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Many languages provide memory safety. None of them--none in popular use, anyway--have manual memory management. Granted, most applications that are written in C today don't actually need manual memory management.
add to that most buildings are not designed with good air flow in mind. While my house, built in 2006, has a great HVAC system complete with returns in all rooms no real thought was given to how air flows through the home from the outside.

This is evident by some rooms feeling stuff regardless of open windows and others just downright unfriendly to anything loose. Toss in dark shingles (brown or darker) and a lack of large trees and most modern homes are not really habitable in summer without air conditioning. Fortunately I have ceiling fans in all rooms I spend time in but I wish architects for regular housing would spend more time with making a home livable with natural movement of air.
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For reference: Doesn't work on Internet Explorer 7, always shows the hints on Internet Explorer 8 and works fine on Internet Explorer 9 (Minus the animations.)
I assume by your minimal "what water" comment you mean the Sahara couldn't support this concept because it lacks water? Considering the fact that you don't need a lot of water for this to work, there are several things that could be done easily and without a lot of additional cost (in relation to the value of the energy output).

1) Drill wells. There is subterranean water in many places, including otherwise arid landscapes.

2) Transporting water in a pipeline is also pretty easy, especially if you need pipes to transport the gaseous products anyway.

3) Considering the energy density, you could even carry it by truck over a dirt road once in a while.
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Please check this recent essay:

What is Actually going on in Iceland
http://studiotendra.com/2012/12/29/what-is-actually-going-on...

Can somebody help and make sense of these contradictory perspectives?
Why would it have to be all or nothing? Use your real name for things you want the public to find and fake ones for the things you don't.
You have to understand how cartoon characters work through the TV for the children, in order to understand the popularity of Minecraft (which didn't become popular through TV).

When kids grow up, they watch TV and they take the liking of characters like Barney, Thomas the Tank Engine, Spongebob etc and the companies behind those characters become ultimately huge!. The same is the case with Minecraft.

If Minecraft is crap than TV is crap and all these characters who are on it. Tell that to the growing kids on their face, just don't gossip about the degrading culture, the morality of capitalism etc.
I don't think it's too hard to "get" Minecraft. The way it was originally explained to me (I purchased it in the beta) was "it's Lego." I played for a few weeks and it was good fun.

What pulled me back into Minecraft was logic circuits. I found Minecraft to be an incredible teaching tool to help impart the absolute basics of circuit design to others. From the first step of turning on a bulb (or, in Minecraft terms, opening a door) with a circuit, to building memory and discovering new ways of state persistence, all the way to building entire machines for the express purpose of computation, Minecraft manages to turn the learning process into enough of a game to leave people associating "logic" with "fun."

I think it's probably only half a decade before we start seeing people in universities who were inspired to be electrical engineers by Minecraft.
Because it's possible, it must be true! Who cares if there's no hard evidence.
I stayed away from it for years because of the "controversy". Recently my wife got the first season, and now we've been mainlining it; we're almost up to the current season.

First, while I don't know a Sheldon, I have known someone who trended in that direction. It is not a shock to me that someone like that could exist.

Second, for all that you may complain about the geeks having "limited romantic prospects", they've all "gotten some", and by the fifth season three out of four are in relationships and one is engaged. Actions speak louder than words.

Third, accusations of stereotyping geeks are more limited when there are four main geek characters and several other ancillary ones, spanning all sorts of spectrums. The characters are Hollywood'ed up, but given that, reasonably realistic.

Penny started the series as a flat-out dufus, which concerned me. She got upgraded to an average person after about 10 episodes, who may not be able to keep up with the math (who can, after all?), but is no longer actively stupid. A bit o' bad judgment perhaps, but who doesn't have that?

I do wish the laugh track would go away.

And finally, at the risk of being a pedant, I can add to one more bit of shocking, shocking! inaccuracy in the show... but, bizarrely, it has nothing to do with science or geekdom. They play Jenga wrong! Consistently! The rules of Jenga are that you must complete all three pieces of the top row before you start the next one. You can not put a piece on each side, then start building across the gap! Argh! Of all the places to screw up... (I have not yet seen all Jenga episodes; my wife reports there's one where they play a very large version in the season I have not seen yet. But all two or three times I've seen it to date they've played it this way! NERD RAGE!)

