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Gaah this is such a strawman, and the gender aspects of it, a woman who cannot code but is a great coworker, talk about stereotypes. Obviously trolling but I cannot help but bite.

The first thing one has to ask is, what kind of programming is it? Modifying a company's Wordpress installation hardly requires a compiler specialist. Actually, it doesn't matter if somebody's code is 50% longer just as it does the job, and doesn't create a larger instability in the codebase or production environment.

I find that beginner programmers and refactoring aficionados have the same tendency to introduce weird little bugs. The article talks about introducing bugs like something bad. Every non-trivial code change in a large project has a good chance of introducing a bug, it's just how shit works.

This argument also totally bypasses the problem of good UI. Compiler guys might be very good at getting those loops tight, but are they really interested in good UI for business software? They may, but they may also not be able to execute on it. I think that for a good operation we need a diverse group of people who cover all areas of expertise needed to build a great experience. OTOH if we're talking about building a kernel extension instead of an iOS app then different needs apply.
Not surprising really - out of all the systems humans run - the ones most ready for disaster generally are finance, power and telecommunications. This is just because all these systems need ~100% up time with no QOS degradation while needing to deal with massive variability in use (extremely elastic and subject to thundering herds).
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And it works pretty well. After installing mingw-get, it is not anymore a hassle to keep it up to date.
You can add these lines:

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to your hosts file located in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc
I see what you mean - thanks for the clarification. We'll be working on a FAQ to get up on the website soon, and we'll also be putting up a blog where we'll cover areas of particular interest in detail. I'm sure CAP will be one of the earliest topics covered, but we've made a lot of important design decisions while building this product and they should all make for interesting reading.

We've done our best to take the technical high road in those hard decisions - generally trading in ease of (our) development for stronger guarantees, more rigorous testing, and higher performance. We're excited to talk about our development process and decisions with the world. Looks like we've got some writing to do :)
There's no way to use Refs or Vars for indexing the same thing from two different places? You'll sure introduce mutability, but you'd still be able to keep a more Clojure-ish style than using an intermediate index.
Last time I talked to my Somali friends from back in Minnesota

In case this catches anyone by surprise, here's some background: http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2011/01/19/good-question-why-d...

The Twin Cities also have surprisingly large populations of Bosnians and Hmong. After living in Minneapolis for 21 years and Seattle for 9, I can easily say that Minneapolis is, by far, the more diverse of the two.
obligatory xkcd link: http://xkcd.com/482/
Aw, I miss pre-Manning wikileaks.
I have been using this package for months and I'm happy with it. My setup includes console2 + mingw (git for windows) + gow and it meets my expectations. I don't care if it's written in VBScript as long as it works. I have OSX at home and I can always use a Linux box if I need something more.

I'm glad that this post actually pointed me to the brand new release which hopefully will provide a fix for a file permission bug that I recently hit.

UnxUtils is another similar package that I have successfully used in the past. I think I jumped to Gow because I saw it here by the time I was getting back to Windows.
Seriously?

Does anyone else feel like this is a massive invasion of privacy? How does this help anyone wikileaks?
In general I don't mind it. But in this specific case there is nothing interesting here.

How many readers are actually going to download and analyze the entire set?

And even the news media couldn't really find anything all that interesting here, and resorted to making stories out of the pager messages.
Just close your accounts now.

Paypal and it's parent company ebay are notorious liars! They are also well known for abusing their members with ridiculous requests for info which cannot possibly be provided, and doing whatever they can to snatch and grab the money.

One other thing, they have a crew of hideous paid shills who's job it is to harass anyone speaking out against them. These shills know no boundaries when it comes to what they may try to do.

Paypal has a horrible reputation!

If they ever do change, you can open your account back up then.
in case of intentional demolition there are explosive at all levels they blow up and speed up the demolition. So when the airplane hit the building, it should had taken more time than when using explosives, or airplane + explosives.
I don't say OP's app is not nice, I like it too :)
In my (just as anecdotal) case, you can literally swap OSX and Linux:

I use Linux a lot. But my home laptop has been OSX for the last 6 years, and it will stay OSX for the foreseeable future. Maybe it will never see mass adoption. Maybe it will. For my part it doesn't matter.
What matters to me is that there's nothing I have on my Linux workstation that I miss when I use my OSX laptop at home, but I can't say the same in reverse.
I'd rather call them users. Consumers doesn't sound so good.
Does anyone else see the tautology here? Consider this quote:

>specific and challenging goals led to higher performance than easy goals, "do your best" goals, or no goals.

