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Yeah ... I was caught too. "Why on Earth would .... ohhhh".
99% of the people who ultimately argue about avoiding the banking system engage in behavior that is either morally questionable or explicitly illegal. I'd say about 1% are true "what i do with my money is my business and my business only" libertarians
Funny thing... is that the discussion is actually turning serious... so my new guilty pleasure is to read serious discussions about April fools' jokes
I've manually updated Sam & Max in the next revision of the database. The tricky thing is, how do you divide a bundle/subscription cost among existing games in that bundle and an unknown / unreleased number of games?

Another interesting fringe case: Half-Life 2: Lost Coast is now only available via a $40 bundle, and is listed under that cost, but is actually just a pack-in bonus to the various Half-Life 2 bundles. How do I represent that? I originally had the $40 listing but updated it to "-" to reflect that the pricing isn't available.
Well - that's enough work to maintain your own app. Maintainging a fork of Rails and drilling through all of the vulnerabilities - that's an extra overhead. It's simpler to regression test your own app, I suppose.
Steam is a pretty bad place to see the general state of the market - we're talking about a highly self-selecting demographic of users (read: core gamers).

- Steam supports MacOS, but the title selection is somewhere between "very poor" and "nonexistent". You will see a dramatic under reporting of OSX usage numbers compared to the actual market.

- Most games no longer support WinXP, so any regular Steam user would have been forced to upgrade to at least Win7 long ago just to maintain compatibility. You will also see a dramatic under-reporting of XP numbers here.

"Steam users" is not a representative selection of "PC market".
Max Keiser likes to say the Dow is at an all time low against Bitcoin, haha.
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Happy April fool's Day!
$450k of electronics were purchased at bitcoinstore.com in march alone
I most comfortable programming in Morse code and this doesn't have anything that might tempt me to switch.
Currencies rise or fall relative to other currencies or commodities or goods.

So when you say "USD has fallen 80%" it always has to be qualified with something like "against BTC."

But yeah, it sounds ridiculous.
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Not in this case, though—OP just explains what does the code do, without any opinion.
I honestly think if they replaced the parenthesis with indentation they might actually be onto something
I can't help but think these prices represent people confusing a currency being useful with a unit of the currency being worth more. Obviously this is true at the extreme case that a useless currency is worthless in any quantity. But it doesn't really follow that more trading of goods and services in Bitcoin would cause the price to increase. This wouldn't need to happen until some substantial fraction of them are in the hands of people spending them instead of holding them speculatively. Currently the amount of Bitcoins that need to exist to satisfy all the commerce is tiny.
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you can split it in 100 pieces and send to 100 people in different countries in a matter of seconds.

No, a transaction can take from 10 minutes to an hour to complete. You may have to pay a percentage to do that aswell.
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April fools...?
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No more hanging our heads in shame! No more coding in a dark room with the windows blacked out and door closed, and erasing all traces of php.net from our browsing histroy, lest our SO find out! No more random kicks in the shins by Rubyists at conferences! The time has come when we can raise our heads high and take our rightful place at the forefront of applied information science!

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Now you've got me thinking. The brackets still require a pinky stretch. But suppose you start with a TrulyErgonomic keyboard: http://www.trulyergonomic.com/store/index.php?route=product/...

Map the end key to (, and the left arrow to ), and you're hitting both characters with your thumbs.

Then maybe map brackets to PageDown and the down arrow, and braces to PageUp and up arrow for an easy reach with the ring finger. Or those big delete/backspace keys in the middle could be useful.

No self-respecting vim user needs any of these keys.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5473387
"The real reason" for the current price hike is most likely http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=bitcoin
meaning we are back in a super high interest in bitcoin phase. Maybe because that is because the world just realized the "currency of the Internet" thing, or it is just a hype, fueled by a lot of misleading promotion and lies. No use to discuss it though, we all will learn in 6+ months...
This might be true for you, but I always prefer a transcript. I hate watching videos, unless it's strictly for entertainment and requires little real attention.
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I will admit I rarely see any other posts from our area. Probably the closest thing would be FatWallet up in Beloit. We are always looking for great talent, if you're interested send me an email. :)
It seems to be buggy? There were 9 JavaScript errors in the process of typing, "How do I compare thee to a summer's day?" (I know that's not the original text of the sonnet.)
Must we assume naturalism to do science?
People like Max Keiser are calling 100k to 1mill per bitcoin. Hard to imagine.

It's the hope of some in the bitcoin community/industry that bitcoin becomes one of the top 3 currencies in the world.