I recommend going into it with an open mind, and bearing in mind that in first few episodes, as is always the case, the characters are still coming into focus.
I'm a little bummed to find that this doesn't work on Solaris either (just checked). I don't generally use spaces in paths, but it's probably about half luck that I haven't been bitten by this yet. And sadly, I can't always just put GNU findutils on.
What's the state of the art JavaScript automated testing stack look like? Does anyone have an awesome example? I'd love to start testing my frontend code with something other than browser refreshes.
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I would be interested to know what percentage of average American TV news viewers could locate Iceland on a map if it was not labeled.
Just as bad are websites that go over-the-top in changing functionality and layout to seemingly cater to tablets and mobile devices. Vertically scrolling an article on an iPad is a pretty good experience and has the benefit of keeping your site consistent with your web version, does it really need to horizontal paged scrolling?
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> Sales occur digitally rather than through brick-and-mortar stores ...

This isn't true. I bought the Minecraft (activation card) for my son through Walmart.
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Geeks like Community because it requires use of your brain and rewards you for having knowledge. This is a typical joke, never explained in the episode, which would be over the head of most viewers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGd56epac5c
and if you don't want to play it there are many people who stream their playing of this game.

I have used twitch.tv for perusing games I am interested in as well as screening games for my niece and nephew, usually I send a link to my sister and ask if the game is acceptable and would her kids enjoy that.
> When you argue that Sheldon is a “totally accurate portrayal of someone on the autistic spectrum,” then you have broadened the definition of autism to the point where you have rendered the word meaningless.

How so? It's called the "autism _spectrum_", after all, so it's natural that there are varying levels of severity among those affected. Sheldon having high-functioning autism doesn't somehow invalidate anyone else from having more severe autism.

> That seriously offends me. It offends me on behalf of the mothers and fathers who are living with autistic children [...]

To me, this smells like a pre-emptive ad hominem against those with an opposing viewpoint. If you disagree with me, then you've offended me, you're disrespectful, you're ignorant. If you want to argue that Sheldon doesn't have autism, that's fine. But if you do, then keep in mind that part of your audience _does_ think he has autism. Why would you attack the people you're trying to convince?
Fun fact: the new constitution reaffirms (and they people voted for this), the established Church of Iceland.
The iOS version of Safari has the "reading list" feature which downloads an article for offline reading (Instapaper is better IMO, but the functionality is largely the same that if you didn't want to buy another app it's built into your iOS device for free). The browser is well equipped to deal with textual information. I too fail to see the point of "bullshit" apps.
My point is that the forces at play likely have much more to do with what each outlet individually decides their audience is interested in and/or what would make a good story for them. Media institutions are much more interested in their own bottom line (and ratings/readership/etc) than anything else.
I'd say the same about Dell.
Parsing S-expressions is easy: Dijkstra solved it in a really nice way with the Shunting Yard Algorithm.
I built this over the weekend as a way of learning Python and web.py, and having a play with Bootstrap (I'm absolutely no designer).

The idea is to use Facebook check-ins as a metric of popularity for any kind of place you're looking for — bars, restaurants, parks, coffee shops — anywhere people have checked into.

Unfortunately for a lot of popular places, their Facebook pages are un-managed so a lot of descriptions are unavailable. I'm not really sure if there's a use for this, but it was a fun way to try Python, and I have to say I'm really impressed with how quick it was to get something up and running with web.py.

I think I'll continue to work on it a bit more as each place found could be queried further individually to get more information, and it could use some form of pagination. At the moment the results page is produced from a single API call, and limited to around the 25 most popular spots found. I had considered allowing the user to input the search radius (by default, 10km), but decided on simplicity over customisability in the end.
Does anyone have an idea what might cause the small bump/spike in performance is on the CPU-8 graph at approx 1e6 elements? It looks to be worth around 20-25% of the performance.

If it's related to a sizing parameter of the parallelisation, that suggests that choosing that parameter well could be important.
I didn't know that was possible. has got my mind reeling with what I can now do with CSS. Thanks OP for making this.
I worked with Sarah 1.5 years ago and can't imagine why someone would have a grudge with her personally - she's incredibly nice.
At the moment, no one can download and install Chrome from the official site
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I think thats called a downvote, you get them at 500 karma.
Piracy is not the same as "open technologies" in any way. In fact, the latter prevents the former (if I settle on GIMP instead of pirating Photoshop...)
The problem is the price is not set by the market, it is set by the record label and significant arm twisting. Support your favorite bands by sending them cheques if you obtain their album. The RIAA is the problem.

Also check out Band Camp for new unsigned artists. Great service and IMHO the future of the "record" industry.
I can't watch any show with a laugh track. Even if the show is the greatest, I just can't do it. Do you really think it is a live audience laugh track? I assume it is a fakish studio audience at best.

