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I recommend using the /x suffix to extend your pattern's legibility by permitting whitespace and comments.

/x allows you to break up your regex into its component parts, one part per line, and then comment each part.

Here is what the manual says about /x:

/x tells the regular expression parser to ignore most whitespace that is neither backslashed nor within a character class. You can use this to break up your regular expression into (slightly) more readable parts. The # character is also treated as a metacharacter introducing a comment, just as in ordinary Perl code. This also means that if you want real whitespace or # characters in the pattern (outside a character class, where they are unaffected by /x), then you'll either have to escape them (using backslashes or \Q...\E ) or encode them using octal, hex, or \N{} escapes. Taken together, these features go a long way towards making Perl's regular expressions more readable.

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html
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I'm totally with you - I was super skeptic of Occupy and was definitely a hater during the wall street protests. With that said, I've been impressed by what they have achieved compared to the likes of FEMA and Red Cross here in NY.

Consider me a convert ;)
The documentation is kind of confusing...is this to just look up names and get links to the docs? Does the full-text search actually search the documents?
I'm not sure who the PHB is, but I'm certainly not impressed by anything cryptic in a codebase. Deliberately writing code that's hard to understand should be a firing offense.
Well, I know it's a premature worry for a beginner, but I'd be interested in the topic of how different (OS, Browser, GraphicsVendor) permutations stack up in terms of performance and compatibility. Are there any particular sweet spots or laggards?
Well, one reason would be to take advantage of market inefficiencies.

You might decide that your business can derive a significant amount of experience from people who don't have a computer science degree. Those people might be easier and cheaper to hire. So it might be worth hiring them.

Fundamentally, the question is whether the hire is worth more to the company than the cost of employing them. If you think that CS graduates with four years of experience are overvalued by the employment market, it's a good move.
And yet here we are on a thread months later discussing the occupy movement. A movement like this is async and concurrent. Promises declared are not immediately kept (opportunity must arise) - but that does not mean you can treat them as broken.
I'm honestly perplexed by your answer here - did you read the Fortune article? It has quoted sources and emails to back up the fact that state prosecutors refused to allow the ATF agents to do anything with these gun runners. That is, they told them that buying a large amount of guns was legal, and that even transferring them to someone else was legal as well.

If the state DA isn't will to prosecute, then what would you suggest the ATF agents do? And if the ATF agents know that guns are being purchased, but then cannot arrest those individuals because they do not have probable cause, why would you call that "allowing the guns to walk"?
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The same goes for Notification bubbles!!!!!!

I have deleted some games from my system because they display notification bubbles above the icon or app folder. That drives me insane. A few examples I can call out are Halfbrick studios. Jetpack Joyride and Fruit Ninja both do this too often for my taste and have been removed from my phone because of it. These are particularly bad examples because of how many taps it takes to actually show and clear the notification. I wish there was an opt out with these things as it disturbs my OCD to have a clean desktop and no notification bubbles.
For Android at least, there are numerous call-blocking apps. I use (though am increasingly frustrated with the privacy policy and feature-creep of) Mr Number, which can block all unknown numbers as well as specific blacklisted numbers.

What I'd REALLY prefer would be a way to categorize contacts into priority groups. Family/VIP, who can reach me 24/7/365. Friends who can call most of the time. Other contacts who can reach me daylight/weekday hours. And the rest who roll straight to voicemail. Add a schedulable exception (allow all calls in the next X hours because I'm expecting one from someone whose number I can't identify in advance).

Combine this with a visual voicemail (Google's product is good, but they already own far, far, far too much of my life) and I'd bitch a lot less about phones.

Increasingly: voice calls are very distracting and annoying. Unless you've got very good reason to call me, don't. I don't even get to "please don't call me" any more, I'll simply hang up (on the rare occasions an unwelcome call gets through).
I've got an Asus Transformer with keyboard dock, purchased over the summer. Using it as a laptop, the thing has one major bonus: with a fully charged dock and a fully charged tablet, I can get around 10-12 hours of use.

But in terms of programs I need to use every day, it's not very good. Apps are inconsistent about including keyboard shortcuts. There's sometimes a small delay when typing. I can have only one fullscreen window per app. The available office programs aren't very good (and I have to deal with docx/xlsx files every day). There's no decent version of LaTex. Using SSH is ok but that's not something I need to do very often. Using RDP to hook up with my office Windows box also works fairly well but I wouldn't want to do extended work that way. I guess for a use case which involves a lot of SSH and/or remote desktop, this might be a very good laptop due to the battery life.

