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I like what you're saying, but I wanted to pick this out:

> Nothing in everyday life - with the possible exception of government bureaucracy - is that unthinkingly inflexible.

If you've never made anything else in your life, maybe. "I left one seemingly unimportant detail out and the whole thing exploded" is a statement you could make about a lot of things you might teach to kids-- fixing a car, baking a cake, shooting a gun, building a treehouse. Only difference is when it's code, the exploding is figurative, and if you just change that thing back it works again.

That's part of what makes programming so magical, especially for kids. You can break things completely with zero damage done. In fact, breaking things is one of the best ways to find out how they work.

On a tangent: when you work with computer-illiterate people, one of the things you notice is that they're a little afraid to physically touch the computer for fear of messing things up (which is presumably a common occurrence for computer-illiterate people). When you're teaching someone to code, the first thing you have to teach them is to stop being afraid to change things. Not because they won't break it -- they undoubtedly will -- but because breaking it is the point.

As with many activities, I suspect the main reason children display such an affinity for programming is not having to be trained out of such bad habits.
(I'm the Chromium dev who triaged the bug this morning)
This title is misleading. There's a bug when the SSL handshake for a WebSocket encounters an error, such as an invalid server certificate. This obviously sucks for developers, but for production sites which should not have SSL handshake errors, it should not be an issue.
"Facebook can now use data on users to serve them ads when they are not on the Facebook website."

"This could generate billions."

Or it could prime even more users for a privacy-respecting alternative.
Maybe it will, maybe it won't. I think one important question to ask oneself is this: would I - in any way - like to be a part of making Facebook a real force to be reckoned with?

I don't mind Google, Amazon, Apple or Twitter (much). I do mind Facebook.

I suspect I'm not alone having these feelings. If you feel the same way, please re-consider your contribution to making Facebook a success.

Apologizes in advance if this came across as "political" or libel or something akin to that, but I do believe these (last few and) coming years will have a very lasting impact on the way we use internet. Personally targeted ads, cyber espionage and Facebook connect aren't exactly "nice things" in my book, and probably won't be in the history books either.
What version control system will let you see the changes between the contents of two zip files again?
I did say "We had fun." :-)

But, yes, that was by far the best part. And we had something to talk about later. You're right.
The Joint Staff is headquartered in the Pentagon, as is the Secretary of Defense who is second in the chain of command after the president.

The Pentagon is no less a civilian target than Tora Bora.
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It's interesting to see how the code pulls it off. If you run Profiler while this runs, you'll see a table variable being created, and then an insert statement for each row into that temp table. My guess is that the main performance gain comes from inserting into a table that doesn't require checks against constraints, etc., but eventually the overhead for all those individual inserts means that SqlBulkCopy wins out.

And, the need to define your UDTs is a bit of a pain. But to prevent a glut of UDTs in the db, I've tried to make common UDTs that would commonly be used, such as

CREATE TYPE [dbo].[udt_IntTable] AS TABLE(
[Item_Key] [int] NULL
)

One more point: it's probably best practice to use the TypeName property when using these, as it's required when using a UDT against a parameterized statement that's not a sproc.

param.TypeName = "item_drop_bulk_table_rev4";
This is awesome!

I wasn't a big fan of color scheme initially (very powerpointy mind-you) but I looked at the source and saw the colors can be changed. Great work!!!
Could the google bot take a captcha it finds and use it in one of it's own re-captchas? Essentially passing the burden of deciphering the text onto some unsuspecting human, it will be able to beat all captchas with ease!
>>>Drastically cut bullshit spending. There are billions spent every year on...bullshit.

Look, I'm no defender of gov't waste, but you can't blanketly say "bullshit" without specific examples. One's man bullshit -- the two Steves with their "toy computer" -- is another man's gold (Markkula, who saw the promise and invested early). Is NASA bullshit? Is protecting the environment bullshit? GPS satellites? The Coast Guard? Food inspection? I see the news headlines like everyone else trumpeting what look like screwy studies. What we never ever hear is any follow-up that one "stupid" study connected to a non-stupid study that led to a breakthrough. A breakthrough that most likely was just handed over to some private company to exploit for profit without any compensation coming back to taxpayers (this has been the case for decades with private companies taking government-tabulated data and reselling it as for-profit databases). This latter giveaway to private enterprise with original funding by working people is the ultimate bullshit to me.
The main thing Buffet was trying to do was to raise the capital gains tax rate, which is only 15% right now. It would save quite a bit if it was raised back to 25%.
yikes, creepy. Glad I use Chrome.
I'm not the original author but after a quick look at the application code (https://github.com/mislav/rfc/) it seems like mislav's just serving the documents from the database. It also caches the results so the free Heroku plan should be more than enough to support this.
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Affiliate marketing bro. I make six figures doing it. Not saying it's a great long term solution but in your situation you could turn a profit quite quickly potentially. Just look around at various affiliate programs and see if you can come up with a solution to add value to the customer experience. Maybe just a simple price comparison site. Then drive traffic to it, paid works well as long as you can do it profitably. If you can turn a profit on an Adwords advertising campaign you may well be on your way to a tidy income.
Sibling thread posted to webkit-dev (discussion isn't quite as interesting here, unfortunately): https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2012-February/...
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Not just that; it might well be slower. It's definitely possible to saturate a network connection with a bulk operation like this; less wire overhead matters.