If it was a real studio audience it would be good. I love Colbert report and the Daily Show. They have a legitimate live studio audience and the energy is pretty real.
Thought it was AWS again.
Speaking as somewhat of an introvert I find having to conduct a real-time telephone conversation hugely more disrupting to my "coding flow" than reading or responding to email/IM/IRC.

Sure. But this is an opportunity to further optimise office workflow. Given how disruptive face to face meetings and telephone calls are, why not get them all done in the first two hours of the workday? Then you can head to your desk and work totally uninterrupted. With e-mail interruption I'm constantly in and out of the zone.

It sounds like the pet project of some extrovert management person [...] Not convinced.

I'm not convinced either, but that passage just makes you sound like "some introvert coder person". There isn't a "right" answer to this- you and the imagined extrovert have a difference of opinion, but labeling yourself as more "cerebral" doesn't mean you are right. Loud, extroverted co-workers who get in your space are annoying. So are introverted programmers that spend all day with earphones in refusing to engage with the team around them.
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Ask HN: Can a sysadmin switch into (full-time) programming?
I've been a sysadmin for 10 years now. I started while still in college (computer science/engineering) and when I moved to the private sector, I ended up being a developer for only about 8 months before quickly being pushed into doing more and more systems administration and less and less actual programming.

I love programming and there are plenty of opportunities to code as part of a sysadmin's job. I try to keep up with programming-related news, have my own small programming hacks on the side and, sometimes, like to sharpen my algorithmic skills with Project Euler-like problems.

Although right now I don't see myself looking at the same code base day after day, I sometimes wonder if I could still switch back into a programming job if I really wanted to.

So, what do you people think? Can a systems administrator really go back into programming? What would he need to (re)learn and what skills would he need to prove himself worthy?
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I think, based only on hunch and not recorded data I can source, that the more attractive the female the more likely they are to become a target of such behavior.
This isn't a problem with guys or with developers in general.

The vast majority of people who participate in conference are good people. However, it only takes one person (out of thousands!) who has this kind of personality dysfunction to lead an attack, and women are much much more likely to be the target of their dysfunction.
Well, in the article is says it is a live audience, but they may dub over a sound track to enhance it? I'm not sure on that part.
do you think you can adapt it to display an entire <span> ? That's very neat, but just single string text is not enough for me!
Apparently nerds are too self-conscious to be parodied and find it more offensive than the Hitler jokes they post on Reddit all day. The fact that I just stereotyped them (and by them I mean "us") probably has several scrambling for their rage comic generators already. It's incomprehensible that anyone would ever joke about their quirky, endearing traits or the fact that they're passionate about unconventional things.

Adrock's quote is the perfect example of this:

> . . . the main difference between Sheldon and Abed is that Abed is treated as a hero. . . Community tells us it’s cool to be a nerd. If Abed is better then we are better. Community is a warm hug of acceptance whereas The Big Bang Theory is a pantsing and a punch in the face.

This is just sad. Nerds insist that you coddle and pander to them because their egos are too delicate to handle a joke? Please, that generalization is far more insulting towards nerds than any joke TBBT has ever made.

As a nerd and a geek, the thing I find most offensive is the way other geeks and nerds react to The Big Bang Theory. It's almost embarrassing to be associated with people who behave like such spoiled children.
Right, if a failed company (even one which failed because of piracy) had a letter like this, you wouldn't be reading it.
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"2. Media outlets individually (particularly in the US) decided not to cover the actions of the Icelandic government because they think most of their viewers don't care much about Iceland and/or because "check out what has slowly been happening in Iceland over the past 5 years" isn't much of a breaking news story."

It's highly relevant because of the stark contrast in the manner in which Iceland prosecuted the bankers like the criminals they are, versus the crazy manner in which bankers are treated in the US and Europe.

One law for the corrupt, rich, and connected bankers, and much harsher laws for ordinary people who are not connected, wealthy and powerful (e.g. individuals targeted for illegal downloads versus bankers blowing up the global economy causing untold economic hardship). This sends out a strong message from a government to it's electorate: fuck you, you miserable peasant. Not only will you go along with these bailouts, you'll cheer loudly for your bought candidate when he's re-elected.

I'm from Ireland, and we should have copied Iceland to the letter. The difference is we're in the EU and our government is happy to be Angela Merkel's little bitch, and take the pain (sovereign debt burden) to maintain the illusion that everything is rosy in the garden.

Iceland even had the balls to crowd-source it's new constitution, giving real, tangible power to it's people (you couldn't even imagine this in most countries). Talk about real democracy compared to crony capitalism:

http://gigaom.com/2012/10/22/icelanders-approve-their-crowds...

