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I get this drupal error.

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PDOException: SQLSTATE[40001]: Serialization failure: 1213 Deadlock found when trying to get lock; try restarting transaction: DELETE FROM {semaphore} WHERE (name = :db_condition_placeholder_0) AND (value = :db_condition_placeholder_1) AND (expire <= :db_condition_placeholder_2) ; Array ( [:db_condition_placeholder_0] => variable_init [:db_condition_placeholder_1] => 112720946350f00b3f105ad8.99608950 [:db_condition_placeholder_2] => 1357908800.0644 ) in lock_may_be_available() (line 181 of /export/content/data/dlc/shared/www/developer/includes/lock.inc).
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Why would somebody spit the SQL exceptions on the browser instead of the log file?
I wonder how often the shipping cost works out to be more expensive than just buying the kindle version.
If you rely on a 3rd party for your business, then the 3rd party is in control of your company future.

In that regard, its not about risk. Yes, using 3rd party API for your business model is risky, but thats a secondary effect. The major issue is than the future of the company, and any promises and investments done is completely dependent on that third-partys' whims. To some degree, your even in less control than if you were employed for the 3rd party company, as there are employment laws to protect employees, but no laws in place to protect you against changes by the 3rd party to the API.
The present (kinda): 3.0/3.5

Man, why would anyone want any of this LINQ or closure stuff? I don't get it. We already have event handlers, and for blocks can do anything LINQ can do (that I'd use it for)!

It was about this time that I got into Haskell, somewhat out of necessity as that's what our uni course starts teaching. I've only grown more fond of Haskell since those days, mostly after learning a little OCaml/F# and seeing how comparatively nasty ML syntax is. Yeuch.

VB.net kinda lagged implementation-wise for these features vs. C# - I guess I wasn't the only person who moved from the former to the latter - but in C# they were fairly glorious.

No more would we be teased about the relative verbosity of our language! Fine, we still might go a bit long horizontally, but now we too can fit an amount of functionality on one line sufficient to guarantee the confusion of the reader and thus job security. Not that I have a job. Does job security keep you out of a job if you don't have one? Hm.

LINQ uses method extensions (a hilarious but occasionally useful bit of the language) to add new functions to all the collections types whenever LINQ is imported. Mapping and 'aggregating' (folding) and what have you arrived in C# 3.0, with surprisingly nippy implementations, and a whole lot more came with 3.5/4.0 (I forget).

Cool stuff. Cooler with closures. With events we didn't have to worry about writing inner Listener classes willy-nilly (insert comedy projectile vomiting here), but you still had to define the type of the function you were writing explicitly. Not so with closures. They're cool. I sometimes use them like private inner functions, but I'm pretty sure that's my fault.

Something else most definitely worth mentioning that came around here that is undoubtedly a good and cool thing was type inference, or the super magic 'var' keyword. (Like the C++ auto keyword, THAT CAME AFTERWARDS (possibly). We're inventing! Yay!)

Out with the List<string> stringList = new List<string>()! In with the var sl = new List<string>()! Glorious.

While I'm going long here, I need to also mention automatic property implementations.

So we don't have getWhatever and setWhatever functions in C# - (though we do agree with our Java brethren that generally exposed fields Are A Bad Thing) - we have: public whatever { get { return _whatever; } private set { _whatever = value; } }.

But in 3.0, you can do e.g. public whatever { get; private set; } and the boilerplate is written for you. If you ever want to swap them out with some code that actually does something at a point after that, you can then go ahead and do that. Awesome stuff. Java coders love this when they learn about it.

I think Mono also came of age here and stopped sucking. A new generational garbage collector (sgen), far greater API support, and the demands of game developers embedding the runtime left, right and center undoubtedly helped. (Mono runs on Windows and consoles, too, you know!)

Their System.Drawing implementation is still a bit crappy, though. I've had to do some weird things to alpha channels and what have you.
Breeze - http://letsbreeze.com, it's Basecamp and Trello mashup.

Originally it was developed for a final thesis about agile project management. Launched in September last year, totally bootstrapped and already have paying customers.
If you use GIMP, I highly recommend chipping in on the new work on resamplers:
http://www.freedomsponsors.org/core/issue/78/add-other-sampl...
The guy working on it has already contributed lots to GEGL and ImageMagick, and the work is already going straight into GIMP (no forking).

