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If no-one will defend that the defaults are bad defaults, then why are they the defaults?

As for the "No True Scotsman" notion, fair enough; point conceded. I just can't imagine anyone who actually, you know, cares about their data being happy about finding out — by virtue of the fact that the sloppy behaviors are the default — that they've lost data, or had it corrupted somehow, because of those defaults.

Yes, it's their responsibility, in choosing the tool, to make sure they're using it properly. But the folks making the tool should also have some degree of responsibility to their users not to fuck up their data. Maybe I'm just spoiled, having lived and worked in the PostgreSQL world as long as I have. There, breaking users' data is tolerated about as well as Linus tolerates kernels breaking userspace...
The reason the GPL happened in the first place was because this happened to Stallman with the original version of Emacs he wrote with his friends. He started personally reimplementing every feature they added under a forcibly-free codebase to guarantee this would never happen to him again. (Additionally, this happened to me; I got totally shafted by assuming people would play fair with a BSD license, and the result was a closed-source commercial competitor with investment funding and a marketing department running rings around me. They really were reliant on my codebase, so temporarily closing source and moving to GPL undid some of the damage, but the consequences persist to today.)
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Veering off the question of LibreOffice's motivation, that paragraph struck me as bizarre. I've yet to see an open source project that didn't want volunteers in all areas.

So I clicked through to check the citation for "OpenOffice has been struggling" is even more bizarre, as it's a link back to Zdnet with info supposedly about IBM withdrawing support...whose only support is another link back into Zdnet, and it's rebutted below by OpenOffice's Rob Weir, whose comments were then incorporated into the article.

It does seem like Zdnet are trying really hard to manufacture controversy here.
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What one particular statistic do you want?

Take a look at the FULL report. All the statistics behind the graph you criticize are in Table 1 on page 10.

The next 40 pages seem to be a pretty competent description of both the strengths and weaknesses of their study.
Have you heard of moonscript[1]? It is a bit quirky but makes var declarations local by default.

[1] http://moonscript.org/
Modern science has become increasingly atheistic and pitting itself against faith and religion with it's own dogma and leaps of faith. This is a relatively recent phenomena probably started by religious persecution.

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." - Albert Einstein
Conspicuously missing from the various weighting schemes they compare is one with 100% classroom observations.

It's not that conspicuously absent as they don't use 100% weighting for anything. That said, they do attempt to maximize ability to predict state test scores, and in that optimization classroom observation plays the smallest role of the three metrics (2-9%).

Given they appear to have to done the analysis across all weightings, I seriously doubt they'd hide this data.

I do find it odd that teachers would rather be judged based on one or two people observing their classroom and ignoring actual student output, rather than raw numbers.

As a developer I'd much rather be evaluated on some metric I could optimize for (I think some metric measuring feature value/bugs/fix rate/etc...), rather than just my manager watching me code/debug a couple of times per month.
That only makes sense for users who are programmers. Non-technical users have got no idea what you're talking about. All they see is the UI and the presented feature sets.
Why Subtraction Is the Hardest Math in Product Design
I used to think being a professor was a boring and safe profession. Boy was I wrong! I hope his student can receive the appropriate mental counseling to live a more normal and fulfilling life.
Epi Eject: a better designed Epipen for allergy
I just tried the C version and it compiles and exits gracefully with gcc 4.2.1.
All Clinical studies should have all results given to indivuals who take part in a clinical trial. I was asked while on chemotherepy to take part in a clinical trial regarding DPD enzyme deficiency and 5-FU, Robarts did the study in 2007 in London, On. I still wonder if I have the defoiency and what exactly it could mean to me.
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Summer internship opportunities for freshman/sophomore college students?
In recent threads about software internships, a handful of people posted rates for freshman interns.

However, as a freshman who is admittedly pretty inexperienced, I've not noticed a lot of opportunities for people at my level of education.

I'd really love to use this summer gaining experiential learning in web/software development instead of waiting tables (my usual job). I'm not expecting a great salary, just a great learning experience.

Anyone know of companies that are hiring interns who might need more training than average to be useful? I know google and microsoft both have freshman-oriented summer programs, but I'd like to explore other options, if they are out there.
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It would be a nicer example to use "pretty SEO URLs" for the individual post resources instead of a GET variable. I know even the Hacker News website goes against this, but it just looks more professional/polished to me, i.e.

/posts/mytitle
The giant red plea for volunteers on openoffioce.org is a little odd.
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After reading the comment on your LCD display and interacting with a GUI interface? As if this was an IRC chat.
This will actually solidify her political future, showing that she is willing to make "the hard decisions" and pursue "what is right" in the face of harsh opposition from people demonising her and attempting to sully her name in public.

