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Agreed. The article looks very weak.

Also, it seems like "delta architecture" would be a better name since the "speed layer" is all about updating views with deltas anyway and the architecture clearly cannot do what it promises.

The view update problem is by far not easy even if you take a subset of a well-defined language like SQL. And the article really seems to assume arbitrary queries, i.e. executing even an arbitrary program on the input data. Just a simple example: "If x is there then remove y" and you have other rules inserting and removing x and y. Then you easily run into a query which given the data does not have a single unambiguous solution and in some cases (loops with an odd number of negations) it is not even clear at all what the solution should be and if it can be defined.
This is true of any processor. If you had the inclination and the proper hardware to facilitate loading the machine instructions, you could program the processor in your computer the same way.

The raspberry pi is a much more complex machine than the arduino. 32 bit instructions vs 8 bit, 700MHz vs 20MHz clock frequency, GPU vs no GPU, 512MB memory vs less than 1MB. There is so much going on in the pi's chip, that a thorough technical reference manual could easily exceed 5000 pages, where as everything you need to know about the arduino's processor will fit in less than 500.

You certainly can make LEDs blink with a raspberry pi with your own non-OS code, but the difference in the amount of code required vs doing it in an arduino is pretty substantial.
Good call. I'll look into supporting this next. In the meanwhile I just assumed people could connect through a Tor exit node to post.
I'd love to use Zipcar but the under-21 filter for non-students means it's out of reach at the moment. If I could avoid buying a car in the bay area I would
Worth pointing out that CrOS's "secure boot" is somewhat unique among mainstream OSes in that it still respects the user's wishes by design[0] (aka developer mode), unlike iOS, WinRT, and (with some exceptions) Android devices.

[0] http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/f...
I dont have the machine in front of me and it was more than a month since I set it up, but I could not get any sort of video calling function going when I was setting it up. I could use the camera to take pics of myself - but otherwise it wouldnt work. I can't recall the exact issues....

It wasn't defective - it just wasn't something that my bedridden mom would be able to use intuitively.
The parser is failing for regexps containg the caret or dollar chars:

http://cl.ly/image/3q0B2X1F3i1H

http://cl.ly/image/171f172x0P1M
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The netbook didn't die, it was killed. Firstly by Intel and Microsoft licensing fees and hardware restrictions, and secondly by hardware manufacturers not actually wanting to make something quite so low-margin.
Nick Cave's said very similar things about inspiration/creativity as well...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
The main reason for that is that scaling works so differently. A purely web based company that hits on a really good operating* model can potentially scale whole orders of magnitude in a short period with relatively limited additional investment.

ZipCar can't do that because their growth is constrained by the need for expensive assets (cars). Even if they were popular enough to expand by a whole order of magnitude over the course of a year they would require a huge injection of additional cash from additional equity sales or lending.

As a result, it just isn't really possible for ZipCar undergo the huge upside that a web-only company can.
relevant onion article: http://www.theonion.com/articles/metric-system-thriving-in-n...
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Joel's post has an update that "you can update your [DUNS] information for free at eupdate or by calling them at 866-584-0283" eupdate is at https://iupdate.dnb.com/iUpdate/viewiUpdateHome.htm
You need to remove the slashes from that example
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Sadly, we (US Citizens) all learn the Metric system starting in at least 7th grade (was for me at least back 15 some years ago). We continue to use it through High School for courses such as Chemistry and Physics as well as University studies.

However, many of those that are not interested in going into a Science field tend to discount the Metric System in the United States as nothing more than a "means to an end" in order to get a passing grade. They quickly forget it or just pay lip service to it as they don't see the need for it outside of the classroom.

Until that changes with some sort of mandate by the US Government, I'm afraid as you mentioned, the larger percentage of the United States will feel no need to care about the Metric System outside of a few Science courses they took back in school.
(*) I wouldn't call an operating model that doesn't produce revenue a business model
> I don't know what 310mL is, I know how to measure 2 cups of water with...2 cups of water.

