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No! Well, sure, there's nothing wrong with technical excellence. But the thing to do is try to understand why this mashup succeed and do more of that.

I know very little about music, but I think the editorial choices are what matter most in a mashup. It was almost like the other artists were debating the merits of this new song. As long as you hit the "technically good enough" threshold, the fact that you've got PSY dancing to "Pretty Fly for a White Guy" is going to matter a lot more.
I think you partially answered your question, but I think some of it has to do w/ Facebook's growth overall. At the time of that article, I think company's offering the service preyed on an assumed barrier to entry. Over the past few years, as even more people of all ages became more accustomed to it, they felt less inclined to bring in an "expert."
I'm dead serious.

http://blogs.hbr.org/hbsfaculty/2012/06/stop-working-all-tho...
Bear in mind this post is from 2009 so it was a bit more amazing back then ;-)
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So basically she is completely crazy? However I hope she wins the fight against toxic chemicals...
Excerpts from linked article:

'The [Hong Kong political] system ensures that every government-led initiative -- which otherwise would have been killed by democratically elected lawmakers in a separate vote count -- sails through the Legco without a hitch. As a result, our legislative and executive branches always march in lock steps. How is that for a separation of powers?'

(How functional constituencies hinder the city’s path to full democracy:)

'Functional constituencies are the reason why taxpayers are forking out HK$67 billion for 26 kilometers of wasteful express railway, why the investigation of C.Y. Leung’s conflicts of interest in the West Kowloon bid was dropped, and why the government is sitting on trillions of foreign reserves and we still don’t have a social security plan.'
I never said it was perfect.

I simply said it was harder.

A government has a much harder time being exploitative than a business does. To the extent that a government's personnel are involved in businesses, the government is corrupted and its resistance to exploitative desires will break down.
I feel like the article is missing a basic analysis of whether there would be more deaths by an increased number of fires caused by removing the fire retardant, or by cancer cancer caused by fire retardant. Just give me some numbers, and let me decide what kind of furniture I want.
I recently did something somewhat physics related, implementing Kepler's laws of planetary motion in JS to produce a 3d simulation of the solar system: http://www.asterank.com/3d/ ...I plan to generalize it into an open source educational tool that allows people to build arbitrary space simulations on top of its physics engine.

Another interesting JS physics experiment that I found while looking into this stuff is this n-body gravity simulator: http://www.spacegoo.com/solar_system/
Well, the point was that I wasn't interested in who he was.
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Small postcode bug, it won't accept "PE29 3EW" in the UK.
IIRC, she also spent a year traveling the world before this happened. I think I remember her saying she picked up the parasite abroad.
What's the difference between European and non-European 1's?
Interesting, do you do disk scrubbing to make sure the data is still out there after a while? That would be the key method to ensure you can still recover the data upon need.
Is this the world’s worst web site name? (Shpoonkle.com)
not everyone has Medicaid, usually the lower middle class gets hosed (too much money to qualify for Medicaid, but barely making ends meet.)

Now that you mentioned it, they probably they charge individuals well over $100K if Medicaid pays $66k
This is really awesome and well made, nice job and congratulations on the success, you deserve it!
I vaguely know somebody through work who is involved in high end legal services.

Around a year ago he hired a webdesigner to redesign his website, apparently the cost paid was around $20,000. Now bare in mind that this was for website design only (logo etc already existed).

The website itself was a relatively bog standard wordpress setup with about 10 pages of copy, a basic WP template and a handful of stock art images, no custom code at all as far as I could tell; I could have done a better job myself over a weekend most likely.

After hearing about this price I was curious as to who had been lucky enough to get hired for such a contract, turns out it was a designer who had been referred to him by others in the legal business.

So the question is, has whoever did this found a goldmine of customers who are willing to pay such huge sums of money just because frankly $20K isn't a lot to these people.

Or was it more to do with the risk of providing services to somebody who specialises in suing the crap out of people?
I am not doing any machine learning (yet). If the site takes off a bit and generates some data, I expect optimizing the prediction algorithm will become a top priority. Accurately predicting human relationships sounds incredibly hard.

Currently, it's looking how similar your ratings are to the ratings of others. Similar people will influence your predictions more strongly.

The declared goals or intentions are currently not affecting predictions. And I'm doubtful if they should. Any opinion on this?
Reminds me of the situation around one of theories that tries to explain SIDS - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. If you had a kid, you know what it is - a newborn dying in his sleep for no apparent reason. You put a healthy baby to sleep in his bed only to find him dead in the morning. Fun stuff.

There are no exact explanation for the syndrome, but there are preventive measures (such as always let newborn fall asleep on his back) that statistically lessen the risk of it occurring.

