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You'd have to mine the "long tail" of platinum :)
Yes, unless it makes specific demands on the OpenGL implementation which Mesa's software renderer can't meet. By "suffice" I was mainly thinking of performance. I don't know if Mesa is optimised for ARMv6 at all, and how demanding Blender is in this regard.
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Pengobatan Asam Urat Secara Alami
Pengobatan Asam Urat Secara Alami tanpa menimbulkan efeksamping dengan Jelly Gamat Luxor yang terbuat dari teripang pilihan dan di buat secara modern seiring dengan perkembangan zaman dan di racik oleh para ilmuan yang profesional di bidangnya.

Penyakit asam urat di sebabkan tingginya kadar asam urat dalam darah akibat gangguan metabolisme protein purin. Normalnya, Nilai asam urat bagi wanita 2,4 – 6, untuk pria 3,0 – 7.
Pengobatan Asam Urat Secara Alami dengan jelly Gamat sangat baik untuk kesehatan tubuh anda jika anda rajin mengkonsumsinya.

Jelly Gamat dibuat dari Teripang (gamat) , hewan laut yang berhabitat di dasar laut. Teripang adalah golongan dari tripang-gamat Echinodea.Sudah berabad-abad silam Hai shen dalam bahasa Mandarin atau Gamat dalam bahasa Melayu atau Iriko (bahasa Jepang) atau Beche Demer (bahasa Perancis) atau Sea Cucumber (bahasa Inggris) digunakan secara alami untuk pengobatan. Diantaranya untuk penyembuhan luka seperti luka bakar, luka gores, sayat, sebagai tonik ginjal, untuk penyakit darah tinggi, penyakit asam urat, penyakit maag, masalah persendian pada usia lanjut, dsb.

Selain itu GAMAT memiliki keistimewaan meregenerasi sel . Tubuh gamat jika dipotong-potong akan segera sembuh hanya dalam waktu 2 jam. Apabila dipotong-potong masing-masing potongan gamat akan menjadi binatang utuh terpisah.

Tubuh gamat jika dibiarkan di udara akan meleleh lama kelamaan menjadi lendir, bila dimasukkan kembali ke air asin maka tubuhnya akan kembali seperti semula. Prof. Ridzwan Hashim dari Malaysia menemukan CELL GROWTH FACTOR dalam gamat, yaitu faktor pertumbuhan/ peregenerasi sel/ jaringan.

Gamat mengandung semua asam amino, semua mineral dan semua vitamin, kecuali vitamin K. Di Cina, Korea, Jepang, dan Malaysia gamat digunakan sebagai tonik dan minuman wajib paska melahirkan. Saat ini gamat digunakan sebagai bahan untuk berbagai macam obat yang sangat ampuh. Di Cina, Korea, Jepang, dan Malaysia gamat digunakan sebagai tonik dan minuman wajib paska melahirkan.
Reminds me of Garry's way to stop piracy. If you used a pirated copy, it would bring up an error message where the error code was your Steam ID. That way, he could ban people who did it when they posted the error on the forums.

If I remember correctly, the error was "Unable to shade polygon normals".

EDIT: Corrected error message.
Gmail gave people months to use the two interfaces side by side before dropping the old interface. And they flooded users with notifications of every incremental change, and were roundly mocked for that too. It is impossible to satisfy everyone all the time.
What makes you say that Hetzner isn't "a haven for nefarious use" ?
The part I find interesting is that whole "minimalism" part. Simply removing stuff or add icons in favor of text buttons have nothing to do with minimalism necessarily.

I don't claim to be a minimalism expert, but more often than not people who talk about minimalism seems to think it's either cleaning up your house or removing stuff that "People don't really need", without figuring about what the basic needs actually are. Removing all door handles from your house doesn't make it a minimalist home.
"I can code in somewhere between 60 and 80 languages, and I can assure you there is nothing like C#."

