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> On another note, it's pretty cool that the first three names credited in the JPL coding standard document are Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie, and Doug McIlroy.

It's not surprising at all. It's the work of Gerard Holzmann[1], who worked at Bell Labs at the Computing Sciences Research Center with all the other Unix folks where he developed the Spin[2] model checker. (As a sidenote, Spin was used to check the sanity of the Plan 9 kernel).

[1] http://spinroot.com/gerard/

[2] http://spinroot.com/spin/whatispin.html
Bionic Eye implants raise hopes for the blind
You should be more clear what you want, programming videos can be anything from printing hallo world in java to theoretical computer sience where they dont even know how large the problems are.

Are you intressted in languages, compilers, algorithms, data structurs, parallism, concurency, databases, operating system, virtual maschines, garbage colleters, grafics or something more meta like the this 'value of value' video.

I can provide you links almost everything but im not going to do the work until you tell me what you want.
I like the idea, but I got to say the UI is a bit confusing...
I really wanted to add a couple of places, but just couldn't figure out how.
Huge fan of Jira for tickets, it's flexible enough to be a to-do list or really whatever you want, especially since if you need 10 or fewer people, you're only out $10 for a perpetual license.
You would. The thing is that it's supposed to be easier and involving less code, since you don't need to port the interface boilerplate. At least that's how I understood it.
Yup, enterprise-y is what I've been trying to avoid here. A lot of overhead for users that I can count on my fingers without using binary. Also, much of the big SSO systems seem to require the application to be aware of it, which is a showstopper to me: I want to protect with SSO ANY webapp ANYONE has written, even the simplest ones, without having to bother with trying to make it aware of the system. That's the whole point of setting REMOTE_USER: either the app doesn't care about identity (think status panel without any actions), or most likely it is already able to hand off authentication to the frontend http server.
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I don't, they updated the task/chart/planning boards without warning.
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On the flip side, there definitely are companies out there that do screw their advertisers over. I work for one that doesn't, but I hear plenty about others..
Thanks!

I don't use Windows, so I can't promise anything, but there's nothing there that may prevent it from working on Windows. It's pure Perl, so the code itself is portable. If you have any particular problem, feel free to email me (address should be in the repo); and if you have success running Odin on Windows, I'd be very interested in hearing that too.

Re hybridauth: using different identity providers is somewhere between "it's possible" and "it would be nice to have" priority, unless we actually need it. The idea is to have the SSO for the internal services, and hybridauth seems to be focused on end user and social authentication. Also, Hybridauth itself is PHP; while in principle it should be possible to implement the authorizer app in any language, I'd prefer to keep it in Perl until there's a really, really good reason to switch.

If I work on option on different identity providers, it will still be rather focused on internal services use case than end-user social authentication use case. However, I'd be happy to see and review a pull request implementing social auth if any of Odin's users needs that.
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Trello and Asana both are pretty generic and seem to refrain from enforcing any particular use case through UI. I also found this genericness hard at first, especially having used FogBugz and other “traditional” PM / ticket tracking tools that do all the decisions for you.

However, I seem to be stopping caring too much about creating “proper” cards (we use Trello as well), adopting the “create a card with whatever is on your mind if you feel there's a need for it”-like approach. I like it, and it's fast, maybe it'll will work for you, too?

Of course, some things still have to be considered before creating the card—e.g., task atomicity—but that's the case with any tool.

It depends on your workplace and workflow, though. If there's a certain degree of formality there, I think it's much better to have this enforced by UI, because then decision making is likely to become a real problem.
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For those wondering why India doesn't first feed its citizens, here is a relevant post: http://launiusr.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/why-explore-space-a...
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"$82 million" mission? That budget doesn't even cover the fuel cost for a rover. Production of Pu-238 for the rover has been estimated at over $90 million, this does not include planning and starting costs.

Add to that the fuel for the launch vehicle; and fuel for the the cruise stage.

I can't trust this article.
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Coursera is more like college course in that it has lecturs and after that you have 'homework' but its much better then normal college stuff put on the net. It is made for the internet not for offline and thrown on the net.
As an Indian, I feel that this is nothing more than a neurotic problem at a national level, and that the money would have been much better spent on the hundreds of millions in poverty, or on developing national infrastructure, or on hundreds of other "first things first" projects. Let me just list out some of the titles of Karen Horney's "Neurosis and human growth", which read like a commentary on the thought process that leads to such keeping-up-with-the-joneses behaviour :

1. The Search for Glory

2. Neurotic Claims

3. The Tyranny of the Should

4. Neurotic Pride

7. General Measures to Relieve Tension

8. The Expansive Solutions : The Appeal of Mastery

As a general comment, if there is only one book that you can read, read this.
http://books.google.com.hk/books/about/Neurosis_and_Human_Gr...
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You trust Dropbox. You could presumably trust Zapier.

