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No, the problem is not marketing. The problem is that it is a product designed without profitability in mind. Making it profitable would require a fundamental change in the product itself. That it is why you are lucky this did not grow more than it did. It would have left you with something people use a lot but without any way to make money off of it.
Not punish the kid defending himself with a chair?

Not punish the kid hitting back at someone who was bullying him?

Not punish the kid who beat up the bully?

It actually helps to have some idea of what's going on in the school yard, ask witnesses what was going on, and IF KIDS COMPLAIN ABOUT BULLYING DON'T TELL THEM TO GET OVER IT. "You're not making an effort to fit in" is blaming the victim. I'm not making the fucking effort to fit in because the other kids treat me like dirt. Why should I bother to try fitting in?

But yes, the adults could have looked at the situation and realised that the bully was getting their just deserts. Punishing the victim who has been pushed past the end of their tether is not helping anyone.
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But what can we do? Kids will be kids, eh?

End age based classes would be a good start.
You forget that you are kid when you are in school; you barely scratched the surface of understanding how people think, what motivates and what drives them, heck you don't even know how would you take care of yourself alone. And yet you're being asked to deal with this. Yes, we eventually have to learn how to deal with life, but not this way.
Do you know of any resource that talks about the same topic as your comment, but in more detail?
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The real problem is state-mandated detention centers for children. Bullying is a feature of the school system. Put kids in a healthy environment that leaves room for freedom and empowerment, and all of these kinds of problems would greatly diminish.

Kids bully each other because we bully them.
If we're really going to be pedantic, it won't get to the Supreme Court unless they grant a petition for a writ of certiorari or it's one of those rare, few types of cases where the US Constitution says the Supreme Court has original jurisdiction.

They do deny most such petitions, though, and resolving circuit splits is one reason they might grant cert.
This is worded really quite badly, but makes a good set of points.
It makes it simpler, but does it also make it slower? Seemed that the blog's point was that communicating between windows is slower in chrome than in other browsers because of this behavior. You simply further explained why, and confirmed that it is only in chrome. Right?

Now, I do think there is room for argument that this is a better way. But you do not seem to be undermining any of the blog's points. Those being that chrome has a slower process to communicate between windows, and that it is the only browser that does this. The frequency with which this is needed was not a point of contention.
Completely agree. The key to business success: make a lot of money. Like Bill Clinton posted on the wall, it's the economy, stupid. It's sadly obvious but its nearly unbelievable because its the answer that seems too vapid and cyclical to have explanatory power.
I do agree with your assessment of the sizes of the talent pools in Russia, USA and China. Back of the envelope calculations don't support your assessment of the Bulgarian talent pools though.

Your assumption that the Bulgarian coaches have a feedstock of hundreds of thousands of lifters is very far from the truth - the whole Bulgarian population is considered to be around 7.3M people, which doesn't account very well for all emigrants living abroad. Out of these 7.3M only 16% (~1M) are aged 0-17 (I assume that 14-15 y/o is the usual age that a lifter starts training professionally). That means that at the moment there are around 100K teenagers (aged 14-15), out of which less than 50K are male.

During the past 20 years sports have lost a big chunk of their (state) funding and therefore the attractiveness for young uneducated kids have lowered substantially, further reducing the pool of athletes.

I consider the three most prestigious and popular sports for males in Bulgaria to be football (soccer), wrestling and weight-lifting.
A telling analogy - as it's built on IE. Or at least, used to be.
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The stuff you write is bullshit.

If we treat the law the way you treat it then we violate the rule of proportion again. How can you talk about "criminal intent" when we are talking about copyrights protection? It's extremely different to murder somebody, than to violate copyrights. The first is widely perceived as morally wrong among all nations. What about the second? How can you, therefore, talk about "criminal intent" in case of copyright protection? The intent here is quite obvious, the intent is to CHANGE THE LAW. This is "criminal intent" for you? If intent to change the law were "criminal intent", because it hurts some specific businesses, then the law would never change for the good of nations, instead it would change for the good of people with power. Or, it would change, but like it has happened historically, with a bloodshed. This is right for you?

Think about it, use your brain, please!
I had posted the same article some time back.

Basically he is talking about a concept called Flow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_%28psychology%29

The secret sauce in Flow with regards to programming isn't really vim. But rather things like repetitive jobs, interesting work and having clarity on what you need to do.