Remember that most of the people who have any voice in these matters make decisions by reputation, not merit.
Glad you found the post insightful.

As an intern I was basically treated as a junior programmer. I had a senior programmer mentor me and usually ended up doing little, usually week long, tasks for him. He was a great guy and really made this enjoyable.

His main task was the cover system. I helped him with this as an introduction to the game engine. Once I had a grasp of the existing code and demonstrated that I was competent, he offloaded some of his simpler tasks on me. This usually involved modifying the game editor for the artists.

The modification I remember most clearly was enabling the artists to control the camera's FOV and the depth of field effect. The game engine didn't support this so I had to use a hidden bone in the models to control these values.

Working at Eidos Montreal as an intern was a great experience. It enabled me to work in video games (childhood dream) before realizing that it wasn't quite for me (I'm now trying my hand at entrepreneurship, it's all the rage).
Raganwald is civil so we are civil
Maintainers left and somehow the decision was to start integrating LLVM with base instead. I think openbsd devs prefer pcc but there is just too much work to do on it and no motivation right now, so LLVM it is
Thought it's dead already. :)
You're mistaken if you think MySQL and PostgreSQL and the other databases are simply going to stand still during that time and you're also mistaken if you think applications which work with the SQL model will be abandoned before a better model is found.

My prediction is that every SQL and NoSQL system you mention will evolve towards being producers and consumers of SQL and NoSQL interfaces. I.e. like SQLite4 over KV, or Oracle memcache over InnoDB.
You sure know your conspiracy theories.
O hai! Thanks. It was a fun interview for me.
Are you serious? If anything is pitting itself against something, it is the religious trying to suppress knowledge in order to prop up their superstitions.
He does not need to be able to point to an extant, better alternative for his criticisms to be "credible."

BTW, I can't believe you're implying that his post is not credible. The practical outcome of your demand for a solution is to shut down legitimate criticism.
By the way, the word algorithm is derived from the name of Muḥammad al-Khwārizmī.
Related to not knowing why lithium works in the brain?
I'll go one better -- I'm not going to shop around at all next time I want something NewEgg has.
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Islam doesn't really contradict science. Science is simply viewed as the study of God's creation.

There is a word that's used in Islam text, called Bi'dah; which can roughly be translated to "innovation in the religion". People label their own delusions under Islam, when they have nothing to do with the religion (ie. murder, suicide bombings, etc).

There is a class war and power struggle in the middle east right now. I think middle easterners are divided between those that want the empire back and those that want to integrate into the European (pseudo-Roman) way of life.

Neither side is achieving their goals in a proper manner though. Suicide bombings obviously don't help with anything. Integration with Europe has simply lead to colonization and poorer living standards. The middle east is pretty complicated. It's better to actually understand the history of the middle east, rather than post a link to /r/atheism.
Whether he agrees/disagrees won't change the fact, which is, Steam runs on Windows 8 and it runs fine. There are a lot of reasons not to support an OS besides compatibility.

With Steam, it wasn't a compatibility issue, it was more to do with Valve feeling threatened by the Windows Store Model. Giving away X of every purchase to the store does undermine their profit model. The same reason why you won't see subscription based products such as Dropbox/Google Drive/Skydrive with upgrade options on the Apple Store.

However, I can't see how Windows 8 threatens the traditional form of sale, that download to desktop and play.
> whereas OpenGL requires GLUT, or GLEW? I think. Perhaps FreeGLUT? OpenGLUT? Or can you just use SDL? Or none of them? What? Exactly.

I think SFML is in the best place to succeed SDL: http://www.sfml-dev.org/
This premise is flawed. There are certain ingredients that one just doesn't enjoy. If a dish is cooked with those ingredients, you won't like it regardless of the quality.

That's pretty much where my analogy falls apart, so I'm ditching it.

Whether I'm capable of contributing to a project that does not, in its current state, suit my needs has nothing to do with whether I'm in a position to contribute to that project.

This is especially true when there is an alternative that I'm already accustomed to using.
For sync processing just use node modules - step or async. After all sync processing is a subset of async processing.
For musicians, maybe some sorta co-op label (run entirely by the musicians in question) would be in order. One person is visible/showing while the others are working - meanwhile, the fans follow the collective.
I didn't mention anything about the war on drugs. I'll spell out the analogy though: Anything worth trying once for, is worth trying twice for.

> Isn't that what the judge just did in throwing out the case?

