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How about the idea of writing 100+ e-mails without sending them?

You'd be better off having a mail plug-in randomly selected whether to add a cc at the time of sending rather than hoarding them.

Your mechanism is valid as a trial but not particularly workable in the real world.

You might want to also control for factors such whether the mail is internal or external (assuming it's a company), message length (longer messages might be more or less likely to be properly read and responded to), message importance (you'd expect more replies to higher importance messages), attachments and so on.
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I just love European nordic countries, their mentality is like 30 years ahead of rest of the world. Plus they have awesome metal bands.
I take what you say but I don't think that the term "throwaway culture" is to do with throwing away broken things. It is more to do with throwing away old or unfashionable things.

And actually this desire for better, shinier versions of existing things drives creativity, forcing companies to innovate and endlessly create newer and shinier things. I think this process of renewal and innovation is generally a good thing, rewarding creative people.

The downside, you could argue, is in this scenario all the cash goes into shiny new products, rather than some boring but vital product or services. There, I suppose, is where the government comes in.
I think he means that it might have an effect on other people's priority inbox. It could be that if an incoming E-Mail has another recipient, GMail thinks this E-Mail might be more important and place it in the priority inbox.
So, assuming one was a lazy slacker and wanted all their email to fall into a black hole for the purpose of work avoidance, have you got any advice other than "always mail people without CC?"

It's not for me you understand, it's for a friend.
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Correct: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_responsibility
That's great, but let's get back on the topic of West-European countries, shall we? The Netherlands isn't Nordic by any stretch. Nor do they have awesome metal bands by the way.
> But did you actually say in the emails "ccing my assistant?"

They'd be able to see that anyway. It's not the same as BCC.
Legislation is useful as long as it promotes consumer choice.

But if you pay close attention, legislation in the U.S. is also the reason for why there is a lack of choice for consumers in regards to Internet providers. I invite you to read this article:

http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cjv14n2-6.html
Yes.

Never reply-to-all.

No subject.
Shark Tank has a good track record. So does Y Combinator. What's your point?
"without sending them" is unnecessary. Modify your email client to randomly choose (AFTER you write your email) whether or not to CC Alex. Or just flip a coin after writing it and before hitting send.
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Yes. I misunderstood.

I know for a fact that most of those contacted do not use Gmail. Only one confirmedly does.

There might be other corporate non-public solutions that do that, on the other hand.
I can't help thinking that almost everything he lists applies more to Scheme than Python. Scheme also has the advantage of being much simpler, smaller, more concise, more flexible and more elegant than Python. It actually does functional programming well rather than half-heartedly, and is rather nice for OOP as well.

Additionally, Scheme has one very important property that Python lacks--there is almost no magic. Even definitions and assignments (define and set! respectively) look like normal function calls. It also makes it clear that very little is fundamental to a language--with Java and Python things like classes and control structures are special and built into the language; with Scheme they do not differ superficially from normal functions. With Java I thought classes and objects were somehow the only way to do it; Scheme clearly showed me that they do not even have to be part of the core language.

Now, Scheme does have some complicated ideas like macros and continuations, but there is no reason to teach those to beginners--it's an eminently useful language as is, and extremely simple. The very first CS course I took in college used Scheme; we spent something like just two lectures on the language itself. Now that the professor retired they've changed the course over to Python; I think they're still learning the language half-way through the semester.

Scheme is also great because, being very simple, it is much easier to implement than Python. And once you have a basic Scheme implementation, you can modify it to see other potential languages. For example, in our intro CS course, we talked about writing a memoizing interpreter and even a lazy interpreter. It's hard to imagine a lazy Python! We even reused Scheme syntax (but not really semantics) to cover logic programming à la Prolog.

That course was one of the most enlightening semesters I have ever spent. I really think that Scheme is the perfect introductory didactic language.
IIRC, The entire contract is not invalid, just the specific clause that says that.

The specific clause is:

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Most of the exceptions are regarding people who own and then sell the business, and a few others.

Which is to say that your employer would remain powerless, that's how.
> Your kids lose it as well.

No. Parents cannot, under any circumstance, renounce US citizenship on their childrens' behalf. If they gained citizenship at birth, they can only lose it by their own actions.
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My bad, I meant north european countries. But regarding the metal bands I still stick with the nordic countries like sweden and finland ;)
You may already know this, but uTP's congestion control algorithm is usable with vanilla TCP, where it is called LEDBAT (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ledbat-congestion-01).