Sure learning to touch type helps. Actually its not difficult to touch type, once you learn it you do extreme keyboarding automagically.

But true extreme keyboarding happens when you get things done fast, automagically and you totally lose the track of time.. heck you may become totally unaware of your very existence and reach a zen like state to totally become one with the the task your are executing. Sure its the most enjoyable state you can ever be in, and I have been in such a state quite a few number of times.

But as I mentioned before the secret sauce here is a term called 'Flow'. Not vim.
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I just think that with your first brief comment you unintentionally scared a lot of people away from Rails, possibly indicating a new release was done but some serious security issues were simply ignored. I had trouble understanding what you meant until you supplied those additional explanations, many thanks for which. I agree the examples you pointed out are problematic, I am just happy we made clear that this is just about 2 or 3 examples from the long list in the link you posted. There is certainly room for improvement in Rails security-wise and I am also happy this is being discussed, as long as the discussion is balanced.
Interestingly enough, the Rollercoaster Tycoon games (1 and 2 at least) did this for UI sounds. (I also recall reading this had been a feature of some OS of yonder.)
I think it was simply reflecting that the map lookup is not closer to constant, which one would have a reason to expect from a hash lookup. :)
Part of it was crowdsourced to my fellow forumites, but a lot of that thread was just me, Google & Wolfram Alpha. You could probably still find it buried somewhere on the suggestions forum with that giant table of materials, material properties & sources.
Shouldn't KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) be in that list?

Or at least avoiding "general-purpose tool-building factory factory" factories:

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431....
This question would be better addressed to the Mongoid team, but it looks like they're working on it. I would expect an announcement when they consider it stable enough for production.
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> Dirty cash -> bitcoin via these machines -> legitimate goods and services -> clean money.

Ok, my original thought was that cash is already anonymous, so the first step provides little value laundering-wise. But I see how Bitcoin removes the requirement to deal with cash (for the fake business) while still keeping the anonymity, which in turn makes the hypothetical business much more convenient.

Edit: mail sent :)
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I'm at a point in my life where I have to decide what to do next.

I'm finishing high school (after some detours; I'm 21) this year and starting a software engineering degree this fall.
The problem is that I don't want to. I live in Hungary and I'd like to leave this place.
So I've started thinking thinking that maybe I could spend the next 4-6 moths learning and building things in hopes that I could get a job someplace else. But most job listings specifically list a degree or equivalent work experience as a requirement.

I've never worked in the field, not even as a freelancer and I only started programming a few months ago. I haven't written anything big either. ( https://github.com/randomchars )

Do you have any suggestion or input on this issue?
I've enjoyed building this web-app using Backbone.js, Yii, jscrollpane, BigScreen API as well as (obviously) the Youtube API.

I've been watching Starcraft vids for a few years -- and I always hated how content can get spoiled. :/
Not too long ago it struck me that I could solve some of the basic problems: 1.) hide the time of a video, 2.) conceal how many games are in a "best of" set (unfortunately there aren't too many examples of this at this time because it's not tournament season), and 3.) intelligently load youtube comments (so as to not spoil the result).

But to go beyond that! The app could --> get all SC2 content in one place for visitors --> notify users if casters have a live twitch stream --> let them pin their favorite channels, etc!

Anyone's feedback is greatly appreciated
Stonehearth is a project that aims to build a usable game with much of the same depth and emergent complexity as DF.

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Going off on a tangent here, but do people who are good at sports often suffer long term bullying at school?

I wasn't bullied at school, IMHO (nothing physical, the odd bit of name calling.. which they got back ;-)) but it seemed as if people who were into sports avoided every hassle, including the sportier geeks who were in the football team, etc.

Looking back, I have to wonder if there's something about being active, being in teams, or the effect doing sports has on your body (language) that means you either fit in better, stand up for yourself more, etc. I certainly feel that way as an adult now trying to become more active. It changes how you hold yourself.

My daughter is now in all the social and sports clubs we can get in and which she enjoys. My parents never encouraged me into being active or joining clubs, but I have to wonder if I had been, maybe I'd be very different (not that I'm unhappy with my lot now :-)) and maybe my daughter could end up being one of the "popular kids" just by virtue of being active and socializing with her peers early.
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The author lacks conviction:

"if you use a hardcoded value more than one time consider making it public final constant"

This should obviously be: "if you use a hardcoded value, make it a public final constant"

And:

"if you have block of code in more than two place consider making it a separate method."