Even though I don't own a Chromebook, I would suspect it's probably better as a laptop even with a reduced number of apps. Overlapping/tiling windows, keyboard shortcuts (presumably) for everything, better support for Google Docs. It only suffers by comparison in regards to the battery life.
The comments in that thread are interesting only for their lack of understanding of HFT.
I gave up on Opera because it was unusable on a small site that I use regularly. The site's owner licenses vBulletin and hires some local web guy to customize it (local being rural Pennsylvania).

I was the only person using Opera on the site. It wouldn't be a surprise if I was the only Opera user the web guy encountered all year.

IE, Firefox, Chrome all worked properly. Using Opera was turning me into a whiner as far as the site's owner was concerned. And he was justified, using Opera was just a luxury that was creating a PITA for him...on a site he was providing gratis.

I suspect his site was broken in terms of standards. But from my standpoint, it was Opera that was broken.

Don't misunderstand me, I chose Opera originally because I admired the project's goals. I still admire the feature set Opera provides. For me, it's tradeoffs became increasingly impractical. I want my browser to deal with the problem of broken sites in real time, not contact the site's owner for a long term solution.
I almost turned my head all the way upside-down to figure out how Google is under some kind of requirement to obey nofollow when deciding what pages to recommend.

"You can browse my pages but you can't get useful information from them" is bizarre. I'm not saying that no site anywhere will ever sue over it, because this is America and you can sue over anything.
The normal[1] physical Bitcoins have no physical value; they're just a paper wallet[2] with a certain balance, glued to a brass coin. The tamper-evident holograms are pretty cool.

[1] The silver/gold ones are so confusing that I won't address them.

[2] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Paper_wallet
While I agree with your premise, I don't think it has bearing on this discussion. Whereas unwanted calls, texts, etc are a pervasive problem across all telephony and particularly cellular devices--one that the FTC has taken lead on dealing with, they do not particularly affect and are not preventable by any hardware manufacturer.
I'm going to assume you actually mean robots.txt instead of nofollow, since that's the only accepted way to automatically state "do not index this site" (or portions of it). The big difference here is that the site in question controls the content of robots.txt, while it's the owners of the sites with inbound links that control the presence of rel=nofollow.

As such, I don't think nofollow could have any possible legal consequences. It's intent is to indicate that you haven't vetted the links in question and as such are specifying a lack of trust in their content (i.e., user-submitted links); though like the article says, many people attempt to micromanage SEO through them which dilutes their usefulness (I've been told we have some links that do the same thing; no doubt someone thinking they were smarter than Google... so now we have to track them down and undo these pointless additions)
It's probably a bad move.

I don't have a CS degree, but I've still found that having a humanities degree from a top tier university is still very helpful for opening doors. Like it or not, having a degree is a positive signifier. Dropping out is (in many cases) a negative signifier. And if you're struggling to learn in college, what makes you think that you'll do better outside of college? I found that one of the most important things I learnt at university was how to learn effectively and quickly.
"over a 10 year period" is an eternity in this space.
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Presumably the space, commonly having no meaning in and of itself, could throw you for a moment or two. This isn't a regex `foo_[a-z]`, you have to stop and think about it for a moment.

I don't think it is particularly bad though. It's just not the most trivial of regexes.
That's really unfortunate. Thanks for the response, though!
Having a term to google may help others: it's called a Lissajous Figure
I 100% second this sentiment. I think if users start doing this more often, and reflect this in the reviews in the app store (or if the app store could have an "% of app downloads deleted" or some other metric showing dissatisfied user behavior) that would similarly solve the problem.
It sounds like you relied on the shallow, useless coverage in the mainstream media.

Some of these are gone, but it's the first directory I found:
http://directory.occupy.net/
More generally, it's a characterset / collate sequence thing. Specifying a range with a start and end point requires understanding what that range specifies. Which can change depending on context, locale, characterset, etc.
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True, I don't consider that much of an option personally as I rather prefer texts to the rest. But thats just like, my opinion man.

How has dropping texting entirely worked out? I've often wondered what the impact would be myself. Not that I have the balls to do it.
But even given that Android notification SPAM would be less annoying than iOS notification SPAM seems to be, why don't I ever see sketchy Android apps even trying that? Am I just not downloading apps from the wrong places?
Quoting Jeff Atwood:

If you republish this content, we require that you: [...]

Hyperlink directly to the original question on the source site [...]

By “directly”, I mean each hyperlink must point directly to our domain in standard HTML visible even with JavaScript disabled, and not use a tinyurl or any other form of obfuscation or redirection. Furthermore, the links must not be nofollowed.

