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Science sets out to answer the "why's" of the world. Why is there lightning? Why does a fungus grow a certain way? (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100121141051.ht...)

Sometimes answering these seemingly innocuous questions leads to deep insights into natural behaviors.

“I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say "look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. Then he says "I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing," and I think that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is ... I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it's not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there's also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.”

-- Richard Feynman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgaw9qe7DEE
Hi, I'm the author of the blog post. I have to ask, wouldn't it have just been a lot easier to start from scratch with Shoes, but also start over with Hackety Hack?

I'm not familiar with the implementation of Shoes, but couldn't you write a wrapper for an existing GUI toolkit that just had a simplified API?

Or, since so much of Hackety Hack's GUI looks and acts like a web page, just implement Hackety Hack as an offline web app, where the typed Ruby code is just piped to the interpreter running on the box, and the results are returned as HTML displayed in the browser? It seems like a lot of work is reinventing basic things (text editor, GUI toolkits, etc.)
Why do you think credit cards are a good thing? They are neither especially popular here in Europe where people are educated and have money. I am 33, M.S., mid-six figures income, and never had one and don't want it. And never took any other kind of debt, either. I know a lot of people like me. I think Indians are good at their frugality and correctly understand that using a credit card is 'spending money they don't have'.
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Ask HN: As a consumer, what product do you wish was available right now?
As a consumer, what problem, need, or want have you encountered lately that you wish was solved right now. And more importantly - what price would you be willing to pay for this as a consumer?

It doesn't have to be tech-related. It could be an online service you wish was available, or an actual product. Anything goes.
This is a pretty ridiculous claim in my mind.

You start with the premise that the "Dj" in Django sounds like the "J" in James or Jason or jangle or nearly every other English word with this pronunciation. Now, based on linguistic history and French pronunciation norms, you claim it is more appropriate to conclude that all of these other words have implied "D's" than to conclude that Django has a silent "D".

You might be right that the pronunciation of James with a phonetic /dʒ/ sound is a historical oddity, but it doesn't make your conclusions any more valid. If the J in James and the J in Japan and the J in jerk and the Dj in Django all sound like /dʒ/ the conclusion should be that the D is silent in English, not that the French are more correct than we are.
yea all API calls are POSTs, the API server allows the static server to request.
i guess amazon no longer needs the naturally free publicity from having 90% of CDN content URLs being of the format xxx.s3.amazonaws.com ... you can now have CDN URLs that look like xxx.yourdomain.com :O ... AMAZING!!!

well, let's hope adding domain hosting to amazon doesn't add to further downtime.
If you get stuck under an insecure boss who is scared you are going to show them up, the skill is to engineer a transfer somewhere in the company to "broaden your horizons". If you are in a small startup with nowhere to transfer to and the incompetent boss owns the company, run.
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I was tempted to start the response with "When used wisely" then realized that it would be a huge assumption to make.

The article was not trying to state that credit cards are a good thing. The message that I wanted to get across was that a huge growth in credit spending is inevitable given what is happening in India right now, in terms of enabling factors. And that will have global implications.
o rlly?

Prescriptive grammars exits to teach poor people (or immigrants) how to speak and write like rich people. Rules are easier to teach and learn than an essentially unlimited number of examples. Some people say this is good - it makes it harder to discriminate against poor people. Some people say it is bad, because it reinforces the idea that poor people speak in an uneducated way.

Let's be frank - neither side can be trusted. They aren't interested in quantitative arguments, or logic, or a rigorous historical study. They'll just line up a bunch of emotive arguments, and then claim that their side rings true (because to them, it does).
In English, the grapheme "d" very commonly represents the sound /d/. Likewise, the grapheme "j" in English very commonly represents the sound /dʒ/.

Additionally /dʒ/ is a single distinct sound. There is no /d/ sound in /dʒ/. It's an unfortunate issue that IPA notation might make it appear as though /dʒ/ is the concatenation (borrowing a programming term) of /d/ and /ʒ/ when it is most certainly not. The author's assertion might make sense if affricates such as dʒ represented multiple sounds, but I am not aware of any linguists that subscribe to such an idea.

So when we say "the D is silent" in the word Django to other English speakers, we are implying that there is no /d/ sound at the start of the word, and that would be correct. The author's argument does not make any sense here.
Yeah, that's what this example does:

http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/websit...

