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I'll use this page as reference for omnibox - http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ans... .

Opera has custom inline searches. I type in the address bar "eng cacophony" and I am being redirected here www.thefreedictionary.com/cacophony . "w Opera browser features" takes me to the wikipedia page.
I can define how many custom keywords as I please. Again, long before Chrome existed.

I could do this in the year 2000.
My main issue with upgrading out of Ikea is that I have no idea where to go. Last time I walked into a "real" furniture store, I got a very sleazy feeling from all the salesmen in suits standing by the door ready to pounce.

I don't think I've ever seen (or at least noticed) any of Ikea's higher quality options. The price differences just seem like normal price variation between models to me. Is there any way to tell that a particular item is from their better line?

That said, I think I paid something like $150 for my Jerker desk and it's still going strong seven years and five moves later.
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That's a great point; hadn't considered that myself before. I guess you could construct a chamber with the proper atmosphere, though, without too much difficulty. At the very least, it seems like an easier problem to solve than the whole bringing a dinosaur to life thing anyway.
There's a large quality gap between's Nokia browser and Opera Mini. Nokia isn't famous for their browser, after all.
What OS do they run? It's hard to imagine porting to another OS with insanely tiny marketshare and weird APIs. What is the app publishing ecosystem on these phones?
"I think cheap plans disproportionately attract a special category of users: dummies."

I don't think they are "dummies".

They are simply less invested in your venture than the higher paying individuals, and thus read less of your FAQ and spend less time getting to know your website before making a purchase.

I run a SaaS, just lowered the minimum payment to $5 the other day, noticed a large influx of questions to my inbox as a result, and deduced the above.

Somebody who comes along and deposits $100 into my service has probably been reading the FAQ for a few days, using my free trial, and really getting into/really liking my website and service.

The person who comes along, see's "backlinks for $5!" and immediately makes the payment without using the free trial obviously doesn't know or care as much about my website as much as the guy who just deposited $100.

Most every question I receive to my inbox is from a non paying customer or somebody who has deposited $5.

It's annoying, but I think it's a necessity for my business. Sales have gone up across the board and it's not a bad tradeoff if you ask me.

$5 customers do turn into $100 ones eventually.
If you are collecting personal information you need to have some sort of privacy policy on the site. If you want some help feel free to contact me -- check my profile for contact details.
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A healthy skepticism of placing recording microphones on street corners all over a community is a natural reaction to an egregious abuse of civil liberties. It probably doesn't mean much to you, because you're probably white, and probably live in a "good" neighborhood. So this won't affect you.

The slippery slope is already iced -- the systems are already being used to record conversations. But I guess that's ok, since it's just affecting those people on the wrong side of the tracks.
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Yes, but the statement is still wrong. By default, apps signed with the free-certificates aren't discouraged, they're as first-class as AppStore apps (however, there's a setting to disallow them). Not that Apple is making any effort to clear those misconceptions...
Yes, but the warning message appears only for unsigned apps, not for signed apps outside of the Mac App Store. The article is misleading.
You can't get GPL apps. There are other licenses.
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The first 80% of getting that working is surprisingly easy; the last 80% is surprisingly hard.

I programmed in Smalltalk for years. Smalltalk has similar issues: dynamic typing, dynamic method generation/handling via #doesNotUnderstand:, and so on. Yet quite a few Smalltalk environments have accurate and useful autocompletion, on-the-fly documentation, and more.

How? You get three freebies that end up covering most situations:

1. Globals (which includes classes) are trivial to detect and centrally stored,
making it easy to pick up when a class is used in source code. So we've
now got autocomplete for all static methods and class documentation.
2. Most of the time, a variable is only actually assigned to once--or,
worst case, from one location. After that, it's merely manipulated.
See what class is getting instantiated there (see above), and you've got
a great guess on what type you're dealing with. (And, sadly, it's a
guess; "Foo new" *probably* gives you a new Foo, but it doesn't have to.)
3. Most methods *either* only get implemented once, *or* specialize a
method whose parent calls "self subclassResponsibility". So either
you've only got a single place to look-up, or you can hedge your bets
and show documentation for the version of the method that calls
"self subclassResponsibility" (i.e., the abstract one) and figure it's
applicable to the concrete instance.

