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There are two main reasons why people attend conferences.

For some people (typically execs, sales people, recruiters, PR people, consultants, freelance professionals, etc), conferences are mostly or entirely about networking. They don't attend the sessions or, when they do, it's because it's the only place in the venue where they can sit down and catch up on emails.

At larger events like Mobile World Congress, those who know how networking works don't even waste their time attending the main event. They have pre-arranged meetings with all the key people they want to meet. And when they're not in a pre-arranged meeting, they are at one of the unofficial fringe events or parties, which is where the real networking happens (and they have, of course, arranged to get an invitation to the key fringe events as the best networking events are often invite-only).

For others, and most software developers would fall in that category I guess, conferences are mostly about personal development. No, you won't hear anything at a conference that you wouldn't have been able to find online. But a good speaker will instill a sense of energy and enthusiasm that you would never get from reading an article or even watching a YouTube video.

Because you're away from your daily grind and because of the way the content is delivered (you have to sit through an entire session and listen - unlike an article, a book or a video, you can't stop half way through or skim it), you also think very differently and tend to be a lot more open-minded and receptive to new ideas. So you almost always end up learning things that wouldn't normally have bothered to even read about otherwise or that you wouldn't have properly understood.

Not to mention the fact that you're surrounded with people coming from very difference backgrounds and industries than those at your workplace. You'll often pick up very different ways of thinking that might very well change your approach to your work.

Personally, in the good old days when I was "just" a software developer and didn't care much about networking, I loved attending conferences. I would leave a good conference bursting with energy and enthusiasm. My best work would always happen after a conference. That's when you feel the most ready to tackle hard problems and don't mind powering through the statu-quo to make things better.

Try it - if you're passionate about your craft, chances are good conferences will make you a better craftsman.
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> I have a few friends who I help out on occasion and it is incredibly frustrating to not have the basic tools available.

A younger guy at work asked if he could borrow one of the screwdrivers I keep in my desk. I thought maybe he was going to pop open his computer, he said he was going to put a bed together. At his apartment.

He didn't even own a screwdriver. C'mon. I sarcastically asked him, "You're a manly man, aren't you?", then handed him a large phillips screwdriver.

Another guy in the office overheard the conversation and laughed about it with me, and then we went down to Harbor Freight and bought him a $7 screwdriver set.
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Not to mention the whole lack of an upstream.

But all that aside ZFS was great when it was first introduced a few years back, especially with Sun backing OpenSolaris, but we've been jerked around for a few years.

A ran a few ZFS pools on Linux a few builds ago and it was quite stable then. For something like a home storage system where I do not care about all the shortfalls vs. BTRFS I would reach to ZFS just because its what I know. For something that needs to be enterprise I'd hire someone that knows much more about it than me :).
Why is it so negative to slog it out (from a founder perspecitve)? I understand that the VC is interested only in 'hits', but I can't see what is wrong with building a stable and profitable (up to 30 year growth) business from a startup.
Emacs Rocks is pretty sweet too: http://emacsrocks.com/
My understanding is that ZFS does a lot of healing itself on the fly.
When you access a block, the block is checked against a checksum stored elsewhere on disk. If the block is bad, it is restored from a replica (so it's advisable to have 2 disks) while the original is healed.

On writes ZFS also checks that each written block is valid before committing the new block to the filesystem. In the event of a bad write the new block is not committed and the old block remains, blocks are written originally to a separate area of the disk.
Looks like the park of the Permian period will be robotic.
Breaking news of a world record isn't really that spectacular to me if it's a year old. Especially in a business growing as quickly as 3D printing. Is there something we're supposed to comment on specifically?
I agree that we need a limit, but in my experience 80 characters is often too limiting and sometimes causes wraps that make the code less readable instead of more readable.

I use a vim colorcolumn at 80 characters as a soft limit, but the hard limit for my projects is at 100 (or 99, to be exact). This has proven to be a nice guideline to write readable code, versus the 80 hardlimit that forces you to write short code (which sometimes is less readable than a clean & clear line with 90 characters).
Is it really the country that is insolvent or is it only the two banks: Laiki and Bank of Cyprus?
Not that I disagree with what you said and I would even add that children, adults, and the elderly all have different cancer risks as well. But, a sievert is normalized based on harm and not the energy equivalent for any one radiation type. So, while the risks are different it is plenty useful for evaluating order of magnitude risks as in is this directly lethal, a significant cancer risk, a minor cancer risk or a negligible risk.
It looks like very similar issues on the use end to the nvidia binary driver. Can't ship it in Linux but nothing (legally) prevents end users from incorporating it.
This is a really great answer.

