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In looking for vi[m] tools for Vista 64 I came across this:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=2375...

older, but better explanation:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc779522(v=ws.10)...

And a blurb on how to go about enabling some of the functionality:

If you have Vista Enterprise or Ultimate, you can install the optional
"Subsystem for Unix Applications" (SUA). This is under Control Panel,
Programs and Features, Turn Windows Features On or Off. After you have
installed SUA on Vista, then download the "Utilities and SDK for SUA" from
Microsoft.com (the download URL is in the Start menu, after you install
SUA).

The SUA Utilities include vi, as well as all the standard Unix/Posix tools
like ls, cat, sed, awk, etc. There is also the gcc compiler, so you can
compile and run a wide range of open source Unix software on your Vista box.
You can also download SUA binaries and source code for many popular
Linux/Unix apps on Vista, from www.interopsystems.com - Apache, PostgreSQL,
OpenSSL, Squid etc - it's all there.

Unfortunately, SUA is not available for Home or Business editions of Vista.
If you have one of these editions, you can try using Vim, a very popular vi
clone (see www.vim.org). A Win32 version is availabel. In fact several Unix
distributions are now shipping vim as the standard editor, in place of the
classic vi (because vim has many useful extra features).

Fortunately we are running Vista Ultimate 64 bit, which makes playing with this subsystem possible.
> The biggest components of page speed is usually the number of round trip times, which only reducing latency can help with.

You can also reduce the number of round trip times by using something like SPDY.
Which of these are in the bay area? Bump/Facebook/Google - what else?
Really random anecdote: I'm not a programmer, but I got a job interview because I put Common Lisp on my resume, and that caught the interviewer's eye...2 months later, I had my current position (which is my favorite job so far).
May help: http://mactracker.ca/
Can't wait to see a spec on the protocol, I'm excited to work on a Ruby implementation.
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great reply, this was very helpful. We are a SaaS market research tool for a specific type of niche just to clarify.

I'll start monitoring Flippa and see if I should test the waters there. Thanks again!
Competition is always healthy, but its going to be pretty tough for Google to launch something that makes our startup move away from AWS or Rackspace. EBS would be the main service to attack of Amazons.
Working with ArrayList using C# and ASP.NET - Basic and Advance
My notes below (disclaimer- never took econ, took very few stats classes):

- Barter still exists even though players are more sophisticated. Author expected to find one item becoming defacto currency, but that does not happen.

- Because barter exists, you can express the price of items relative to other items in the game, ie 1 lazer gun = 2 hats. It is theoretically possible to start with 2 hats and end up with 6 through multiple trades of items.

- Author then extrapolates a model for an economy like TF2 that has 35k items and 600M relative prices.

- TF2 is not in equilibrium, meaning lots of opportunity for arbitrage. Arbitrage opportunities are greatest when new items and sales are introduced.

- Assuming this "dis-equilibrium", author adjusts the model by accounting for frequency of trades, ie 1 lazer gun = 2 hats but may only be traded a few times, but lets say a new item, earmuffs, are added to the game and conversion rate is 3 earmuffs = 2 hats. This might be traded many times by players due to its introduction and inherent value to them.

- You can graph the value of these items over time to see if they can be arbitraged.

- My knowledge of statistics is rather weak, but it looks like if you compute the error rate, ie square root of the differences between normal model and adjusted model, you can monitor with real time data when arbitrage opportunities arise.

Grand summary: Gaming companies produce a ton of real time transaction data, and with this data it is possible to monitor economy dynamics in new ways that economists have previously been unable to do. If players had access to this data they can arbitrage more effectively, but more importantly for game designers it might be worthwhile to be knowledgeable about these effects so they can keep players engaged in the long term.
I've wanted to build something like this for a long time, the problem I encountered (which I couldn't solve) is how to effectively and automatically find not just the questions and answers, but the discussion that stem from them.

A good AMA is one that creates discussion between the subject and commenter's so the majority of good content is buried underneath multiple comments. For example I did an AMA and it had a few hundred comments, the "top" question was pretty mediocre but it had a reply that made it a valuable question and that reply was the most "popular" (most replies, most votes) thing in the AMA. Your site would not have picked this up.

If you can solve the problem of dealing with all the nested comments and trying to work out the value of each reply (taking into account votes, length, number of replies and possibly the "relevant" workds?) then your site will absolutely be worth using. Instead of just being a different way to display the data, create extra value. Good AMAs are not just Q&As, they're discussions.

> So far it seems likely that I will have to take down the site

Traditionally reddit is very good towards community projects, they pride themselves on their "different" approach to community, unless you're causing harm to reddit I don't see why they would require you to take this down. There are multiple tools that already exist that extend reddit and provide extra value, none of which have been taken down -- from what I've seen anyway.