Um, really? I can just barely name 35 languages, even including esoteric ones like Brainf*ck and Shakespeare.
Macs hit by Python-based malware. Windows PCs also at risk
That's sounds cool. I even like the LinkedIn iPhone app. They are doing a pretty good job on mobile.
I heavily disliked the new Gmail setup at first. But what it did do was kinda force me into learning all the keyboard shortcuts. (as I still don't know what half the buttons do...) Makes my workflow so much nicer. because of this, I do enjoy gmail even more.

(I'm still not a fan, as I can't use my old custom color scheme, but that's another matter)
Didn't Apple have a similar issue with time changes?

While I'm not excusing either, it isn't necessarily symptomatic of widespread failure.
Indeed. And although I love C# and use it all the time, it's ridiculous to claim there is 'nothing like it'. Um, Java for instance?!
I can well imagine that newer machines have it, and older ones don't, and slowly over time they'll end up with everyone using ECC.

The costs involved were a lot higher 3-5 years ago than they are today.
“In this echo chamber which is the [San Francisco] Bay Area, unless you follow what everyone else does, then there’s an assumption that you don’t know what you’re doing,”

How true is this?
Hmm so no one knows. What are known strategies for combatting icing? Maybe ultrasound? Microwaves? Chemicals?
I for one still get confused with their icons. I mean, Archive doesn't look at all like archive, Spam looks like a quota warning error, "move to" looks more like "view another folder", and the lack of borders makes my eyes wander outside of the text all the time. And I have to agree about the uselessness of the importance icon. All my mail is marked as important, yes, i know that, how does this help me? It's more useful to know whether you 've replied/acted on an email instead (that could be a nice feature). Not saying the redesign is absolutely bad, after all it's not a radical departure from the previous one, just some things need fixing.
Mc Donald's is not used by the 90% of the world. Microsoft clearly is a very successful company which builds great products. Just because their philosophy doesn't align with mine, or because I like Linux doesn't mean I have to diss them. Look at Kinect for example, It. Is. Revolutionary.
That does seem a little hyperbolic. Shame, because the original statement is very valid- C#/.NET is looked down upon in Silicon Valley, but rarely for valid reasons. It's just not "cool".
Yes, yes; this obviously makes Microsoft irrelevant roll eyes

Some of you need to be treated for Microsoft Derangement Syndrome.
Appharbor is awesome for .NET (as an alternative to Azure).

The article does ring true that valley based consumer startups run on Python/Ruby more often.

(I am really not sure about the "enterprise" ones.)
Everyone complains when Apple changes anything too. Google nailed that part.
As far as my experience goes, the answer is "yes" for Dropbox - your account will show "1 GB over quota" (and syncing will stop) in this case, as shared folders count toward the quota both for you and the person who shared it with you. Many moons ago, Dropbox promised this will be changed, but it has been on hiatus ever since (my guess is on slightly larger profits and drastically simpler quota accounting).
No I'm not but I tried google.com and google.fr. It's really U.S specific then.
The old tendencies surface again ...

But seriously, uniformity in tech is sometimes good (standards) but standards can also constrain innovation. Standards are good in a mature industry. Is CPU design a mature industry? Kind of I guess.
And it's available free, under a CC license: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...
You can't deploy to Azure without windows.

Cloud9 ide allows you to deploy from their platform to Azure but it was a headache getting anything working.
“People say, ‘Oh, I’ll have to teach you about Java sometime, so then you’ll know the bright side.’”

Did this strike anyone else as something _nobody ever_ would say? I think it's pretty much consensus that C# is basically the next-generation of Java.

As for Rails, Python, etc. being the most common tools in SV, I tend to this it might be because they are free. The thing is (in my experience) MS dev tools are usually very good, and probably don't cost nearly as much as most people think they would. However, entrepreneurial folks are just more likely to start with something free, and then when the time comes to get more serious about their startup, it just makes sense to keep running with what you know.
See the very impressive work on BlenderPocket by Salvatore Russo a number of years ago http://www.blender.org/community/blender-conference/blender-...

That's proof it can be done! I did drop him an email to see if he was still active in this area and interested in updating his work for the Pi. He sadly doesn't have time, but is happy to give advice or pointers as he is able to. I also see there's a GSoC project regarding blender and GL ES, but I think it's targeted at the game engine rather than the actual creation tools.