Note the word "performance". If performance is defined as "achieved certain goals", then this statement reduces to a tautology. Or rather, I'd say that the study (subtly) assumes it's conclusion.

I realize that the author intended the sense of these two words to be different. Perhaps a more careful replacement for the word goal would be "training exercise", and then "performance" would be some sort of standardized test. But even so, the statement still devolves into something that while not a tautology is hardly earth-shattering: "if you practice doing something you'll get better at it."

(As I understand it, Dan's original point is simply that it's easy to get frustrated if you bite off more than you can chew - so content yourself with learning simpler things at first. I agree with that and I'll defend it.)
This info graphic does however help people better understand the asteroid belt ranges.

I knew Jupiter gets impacted by a lot of asteroids but had no idea it is technically inside the asteroid belt.
It's degrading, because not only tech enthusiasts can use computers for creative activity, becoming producers, rather than consumers.
Do you have personal experience in using startssl? What are the limitations with its free version? Looking to use an SSL certificate on my website to use it within facebook app.
There seems to be some really personal stuff in there. Isn't this a huge violation of privacy or am I missing something? Any difference between wikileaks making something like this public and the British tabloids hacking peoples phones?
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Hi guys.
Yesterday i was witnessed how work my wife. It was monotonic work. She is psychologist. She has paper blanks, her need check it. Paper blank's it is 300 quadrat with different shaded area.
If the scale didn't change, scrolling down would have taken a lot longer. There was plenty of empty space as it were now.
The energy contained in that much mass falling down is far FAR more than any explosive (more than what would be using to bring down a building anyway).

Each story had about 480MJ worth of energy. That's equivalent to about 1/10 of a ton of TNT. That's each story falling just one floor mind you. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%281500000+tons+%2F+110...

For the North tower that's 120 floor equivalents as the 15 floors fell, about 12 tons of TNT.

For the entire tower that's 700 tons of TNT (assuming the mass of the tower is distributed evenly, which it isn't, but it's still a huge amount of energy).
> Thanks for the kind words and sorry to the OP for hijacking this thread. I was really just floored by the coincidence...

No worries. No contest here :) Love seeing how others approach the same problem
The title will mislead you into thinking that Iran is a communist (economically) country. I doubt that's the case because, though I am not Iranian and have never been to Iran, I have hundreds of Iranian friends whose families in Iran own big and small businesses. Some examples that come to mind immediately are a friend whose dad runs a medical diagnostic lab in Tehran, another whose family (brothers) runs an advertising agency, and one whose family manufactures household cleaning agents. Web entrepreneurship might not be thriving like in the US, but that is not the only kind of entrepreneurship and this title can lead one into believing that there are no successful entrepreneurs in Iran.

PS Mad props to Startup Weekend.
Because there are obstacles along the way. Support beams, uncollapsed floors, etc. that will slow down the descent.

As I said, I haven't bought into this theory yet. Just want to get other opinions on whether or not it makes sense in this particular case.
There's a lot of stuff that has to break. Theory being that (at least until there's a certain amount of momentum) the structure of the undamaged building will slow the collapse. Remember, the damage was three quarters of the way up the building, not at the foundation.

I'm no demolitions expert nor am I a physics major, so I can't speak as to how structures of that size behave under those conditions - though I'm sure the conspiracies have been thoroughly debunked by now. But that's the thinking.

Personally I'm more inclined to disbelieve a conspiracy theory simply because there's no way our government is competent enough to keep a secret that big for eleven years - across multiple administrations. But who knows - maybe there're better at their jobs than I'm willing to give them credit for.
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Each successive anniversary of 9/11 is a reminder to us that we need to get over it, we should have gotten over it long ago, those who planned the act triumph more greatly with each year that passes with us not getting over it, and if we don't get over it soon, it will be too late to ever gain back the liberties and freedoms so cheaply given away on that day.

Just imagine if we were in the late 1950s, and still obsessed with defeating the Nazis, and remaking our entire society to protect against the threat from Hitler.

