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That's like saying that electrical engineering is trivial because you used an arduino once and it wasn't so hard.
build the gui in html5, just use only the popular libraries such as jquery and stay away from the experimental stuff i.e. canvas or webgl.
I believe the author of the article misses the mark on many situations where the expression is used.

In the technical domain, when my colleagues or I use the phrase, it's usually in disdainful reference to an inane request or situation where someone can't accomplish or learn a very basic task that they should know due to their lack of effort or attitude.

Example 1: "The project manager needs help in formatting worksheets in Excel. It's not rocket science."

Example 2: "The client's network admin can't figure out how to open a file with a .zip extension. It's not rocket science."
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It can also spread drops if you make it vibrate when cleaning the brush.
CSSDeck Codecasts: A new way to learn
So, of course, the opposite of that is utf8="✘", right?

Hmmm... there's something wrong with that idea, but I can't quite put my finger on it....
Spot on. My apologies.
Since I am going to TA an intro to databases class soon I might very well use it. Why not try to integrate it into a wikibook so that other people can contribute and extend it?
My rules are: don't eat anything you couldn't grow and process in a small garden, get 20+ minutes of exercise per day, don't obsess over your body mass index.
The Venture Capitalists, They Must Be Crazy
lol, yes, they do.
I feel sometimes like big brother since I set up the web site to send me an email whenever someone buys and activates a dog tag.
I get to see some funny dog pages where people display pictures of their dog and add some funny message to the page instead of the default message I provide.

Most of them are boring - people just fill in the form and are satisfied with the basic template which says something like:

Hello, If you're reading this, I'm probably lost. My name is <dog's name here>
My owner's name is <owner's name>
Please call them at <owner's cell phone> or send them a message <owner's email>
Thanks!

The owner of the dog gets an email telling him someone scanned the qr code on its collar and a GPS location on a map (works only if the good soul that found the dog allows sharing of location data)
Technicalities aside, the whole Apple vs Android IP debate seems like it might be some sort of pinnacle. A big public case study.

These are products that a lot of people are highly engaged an opinionated about, in ways that PCs and laptop never were.^

I think we clearly see Apple leading the way (so far) with its designs & innovations. They figured out a whole lot of things that needed to be figured out in order to get a computer to pocket size and for tablet computing to work. Some of these are technical details but a lot of them are not. They're just ideas about what it should look like and how users should interact with it. Software keyboard. slide-to-unlock, rounded corners. A bunch of decisions that together amount to either a good or bad product. They may or may not have been invented at Apple but Apple did put them together and prove them in the market. They placed huge bets on these ideas and won.

I think that last part is the crucial part of innovation that IP laws are inherently useless at protecting: Putting things together to make a product and proving them in the market. It's also the part that Apple is good at.

On the other hand...

Apple is making a lot of money on iOS stuff so its hard to make the claim that they haven't been compensated. It's also hard to claim that these innovations would not have happened without the incentives guarded by IP protection. The opposite is true. We see the Android ecosystem driving down prices and improving the pace of innovation. We see more choice, including options at lower price points that Apple would never have served.

^I'm not sure, but I think this in itself is part of Apple's cultural influence. They've been encouraging people to think about products the way architects want people to think about buildings.
"Rocket science" was esoteric and super-complex, at least to the educated masses in the 40s and 50s when this phrase seemed to be coined (http://www.oed.com/viewdictionaryentry/Entry/166731?print). Think secret German technology, V2s, von Neumann, the space race, etc. Nowadays we tend to regard the complex Curiosity landing as ordinary.

But the more important point is: It's never pointed in the OP why rocket science is simpler than social problems, e.g. solving world hunger (didn't watch the linked TED talk, though). I think that the reason is that most social problems are "Wicked Problems" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem). The most important difference between a problems such as solving religious extremism and putting a satellite in orbit (or nuclear fusion or brain surgery) is that in the latter case you can isolate affecting factors and study them in (relative) isolation and sub-problems are well-defined and have well-defined answers, at least compared to social problems.
I would have no problem with that line if it weren't in Apple's blood to copy copy copy, at least to the same degree if not more than Microsoft. The hypocrisy is really what annoys me.
ok but after practically what do I do ?

I run it in a chromium, I launch a HTTP server ?

In the end I want to make a desktop GUI and I would like a solution which is not too clunky
you can just install gnome-do on Xubuntu and you'll have the same search based workflow in the interface you're used to and the Ubuntu base below.

I TRIED to like Ubuntu's Unity, but the fact that I can't either: (a) right click things like panels and choose 'configure' or 'properties' and adjust everything to my liking [the Windows way, that I still prefer] or (b) have a goddamn' config/settings center where I can actually adjust the UI settings I care of [the KDE and Xfce way that works...] ...I mean, I still don't know how to disable window grouping for the damn "taskbar"
Rockets used to be hard. Really hard: they mostly blew up, especially when the various agencies were trying all sorts of weird and wonderful fuel / oxidiser combinations in the search for the best possible specific impulse. See the book "Ignition!" by John D.Clark for some of the details.