If you know anyone interested, do get in touch.
The C# syntax is a lot better than java. Java's verbosity is too much. And Microsoft had done a good job at making things easier in each new version of C#.
Just a reminder of duck typing:

Haskell style => function applied to parameter, e.g f(x)
Ruby duck type style => parameter applies function to itself e.g x.f()

An example:

module Dialable
def dial
# do stuff with self
puts "Dialling..."
end
end

# I wouldn't do this, but...
class String
include Dialable
end

# So, phone number as a string can be dialled
my_phone_number = "01 23 45678"
my_phone_number.dial
Dialling...

# I'd rather do this
class PhoneNumber < String
include Dialable
end

my_phone_number = PhoneNumber.new "01 23 45678"
my_phone_number.dial
Dialling...

# now you get an error on non phone number strings
"just a random string".dial
NoMethodError: undefined method `dial' for "just a random string":String

my_phone_number == "01 23 45678"
=> true

my_phone_number == "just a random string"
=> false

You get all the regex and string functions for free too.
Fair enough. I don't think it's necessarily for everyone. But in some cities, and for some people, it can be extremely valuable. A lot of cities do need help with their user groups, and it's a great way to get to know people in your community.

There's a huge variety of things you could be doing if you're tired of the typical "hack night / pub night / talk night" format. Consider setting up a free tutorial to university students, or a teaching event for non-programmers.
If they choose ARM, Intel will be crushed. Not necessarily because they will lose 30% market share or whatever, but because ARM will get that much more popular as an alternative to Intel (and AMD) chips, and the idea that ARM could replace Intel's chips in pretty much anything will get that much closer to reality, especially with recent news that ARM Nvidia chips will be used in supercomputers.

Another interesting choice is MIPS, which I'd also like to see rise as a 3rd alternative to ARM and x86, but I heard ARM, AMD and Google are considering buying MIPS.
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My thoughts exactly - even if he could code Hello World in 60 languages he couldn't know them in any meaningful sense. And in a spectrum that includes Python, COBOL, Lisp and Brainfuck, I would say that Java is like C#. It's quite a good language, but "nothing like it" is a bit over the top.
I'd guess McDonalds has a similar market share in food as Microsoft has in software... Do you disagree?

I bought a Kinect. I used it for a couple of days. It had a novelty value, but no staying power. I don't think I'm alone there.

In any event, my original point was that trusting your hosting to a company which had an outage due to not foreseeing a leap year, may not be a good decision.

Outages due to particularly hairy code related to redundancy and failover etc, I can forgive. But an outage caused by a leap year? No way.
Ask HN: Am I Making a Mistake in Choosing Harvard over Stanford?
I know I asked essentially this question a couple of weeks ago, but now I've visited Harvard, and I'm pretty close to making a decision.

I like Harvard because:
- Smaller CS department is relatively intimate, good connections with professors
- Good economics and cognitive sci (mind/brain/behavior) departments, which I'm almost as interested in as CS
- Stronger ties to finance industry if I decide not to go straight into CS or change career paths
- I've never lived in a big city, so being in Boston is pretty cool
- Stronger exposure to non-tech areas and cofounders
- Cross registering at MIT if I need to

However, I keep wondering if I'm making a mistake... Will I have any drop in starting salary by going to Harvard instead of Stanford (assuming I work/research equally hard)?

Thanks!

Edit: I should've been clearer: it's not all about the starting salary, but I loved the atmosphere/people/campus of both schools so much that I couldn't really decide based on that :P in a way, I'm really just looking for differences to make the decision easier haha
Sony says hi, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3#Leap_year_bug

And Apple can't even handle regular years or daylight time: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/01/01/apple_admits_n...

And handling this in a phone or game device should be about as difficult as on a clock... A cloud on the other hand is much more difficult, as google points out: http://googleblog.blogspot.se/2011/09/time-technology-and-le...