Judges throw out cases on non-obvious reasoning all the time. E.g. "the prosecutor failed to consider the test used in this Circuit since U.S. v. Foo (2004) and therefore the charges are moot".
We're actually trying to work it into our employee evaluations. We're not ready to start doing it yet, but we've got the beginnings of a clue for how to do it.
Asking a co-worker about the AnAl library could elicit a chuckle, or it could be an example of what alienates female programmers from the game industry. It isn't inherently a big deal, but in the hands of the immature and can easily go from funny to uncomfortable.
It was something Steve Jobs was vehemently against. Although Jobs asked his heirs never to ask the question, "What would Steve do?", his heirs seems to have bought the no-porn policy sufficiently to be able to enforce it on their own.
Process Hacker is also great, imo, and I use it a lot when reverse engineering.
Google described their process here:

http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...
WebKit is BSD licensed; WebCore, which WebKit uses, is under LGPL. Apple seems to actively put as much code as they can in WebKit as they can, so they can avoid open-sourcing their fork, and they have carefully isolated WebCore sufficiently that many of the more interesting changes they make to it (such as those that give them advantages on mobile) can be done by adding binary .o files (as allowed by LGPL) as opposed to new source.
You forgot "JFK was not killed by Oswald" and "We did not go on the Moon". Apart from that, you should avoid putting ridiculous conspiracy theories next to more believable ones. The fact that governments can and do stuff is secret and cover it up is hardly a "theory" anymore, wikileaks should ring some bells. Always believing what is written in the History Books sponsored by government oversight does not mean you are being fed the truth. Everyone has their own agenda.
More or less. The more evidence of all communication of theirs and yours, the more useful it is as either plaintiff or defendant in court.
How much formal training does the author of the blog post have? From the short bio, it doesn't sound like much.

That said, my training -- read Friedman's intro text in high school (just freetime reading on my own -- so not formal per se). Two quarters of stats as an undergrad. Two quarters in grad school. All of which at least 15 years ago -- so mostly forgotten anyways. :-)
The pro side to easier access to larger and larger audiences is the ability to find a niche audience (or have a niche audience find you via Twitter). This turns your 'boring' pursuit of mastery into something of interest, and maybe even guidance, to a large group of people.

Not quite a direct answer, more of a thought sapling.
Maybe if we torture them harder they'll do more science. I'd give it a whirl, but Christ-God Of The Sky disapproves of work on Sabbath.
The apology should have been a direct one, to her, outside the public lime (and lemon) light.
Actually, Go makes this somewhat easy too. Check this: http://blog.golang.org/2013/01/go-fmt-your-code.html It's possible to do context aware source code substitutions. Works great. (Not that it's something new or groundbreaking though, just relevant to your expectation)
I recommend express simply because more people know about it. This really matters in an ecosystem so young as node. Information is very hard to get. Hint : compare the number of express and restify blog posts.

Note : I do use testify and its great.

In addition, if you want to take you rest a pi server to also provide web pages, express is more suitable.
Your post completely conflates "secularism" and "science." They are not the same.
You don't say anywhere what it actually does, in plain english. I'm guessing by one of the screenshots and the allusions that it takes a photo with your front and back camera at the same time.

To be honest, this site is a very developer/techie targeted. I don't think any average user would be interested in your app form this.

Edit: Also you have four tweet buttons, not sure if thats a bug or on purpose.

Edit 2: Ok didn't even see the top bar until I revisited for the third check over... Overall the whole site is really vague, I'd recommend going over and clarifying the copy, and making that nav more obvious.
We'll see. If revision tracking finally works properly (ie. interchange of Word 97 .doc files with revision tracking doesn't just end up corrupting horribly) then it might be useful. Until then, it's not a usable substitute for Word. I've ended up bringing work home to edit on Windows, because LibreOffice trashed my document.

Of course it would be nice if we didn't use Word format (and obsolete Word format at that), in this way, but that's life in corporateville. Engineering shall toe the party line.
I love Neil deGrasse Tyson, but he explains this with such broad reasoning, ignoring the economic side of the problem.
I totally agree with you! It's hard enough to get away with taking vacation when it's quantified. Also, I notice that a lot places offering unlimited vacation tend to be younger companies that are growing which makes it that much harder to "get away" without disruption.
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This is a matter of opinion; like, on the other side of this, one could argue that people who expect to be able to use the works of others without providing anything in return are being inherently selfish, and that the system should be designed to limit the scope of their damage. In this case, if you'd like to get the functionality of that GPL library for your product, your quid quo pro is going to be the source code of the system you built that relies on it, and which apparently wouldn't exist if you didn't have access to that GPL library.

(Note: if your system could exist without that GPL library, as you could easily reimplement it yourself or use an alternative, then the idea from GPL is "ok, then you go ahead and do that, and we'll keep improving our library, at least knowing that you didn't benefit from it".)

In essence, by having put a library out under BSD, you are simply doing free work for others who are able to take what you did and contribute nothing back; in comparison, using GPL, the people who would have contributed back are not affected, and the people who don't have to look elsewhere: it is a restriction that provides a direct benefit.
Dawkins?

