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I think the short flags are more useful when using directly the command (outside of a script). It is faster to type man grep in a window and to type grep -Eo than to type grep --extended-regexp --only-matching. At first, I even didn't realize that --extended-regexp was the same as the usual -E flag. I had to check with man.

Theoretically, I would like to agree that long flags are better than short ones in scripts. In practice, I prefer grep -E. And I can not imagine a tar cvfhz with long flags.
This is a big win for Mono and Xamarin.
The follow-up posts look really interesting.

Looks like they go through the complete implementation of a lisp system including macros using PHP as the host language.
After lightning strikes it probably doesnt :)
Only to a limited degree. Yes, there were soaps and other serials that had long-running narrative arcs, but not with the kind of sophistication contemporary writers are using.

Let's call it the 'Post-Buffy' school of thought, where character nuance, motivation, back-story, plot and sub-plot are all delivered with a kind of attention to detail formerly only used by novelists. There may be a few examples from the 60's -- The Prisoner comes to mind -- but even that can't really touch the narrative layers we've seen in the last decade: The Wire, Lost, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Battlestar Galactica, Game of Thrones (TV as novel if there ever was one), Six Feet Under, Dexter, Band of Brothers, and so forth. These aren't just books, they're novels.

This I think is partially the result of the ability of viewers to sit down and spend concentrated time with a series when they come out on DVD. The first time my wife and I did this was maybe 10 years ago with Buffy and Angel, and it was the most fun I'd ever had with television. This was a new experience. We'd lose 4 or 5 hours late on a Friday just chaining one after another, like the Battlestar Galactica skit on Portlandia.

What I think Netflix is doing, and probably what it has massive amounts of data to back up (I watched Buffy through Netflix, come to think of it), is that this new type of viewer engagement -- long sessions of series "gorging" -- has completely transformed the way we experience television. I think this is why they released the House of Cards episodes all at once. This is also probably why they're not releasing viewing numbers -- the new experience context of contemporary viewers has very little to do with the old Nielsen ratings arc, and would be a poor measure of the show's success, from Netflix' own point of view.
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Yay, a company that quite deliberately spams HN bought another website. Can't wait to see the same handful of accounts submitting ign.com alongside extremetech, pcmag and geek!
I've fallen in love with EaseUS Todo Backup Server, super simple backup software made to run on a windows server. You can back up to multiple locations including cloud, so you can back up to an external hard drive and to various cloud services in the same backup job.

I believe it's $199.
I'm not talking about the 4 minute YouTube clip. I'm talking about the feature film. Why be so angry and swear at me for being concerned at the damage humans are causing to their environment?
Yes, that's why I said, "even if you take into account the subsidizing of coal/oil/NG vs. solar."
Yes, an oil change coupon is a voucher that allows for a discounted price on an engine oil change for cars mostly.

I have contacted a number of these garages, or shops, offering the site as a free channel for exposure. Some shops have submitted coupons.
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I really like it, but part of me thinks the better way would be to just use whatever's on the title attribute of an element, which would of course need JavaScript. I guess this would be better for lighter sites.

Edit- I misunderstood how this works, I thought you actually had to add <span>s (extra markup) but it seems not! This is really great!

My only complaint is that it messes with elements if you're doing the :before/after thing for font icons.
PouchDB, TouchDB, whoah! This looks very nice.
How production-ready is this? Do you guys expect to find many bugs?
No, I don't think I'm forgetting that. Netflix is talking about doing five original scripted series per year. HBO does... seven or eight, maybe? (Off the top of my head from the last year, Game of Thrones, Girls, True Blood, Boardwalk Empire, Newsroom, and Treme; that list isn't complete). That content is all not only original but, at least initially, exclusive. Showtime is at about the same level of volume, so this isn't unique.

You're right that in terms of a fraction of hours of content per month, most of what they show is not first-run original content, but I don't watch TV 24 hours a day, so I don't care. Like I said, if I got that amount of original content from four or five different providers (let alone 10), that would be more television than I have time to watch. The fact that they mostly show movie reruns is immaterial.
The price of wholesale electricity in the Southwest is typically around $40/MWh, this is priced at $60/MWh. That's still less than prices in some other parts of the country, wholesale prices in the NE can be $100+ /MWh in winter months and it's an impressive technical achievement to get to even 150% of coal price parity, but all the same it's not actually cheaper.
> Whew!

You're relieved? How? The implications of the film and the clip you see should be far more worrying and scary than some data loss that you should have a backup of anyway.
Then perhaps you're missing the point. Sheldon isn't some super-genius who always does the smartest thing. He's someone who is very smart, but believes he is even smarter.
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The title's assertion is patently untrue.

America's most popular prime time news program (60 Minutes) did a full-length feature on this. It was done a while ago so it has also been in re-runs.