"In this step, you will configure both buckets for website hosting. First, you will configure example.com as a website and then you'll configure www.example.com to redirect all requests to the example.com bucket."
'Single page web app' makes me think of hash tag routing. I think Static+API or S+API (whatever) is like a typical web site with multiple pages. Whats unique is the layout and content are requested separately.
That's fine by me. I'm just glad that the Django project doesn't advocate this, like the Gnu project does with "gah-noo". I think that if you use a word that already exists it's better to prescribe nothing. I haven't heard anyone on or close to the Django core team rant about people pronouncing it "duh-jango" and I hope it stays that way.
This is the clearest explanation yet. At the beginning of a word in English, orthographic <j> is virtually always pronounced /dʒ/.
After five paragraphs and still no audio of the correct pronunciation?
Well if you are in your 20s and don't have a lot of experience, you might want to hire some consultants with experience to guide you. If you have venture capitalists you want to listen to their advice as well. Don't make an excuse that you are young and don't have experience and the opportunity cost is it eats up your younger days. You can't be a Lone Ranger, you need to be developing a team, a diverse team of people with different backgrounds and different skill sets. Don't limit yourself to just people in their 20s by the way.

I spent my 20s and 30s writing software for companies, inventing new things, and having managers taking credit for everything I did. I expected pay raises and promotions, but those went to the people in the managers' social kliqs who had people skills (bullsh*tting, backstabbing, drinking at happy hour with the rest, gossiping, schmozing around the office instead of working, watering office plants, making coffee, etc.) instead of technical skills (developing code, coming up with new ideas for inventions and software, writing documentation, debugging, knowing how a computer works, knowing how to do research analysis and design, quality control, keeping up with trends via Hacker News and other sites) and my problem was that I was too good at the technical skills and I had to go. So I was 'used' to get to 'goals' and once those goals were reached I'd be fired and then find work at another company where it started all over again. Until the stress of it all made me too sick to work and I ended up on disability. (Programmers are a dime a dozen these days, we get 500 resumes a week for your position and we can hire a programmer for a fraction of your salary that won't get sick on the job!)

I guess I should have developed some 'people skills'?

Anyway now that I am in my 40's even if I was well enough to work, nobody would hire me, I'm too old. I have dual degrees in computer science and business management, but it just don't matter anymore.

The second myth, yes you need to focus on more than the business. My mistake was not focusing on my emotional, physical, and mental health and I got really sick doing my "balls to the wall" software development and focusing 100% of my energy into my job. Always keep a backup career as well in case software development or whatever doesn't work out. Find something you love to do and turn it into a hobby, that you might be able to turn into a business. Or else if you don't love it you might hate it and it makes you sick anyway.
Actually, video encoding for most codecs is a task which doesn't lend itself to parallelism due to temporal encoding. Because each frame depends on the last one, you really don't gain much from going to multiple cores (at least yet).
>The relevant argument is that general consensus and what people actually use constitutes how words should be used/pronounced, as opposed to referencing laws.

Of course. "Let the use of words teach you their meaning," and so on. But when it comes to names, all bets are off. Names are a special case; prescription still holds sway over them. At least, I think most people would agree that you (the indefinite you) aren't wrong to correct someone who mispronounces your name. To varying extents, this is true also of the names of things.
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That's a bold and narrow claim to make. How do you know with what I'm concerned? It sounds like you consider the organization of your data a loftier thing to worry about than memory management. They don't sound that different to my ears, though your view of the world sounds fairly more rude. I hope you never need to be concerned with memory management, for your and your users' sakes.

If you want to play with straw men, go elsewhere. All you're doing here is wasting everyone's time, including your own.
Sounds like you got it figured out. Why don't you take care of it for him?
I find this even more confusing.

#1: You preface that sentence with "But in French" so why mention English? Can /dʒ/ actually be written some other way than "dj" in French? From your post, it seems like the answer is no.

#2: The first paragraph of the third card neither mentions nor implies (to the non-linguists among us, at least) anything about English "j" having a hint of "d". This is something I'd never realized before, and only discovered it by saying "James" aloud a few times after this post; and I'm still not 100% sure that it's right, based on the post.
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I am not convinced most people organize their apps at all, or even know how to.
Depends on how you treat it. If you treat it like buying a gift card, and either don't allow refunds or only refund to the same payment mechanism the user originally used, then you shouldn't trigger any of the "financial instrument" regulations. That just leaves you with any issues raised by your credit card processor, about whether you've "delivered" the product the user purchased.
We're talking about a web framework named after a Belgian with a Romani nickname whose creator (the web framework's) desires that the web framework be pronounced the same as its namesake. If it were truly Anglicized, you would expect it to be spelled "Jango".

