

I think the problem is that they unify the website password with a password you can enter on the phone if you call them. I guess that makes it easier to remember for a customer so that they don't have two separate passwords, but touch tone-enterable passwords have completely different requirements from Internet passwords, so think it would be better to decouple them.
Then why the IPO, except as an exit strategy for the founders?

So Zuckerberg cashes out at Facebook's peak, leaving the subsequent 'investors' with nowhere to go but down. I wouldn't necessarily put that intention past Zuckerberg, and perhaps a Facebook collapse would be a good thing for openness and interoperability on the web, but isn't it a bit of a self-defeating strategy? Can the hype machine generate enough naive investors to generate a substantial cash-out?
There is no forthcoming Valve console.

Full stop.

That was a rumor based on people misunderstanding Valve's work on wearable computer hardware (which got telephone gamed into "OMG Valve is working on hardware, I bet it's a console").
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The tickets are always going to be on sale at a bad time somewhere in the world.
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Pay cash and use it on T-Mobile? That's what I did. AT&T or any other GSM prepaid should also work.
I don't understand, it's just print_r or var_dump..
There will be plenty of time for the new programmer to get their google-fu from reading other people's crappy documentation. As a writer, though, it's your job to make your piece as useful as possible for your intended audience. This means practical examples, because that's often the best way to learn in this type of scenario.

The point about PiL is not that it's a bad book, it's that it's a bad introduction for a non-programmer. PiL was extremely useful to me when I already knew C++ and Python, but I can also see that if it had been my first programming resource I would have been in trouble.
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When I look to learn a new language (knowing a few already), there are two things that I want to get out of the tutorial. I want to be presented with syntax and I want to be presented with what constitutes an idiomatic use of the language. If these two points are explained well, I should come away with an idea of the philosophy of the language, as well as tools to avoid common pitfalls. I should also be able to read other people's code in that language. Everything else can be covered by good documentation.

When I was learning to program for the first time, however, all that I wanted was a bunch of short programs that I could type in and make small changes to. It's hard to learn about a language's philosophy when you're spending so much time hunting for missing punctuation. At that point, you're just hoping that your program is going to do something.

With this in mind, I think there's a lot of room for improvement in both camps.
When someone wants to use private repositories, what does it matter that Github has good communities around?

BitBucket, IMO is great for private hosting. But for my open source projects, I don't look beyond GitHub.
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Exactly. Another example of how 2 close countries can be culturally different: Most people in UK don't realise how much of Father Ted is based on real things and real people and real norms (everything from the dancing priest, (catholic) bishops with children, mrs doyle's arguing over who pays the bill, etc.) They think it's all made up.

This is relevant to people who extrapolate from "Germany bans jaywalking" to "UK has much more of a fundamental respect for individual liberty". It could be that reason, but it could also be just another cultural difference without underlying causes.
Incase anyone's curious about the stats Valve currently has from the Steam Hardware survey on Windows and Mac OS X here's a link to their pretty cool stats page which looks like its recently had a bit of a facelift:

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
Alternatively - this ensured everyone in the community got a ticket, because everyone was calling everyone to let them know that tickets were on sale. Not great for the isolated developer - but, with only 4500 or so seats available - somebody is going to be left out.

Edit: Okay - perhaps "everyone" is a bit of a reach. Let's just say there was a _bias_ towards people in the community, as their friends and colleagues started SMSing them and calling them to purchase tickets. Though, there will clearly be an east coast / european bias this year - perhaps that was deliberate?
Sounds good. I was particularly interested since my grad studies were on (positive) emotion and decision making. You're probably aware of it already but I found the following ref interesting for my work.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12930487
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The linked article addresses what, precisely, is bad about that list on a point by point basis. It's good reading!

Most web browsers now have built-in password managers. Here's to hoping that loop is soon closed with password generation!
>> "None of the passwords contain a colon, because that is the delimiter used to separate usernames and passwords in the combo lists my scripts generate."

tldr; Put colons in your passwords...
Somehow I find that thought uncomfortable that the complexity of factors impacting something as complex as climate is getting reduced to a wind tunnel test.

One is a highly controlled scenario where all(most all) the externalities can be controlled. The other some extremely complex modeling, which will, at least in my view, always depend on some consensus among the participants which factors are more important than others.

I am far from a climate change skeptic, but the best example for the fundamental failure of grasping complex scenario with some factor-based prediction systems has been demonstrated with the complete failure of economics in predicting something as "simple" as the financial crisis. But then again, I am coming from a social science perspective assuming that as soon as humans are involved data and data analysis will always be subjective.
I agree with others that this is a good thing. Science is only proven until it is disproven.

