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I spent a few days in Pakistan last week, specifically in Karachi. I found the people to be very polite, the city vibrant and modern (much more so than I expected), and in spite of their enormous challenges, there are pockets of growth and development (telecom, islamic banking). Like much of South Asia, these developments are in spite of the government.

There also seemed to be an air of optimism about the prospects of Imran Khan becoming the next Prime Minister. I asked my taxi driver what might cause Imran Khan to lose and he mentioned if America does not want him, he wont become PM.

Here is an interview of Imran Khan with Julian Assange - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WacS98ATtIM
I am aware of the dev build. But latest stable version is still in Feb 2012.
Of course, in a more sane language, it would throw an exception, rather than silently returning a wrong value.
That parent (not you) deleted their post and I was not replying to you about plagiarism. The deleted post said my post was plagiarized.
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None of the decisions listed here were "obscure" design decisions and none of your examples indicates that ruby is unstable.

Specifying the source encoding in 1.9 is only required if you have string literals in your code that are not in the default encoding. That should be a rather rare case, in fact pretty much none of my code files has the encoding header. Ruby 1.8 was not encoding aware, so Strings were just pure byte streams and the encoding didn't matter.

Changing the way require works fixed a potential attack against ruby scripts. Effectively the only thing that was changed was that from that point on the working directory was not included in the loadpath any more. Calling `ruby -I . <script>` reverts to the previous behavior. Backporting require_relative is not a sensible decision, 1.8 has reached EOL. If you need to write code that compatible to both ruby versions, just don't use it. It's nothing but a convenience method (in fact, most libraries just use a proper LOAD_PATH setup and don't use it). Since 1.9.2 was the first stable release of the 1.9. branch it's fair enough at that point.

Breaking the extension API between 1.8 and 1.9 is fair enough as well since Ruby 1.9 is a new major release. Ruby's versioning works different than PHPs. A minor PHP release (5.3.1 -> 5.3.2) would be a patch release in ruby (1.9.3-p0 -> 1.9.3-p125). Breaking changes are required at some point. 1.9 added more breaking changes, such as String not being enumerable any more etc. Most of those were required to add encoding support, which was the big and important feature added at that time.

All in all I must say that the only large-scale breakage of existing code I've witnessed in the ruby world was the 1.8 -> 1.9 transition.
Did I step on a nerve? Again, please don't mistake my cold feedback for condescending comments.

I am fully aware of the differences between spelling and grammar. You may not be aware of this, but "spelling nazi" is simply a popular expression, hence the double quotes that I explicitly added.

Don't worry - next time I'll say "grammar nazi".
That explained nothing.
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Just to be precise, only the game engine is open source. "Images are licensed under a Creative Commons License and are provided separately," and this CC license is BY-NC-SA which is neither FSF- nor OSI-compliant.
I wonder what the chances are of these new gTLDs being as successful as, say, .biz or .mobi? In other words, not at all successful.

One reason to be optimistic about the failure of gTLDs is recognition. I think people understand that something ending in .com or .net or a ccTDL is an 'internet address', but how do you indicate this with a gTLD like 'book' or 'blog' where there is no visual hint to indicate that it is a domain?
You know, I am reading a lot of comments like this lately on HN. It is always about the same group of countries too. Whether it is the "I hate to be a hater.." comment I read last week in the article about some random Arab nation introducing better schools, or this article about Pakistan. You will notice it also in articles about Israel or other "politically charged" areas too. In short, glossing over the entire article, and then dropping in some negative meme about the area in question. Please stop it.

Anti-Other-ism is not a Pakistani-only phenomena, as anyone here can attest to. An example I had was a physics professor in CEGEP who was horrified that I didn't drink. He proceeded to tell me that he "knew all about that Pakistan-India" business - through his Hindu Indian wife. Truth mixed with bigotry was the kindest way to put his newfound opinions. (Even then, it would not be fair to say that /her/ identity was based on being Anti-Pakistan or even a bigot)

Really, the concept of reducing a nation's entire identity to a strong negative emotion is ridiculous. It would be about as fair as saying that the American identity is about being "Anti-Brown" or the Japanese identity is about being "alien from the rest of the world". Nonsense, except for the smallest fraction of crazies that you could find in any sufficiently large population.

I'll take the critical-but-fair opinion of a third party such as Eric Schmidt over a compromised local like MJ Akbar any day.
The dev version work just fine for me and I use it almost everyday.
Apparently because it's moving, dust particles "bounce off".
Neither Ruby nor, as far as I know, PHP follow semver. Historically all bets have been off when it comes to breaking changes on "minor" releases.
The main issue I see with this is if it gets knocked or something breaks inside it, a giant hunk of spinning metal is not what you want flying around inside your lovingly built PC.
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Poor form, European Commission. "Science: It's a girl thing"
Speaks for itself.
You missed the crucial step 4 :

Get these published in teen girl and cosmo magazines, because the women who read it on the internet are probably already in tech.
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16,000 cores sounds impressive until you realize it's just five to ten modern GPUs. For Google, it's easier to just run a 1,000 machine job than requisition some GPUs.