This has not been ignored or otherwise kept quiet by the mainstream media--quite the opposite.
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my life absolutely must be about working to mitigate and slow global climate change.

Be careful, there are two equally unsupportable view points on climate, one is that the climate isn't changing, and the other is that humans can direct climate change.

We know from records, both recent and geological, that the climate will change, we also know there are things well beyond our foreseeable control that can change climate significantly (volcanic activity, asteroid impact, changes in solar activity, earth-solar orbital variations)

Invest in surviving change.
I think one real lesson here is that super-shiny high end graphics are not what counts. The gameplay is by far the most important ingredient in any game's success.

More than ten years ago back when I playing Counter-Strike (CS still being immensively succesful btw) I was using a "low poly" mod: this would replace the models of the players with models made of fewer polygons (the head became a cube, etc.) because it would give me a faster framerate.

And the shitty graphics didn't matter: the important thing was the gameplay.

If you can have both great gameplay, great graphics and great perfs, go for it.

But if you have to choose and want to get succesful: cut down the graphics budget. That's not what's going to make your game succesful.
What's wrong with title="my took tip" and let th browser do it? For browsers that don't its a single line of jQuery.
Just finished the rest of the season after my previous post. It gets a lot better in the last 5 episodes. Some of the issues you mention that made it boring all tie together very well. Things start coming to an interesting peak towards the end, and Underwood stops winning so easily as he does in the beginning. Now looking forward to the next season.
Not for nothing but Windows Workflow was always a go nowhere tech, to be honest. The best thing is to have a good foundation in fundamentals and don't get so bogged down in API. If a tech has an extremely complicated API and it is not doing something specialized like control a space shuttle then it might be best to look elsewhere. Anyway, I just feel like Windows Workflow was something only the most Microsoft infused government programming firm could love.
Pretty sure waterfall was never state of the art, rather an example of what not to do [0]. It's often held up as a straw man argument in promoting 'agile'. Brooks' book emphasises prototyping, and 'build one to throw away, you will anyway' which isn't 'waterfall'.

Brooks' book also clearly demonstrates that applying a dumb formula derived from the number of programmers doesn't predict the output, and using such a formula to estimate a project's timeline doesn't positively affect the project's outcome. It's main argument is that programmers added late to a project will actually cause it to take even longer to complete.

Brooks' book is remarkable - a lot of programming lore and culture originates there or is popularized by it. I'd compare it to casablanca or citizen kane rather than dismiss it out of hand.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_development
No, I do not. I specifically used the word frequently to point out that not all nerds prefer Community over TBBT.
Author != Submitter
My guess would be that they're bringing the store apps in Windows 8 to the Xbox in the near future.
>Isn't that true of TBBT?

No.

>Most viewers probably haven't even heard of loop quantum gravity, and yet for the joke to be funny you have to understand Sheldon's occupation as a "classical" string theorist, and that loop quantum gravity is a competing theory that is supposed to supplant string theory, and around that time was being touted as the hot new thing.

Most people who watch the show do not understand that. They still laugh at the "joke". You don't need that understanding, the joke to most people is simply "haha, the nerd won't date a girl because of some nerd thing she likes". There is a difference between making a joke based on something "nerdy" and merely making a reference to something "nerdy". TBBT does the latter.
Go right till you see a down arrow, go down until you can't go down further, then go right, and repeat. It's silly and unnecessary, yes, but not that hard.
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Ask HN: What problem is your startup solving?
Let us know what type of problem your startup is trying to solve and how you are trying to solve it
I just asked because you specifically mentioned iPads, and 2 of the 3 models on sale today are only 768px wide.
Exactly! They wish there was a way to do it, but know doing so would open a huge can of worms.

Hirers want nothing more than increase the quality of candidates they interview, which is why providing a safe way to gather this feedback is so valuable.
The idea is kind of cool, but it seems like it might be a solution in search of a problem. Installing windows that don't open or choosing not to open windows that do is as much a cultural issue as a technical one. People used to air conditioning may not be satisfied with an office that's only almost the temperature they want.
Only if the interviewers are allowed to know the name and number of this friend :) Why bother with the person who can't answer the question when you can go directly to the goto guy? (and I say this as someone who's only ever been the interviewee).
What about a get-or-throw that throws an exception if it can't find the key? You get the best of both worlds.

(defn get-or-throw [m k]
(or
(get m k)
(throw (RuntimeException. (str "could't find key " k " in map " m)))))

I understand most people use the simpler (key map) or (map key) forms instead of get, but at least you have an option.
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Doesn't this entirely miss the purpose, which is to showcase the selected font(s) without the client getting hung up on what the page says?