One of the theories was that a typical crib mattress creates a fertile ground for some fungal growth. Coupled with chemicals found in the mattress, this creates weak poisonous gas emission, which ultimately kills the child. It's an older theory that was verified and formally considered invalid. However in one country, New Zealand, there's a doctor who has been a vigorously arguing in favor of this theory and now has a statistic to show that proper mattress wrapping nullifies the risk of SIDS. From what I've read, he had very hard time getting the authorities to even listen to his findings, leave alone to act on them.

I wish this lady the best of luck, she's got NYT on her side, I hope she takes a full advantage of this exposure.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_infant_death_syndrome
At the storage level there is T10 DIF that is supposed to help with such things (among many other things), though it is used in a very limited fashion and is only supported on the higher end disks.
I wish this comment could be higher. The next iteration shouldn't be about technical excellence (that will come naturally), but rather about audience and artistic desires (it's a mix with art; with business, it would be all customer)..
Can you elaborate?

I am considering HTML for a mobile game, but I am concerned that performance will be lacking and CSS will be challenging.
Ah, thanks. I haven't yet finished testing all post codes. ;-)
Agreed. The end of the Bloodhound Gang section is slightly discordant, but I felt that it had an interesting sound and lead well into the final section. Great work.
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I try to manually unify all my contacts into Gmail, since that's what I mostly use for email, and I can sync them to my phone. But it's definitely missing entries. It's weird that this is such an unsolved problem.
I use both VIM and an IDE for the very reasons described in the article. You just can't ignore the productivity gains of a modern IDE when refactoring, etc. But VIM is great for remote work and when you're creating new files and code.

It's also possible to change the key bindings in Eclipse to emulate Vi.
You mean Torwellian?
Reference: 4:35 @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o66FUc61MvU
Technically an average is general statistic and mean and median (as well as mode) are specific types of averages. As a person with a stats background I often use "average" to mean the general concept instead of a strict arithmetic mean.

It was easy to figure out what the author meant, and his point should be taken for what he meant: half of people are below median.
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Yea, you could use openssl.

But GPG in general is the de facto unix way to go about crypting things. Straight up openssl is good for somethings, making little shell scripts like "dcat" is nice for others, but for general purpose encryption of files, nothing really beats GPG.

I guess GPG isn't simple. It's a big project, well-vetted, and has been under development for years. The usage of its tools, though, is very simple, and the file formats have now become an acceptable standard, widely adopted all over.

So really, give GPG another shot and a close look before you knock it. If it still doesn't meet what you're looking for, check out the man page for openssl-enc. Probably what you want is something like "openssl enc -aes-256-ofb -in infile -out outfile -salt", but likely there are other nuances to account for too. Be careful with crypto.
The irony of the whole thing is that the flame retardants don't even make furniture any less flammable:

"The problem, [the fire expert] argues, is that the standard is based on applying a small flame to a bare piece of foam - a situation unlikely to happen in real life. ... In real life, before the flame gets to the foam, it has to ignite the fabric. Once the fabric catches fire, it becomes a sheet of flame that can easily overwhelm the fire-suppression properties of treated foam. In tests, TB 117 compliant chairs catch fire just as easily as ones that aren't compliant - and they burn just as hot."

So the entire country is now exposed to the dangers of these chemicals because in 1975 some bureaucrats at an obscure government agency in California came up with an arbitrary standard that was not based in reality.
That's a really neat hack, but how many disks have you seen that do not adhere to their write-cache-disabled setting?
How does a couch catch fire, though? I suspect falling asleep on a couch with a cigarette is the main cause. Smokers want to die anyway, so I'd give priority to safety of children.
Sendgrid and mailgun are the tops right now, IMO. They both have great services, but it seems like getting trusted SMTP at lower volumes was cheaper at mailgun. Sendgrid's API is awesome, though.
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One of the secrets is Rock Band et al. These games often have the original music remixed with isolated tracks for the various "instruments," vocals included. There are ways to set up a Rock Band session so the end result is just a single track playing in isolation, which can then be captured as source material for tools like Ableton.
Haven't looked at the cheat sheets but...