Given that there is a hard limit of ~ 21 million bitcoins (half of which have already been given out), the only way to get in the top 3, is for each bitcoin to be massively valued.
Had me going for a while. In all seriousness, you can type clojure with square brackets, no? IIRC in Racket they are transferable.
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Several billion dollars isn't really that much money in consumer terms. American consumers spend something like a billion dollars on scented candles each year.

Besides, it doesn't seem to me like there was much of a delay at all in getting generic loratadine to consumers:

http://www.nj.com/news/stories/0827_claritin.html

The patent expired in December 2002 and Geneva/Novartis had first-challenger exclusivity for 6 months. By August 2003, only a month or so later, the lawsuit was decided and the floodgates opened.
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that post, also discusses using a 7200rpm disk.

I think where you may be confused is considering them as distinct IO operations, vs seeing it as a point which must have been flushed past ( sequentially )
> And if there are such blatant omissions on their front page, who knows what's lurking in the code ?

There probably are bugs but not because they're unaware of every keyboard layout. It's far easier to accommodate different languages, currencies, number formats, etc than it is to accommodate every keyboard layout.

English and US keyboard layouts (or its close relatives), for better or worse, dominate the programming world.

I don't think the conclusion you've drawn, that there must be issues with the code because your local keyboard layout hasn't been thought of, is logical. That's like saying that because the language keywords and standard library aren't in your native language, there must be dragons lurking in the code.

Having said all this, Clochure does appear to be a nice little April 1st joke and should be flagged with prejudice!
The fact that Bitcoin is touted as an alternative to untrustworthy -- because inflationary -- traditional currencies, while its exchange rate staggers around like an ice-skating drunk compared to those same traditional currencies, does not fill me with confidence.
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I knew that Penn & Penn State are distinct schools. Though I did not know that University of Pennsylvania is a private university. My mistake.
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No, square brackets in Clojure are vector literals. They are equivalent in Racket, though.
Make sure you're using your vanity (original account login) name, and not your currently displayed username (also that your profile is public).

(You'll notice "ClassyNemesis" is my profile name, but my account profile still links to http://steamcommunity.com/id/monkeyagent )
They do? Are you sure of that?
It's always been my suspicion/assumption that the majority of BTC usage is for black/gray-market drugs...?
I am just googling things as I have to tackle them. So far it's been:

- install git and hub

- install node, npm, and nvm

- create a new user for sftp access

- give write permissions to that new user and set up my ssh keys

- set up static file server, virtual hosts, etc (haven't gotten to this yet)

For a Lamp stack, that last bullet would be "install apache, php and mysql"...
Most OS X users are probably either dual-booting to Windows to play games, or have a dedicated Windows machine for games. Mac hardware really isn't orientated towards high-end gaming.
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Seriously though, the problem isn't parentheses, the problem is prefix notation and the "inside-out" nature of composed function calls. The latter admittedly can happen in imperative code too, but is encouraged in functional programming. It just makes the code an immediate turn-off to try to read for me.
Seriously a downvote? What is downvote worthy about this comment?

Is is really that controversial or incorrect to say you can get a great education in many places that don't have the same total resources as Ivies provide to their students?
There are some Windows 8 haters out there who are desperately trying to make it fail. And it's not just pointlessly stupid Linux fanboys. It includes real Windows users are are digging in their heels and vowing never to upgrade from Windows 95, Windows XP, Windows 7 or whatever. (You can easily recognise them by their intemperate language.)

Having a group that abandons logic to promote something's failure naturally creates a counter-movement and therefore a market for blog posts that confirm or deny its success or failure. This has publishers laughing all the way to the bank.

It looks unlikely to develop into the sort of mass conflict that helped publishers make pots of money from Windows vs OS/2, PS3 vs Xbox 360 and similar battles, but it will do.

Obviously whether someone uses Windows 7 or Windows 8 is much more important than rape in India, mass starvation in Africa, war in the Middle East or the fact that the whole planet is melting down. One has to maintain a sense of priorities.
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The scary part is how high the XP userbase still is.
Downvoted you by mistake :/

I absolutely agree. The new design is an even worse offender against his own recommendations.
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And the spread between bid/ask in the real world is large. Unless you own "paper" metals, you aren't exchanging them for the rates you see on the ticker.
All the PHP flamers in the house, all at once. Wave your hands in the air and say hooa, hooa, blahblahblah...
That's not a terribly good point though -- fiat currency also has no intrinsic value.
I gave a try a couple of years ago when looking to replace Textmate.