They aren't supposed to know what Lorem Ipsum means. Further, it doesn't actually mean much of anything. It's nonsensical in the best of places and flat out wrong in the worst.
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This is a great example of a cyclical industry. Ziff-Davis buys 1UP and other sites and then hits a wall with its debt load. After the bankruptcy, liquidates and sells 1UP to UGO. UGO is sold to IGN/News Corp. Ziff Davis brand is recapitalized without the debt, buys 1UP and the rest back. The long standing brands never really die, they are just recycled.
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"When The Big Bang Theory first aired there weren’t many nerds on mainstream TV, at least besides the character with the glasses and braces in the background on a teen drama. Before TBBT, nerds were the characters the protagonists avoided, the ones with the crushes on the blonde cheerleader lead, or the person the popular ensemble helped out to show that they were nice."

Am I the only one who remembers Numb3rs? That show treated Charlie (one of the two leads, a math professor) with respect, at least in the episodes I saw. His supporting cast in the math and physics departments was excellent as well.

Hell, there's an episode where he actually teaches a class, on-screen, on the Monty Hall problem:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbCM8w18h-Q
First you need couples.
The utopian ideal that is relevant here is the ideal that information should never be considered property. So you can't properly claim to be one of the utopian idealists while using the words "theft" and "stealing" here.
"Don't talk about memory or RAM, okay?"

"Ha! Memory is RAM!"

That's comedy for geeks. Not some odd tangent about string theory.
Although the examples are in Erlang, none of this seems particularly Erlang-specific
Only one submission on the page you linked to was actually a comparable tool tip.
One major obstacle this technology will face-- even in regions where ambient air temperatures are appropriate-- is control. The bimetal strip can only act based on its local temperatures.

By contrast, the amount of heating or cooling a building needs generally is set by the distributed conditions throughout the building. For example, many commercial buildings require cooling in the core throughout the year-- without regard for the insolation or the air temperature at the envelope. So this technology will not, in many cases, eliminate the need for mechanical assist.

Another aspect of the control problem is the wishes of occupants in the perimeter spaces. As described, the incident sunlight, or the interior temperature, are meant to control the porosity of the material. Thus occupants get no say in the amount of sunlight they get, or the amount of air passing through the wall.

Competing technologies allow much more control. For example, "smart glass" can regulate the amount of light entering a space, either in response to occupants, or to a building-level controller. Passive inlet vents can maintain a desired airflow rate, in the face of changes in wind pressure and indoor-outdoor temperature differences (controlling to airflow, rather than to local temperature, is desired for air quality reasons).
I was going to say the exact same thing, but you beat me too it!

I started with this approach when I built our tooltip library for my company, but eventually there were just too many gotchas. We switched to using JavaScript and inserting the generated element as a child of `body`.
Several of these had a good long life before they went out to pasture. Not so of XNA.
I can, which is why the IT Crowd was funny. TBBT doesn't contain caricatures of me, it contains caricatures of what someone who knows nothing about me thinks I am. Such a caricature does not resonate with me, so there is no appeal.
True, thought it is important to be realistic about your ability in terms of time/skills to do so.

For OSS I like for one of three things. Either "too big to fail" (i.e Linux , Rails). Interchangeability , i.e something built on top of an open protocol like an SMTP server. Or something with < ~10KLOC in language I am familiar enough with that I would feel comfortable folding the entire thing into the codebase as a whitebox.
I don't understand why people complain about Microsoft killing Silverlight because Silverlight wasn't killed by Microsoft, it was killed by a changing market. And it doesn't make sense for a company like Microsoft to continue to push a platform that nobody wants or uses. However, Microsoft didn't abandon the software developers who used Silverlight. The languages, techniques and tools that are used to work on Silverlight are the same languages, techniques, and tools that are used to create Windows 8 and Phone apps. If anything, Microsoft gave the developers of a doomed platform an easy transition path to a new one.

But yes, it sucks about XNA. But MonoGame has you covered.
> However, the amount of time that it takes to reject the record reveals something about the plaintext padding.