I'll add one thing: don't be put off by the term "networking". It's about having interesting conversations, finding out what's going on in your industry and sometimes making new friends. If you go to "network" it can feel a bit contrived, but if you go to learn from other people and teach people yourself you can do excellent networking without even realising you are doing it.
I still remember how I was blown away when seeing .kkrieger[1][2] for the first time, introducing me to the potential of procedural assets in games.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.kkrieger
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NBG-sKFaB0
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It's the future! I think that it would be great for agility, and perhaps to mimic insects so the army can use them covertly.
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Cool, so they are not just trying for a first stage powered landing, that's the big ticket item but they also slipped a powered Dragon landing in there too - two of three stages closing in fast on reusable recovery. Wow.
I'd rather not share any details even though my father passed away earlier this month. Rest assured, when I say senior pilot, I mean at the highest echelons of the forces. Yes, General Rank level indeed.

Maybe you don't know how deals work but they often require a recommendation from the people who are going to actually USE the equipment.

I don't see why you seem to be so upset about this. It's hardly a secret in India. I didn't say that my father agreed to be party to this, and neither do many other senior military officials, but this is a dirty game and no one denies that.

As for you not believing my sources, frankly, I don't really care.

For reference, this was within the last 10 years.
I think there are some misunderstandings. As far as I can tell, this is an optional part of the conference where you can go on the day before if you want to do something beyond just the "professional" stuff.

I like the idea - its a local theatre with an interesting program relevant to current hot topics in the industry, why not show your city from your best side?

If you don't want to go, whats the point of being angry about it? Why waste breath on something optional?
That's a good PR. Instead of paying TV to say "FESTO makes best manufacturing automation devices" in a fancy way, they just dedicated some engineers and some budget to making cool things no-one ever did before.
I figured out it was a few PNG files with 3 channels each encoding various time points, and then a simple linear fade between images,

or was that more complex?

of course, computing & serving those time point samples might be slightly more complex:)
What ever happened to learning this stuff from good ol' dad, or your grandfather?

I was lucky enough to have a step-father who was fairly handy, had a large amount of tools, and my mother always had him working on a project around the house. Building a deck, remodeling the kitchen, that kind of stuff. I hated being dragged away from friends and video games to help him out with random stuff but I learned quite a bit.

I also had the fortune of learning from my birth father on how NOT to do certain things. He'd always take shortcuts that ended up hurting the end result, which to this day I point out as we work on things.
Fake persona ? I'm a regular at HN and use my real name here. Hardly a fake persona. You seem to be taking a rather emotional standpoint here for no valid reason.
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Monocle & a pocket watch aren't exactly fashion choices. I was hinting at "dress codes" as being more reflective of the 18th-early 19th century thinking and not quite so relevant in the 21st century and the Information Age. I was trying to be succinct.
Great point, expect that no one is touching them. Deposits over EUR 100K are being hit /frozen, those up to EUR 100K are not touched

Yes, that's the current decision. The linked article was written at the time the Parliament was about to ratify haircut of the insured depositors along with the rest.

(There's no timestamp on the page, but I saw this text around 21th of March.)
Inflation is a rise in the general level of prices of goods and services in an economy over a period of time. It may be influenced by changes in the money supply, but is not defined by them. What evidence do you have to back up your assertion that "Fed generates massive inflation"?
Who would? It's surely insured and a new car that hasn't been flooded or doused with radiation is a lot more desirable.
Anyone hazard a guess why crystals go "bad"? I thought they were completely solid-state devices.
And PHP serves an empty page faster than Go splits strings. I declare PHP the winner by default.
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You can't overload operators in Haskell. You can define new operators though. You're not going to change the meaning of + unless you remove the old.
Ok sorry, I was wrong about Sweden - I thought the nation defaulted in the 90ies, but it was in fact 'only' a big chunk of their financial industry[1]. It seems that they came very close though, and the way they resolved it doesn't appear to be by tight economic grip either - the state poured 4% of their GDP into the system. However - and that's an important point that apparently went forgotten in the last US crisis - they also took the chance to regulate the financial industry more tightly, in order to avoid repeating the same mistakes.