Specific to your current implementation of the idea, your font-size is way too low, the focus of the site is the words so make them bigger! The size you have it now isn't very readable. Check our some blogs for examples of what sizes to use for text.
Not all returns are someone else's consumption. If that were the case, there would be no industry.

It is a good approximation of reality, created by the fact that people have varying preferences for consumption versus investment.

An education is not (usually) consumption for a consumer. Neither is a car that more than pays for itself with the time it saves.

In neither of these cases does the provider of the car or education receive monetary returns for the car or education beyond the actual price. When I said "investment", I should perhaps have specified capital gains: interest, dividends, or asset appreciation that return monetized value to the investor.

So an education is metaphorically investment for the student, but not for the university. Even for the student, there is no asset owned that can be sold and no legal contract of debt or equity that "their education" has to pay for. There's just a hope of a better-paying job. Hence, "metaphorically" an investment.

Our society has chosen to water down the natural incentives to make prudent investments.

Well no. Our society is struggling to keep its head far-enough above water to avoid a deflationary spiral.
It will be free, but it will have targeted ads in your source code :)
Agreed.

In fact, one of Apple's Chinese suppliers could probably do most of the design work involved in providing a product to customers who (e.g., because the customer is a large organization that cannot afford the cost and the publicity of losing a software-infringement lawsuit) cannot use Hackintoshes, but want to run OS X on hardware vaguely competitive with current beefy Windows and Linux tower computers.
Penrose was explicitly talking about biological evolution. If we are actually in a "fine tuned universe" discussion now, then all I have to say is "Anthropic Principle". I don't think there is much more meat there to discuss otherwise. We cannot (yet?) reason about any deterministic processes that may have lead the universe itself to have the constants it does.

Of course we already know about many processes that support the formation and existence of life in this already existing universe. Stellar evolution for example, is a rather healthy branch of scientific inquiry. There are not "mysterious" things at play, unless Penrose and yourself are simply intending to imply that there are still things which we do not fully understand (which is obvious, and that is a very confusing way of stating something so obvious and universally recognized).
Set Up Your VPS for Ruby
Help me make this HTML5 game more addictive
I'm a fan of mustache. There is an excellent implementation for Clojure: https://github.com/davidsantiago/stencil
Fuck, I grew up upper-middle class and I agree with you wholeheartedly. What good was the course to the woman who got fired from her fast-food job for trying to unionize (which is blatantly illegal but happens all the time)?

What would have been good for her? 1) A liveable wage. 2) A society that doesn't fuck her over for wanting a liveable wage. 3) A society that doesn't fuck her over for trying to get a liveable wage by unionizing.
People who try it like and have fun. However, they don't seem to get hooked and unable to stop.

Technically the game is shaping up nicely but it needs a gamer's psychology brains to make it more fun and addictive.

Please help.
>Not to be outdone, other sources have confirmed Microsoft is also building an Infrastructure as a Service platform

Do they mean azure? That's IaaS, right?
Another major problem with class action suits: juries, judges, and lawyers do not have any particular immunity to scope insensitivity. A jury can evaluate the harm done to an individual or small group, and often determine a reasonable (or excessive) amount quantifying that harm. However, they cannot easily evaluate the total harm done to a very large group, and select an amount proportional to the actual harm done. Hence the frequent occurrence of class-action lawsuits that result in miniscule payments to each member of the class, after dividing; an $x million payment might have sounded "about right", but not when the class has $y members in it and $x/$y falls several orders of magnitude below the harm done to each member of the class.

I wonder if this problem would improve if judgments always expressed an amount per member of the class, rather than a total amount?
Hi, as a person looking for a home in Boston I've used every tool out there. Amongst your competitors I find myself gravitating back to you and Zillow for the superior user interface. I love you for being able to click "search entire map".

However the main problem I have during my real estate search has nothing to do with UI. It seems like for every home I find through the site that I contact a realitor about the home is already "under agreement". If your site could find a way to be more up to date about those things, it would really stand apart.
Would you mind elaborating on why GAE isn't very good relative to AWS?
The question is whether someone is saying that you can't use the PHP language/architecture to create a large and large-scale application like the Facebook front-end, or whether they mean the PHP runtime is unable to perform effectively at scale.

The Facebook front-end code is largely just the PHP language (modulo things like XHP) and follows the shared-nothing, request-based architecture that people who program in PHP expect. With the right abstractions and code organisation, it is fairly clean and understandable even at the relatively large size (even if I'm not generally a fan of the language and would almost certainly not make the decision to use it today).

It is somewhat less interesting whether the PHP runtime is as efficient as it can be. Partly because one can use an alternative runtime like HipHop for PHP if you want to. And partly because very few people have to worry quite as much about performance/efficiency that comes with a large capital/operational cost where you have hundreds of servers.