Of course, from the perspective of a Bittorrent client author it's much easier to implement TCP-over-UDP than to depend upon raw socket support / install a custom congestion control algorithm into the OSes TCP stack.
You seem to be assuming that his children have acquired Singaporean nationality. We don't know that this is the case.
It's also why the phone system works at all, not to mention the Internet itself. But I agree that the extent of the Bell model was too far.
Has anything about your role, the work you're doing or the success or otherwise of your company changed in the past two months?
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i have a client who was a small 2-person startup before they got acquired. They were both doing client facing calls and emails with big multinationals trying to sell a large product inside a typical 100-200 person division. So they created a few fake personas in order to make it look like they could afford a support staff. It's fun to reply all and know that one of the cc'ed people doesn't exist.
There is already a semantic format for patches: http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/sp.php

However I don't think semantic parsing helps here. For example, suppose I'd told you (the feature branch developer) that I was going to change 'foo' so that it had locking semantics, and you had deliberately used 'foo' because of this. Now when we merge you definitely don't want your 'foo' to be changed to 'foo_nolock'. Alternately you can think of a case where I don't change all 'foo' to 'foo_nolock', so the VCS has no idea what the "rule" is.
Of course it has. Not significantly.
It makes sense to use a language that is close to what people will be using later just so they will be able to transfer their learned knowledge more easily.

Lisps are very interesting and important, but their syntax does not transfer easily to most popular languages.
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That reminds me of Julian Assange in the beginning of Wikileaks, making up a lot of fancy titles for imaginary personas in order to make WL seem a lot bigger than it really was.
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I agree. Buying a new painting would certainly encourage and reward creativity, which is kind of the point I am making.
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Interesting data. I would be curious to find out how the general sentiment correlates with consumer behavior, e.g., financial market swings, purchases on amazon.com, google searches, etc.
Can anyone explain why should we be having this discussion? How does it matter whether or not you are a tech company.
You should re-run the experiment and make it double-blind.
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A bit off-topic, but what did you use to draw the graphs?
> "Nothing is allowed unless its completely perfect" is a dangerous attitude.

But you can see that there is a big difference between "not completely perfect" and "likely to cause death or serious injury"?
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"Net neutrality should be built into the fabric of the Internet through better technology - legislation clearly isn't working."

There was a lot of coverage about some kind of mesh network being developed in response to SOPA (reddit related?). Is it still going strong?
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I think we are going to see a resurgence of magazines, as the signal to noise ratio is much higher.
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> Hint: you're probably missing a doctype declaration.
> If you're thinking of blocking multiple versions of a browser because of your own lack of knowledge then perhaps you're in the wrong industry.

May be the doctype will fix it for newer version of IE, may be it won't(don't know about the newer versions; older versions need text-align:center). You are conveniently ignoring different boxing model, min-height, staircase effect, double margins etc.

> It takes five seconds with Google to discover why centering doesn't work.

I can find a work around doesn't mean anything. The point is IE does things differently causing extra effort on my part, and if I can avoid it, I will.
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"Irregardless" is a double negative (and not a proper English word).
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But the virtual images are designed to run in VirtualPC. I managed to get one running in VitualBox on Linux, but it was complex, time consuming, and had other problems. Then the VM expired after a few months, yayyy, more time wasting.

I.e. they cost nothing but your time...
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Even the best hackers on this site could not pass my exams, because the correct answer is not that you'd expect -- it is always the misbelief the teacher heard about years ago.

We have the Linux-fanboy who keeps joking about how Windows is not scriptable (PowerShell was released in 2006), the OSX-fanboy with his anti-Microsoft pet peeves...

Another teacher disapproved my home work because the results were different on his machine. It was a benchmark you idiot! Of course the results are different!

We are presented facts that became untrue a decade ago. They all go into OS flame wars, language syntax flame wars and the like.

Yet we are looked down so much, the whole atmosphere becomes so dragging, I'd rather just stay home and code.

I recently realized I attend classes only to socialize a little before and after the course.

Is this a problem elsewhere too?
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> If I were interested in buying something from your web site, I would be less likely to bounce somewhere else as a result of seeing an uncentered container than I would as a result of being told to upgrade my browser.

Depending on the demographics(what do I lose if I don't support outdated IE and how likely is my customer base to be running arcane IE), the amount of effort required to make sure my site runs on arcane IE; your bouncing off somewhere else might not matter to me. I didn't say putting up a notice saying use a modern browser will ensure customers will comply - I am saying that might be a reasonable compromise.
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Why shouldn't they be relevant? Getopt is still very useful for short scripts and optparse does everything it was meant to do, even if it's not as full of features as argparse. Maybe argparse really should be the canonical choice, but I certainly wouldn't want to see the others gone.

As for a minor complaint about argparse - setting up a custom help formatter [1] is not straightforward, not in the slightest in comparison to optparse [2] (which is much simpler, implementation wise).

[1] http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/default/Lib/argparse.py#l1...

[2] http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2.7/Lib/optparse.py#l155
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You might be thinking of this http://www.reddit.com/r/darknetplan/ . I don't think it's ever gotten off the ground and is still people talking about it online.
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Yes and no to that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irregardless
I wouldn't say the competition is very tough in the Netherlands, as there are also only a few large players (each with multiple brands/subsidiaries under them). Furthermore, a couple months ago, the dutch FTC put major telecom providers under review for making alleged cartel price agreements.