That you don't isn't really an argument for them changing their practices.

For example Mint.com keeps your banking passwords in order to do offline-logins, but people still trust Mint not to steal their money.

If many people don't trust a startup, I think they likely need to change their presentation style and not their practices.
I'm kind of suspicious of these kinds of things. Especially the "subtle improvements" can have unintended effects.

Can I really just include without worrying about it?
Samsung argues that Apple's designs are obvious
What others have said. Good code is self commenting. I prefer to see comments reserved for instances where its not clearly obvious why a piece of code exists (hacky workarounds, etc...)
I believe that all of the CSS in there is the default CSS in at least one browser. It really intends to only normalize between browsers.
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There was also great initial resistance, not because the opponents didn't want to safeguard rights; but because they feared enumerating some rights for named protection would leave other rights not named unprotected.
The thing to keep in mind is that the use of pseudo-elements keeps the style separate from the content. In terms of practicality, there isn't much; I did this as an experiment in semantics and the latest CSS properties and techniques.
Aye, I must admit I looked around the landscape for a bit and then spent a good 5 minutes just looking at the rover. It is quite beautiful.
$19.95 for something that a 1-square centimeter piece of black electrical tape will take care of perfectly.
I simply eyeballed an image rather than working to scale. As it is just an experiment, I'm not too fussed by the incorrect dimensions.
Really? I'd have thought that about the cheapest thing about a launch would be the fuel.

The price per kg of LOX, LH2 etc. all seem fairly low to me, a quick search gives:

http://www.astronautix.com/props/loxlh2.htm
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Please don't use this file. Use it for inspiration and take the parts that make sense for your website, but don't just copy the entire file without examining it closely.

For example, this file disables the webkit text size adjustment on the iPhone. Text size adjustment is what makes most websites readable on the iPhone without excessive zooming / scrolling. You should disable it only if you are making a mobile optimized version of your website and the automatic text size adjustment actually causes problems.
And the Government is not allowed to restrict it with any new law. The US Constitution was not made to give you rights, but to restrict the Government from taking them

This is called 'positive rights' and 'negative rights'. Negative rights are your rights and the government is not allowed to restrict them, they prevent the government from doing a thing. Positive rights are where the government is required to act to ensure you actually have the right to something. (e.g. the right to a fair and speedy trial requires the government to set up a courts system that is able to handle the load, they can't just have 1 court for the whole country that has a waiting list of 100 years, some places have "a right to education" which requires the state to set up and fund schools).

Some constitutions & binding declarations of rights have positive and negative rights. E.g. Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union has been interpreted to include positive rights. I have no idea of the US situation.

It would be interesting if 'Freedom of speech' was a positive right. What would happen then...

(more details http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_rights )
There where VM that did basiclly what happens on there. Smalltalk VM could bassicly do this, its quite sad that they where not picked up by teachers very often.
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This strawman argument has was already old 40+ years ago, and doesn't age well like fine wine or cheese.
Ask HN: Why there is no official mobile version of HN?
All the versions I am able to find are hobby projects.
Freedom is won with the barrel of a gun. You do not ask for rights, you get a weapon, and you point it at your oppressor and say: Leave me alone Or I will shoot you.

That is how freedom works, not with words. With actions.
Yeah you can, AFTER the transparency effects ends !! That's an awesome wait to replace a dumb "loading... please wait" now?
Dw, I think its brilliant and I upvoted. The perspective just gets to me is all :)
This is why some places have 'positive rights', that require the government (or whatever) to do a thing to ensure you have the ability to exercise your rights http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_rights
When it started making them money.
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So they should make it out of rubber because "it'll end up in a case anyway and be fat and heavy and clunky looking"?

There is a severe flaw in what you're saying - Apple didn't design the iPad 1, iPad 2 or iPad 3 with a full case in mind, in spite of the audience using them lots.

Yes I realise they make the smart case. I think of this like the bumper - offering something demanded, but the core product was designed without it. They also introduced it significantly after the iPad 2.
Who the hell gives a shit?!
I don't buy it.

India is struggling with implementing solutions to issues that appear to be more-or-less solved for other countries; such as a working road network, public transport in most cities, picking up and distributing food harvests and a 24-hour supply of electricity. If a mission to Mars might provide fundamental insights into solving such issues, other countries seem not to have needed them.