Claiming that Microsofts progammers didn't even anticipate a leap year is kind of pathetic. Sure, it might have been an unnecessary bug (whether it was or not is not possible to decide from that article), but most bugs are...
http://weitz.de/

hunchentoot

Prepare to be blown away by Edi Weitz's libraries. Excellent code reading.
I got into Microsoft Bizspark and it came with Free azure hosting.
So far so good. Coming from heroku with a Django app, It was a bit tough at the start but when you get the hang of everything, it does it's job.
Microsoft's problem is sycophants. There are enough people telling them how great their products are, that when those same products don't do well, Microsoft looks outwardly for the problem.

Windows Phone must be great, a lot of reviewers said so. Poor sales? Perception and marketing! (Forget lack of leadership, vision and innovation)

Azure is shunned? That's because people misunderstand it. Nothing to do with being slow out the gate, falling farther behind with each new AWS product, and not having any price advantage (in some cases, it's far worse).

Bing losing money? That's just not fair, our results are as good as google. (NO THEY ARE NOT).

These sycophants are both internal to the company and external.

The sooner Microsoft realizes that it's failing to succeed in new markets because it's average-at-best, the better for them. As long as they keep believing that their failing products are great and thus the failure is [largely] outside of their control, nothing will change.
Interesting... the only hosting company with comparable prices and features in the US is 1and1 (which is actually owned by a German company), but their tech support has been pretty bad (takes them freaking days to replace hardware - on the other hand, EVERYTHING can be done remotely)...

I wonder if hosting in Germany would affect a site's response time and ranking on Google in the US?
It is in Germany (but you are right, it’s incorrect if used in English).
I've wondered if we could simply controlled crash asteroids into deserted parts of earth and then cheaply mine them?

I'm wondering if you could build some kind of shock absorbing device to "catch" the asteroid and prevent a crater, or other adverse effects?

I don't see why it wouldn't work in principle.
Programmers have been tossing the word Enterprise around for decades, like it means something. Quit it already. You're embarrassing yourself.

Many so-called Enterprise Java apps often don't work at all unless you've installed the /exact/ JRE version that the particular app supports (Looking at you, Citrix). The fact is, that it was a dying language before Android. Hopefully it will resume dying, and Google will either release something better, or embrace an existing Open Source community like JavaScript, Ruby, or Python. (Edit: Now that I think about it, Google's own V8 JavaScript engine would be well suited for this. It already supports ARM Linux.)

Personally, I was forced to take 2 Java classes in college. The examples in our labs never worked. I had to Google everything in the book to make Java code that actually ran. Swing looks the same as it did in 1996. Everyone at the local JUG was considerably older, and spent most of the time complaining about what a pain SVN was. (A clue: You're doing it wrong.)

Despite all of this, I was still learning to program, and actually sortof enjoyed it. But then Sun got acquired by Oracle, inventors of the only database system that makes me want to kill myself. After that, I started seriously considering other languages. But the real nail in the coffin was when Oracle decided to cockblock Apache Harmony, and Apache stepped down from the Java Committee. For shame, Oracle. After all nice things Apache made for the Java Community. How fitting, that Google used Harmony code to create Dalvik, the Android VM.
Humble People Are More Helpful to Others and Perform Better at Work
Last time I needed a rating plugin it took me forever to settle on one. Next time it'll take a bit longer I suppose :-/
Great explanation. I don't know enough Haskell to form my own opinion of some of your points, but I have a feeling that will soon change. Thanks for taking the time to write this.
The hack nights I run are intentionally very free form. As I mentioned, 25% of the people attending are new to Rails, so there's usually a few people doing tutorials or code katas or something like that.
>Every space launch for the past 60 years has involved blasting off vertically and jettisoning separate stages once the fuel they carry is exhausted.