Great article on Iceland from Michael Lewis (Wall Street on the Tundra):

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/04/iceland2...
or NYC
We perhaps need a different term altogether because really it's not just copyright infringement either.

If you take something from me that is meant only for sale to others then it helps me absolutely zero that I still have it.

With copyright infringement, it used to mean selling cheap knock-offs of your work, including your work illegally into someone else's dime novel, etc. With digital copyright infringement people are literally selling or giving away the authentic item (i.e. the data). This is much closer to 'theft' than the old idea of copyright infringement.

You have a good point about market value but those are economic principles, not moral ones. It's like saying I only took a gumdrop instead of a pallet of candy bars, but either way it's still wrong.
>apparently this is all part of their overall apps strategy or something.

Actually, in iOS 6, Apple added a graceful way to handle this case. The site can use a special HTML tag to indicate they have an app available, and that will show a tasteful banner at the top of the Safari screen that can be easily dismissed and that can launch the app, with context of the current page. Much better than some homebrew Javascript solution.
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When systems punish people who are basically doing the right thing and supporting the system, it makes my fucking blood boil. Like if you spend hundreds of pounds on a ticket and then miss a connection and are fined because the train wasn't quite late enough and you should have teleported to your platform on getting off the train (happened to my mate, had a £180 ticket to Glasgow from down south, her train was like 10 mins or so late, missed her connection, and the conductor fined her £140 despite her breaking down on the spot and the "wrong" train being completely empty. What the fuck did that achieve, Virgin?).

But aside from moralising - the people who manage this shit are setting themselves a colossal failure in that they do not see the value of consumer trust and respect.

A rigid system which stomps people into submission is one that people will have no qualms about circumventing, which they will, brutally and with abandon.

A trusting, caring system is one that people will be proud to support, other than a few outliers.

Once you become the former, it takes a very very long time to become the latter again. See the story about the Israeli child care center.
Laugh track removed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKS3MGriZcs

It goes from annoying to awkward.
Why is that worth keeping in mind? The result is still sexist discouragement.
You can't use down-votes on articles, only on comments, and not on comments which are replies to your own articles (presumably to kill off the "OH-EM-GEE, that guy disagrees with me, I need to down-vote him in to oblivion!" mindset.)
yep, equality sucks, especially when you're attacked as an equal. The thing is, these idiots that do stuff like this are targeting the woman's sexual attributes, and not her intelligence or skills.

As for the guy that said he learned better from other men - maybe he does, give him the benefit of the doubt - it's not ALL about you.
Not for articles, though. The only way to exert a negative influence on an article is to become an editor, which apparently requires meeting pg personally and participating in a secret ritual, after which your identity can never be revealed.
Not really, unless you are speaking about Oracle's JVM.
You are mistaken to think this show is supposed to depict the inner mental life of nerds.

It's absurdly common amongst people of our kind to assume TBBT is written for us, when in reality it's written as a caricature of us, for the general public. Much like Fraiser is not written for radio hosts, and Friends is not written for New York living twenty-somethings, TBBT is not supposed to be for nerds.

It's just not a big enough audience, yet, to cater to.
Copyright infringement is very different from theft.

First, if you copy one of my books, say from someone who bought it in pdf format from the O'Reilly site, you have not denied the owner access to his paid copy. You have not robbed anyone of a physical artifact with a measurable cost.

Second, such as act doesn't even rise to the status of "theft of service." It isn't like sneaking into another movie theater after watching the show you paid for. You are not taking up a physical seat.

At most you have committed a tort. The problem is these tiny torts have been criminalized. But that doesn't make them any more significant than they really are. How insignificant are they? So insignificant that simply by telling me you will write a review, I would give you a copy for free.

Quantify it: how was I damaged? If you lie to me just to get a free copy, how do I distinguish moral crime comitters from well-intentioned potential reviewers who never got around to it? How many of them should I pursue as thieves? What effect would that have on attracting reviewers?

Stamping "MORAL CRIME DOER" on the forehead of people who have taken something weightless, incrementally cost-less, and that is marketed by giving it away to people is like turning jaywalking into a felony.

The irony is that if copying my works was economically significant - if, say, I made an ERP system and a customer failed to pay maintenance fees - my recourse would be to sue them for the tort of not meeting a contractual obligation. The law already has a measure in place to prevent stupid cases: Is it worth suing over? If not, just move on.
The same people likely couldn't point out a lot of other 'big' countries/continents or even US states, so I don't see what that argument proves.
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Awesome!! (But the double hyphen in 'hint--top' or 'hint--left' is a bit cheesy...)
Except you can on 99% of crappy hosts. I remember even Tripod allowed you to put things outside of public_html.