These three rules (which can obviously be combined) end up working a surprisingly large amount of the time, and they're not ridiculous to implement. Granted, Python has a harder time here in some cases (e.g., you have to parse all accessible Python modules to build up a constructor list, and you'll likely have higher method collisions in Python than in Smalltalk due to the lack of keyword-based messaging), but these techniques will go a long way to getting you where you need to go.

Past that? Things get really hard. Because Smalltalk's development and execution cycle is blurry, you can actually go further than the above rules by checking what types variables are in instantiated classes and methods, and turning your source-based guesses into statistics-based ones. There's no equivalent mechanism in Python. You could probably do something with an idempotent test suite and some hooks into the Python VM, but the problem gets much more complicated. Doable? Yes. Likely to come from Light Table? I'm not honestly sure, but I am sure that they'd have to be willing to get pretty dirty with Python to get there.
The good news is that my most serious concern is, to a large degree, inside baseball.

My most serious concern is that I can't quite bring myself to believe that a VC-backed company, founded by the creator of a classmates.com style company actually cares about privacy in any meaningful way. My perception of your values erodes any potential trust; it feels like a gimmick to get innovators and early adopters to use it. This also destroys your most obvious value proposition.

My weaker concerns are centered more around design (a lot of awkward and modestly confusing pieces that others have identified), and results that were never noticeably better than Google for me, but were sometimes noticeably worse.

I really hope you take my stated concerns in the right spirit. I know it's not nice to have some stranger you've never met say he doesn't trust you because of his perception of your past work, and his concerns about likely business models. That's why I waited until after the holiday to respond, so at least there wouldn't be tons of people reading the thread when I said it.

All the best.
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Thanks. One specific example could be resource sharing. We use Github for code, but also for issue tracking (which brings with it discussion threads) so using Github properly even if not making code commits is valuable so you stay on top of issues and questions and can contribute. And in my case, I know I can make small fixes myself, so I want to have the infrastructure in place and know how to use it.

If you are working remotely, you want to be able to see the latest development version and run it locally, not just the latest alpha push. In the real gritty details, I just had to update Maven on my local machine and fix a Github conflict, and had to ask for help figuring out where the missing components were and how to fix the error messages. If someone has to take an hour helping me get this done, it is unnecessary overhead. I still almost broke things in vim though, but know what I have to learn.

More generally, a technical product understanding just helps in communication. If the tech lead makes the decision to refactor the code, which leads to delays affecting the business, it's good to know why.
I had that couch and notice a glaring omission: it's VERY uncomfortable. Hard as concrete slabs. That's it's primary function and it fails. Also when trying to move it around my apartment the particle wood/cardboard sides started tearing within it. Are they innovative? Yes. Excellent? No.
>pursue better business models if you can

What do you mean with this? Do you mean work as a consultant? Start your own business? Contracting may not be the best but it's vastly better than being a permanent employee in the common case (e.g. obviously not so good if the company you consult for turns out to be the next google, but that's highly unlikely).
You can get very very close to Opera features with Firefox extensions. For mouse gestures there’s an extensions called FireGestures. It’s actually more configurable than Opera’s. Speed dial is in Aurora, but it’s very basic right now.

The rest I didn’t use/care, but I can recall there being an extension for every one of those things.

Not saying Firefox is better than Opera necessarily, it's just that Firefox is quite powerful as well.
Another IKEA solution. Buy a piece of the kitchen counter top rather than a desktop - 3x as heavy and waterproof (check the damagedbin to get one for $10). Then add the legs from the do it yourself table range and add an extra one in the middle at the back.

Then you can have a 3m long desk for $50 that will hold an array of large CRTs
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I referred to "a molten salt", which in practice is never sodium chloride; probably because its melting point is higher than some superior alternatives.

Molten salt is used for two reasons.

It is the best real-world conductor of heat you will find. If you heat a miles-long pipe of molten salt on one end, that heat will make its way to a temperature rise on the other end in surprisingly rapid fashion. But this is only true when it is molten. Naturally, if molten salt encounters its solid salt, the solid melts pretty easily to expand the volume of molten salt.

Molten salt stores quite a bit of energy in its phase change, and of course as a salt solidifies, it becomes more dense. This means the top salt (at the collector) will always be the slowest to solidify.

