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I would suggest learning Python 2.x first. The v2 branch is not going away overnight, and you're going to pick up Python 3.0 fairly quick after you know 2.0, so you may as well learn the version you can use straight away (with frameworks, libraries etc.) and learn your way up to 3.0 proficiency from there.
It doesn't seem to require a separate theory. I guess I might believe in "Shepherded Design" in the sense that I believe in evolution, but also think people who own livestock have been selectively breeding them for millennia. My belief in people interacting with evolution doesn't require a new theory -- it's just belief in evolution, and something else.

Even if your theory is that without a God, we wouldn't have evolved into humans, you're still conflating evolution with something else that happens to have interacted with it to reach a certain end. People who believe that life would not have arisen on earth if the planet orbited the sun 5% more slowly don't claim that this is an entirely separate belief from evolution; people who believe that God (rather than orbital speed) was a deciding factor don't need a new theory, either.
Having so much great acting around him made Peter Weller kind of painful to watch.

See, I think that Peter Weller's take on the character is one of the movie's charms. The guy plays Buckaroo Banzai as a perpetually preoccupied, frighteningly odd physics professor with a slight amount of Asperger's. A person who is sometimes painful to watch. [1] In other words, he's the kind of character whom you normally meet only in real life, not in the movies.

Without picking on any individuals by name, let me assure you that many real-world geniuses are even more painful to watch.

And the last thing the movie needed was more corniness. The central character is kind of deadpan, but that provides a valuable contrast with the silly antics going on around him.
precisely. My ultimate (and totally attainable) goal is for the generated code to actually perform better than the "hand-written" php would for a given task. Regardless it's fun to go through the r5 spec piece by piece and fully digest it. quote and quasi quote + the macro system are clearly the most interesting pieces and I am striving to not get side tracked and start working on my own flavor of things thus why its nice to fall back on the spec as the initial goal/proof of concept. Are you interested in helping or just disgusted?
Totally agreed. The others were dismal.
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No. I own a C-Corp with three equal shareholders.

In Texas, you need to decide on the frequency of dividend distribution. We distribute on the 1st of every month. That's all you need.

You also need to have documented shareholder meetings and so forth, but I'm digressing.
The Devil Wears Prada

Its about fashion, but I see a lot of parallels with fashions in software coming and going and returning.
You seem to have made a mistake with the rewrite rule. I think you mean:

RewriteRule (\.svn)/(.*?) - [F,L]

Note the backslash before the .svn directory.

I'm also not entirely sure that the question mark (zero or one quantifier) is necessary; it seems like

(.*)

would suffice for catching files within the .svn directory, but this is quickly getting out of my league.
Dup. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=396120

Ask HN: What's a modern equivalent of the 80's "War Games" movie?

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That's not so surprising. Notebooks as a whole are gaining a lot of ground and have been since LCDs became standard as monitors and Intel moved away from the Pentium architecture for their Core processors which bring mobile processing power not into parity, but close enough that people prefer the portability. Plus, how much value does an iMac give you? I'm not saying it's a bad machine, just that the big advantage over my MacBook Pro is the screen. Yeah, it's a little cheaper and a little more powerful, but (apparently) that's not enough for people to sacrifice the mobility of a notebook.

Even beyond that, I think it's safe to say that people are starting to demand mobility over power. Netbooks look like the next big thing, web browsing is often one of the most taxing things many people do on their computers, etc. The argument for desktops is diminishing - it's easy to get more than enough power for 95% of users in a notebook form.

And Apple buyers tend to be a little avant-garde (or at least we like to think so).
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I have not read these personally, but worth a look:

http://www.amazon.com/Covert-Java-Techniques-Decompiling-Eng...

http://www.amazon.com/Decompiling-Java-Godfrey-Nolan/dp/1590...

Venners book has free chapters online (be careful this is pretty old):

http://www.artima.com/insidejvm/ed2/index.html
Primer - Ultra low budget film about a couple of engineers who accidentally invent a time machine in their garage while working on a startup.

Blow - Not really a hacker movie, but it's rags-to-riches-to-rags storyline should be interesting to a lot of entrepreneurs.

Day of the Jackal - Not a hacker movie either, but the main character's methodical preparation for an assassination will appeal to a lot of hackers.

The Net - A pretty good thriller about a hacker who has her identity stolen in a big conspiracy.

