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"I never understood the mentality of people so against the convenience of walking to the corner to buy a gallon of milk that they zoned properties in such a way to make it impossible."

If you build retail close enough to housing to walk to it, then people will walk to it. If my house is near that retail, people will walk near my house. People commit crimes. Walkable retail means I will get robbed.

Or at least that's how I assume their thought process goes.

"Can we all just admit now that the people who invented suburbs were idiots and find ways to make a subdivision more like a very small town?"

People are trying: http://www.cnu.org/

One such development that I've been paying attention to: http://muelleraustin.com/

It's closer to the center of the city than what most people would call a suburb, but it's in the midst of plenty of suburban density, segregated-use development. The part that has been built is really pleasant to walk around. Instead of giant garages being the primary architectural feature, the garages are in the back on alleys. There aren't driveways every couple of feet with cars blocking the sidewalk like there were in the neighborhood I grew up in. When the "town center" part gets built, the neighborhood should be a pretty amazing place to live.

In the Bay Area, Palo Alto's not so bad. You can't really walk anywhere unless you live really close to downtown or the Middlefield shopping area, but at least you can bike places without cheating death.
Realtime meaning what? Meaning you can do stuff based on time? Because that's a concept that's been around for a little while, though never on a mobile.
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I'm Danish and it says so in the Danish newspapers :-)
Yes, X was prevalent slang for ecstasy.

Caution: much of the so-called ecstasy you get in recent years is largely amphetamine. I wouldn't be inclined to trust it.

Dancing (Salsa, Swing, Tango, Contra) is much healthier for you, and if you're genuinely having fun doing it and you have some clue about hygiene, it's about as effective at getting you laid.

Actually, in my brief experience with X, cuddling seems to be a significant local maxima. Moderate amounts of alcohol are probably better than X for getting you laid. (But dancing has been even more effective than alcohol.)
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I prototyped a Rails-like framework in JavaScript using Rhino and Servlets and was suprised how feasible the whole thing seemed for a production website. JavaScript is perfectly capable for this IMO.

The benefits come when you start to re-use code on the front- and back-end. An obvious example is form validation business rules. Using the same models can be really handy in AJAX-heavy apps, too. It can be very DRY if done right.

I saw that someone recently wrote a V8 module for Apache - that could lead to some really interesting developments.
Good advice. The beginning of your post reminds me of this very awesome video: http://fora.tv/2008/12/13/Ian_Dunbar_Three_Basic_Skills_to_E...
I was already looking in to this couple of weeks ago. BDI was up till December and it just hit the bottom in January.

BDI is a nice indicator of economy because 1) it's not speculative(you don't buy shipping without products), 2) it's not elastic(it takes years to build another ship and it's not easy or cheap to take ships of circulation).
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Ha, no problem.
I installed it so I could watch Netflix content instantly
(Note: I have only read a bunch about Haskell. I am by no means an expert)

In my hobby work with Python, I absolutely have no choice but to read the documentation for a function to know what it does. The dynamic typing necessitates that the function itself tells me nothing. Consider:

def get_console_type(console)

Does this function take a console object? The string name of the console? The IPAddress of it?

In my professional work with C# (well, in this case C), the type signature tells me quite a bit more information.

ConsoleType GetConsoleType(IXboxConsole*)

One step further: does GetConsoleType have any side effects? It shouldn't by naming convention. But it turns out it did. It updates a cache, which can have a major effect on some totally unrelated thing.

Haskell, being a pure language, has to declare the presence of side effects. I'd have know this right away, without having to look at any documentation (there isn't any!). Furthermore, what if the function wasn't actually called GetConsoleType. What if it was called GetXboxType?

I really wished I could have searched for "All functions that return ConsoleType"...
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Python tends to deemphasize types due to its reliance on ducktyping and type-inferencing. If you look in the documentation, they don't really care about the input types either. Would it be nicer to have more typing? IMHO, it really depends on the setuation. It would be nice to have multimethods but declerative statements like in C would be horrible.
the reward given for such a contribution is proportional to the decision-maker's desire that such contributions will be made in the future. in 2009, we are all motivated primarily by money.
I attacked someone and it said I got some $70k and some odd change. But then the connection died and when I logged in I had magically lost $10k of my original :(
Twilio will succeed simply because they've reduced it to being ridiculously easy. I mean, a complete non-coder could practically put together a working app based on Twilio, which I doubt is the case with any VoiceXML provider.