Added later: I don't believe this mission to Mars has nothing to do with good old South Asian jingoism, and outdoing the geographical neighbour I shall not name.
Here is the image I used for reference: http://store.storeimages.cdn-apple.com/6442/as-images.apple....
That does seem ambitiously cheap, but it's at least not orders of magnitude off. NASA currently has a call where they're taking bids for a low-cost interplanetary mission, with bids capped at $425m plus launch costs: http://www.space.com/11593-nasa-planetary-missions-shortlist...

If you take into account cheaper labor, I could imagine India coming in considerably lower than that, though I'm not sure how much lower. They could probably also save some money by using existing, already-proven technology, e.g. by purchasing some ex-Soviet designs and equipment rather than developing all custom hardware+software. That said, I would be very surprised if this launches on-budget and on-schedule.
There is a possibility of the advertisers getting rebates or unrecorded discounts after they pay the large-amount invoices. This can exaggerate the income figure for the publisher, and possibly help the advertisers to cut taxes as well.

It's illegal, of course. But I guess they are doing exactly like this.
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Meetings are fine if they have an agenda, someone to enforce the agenda, no extraneous parties, are timeboxed and have a predetermined outcome should no consensus be arrived at. "We're going to shelve this unless we can come up with an acceptable solution within 30 minutes"
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Happy you're earning 1 million dollars per MONTH in salary. You didn't do the math, did you?
If you're just reading text-based books, why not go with a Kindle? They're cheap and much better suited to the task.

Graphics-heavy stuff beyond the scope of the Kindle is usually larger format anyway, and even the 10" iPad feels a bit small for that.
Apple's entry into the phone market already pioneered by other competitors is a testament to the platform's dominance.

Also, no one would be making tablets of any size if it weren't for the success of the iPad (introduced January 2010.) If you recall, 2009 was all about the netbooks. Remember them? Nobody else does either.

The Nexus 7 (released at the end of June) is the first non-iPad tablet of any size that has ever gotten a legit positive review. It's hard to see how the unimpressive Android tablets of the past two years and the Kindle Fire constitute successful pioneering. And now Apple looks to introduce a very strong competitor three months later.

Here's my prediction. Unless the iPad mini is an unmitigated turd, Apple's iPad mini will outsell the Nexus 7 five-to-one during the Christmas quarter. That's platform dominance.
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"... I'm curious if it really does take an Antarctic state of mind. ..."

Great question. I keep a list of these articles as I've have an interest in how ppl perform in unusual or dangerous situations. Here's a couple of articles I can think of:

A) How we decide under difficult circumstances in real time

"'...There are no formal guidelines issued to climbers, and we don't know the risk it might have meant for their own lives. But can it ever be right, in the words of mountain leaders Chris and Simon Holloway, for climbers to "carry on to the summit, while there are living people dying behind them"? Ben Yehuda, a former soldier, described his decision to stop as 'automatic' ..."

Jon Henley, "Mount Everest: the ethical dilemma facing climbers" ~ http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/shortcuts/2012/may/28/mount-...

B) Handling extreme mental & physical challenges

"It's important to learn how to function while being fatigued," he explains. ... Without realizing it, Espiritu had taken advantage of some of the major techniques that allow people to maximize their hardiness."

1) Modify your perspective

2) Lean on your friends

3) Laugh

4) Keep your head down

5) Exercise

Jeff Wise, "An Ultramarathoner's 5 Secrets of Toughness" ~ http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/extreme-fear/201005/ultr...

C) How you slide into trouble in cold remote environments

"... In the book, Krakauer alleges that essential safety methods adopted over the years by experienced guides on Everest are sometimes compromised by the competition between rival guiding agencies to get their clients (some with little or no mountaineering experience) to the summit. ..."

Jon Krakauer, "Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster" ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Thin_Air#Summary

D) Special forces selection is a process that maximises the necessary state of mind for multiple unforgiving environments.

"... "The Gift of Fear" that if you afraid of something, that's good because it hasn't actually happened yet. Think about it, when a new recruit is standing on the edge of a 40-foot repel tower, he's not afraid of being that high off the ground anymore, he's afraid of falling. If he were to fall off the tower, well then he's certainly not fearful of falling anymore, he's more concerned with landing....you get the idea, right? So when we think about it like that, why is just a thought enough to make us quit and what can we do about it. It is at these time that you have to have some "rules" in place that you can go to immediatley to replace those cancerous thoughts of fear and doubt ..."