That's where we are today in America. That's how pathetic we are.
Is it possible to be productive with only a smartphone?
TI is an enormous risk-taker and has performed huge strategic game-changing shifts over the years, just like Motorola who it used to compete directly with and which became an entirely different company, too.
TI used to have a typical 'hire and fire' reputation, which actually is what allowed it to perform these shifts - going so far as to abandon relatively new and incredibly expensive fabs and their workforces when needed. This type of MO is not compatible with the way how China finances, plans and operates its businesses.
At this point I must defer to civil engineers. I do not have the background in structures to model their collapse and draw reliable conclusions.
I've been spending a lot of time thinking about where this is going and how we can accelerate the outcome (again speaking as a high level manager). The problem seems to come from access to capital. I've never seen an executive who adds "10x" value in terms of what they actually can produce through "work", instead what you find are 10x executives who create value through their ability to literally increase company valuation 10 times via their connections and network. Their network unfortunately will be founded on structural advantages they've gained from society (rich parents mostly). The right rich guy will get your company sold for millions of dollars more than an engineer can because his friends will be doing the acquisition. It has NOTHING to do with the actual value being created by the company.

As for middle management, they are a resource that should be subordinated to the engineers and other high value producing individual contributors. Non-creative work needs to suit the needs of the creatives not vice versa.

So, how to get around executive domination? Lowered costs to deploy technology is a great first step. When you can launch your product on ec2 and get going for an order of magnitude less money than was possibly 10 years ago, then you don't really need to raise millions of dollars (which by the way would be spent by the MBA types trying to attract top talent anyway). If you are top talent, run with it. Avoid ANYONE who isn't going to be producing value for you and your vision. Avoid the cult of VCs. Tech talent needs to take ownership of the success narrative and not give in to temptation to bring execs and vcs on board regardless of the capital boost they may provide. In the end they will make your product worse 100% of the time.
I'm betting long on ElementaryOS[1]. It's a distro that wants to be top-notch in UX, design, developer APIs and system frameworks. They even have a Human Interfaces Guideline. Still a work in progress, but I used their previous release for a while and it was just a breeze of fresh air after Gnome/Unity, and surprisingly stable.

Two things are real blockers for Linux desktop adoption: the Adobe suite (or alt) for professionals, and gaming for casual users. One of these is about to be solved :)

[1] http://elementaryos.org/
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The problem with tech entrepreneurship in Iran is that US sanctions disable iranians to have business with the rest of the world. Most of online payment methods are blocked in Iran, and I think most companies are not allowed to have business with Iranians.
The other thing to consider is that audio processing is resource intensive. Many times you need to run many things at once and performance suffers.

Guess what else is resource intensive? Graphics. So everytime you have gratuitous graphics (e.g. a guitar plug-in that has one or two controls but goes to ridiculous lengths to reproduce a graphical image of, say, a guitar pedal), it takes away some of your resources.

I think you're right though. The interface is aimed at people who are used to looking at gear. That is the intended audience. They wanted to sell to the same people who were buying physical gear. Unfortunately it alienates anyone who understands how to actually use a computer beyond pointing and clicking or keyboard shortcuts.

I mentioned it in another comment in this thread, but if you want to see how things could be done in a "UNIX way", check out snd from the guys at Stanford CCRMA. It has a long history, longer than Ableton, probably as old as Sound Designer, the precursor to Pro Tools, though I'd have to check the dates. These guys clearly "get it". This is how computers and audio should intersect.

But, functionally, it's not a substitute for MOTU, Ableton or Digidesign, unfortunately.
Can you explain this please?

Where did you get the 15000000 tons figure from.

Also..what relation does 480MJ of energy have on the rate at which the building would have collapsed?

Are you debunking the theory that it was explosives, or supporting it?
People that want their messages private should be minimally aware of the technology they're using to transmit said messages.

Nobody has a reasonable expectation of privacy when sending a postcard, and that's a decent analogy to email and other communications mediums - even HTTP for that matter. Unfortunately, because technology (or, I suppose, the protocols that power it) tends to mask that, most people just make incorrect assumptions.

No, people should not have to make these assumptions or do research into this. That's why it's important for us to design secure tools. Users assume stuff is secure, so it's our duty to ensure their assumptions are true. Let's not give people a false sense of security.
It's not a violation of privacy if it's leaked by a leftist, it's an inspiring revolution!
Performance and goals don't have to mean the same thing. An example of a goal is "acquire 30 new customers by the end of the month" and the relevant performance metric there would be "number of new customers acquired." Better performance in that case might mean 50 customers acquired while worse performance might mean 10 customers acquired.

I agree that "it's easy to get frustrated if you bite off more than you can chew - so content yourself with learning simpler things at first." I don't think that's contradictory to what I wrote; one component of good goals is that they're achievable. In retrospect I can see how you would read that lesson into Dan's post, but what he actually wrote is that what you should do if you want to "build skill in the long term" is "setting firm goals and keeping track of what you're doing is a problem for beginners." I think that is not appropriate advice for most people.
Don't know and don't care, sadly.
Accessible everywhere, indeed. Doubly so for nosey Dropbox employees!
A sample chapter would be great. Lacking it I've just bought it for $5. I will buy it again after reading if I liked it.
Wow....I couldn't have articulated my position better myself. Hence my bringing up this topic.