Not sure where all this worry about "freezing to death" comes from. The salt's effectiveness comes from its conduction, not its flow.
I also think The two I'm currently reading together at the moment are both really nice examples of tech books with a narrative - The Joy of Clojure and The Little Schemer.
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If I could up-vote this a hundred times, I would. Welcome to the Internet: sponsored (filtered!) by Apple/Google/Facebook/[take your pick].

Reinforces my belief that open standards and open source really, really matter when it comes to a free and open Internet.
There is definitely room for some cool innovation in the online flame war space. I've thought it would be cool to have some kind of dedicated place for summarizing well-worn debate topics so that whenever comments on a site dissolve into assertions about the same old things you can point them towards an existing summary instead of again rehashing the same old facts and contexts. I haven't taken the time to flesh the idea out to see if it could really work, though.
Ikea isn't a swedish company it's dutch.

ps this is exactly the same sort of scam (double Irish rather than dutch sandwich) used by Google/HP/MSFT/Dell and every other company operating in Europe
I’ll just use the open source version.
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One limitation though is their bed and mattress products. They have different dimensions (unique to ikea)

Are you in a country that uses imperial measures? I have an IKEA Mattress, in a non-IKEA Habitat bedframe, that uses the same non-standard (in the UK) sizes. I assumed it was just a metric standard from continental Europe.
> More generally, a technical product understanding just helps in communication. If the tech lead makes the decision to refactor the code, which leads to delays affecting the business, it's good to know why.

That's great! I'm interested mainly in these kind of benefits. Besides communication, how does it help your relationship with customers/team/partners?
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Statements only make sense when you have side-effects. Having an "if statement" in Haskell wouldn't make much sense.
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Are the thresholds for things public? I was expecting (based off what, I can't remember) to be able to downvote at 100, but I'm now on 2xx and I still can't.
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I work quite a bit with OpenCL.

Here is a micropolygon rasterizer I wrote in OpenCL:

https://github.com/ginkgo/micropolis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ozb1ttgmA

Its performance is competitive with the OpenGL hardware rasterizer, because rasterizing small polygons tends to get very inefficient in current hardware.
Capacity factor is location- and weather-dependent, and not always known for certain with a new technology (or in this case a known technology this much larger).

Concentrated solar thermal also allows for storage, making the capacity factor percentage adjustable, and allowing for on-peak optimization, which would have a lower capacity factor but a significantly higher benefit to the power company.
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Great examples, both. Even though Programming Pearls is a series of articles bound together, being by the same author and on a common theme makes them feel like they have a narrative running through them.

Petzold's Code is another example that I'd recommend to anyone interested in how computers work.
The hour spent organising the certificates is nothing compared to the months spent designing, developing and marketing the app.

And ALL developers would be happy to see less malware around.
actually, just as long.

Any set of possible bits is a valid input, so the input has one bit of entropy per bit. If the hash were not "just as long" then one of the following must be true:
- it collides (two possible inputs would have the same hash)
- some inputs could not hash
- the algorithm encodes more than 2 bits of entropy per bit.

This is not possible by the pigeonhole principle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonhole_principle

There's probably a more rigorous proof here but I'm lazy. I guess something like imagine the input is going to be n bits (like 16 bits)...make an array of length 2^n and initialize them all to -1, and then for each possible input (0..2^n-1) hash it and - since the hash is not longer than the input, the representation of the hash is there in the array if you simply interpret it as the index (subscript). Set that to the n that produced it, if it's not already set (otherwise abort with a collision). After you have reached 2^n-1, you have set 2^n indices (including whatever hash 0 produced). Is it possible for you not to have made a collision? (Yes, easily: for example anything hashes to the next integer, except binary all 1's which hash to all 0's). Could some of the indices to be empty? No. If you put 2^n values in 2^n holes distinctly, there is one value per hole. Conversely, if you had anything LESS than that many holes to put it into (for example, you're trying to hash 32 bits of input into just the lower half of the indices, by creating a hash that uniquely hashes to 16 bits of output) then by the pigeonhole prinicpal you have to put two n's into the same index.

So, any hash that would be unique (that can hash anything) has to be at least exactly as long as what it's hashing. If there are any outputs that are never hashed to, it would have to be even longer.

Note that this proof depends on iterating on every possible input. If some inputs aren't possible, the hash could be unique while being shorter than the input. This is how lossless compression works.
> I've read Neuromancer multiple times, because I just love Gibson's style, high tech low life has never been done better.
Me too :)
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> The multitude of ideas in each paragraph is simply stunning. There are thousand short sci-fi stories hiding behind each allusion.