[1]http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/opinion/28iht-edbildt.1.16...
Use APIs in ways that add value to the provider (i.e. you're paying them or adding value for their users). If it's in their interest to keep you alive then then they're most likely to keep the API going.
There must be some, I guess, but certainly not the comfort of possible passengers according to the video.
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Doesn't have to be new accounts. "Pay to post" is a regular occurrence and a lucrative side business for people on high-traffic, user-curated content sites like Reddit and Digg.
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It's not a conspiracy, it's a well-known and common business practice for content companies.
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Because Cyprus doesn't have the money to back the insurance on accounts less than 100,000€. If Cyprus did the same thing as Iceland, then a lot more people would be losing a lot more money.
I think the main reason for anyone not to support it, would be that it makes the WWW platform specific.

I can't wait for my first "Sorry. This webpage does not support ARMv7 Hard-float".

Another reason Mozilla might not support this is that it's actually not called Na(tive) Cl(ient). It's full name is "Google Native Client".

That sure as hell doesn't sound like a standardized and fully spec'd thing I'd implement in my browser if my name was anything besides Google.
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and http://www.masteringemacs.org/
It's interesting that the DIY mentality doesn't extend to fixing or maintaining computers. I'm not sure if its a generational thing, or the fact that computers are becoming appliances, but it seems like less people are willing to try to fix computer problems on their own.
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I have bad news:

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% time ./test.go "test1,test2,test3"

["test1" "test2" "test3"]

0.00s user 0.00s system 79% cpu 0.005 total

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% time php -r ''

0.03s user 0.01s system 93% cpu 0.044 total
How does compare with all the other async offerings for clojure like aleph and pure netty?
I much prefer colored unified diffs in my terminal (e.g. those from git) over side-by-side tools with multiple panes.
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The country is insolvent too, has been unable to borrow for some time. This makes the options available rather limited. Iceland had little government debt when it had problems.
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When I was in high school, students could choose what elective classes they wanted to take.

"Honors" classes were limited though to those students that had excelled in the regular courses. Honors classes meant more involved projects and work loads. Instead of reading and discussing one book a month, an honors class might read and discuss two books a month. However, no students was forced into taking the honors classes if they didn't want to.

Our school also offered AP courses in numerous subjects to anyone that wanted to take them. Some of these courses required coming in an hour before the regular school day start time in order to partake in. At the time, our school district also paid for the AP exam costs for any/all students who wished to take the AP exam.

The decision and choice is in the students hands. If the student has the desire or ambition to take more challenging courses they can and get to choose to do so. Likewise they could choose to take wood shop, metal shop, art courses, engine shop, etc it that's what interests them.
Here's a good list of cooking oils with smoke points, and omega-* content listed. I'm unsure if the % is the percent of the oil, or just the percent of 'daily recommended values,' but I find coconut oil to be pretty easy to work with (though mixing it into pancake batter is difficult if you don't heat it, as it's solid a room temp). If you supplement with something like Udo's oil that has a high Omega-3 content (vs. omega-6 and omega-9), then it should help to raise your ratio.

http://theconsciouslife.com/omega-3-6-9-ratio-cooking-oils.h...
Yep!

Though for a first generation it looks quite good. It is quite functional indeed, and a great achievement for the engineers.

But yes, the tail and head seem to pick up a lot vibration of swinging wings. Can't wait for the next iteration!
Very interesting! Would love to see more high-res screenshots. How are you planning to price the app?
If it's ready for wide scale deployment, I wonder why the team decided against signaling that by calling it 1.0 instead of 0.6.1. A version number < 1 makes me think the developers still think it's pre-release quality. That may not be the case here, but it makes me wonder.
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Good luck to everybody!
Thats not entirely true. Laiki UK is a branch, which means it is regulated and supported by Cyprus, while Bank of Cyprus UK is a subsidiary, regulated in the UK. However some sort of deal seems to have been done with Laiki UK.
$2/day is a measure of extreme poverty in undeveloped countries.

In the U.S. poverty is defined as earning less than $23,050 for a family of 4 or $14,657 for a family of 2 (in 2011). My average yearly take back then was around $13k. My best year was $16k. The difference materially for us was that I paid more taxes at $16k than $13k, and we ate something other than Ramen and Taco Bell once a week.

Despite being eligible for welfare, we chose never to take it since we were both healthy and could (theoretically) work and if we watched out finances, make ends meet. It was hard, but we did it until I got sick.
What they are doing is non-sense. First, most of the patents related to MapReduce cannot be patented because they are just patenting algorithms. Second, MapReduce is no different from divide-and-conquer (circa 1945), but people and media hype MapReduce so.
See Checking ZFS File System Integrity[1] in the ZFS administration guide.