It's not that I doubt that people would want to (and perhaps have motive) to pull off a stunt like this.

It is the subsequent burying of the evidence and keeping it a secret for so long - something that has attracted more scrutiny than any other terrorist attack in recent history.

Either the gov't is far more sophisticated than we imagine, which I doubt - or the theories are just that. Theories.

I am more inclined to believe the latter.
Having tried to use Open/Libre Office as a MS Office replacement I can say it's definitely not on par with MS Office (sadly). So many little things that you take for granted on MS Office either aren't implemented or are incompatible with others who are using MS Office. For collaborative documents in an academic setting, using track changes, extensive bibliographies, stupidly large wordcounts etc., it's far, far easier to just use MS Office. I'd love to move these people on to google docs or something but old habits die hard in academia - emailed word documents is still where it's at.

As for Outlook - while I've set up my home computer to not use it, for most it's just easier to use it. Convenience has a lot going for it. For non-tech-savvy people it's also a lot easier, since then calls to tech support at work will actually get you help. :)
Has anyone ever clicked one of the youtube ad overlays?
Not to mention their government is eager to sever links to the wider internet and create a tightly controlled national network.
This is a step in the right direction, thanks :)
Yes it can: http://www.slatedroid.com/topic/35910-desktop-linux-ubuntu-r...
His answer was that he thinks there will be no practical applications from this proof, since it merely states that something exists without giving us an idea of how to find that thing.
that was heaps more meaningful than the bbc one
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That's where we disagree, looking at these it's a completely unfair distance away from an iMac (read: way too close to even slightly think it's not a design copycat game)

There are designers out there that know how to put both original and great designs: [0] is my keyboard and mouse at work. [1] is good design, except the front begs for a 4:3 screen (which would make it gorgeous) instead of that 16:9+big block below. [2] shows how good artists steal instead of copy.

[0] http://a404.idata.over-blog.com/1/68/27/41/logitech_dinovo_m...

[1] http://www.mydigitallife.info/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/gat...

[2] http://static.pcinpact.com/images/bd/news/62654-sony-vaio-js...
I really agree. The irony is that this 'attack on freedom' was responded to with freedom being curtailed.

I also find the contrast with Norway's response to the 2011 massacre quite interesting (http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/07/comparing-how-...).
Thanks for the tip, but I'm in no actual danger of clicking a Quora link :)

After accidentally reading a few articles from TC, I have acquired the habit of checking the domain of everything before I click through. I'd really like something to edit the DOM and just take links out or replace them with a black box.
You're absolutely right. On a global scale Iran is isolated. My issue was how using the word "entrepreneurship" instead of "web entrepreneurship of global scale" mis-positions Iran as having no civilian economy.

A friend's friend has made a fortune by cloning eBay for Iran seven years ago.
From here: http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/wtc/about/facts.html That's the weight of the entire tower.

I'm saying that there is more energy in simply the tower falling than there would be in any explosive. So it would not fall any faster with an explosive - there already is much more energy there than needed.
Personally I think a greater factor in the prevalence of Windows is the way children in school grow up using it and other MS branded software. Add to that the reputation that Windows has in the corporate enviroment and the inertia of over fifteen years as the status quo and that probably accounts for the majority of why Microsoft dominates these markets.

I won't go much into the issue other than say that I find it somewhat sad that we are essentially hooking up these children and ultimately our future on the products of a private entity. Even if they are the better option out there, there is still an issue of unnecessarily power being granted to a private entity.

You might also want to checkout what kind of deals your local government/municipality made with MS.
I cannot design or code a responsive website
> " If the GNU tool chain is included"

That's a very big "if". It is not the case currently so I would not put them under the same umbrella.
> "and tools that do it already exist"
Which are those tools?
"Reasonably Assess" != "Smart enough"

Presumably, it is experience in algebra, established reputation in field, and familiarity with communication of math that allow this subset of people to reasonably assess the papers. It is not to say that the theorem is so advanced that only 10 people on earth possess the aptitude to understand it - it is that only 10 people have the foundation on which to understand the theorem due to its specificity.
One of my greatest issues with 911 conspiracy theories are that people believe that the government and George W are capable of planning such a brilliant and perfectly executed false flag attack and then claim that George W. Bush is a complete moron in the same sentence. You can't have it both ways, lol.