This isn't quite correct, right? There has been at least one LEO launch systems which utilized a horizontal take-off. The Pedasus rocket from Orbital:

> The Pegasus rocket is a winged space launch vehicle capable of carrying small, unmanned payloads (443 kilograms (980 lb)) into low Earth orbit. It is air-launched, as part of an expendable launch system developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation (Orbital). The Pegasus is carried aloft below a carrier aircraft and launched at approximately 40,000 ft (12,000 m). It flies as a rocket-powered aircraft before leaving the atmosphere.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(rocket)

The author probably meant the Skylon is special because it would be the first single-body craft to takeoff like a plane and get to LEO.
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1) Drink 8-10 glasses of water each day - this helps flush your body of impurities and fat. You can also substitute a few glasses of water for green or herbal tea.
2) Break up your meals into 5 or 6 smaller ones - this will help speed up your metabolism and keep you from getting too hungry in between meals.
3) Increase your fruit and vegetable intake - these are packed with vitamins.
4) Decrease your fat intake - try for no more than 20 grams per day.
5) Exercise for 30 minutes each day - take a walk, or play a game with your kids. Just get moving.
6) Find a hobby - take up knitting or painting to keep your hands busy.
7) Don’t eat that late night snack - Try not to eat for at least 2 hours before going to bed.
Rapid SVG: From Browser to NodeJS
It's not a conventional jet engine - it has an intake turbine, but it's powered by the same helium cycle used by the precooler, and not by combustion byproducts.

The compressed air (or liquid oxygen when in rocket mode) and hydrogen is then combusted in a way similar to a conventional rocket engine. REL calls it an "air-breathing rocket engine", but it shares more in common with a ramjet than a conventional turbojet.
I understand where you are coming from, but investments are not made the way you are assuming.

An HFT investment likely involves someone deciding they want to create an HFT fund, going out to institutional investors and selling them on the idea that THEIR fund will be profitable.

That happens over and over and investors in these HFTs (as well as hedge funds, PE etc. all think they are picking winners who can make it work. Whether they can or not will depend on execution.

Investment in a sector, industry, or asset class does not mean there is net winning from that sector.

At the end of the day, HFT is still competitive since they are bidding against each other (hence the arms race for faster equipment). Even if the market is growing for HFT now, it does not mean it will be forever. At some point it will become mature and all that will be left is net negative HFT profitability with all the benefit going to investors in the form of liquidity.

I am not backing up HFT because I trade in HFT, I do not. I am backing it up because I find it agitating that smart people on HN look at HFT and assume because they are smart, and because they don’t understand it that it must be bad. If something in the market is happening you don’t fully understand it really pays to sit back for a second and think about it.

(I’m guilty of not doing that with a variety of topics too and I do not fully understand HFT, but I understand enough to say that I cannot say with any certainty that it is bad and lean more to saying it is net good.)
They have strict laws for copyright infringement from what I hear... on the other hand, the FBI can't just pull out your servers :-)...
People look down on it because:

1 - Most people want to run OSS...specifically Linux so they can leverage all the tools that run better on (or only run on) Linux. Like memcached, varnish, redis...Running .NET on Linux is silly.

2 - Want a dynamic language because it's more productive.

It isn't because it's "not cool". It's because general purpose languages are a dime a dozen, and there's no reason not to pick the best one possible. The only advantage .NET has is if you are doing work that integrates with other MS products.
Let's not forget companies such as Google which actually lobbied for CISPA. They had the huge blackout for SOPA since it threatens their business plan, but they are in the business of collecting data so supported CISPA.

So much for their "Do No Evil" bull.

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/223069-g...
7 Nutrients That Pack in Antioxidants
The same evolutionary process that transformed us from hairy hunchbacks with underbites to smooth-skinned consumers of whitening toothpaste also gave us the ability to fight free radicals on our own. Our bodies make a variety of antioxidants (all with tongue-twisting names, like superoxide dismutase) that break down the free radicals that can form during normal cell metabolism.

Unfortunately, no matter how much overtime they put in, internally produced antioxidants can't battle all the free radicals flying around -- especially in today's world of mercury-filled fish and Hummer fumes. Again, evolution helps us out by filling our food supply with these molecular superheroes. "Our bodies evolved to take advantage of protective substances found in the foods available to us," Blumberg says.

Each day scientists are discovering more amazing ways antioxidants keep us alive and well -- and they're still discovering new varieties. But these seven heavy hitters have the most research to back them up. Fill up your plate with the following nutrients and start mowing down those free-radical bastards.