Fat Man and Little Boy - Slow but well done movie about the Manhattan Project.
I once walked past John Lithgow in Harvard Yard.

I was so surprised I blurted out "Dr. Lazardo!"

"Laugh while you can, monkey-boy," he replied, and kept walking.
Hence Sharepoint.
Windows Mobile supports garbage collection in Compact Framework without any hiccups and with less RAM (64Mb).

One could argue that WM does not have such rich applications, but to that I have two counter-arguments: 99% of iPhone apps not rich in functionality and therefore number of objects. Fatness of iPhone apps comes from graphics, not from large number of objects and GC should not be negatively affected.

My theory of all this is that Apple is taking things step-by-step, adding each feature only as it matures. Writing a good GC takes a lot of expertise and effort. It's an extra challenge that ObjC is not a managed language, unlike CLR-based languages.
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"Type-Checking in the VM" means support for runtime type-checks, which can take several forms.

In Haskell, all that type-checking is happening only in the early stages of the compiler -- and then the types are erased in the later stages.
"Purpose is to keep messages at central place and stay in touch with all user in group."

This is ridiculous. There are four grammar mistakes in that sentence alone. Why are you targeting English users if you are not native English speakers yourself? Build a service for speakers of your own language - at least they won't be put off by glaring editorial errors.
Your right, I forget to transcribe the backslash (its correct in my htaccess). I will update the article. Thanks!
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Haven't read SA for a couple of decades but it looks like this "pretend" science topic rag has really gone downhill.

First of all "Oklo" was 100 million years ago, not 2 billion, and the whole story was pretty much "figured out" over 20 years ago. It was just underreported because it didn't fit into the ideology of the time.

Natural Uranium, right now, is about .72 percent U-235 with the balance being U-238. U-238 has a much longer half-life than U-235 so over a few 10's of millions of years the ratio changes. 100 million years ago the U-235 content of natural uranium was higher than it is now and that would have made it easier for K-effective to bump up over 1 in a natural environment.

Oklo simply shows that nuclear fission is a natural phenomenon. Nuclear power is a truly natural and renewable energy resource that the human race desperately needs to tap into.

Those who want to use solar panels and windmills should be free to "chase the dream" but, for my part, give me nuclear power. It's the safest, cleanest, and most cost effective way to generate electrical energy.
kragen's point is that most people don't know how or when to do so. I think most of us would agree that it would be best for everyone to suddenly get much better at written English, but it's unlikely to occur.
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That's fine, someone might think it's great even if you don't.
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I see what you mean, though I'd disagree with his conclusion that there is no more evidence of that than of intelligent design. Or maybe not evidence, but logical support at least.
Yeah. Prior to discovering the configuration option buried deep in my phone's menus I was looking for a place to embed a compact slider switch. I have a feeling if something like this were to ever pass that we'd see hacked firmware for common phones ASAP.
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51% believe in intelligent design only, 30ish believe in both. I was only counting the ones who think they are exclusive.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/22/opinion/polls/main...

The trend between the two polls shown is encouraging though. In one year 4% of the population shifted in the right direction.
It just so happens that I just finished building a Drupal system that stores content until a user with a particular email address logs into a site, then shows it to them.

Why don't you want the users to join an Organic Group? They don't have to explicitly join: you can have it happen invisibly at signup time. You can write code that intercepts the user as they register (or, better, just after they click an emailed link to confirm their email address), notices that their email is on a list of "users that should be added to group X when they show up", and adds them to the group. Then it's just an, um, "simple" matter of using the permissions system. (Which can, indeed, be a little hairy. But not so hairy that lots of people haven't used it.)

Of course, like so many Drupal problems, this will require some custom code...
Trying to define a label as broad as conservative always results in gross generalizations. But I basically agree with you and was trying to make a similar point.

The Left-Right divide is about ideology, not status quo versus "change". But since the Left has been winning for 400 years, the debate often gets phrased in terms of "restoring the past" versus "progress".

In broad strokes, the Right believes in common law, property rights, localism, and acknowledging the reality of innate inequality.

The Left believes in administrative law, centralization, universalism, and equality.

The Right believes that the role of government is to provide order, security, and rule of law (negative law).

The Left believes that government is an instrument for creating a perfect world.