So while "But Facebook uses PHP so it must be good" is not the best argument, neither is fighting it with "But Facebook reimplemented it!".
Angular beats Backbone like a prison rape scene. I wrote the peepcode backbone todo app in 1/3 the code using angular (over here: https://github.com/ludicast/angular-peepcode-todo, n.b. I haven't had time to update to newest Angular)

Haven't used ember, but I do mancrush ykatz, so sure he is taking it to good places.
I'm probably too cynical, but I think a big reason for node's popularity these days is the same as it was for rails 5-6 years ago - greenfield projects.

If I'm doing node now, it's not maintaining some legacy crap from 5 years ago - it's straight up new development. I get to do what I want. I don't think that factor comes in to the equation enough when people are talking about efficiencies and productivity metrics and such.

I still do a fair amount of PHP - my productivity maintaining PHP apps written by other people 5-10 years ago is pretty different from PHP I write from scratch, getting to use modern tools/libraries/techniques.

Yes, atmosphere is pretty cool - I'm looking at adding it to a project this fall. grails install-plugin atmosphere ;)
Interesting that the python/nodejs comparisons are not equal: the python ones are all synchronous, and the node.js are all asynchronous.

It would be nice to show how to do asynchronous calls in python, and synchronous in node.js
To run a crusade you need a target. All obvious targets for Muslim crusades either have the nukes, or rumored to have nukes or have friends with nukes. Bummer.
> Use of the Windows Research Kernel requires academic affiliation with an accredited institution of higher education and direct involvement in teaching and/or research, such as being academic faculty members, system or lab administrators or instructors, students enrolled in relevant undergraduate or graduate programs, or academic researchers working on faculty sponsored projects.

As I thought.
So what's the exploit here? Is it a bug in the cards or the protocol or what? Or is the card info considered "public" by the protocol (i.e. I could imagine an authentication scheme where the card could provide its number but the bank would only honor charges via the secure contactless scheme which came with a RSA cookie or whatenot).
Probably also "Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation." (at least, I hope so)
I've never heard of a $40,000/year grad-student stipend. The median stipend, AFAIK, is $20k/year for about 50 hours/week of work (when you actually factor in teaching, research, everything beyond the "student's" curricular responsibilities).
They don't need to make me move away from AWS, as long as they're competitive I'll use them in parallel. As we've seen lately, having live fail-over is always a good plan when you're hosting with cloud providers.
This article writer (to a certain degree) exemplifies recklessness, irresponsibility and selfishness - It is a rare person and at slim odds that someone can have a successful and happy life and family while following this philosophy. (let me guess what generation he is from).

Sure HE may be doing OK SO FAR in life because of many reasons not disclosed in the article. Perhaps he has great people skills or markets himself really well. Maybe he has a very high IQ or possesses one or more of many intangibles or contacts that most people do not have (or maybe just has a large trust fund or his wife has a steady 9-5). Many if not most who follow this philosophy will end up with massive debts and with their family deserting them. (their lives will be in complete ruins). This fate is similar to most aspiring musicians, artists and pro athletes (most never make it big and pay dearly in the end).

This scenario reminds me a bit of several friends that I had in my youth. One of the friends used and advocated illegal drugs regularly. He was was a functional (actually successful) person. Several of my other friends thought that they too could have a successful life while doing drugs. They thought that it would not get the best of them. Sadly, all who tried rather quickly failed and succumbed to drug overuse/addiction their lives became shambles. Most of them have never recovered their lives 20+ years later now. Ironically, the functional drug attic that they emulated eventually got clean - largely because he saw what the drugs did to the others and he realized that even he was vulnerable (his drug use carried too much risk).
Makes me wonder.. if an internet shop can build a cloud platform, what does Google come up with? They must have sooo much experience, own tools, people, knowledge in that area, it's hard to imagine how far this can go.

Hopefully it will not be just a half-assed experiment again.
Selling a used iPod can violate a copyright law
So, we each have 114 years to transform our bio-bodies into mechanical machinery and/or our minds into digital ether.

We're becoming a holometabolous species. We just don't know how to become beautiful, space-faring butterflies yet.
Yes, Azure announced IaaS two weeks ago. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2012/06/06/anno...
As to the first point: Slavery was once legal also, but that is no longer so.

as to the second point: I would assume the Pope actually knows the opinion of the church and wrote so here: http://www.ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/JP961022.HTM or http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/messages/pont...