Interestingly, poking Google's ngram search suggests that whilst the phrase "rocket science" saw a little use around 1900 (I've no idea why: HG Wells?) and some use around the 1940s and 1960s, the phrase "not rocket science" is a far more recent coinage & only appears in the text corpus from the 90s onwards:

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=not+rocket+scie...
I've been looking for something to get me started on SQL. I'll give this a read and provide a more detailed comment as I finish it.
The Hidden Rules That Shape Human Progress
Not quite. Models advance as their conclusions are shown to not hold in reality.

You may be thinking about macroeconomics, in the which there seems to be a fad cycle of models, and a hyped up difference of assumptions. I assure you macroeconomics doesn't actually have a fad cycle.
How cork is made
I played this for way too long, namely because I liked the quotes.

Then I realized I need to just go read some quotes.
Who does the reviews and how long do they average?
I always thought Unity was all right in general, Compiz in particular has a wealth of functionality that just doesn't exist yet in Gnome3. The Unity dock is very good, particularly the way it deals with multiple application windows (broadly: first click: bring LRU to front, second click: expose all application windows).

But I still think the "Lenses" thing is just awful. It's fine for starting a specific application by typing in the name (the most basic "Quicksilver" functionality). It used to be really slow, but I think that's better now. It still sucks for application discovery, which the old hierarchical menu excels at. And the other lenses are mostly just silly: you've got this simplistic interface, and people are trying to shoehorn all kinds of use cases into it. Look at [0] and [1]. Some of those would be much more useful if they weren't limited by the restrictions of the Lens framework (others are just hopeless).

Fortunately the lenses are easy enough to ignore.

[0] http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/01/10-unity-lenses-scopes
[1] http://askubuntu.com/questions/38772/what-lenses-for-unity-a...
...now I just need to figure out how to make nautilus-open-terminal open a guake terminal tab instead and I'm in UI nirvana (too bad it's probably gonna take 4+ hrs X( )
Wow, their actual About page reads like a bunch of potheads started writing an "About" page and got distracted.

http://www.color.com/about
Thanks ^^ We're still working on trying to make it even speedier.

And yes, if you link your Last.fm account we scrobble your listens. If you're listening to something embarrassing or just letting people use your account to add music at a party or something, you can disable scrobbling for the current session (until you refresh the page) by clicking on the Gear in the top right, choosing Settings, Connect, then clicking the "Disable Scrobbling for this session" button.

The sidebar will shrink to a super narrow version if your browser window is narrow enough, but there's not currently a button to toggle it. There was at one point during the redesign though, so it's still a good possibility it will come back if there is user demand for it.
John asked me to review his entry prior to submission, and we had some ongoing discussion as he worked through his revisions. He initially pointed me to a "minimally obfuscated" version to analyze. I'd say it took me a good hour or so to feel like I had a pretty good understanding of its workings, and even then I still wasn't clear on some details of the I/O model and a couple other things.

Most of the evolution from that point was finding ways to reduce the code size, then finally reformatting into a lambda. I credit John for not succumbing to gratuitous obfuscation, nor gratuitous use of macros to shave bytes. I suggested to him at one point to consider reducing the entire program to a single loop. He didn't think it would be shorter and pointed out that he had made a similar transformation in an earlier IOCCC entry of his, his infamous maze program, so I believed him and didn't go through the effort to verify for myself.
How are people's experiences with using Juju based setups on real production servers? Was anyone "lazy" enough to try this?

--
EDIT (adding context): the article says about the use-case for Juju "configuring and setting up complex services with lots of application components can still be a bit tricky"... then goes on to give a basic LAMP WordPress setup... the thing is that a LAMP WP setup is neither complex nor it has lots of components, it's basically the "drop dead simplest" case of web app deployment, so they are clearly missing the point using this as an example :|
Count one more person in that minority..my iTunes match experience has been pretty bad.
My songs randomly get grayed out, and if a song has not already been downloaded to a device I own, I'm never sure if it will play or not.
OK, only halfish-joking
But "It just works" isn't so true anymore. Mac apps - Safari, iLife, iWorks - are mostly weak or broken. Updates are like Windows - in the Gb's and constant.

Also, I'm embittered as the demise of the 17" MBP leaves me nowhere to go in Apple's future portable line-up. (Dont get me started on MacPro!)