On a higher level, I am certainly for a free market, but don't dismiss government regulations purely because they can 'only hinder competition'. That is a very dogmatic statement as regulations aren't always 'bad'/hindering competition. No personal offense intended, but I always find the strength of belief in a purely free market for some people to be almost the same as how other people believe in religion, very idealistic and extreme. There are a lot of subtleties and nuances to free markets. Also, is pursuing a free market a goal in itself, or a means to an end in creating a 'good society'. In the latter case, other advantages of certain regulations should be considered as well.

Lastly, regarding the issue at hand, next to economical arguments, I think a large part of getting this regulation has comes from other motivations such as valuing equality and accessibility for all etc.
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We can only speculate about Sivers but generally speaking, for a US national residing overseas who will never go to the US, holding US citizenship is more trouble than it's worth.

Look at my daughter. She was born in Europe with three nationalities, including American. Say, for the sake of argument, she spends her entire life in Europe. She will nevertheless be expected to file a tax return with the IRS every year, to possibly pay US taxes, and to file an FBAR every year should she have more than US$10,000 in the bank.

(At the moment the requirement to pay US taxes generally only kicks in if your income exceeds certain thresholds, but given the lack of esteem Congress has for overseas US nationals I would not be surprised if the rules governing this became more onerous.)

These requirements are simply unconscionable for somebody who has never received and will never receive any services from the US government. And yet they will be imposed on her, unless she takes concrete action when she turns 18 to renounce her American citizenship - because she has US nationality, whether she likes it or not, along with the insane obligations that come with it.
Could they make this more difficult to do comparison? When the title says "Spot the..." you expect it is because the visualisation makes it abundantly obvious, not because it is some sort of cognitive challenge.
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I thought GIMP came with a Scheme interpreter built in? And of course AutoCAD has AutoLisp.
cstross mentioned the extraordinary cost of stuff in a recent post. A pair of jeans was fantastically expensive. People had no option but to repair things.

> Studies of retail pricing indicate that, after correcting for inflation, a good pair of workmans' trousers -- jeans, in other words -- would have cost the equivalent of roughly $400 in 2001 dollars in 1901. A reasonable quality man's suit would have cost the equivalent of $2-3000.

I get annoyed by jumpers[2] that get holes after a year or two, and try to darn or patch them. I'd be really angry if that jumper cost me £400.

See also semi-disposable scandinavian furniture. It sort of looks okay, and it works alright so long as you don't move it. But a bit of solid wood is nicer (and probably better for the environment) than chipboard and veneer, and will last a lot longer, but is a lot more expensive.

I'm not sure society will be comfortable with children that cannot afford to move out (or who will be without almost any possessions) when that same society cannot cope with light bulbs that need a few seconds to warm up.

[1] (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3934728)

[2] sweater? A woollen garment with sleeves and not buttons up the front.
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> software is a means of trying to achieve maximum efficiency of existing processes

When my paper airline ticket is replaced by software (the ticket shows on my phone's screen), is that streamlining existing processes or replacing them?

Your perspective may depend on whether you make printers or not.

Email streamlines communications by replacing letters and stamps.

Software is streamlining video rentals by replacing DVDs with downloads and streams. When the DVD factories shut down, is nothing being "eaten"?

etc.
Am I missing something or is this article devoid of any substance or even content beyond stating the blatantly obvious (Apple is different now than what it was in 1985. Apple execs know they have to keep innovating... Duh!).
Git actually doesn't track cherry-picks, at all, and that's been a huge problem for us.

Consider for example, having two branches: "stable", "master" which have already diverged. Fixes go into "stable" and are regularly merged into "master".

Now imagine someone writes a fix F, which must be applied immediately to both "stable" and "master" and can't wait for the regular merge effort.

So with git, you just cherry-pick F into "stable" and "master".

Now, someone who uses "stable" discovers a big flaw in F, and reverts it. They assume their work will be merged into "master" as usual.

Then, a merge from "stable" to "master" happens, and the merge sees that the "stable" branch has 0 changes w.r.t F (commit+revert), whereas it has the F change in "master". Git's merge algorithm will consider this a trivial case, and do the wrong thing. The merge result will have the broken F application in "master", and there will be no conflict or any indication of a problem! This has been a huge problem for us.

So the result of this is that git forces you to either "merge" upstream, or "cherry-pick", but you really should not mix these two modes.

If you only use "merge", then the guy who merges must intimately understand everyone's changes in all cases of conflict. If he doesn't, others must help him resolve the conflicts on his working directory. Then, the merge result is one monolithic commit that makes understanding changes very difficult.

If you only use "cherry-pick", then you lose tracking of which changes have already been merged upstream, and which haven't. You start relying on the grep of "git log", which is unreliable, and you have no reliable tools to automate this. "git cherry" is unreliable and has plenty of false negatives/positives. Then there are of course problems with patch dependency, where you have to figure it all out on your own.

In short, the snapshot model is very problematic here. None of these problems would occur in the darcs model. Unfortunately, darcs does not scale. Whether that's inherent or not, I don't know. But if it did, I know I'd definitely prefer to use darcs in a large collaborative effort than git.