See: http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla-servers.html (4.5 teraflops in one card)

Reminder: GPUs will destroy the world.
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I'm not sure I know enough about Scotland / Wales / England / Ireland to fairly comment here. The key difference as I understand it at least, is that India and Pakistan did not exist as nations - ever - they were both nations created "artificially" out of the greater Indian sub-continent. India walked away with the history of the ancient indian civilization and everything from then on as its own story - Pakistan emerged as "we're not India, we're a muslim nation". I see where you're coming from - but the problems here run significantly deeper than sports rivalries!
> Javascript performance on mobile has been doubling roughly every generation

This is a very strong statement. And even if it was true, there still are fundamental limitations to Javascript performance, i.e. you wouldn't expect it to reach the native performance.
Where does it say in this page a specific version of PHP ? I searched for "PHP" and did not find anything.
If that is the price the world has to pay for the occasional google so be it.
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Is there a way to release an HTML5 game that isn't open source (viewable code)? Other than obfuscating the code isn't it necessarily available to the user?
Which is why you should use Python, not PHP ;) (Penis submitted for measurement)
> Your argument assumes that the world of "stuff" resembles GNU/Linux. Very broadly useful things that lots of people have the expertise to contribute to, where the costs of contribution are low.

I don't think I have to assume that. Individuals have to limit themselves to such contributions, but companies can make the bigger ones. The question is, would they? I think they would, because I doubt many such investments cannot be paid for without a (temporary) state granted monopoly.

(Now, if you abolished patents overnight, that could spur a sense of loss, which would indeed have a temporary chilling effect on innovation.)

> In such a scenario, the patent isn't a "reward" for innovation, but simply a legal abstraction that makes certain types of business arrangements practical.

Then, I would investigate the value of such business models. Specialization is good, but I think the additional specializations allowed by patents are hitting diminishing returns.

I would also investigate other means to enable such business models. If they can be achieved without patents (your example suggests trade secrets would work too, if Apple, Samsung, etc signed non-disclosures agreement to the same company), then that's one more argument against the patent system: between the patent office, the difficult suits and counter-suits, and the lawyers that work on this full time, the sheer organizational cost to society is substantial. If trade secrets can do the same more efficiently (I think it can in your example), then I say let's kill the unnecessary work!
If the social set is going to include common social media icons and logos, does that mean it's going to be free?
Charging money for a font that is made out of other people's trademarks doesn't seem like it would be legal unless you got their express permission.
The rest of our site is brown/gold but we chose blue for our payment page for exactly this reason.

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(You have to be logged in to see the payment page so I took a screen shot)

The pattern at the bottom is also designed to invoke the feeling of banking. It's kind of like the patterns you see on cheques or credit cards.
Same for ^C, which also does the same as Esc and is extremely convenient to type. (There is a slight difference with Esc though: VjjIblah^C does not do the same as VjjIblah<Esc>.)
Pakis have been brainwashed since birth by "education" to hate Indians and Hindus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistani_textbooks_controversy

Interestingly, here in India too we have had controversies with textbooks. Our current ruling coalition has been accused of pandering to Muslims to tap the votebank!
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reminds me of Malbolge somehow... (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge)
Scotland is currently preparing for a referendum on splitting from the UK (which really means, as far as Scots are concerned, splitting from England).

In what I'm sure is a complete coincidence, the referendum is going to be in the same year as the 700th anniversary of the climactic battle of the Scottish War of Independence at Bannockburn.

The divisions between Scots and English really do go quite deep - at least from the Scottish side, not sure that the average Englishmen cares and if they do it's probably to wish us good riddance.... :-)
You're right, thank you.

At least it works on chrome on osx. It didn't work when I tested it earlier in dev channel chrome on windows.
actually, he's Canadian, now living in America w/ Citizenship
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"One person" isn't. Rasmus isn't the only contributor to PHP, but it is his baby (originally released as his Personal Home Page Tools in the Long, Long Ago). That other people have worked on and contributed to PHP over the years doesn't change the fact that he's the creator of PHP.
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True. You should actually read through his full blog, though. He already gives away a lot.

The "Freedom of Speech" thing comes from several other posts. The remaining context gives you a lot of info. He's 'free' to say whatever he wants because he lives within what his investments are producing. It's a higher form of freedom to be able to turn down $4000/mo.
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I think it's lovely, dubstep notwithstanding. What if this campaign proved to bring positive results - would it be OK then? Or do ends not justify the means?
I don't know the internal workings of Twitter, but if it isn't significantly easier to improve its downtime than to fix Mexico's drug violence, I'd argue they've made some non-trivial engineering mistakes somewhere.
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I disclosed them responsibly and they were fixed before I published this blog post.