Do your cups come only in one size? (And aren't the bigger coffee mugs standardized to 200ml?)
Zipcar could be massively useful to college students. The 21+ age limit is a shame.
"who for the most part don't even go around converting imperial units"

This is the key line which MUST be understood, no matter which side of the argument you're on. Its a sig fig issue.

Converting feet to miles is a nearly useless activity. A mile is the minimum human discernible distance for a marching roman legion, in that no human can tell the difference between a 8.2 and a 8.3 mile march at the end of the day, but most can, at the end of the day, tell the difference between 8 and 9 miles of march. So the minimum human sized unit for marching distance is the mile.

Ditto degrees F, although the probably apocryphal story about the local weather fitting in a 0 to 100 degree range is probably almost as good a reason as most humans can not discern temps finer than one degree.

Another sig fig issue rears its head where frankly unless you're a pastry chef "any ole cup" is close enough to Plato's concept of the ideal form of a cup or a chemists concept of a graduated cylinder for successful cooking or virtually all dishes. If your soup turns out foul its because of substandard ingredients or technique, not because you used 1001 ml of water instead of 1000 ml.

I like metric as a conformity thing in science and engineering, but its not inherently any better. You can do useless things that almost no one ever needs to do easier in one system or another, but it doesn't matter most of the time, so just conform and when in rome do as the romans do.
Kelvin should be the logical choice for temperature: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin
It's because it's from another seller.

If you look on the right side, you'll see $250 from Amazon but it's out of stock.
So the terrorist plot would be to overload the power grid. Since they come from oil rich countries, they'd probably have the spare energy to do that :-) Place some oil powered generators at strategic locations and blam - darkness...

But in seriousness, I find the issue interesting, but it seems solvable.
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You could have left the buttons there, just without the counter.

Facebook doesn't let you do this easily, though.
I have impulse control issues coupled with procrastination :) This makes credit cards a bad thing for me personally. So, several years ago - I decided I would live completely within my means and not do anything on credit. If I cant pay cash for it, I dont need it.

This personal choice has its issues, sure, but I have been happy for 7+ years this way, and aside from the one time I tried to rent a car at SFO to take for a weekend getaway, it has never been a detriment to my lifestyle.
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IMO, it would take far less than a month for things to turn ugly. Once the refrigerators are empty. Also, it depends on whether there is water coming out of the faucets--if pumps are required to maintain pressure, then there will be little water. It could turn ugly very fast.
So this is basically just fusing the transformer, right? The grid will still be down?
> So what's the problem again?

America sucks and is like the worst thing to ever happen to the world. Or something, it all blends together eventually.

Oddly no one ever makes a serious push to ban languages other than English or Mandarin Chinese throughout the world, or currency other than USD which would actually have beneficial effects on global interaction. Instead they compare the U.S. to Myanmar as if Americans should seriously be offended by that.
Where I live we use metric for everything, except monitor screen size and hard disks dimensions (5.25', 3.5').

Food stuff is typically bought in dekagrams for meat or cheese and kg for fruits or grocery (you skip "gram" in informal language, so it's "30 deko of this, and kilo of the apples, please").

Drinks are sold by liters, soda mostly in 1.5l ("one and a half" in Polish it's one word), alcohol in 0.75(default), 0.5 ("a half"), or 0.25 ("a quarter"). Everybody are used to it and it's quick.

Prices everywhere are per kg, sometimes also per 100g (I don't understand why, dividing by 10 is automatic, but anyway).
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I guess at some point using a cheeky homeless guy as your mascot no longer seems like the wisest marketing decision.
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Have you ever been inside of a hardware store?

Every hardware store I've ever been to has a section for metric. Our lab, for instance, keeps a supply of bolts, and as far as I remember /only/ has metric.

Also every socket set I've ever used has a metric and standard set.

Why would you care about road signs? And why would you care about a tape measure that is /only/ in metric? The second one seems kindof silly.

The only thing I know of that isn't available commonly in metric sizes are machining tools like mills. As far as I know, machining is always done in "mils", or thousands of an inch.
The US use of imperial units definitely requires a good bit of annoying overhead - owning two sets of socket wrenches and hex keys and never knwowing which one a manufacturer has used is just the first such inconvenience that comes to mind. So I agree that it's well past time to complete the switch.