You do want your rescaled images to look good, right?
Anyone have any context? It kind-of seems like they built something following the documentation, and when they launched they found out that the docs weren't correct anymore?

Did LinkedIn change this overnight, without any sort of "deprecated period" ?

Changing important parts of your features or API without even warning your users & partners seems unnecessarily cruel..
Linkedin is behaving perfectly reasonably, it makes sense that for privacy reasons you want to restrict access to the work history of connections.

Imagine someone you're connected to using linkedin on a recruiter's website giving them access their linkedin account. That recruiter now has full access to your work history, do you consider that acceptable ?
There's no "war". It's pretty clear that C and C++ are the most important and dominant programming languages around, regardless of what some people may think and say.

Almost every truly important software system is either implemented directly in one or both of them, or heavily depends on other software implemented in one or both of them.

In practice, you don't get implementations of languages like Java, Ruby, Python, Perl and Go without C and C++. Even if you're using something like JRuby, you'll still likely end up depending on a JVM written in C and/or C++. And all of this isn't even considering that your software, regardless of the language it's written in, will likely be dealing with an OS written in C and/or C++, and possibly communicating with a database or some other server software written in C and/or C++. These days, C and C++ are nearly inescapable when implementing real-world software.
Funnily, D demonstrates why C compatibility is so important: without C compatibility the adoption would be very low.
That's because you're not a biz person.

I've had business types say exactly the same to me about tech jargon.
> which Sun had sewed the crap out of them for

Speaking of spelling mistakes...
Ohh that makes sense, I also wondered if it was Chromium in Linux thing so I opened it up in Chrome in my work iMac and I noticed the same thing, albeit less pronounced. It's very pretty when it does work so that kinda balances it out. In any case your content is worth it, thanks again for the awesome sauce.
A "Quantitative Analyst Salary" starts at 100k/year. Trying to build a trading system is like trying to invent the next 10x battery technology could end up golden dust in the end as well. You're distracting people from proper cost benefit analysis and assessment of risk/reward.

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/quantitative-analyst-salar...

Programming getting into high frequency trading is "high risk, higher reward". It would be better to use our Neural Networks to find risk factors for prostate cancer you'll get in 25 years, but the money just isn't there. AKA high risk, low (possibly no) reward.
WebKit core gets commits from nearly every major hardware manufacturer and OS vendor that isn't Microsoft. Unless Apple's stripping all those commits out of spite, iOS WebKit contains code from Nokia, RIM, Samsung, HPalm, Google, and many others that might be seen as competitors otherwise.
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http://www.improvely.com, http://www.w3counter.com, and two dozen other sites over the years. Revenue in the millions over the past 8 years I've been self-employed, and I'm not taking a pay cut versus what I'd earn in industry if I had gone that route instead.

I've run into many limitations that have prevented me from offering products, service plans and sales strategies that would've been profitable but required more employees. I could hire, but I enjoy what I do, and switching from what I do to hiring and managing sales/support/ops teams is a totally different job I wouldn't enjoy so much.
>Since the risk of quitting your job and starting on your own product

Software developers who don't intend to go into management should not be permanent employees. You should be working as a contractor so you don't have to worry about things like this. As a contractor, you don't get paid for days you don't work so no one cares as much when you're gone (so long as it's not negatively impacting a project). I usually take 8-10 weeks off per year, so taking advantage of this offer would be easy for me and have no impact on my "day" job.
Great, no linux support for the amazon cloud player. Wtf? It's a web app so what does it matter what platform I'm on?
I would agree with you, but given that many LinkedIn profiles are public and discoverable when doing Google searches, with the work history included, I don't think this is an issue privacy, as those people wanted for their profile to be public. Anyway, a simple crawler would do the trick for public profiles.
Oops. I wonder if that makes me guilty of libel or slander.
+1 There's still far too many people in the tech community who seem to think that WebKit was created from scratch by Apple who just felt like being generous by making it Open Source.
Until you have to come up with your own algorithm. Then you're stuck with ohgods-so-many-.java-files
It'd make it even worse to use HackerNews and comment from a mobile device at that stage, so it might curb some of the trolling but at the risk of annoying a subset of users.

Plus the community is fairly good at downvoting and flagging bad and unhelpful comments.
He most likely means buying it in cash.
An enthusiastic second on Design and Evolution. Must reading for any C++ developer who wants to learn the whys and wherefores of the language.