For this reason, I think we need to hold other complex sciences like meteorology to a higher standard. I want to see how every prediction changes over time and how wrong it was per measurement later. If we had a map of places whose predictions were more wrong than others and this were publicized, there would be more impetus to fix these issues and improve the science.

On the other hand, people need to take fringe science and religion more seriously and stop trying to debunk it. We can learn about this universe from every belief system.
The obligatory Office Space reference. You'd hope things would never be that bad at a startup!
Put it this way -- I wouldn't put anything on any of them that I wouldn't put on a postcard.
I think this is the most likely. Apple is steadily pushing the iOS UI elements into the "wider" MacOS platform. This is evident from the last few changes to the Cocoa APIs and the recent requirements for Applications available on the Mac App Store. Desktop applications are increasingly going to be Appified.
My guess is that radiation's effects on solid-state technology was well-known from nuclear tests.
The law recognizes reality; a motor vehicle, even one driven by a "perfect" driver, has far fewer degrees of freedom in any given situation than a pedestrian. The vehicle has momentum, limitations on the braking force that can be applied to this momentum, limitations on the ability of the steering system to change the direction that the vehicle mass is traveling in, and sensory limitations for the driver that can decrease the reaction time available. A pedestrian can not move as fast or as far in reaction to such a situation, but they can change direction of travel far more quickly and have a better ability to hear or see the oncoming vehicle.
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Yes. It's an urban legend if you really get down to it, or so the official debunkings go, but nevertheless the underlying issue is still true. You don't want to build your Amazon competitor on AWS, you don't want to build your Google competitor on their cloud, etc. Even if you can completely write off true sabotage as a threat, there's other real issues, like the needs of the platform vendor simply diverging from yours over time.
I bet the Koreans will be better than the rest of the world at asteroid mining.
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Note: I am not a psychologist. What do you mean by "some tests are copyrighted"? Are you talking about a statistical method being copyrighted, an implementation thereof, or something else entirely?
They picked the time in a way that it was night across the Pacific (where nearly no one lives). That way it was a bit late in Japan and a bit early on the West Coast.

The world doesn't start and end with the West Coast, especially not for Apple (and those on the West Coast are the best connected anyway, the most likely to learn quickly about the WWDC).
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http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2010/12/is_the_decline_eff...

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/01/is_the_decline_eff...

http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/the-decline-eff...

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/12/science_is_not_de...

http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/12/15/the-decline-effect...

Also, there used to be a lively discussion in the comments to this blog post (http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/01/jonah...) by Lehrer, but all the comments seem to be gone now.
Hopefully this pushes them to support more variety in the underlying operating system as well. I still can't get Steam to run on my Mac because I made the apparently rare decision to format my machine as case sensitive filesystem.
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We need more interactive programming tutorials. Things such as TryRuby, Codecademy, or VIM Adventures. I've never met anyone who actually enjoyed sifting through static text, trying to make heads or tails of what arrays or void pointers were. That's boring, and really disheartening.

When I was teaching my girlfriend HTML, she had absolutely no interest in what a tag was, or why it even mattered. She could care less about semantics, mobile design, etc. All she wanted was to create something on screen. After having her use the inspect tool from Chrome, she found it more interesting, and could see values changing. This held her attention for a longer period.

Till this day, the best tutorial I've ever read is _why's guide. I've read it several times, because it's super interesting, and extremely entertaining. If more programming tutorials were written this way, I'd be one heck of a developer by now. Why can't authors make their tutorials fun? What's stopping them?
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>> "My scripts only grab usernames and passwords between 3 and 30 characters long, all others are thrown out."

tldr; Put colons in your passwords, and make sure your password is 31 characters long.

I bet it would also make sense to include "username:" in your password.

For instance:

username: VikingCoder

password: username:CorrectHorseBatteryStaple

Or how about like this:

username: VikingCoder

password: '); DROP TABLE Passwords;
And that ~13% of the market that have a Mac are willing to spend money on apps whereas most of the 1 or 1.5% of the market on Linux have a philosophical objection to proprietary applications and to DRM.
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I came here just to agree with this ... I took Computer Engineering in college, did quite a bit of C++, Assembly programming and Data Structures ... but I really didn't 'get' any of it, even though I could pass tests and ace my finals. It wasn't until I happened on a PHP tutorial that showed how you could post user information to a db and replace a section that once said "login" with "Welcome xxxx" that it all clicked. My brain started to go crazy with possibilities and I immediately started trying to learn EVERYTHING about programming.