So how can we best analyze why it is spelled <Dj-> and yet pronounced /dʒ-/?

Either it's because:

1. <d> is silent and <j> is /dʒ/; or
2. <d> is pronounced /d/ and <j> is pronounced /ʒ/

2 seems by far the more perspicuous analysis to me given the absence of other examples of a silent <d>. And it's certainly the correct analysis in the case of the guitarist.
In French 'j' carries /ʒ/ and the digraph 'dj' carries /d͡ʒ/. In English, 'j' carries /d͡ʒ/ and there's no consistent orthographic convention for just /ʒ/ ('si', 'zh', 'j', and 'z' all do the job in different contexts, and probably others as well). There isn't really a /d/ as such in /d͡ʒ/.
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A functional interface needs to be understood. With each new interface you use, you load a new set of metaphors and interactions into your brain to help you navigate, understand, and use whatever it is that you are using. The interface needs to be relatable, or at least offer an explanation of how to use it. Having more experience with interfaces will make you more familiar with different design patterns and such, but there is a limit to how much we can relate to.

This isn't about readability, but rather usability, so I find your examples poor. It's not just about typography and whitespace. Yes, they are simple and on the "same visual plane", but they follow design patterns that have existed on the web for many years: Navigation placement is on the top and left, links are either underlined or highlighted. On the other hand, svbtle is using bizarre navigation visual cues at the top which need some level of inspection or trust to use, and medium doesn't have a standard navigation at all. They are designing away elements of the webpage that people are familiar with.
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If you can paste these invisible characters into a chat box to break a website that uses eval(), then someone will inevitably do it, simply because it is the internet.
I want to see the 13" ASUS TAICHI and Padfone 2. Also, AMD ultrathin laptops with good integrated graphics.
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where can a hacker hobo take a decent shower for free nowadays?
The "work in cents" thing usually works for same currency, but not when you involve foreign exchange:

Up until 4-5 years ago, the EUR/USD or GBP/USD or GBP/EUR were quoted with 4 decimals; Nowadays, there are quite a few places where you have to deal with the 5th decimal to make the books balance. It's going to be a roundoff error either way, but it might be a round-off error that keeps been counters, auditors and therefore eventually IT people awake at night.
More careful IPA emphasizes this by not transcribing it as the sequence of characters /dʒ/, though doing so is still common. For a while the solution was to use a ligature, /ʤ/, to emphasize that it was a single consonant, not a sequence of two consonants, but that was typographically to difficult to distinguish from /dʒ/, so now /d͡ʒ/ is preferred, using the generic IPA kludge for "these two characters should be treated as one".
Well take this with a grain of salt (it comes mostly from informal discussion with Taiwanese), but my understanding is that whereas there was originally a sort of ethnic/historical split to Taiwanese identity following the RoC flight to Taiwan, recent generations of Taiwanese are increasingly self-identifying as "Taiwanese" (as distinct from "Chinese") regardless of which side they come from ethnically, though the ethnic split is still something people are aware of.

I.e., many people now seem to have separate "ethnic", "cultural", and "national" identities (which can make conversations rather confusing).
I have never understood this type of backlash. I see it so often when discussing systems of reduced size (and sometimes reduced functionality). What is so offensive to you about small things? That you feel the need to make a comment like this? I don't get it.

If you want to use an OS that requires 7GB to install, you can. We won't hold it against you. And you can wax poetic about it.

But why is it that when someone wants to use a small system it causes people to make these sort of backlash comments?

The ironic thing here, with this example, is that demo scene actually accomplishes feats I have never seen done on larger systems. To use your analogy, the go-kart is able to do things, impressive things, the sedan doesn't do. Surely the sedan could, but it doesn't.
If you're trying to explain why /dʒɑ̃ɡo/ is spelled <Django>, it's far more insightful to explain /d/ -> <d> and /ʒ/ -> <j> than to posit the <d> comes from nowhere and is just silent.
What do you mean "James" doesn't start with "j" sound? James, Justin, Jam, Jerry, Jello, just, joy, jog, jib.... those all sound like the same J to me.
My project is a tiny box in the living room that copies Blu-ray discs over NFS to a multi-TB fileserver. The difference between 100Mbps and 1Gbps when copying a 40GB image is 55 min vs. 5 min...