This should be: "if you have a block of code, consider making it a separate method"

Also, half of these principles imply the other ones.

edit: This is meant seriously btw, if you're giving advice to novice programmers, the instructions should be clear. If you say 'consider making a separate method' what should the programmer consider? If the programmer is new to this he or she won't know what considerations to make either.

This goes for all principles by the way, they're all fine and dandy but they're also trade offs. Every time you abstract something, you risk obfuscating the code for the uninitiated.

As arethuza suggests, Keep It Simple Stupid is also a solid design principle, and it contradicts a whole lot of the other principles.
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There is one other "principle" that I think all programmers should keep in mind: Programs typically exist to satisfy a user's need, not provide some intrinsic code value to you.
Can we stop giving a shit about this already please?

There are a million and one worse things perpetrated and supported by this government that they actually do happily admit to and which are actually /really bad/ - i.e. resulting in the murder of tens of thousands innocent children.

I refuse to pity self entitled pricks who should have known what they were doing and taken some responsibility for the relatively tiny consequences of their actions instead of topping themselves.

Disrespectful tone fully intended.
Because of their decision, certainly more will die that could have lived.

The grey area, where getting a transfusion might actually be riskier than not getting one, is what they're finding out more about. That's useful to know.

There are also cases that are not at all grey areas, where refusing transfusions means they will die. They're still refusing them (and unfortunately, that death doesn't provide any useful data, beyond "yes, what we were sure would happen, happened").
I've been pinging users on buddycloud, about why they signed up. Main reasons: they don't want another silo / want data portability and they like the idea of beign outside a company controlling their social networking experience

Of couse I'm biased, but permit me to dream: it would be great if App.net would consider building on an open and distributed/federated design like tent, status.net or buddycloud. The App.net guys seem great at design and building an ecosystem and the syngergies would be a really interesting alternative to Twitter/FB.
Authoritarian prick detected. "He deserves bogus prosecution because he had it coming for acting like a douche." Yep, that's all it takes to justify ruining someone.
From the article:

> the legislative auditor concluded that the company "had a moral responsibility"...

Since when do corporations have any kind of responsibility, other than to make as much profit as possible? Expecting anything else is futile. If something needs to be fixed, it is in mechanisms to restrain this kind of behaviour where it is in the public interest. Demanding that corporations have morals is not the solution.
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Though common amongst much of the animal kingdom.

A lot of the mechanisms we have in society are designed to contain or counteract our animalistic behavior, but not all kids are raised well enough or are mature enough to behave and physical correction can work wonders to break errant behavior.
Look at this website: http://www.careercup.com/
Check out Bespoke Innovations. http://www.bespokeinnovations.com/ They're doing something very similar to what you're talking about. They were bought out by the now large 3D Systems but I believe they are continuing their work.
There is positive corruption and nevative corruption

Positive corruption does the right thing (build roads, install broadband into poor communities) but adds cost

Negative corruption distorts right thing so much it simply does not happen (communities never get proper triads or sewage because they are the wrong tribe)

The broadband is the thing - good. If you don't want government to overpay I suggest Cisco routers is the last thin to look at - start with military contracts
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Exactly this. I remember the feeling of being very surprised to find out that life could meant so much more after I finished school. Suddenly bad things didn't happen because you were unlucky and that's it, but as a result of your choices that you could to some extent control. Things started to have, you know, meaning.
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Reminds me of new EU members. Joining the EU was advertised as source of funds for development and catching-up with the West and now a benchmark of politicians' "performance" is how much funds are they able obtain for their electorate - the more is spent, the better.

In extreme cases one didn't even have to bribe officials to get bogus contracts because if the city didn't find a way to spend all the money it was offered, it would simply get less.
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25 years back when I went for treatment for flat foot in india, doctor said about insoles but being available in developed countries . My dad worked with a shoesmith to build one, the material and fit were a problem, stopped using it within weeks.

Sure 3d printing and 3d scanning would help build a right fitting devices and improve quality of life
also, a short article at softonic:
http://onsoftware.en.softonic.com/mwc-2013-opera-to-release-...
> (and has no tabs, grr - it's built on IE)

Nope, they switched to Webkit a couple years ago. [1] (Still no tabs though..)

>I still think DRM sucks, but it's largely irrelevant once the game is done.