I suspect it's mostly just necessary to permit the delay between data generation and storage.
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Right. But if you only ever write and rarely ever read your writing will not be as good. Reading is essential to good writing. The quote you use is encouraging the reader to write, but it also presupposes that the reader is well read ("A lumberhouse of books in every head"). Maybe that's not a coincindence.

Is there a difference in encouraging a "scholiast wit" to write versus encouraging a "dimwitted blogger"?
I was referring to the tax question at the heart of the debate. I'm not the most articulate person, perhaps moral is not the best or most appropriate word but it doesn't feel that far off.
Not exactly, but then again the country is neither as libertarian as Koch would like or as progressive as Soros would like. And frankly, there are things that Koch and Soros probably agree on that aren't the status quo either, so how do you explain that?

The fact is, there are as many viewpoints as there are billionaires, and that's what keeps them from forming a cabal. If you want to find someone who can form a cabal to bend the system for private profit, look for a corn farmer.
How are they any worse for error reporting?

Also, unless I'm mistaken, if you want to, you can enroll a bulk copy into a custom transaction for maximum control and essentially replicate the table-valued parameter behavior.
Is that price competitive? I only looked at stat-hat recently, and for whatever reason their pricing seemed more reasonable. Perhaps it was just how they pitch it, as units by the million.

That said, librato seems like it would be nice if your stat volume was low.
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Most pitch decks seem to have a section about the team, and they usually detail previous start-ups, funding, etc.

But what happens if it's your first start-up? Should I even have a team section?
For example, you have to simulate human data entry time within transactions. How many systems have that problem today?

How many people have problems with concurrency? A shitload of people, that's who. This isn't a problem with no locking models because...no locking. It is when you care about consistency.

They use fancy and expensive interconnects and caches that effectively give them shared memory.

They often use high speed interconnects because the sort of customers who care about such build-outs would naturally use high speed interconnects. They are, however, clusters in every meaning of the word, regardless of no true scotsman fallacy's.
When this article refers to Northern California, it is not referring to the Bay Area, but the actual northern half of the state. To answer your question, the best viewing area in Palo Alto is a couple of hundred miles to the north.
The thing about Python is that it is a scripting language. Importing a Python module involves executing arbitrary code.

Here is a quick rundown of how a deadlock can occur:

1. The main module runs in Thread #1, which imports module "foo".

2. Module "foo" has code at the top level that starts a new thread (Thread #2), and then blocks waiting for it to do something.

3. In Thread #2, someone calls datetime.strptime(). This deadlocks because now Thread #2 needs to import "_strptime" but Thread #1 holds the Global Import Lock because it is importing "foo".
You also may want to have something like this in storage-aggregation:

[stats_counts]
pattern = ^stats_counts\..*
xFilesFactor = 0.25
aggregationMethod = sum

Otherwise stats_counts get averaged at compaction/rotation, instead of summed. Summing seemed more reasonable, for our use cases at least.
The locking options can be controlled - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.sqlclien...
Is there some other locking issue?
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Because the money he spends raises the price of goods etc. Therefore your 20,000 becomes less money. This is easy too see in expensive cities. The same middle-class person would have to demand more money to live at the same standards as he/she would have elsewhere, simply because richness have driven up the prices.
Business logic outputs? Resolved rules?

Are you, perchance, a disciple at the church of ORM? That is a religion that makes its own problems, and then celebrates the victory when they solve their own problems.

The database is very restrictive

No it isn't. The claim is ridiculous.