I should add that with DMA and checksum offloading, even a (relatively) slow CPU can handle 1Gbps data transmission rate easily.

brigade: thanks for the board tips!
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That's not a precisely correct explanation either, though, because English 'j', pronounced /d͡ʒ/, is a single consonant sound (a voiced palato-alveolar affricate), not a sequence of two consonants. Though it's true that it's what English speakers would produce if you asked them to pronounce /d/ + /ʒ/ in sequence, because they always collapse into the single consonant. Not sure if that's also true in French.
CORS is supported in most browsers today. Even IExplorer 8 has support for it. If you really want older browsers too, you can always fallback to flXHR.
With QNX you get a RTOS. You get a higher level of reliability, dependability than with multitasking. You don't get that sort of reliability with some pre-packaged Linux distribution. You need to do some nontrivial kernel hacking to make Linux into a RTOS.

Why did Blackberry buy QNX?
I am not. It's more like comparing the second iteration of the windshield wiper to Instagram.
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I honestly don't think people who say "the D is silent" are making a distinction between the true affricate and /dʒ/.

Saying "the D is silent" is missing the most sensible explanation for why the name "Django" is spelled that way: namely that the <j> would normally be pronounced /ʒ/ in French (not sure about Romani).
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I would absolutely love a retina display monitor.
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I haven't read this article but I find the title highly objectionable. There is a recent distressing trend in UI design that providing the user with options always makes the UI harder to use. This means taking control away from users and giving it to best case devs who may not have thought of everything worst case suits with corporate agendas etc. Computers are supposed to make peoples lives easier not pidgeon-hole them into cookie-cutter lives. Sure the ideal UI doesn't require instructions but UI design is hard and I'm tired of seeing shortcuts. If you need instructions once in a while that's fine. People take college courses in how to use excel. They can read a five paragraph description of your UI. And if it tells them about features that they were hoping to see that you didn't omit to dumb down your UI for them then they might even like it better.
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Yeah, I didn't bother with /d͡ʒ/ (incidentally, neither does Wikipedia in their pronunciation of Django Reinhardt's name) because my main point was to explain the origin of the <d> in the name "Django".
Why link to slashdot; link to the actual article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/27/ramanujans-mock-mod...
From a french speaker point of view, it doesn't makes sense indeed.

It's interesting to note that in the french trailer, Django says "Django – Avec un D" (Django, with a D). Also the trailer is much more graphic than the (censored?) U.S. one
you cant trust Facebook when you are posting personal/ private pics in Poke...more so after the instagram issue...
The mail is always public... It's part of the Linux kernel newsgroup...
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Price to the farmer, when I left college, was about $1/bushel. A bushel was generally 60 lbs.

So my question turns around to you--where do the other $14 go?
What airline was that? They should have at least given him a round-trip ticket since he missed a part of flight he paid for.
Ok, I've read it now and maybe this isn't so bad but I do think walk-throughs have their place. In general I think UI design needs to be more thoroughly explored as a field.
As a 27-year-old member of the Indian middle class, I tend to side more with the notion that credit cards are a less sensible alternative for general spending, for all the reasons already discussed here. This is a fairly popular opinion among most of my peers, but not because of the cultural stigma mentioned in the article, but a general sense of frugality, as another comment mentions.
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I asked if they were conducting maintenance...
The article misses (maybe on purpose, so one has to figure it out by himself) what plan is he on.
What I understand he is doing n number of set of 5 reps (the last set being 100% weight he can do with 5 repetitions):
- squat
- dead lift
- bench press

In the article (in other sources) I read that doing squat and dead lift on the same day is not a good idea (back is working in both cases) should we throw out also this common wisdom?

I'm planning to buy "Starting Strength" but could someone correct me if I'm wrong?
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Right, I didn't bother making the distinction between the true affricate /d͡ʒ/ and the sequence /dʒ/ because my main point was that the <d> exists in <Django> because <j> alone would be pronounced /ʒ/ and hence the <d> isn't a silent letter but exists explicitly to contrast /d͡ʒ/ with /ʒ/
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