That said, I will miss imperial units if they go. There's a natural poetry to them that metric lacks. Imperial units seem to embody and communicate their own history - history of path-dependence and weird math, to be sure - while metric units seem too perfectly consistent, and therefore somehow sterile.
but it doesn't show what is matched - as in a example matched string - which is the most important thing

also how do you put in the case insensitive flag?
"p.s. You're missing a square bracket after [1 2]. I was puzzling even more before I realized that :)"

Whoops!

"Both idioms are useful, but I use the parallel one quite a bit more than the nested one. Does FOR handle both?"

Not directly---to get a parallel product, you would use something like:

(map vector '(0 1 2 3 4 5) '(1 2))
Actual problems like the dollar is no longer a defined weight of silver. Talk about weights and measures...
They aren't straight rankings. They have a complex algorithm that has several weightings and probably include some velocity variables that affect placement.

There's been lots of speculation but Amazon rarely gives more than hints about how they calculate their best seller lists:

"We base rankings on all-time sales, as well as recent sales that are weighted more heavily than older sales, so that our lists are timely and aren't always dominated by all-time best-sellers like Harry Potter."
- Amazon Spokeswoman

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32336521/ns/business-us_business...
This is anecdotal, but I recall that Alabama put up highway markers in kilometers during the 1990's [1]. It confused people, and they cancelled the program. You can still find signs that haven't fallen down or been stolen in some places.

[1] http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/signs/AL.html
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I disagree. It could look better, but I fail to see how a graph is not a visualization (?)

Quite useful to show junior devs who are usually afraid of RegExp. Example from jQuery/Sizzle's: http://cl.ly/image/321F0E2B222o (^ and $ removed since it's failing to parse)
I always find it a little silly that people assume their country is amazing without looking up the facts:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_state if you look at welfar expenditure by GDP you'll notice that it ranks around 26 assuming I counted correctly, behind most of the western world. This is not intended to hate on America, one of the wonderful and horrible things about America is that there is amazing opportunity and terrifying risk to living in the country. Most developed countries even out the risk and reward a little more. I find this fascinating and I wonder how many factors such as innovation, attitude, ambition, etc have related causation (rather than just correlation).
The UK did use legislation to gradually switch to the metric system, with certain exceptions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Kingd...

One major way in which metrication is being introduced properly is via schools - nowadays schools generally only teach the metric system, and the generation below me genuinely do weigh themselves in kilos, and measure themselves in meters.
So let's draft 1% of the population and place them in a large underground bunker at birth. They will never be allowed to know anything about the "real world," and they will provide all the labor, engineering, and scientific research for the other 99%, who get to everything for free. Does that sound like a good society to you?
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One probably wouldn't think the "Better Business Bureau" (BBB) is a scam, either. But the BBB is known for shaking down businesses and having them pay up to obtain a good rating. As is Yelp.

I think the real problem here is trusting ratings organizations to objectively "rate" companies when they have an incentive to extract money from those companies.
It's to keep liability down. The insurance pool that ZipCar benefits from would be significantly skewed towards youth and impacting the majority of their client base to generate more credit-risk revenue is not part of the model.

An 18 year old is at least twice as expensive as a 40 year old business man when it comes to car insurance.
This looks interesting. Is there an example of a book published with this?
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> [...] and short distances in "elbows."

Cubit might be the word you were looking for.
This is a bunch of fictions. Americans with wrenches tend to have both SAE and metric sizes. The thread pitches of metric bolts differs from SAE standards, and drain pipes are sized on inside diameter not outside because ID is relevant to capacity.

Tape measures have standard units because they're standard where tape measures are used - in construction.