This is about the spirit of fair attribution. Attribution to the website, and more importantly, to the individuals who so generously contributed their time to create that content in the first place!

Anyway, I hope that clears up any confusion — feel free to remix and reuse to your heart’s content, as long as a good faith effort is made to attribute the content!

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/
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because other customers are watching?
Thanks for trying to make that constructive :)

Though you probably didn't want to answer my comment, but the one above: Sure think that this is the way to go, either being able to sort the library accordingly, or better by something like your intelligent queuing algorithm. But the suggestion i objected was to have this as the default-sort-setting of the library.
Oh, you'd be amazed at the number of times I managed to get an edge on a competitor by googling - e.g. knowing where their technical problems are, how they are going to approach a prospect, etc -- and all of that without having to leave my keyboard.

You're welcome to try to figure out what line of business I am in, which company, etc. There are a few posts I made on several stack exchanges which would give my competitors a big advantage while competing for a client.

If they only knew it was me.
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Cavirtex takes a flat rate of $3 when depositing money directly into their bank aact regardless of the amount, as I mentioned above. Not 10%...
My favourite regex is actually:

[^ -~]

Not to be used in a serious program, but only in an editor (or maybe one-shot data massage perl scripts), to find possible errors or unexpected stuff.
The only ambiguous thing about this regex is knowing what's between space and tilde. Otherwise this is a pretty ordinary regex.
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Cool, thank you for making me aware of that. I haven't had to use something like that but it's good to know. I'll put it in the blogpost.

EDIT: I added it below the `parse` example. Thanks again!
I can't for the life of me figure out how to disable Embark NYC's push notification.

My biggest problem now, however, is getting push notifications from Letterpress at 4AM, because the person I play with is on the other side of the continent.

There should be an adittional setting to require permission for a specified window of time like, say, 1AM to 8AM.
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Occupy is absolutely not like a startup where you have a top-down CEO trying to generate a culture that promotes getting shit done. Occupy works on socialist/anarchist principles and is more like a worker co-op. If you want to get something done you have to start off by putting in the work, then as other people see you being effective they join in and contribute their own energy and ideas. Unfortunately this kind of organization, while good at empowering individuals, is bad at quick tactical responses such as when facing a well organized adversary like the local politicians and police.
It's funny you call it a "lesson" because I learned the exact opposite "lesson."

It came to me several years ago when I was visiting an aquarium in Hawaii, out of all places. One of the videos they were showing explained the life that plankton live. These are micro-organisms that literally drift in the ocean and go wherever the currents take them. And in the end, most are eaten by a larger organism. One might argue that this is a fine way for a plankton to live, because their "purpose" in life is to end up as food for something else.

And many humans live their lives as plankton. Why? The simplest and most realistic answer is that it's the path of least resistance. It's much easier to drift in life and go wherever the currents take you, than to try to swim and go where you actually want to go. But to say (or, in the article's case, imply) that this is the right "lesson" is a bit annoying.

After that aquarium visit, I had about a week to think things true. And I realized that I had lived my life as a plankton up until then, and it had not resulted in much happiness. I was always reacting what was happening to me, and letting people push me around much like ocean currents push plankton around. In the end, I decided that I would rather be a shark. And that's when my life started to change for the better in almost every way.
I imagine that in a more perfect world, rather than competing with each other to control a vertically integrated solution, the people best at building hardware would instead cooperate with with the people best at building cloud services (and vice versa). I really miss believing that the world we really live in could ever actually work that way. :(
You've misread my comment again. Never said anything about an 11% bank fee. I said $3.
When I first saw the link I was hoping it was a hardware python interpreter, sort of like what the Reduceron does for Haskell.
http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/reduceron/
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If Paul offered lunches everyday for $500 he could probably have his time filled everyday.
With my Android phone tied to Google Voice I can block specific numbers and Google blocks a bunch of them for me out of the gate:

http://support.google.com/voice/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...
Right, I know that a lot of organisations exist. But what have they achieved?
Also check out pymite:

http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyMite

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Which is pretty important, if you want to do that whole "inspire the people to rise up" thing that Occupy Wall St was about.
And the question is - is there any easy way of making sure that this kind of symbol can't be generated in their algorithm?
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I recently had to disable notifications for Words With Friends (it took two tries). The "nudges" were bad enough (I'll make my move when I have some free time, damn it) but the final straw was when they started holiday spam -- e.g., "Why not celebrate Halloween by playing a word like SPOOKY, WITCH, or DRACULA?"