As to point 3: see my response to 1 and yes, religions for the most part believe Humans are special. Being sentient tends to do that.
My advice would be to study anything in the sciences, computer science, mathematics, chemistry, engineering, etc. With these majors you can almost always find a good paying job anywhere in the world. I studied foreign languages and literatures, and the road has been a lot rougher I think than if I had just majored in computer science ( I'm a software developer). At the time I wanted to major in something that was outside my experience and would be completely new for me, since I had always been programming and had been working in software development since I was 16. Personally, I loved my major, and felt it really expanded my horizons, I delved deep into languages (German,English) that I use daily now, and the linguistics / semiotics knowledge has been applicable in my daily work. But at the end of the day, I could never hope to get a job with my major and got a job as a software developer at a lower salary than if I had majored in computer science. So my advice to my litte brothers now is always - study a science.
Awesome work.

Pls add a big, bold link to cueup.com from your blog to make it easier for readers to check out your product.
Doodh Or Kelaa
Rereading the post you're responding to, out of context, I can see how you might get that impression. In fact, I was trying -- too subtly, it seems -- to point out that the ancestor post was making it seem that foreigners themselves are to blame for employers "cutting salaries, raises, and benefits," rather than the broken U.S. worker visa system. (I don't actually think that's what he actually believes, which is why I was trying to prod him into rephrasing, instead of downvoting him. I find people are too quick to downvote, don't you?)
It would be nice if it didn't hijack my attempts to zoom in and read on my phone. And some indication that swiping changes slides depending which way you swipe.
A couple months ago, reddit started refusing requests from my web scraper. Figured out they started checking the user agent and refusing connections that didn't look like they came from a user's browser. Unless I missed an announcement somewhere, it doesn't seem like they're overly friendly about allowing web scrapers.
Poor leaders push individuals for more output, savvy leaders mentor individuals
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Now you're into the xMac discussion. Everybody says they want an xMac, but Apple doesn't want to sell one.
Why would scraping their site be illegal?
> [H]aving live fail-over is always a good plan when you're hosting with cloud providers.

Also, the rest of the time.
How about cost? If Google was 20% cheaper, would you switch?
SVG graphics on the new iPad look amazing.
Does anyone else think that they missed the boat? 3-4 years ago there was little competition. Now basically EC2 has most of the market. If they want to be successful they have to be not just cool but noticeably better than EC2 and it doesn't seem like google wins that way.
Not exactly. You see, you have to define new types from scratch with your approach. With Haskell's approach, you just have to use the Maybe parametric type, which just needs to be defined once. In other words, you just go and use a generic type instead of writing your own, like new List<Integer> instead of new ListInteger in Java.
How to Show Mobile Visitors You Care with a Single HTML Tag
If you click on the DemoStudio logo, you can see other characters, too (Spiderman, Hulk, Wolverine, etc.)
Death rate has dropped half in a century because of medical advances, but cancer-related deaths have tripled - why?
Azure started and still is mostly used as PaaS for .NET apps.
Recent commenting activity was prompted by DHH's tweets today. https://twitter.com/dhh/status/216242159496609793
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I hadn't even noticed how I was going through the presentation until you mentioned it.
Products like the Altair 8800 certainly came in a case, but they were not able to receive keyboard input or output test to a CRT display without significant aftermarket modifications. (Or various S-100 expansion boards that were released later)
It's only good enough for hosting blogs and experiments?

GAE forces profound vendor lock-in relative to AWS, which is itself already guilty of this compared to a normal infrastructure solution.
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It is important to keep in mind that Facebook isn't just a single PHP code base, and thus one can't really make many assumptions about how well PHP is suited to solving certain problems because one doesn't necessarily know about which bits are implemented in PHP, or whether PHP is just a templating/rendering stage over work done elsewhere.

Some other languages might allow you to do certain operations in the front-end more easily, but the way to approach it when using PHP might be to delegate that to a back-end service in another language. Similarly, some languages might allow you to write both most front-end and most back-end software in the same language, where PHP might be wholly unsuitable or makes certain things harder to achieve than it is worth using it for (maybe strict memory usage control, maybe where you're looking for CPU cache wins).
App engine is a stepchild pos product. It should be deprecated and they should allow socket access, etc so that real web apps can be built on Google services.
Sweet, thanks for pointing out that BO is closer to Maven!

I've heard a few Python SCM tools (setuptools, distutils, fabric, scons, buildout) but haven't gone deep into the Python land yet.
In my case, Google wouldn't be competing with AWS on cost, but rather, Linode.

That's a tall-order. $40/mo for a 1gb VPS is attractive.
Thinking out loud: In an attempt to vastly improve the data, could a mobile app be written that can "detect" if you are driving (exact location, speed, alignment/frequency to your past paths, etc), in such a way that the data could be automatically collected and crowdsourced?

Fire up the app, let it run in background, and it logs everything passively and adds it to global data set. Feasible?
I'm guessing somebody needed to get shitcanned for the mailing address leak, lots of serious people must have kicked their dogs that day. Of all the things $185,000 can buy, apparently Security 101 ain't one of 'em.