I personally wrote a phone-in support service, company extensions directory and voicemail-to-email service with Twilio in literally a couple hours. It now integrates seamlessly into a new support system I'm launching for one of my companies in the next month or so. Twilio's part was so easy it was an afterthought, but will really make my new service shine.

Couple that ease of use with their super affordable and transparent ($5/mo + $0.05/min for an 866#) pricing model, and you've got a winner. I can appreciate the need for standards, but sometimes they're simply trumped by easier and better technologies. Look at the progression from SOAP -> XML-RPC -> REST for example :)
I think you're much younger than me so it makes me sadder.
PS. Had an interesting issue with call forwarding through my wireless carrier and Twilio's support has been top notch in helping track it down. Can't say the same for my wireless carrier though... ;)
Possibly, but all of the services Google cut were due to mistakes made in the past couple years.

I think the more likely explanation is that companies are using this "downturn" as an excuse to cut the crud without the bad publicity. The effect of this, more than likely, is that the downturn looks worse than it actually is.
I have to second the comment on the length. In particular, I think the first minute where you show yourself typing in your name to create a new account and then checking email to verify the account, etc is a little unnecessary. At this point in the video, I haven't even seen the product so I'm definitely not sold on creating an account on your site or watching a movie about it. Maybe you can move that part to another video for people that might need help creating an account.

It would also chop off one minute of an 8 minute long demo.

It's cool that you decided to go with Silverlight despite the fact that it's less tried than Flash. Good luck!
"Another reason for pursuing nonpharmacologic methods of increasing serotonin arises from the increasing recognition that happiness and well-being are important, both as factors protecting against mental and physical disorders and in their own right."

WTF
Further: Schiller did a pretty damn good job with the keynote. I watched his keynote and the Palm Pre one back-to-back, and Schiller's far better at presenting than any of the three Palm People - and the three of them weren't terrible, either.

Furthermore - the things that have made Apple so incredible aren't entirely from Jobs. Schiller handles marketing. Ive designs the things. There are tons of people working at Apple who make the magic happen. Steve embodies those things, yes, but his one greatest achievement was his creation of Apple itself. He made the company that's capable of succeeding in every field it enters, whether music or retail or telephones. That company will outlast him.
If your using Firefox just use the bugmenot addon so you just have to right click on the username field.
It's a usability nightmare. No one knows what OpenID is, I only heard of Facebook Connect from you mentioning it.

I once tried to establish an OpenID account for stackoverflow, but it was too much of a hassle so I didn't bother registering. Users can just reuse names and passwords. It sucks from a security perspective, but unless you can make it transparent to the user, you're pretty much boned because no one will want to use it.
Paul. You certainly don't have the "Credentials" you claim are no longer needed, and if you did...how much did you pay the person who took English and Grammar courses for you? Tell them that they didn't teach you much. Not to mention the person who was seated in your place, in the courses they took for you concering ethics and honesty.

Your broad unfounded statements,based on what "Paul" thinks, sound really stupid. Certainly, you must have learned in 6th grade or so, that facts should be backed by citations - the basics of research. Citations are the proof that what you say is true or proven to some degree. In other words..who conducted the research of any sort to prove what you are telling others. If there is no proof or citation, your statements become the world according to what the author, Paus tells others, unfactual or unproven, unless of course the facts are insurmountable - grass is green, the sky is blue. So Paul, you are nothing more than full of the stuff that comes out of the rear end of a cow (obvious fact).

Challenge yourself to either proving your blanket statements through research, or do your homework and cite those who have. Professor L.
The screenshot looks pretty similar to atomic tanks which is an awesome game.
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How so? The problem with micropayments is not that the absolute numbers are low (in many currencies the numbers are always pretty high).
You're claiming that "secret" retention bonuses are a way to avoid "giving" promotions and raises? Wow, there's a lot wrong with both parts of that statement.