Its bad architecture to put all your eggs in a black box

Nonsensical.
This makes me think of all the people who insist on using jQuery for exactly everything.
Do you have a source for this claim? I'd like to read more about this.
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In one of his essays "How To Do What You Love" , Paul G. said that " Those who escape this are nearly all lured onto the rocks by prestige or money. How many even discover something they love to work on? A few hundred thousand, perhaps, out of billions. " , yet he himself is in the business of making alot of money. Isnt this a bit contradictory ? If you look at the successful entrepreneurs like Bill Gates , Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg it seems like they all had a fierce determination to make a lot of money/ dominate the world/get famous. Just my 2 cents, up for discussion ...
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I wonder how many XKCD comics could become startups, or be mapped to existing startups.
I cannot overstate how important this is.

My dad really helped me out as a young girl. He taught me how to invest in the stock market. (I still own stock I purchased as a kid with my own money.) My parents bought (or helped me borrow from the library) any book I wanted.

My parents bought me my first computer--a 286--when I was 9. When I was a teenager, I finally got Internet access--long-distance dialup on my brand new 486--and that's when I knew that "this Internet thing" was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.

(I recently posted an old photo of my dad, his stockbroker, and a young me absorbing all this info: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150342009128305... )

Because of all this, I became a successful tech company CEO. I've been running my own businesses for 11 years now and have had some amazing successes.

When I look back, it all started with my parents helping me out with computers, business, and money (and books!)

If we want to see more women in the tech industry, this is where it starts.
If you wanna stay local, mount diablo should give a pretty decent show, if you wanna get the full view, anywhere in the sierras, like the little towns along I-80, grass valley, tahoe, etc.
Actually, since almost every country in the world thinks progressive income taxes are the right thing to do, then this is an argument supporting higher taxes on the wealthy.
IIRC, the law states that if your card has a Chip/Pin, you have to use it. It basically ignores the case of swipe cards.

Generally I've found that swipe almost always works, it's just that most people don't know that it does. (And you have to be willing to help show them how.)
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This is a great article. Learning to code a little and do some simple programming is something my own daughter wants to tackle this summer. I'm not the world's most patient person, so I've been a little intimidated about the idea of teaching programming to a 10yr old, but it is something we are going to tackle.

I'm curious as to how other parents have gone about this. I was considering some kind of pair programming environment and possibly beginning Ruby or some basic HTML/CSS/JavaScript. I feel like either would be easy to get into, but the more fragmented nature of the latter would make things more confusing (having to learn 3 technologies instead of one language).
I doubt google is making much off these terms anyway, your ROI would be pretty bad because there is no specific intent.
> one of the main draws to Node is the huge community and wealth of awesome modules.

If you think Node has a huge community and wealth of awesome modules wait til you to discover the older and more mature languages/platforms, like Python, C, Java, etc.

"What I like about Justin Bieber is the massive history of his career, spanning decades, and the broad range of his musical style across several genres." :)
Let's take a look.

Oxford says "should" implies "used to indicate obligation, duty, or correctness"[0]. That sure does not sound like "aren't required to" to me. Sure enough, if you look into "must" [1] you see that it is defined as "be obliged to; should".

Maybe you shouldn't be chiding people implying how simple English is when you're not so solid on it yourself, especially when you've given a whole treatise in your previous paragraph about how language is full of ambiguities and words can have multiple meanings and such.

[0] http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/should
[1] http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/must

Edit: Am I wrong? Am I ruder than the parent? Awaiting comments.

Edit2: Okay, so it looks like I'm wrong about "should". I really don't know why the heck "should" is listed as a definition for "must", then. I'd still like to point out that even the dictionary seems confused and maintain my point that it's not as simple and clear as portrayed.
I think you misread the code-- the datetime is still being generated in SQL, in the stored procedure, as GETDATE(). Nothing extra is going down the wire. The point is to remove the default constraint, and thus the check for null on every insert.

May still be unnecessary, but seems like a fair optimization.
Unfortunately, the problem is that the most or the average user doesn't care, is not aware, or is too busy to care OR to understand all this privacy policy issues. Overall Facebook has a good PR face: its connecting people, its free, it lets you upload your stuff, and the owner sponsored some school in New York, so it all sounds good. To someone who ever doubt anything in this word, yes its alot of smoke and mirror, but I say until the majority will understand that nothing is for free and that Facebook needs to make money by selling ads or data about its users, until then the show will go on, Facebook will keep its servers running, and co-owners will be getting richer.