Wouldn't the success of something like GOG [2] kind of prove that there's a market and a reason for DRM-free games? I all but guarantee 20 years down the road, we'll still be playing games from this generation.

1. http://store.steampowered.com/uiupdate/

2. http://www.gog.com/
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Ah, got you. What would be a suitable fix for this? wrapping the text in an element styled with black text and background then perhaps when you focus on the blacked out text it shows it and when you blur it hides it again?

Proof of concept:

<span class="teasertext" tabindex="0">this is teaser text</span>

.teasertext {
background: #000;
color: #000;
}

.teasertext:focus {
background: inherit;
color: inherit;
outline: none;
}
Evidence. Bullies are very careful to cover their tracks, they know the limits of the system, verbal bullying is usually ignored as is physical intimidation. And then it's one kids word against the others + one kid holding a chair.

With the above, a reasonable adult, considering evidence, has no choice but to "arrest" the kid with the chair, since the other has done no wrong other than verbal + possible pushing.

The system needs fixing by making what the bully did prior to the event actionable by the adults so it wouldn't escalate to where it did. Cameras would help.

But then what do we do with the bully? Move him to another school and let the cycle repeat?
Regarding rule "Object oriented design principle 8 – Interface Segregation principle (ISP)" ... I think this is often overused. I only introduce interfaces when there is more than one implementation.
Of course if I'm designing stable API this is different.

Also see:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/90915/343699
Sadly, that's not always the case with Steam - Portal 2's DRM is really annoying. It randomly broke with cryptic error messages or even just silently exited if you tried to run it under Linux using Wine, or used the wrong antivirus software under Windows, or installed it on a FAT filesystem rather than NTFS, or used NTFS symlinks to move the install, or... Apparently the DRM even caused some AMD CPUs to hard-lock: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25521...
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> I find that puzzling as they're most likely not doing anything that requires the latest device

> I'd rather have a top of the line PC

It's a status symbol, so just having it is the end goal. But on one will see it if it stays at home. A phone is much easier to carry around and flash to your friends.
Why the hell force me into LoomScript when Lua would have given a readily available source of learned game developers? Delegates, are you kidding me? I refuse to program in a language that doesn't treat functions as first class citizens.
One thing is for sure: Reading stuff like that won't help me sleep any better.

I have no problems falling asleep, but I keep waking up after five and a half hours. For periods, I can easily go back to sleep, but when I worry about waking up, I often can not got back to sleep.

I've just started reading "The Happiness Trap"[1]. It's about accepting the ups and downs of life as normal, but at the same time it tells how to handle negative thoughts and feelings better (without getting rid of them). A former Buddhist monk recommended it to me, and my girlfriend (who is a psychologist) also liked it. The title kinda sucks though. Let's see if it helps.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Happiness-Trap-Struggling-Living/d...
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What's the status today? Have you ditched it?
This sounds just like the remoteStorage protocol It's a protocol for building web apps with pluggable remote data stores.
http://remotestorage.io/

More detail about this sort of "unhosted" architecture:
https://unhosted.org/

But unlike Crypton, in remoteStorage you have to trust your storage provider because it can access all the app data.
Is that really true?

If so one should force the release of copyright papers from the publishers at gunpoint tomorrow. And make google dedicate half it's employees to indexing it

I suspect though that there are so few scientists working on most areas that the research is old or outdated across the majority of fields.

And it rather indicates a lack of fundamental tools - for example studying insect species - it's well know that there are millions of species to every insectologist(?) - yet Linnaeus classification is three centuries old - one could imagine a production line of genome mapping - put insec into machine out comes its genome - oh look that is not the species we were thinking of

The tools (mechanical) and the tools (mental) need to integrate large branches if science are what is needed - not a fear over the vast number of facts we have acquired
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Valid LoomScript:

var f = function():void { Console.print("Hello world!"); };
f.call();

Not sure how much more first class it gets, but I'm open to your suggestions!
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Well, we were talking about the obesity epidemic, which you mentioned was caused by overeating. My point was that if our diets have changed over time (different protein/carbs/fat ratio), that in itself can explain overeating. (Rather than assuming that overeating is "something we just do".)
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That's true, but it doesn't change the fact that a corporation is not spending its own money either. That money belongs to the shareholders in the same way that tax receipts belong to citizens.

Actually you would expect taxpayers to be even more vociferous in pushing audit requirements on government departments than shareholders are in ensuring their portfolio companies are correctly audited.