Almost every company encourages their employees to never disclose their pay to their coworkers. It promotes an information imbalance where the employer wins. Unless you sign something saying that you won't disclose it (which would probably be contestable anyhow), or you're sharing it with someone who doesn't want to know (which would just be rude and potentially disruptive), they can't fire you for telling people what you make.

Don't do it, plain and simple. If you didn't agree to keep it a secret, then it's not a secret. With all of my raises and bonuses-that-not-everyone-gets, I was discrete, just as my bosses asked of me. I only share my compensation information with anyone and everyone who wants to know. It's time we changed this stupid "secret salary" custom.

Also, promotions and raises aren't given, they're taken. You're a grownup, why should your employer care more about your career than you do? Want a promotion? Take more responsibility. Be more essential. Be a leader. Want a raise? Get a better offer, and ask your employer to match it. Write essays, share code, increase your skillset, help your juniors, always be finding ways to make the product better, ways to make the team's processes more efficient.

If you just want to do your job and stay warm, that's fine, but don't expect to get special treatment. A yearly 2-7% cost-of-living pay increase is probably about right.

It sounds harsh, I know, and I'm sure this might not have been your angle at all. I just get annoyed hearing about employees who dutifully do no more than they're told, and wait and hope for review time as if it's christmas, and then get upset when they're treated like cogs in a machine, when they've been acting exactly like cogs in a machine.
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Ah, it came. Thanks!
I thought that was the reason - but if I give the wrong types, it won't work. Often, I can infer the types myself, but why not just tell me? I think there are conventions, like "it's a string or a number unless stated otherwise", and these defaults work great. You just need a little faith in the library writer.

For example, xmlrpclib.ServerProxy takes an URI - is that a string or a special URI object? I guess it's most convenient if it's just a string, but if you had just constructed the URI by concatenating the separate parts, it's inefficient to immediately parse them apart - and so Java has URI objects. Maybe it's just that Python admits it's a scripting language, and uses machine cycles to serve you - instead of the other way round. That's a nice idea.
For the Nth time, dynamic type-checking IS NOT TYPE-INFERENCE.

Please stop willfuly misusing nomenclature. Please.
I nominate "Coding Horror is an entertaining, sometimes even educational blog. Be careful diving in headfirst, though, as the technical depth is generally so shallow you'll be hitting the bottom before you've even broken through the surface tension" for Quote Of The Day.
I plan to use this in Mibbit, as a plugin system. Probably Rhino.

The idea would be that someone can write a backend and frontend component, submit them, and it'll be a little plugin app.

So you could have a whiteboard, multiplayer tetris, etc etc appearing next to the IRC chat.
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Jim Goldman doesn't know shit about technology. Just checkout his absurd tech 09' predictions.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/27894341
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If you don't know how to make the best of a bad situation, you will never get there. If you are not willing to put up with some shit work, you will never recognize that a good opportunity is staring you in the face. If you are not willing to be humble and repeatedly be a beginner in new areas and learn the details faster than the next guy, you are not capable of transformation.
That reminds me of a drawing by Robert Crumb.

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Sadly nowadays philosophy is seen like a pure theoretic field but since the beginning it was both a system (theoretic) and a way of life (practical- applying the theory). Socrates already criticized sophists. They were payed to teach philosophy (and rhetoric, logic etc.) but didn't apply philosophy to themselves. Platonism, Epicureanism, Stoicism were all both a system and a way of life.

This distinction disappeared, but not totally, with Christianity. Christianity was seen as the ultimate philosophy, bringing a system and a way of life together and making it popular as the ultimate, definitive and right system. Whereas in the ancient Greece philosophy and religion were both side by side in the live of people, with Christianity they were mixed together. Only the theoretic foundations of philosophy remained and were taught, since there were not needs anymore for a way of life.