I hope he'll update it. The debates over concepts deserve a chapter at least.
It's sort of ridiculous how little information you can get from LinkedIn via their API. Case in point, I don't think you can get Twitter handles from even first-tier connections any more. I made the appropriate API calls, waved my hands, and all I got were empty values. The docs do clearly state that you should be able to download every Twitter handle associated with an account, so WTH? It looks like they've revoked this functionality without changing the docs?

More broadly, it would be cool for a developer-oriented company to de-risk their API by adding some guarantees that they won't pull this kind of stuff. Right now developer agreements pretty well only restrict what the developer can do; adding conditions to limit how the interface can change would be a big selling point. The problem is, as long as VCs keep throwing money at companies that exist at the mercy of LinkedIn et al, there's no reason for them to. They get to open up the platform, watch for popular apps, then consume or copy them and lock down the API again to prevent competition.
Is there anything unusual about a small ISV developing a dashboard to someone's data? I think that's all that is going on here.

LinkedIn doesn't have the best experience for everyone.
The mention of needing to keep the project a secret makes me wonder what would have been so different about things had the news leaked.

Let's say the browser user agent leaked or some enterprising reporter figured out what Apple was up to. What would have gone differently in that alternate universe?
>He's hiring a programmer, and paying you to stay on as technical co-founder.

Nonsense. He's doing an angel investment and taking 50%. That still might be attractive since he does more than just an angel investment but don't pretend he's doing anyone a favor, this is for his own benefit as well as the potential partner.
> C# was here to stay from the beginning, we love it in the present and we will use it more and more in the future.

This article would have received a bit more respect if it had been a bit more subtle about the C# cheerleading.
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Clickable faces & a bio on each, would have been awesome. Otherwise, really neat.
A few months before this email when Apple forked it and removed the QT dependencies.
King of the tools, bites the hand that made him.
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I just started reading "the signal and the noise" [0], and he talks about the difference between "risk" and "uncertainty": "Risk" is a known factor, something you can calculate with. Something might be risky (50% chance of failure) but at least you can calculate and reason about it. "Uncertainty" is "worse" because you can't easily reason about it. We often assign numbers to uncertain events anyway, but they might be off by several orders of magnitude.

He goes on to say something like: Risk fuels capitalism and the marked, uncertainty grinds it to a halt

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nate_Silver#Book

Edit: I forgot to tie this in to what we where talking about :)
As I see it, relying on someone else (with out any guarantees) is not just risky but uncertain. You can't really know how likely it is that they will change down the road. Doesn't mean it can't work out though..
You have no idea about expensive Lego. In Brazil, a simple firefighter airplane in Walmart will cost you more than US$130,00! The list price in the USA is US$60,00. See for yourself: http://www.walmart.com.br/produto/Brinquedos/Lego/Lego/34301...
Very true. I believe that the true essence of human spirit and vigor exist only where there is struggle, like the saying "Diamonds are found in the rough"

I think the start-up accelerators won't find ignoring the 2/3 of the population that exist in India-China region, very helpful. Long gone are the days that the best of talent goes abroad, a lot of them are being retained in their home country due to parental pressure, and other nationalistic elements. Indeed, it would be tougher to pick out of such a large population, but its quite true from that perspective as well that a larger pool means a larger probability of diamonds.
Clearly they don't understand how to configure drupal.
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well contact the company and ask for a partnership,you cant get stuffs for free forever.
Seems somebody has decided "7450px ought to be enough for anybody" (div#video_header)... what about dual T221s? ;-)
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Obviously the products may be been developed much earlier, but the Webkit browser on Nokia N95 was released to the market before the iPhone was released in 2007.
No, Hawking radiation is based on well-known physics (virtual pair particle-anti-particle creation) which arises near an horizon (which you can treat classically: the so-called quantum foam play no role).
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Most likely because KHTML license was (still is) LGPL, which allows the creation of proprietary products with it (Safari) but requires all source code changes to be published.

Had KHTML been licensed under a BSD or MIT license, the browser world could potentially be very different from what it currently is.
The reason of not deprecating ugly features of c++ in new c++11 standard was the production codes in industry which still want to live.
Not at all. The Casimir effect has nothing to do with quantum foam; furthermore, it is something that has been measured experimentally.
Stop using Raleway as a body font. Please.
The thread isn't talking about public profiles, rather profiles that your user account is privileged to access.