EDIT: In order to avoid simply offering a flippant (if true) one-word reply, let me also say that your comment is as guilty of painting with an overly broad brush as the GP comment.

Some religious folk are anti-science. Some scientists are rabidly anti-religious. Most of both are neither. There are just a lot more religious people than there are scientists, and religion tends to lend itself towards being a pulpit for extreme views more readily than science. Coupling those facts, of course it's going to seem like religion wants to beat science up and leave it for dead.
^great comment and clarification.
Just because places aren't hiring doesn't mean you don't send them a portfolio of work anyways. Find a place you want to work at and harass them gently for a job.

If you need extra money troll the bitcoin forums for posts of people looking for small store software to be built or other forums. Troll local craigslist in the 'gigs: computer' section, write and sell ebooks, write android or ios apps for the thousands of entrepreneurs looking to get into the game for enough change to buy a ticket and flee
I thought it would be better to have querying in the example to make it simpler to understand.
The dude doesn't have a single commercial success (as in product, website, etc) under his belt. Mostly a large collection of side projected.

Perplexed why him, and people like Gary Bearnhart (spelling?) are "celebrities".
April fools, so soon?

>By Naomi O'Leary LONDON | Sun Apr 1, 2012 7:01pm EDT
The Enterprise Cool Kids
One of the main selling points of Go is that builds are fast.
I second this recommendation. Restify is targeted at APIs so it has built in support for things like API versioning, auto content negotiation and observability (via DTrace). This is not to say that express is bad or that you can't build APIs using express but rather that I find restify more enjoyable to use for APIs.
Can all the goals of a 3rd grade education system be reduced to a purely mechanical list of stuff?

Yes, I would hope that a multi-million dollar enterprise can clearly define their goals.

What are the goals? To get children to read individual words? Or to get children to read a sentence, and obtain meaning from it?

I don't know off the top of my head whether the latter should be learned by 3rd grade. Ultimately setting the goals of our educational system is up to the various bureaucrats in the school system.

However, regardless of what the goal is, you still haven't given an way to game the system apart from "teach kids to read [words/sentences]".

While schools may not have stopped teaching students to read they have cut out other parts of the curriculum to focus on what's being tested.

Indeed - if the school system is not achieving their primary goals, they should cut secondary goals and focus on the primary ones. That's a good thing.

Do you spend extra time and money on the few strugglers (some of whom are going to fail whatever you do), or do you concentrate on the majority (and get most of them through the test and thus look good)?

This depends on what the goals of the school system are. If you want to ignore the strugglers, set the goal to be maximizing this function:

student_scores.max()

If you want to help the strugglers and ignore the strivers, choose this one:

student_scores.min()

Choose this one if helping a struggler is equally important with helping a striver:

student_scores.mean()

This one is like the previous, but strugglers get a bit of extra weight:

log(student_scores).mean()

Setting a goal merely forces you to acknowledge possible tradeoffs and decide which ones should be made (if the need arises).
Which of course is the reason that the Vatican keeps teams of scientist on hand that includes over 5 Nobel laurites. It's almost like painting us religious people with broad strokes is as backwards and ignorant as making general statements about "blacks" or "homosexuals".
I've been trying to learn Spanish for a year now, I'm struggling and I even live in Spain! Here's the list of things I've tried:

Rosetta Stone - probably spent about 2 months working my way through this.

Language school - 6 weeks, spent most of it feeling utterly confused and wondering why they were trying to teach me Spanish, using fluent Spanish...

Pimsleur - this did really improve my accent and some of the words I'd been using along the way started to become second nature. Still a long way from conversational though, did this for about 4 weeks.

Michelle Thomas - by far the best of the bunch for learning grammar, by the end of the basic and advanced courses I pretty much knew the various past/future tenses. Great base, but conversation still isn't happening...

Memrise - yeah actually, this really did help my vocabulary, spent about a month using it before christmas, learnt a lot and I can see me using this in the future to expand my vocab.

Duolingo - a good base for getting started, not sure how much if sticks though, it has the "lack of context" problem.

Private tutor - this is hands down the winner. I've only had a few lessons but I find this really works for me. The big difference is you can have conversations with complete understanding of every word that is said by either of you i.e. if you don't understand a word they say, they can write it down for you, explain what it means (falling back to english if necessary but generally avoided) and then move on. Likewise, if you make an error in something you've said it's corrected on the spot, often going off on tangent to explain some grammar before continuing the conversation. If you want to learn at a consistent pace I think a private tutor is really the only way to go. You're trying learn to converse in a foreign language, until computers can do the conversation bit the other approaches are all going to fall short of the mark. That's not to say they don't have value, and they're obviously far cheaper than a private tutor but without the conversation part they're never going to be enough to get you speaking fluently.