Lately some thinkers came back to this primary vision, like Nietzsche who set up a system but wanted to apply it to human begins, hopping to change them. However because of these evolutions, philosophy is often seen like a pure theoretical system.
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I hate to say it, but Apple's a company that's highly dependent on its CEO. It doesn't seem like it's a company that's very dependent on its talent, so if the "dictator with taste" steps down, I believe Apple is not going to be in for a great time.
Kind of like Squeak Smalltalk's method finder http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1916

And a reimplementation in Ruby http://www.nobugs.org/developer/ruby/method_finder.html
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I haven't seen the app, but a really good fog/water maker is Perlin Noise: http://freespace.virgin.net/hugo.elias/models/m_perlin.htm

There is a faster implementation of it, as perlin noise is pretty expensive, that get's used a lot in game design.

Hope that helps.
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I think lots of people are ready to forego higher returns for higher security. That's what I ask from my banker.

For a short while I was looking for a bank that would just have a portfolio that follows the market instead of trying to beat it, and that would take less fees because it took less effort to manage. I contacted two other banks, but they didn't have anything like that. I found it was extremely tiring to speak to bankers, they all seem to want to drown you with words. I eventually stayed with my original bank just to stop wasting time.
Madoff might not have made any trades
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Or you could just re-read the comment immediately after his, and realize that OpenMIKE added to the discussion and contributed to the community, bettering it.

Nobody is perfect.
I'd say if you care about sick and dying people, you should donate money to Medecins Sans Frontiers* or another development charity. Simple, basic medical care is much cheaper than trying to prolong life (per person) so you will be helping more people, often children who have full lives ahead of them.

*http://www.msf.org/
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"A college education is no guarantee for success, but it does tend to say something about the person."

i agree, gwb got his mba from hbs, that should say something about the degree ... errr ... the person
It's common for geeks to phrase technical points with disrespect. A high-profile example is Linus's rant against C++ http://lwn.net/Articles/249460/ Common enough to warrant pg's How to Disagree.

I wonder, is the emotional part really about something else, as this article suggests? It often seems out of place to me.
What do you call a hack that's simultaneously extremely clever and extremely useless?

I'm sure there's some phrase for this that I'm missing.
I thought such things were common?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_fund
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From the article: “Methane is a product of biology. For methane to be in Mars' atmosphere, there has to be a replenishable source”.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakes_of_Titan :
The lakes of Titan, a moon of Saturn, are bodies of liquid methane that have been detected by the Cassini space probe, and had been suspected long before.

Why would methane be a product of life on one body and not on another? What is special about Titan?
The original solar system selection process is documented here http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2308674,00.asp and covers details like the up front costs
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What if someone posted something from 1994 and didn't say so in the title?
Morally you may be right. From a legal point of view, the GEMA (the 'German RIAA') has an exclusive right to market the contracted musicians.

Those musicians gave up the right to sell their music. They can not even give their music away for free after signing up with GEMA. Though many would love to.

I guess someone has a vested interested in keeping the myth alive that you can not get paid for radio airplay without signing up.

GEMA also has a complicated system to pay out more money to music that's more 'deserving'.
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Thanks. I remember.

But didn't he remove a special limitation of newspapers instead of exploiting a special feature?
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Perhaps. Though the article states that he was not a fan of war.
I thought scientists had already been arguing about the existance of life on Titan?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(moon)

or more specifically

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7716
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these bits and pieces of financial news (eg. 'An MIT Blackjack team perspective on the economy' on HN today) make it difficult to get the whole picture of how serious an economic contraction we're going to see in the next few years. It also is difficult (for myself at least) to understand what this means for the average guy on the street. Are we talking Depression era job/food lines? Something worse?
Whoops, sorry, my bad. Honestly, I didn't notice it was from 1994. Updated.
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Linux does extremely poorly. Every distro has its own UI guidelines (if they have one at all) that very few projects follow. How can you blame them? They're cross-distro apps that run just as well on Ubuntu as Suse - there's absolutely no distro-specific UI.

So what you get is a mess of apps that each do what they think is the best UI... except consistency is one of the keys to usability.
To me, Vista was about visual changes that didn't matter, and visual non-changes where they should have been changed. What's under the hood did not affect most users.

The login screen was improved, but the XP one wasn't bad either. But for some reason those god-awful balloon popup notifications were not scrapped like they should have been ages ago. Your system tray will constantly plead for attention for the most inane, least interesting news, like a puppy wanting attention.

Great, thanks. Fix what ain't broke and don't fix what is.