[1] http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19082-01/817-2271/gbbwa/
To be fair, he did say 'simple'. I'm assuming he meant clone in terms of the overall physical characteristics, and not so much that it was a full clone.
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Really disappointed with making it a default. I would always prefer it to be in the old style.
The only true and safe way to stay ahead with the rampant inflation of the money supply is: become a government contractor and get your hands on the money first before it's effects appear in the system.

Does that make sense?
"Evernote for a web clipbook, and chandler to organise jobs."

What is chandler? Is it this one: http://chandlerproject.org ?

Seems interesting but also pretty abandoned.
I posted this comment:
"It's obvious that you're new to Node.js.

First of all, you should be aware that Async.js is a mere flow-control library. It does not offload work to separate threads, and neither is it able to parallelize work. Internally, it mostly does bean-counting (but very helpfully so).

As you can see in the source https://github.com/caolan/async/blob/master/lib/async.js#L35... async.sortBy simply uses Array.sort for the actual sorting. The only reason you'd want to use Async.sortBy is if the values that the array of "keys" is not known beforehand (and needed to be loaded through io - asynchronously). This is clearly exemplified in the documentation. https://github.com/caolan/async#sortBy

The implication of this that your call to async.sortby can be replaced by a call to array.sort. This will remove two unnecessary runs of async.map, inflicting a potentially huge performance penalty.

You do need to pass array.sort a comparator function, otherwise it will sort lexicographically (see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Referenc... ). That said, I'm not sure what the actual contents of your input file is. In your .Net example, you do not seem to bother to convert the array of strings to an array of ints (or floats). I think that .Net sort will sort an array of strings lexicographically as well. Furthermore, in the node.js example, you seem to be content with returning the resulting median as an int, not as float. Do the input "decimals" in the input file represent ints or floats? Do they all have exactly the same amount of decimals? Are both the Node.js and .Net algorithms doing the same thing? I think not.

Finally, we get to Array.sort. Array.sort blocks. Depending on the multi-threading efficiency of the underlying algorithm of Array.sort (which I don't have insight in), the code may not be able to use all available system resources. Keep in mind that Node.js is single-threaded. I practically don't know anything about .Net, but I assume it will magically start new processes and or threads if the runtime deems this beneficial. For Node.js, you may want to try the Cluster api, http://nodejs.org/api/cluster.html . You could try seeing if performance increases by adding one or more extra server processes.

I can't comment about the quality of the .net code since I don't have any experience with it.

I think it would be fair (and very educative to others) if you'd rerun the benchmarks with
1. Async.sortBy replaced with array.sort
2. with both .Net and Node.js algorithms fully doing the same thing (i.e. let them both sort either floats, ints, or strings), and
3. at least one extra server process for Node.
I think most interesting would be if you'd made the changes step-by-step, and run the benchmarks at each step.

My guess is that step 1 would give the biggest difference.
Depending on how you decide to resolve the differences in the two algorithms, performance of your .Net code may be slightly affected. It could potentially be speed up in fact, if somehow it's able to sort ints (or floats) faster than strings. The actual job of sorting probably overshadows it all though."

What do you guys think of this?
Yes, and those are good features. But there's still plenty of room for errors. Bugs in the code, bad interactions with hardware, etc. Those are areas where ZFS is likely to be just as vulnerable as other file systems. More so, in fact, given the code size/complexity and its (relative) immaturity.

I suspect (but I have no data!) that the majority of times that users have file system corruption and need to run fsck is due to bad software behaviour, and not failing disks.
From OA under Dream Setup

"If the machine broke I would like to go to any other machine and resume work within a few seconds without losing any data."

cf Rob Pike

"I don't install a lot of extra stuff on those Macs, mostly to reduce maintenance. I like the freedom to wipe and reinstall without losing my world... "

These older developers know how to get things done and not waste time. As an end user, I've arrived at a similar place albeit using kludgy dropbox and rsync scripts.
What other sense of cfg is there...
There's a particularly strong brand of post-modern, third-wave feminism that uses words "equality" and "egalitarian" as pejoratives.

Really. I'm not even talking about the self-labeled "radfems"—the ones who say that no heterosexual sex is truly consensual. Though those monsters clearly exist, too.

Hackers don't know foolish it is to give in to third-wave-feminist bullying. They have no idea what they're getting themselves into.

My remarks aren't commentary on this particular contemporary dance; I'm simply responding to the labeling of feminism an equality movement.