For dev work: as others have said sort out XCode, grab Homebrew, iterm/dterm/total terminal

For web stuff look at Bitnami stacks/vm's. Aslo tools like sublime, Fake, codekit, charles http
Ubuntu Phone And TV Ready For 14.04
A lot, it seems.
this really isnt news I mean back when everyone left thier routers open be default alot of the network names where even more aggressive its funny they know howto change the sisd but not the damn password or encryption type lol
Big Data is Disrupting the Marketing World
A heatsink works because there is some sort of medium that absorbs heat from the sink and moves away, thereby moving heat away. On earth, we use air for this, sometimes with the help of a fan.

If you stick a heatsink on equipment in space, there's no air that can move the heat away, since space is mostly empty. You'll bleed off some through infrared radiation, but that's not going to be enough.
How to run Python and Erlang on your Android phone
Why Bitcoin is a Prime Target for Hackers
Motivational Message for MLM Network Marketers
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Toothpaste, like the 3M paste, contains tiny abrasive particles that "clean" by friction. You can usually buff small plastic pieces with it by hand, but if you need to do a larger surface you need a polishing tool.
well, it's frankly kind of embarrassing.
Adaptive MapReduce with JAQL- example of research behind commercial Hadoop
One year on, SSL servers STILL cower before the BEAST
The problem that I see with that is, these engines are difficult to do in one class. Generally, learning that is a full two-year program involving programming, logic, math, 3D design, etc. Using 3D engines gets difficult to teach in a 7 week course unless the student already knows quite a bit.
Or at least from guessing if your knowledge is no better than a uniform random distribution. It would be interesting to design a test, where you could give your distribution directly. For a multiple choice test with exactly one single right answer, that would be easy to do: Give a percentage (adding up to 100%) for each possible answer. (Or to make it more foolproof, allow people to write down any positive number, and normalize by dividing all answers of a question by their sum.)

For multiple choice questions with a variable number of right answers, it becomes harder.
I tried Gnome Shell again 2 days ago with the 3.6 release.

You can't configure it without an absurd number of extensions, the default interface makes me want to punch kittens, and it wiped my groups policy and network profiles so I am still trying to repair my startup procedure, and right now I need to manually start network-manager each time.

I won't blame that necessarily on Gnome Shell though. I will say I don't care how speedy it is, I can't use it for anything in its default state, and after a couple hours trying to get enough extensions to make it manageable, I just gave up. If I want a Gnome 3 desktop I'll use Cinnamon.

The only plus for Gnome Shell is that the system + search syntax that I love from many modern desktops works, but it also works in Unity (albeit slowly) and Cinnamon (albeit not as well, Cinnamon doesn't intelligently reorder results, it just lists them alphabetically).
Top Linux-o-lanterns from around the Web
In the universe where, to program it, you need a fully fledged computer to do the development on?
Sprint acquires clearwire
$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS"
Selling Umbrellas in a Synagogue
Is there any legal result if this turns out to be propaganda?

I mean, could it be libel to say someone is looking to buy you? If Redtube or Youporn said this, what would be the repercussion?
I can only get it to show up in update manager as a developer release, with a warning that it is still in beta.

This is using both the main and my local archive...
Duncan Watts has a book titled Everything Is Obvious: Once You Know the Answer Very good and interesting read.

http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Is-Obvious-Once-Answer/dp/0...
Had to look up this one when I saw it was included: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Mars
Inside the Mansion—and Mind— of Kim Dotcom, the Most Wanted Man on the Net
What was the suicide joke?
Men can have husbands, too, you know.
MonoGame ported to Raspberry Pi [video]
One issue with MySQL in large databases is that schema changes are extremely expensive, so much so that you'll be making design decisions around it (e.g. how do we implement this feature without executing our two-day alter table statement). Not all RDBMS have this problem to such a degree but none can escape it entirely.

A lot of the gotchas that he notes are related to design trade-offs with different default behavior than an RDBMS typically would have. For example as your system gets large enough in MySQL you may find you have to do asynchronous replication as well, and then you will have similar problems with dirty reads.
I'd love to see a similar set of benchmarks (or perhaps the same one) run on other cloud providers like Rackspace, Linode, etc. Any chance of seeing the nitty gritty details up on Github?
Keto absolutely works for lots of folks. Protein is filling and delicious.

I've spent some time among "ketards" and they ate much more fat than they did protein. I think the recommended ratio was around 80% fat vs 20% protein.
Firstly, I can not trust open source e-commerce softwares for use in production. Lots of them have security bugs. But if you wanna use open source solution, TomatoCart looks nice.
It's not copy when you improve it. Whenever I use Unity or Win7 I see lots of little details "copied" from OSX.
Rocket science is hard because the slightest error will trash your multi-billion-dollar mission. See Feynman and the O-Rings, for instance. Ironically, social science would be easier if it was that rigid. What makes it hard is that even very bad models seem to sort of explain some things, sometimes, or make predictions that come true despite the model being blindingly wrong and stupid, instead of blowing up badly. And a bit more controversially, it doesn't help that social science's "blowups" can be a lot more subtle, and frequently actively shuffled under the carpet. Sometimes it seems like a bad idea in economics or social science can't be discarded until it has completely destroyed an entire civilization, and even then some of them keep popping up... of course, there's little agreement on exactly which ideas those are.
Simple UX tweak to fix textboxes where input sometimes exceeds field's size.
Where can I see the ads in action?
Samsung Galaxy Tab 'does not copy Apple's iPad designs'
I've never seen that one, but I always use FBI + some long random string of numbers. A while back I had a neighbor ask me if I knew anyone on the street that was with the FBI. :)
No 'Free Public Wifi' ?

