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Well, PostgreSQL supports the Large Objects, which are designed to store big amounts of data (outside the normal tables) and reference them using special IDs. It may work for your use case.
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Well, this is anecdotal, but I'm 14, and a few slices of bread landed me in the hospital with two emergency blood transfusions, and a final diagnosis of IBD.

It was... bad. Another classmate also ended up hospitalized with a celiac diagnosis. Whether it was brought on by food, I don't know, but the prevalence of wheat in a standard American diet could lead one to believe so.
Your are right. I mixed up dynamic symbolic execution with invariant detection. I know there is something called DySy which does do invariant detection using dynamic symbolic execution.
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Agreed, but remember, syscall overhead is syscall overhead, cached in ram or not.
Current limitations do imply future limitations. Database engines (and similar software) necessarily embed a large number of tradeoffs and assumptions in their design at the most fundamental levels. Every line of code is written to support the target workload to the exclusion of others because of the tradeoffs required. Design decisions are extremely sticky over the long-term because they are tacitly embedded in every piece of code.

The point you are missing is that (1) significantly altering the basic architectural characteristics is tantamount to a complete rewrite from scratch and (2) existing users design their applications around the design assumptions of the platform so fundamentally changing the architecture abandons the user base as well.

This is why in practice almost everyone starts from a blank slate if they need new architectural capabilities. And in the few cases where they did manage to re-architect an existing system, not only did it cost more than doing it from scratch but they lost their user base anyway.

I've designed these types of systems for a long time. When a database engine is first designed, its capabilities, limitations, and future performance ceiling are essentially set in stone. All potential modifications have to fit within those constraints so you need to be cognizant of the choices you are making but not really thinking about. An experienced database engine designer can look at a system design and tell you what types of data models and workloads the system will always do poorly on. And every database engine design has weaknesses designed into them. Hadoop just happens to be a particularly weak engine with a low ceiling in terms of its expressiveness.
Well it was a good technological intention, trying to make an open standard for social networking applications, to maybe open new roads for non-facebook developers. Maybe doing a web app was not the good idea though.

The problem with facebook, is that devs can't access the data directly, but users can. It's also an API wall for developers who might have an idea and join the party. The only people to decide what new thing to do and experiment are the people at facebook. It's kinda odd, because the internet is supposed to be an open thing. They have this huge database of users, and all I see is some strange smartphone home app and some homepage redesigns, nothing really new since the website release. I mean as a tech, chatting is not a new thing, facebook just created another chatting protocol. People just chat using facebook instead, instead of sharing their AIM or MSN.

That's why diaspora is cool, at least nobody has real direct authority on your data except the users, or at least it diminishes the link between the host and the user. It's more on the dev side.

What sucks, is that the only real standard thing on the web is the mail. It's the backbone of online identity, it's still there. What can't we do the same for web applications ? The web was not meant for applications of the scale of facebook. Maybe we need finer, grainier ways of exchanging social data. Diaspora was not only about privacy issues, it also wanted to show people maybe there are other things to do with social network than just... commenting pics, chatting and joining groups about whatever thing.

And seriously, facebook is a success because it appealed to basic stuff like this. Why can't some programmers have the ambition of making other things with social networking, and not being called stupid for trying so ?

I mean if a guy Zuckerberg did not put a little effort, there would never have been facebook. I heard a former diaspora dev killed himself. That's not towards success, but nobody really cares either. It's like wanting innovation is a sin or something.
Lizzy McGuire was a pretty good kids show. I think that era of Disney channel shows was a bit better. My sister and I are separated by 7 years, the stuff she grew up with on Disney Channel was pretty different (early 2000's).
Thanks for the comment.

You're right. I think the lessons of moderation and delayed gratification should be a goal and not a blanket ban.

Finding things equally as fun is hard. He knows what he wants... what works is distracting him from what's in front of him to something else not equally as fun. We'll work on that.

As for reading, he really enjoys books but just not nearly enough as gaming. He's favorite is "The little yellow digger" and he's even memorised it. Highly recommend it.
So I think you can't advertise bad food to kids in my country (the few times I've seen kids advertising it's for toys, not lollies), but honestly I think the stuff that is worse is advertising to mothers. Some of those are disgustingly predatory.
I can vouch for the unreal aspect of their candy. They are quite amazing :)
really? Every time I go non-vegetable, they taste and feel awesome when I come back to them!
If programmers of functional languages were better at naming things, it would be easy. Let's rename g to callTwice and h to aFunction:

function callTwice(aFunction) {

return function(y) {
return aFunction(aFunction(y));
};

}

function square(x) { return x*x; }

var squareTwice = callTwice(square);

81 === squareTwice(3);
My genetic markers for gluten were negative, but I do have IBD, and consuming any gluten at all usually causes a marked exacerbation of my symptoms. I am not well-versed in dietetics; although my parents are both physicians, and have seen many patients with Celiac disease and a predisposition towards gluten sensitivity, whereas 20 years ago there were very few. Other physicians have asserted similar stances.

It's not empirical, but if you have any evidence that suggests otherwise, I would gladly be corrected.
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I wondered about this, so I looked up the prevalence of peanut allergies in the US. Here's an abstract:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10200001

This includes tree nut allergies as well. The short of it is that 0.6% of children under 18 in this study were found to have peanut or tree nut allergies. If this is true, that means many schools will probably have fewer than 5 students with the allergy.