This is the part I don't get. Symmetric cyphers in CBC mode don't traditionally behave that way. You encrypt the block and get your answer. Is there a variable-length HMAC in there somewhere or something?
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See, but the fact that you're reading about it at all, that people are arguing about it at all, means we're doing better. The fact that outrage about sexism even exists is progress. It's the (slight) progress of shining a harsh light on the previously unnoticed realities that were always there.
Craigslist Sellers need to get a clue......
It amazes me as we turn into the new year 2013 that sellers are still price gouging Craigslist buyers even more so now than ever. And now they do not list any description, model number, color, or pictures of what they are selling used. So why bother even looking for stuff on Craigslist ? Older laptops are now being listed even higher priced than new laptops. New laptops are much faster,newer,cheaper and much better than the old junk laptops they are trying to pawn you way over priced on Craigslist.
Do they think buyers on Craigslist are now that Stupid, really people ??? Lower your prices people or you will list your items forever and never get one phone call, Nor will you ever sell your items ever !
I love it when a seller list no phone number, no email and no Craigslist contact link. Can it really be that hard to figure it out sellers ?!? Is this Rocket Science to you ? Then get another job please.
Because of all this I don't buy on Craigslist anymore. Especially now since seller's and their I.Q's have gone down to minus zero on Craigslist. And now sellers are too afraid to meet the buyer or even talk to them over the phone, so now it makes it impossible to buy anything from these cowardly sellers.
So now I strictly buy from Amazon and eBay and I get it delivered to my door ! No more driving around on Craigslist and dealing with flakey sellers.
I think too that everyone now is trying to make a living re-selling their junk on Craigslist for way too high prices. Get a clue people, and sellers, you can not make a living selling things at high prices and yes people will not buy your used stuff for retail prices or for a tiny bit less. And nor will they buy used older items for anything less than say 50% to 80% off the original sell price. Wake up people please and smell the cofee if you want to sell anything on Craigslist.
Yes, really bad trend. In addition to the usability issues the article mentions for sighted users, using placeholder without labels leaves screen reader users without any clue what the input is for.
1:57 looks like a frozen whale, does that even happen?
They may be selecting for companies and teams that are more analytical, than looking for a 'psychologically better' deal.
Nobody is suggesting Microsoft is the only company that deprecates and drops development technologies.

But Microsoft is a chronic, habitual offender. It's a point of routine at MS rather than an occasional occurrence.
Because as a general rule, Americans don't care about anything that happens in a foreign country, with four narrow exceptions:

1) we care about the pomp and circumstances surrounding the British royalty (weddings, deaths, etc)

2) we care about what happens in Israel

3) we care about events that make us feel morally superior (rapes in India)

4) we care about things that could affect us (terrorists in Afghanistan, EU's sovereign debt crisis, etc)

American media doesn't even cover what happens in major European countries like the U.K. or France or Germany, much less in minor ones. And it's not just among regular people. Even educated, well-informed people generally don't care about what happens abroad. It's just American exceptionalism at work. We feel we are so dramatically different from anyone else, either in other countries or in other times, that nothing that happens in those other places could possibly have any relevance to us. The idea that we would look to other countries for ideas on how to solve domestic problems is completely alien to us.
>Anecdotally, every recommendation I've encountered for the show has come from self-described nerds

Anecdotally, every self-described nerd I've encountered has described themselves as a nerd because it it currently cool, and they own a phone which makes them "such a nerd".
Do you have an API I could wire into?
Did you watch the entire video? The last minute or so put things into context. It said that the glacier retreated more in the last 10 years than in the 100 years before that. I think that is a reason for concern and it is impressive, any which way you look at it.
Only glaciers on land cause sea level rise.
I'd argue that Community is just a pop-culture reference show. That "knowledge" you seem so proud of is only useful for watching shows like Community (and maybe doing the crossword).
Carbon isn't really a fair comparison. It was always clear that it was merely a transitional API and that Cocoa was the future.
You ask me to write an unbiased history essay for the last 5 years, which I'm neither qualified nor able to do.

Haven't read these in detail, but the look ok on a quick glance:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%932012_Icelandic_fin...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icesave_dispute
There's no relation to meteor.com as far as I can tell if anyone else also misread the title.
I've done the "google it" approach, so here's my .02

We talk to a lot of college grads. Clasically, colleges don't seem to teach a lick of web development. Just old-fashioned comp-sci uselessness. We know these kids are bright, but they're not going to be able to develop full stack out of the gate, usually, without some aide. We were all like that once.

What I want to see from a bright young talent is whether or not they know where to go to get the answer, and how quickly they can use it, and how quickly they can grok it. It doesn't take an incredibly long amount of time to start becoming useful to web dev with all the resources out there. I'm OK if they don't know some arcane bit of CSS, like that white-space: nowrap exists. They can and will find that information very quickly, and it's not difficult to remember, retain, or understand.

If I'm interviewing a candidate with a proclaimed 8 years experience in the industry, for a position of mid-to-senior level developer, they really shouldn't need that extra help. They should be shipping-ready (given the time needed to understand the idiosyncrasies of your company's style).

I've found that this approach has netted us a good deal of sleeper candidates that, on paper and on a white board, may not look like much, but end up being killer, driven developers.
I'm not sure how he keeps getting younger. He's in his 20s and in college.
I think it would be really cool to see RISC have a resurgence on desktops in the form of 64-bit ARM chips. ARM technology is getting better and better every day. One of these days x86-64 is going to be antiquated, and by then, imagine the possibilities! Thinner, more powerful convertible laptops, ultra-slim workstations, 20-hour battery life... The possibilities are endless.