Still... reading "virtual light" last summer I got confused by the embedded fax machine everywhere (even in the back of car seats if I remember correctly...) trashing out some papers for reading... How did he miss e-mails or "text on screen" for these scenes ?
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If only it was that simple.

Those "people" who come and go as they please include those "people" who are trying to run bots, steal information, spam etc.
Firefox did that too. It's very nice but not quite the same as Omnibox. Also, it's a bit of a superuser feature IMO, with Omnibox being more accessible.
i thought "local memory" refers to thread-local memory, i.e: registers (you didn't count this elsewhere)

and i am not sure "page aligned" and "page-pinned" are the same thing.
There are, however, applications with both hash tables and bloom filters where some cryptographic properties are still useful/necessary, or where low-collision hashes are particularly important.
I found docs about that by accident while looking for something else, then made a small test, http://zash.se/battery.html
It is fun to shop around in IKEA and we do frequent visits there but often the quality is too low.

On the other hand, IKEA operates under the ownership of non-profit establishment using sleazy tricks to avoid taxes.
I can totally see your objection re the tests not being "unit-ey" enough... But why would you say it's not TDD?
Because they want people to use their software?

Of course, if you don't care whether or not anyone uses your software, telling people with questions and requests to jump off a cliff is entirely reasonable.
Why? I'm already not using Facebook products because they have no respect for user privacy. IMO they have very definitely crossed a line in the past, several times even. That has consequences.

Additionally, Opera is the only European browser. That may sound stupid, but it's part of the things I can do to put as much distance between me and that messed up country the US of A. Getting bought by some huge US corporation is yet another vector to subpoena my shit or the US gov to influence my life.
This may be the case in financial IT, (our billings from financial clients aren't suffering) but it doesn't appear to be the case anywhere else. Generic IT is pretty far down the food chain; if your business is suffering and you're a general IT consultant, I'd consider specializing your way out of that area.
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Neither are recommended for modern security needs, but MD5 is way, way more broken than SHA1. As far as I know, no SHA1 collision has ever been found, whereas any cs undergrad could implement arbitrary MD5 collisions using some work done by a Chinese team a few years back. SHA1 is deprecated because of some theoretical attacks which lower the complexity of finding a collision without really making it a tractable problem.
Computing two 32-bit results in parallel and mixing them at the end does NOT mean collision resistance is only as good as a 32-bit hash. For that, you need to compute ONE 32-bit result, then transform it into a 64-bit result.
Question: say you use a hash which returns a 32-bit integer. If you were actually implementing a hash table, would you need to declare a structure with 2^32 elements? `int buckets[2^32]`? This seems unwieldy!

Would an actual hash table only use, say, the first 10 bits or something of a hash function (int buckets[1024]) to make it less sparse (albeit increase collisions?)

If you decide you want more buckets later on, would you have to re-hash everything in your array and move it to a new, bigger one?
But when I first heard this rumor over the weekend I felt in shock (and sick). I hate Facebook along with its smug a-hole founder.

Stop applying emotional attachments where they don't belong.
It's ambiguous, not inaccurate. If the military used a certain COTS revolver as standard equipment, and the revolver had a eye-first camera with cellular upload to the public Internet, and that feature was not approved and known by the gun selection people, it is fair to say that "military revolvers upload battlefield images to the Internet, a serious security breach.
Know any payment processors that will also make your app available (and in some cases promote) to 300+ million people ?
It seems that users have to submit rebuttals to articles they read, I thought that was done by the system using NLP techniques, specifically Sentiment Analysis. Now that would be really cool.
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C++ is fairly common for games development, that dosen't mean you have to use it. If you are comfortable with objective C you could use a games engine such as cocos2d or sparrow framework. This will allow you to focus on the gameplay.
Computing two 32-bit hashes is the same as computing 1 64-bit hash. In general, computing n m-bit hashes is the same as computing 1 n*m-bit hash.
Congrats 10gen! Its pretty awesome to see a company built on open source technologies doing so well. The community wins & the VCs win.
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Indeed. The geological effects of mining are much more serious than solar energy, which are not zero still (you need mining to produce solar panels/mirrors).

Most side effects are focused on local biosphere I'd guess.
Considering this is auto research for lazy people, any price point creates a chicken egg problem nearly impossible to solve.
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