Again, these are generalizations. But if you look at the political battles since the English Civil War, I think you'll see the sides generally breaking into two camps that generally align with my definitions. Roundheads versus Cavaliers. Levelers versus Jacbobites. Patriots versus Loyalists. Whigs versus Tories. Jacobins versus the Ancien Régime. Unionists versus Confederates. Gladstone versus the Bourbons. Bolsheviks versus the Czar. Wilson versus the Kaiser. New Dealers versus the Old Right. Obama versus the Neocons.

You'll also notice that the left wins most of the battles. Thus the Neocons of today are far to the left of Woodrow Wilson, and Wilson is far to the left of Gladstone.

And of course, just because the Left wins does not mean they were correct and the Right was wrong. The history of politics seems to be something of a random walk. The political systems from Europe's age of reaction ( 1815-1848) were far superior to what followed. If more people had listened to Metternich's warnings about democracy leading to German nationalism, perhaps they could have avoided a couple world wars.

Incidentally, there are several ways in which the US is more conservative now than under Kennedy. The most conspicuous is tax rates.

That's not true when you factor in payroll taxes, local taxes, and state taxes: http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2007/10/personal-taxes-as-per...

And even the above graph leaves out seniorage, which has increased dramatically. It also leaves out quasi-taxes, such as legal mandates that require people to pay for expensive college diplomas in order to enter their chosen profession.
Infinitecanvas
Infinite Canvas (after the term coined by Scott McCloud) allows you to create and/or view comics unconstrained by page boundaries (either physical or virtual).

To view, hit the Next button in the lower right. You can also go to specific panels by clicking on them, or explore freely by dragging with your mouse and zooming with your mouse's scroll wheel.

Scott McCloud mentions the infinite canvas in his TED talk.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/scott_mccloud_on_comics.h...
On the contrary, I think the effectiveness of the design depends on its clutter. The clutter promotes exploration, as long as you're not expecting an informational tool.
What did the Bay Area look like 10,000 years ago?
If 51% of American Christians are really biblical literalists it is an indictment of America

Very few Christians are biblical literalists in the rest of the world, and (except perhaps for a brief period post reformation) the educated have never been literalists.

It is worth noting things such as St Augustine's explicit rejection of a "six twenty four hour days" creation, ideas of gradual creation in the early church etc.
After the recent high-profile scandals Sun ought to be flogging SunRays to the UK govt. like hotcakes. That alone could save them, and I'll take Sun over EDS any day of the week for my taxes thankyou very much.
Which brings up an interesting point: would open source firmware/software on camera phones be illegal, since you can trivially modify it to disable the noise?
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A Microsoft project running on AppJet. Interesting.
I've watched The Man From Earth about 30 times. Favorite movie of the past few years by a long shot.

Bixby also wrote a Star Trek TOS episode with basically the same story: http://www.cbs.com/classics/star_trek/video/video.php?cid=64...
"Plus, how much value does an iMac give you?"

I do care gaming. It came with an 8800, mobile variant of course, but good enough of a reason back in April. It's still quite a bit better than the stock 9600 the new MBPs have. Plus the 24" screen is nothing to sneer at when you have to code all day. The 24" screen is an IPS screen compared to all MBs and MBPs TN screens. (Higher quality) I'd much rather have those three than a beefy laptop.

While not truly "coffee-shop mobile", it's still useful for when you drive to your parent's place for the holidays since all you need is iMac, keyboard, and mouse.
That's not true when you factor in payroll taxes, local taxes, and state taxes:

http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2007/10/personal-taxes-as-per...

The boxed note in that graph says:

Most of the total "personal current taxes" (85% of it) is federal income tax. The remainder is state and local.
Well they can't call themselves SUNW anymore as right now they only sell one Sun Workstation, the Ultra 24, and despite the name it isn't even SPARC.
I'd like to second (third, really) Startup.com. It's a great documentary showing what not to do in a startup and the problems that faced many of the poorly run Web 1.0 companies before the nasdaq tanked in 2001.
Good catch. The increase in taxes is actually greater than shown in the graph, since payroll taxes have increased enormously.
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The cases you are referring to - where there are blocking patents - generally are resolved with mutual licensing agreements. Of course, there are many exceptions, especially when there are patent trolls involved.

In these cases, though, I really wonder the comparative cost of innovation versus licensing battles. Software is still an amazingly open field - given that licensing battles can run into the millions, if that money was invested in R&D could an alternative (superior) method be found?

One of the methods that patents were supposed to encourage innovation was by providing reasons to innovate. If you are forced to explore new options and develop your own IP that might be patentable, is that such an awful thing?
I do know Clojure and I didn't see any mating either - just mutating. I haven't had any caffeine yet though.