As a Fastmail.fm user, thanks for your work in improving the service by notifying the team of these vulnerabilities.
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How did you integrate ZBar into Android? From the zbar homepage, I always thought it was only available for iPhone and C\C++

Edit: Now I see there's an official ZBarAndroidSDK since March.
Eric Shmidt's opinion on this topic has no value. People like him are treated way better than ordinary people in Muslim countries. People like me can be arrested/executed for the silliest of reasons [1][2][3]

I wouldn't ever go to a Muslim country because some rich dude said it's quite alright. What works for them needn't work for me.

[1]http://articles.cnn.com/2012-03-13/asia/world_asia_pakistan-...
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamza_Kashgari
[3]http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/iran-must-halt-execution-web-...
I live in Lahore which is one of the three major cities in Pakistan. Trust me, what he says about electricity is absolutely true.
Right now I am sitting which out any electricity. My internet modem is on UPS so that I can have uninterrupted internet. As far as computer is concerned, I have to religiously charge my laptop whenever there is electricity so that I can use the laptop during the load shedding times.. Since its so hot( I am sweating right now no fan, and the temperature is 50 C), my laptop heats up which usually causes my graphics card to burn out. Just bought my third laptop in last 12 months. Desktop computers are out of question.
education, housing and health insurance were much cheaper even just 20 years ago
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I noticed my e-mail provider also gave me the JS popup when i clicked the SVG attachment. They are using Horde. Possible horde security flaw?
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The again, in PHP, interpreting strings as floats is not unusual and pretty well defined. So in PHP it's also a case the developer could have considered normal in his expectation that PHP would behave as usual (and it did, prior to 5.3, for this precise function)
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It is silly to assume that more SDKs = more developers .

None of the SDKs are simple to use. The Webworks doesnt work behind a proxy. Ha. The whole process of signing your applications is so bloody time consuming and complex that I havent bothered to upload my apps there.
Or, we could just flag articles like this and leave them to other sites.
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And, thanks to scale, that some of the clusters corresponds to high level concepts. According to the article, earlier attempts have mostly resulted in low level concepts like "edge" or "blob" to be detected.

Also, it was (again, from the article) plausible but not a given that high level concepts could be found from unlabeled data.

That "cat" is one of the high level concept you get from using random Youtube videos as raw data is both impressive, and slightly amusing.
I believe you are refering to strongly vs weakly typed, not statically vs dynamically typed. A strongly typed language would not try to parse the string into a number (although it would indeed accept a string, if it is dynamically typed as well).
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I don't think you're as much at odds with the author as you claim. What I read in the article was him trying to teach a different way of looking at things, a new angle, which is what I read you got out of your enlistment.
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Did everyone miss the point of that comment? Most of the names on my list are not women.
> First of all, why does the function even accept strings?

Why not?

> There should be some eception happening.

PHP's built-in functions do not ever throw exceptions.

> Second, why does it return 0, i could understand NULL but not 0

Well it doesn't anymore, but it used to, and that kind-of made sense in the context of the language being PHP: in PHP (userland), when using a string in a numeric context that string will automatically be converted to a number:

> php -r 'print (1 + "3") . "\n";'
4

when the string can not be parsed to a number (meaning it is not prefixed by something which looks like a number), it's just converted to `0`:

> php -r 'print (1 + "whelp") . "\n";'
1

And I expect that is the former behavior of the function: it coerced whatever it got to a number, so an empty or non-numeric string would get converted to the float 0.0, which would then get formatted as usual.
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If the JavaScript executed, it's a "probable" critical security flaw, rather than a "possible" one. Are they using the latest version? Would you be able to submit a bug report to your provider and/or the Horde project?

[edit] I have alerted security@horde.org
I voted this up before reading it assuming the title was correct. How stupid of me.
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The Olympics are coming to London and I predict a huge clusterfuck. To maintain my sanity I'm looking for somewhere that I can go for approx two weeks. From ~30th July to ~12th August.

I work at a start up so I can't just drop everything and go climb Everest.

* I need somewhere that has good / reliable internet.

* Somewhere I can get by knowing only English

* Similar timezone to the UK (a nice to have)

* Not have to worry about my laptop getting stolen

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* £1000-2000 budget

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I've also considered Reykjavik as I've always wanted to visit Iceland but it is quite a bit more expensive. New York and SF are both viable options too, just that there is so much to do in NYC that I'll get distracted and I know if I go to SF I'll probably end up getting offered many jobs that I would find hard to turn down.

Have I missed anywhere? Any reasons why I shouldn't choose the places I mentioned?