If you just want something readable, a couple of quick and dirty ways are:

col -bx < typescript|less
strings typescript |less

You can further clean things up by deleting unwanted lines or characters using sed.

strings typescript|sed '1d;/deleteme/d;s/deleteme//g'|less

There's also an old utility called ttyrec/ttyplay you might like.
The article quotes a fire-safety scientist named Vytenis Babrauskas, whose study has been used in support TB 117:

"The problem, he argues, is that the standard is based on applying a small flame to a bare piece of foam — a situation unlikely to happen in real life. ... In real life, before the flame gets to the foam, it has to ignite the fabric. Once the fabric catches fire, it becomes a sheet of flame that can easily overwhelm the fire-suppression properties of treated foam. In tests, TB 117 compliant chairs catch fire just as easily as ones that aren’t compliant — and they burn just as hot. “This is not speculation,” he says. “There were two series of tests that prove what I’m saying is correct.”
Do you aim private life meetings or not only? Btw, the website is strong, looks serious and relatively trustable. It's a bit tedious to access the content but it's not very important, some people will care anyway. Best luck with it.
That's a result of joining the German Democratic Republic (GDR) 1990.
There is a large incentive to prescribe, but it's quite different from the examples you gave.

The CannaMed doctor doesn't stand to make more money off of you. But he stands to build a reputation as one who hands out the Rx.

People seeking cards aren't going to visit a prescriber who is notoriously stingy.
You're right to say that a < 250 line shell script doesn't match 1pass's bloat. But there are ways, and there will be ways to make all this happen, ways that are nice and clean and pretty, and don't add much additional complexity, as you've acknowledged.

Sorry you're put off by my dismissal. My inbox is filled with awesome patches and suggestions from people, and things have been going pretty smoothly with integrating these and fleshing out new features. You seem optimistic about the project (" I think it has the potential to be better than those other password managers"), and so if you've got the impetus to contribute some code or suggestions, by all means send me an email.
They do care, note the top post of this story now is from a FB employee stating they've fixed the error 7 hours after it was published.

Also Facebook is slightly more complex than a CRUD app.
Do you have a link to info on such beds?
For future reference: appending &t=MM:SS to the end of a YouTube URL links to that position in the video.

And what does an irrelevant YouTube rap have to do with this?
From what I (think I) know about the web development business, I'm guessing it had more to due with the fact that this developer found a goldmine of customers. Then again, maybe the developer is very concerned about clients from hell so he can quote princely sums to clients he or she isn't sure are worth the hassle. I suppose that's still a measure of risk. Not risk that you will be sued, but risk that a demanding client will require special treatment and hand-holding.
My only criticism isn't directed at you, but at the fact that you have to make an argument that thinking is good. The original article is itself thought -- poor thought, but thought nonetheless. It refutes itself.
I'm surprised it took them this long.
> I had thought that the point of tablet was to make the desktop-experience more portable

Desktops and tablets are designed around two completely different principles. Interaction on desktop is about clicking and typing; tablets are all about multitouch - dragging, pinching, swiping, etc.

As a general point, it saddens me that even tablet app developers seem to forget that tablets have a) bigger screens and b) multitouch. Clearly, new UI metaphors have to be invented for multitouch devices.
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Awesome stuff, derleth. I do remember the days of ctrl-h backspace and ctrl-g ringing a bell. I also remember playing with the escape codes more-- goofy high school ('70s) and college ('80s) tricks. Back in the days of "Creative Computing" (later -> Byte)
Unfortunately it still feels broken on ios.
The next sentence:

That’s because industrial chemicals are presumed safe unless proved otherwise, under the 1976 federal Toxic Substances Control Act.

In other words, the EPA isn't _allowed_ to investigate products unless evidence that they are unsafe is brought before it. Makers get the benefit of the doubt.
This article was disappointing. It basically boils down to "I didn't like it", which the author is entitled to, but it doesn't give much to grab on to.
As a current student at uWaterloo, I was actually quite saddened reading the article, and knowing that UW could be so much like this, and yet it's so far away from it.

Not sure when you graduated, but as of a year ago, even buildings that used to be open 24/7 have started to close at nighttime. Sure you can still get around by finding an open one, and then going through the tunnels and passageways, but the friction is there. And there is no access from people who are not students. You can probably get in, but I don't think the university is encouraging it.

It is as hard as ever for students to take courses from other faculties, unless you are in engineering where it becomes somewhat easier. Still have to go through different people a number of times in order to get all the paperwork done.

And now we have a new dean of engineering. She's alright, nothing special. However one point where I am completely at odds with her is regarding Coursera type efforts at UW. When interviewed on her inauguration for the Iron Warrior, she stated that she did not want to get into the whole Coursera type courses, the reason being that there were plenty of other schools doing it, and they all had more resources and that the race was lost. Instead she's going to focus on professional development courses for graduates where she's interested in "upgrading practicing engineers", while later stating that only 30% of engineering graduates go on to engineering roles (the rest going in management). As only 30% work in engineering roles, I'd hazard a guess and say that the percentage of professional engineers is even lower.