But I believe as we humans progress on average, there is significant "online education" of dos and donts happening and sooner or later people will be more are more skeptic of getting this "free" candy.
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Why do corn farmers have more homogenous viewpoints than billionaires?
I think that buying Instagram was a clear signal that if something cool-er comes around the corner, we will buy it. that is, unless they try to buy from another Zuckerberg.
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Interesting dogfooding here.
> My guess is that the main performance gain comes from inserting into a table that doesn't require checks against constraints

My guess would it's because inserting into table variables isn't logged; doubt it has anything to do with constraints. This turns all those individual statements into a single bulk insert, a single larger log operation instead of many small ones.
Just as much as they are predicting the biggest IPO of the history, I am predicting the biggest downslide in the shortest possible time, given what you said and all the good publicity will wash away and someone will ask: "show me the money".

edit: I am not saying it will happen the same day or this month. I am rather saying that sooner or later just like lots of people were buying on hype, lots of people will be selling on hype as well.
It makes no difference to you. It makes a great difference to the politician trying to get control of $198,000,000.

The blather about a strong middle class is misdirection. If the U.S. governing.g elite cared about the middle class, they would abolish the armies of bunny rabbit inspectors, No Child Left Behind functionaries, and so forth. The American middle class is being choked to death by regulators, not billionaires.
Have you considered getting a better paying job? You seem intelligent, can write well, etc. (although the problems with rent control laws are widely known by economists, so I probably wouldn't hire you as an economics professor).

Even a "non technical" role (office manager, etc.) at a startup or mature tech company probably pays better than working at a coffee shop, unless you are really attracted to working in a coffee shop.

I'd assume there is a reason you don't do this, but maybe it's either outdated or irrational.
The law provides for a deterrent penalty to be used against people who renounce their citizenship to avoid taxation. Whether or not that makes it "illegal" is a matter of semantics and completely irrelevant to whether or not the law should be enforced.

And yes, there is some revenue lost by not letting a billionaire into the country, but that has to be weighed against the consequences of letting people skip out to avoid taxation.
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Just today there were two things I couldn't find with Google:

Finding how/why the lighting switch on a gas stove could cause a (mild) electric shock. I read the first 3/4 pages of results, got one or two very low quality forum postings and that is all. Somebody in the world must have written about this problem, e.g. in a manual for gas repair engineers. Google didn't find it.

Where wild ducklings sleep at night. I found lots of articles about how to look after pet ducklings, which aren't relevant. I found one article about how wild adult ducks sleep at night, although it was in my view of dubious provenance. Nothing about wild ducklings. I spent only a few minutes searching as I was using my mobile phone (in a park), so had higher needs for finding the answer in the first few results than the above.

I suspect that people get different experiences of google according to: a) what kinds of knowledge they tend to search for, b) their skill at using it.

I increasingly find myself using Quora, and asking new questions on it, for the kinds of queries above.
As someone with a brain, I was wondering probably at least as far back as a decade ago why Google wasn't already doing this. The twenty questions approach, in general, is a powerful and simple way to refine a human query in an interactive way.
When the government taxes the rich to spread it to the poor, it is taking.
When the poor people are fat, it is safe to assume the middle class has money to contribute to running the country.
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Unfortunately this graph primarily just shows that government handouts to citizens in the form of safety net programs, medicare, and medicaid have gone up in percentage, that defense has gone down in percentage, and that we don't spend enough (in my opinion) on public transportation- but it only looks at three years!

Instead, look at the Peter G. Peterson Foundation's graphs, like this one of our debt and projected debt: http://www.pgpf.org/Chart-Archive/0024_federal-debt-full.asp...

The Peterson foundation used to be an NPR donor. I don't know whether they still are.
I agree. This looks to me to just be Wikipedia presented next to the search term. Much the same as DuckDuckGo http://duckduckgo.com/?q=taj+mahal Congrats Gabriel, you got to them :)

I thought that while flawed cpedia (from one of the cuil founders) was a much more interesting push on this idea then Googles one currently is.
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It's as easy to avoid unhealthy foods in America as elsewhere. It begins with a trip to the grocery store buying vegetables, rice, and lean meat. The problem is that articles like this are so dogmatic that they teach people things that are incorrect. Carbohydrates aren't the problem. They provide essential energy and should make up a majority of a healthy person's diet.
It might be a good idea to allow bookmarking a result. This could drive viral adoption by allowing a user to send the result via email / twitter etc. to their colleagues as a suggestion for lunch.

Edit:
In fact, given this is a location based site, make the location really really obvious. The results are 'The nearest burrito to <insert address here>'. Put that as a heading above the map. The ability to then search should be below the map.

The space for the address entry looks a little too small for a reasonable address.