No, fuck you, Zynga. And Dracula shouldn't even be a playable word.
Samsung is a Chaebol and largely controlled by one family.

There interests are thus less subject to the quarterly forcasts of Wall Street analysts than those of Apple.
RingerX VIP (for jailbroken iOS devices) isn't quite what you want, but is fairly close. iBlacklist (one of its competitors) may or may not be closer (I don't personally use that one). (They both leave a lot to be desired with respect to the UI for maintaining your categorization.)
Temporarily available here:
http://mailtrap.railsware.com/

Does anyone have any info on this?
I am pretty paranoid about my wallet, which is why it's often attached to my trousers by a chain. Appropriate technology: http://www.amazon.co.uk/CANVAS-WALLET-WITH-CHAIN-BLACK/dp/B0... It's cheap and the batteries don't run out.
Ahh, ok. No harm no foul then.

I'm not necessarily taking sides though; Just pointing out how the situation is much different from most parts of the world. Developed infrastructure, a large geographic region, and a complete dependance on oil make the US extremely sensitive to external pressure in the oil commodities market. As a result, the government hedges, just like any sane investor would do.
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There have also been a few changes in the roadmap for LuaJIT, as announced here:

http://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/LuaJIT-Roadmap-20122013...
[\p{L&}] <- unicode version, in case you were wondering.
I wonder how long it'll take for someone to port PG to AIML?

(http://alicebot.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/chatbot-battles-post-...)
If they have consistent caller ID (big if, I know, but it happens, and it still works if they use several numbers, as long as they're not totally random) then you can "block" them simply by putting them into a contact that has a silent ring tone and a vibration pattern of "None". They'll still show up on the screen when they call (and potentially interrupt you if you happened to be using something on the phone) but it's way less annoying.

Just thought I'd mention it in case you didn't know about that strategy and it's helpful for you.
2M null characters is just a few bytes when zipped...
this smells like a screwed up server config...
Yep, Apple imagines people are just as perfect as their own devices.

On the iPhone I had to make a custom app (https://bitbucket.org/emilianbold/noblocked/wiki ) just to block calls from hidden numbers.

I guess the current iOS 6 with "Do Not Disturb" might help with that. It's only been 2 years(!) since I wrote my app so I should have waited :-| Oh, wait, iOS 6 doesn't even run on the iPhone 3G this was intended for.
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>Sorry, but inline styling is still CSS. I know that CSS standing for "cascading style sheets" may cause confusion but all styling for an HTML document is done with CSS. Even the default styles a browser uses on an otherwise "unstyled" document is based on CSS. You can insert styles directly into an HTML element with Javascript and you are still using CSS.

Matter of definitions. I'm advocating styling one's page inline and/or via javascript, without using external stylesheets. (Well, I'd really advocate styling using attributes a la html3, but it's too late for that now). Call that what you will.

>First, you are seriously duplicating your code since you have no class structure to work with. Second, you've just given up pseudo classes. Third, good luck maintaining that code, especially if you eventually stop using the program that created this code in the first place. I fail to see how that's easier.

I already have a class structure, because my HTML is being generated by a program. The actual HTML is like an assembly language, not meant for manual reading or editing.

Yes, I've given up pseudo classes. I don't think I'll miss them.
Profit or revenue? Reminds me of the company that stops selling to Walmart and their revenue drops significantly but their profit doesn't go down much at all.
What part about "occupy" - an occupation - don't you understand?

You will forever struggle to pigeon-hole occupy into something that fits inside our tiny monkey brains because there was never an agenda to begin with.

It is a celebration of life on this planet.

A stance in solidarity with those far less fortunate.

An admission of our insignificance in the grand design of the cosmos.

A message to the rest of creation: "here we are".

If you miss any of this; you miss it.
> I don't think it was tasteless

You're welcome to that opinion. However it clearly isn't universally shared.
Also it's more interesting to put unprintable characters on a t-shirt.
well - I would still say that is a bit optimistic. For instance what portion of consumers can afford a prius or tesla type vehicle?

I do think it is fair to point out that as there is more industry adoption (starting with teslas and priuses) the tech should become cheaper and better, affected other markets in other places. So directly, they aren't going to do much, but in the long term, adoption of teslas and priuses could have a substantial impact.
Sure. There are all sorts of niche applications where it would be great. I bet as public computers in hotel lobbies or similar they'd be great too.

That wasn't the intended purpose though. These were supposed to be computers for all the people for whom windows is too much computer.
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