It held a lot of promise, but was rather slow at the time, so I didn't end up using it.

It is probably much faster now, as there are regular updates and that was probably three versions ago.

I like the concept of Lua as the core. The promise of it being extendable is there.

And I see there is a terminal version as well... cool project.
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Yeah, only listing the top 10 chars to write next results in a few misses. Its also bit of a pain to test a recursive function that uses random numbers.
> The var statement in a while loop gives me the impression this person doesn't know how scope works in JavaScript.

I'm not the author of queue.js but I actually declaring my Javascript variables as close to their use point as possible because JSHint warnings let me pretend that JS had real block scope all along. You would be amazed how often it catches "variable used out of scope" errors that would not be caught if the declarations had been hoisted to the top of the function.
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If they trust you, it's a matter of seconds. And anyway, try to do that in 20 minutes with gold.
Better yet, when you go to modify your per-site config (right click -> edit site preferences) you can add wildcards to the site ... for example, I could turn on cookies for *.ycombinator.com
How don't you know that? You get a fairly specific offer letter before you have to choose whether to attend. You can also read the policies ahead of time, which at some schools at least are specified in some detail.

Harvard actually does give completely free tuition, room & board, and books—not structured as loans—to anyone whose family makes under $65k/year. Expected family contributions (which may come in the form of loans) only kick in above $65k. Admittedly, that's unusual, only possible because Harvard has a gigantic endowment.
Net Applications clearly marks this as desktop data, but TNW obscures this. With desktops, laptops, netbooks and tablets being so fluid nowadays, TNW should at least mention somewhere that this is desktop only market share.

Wikipedia, the 6th most popular web site in the world (according to Alexa), has Windows as less than 58% of the clients hitting it for February 2013 ( http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOpera... ). Mac/iPhone/iPad is over 30%, Linux (Android, Ubuntu etc.) is over 7%.

The rise of iOS and Android is the real breaking news story in my book. Windows controls its form factor niche, but that becomes more irrelevant every day. Boasting of Windows 90+% share of the desktop would be like DEC boasting of its market share of minicomputers in the 1970s/1980s.
Man, this has been an uninspired April Fool's Day so far Though, I can't complain too much, I've not contributed anything to the cause... that I know of.
The anonymity feature (and subsequent fees involved in the the transaction) is useful primarily for illicit activities. Maybe 1% of people are legitimately worried about privacy (the true libertarians). But most just want transactions that can't be traced back to them.
> Remember: Ruby/Rails to pose, Python for pros.

How mature.
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An impressive list in quantity, but upon closer inspection I don't see any essential goods & services. Under "consumables" there are literally no general groceries, just specialty foods. Under clothing, a bunch of niche items. It's also worth noting that nearly all of these look like to be pretty low-quality vendors.
I love how I can't take any post from any tech company serious today. Not like I'd want to actually do any real work today.
I believe the biggest worry are security issues. It doesn't really matter if it can be used directly, as long as it can be traded back for other currencies. Same situation as gold, actually
Really, are trolling posts front-page worthy now? This is from February 2013.

Simple fact, storing less data takes up less space! Sadly, this means that in MongoDB the field names for each document count towards that disk and memory usage.

Additionally, there are a few tickets discussing this issue:

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-863

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-164
That's a misunderstanding of history. USD used to be backed by silver and all bills said "in silver payable to the bearer on demand". It was only relatively recently that the practice ended.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/US-%245-...
But that is only one side of the coin. If people are hoarding BTC, then they aren't spending them on goods / services.

Sure they are. BitPay reports 2 million dollars in sale this month. The rate of transaction is accelerating too.

What you meant is "they will horde more and spend less on goods / services", but sales and transactions are clearly accelerating. How do you account for this?
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why does managing classes in basic computers and administering school servers require 2 years of python experience?
Bitcoin is less than in 1% of hands. Also, when did you ban cash transactions and made it morally required to pay wire transfer fees?
It's not any different from being able to do that to hardware. That's why cars have to meet certain standards in order to be legal for driving on public roads.

It seems likely to me that making certain changes to a Tesla through rooting would just mean the car would end up not being street legal.
very slick, any framework used for developing the application ?
But way cooler chart at his link
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So.. how do I mine bitcoins again?
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All I'm saying is that a claim that "there is almost no social mobility in the US" is not backed up by the data. I'm not saying "everything is fine" or that we shouldn't do things to improve the situation.
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Exactly! Excellent example.
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Well, you can make it other colors too (mine is green, Gmail's spam filter hit a 10% false positive rate for me, so I switched)