I spent hours on Sitepoint, printing out articles and just reading them over and over, and trying them out. (I still have the huge stack of printouts in a section of my home office as a reminder of all the work I put it ... you know ... when I start to doubt myself). I had learned OOP in college but I really didn't get it ... one day I went to Barnes and Noble and spent the whole day reading a Head Start OOP book ... and I 'got' it. I felt like Neo in the Matrix (I know Kung Fu!!!)

The point of the story is ... keep all the boring crap out of the way at first, get beginners excited about building things, that will give them the passion that will carry them through the (necessary) minutae later.
My favorite bit: "Passwords may contain no more than two identical consecutive characters in any position from the previous password".

How would they know that unless they have your previous password in plaintext?

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I don't agree. That whole cities like munich use linux for their offices shows pretty clearly that this is not a real showstopper.

Not saying that Libre Office doesn't sometimes choke on complex documents - but that you are even using proprietary document formats makes the matter complex. It's probably something where one could compromise if you'd want to (or, depending on your job, could). Besides, givenall the online alternatives, their are really quite a lot of ways to not depend on Microsoft Office.
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As a layman, your three points terrify me about the state of science. Well, numbers two and three do. There are still people addicted to video games. WoW and Minecraft probably moreso than Asheron's Call back in 2003.

As to point number two: Are these questionnaires or something that are used to get psychological data? Why would those not be accessible--don't you need to know the questions asked to determine if the results are valid?

As to point three: Data cleaning?! I would understand throwing out invalid results (i.e.-you find out somebody's lying, errors with data collection, etc), but to throw out results because they look like they don't belong feels disingenuous. I've done a lot of work with public company financials and operational systems. I cannot, on my worst day, imagine telling the SEC, "Yeah, well that return was really abnormal and was an outlier, so we decided not to record it." Why are these data points thrown out?

To me, again, a layman, it appears that if this is standard practice, these experiments are starting with a conclusion and then just going through the motions to get that conclusion published. Why are data cleansing and secrecy normal practices? What about the scientific method don't I understand?
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Constant productivity with regard to working time is an assumption of the original article, it wasn't intended as a criticism of your comment.
"I was required to shut down my website [...] I was not allowed to make any YouTube videos or write any articles. I was most certainly not allowed to interact with anybody on the Facebook about investing."

... seriously? If I was told, during a job application, that they'd fire me for what I did in my free time, I'd accuse them of wasting my time, and walk out on the spot.

I've seen plenty of blogs etc run by people who're famously employed by big businesses. They all have disclaimers to the effect of "All content is my responsibility, not BigCorp's. Also, any effects of using this website are your responsibility."

And if you're worried about being sued for one of your phone jockeys giving a bad tip, tack a recorded message onto the start of any call: "our customer representatives do not give financial advice; we are not liable for the performance of your investments" or whatever.

I can't see how liberal use of such disclaimers could be insufficient to cover the business' arse. The "protection from liability" claim in the article seems like just an excuse -- I'd say the intent of their "compliance" policy is to give them an excuse to fire-at-will; no-one can follow all the rules, but you only need enforce them against the peons you don't like.

Well, that or to crush their employees' spirits in the hope of Stockholm Syndrome.
"A universe from nothing" by Lawrence Krauss presents the possibility of a universe without a beginning, even one containing "nothing", yet still be compatible with present cosmology. My general impression is that by "nothing" he means "averaged out, zero energy" and with a set of laws (quantum mechanics) that can generate fluctuations. Out of these fluctuations you can have particles of various energy arising (which normally live short lives and decay back into nothingness).

But given enough time you could have a large enough fluctuation that generates a big bang, followed by very long inflation and cooling. Equally so, you could have a fluctuation that winks all the known universe into a void, suddenly and without warning.
No, you can't get anywhere close to modern DRAM with this type of core memory. FRAM chips [1] which use the principle of Ferrormagnetism to retain data while power is off are fairly quick however. They can replace the typical serial flash or EEPROMs you might use to save settings, and they have the benefit of unlimited write cycles and faster (than flash) write times.

[1] http://www.ramtron.com/about-us/what-is-f-ram.aspx
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I had the same thoughts as I was reading this... why limit yourself to success as a programmer? Why not success as a problem solver?
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