I find her reasoning for not wanting to invest effort in open courses completely BS. There would be many more people who would find value in those than the professional engineers who will want to take more PDENG or WatPD courses. All those companies have just started, and they are at the very beginning. And the biggest mistake is the type of thinking where this is a competition between Waterloo and other universities.

I'm glad however that due to the IP rules of Waterloo, researchers and students maintain rights over anything they come up with. If that also applies to course materials developed by professors, it might be worthy to go around the administration and talk to professors directly. Though you would still have to deal with the university in the end, so as to publish the courses as being uWaterloo courses. Need to start looking into this.

To finish up this reply, that's already much longer than it needs to be, I think what the university needs is a President who's willing to cut the fat, and make the whole institution lean. Rumors are David Johnston, previous president of UW, had a plan to do just that before being offered his current role of current Governor General of Canada.
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true! thanks again for the help!
My similar solution is here https://gist.github.com/3678958 it has the added bonus of using an object with the methods attached, but the outcome is the same.
It is called "Relax" and is manufactured by an austrian company.

http://www.relax-bettsysteme.at/en
It's cool to see another project on the same level of abstraction as Sencha Touch (http://www.sencha.com/products/touch/)
be sure to read "numerical recipes in c" chapter 16 first.

fwiw the only thing you need to do to be one of the best references on numerical integration in js on the net is translate the code to javascript...
> let me decide what kind of furniture I want

The problem is that the government has decided that you shouldn't be able to make that decision for yourself - laws require that couches be sold with retardants. Arlene Blum managed to commission a custom-built couch without fire retardants, but that's neither scalable nor viable for most people.
Courts have ruled remixes/mashups like this one are fair use.
In this pig case the PERSON himself might not be willing to spend $XXX given the odds. Let's face it we make such decisions each day: we face a million types of diseases and a million ways to die. Not to mention that we smoke, drink, eat red meat, buttered popcorn, ice cream...
There have been an awful lot of PSY mashups in the last two weeks. If you want to hear more, here is a playlist of some of the most notable mashups, as upvoted by the Reddit /r/mashups community: http://muxamp.com/848
The very first line of the link I sent says "Cysticercosis refers to tissue infection after exposure to eggs of Taenia solium, the pork tapeworm."
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Security theatre.
The campus is fairly accessible. Including a number of seminars which are open to the public.

Other facilities, notably the library, not so much by reports.
Same here, it went to Hotmail's spam folder though.
They are statically typed but only weakly typed (casts, void etc.) as is Java.

Python is dynamically typed but again weakly.

ML is strongly and dynamically typed.

Anything that treats anything as a string or automatically casts from strings fills me with terror for general programming.
Years ago, Acid (I forget who made it) used to have great features for beatmatching tracks and pitch shifting. It wasn't the best DAW by any means but it seemed to have been designed for making mashups.
You may say you're abandoning it, but you really can't. As smoyer said, it's just too beneficial when you ssh into a box and may not have access to the fancy editor that you have customized on your own setup. It and emacs are a well oiled tool in many people's toolboxes, and because of that, it makes it even more valuable.
An interesting discussion on risk. Here's another consideration, you can self-insure to an extent by changing processes to minimize risks. If you must charge $10 to wash a Ferrari because your risk model says that it will cost you $5 in mistakes, use a different process to lower mistakes. Let's say that instead of the standard wash process you use for regular cars, you take extra time on the Ferrari, using your best washers and new materials. Now, the risk goes down from 1 in 2,000, your risk is 1 in 10,000. Now you can charge more for the special, risk-averse treatment and only a $1 risk surcharge on top of that.

Effective risk management doesn't just mean that you protect yourself against "bad things". The ability to manage risks better than your competitors is a competitive advantage. I heard it best described as the brakes on a sports car. Good brakes let you take corners faster.
Hmmm. While I agree with the article to a point, I'm not sure it's really a good idea to just stop thinking. I'm a practicing Buddhist, and so it's important for me to meditate and try to spend time being "in the moment." That being said, when everything is going well, that sort of "opening the hand of thought" state is just what my brain defaults to. Instead of woolgathering, I just pseudo-meditate. Thinking is important. We definitely shouldn't stop doing it. On the other hand, certain kinds of thinking are not important. It's probably good if we stop doing those kinds of thinking.
Thanks. It was more curiosity necessity (although now my mind is thinking, "what can I use this for?").

- interesting with ttyrec/ttyplay. I'll check on this if my mind comes up with something important.
Yup - the series is titled "Travels in the Russian Empire", and it really was a multinational empire back then.
Thanks for the Tolle quote. I have been working on this and just picked up a copy of "Mindfulness in Plain English." I'm trying to quite a noisy brain. When you don't unplug, you never clear your head, and this can build up anxiety.
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