Where it makes sense, metric is common, e.g. soft drink bottles.
I'm actually in the market for a typewriter right now, for exactly that reason. I'm setting up a room in my new house with nothing but a desk for a typewriter, a chair, and a sound system.
If you have a high margin, recurring revenue SaaS business doing $1-2MM and are looking for growth capital, you do not need to dilute your equity with VCs expecting an exit on their terms (not always yours)- you need bank debt. One of the perks of bootstrapping is once you get to profitability and have a business built on good fundamentals (versus vanity metrics/eyeballs/"scale") you can walk into a bank and obtain lines of credit or debt finance to help you add those customer service folks or incremental sales help in other territories or whatever overhead you need to take on for the next stage of growth. The reason for all the VC hoopla in the first place is the overwhelming risk associated with your pre-revenue, pre-profitability business- traditional commercial bank financing is vastly superior if you can get it on decent terms, which you should be able to if you've bootstrapped your way to $2MM
when Leonardo was young he sketched Brunelleschi's machines for lifting a bronze bell to the peak of the cathedral dome he also built:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunelleschi
The article is also very poorly written and rife with spelling and grammar mistakes.
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On page 126 it is implied that if a person collides with two objects, the object with the most momentum will do that person the most harm.

This is nonsense. I am likely to survive being hit by a car at 10 mph, but I will certainly be killed if I'm hit by a 1 kg projectile travelling at 2000 m/s, even though it has less than half the momentum.
Picaso:

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/30296-inspiration-exists-but...
Actually, they didn't raise the prices on average. (There were even some papers about it. And not too much actual power shifted to the ECB in Frankfurt, since the other European countries were reduced to copying German monetary policy (or face humiliating devaluation) long before.
DUNS aren't government created and they aren't a monopoly. The US government uses them, but companies like Apple certainly don't have to.
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Easier way to get a good development environment and not have to deal with a crippled window manager: http://www.ubuntu.com/

On a more serious note, what is with the fad of running OSX and doing all of your work in a VM? OSX is terrible for anything serious and is enough of a pain in the ass that one must use a VM just to run their web application on their development machine. Why not just use Linux? Why not use Windows and run a VM in that? At least you'll get the benefit of being able to run more software.

I'm finding it very difficult to understand the justification for such setups and, from personal experience, I find that it's better to avoid shops which operate in such a way altogether.
Be nice to be able to include the regex in the url so I could link it in documentation or have some sort of rest interface.
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I agree that it is all about cost, however this is far more "local" to many US citizens than they might imagine. For example, most of the coke bottles outside of the US come in half litres, while in the US they come in 20 fluid ounces (this is certainly true for many other products, too.) Hence, companies that make coke filling machines must accommodate the imperial system on top of the metric system, as well. Given that the metric system company can easily grab most of the market share, it should eventually be able to get larger economies of scale. In the end, it could very well be that machinery to supply imperial unit sized products becomes more expensive, a cost that will most certainly be relegated to the consumer.
Due to lax accounting, it seems.

Uh, not even close. His employees embezzled more than $150,000.
A pound (speaking very technically, such that only physics teachers would point this out) is a unit of force, not mass. The "imperial" unit of mass is a slug, which weighs about 32 pounds at sea level. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug_%28mass%29 The metric unit of force is a Newton, equivalent to ~3.6 ounces of force.
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looks neat. can you please make the regex textbox use a fixed width font, reading a regex is already hard enough, let alone when it is in Verdana
Is one of the plot points that every skilled worker was wiped out? Otherwise I have a hard time believing that in just 15 years people have forgotten the basics of electricity and thus how to rig up a simple generator(among other tools).
Most or all of which would not be helped by liberal attempts to emulate Europe.

For example, high child poverty is to be expected in a country that harbors many poor immigrants from Latin America.

For another example, high rate of incarceration is largely to be blamed on the "War on Drugs," which has the same effect as the prohibition on alcohol did.

For another example, low rate of doctors is largely to be blamed on the fact that medicine is a guild (as in, midieval guild) where med school is super tough to get into, doesn't select for competency as a medical practitioner, and creates a "class hierarchy" within medicine where a highly-trained nurse can perform as well or better than a doctor in many common situations, but is not legally allowed to practice in that capacity.

This could go on and on.

Overall, American liberals want a society where everybody gets whatever they demand, to the degree that there is enough to go around, except the actual producers. That society already exists, and it's called India.