Dr. Dave Ricciuti, "Surviving the Cut, the Spartan Death Race, and Life!" ~ http://tacticalpsych.com/2/post/2012/06/surviving-the-cut-th...
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As a long customer in Germany, I can only agree. They have a lot of shady practices and I wouldn't recommend them to anyone.
Corroborated.
http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/article3775271.ece
India does have a significantly larger population than most other countries.

There's also the cultural difference. India is steeped in culture and religion that dates back farther than pretty much any other developed (or even developing) country.

I'm not giving an opinion on whether this is good or bad, just pointing out that straightforward solutions in other countries may not necessarily apply here.
It's been a fantastic 2 years! The next event will be on Aug 23rd. See http://www.meetup.com/HNLondon/events/77825522/?a=ea1_grp... for details.
So we should drop everything and focus on that alone?

We are also struggling with a massive brain drain. Such missions are going to inspire an entire generation and maybe create a sense of satisfaction and achievement. I, for one, do not doubt the importance of those in nation building.

Extrapolating from the words of Dr N D Tyson, the total spending on such space missions is not as high as we may think it is. India's GDP is good enough to not look at a space mission with a jaundiced eye.
EInk Kindles can't really do email, or twitter, or skype or angry birds. Right now I tote around three devices (four when I haul my laptop.) A smaller iPad means I get rid of the Kindle and the iPod touch.
Microsoft halts new apps on marketplace
It seems that Asana doesn't support Opera which is quite surprising. A screen that I got tells that Chrome (>= 11), Safari and Firefox (>= 6) are supported.
(Indian citizen fwiw)

As much as I like India and its space program, it is also true that these kind of grand pronouncements happen from time to time and are not taken very seriously here. And when the announced missions/projects do happen they are inevitably over budget and delayed.

E.g: cost of an unmanned lunar probe in 2008 - US $ 90 million (source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-1)

costs for a lunar lander/rover, proposed for 2016 (delayed from the original plan for 2014) - projected cost - US $ 80 million. Note this is the projected cost (source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-2)

Thus, I'd be very very skeptical of a mars probe actually being launched in 2013 at the same amount of money as was spent on a lunar probe 4 years ago.

See how that $80 million keeps repeating? Must be the maximum budget you can sell to a technically illiterate politician. ;-)

That said, I am all for India trying to explore space, with whatever constraints. Eventually there will be a Mars probe and that is great.
That's a white MacBook for me, but still glossy.
You can never get real-time with a higher-level language, but 99,9% of people don't need hard real-time. At most they need soft real-time. There is no reason to have to get there.
Yeah if you're in the handful of users area it's way overkill. Mod_mellon doesn't quite handle REMOTE_USER but it does set a request variable (MELLON_USER IIRC) so if you have any control over the source at all you can just bodge that in pretty easily (the django bits to grok that are ~4 lines). Also ties you to apache but on the other hand lets you chain authentication to google apps which is gold if you've got a preexisting authentication system.
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You're right. I guess I meant the aspect of fear one has of new things as they get older. I hate that personality trait. It is more prominent in older people.
In the grand scheme of things, these are tiny expenditures ($82 mil). Consider also that India is a federal state, with significant power awarded to local states infrastructure-wise. Some places are nearly westernized, others still very much in the 19th century.
> drop everything and focus on that alone?

Strawman. I'm not suggesting dropping everything. I'm only opining that a mission to Mars should be of lower priority than fulfilling basic infrastructure needs, which may be a source of satisfaction to a larger chunk of the population than the much smaller elite that can actually understand what a mission to Mars is all about.
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True - it's a marketplace, eBay for livery services.
Watching a scientist explain faith to a nun brought a distinguished smile to my face.
I love Woz but as others said, it's wrong to think of the government "giving" us our freedoms.
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I'm so glad the UK government gives them millions of dollars in aid every year. FFS.
Web development is so fucked up, I'll take anything to make it more manageable...especially if it requires me to forget all things necessary! :)
They make textarea display in sans-serif?[0]

No thanks. rows and cols should mean something :(

[0] https://github.com/necolas/normalize.css/blob/master/normali...
It's been well established that you can achieve just about any icon purely with CSS. Why is this getting so many upvotes?
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I think there is another great example of value based programming we use every day even on small scale: unix pipes.

cat file | grep .... | wc

There are no complex protocols involved between cat, grep and wc - just passing around the value (now I am not talking about mutable files, directories etc).

I have seen very few systems which are as simple yet as flexible and versatile. Conventional wisdom says it is because unix is set of small utilities where each program does just one thing right. After watching the talk we should note that these utilities pass around text values.

If you want to build something as powerful and flexible as unix command line, you should think about value of decomposition as well as value of values :)
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