Awesome windows virusy-thing that was...
I question whether it is more profitable to move forward and have what amounts to really good devs build mashups than to go back and focus on OS stability and core functionality (the thing which you arm sales people with when selling to corp, and that provides for greater general user loyalty).

The immediate rebuttals for my comment will be (1) user studies, (2) the os is fine, (3) were making money, (4) customers told us.

The not so obvious rebuttals will be:
(1) someone told us to do these, (2) we've reached user and customer saturation, (3) desktops aren't the rage, (4) core customer/users moved to using server only and were reeling them in to desktop, (5) corporate entities cannot perceive enough value thus all the new mashups.

It is this second set which I want to hear discussed and why they are or aren't the case.

Basically my guess is that core users are moving away from where these guys are spending money and they think spending more in the area will bring them back.

take with a grain of salt but the marketing theory is people when obtaining something (convinced or otherwise) will benefit if product in context serves all their needs and more if possible. That grey area or boundry of core->nice to have is what is in question here. The more they use it, and the more it serves them, the more likely they will return to it (product context). Take with a grain of salt.
Maybe when a service/product/framework etc hits a specific point in it's lifecycle (when it's trying to be enterprisey for example), we can say that it's melted the snowman.
You didn't read the article.

This isn't a config file, this is the query string of a URL, or more importantly the POST data of a form.

From the article:

> By default, older versions of IE (<=8) will submit form data in Latin-1 encoding if possible. By including a character that can't be expressed in Latin-1, IE is forced to use UTF-8 encoding for its form submissions, which simplifies various backend processes, for example database persistence.

> If the parameter was instead utf8=true then this wouldn't trigger the UTF-8 encoding in these browsers
> The old interface was an empty box saying "what song do you want to hear?" I have no f'ng clue what song I want to hear. I'm on your site so that you can show me some cool new music that I might want to hear.

Then you should listen to some radio site that feeds you music. I enjoy Grooveshark precisely for this reason: I can make a playlist of things I want to listen to, and listen to them.
The Fragmented World of Digital Music [live infographic / video]
One of the tags says "vector" so they may be able to produce higher resolution files. That said, I think the @2x should be in there if people want to use these for mobile.
From my memories of statistics class:

the way an actual statistician would try to answer this question would be to first describe a "null" hypothesis, called H0, then talk about the probability of seeing this set results, or an even more extreme set, if H0 were in fact the case.

H0: The police do not change their ticket collection strategies at the end of the month

H1: They try to collect more tickets at the end of the month than the other days of the month

H0 would describe some distribution for the numbers you are seeing. This is where you can put all of your assumptions about how things are - so that you ultimately end up with a model that generates a certain distribution.

Under this model, there's going to be a certain probability of seeing this result, or a more extreme result.

If that probability is less than, say, 5%, then this is saying that you'd only have a 5% chance of seeing these numbers given that there isn't in fact any conspiracy to collect more tickets.

In such a case, you might then "reject" the null hypothesis in favour of H1.

If the probability was higher than 5%, you might say that there is no "significant" evidence in favour of H1.
I've done a little bit of domaining myself and the first thing to take away from any list is that recently dropped doesn't always equal available. Also you have guys that are running massive lists that perform thousands of buys requests per second across a massive number of domain name sellers in order to ensure they get to purchase the domain as soon as its released.

In terms of obtaining information, most whois queries can be performed via command line utilities... so to start you off here is a good list for whois servers (http://code.google.com/p/whois-servers-list/). Finally, check out each service, some will allow queries which will return true or false to being registered and generally you get a lot more of these requests then complete lookups (without being IP blacklisted)

Finally, in terms of building and managing an index, I believe manual crawling is the only option available... and start with dictionary terms and work out.

Edit: Read this as well - http://www.dotweekly.com/pending-delete-domain-name-drop-lis...
Reviews range between 8 - 15 minutes long depending on the complexity of the websites / apps.

I have an email list of close to 1000 people that were interested in being a "early adopter" so I draw testers from that list.

I got some more feedback in regards to pricing and I have raised my price to $15 / test with higher discounts when multiple testers are purchased.

Let me know if you have any other questions.
Newsweek to Cease Print Publication at End of Year