(Linkedin don't let you access public profiles via the API; but that's a separate issue)
its kinda true that since a majority of manufacturing of electronics has moved to China, its quiet possible to get cheaper versions of electronics on the gray market. They are cheaper due to a direct-to-customer transportation, and evasion of company's expenses other than production ones.
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Thats what I read elsewere, but it didn't work for me either. Running fglrx.
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Hmexx, I'm so late to the game responding here...but I like this idea a lot....From the investor side. I am in a similar boat as you, maybe we can pool resources up the ante and invest in several mvps. Let me know.
Surely over such a long distance, the staggeringly huge number of extremely small genuinely random changes would cancel out?
I've also found that having both a light and dark color theme is useful for your editor. I am currently using Solarized in Sublime Text.

It seems to work well, and if you read the description, it seems like a lot of effort has gone into matching the two versions.

http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized
You only use what you understand
Agreed it needs to be weighted - out of the ten or so books I browsed I got 3 self-published erotic novels with stock photo covers.
http://bricks.stackexchange.com/questions/124/lego-cleaning-...

There seem to be some pro tips on the Lego StackExchange.
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I think they were just trying to piggy-back on BSD reputation as stable and mature system, so they played the buddy-buddy card. Once OS X settled in its place, this was no longer needed, so the open source love faded.
He's a junior MVP, of course it has to look like an ad :)
He needs to get in touch with the stock exchange (and brokers) before jumping into any implementation conclusions.

He is not a broker, you can't really interact with any exchange directly. He needs to use some bank (which will already do 99% of what he is implementing).

Without knowing exactly how the market systems work, this is a toy, he should have talked to someone BEFORE writing any code. Things are way more complex and simpler than it looks. It's extremely simple to use bank services to do that for you and close to impossible for a developer to just jumpt into writing trading software without a bank backing it.
Entrepreneurs are scientists
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I can say with confidence that I've never browsed into a bodice ripper.

I browse books systematically. Always have. I walk in the door and head to a section. I might start in the middle, but then I work one way, or the other.

Even in an unfamiliar bookstore, I use signs for orientation. In the library, when I browse an unfamiliar section of the stacks it is only due to choosing an unfamiliar section of the stacks. I might be surprised that I found an interesting cookbook on British cuisine, but I was not surprised to see a cookbook.

Browsing is intentional not passive. No algorithm can replicate my experience of doing it. An algorithm can only present choices which facilitate it. Amazon already does that to some degree.
You could use one of the realtime api's, like pusher or realtime.co. They can handle the scale. Otherwise erlang/otp looks like a good fit
If this foam indeed exists, the three protons (sic) should have been knocked around a bit during their epic voyage. In such a scenario, the chances of all three reaching the Fermi telescope at virtually the same time are very low, researchers said.

How in the world do you get from point A to point B in this line of reasoning? They received three photons of similar wavelength at a similar time. Everything else seems to be some stuff they made up.
Found a blog-post with that quote in its context:

http://unreasonable.is/opinion/entrepreneurs-are-scientists/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5042525
Ah ok - she is on win7. doesn't work either, though.
Chrome implemented this by showing the last history item with a different host at the bottom of the list that shows if you hold down on the back button.
Depends. I wrote a rather complicated corridor based routing algorithm for a courier company in the UK which worked on real time traffic data. It was only 11 files and 12,000 loc and that was their entire business model.
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Why is it so high this year ?
One problem with your statement is that C# is not only "Microsoft tech". C# is an ECMA language for crying out loud.
This article would have been so much better if it had included actual questions and answers including dirty language.
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Totally dude. Because C# only runs on Windows. You can't use it to build apps for the iPhone, Android, OS X or Linux at all. Nope.
I meant the offer. It does sound better, but there are lots of better offers out there, this one has lower barriers to entry though. I see it less as the route to go if you are an entrepreneur and more a good way of giving people the kick up the pants they need to start their journey.
Ah I don't understand quantum foam then. Ignore me!
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I missed your "sic" the first time I read your comment, so I feel like it's worth emphasising: yes, space.com did manage to mix up protons and photons in the same article. Not sure if that's evidence of bad writing or bad editing, but either way it's embarrassing from a science website of all places.
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