I'm also working on genetic programming in Clojure, and with the PermGen fix in rev. 1232, it seems to be a great tool for the job.
Government sponsorship of inventors, maybe?

Some expert could decide which projects are worth pursuing and fund the research and development.

Private companies could then take those inventions and build businesses around them.

There could be a large cash prize if the invention ends up being especially valuable.
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I just lined up my dog and told her to come, and she went hind-left, front-left, hind-right, front-right. I never would have noticed!
there's mild email-based criticism, and then there's "Your wife's name is XXXX and she works at ______. Shut down your site or else."
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Americans as a whole have, since our founding, gone backward in time with our religious beliefs. Our founders were largely anti-religion (though you'd never know it if you heard the supporting arguments for prayer in public school), and nowadays you can't get elected without being videotaped coming out of a church.

And Obama, who is probably the least religious President we've had in a very long time, at his inauguration still had about one God reference per dollar in the budget deficit.
Genetic programming generally won't appear in production code, though it might be used to generate production code. Using eval seems reasonable in the context of executing code generated by your program. I'd be interested in hearing about alternatives.

In response to this problem, Clojure now uses an ephemeral classloader. I don't know the JVM that well, but Rich Hickey says this means the anonymous classes generated by evaling fn forms can be collected.
This is true for git, too. However, I don't know of any git command like "svn export" that doesn't also pull the .git directory. The working solution seems to be to simply delete the .git directory after a clone ---preferably in some nice deploy script --- in conjunction with appropriate *nix file and Apache permissions.
Pretty neat - according to the blog post (http://dragonosticism.wordpress.com/) it isn't a Seadragon app though
I always enjoy it when you see the reasonable friendly people you get to know through their writing turn out to have a healthy dose of attitude.
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This is essentially how research universities work.

The 'large cash prize' tends to be either tenure or a fat consulting job.
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I'll dive into Python 3 once App Engine allows it. GvR sugggested that won't happen anytime soon.
Agreed. I'm a long time Perl user but I think C# (and Visual Studio) is well done and keeps getting better. That said, the Web Forms model has always been a bane for me. It violates so much that is web--from hijacking the HTML ID attribute for its own purposes (thereby forcing all your client side script to use hideous framework-generated IDs), to making non-standard form handling a torturous experience. ASP.NET MVC looks like it could be the start of something much, much better.
This is essentially how research universities work.

Research universities do not give away the technologies they develop. They sell or license them for millions of dollars. http://www.google.com/search?q=university+patent+license+mil...

I believe JesseAldridge above was referring instead to government funding R&D and then simply giving away the technology the way the daguerreotype photographic process was given away. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype

Instead of Daguerre obtaining a French patent, the French government provided a pension for him. In Britain, Miles Berry, acting on Daguerre's behalf, obtained a patent for the daguerreotype process on 14 August 1839. Almost simultaneously, on 19 August 1839, the French government announced the invention as a gift "Free to the World".
"As it is, the quota runs out in less than 3 months"

No: The quota runs out in less than 24 hours.
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Why were comments disabled from the scribd post?
I'm just curious. Comments in this community are very valuable.
Great idea, seemingly simply to implement...and, alas, copy. I hope he gets some marketing / business support quickly, or at least recognition by the company that starts selling these.

I'd buy a set of 3 just to stop the annoying noise birds keep making when they kill themselves trying to fly through my living room.
Content management is definately the way forward for any website that contains a significant mass of editorial content.

The challenge in choosing a content managment system (CMS) is that it is typical example of 'enterprise software' (in my head I am saying 'enterprise' in a silly voice and rolling my eyes), and therefore attracts a high proportion of expensive, yet functionally unimpressive offerings.

As somebody who has been around the block a bit with several CMSs, from high priced bespoke packages, to completely homegrown, to big name MeToo clones, I can tell you that in terms of functionalty there are 4 systems which lead the pack, and these are all open source. They are: Drupal, Joomla, Plone and Mediawiki.

However, (and this is where it gets interesting) the solutions named above are often ruled out in the early stages of procurement precisely because they are open source. Want to actually pay for a CMS system? The field for proprietary CMSs is wide open, and there is no reason why another competitor cannot break through.
One of the coolest "features" of appjet, visible source.

http://appjet.com/app/588101939/source