In this case, outright bans seem to be more about reducing potential liability in the face of activist or litigious parents than they are actually addressing a student health issue.
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The fact that Wikipedia expunges the history of deleted articles always made me a bit uneasy; it seems like the editors want to escape accountability by sending the articles down Orwell's "memory hole".[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hole
Healthy in relation to what, donuts? In comparison to meat, vegetables, nuts, and fruit, I'd say whole grains aren't a very good choice. Any food that readily breaks down into carbohydrates (and by extension, sugar) should be avoided except on occasion. I'm looking at you potatoes.
That freedom of action is generally predicated on the idea of competent individuals and businesses interacting voluntarily. When dealing with children that rationale goes out the window, because children are not competent to voluntarily participate in the economy. There is very little that is more in the province of the state to micromanage, even in a libertarian utopia, than interactions between businesses and people who are legally incompetent, like children.

If your counter-argument is predicated on businesses freely exchanging with parents to convince them what products to feed their children, I fully agree that they should be free to do that, but that's distinct from advertising to children directly.
Somebody is really trying hard to spread this negative press against Google.

The issue isn't even news, it's well known that Google and many other large multi-international companies do the Double-Irish to avoid taxes. Until Congress plugs the loophope, what should Google do, they hire companies to manage their taxes and the hired company does it to the best of their ability, who is to blame? Our representatives, IMO.
Do you have any evidence of this?

I would be shocked if food labeling laws let this happen without explicitly calling it some variant of "flavoured milk".
The proposal mandating 50% of something in food marketed to kids is stupid nonsense. If anything, reason should tell you that evolution must have selected for a "resiliant" digestive system - so much that it's thriving on anything we throw at it. So why bother increasing the costs - besides for control and power?

Do you have any reason to believe the experts know better what is good for one's health? Do they have large scale studies properly done? (I mean not on rats but on humans - it's kinda tough to force them to eat only what's prescribed during a study, and you can't follow them all day long for years) Do you want so much to reduce customer choice and force your thoughts on them? This is the polar opposite to freedom, and based on a flawed methodology.

There are some evidence that a given regime or another may be beneficial for a given disease, but nothing convincing yet to the best of my knowledge when taking into account all the diseases (you don't get to hand pick the diseases you'll get).

IMHO, the proper methodology would require a large scale datamining operation along with biological tests and proper outcome monitoring. We just don't have all the technology to do that yet on say at least 10 million humans for 10 years (and that wouldn't be large scale - there are 6 billions of us, and with a longer lifespan!).

10 millions over 6 billions would be a 0.0016 ie 0.16% sample - with such a small sample on only 1/7 of the human lifespan, I wish you good luck to anyone willing to take into account genetic polymorphism, intolerance to some food (milk, gluten) etc. It will just be an exercice in "manually correcting" so many things that the end result should not be trusted.

Basically, at the moment we don't know for sure what's best, and we can't.

To quote Djikstra, I'd say such laws and rules are just the root of all evil - premature optimization!!!

EDIT: Downvotes as always. I find that downvoting for a disagreement is not fair play. You don't like my opinion? I would be delighted to be proved wrong, with facts please.
The short answer is no, we only started selling the assets three weeks ago, a few months after announcing the shutdown.

The longer answer is that selling part of your business while continuing in a business that is in any way related is usually very challenging from a legal standpoint. The lawyers call it the "spaghetti effect", basically the IP tends to be really tangled. We had serendipitous developments a few weeks back in how Airstone is built which let us create a hermetic barrier between the Airstone and Tinkercad IP's. Before that happened we had no way of selling the IP without taking an unacceptable risk.
Huh? Milk sold in the US does not contain added sugar. It has a lot of sugar in it, but that comes from the cows.
> And there's maybe 20-25 mathematics professors at each university.

Yitang Zhang is not a professor, he is a lecturer [1][2]. A quick seach on Google Scholar reveals that people with that name have published extremely few papers in mathematics. He doesn't seem to have a website of his own, especially one that lists his publications. I'd find it quite believable that he is relatively unknown in his field.

[1] http://db.unh.edu/directories/facstaff2/getfs.asp?id=4713
[2] http://www.math.unh.edu/faculty
It seems that celiac disease and nut allergy is something specific to US.
Interesting, I had no idea they had such a following. Github doesn't surprise me, they seem like the kind of company that would dabble in any technology just for the hell of it.
The first study is correlative, not causative.

The second and third studies are a bit too specific. Can you break this down into a list of effects on every day people?

I think this quote sums it up best: "Gluten intolerance is one of the most popular self-diagnoses because of its over-expanded list of potential symptoms. The gluten scare is mostly an overblown hippy-fueled movement."
There's no problem putting it into a support ticket system - that's how issues get tracked and Alice going on holiday means things get followed up. But anything security related should be escalated immediately, skipping the typical CS levels. You can't afford to waste the (limited) time/effort of people who can a) help you and b) embarrass you very publicly, by making them fight scripted support responses and non-technical CS staff.

[edit]: grammar
Not bad for the first half of 2013!
I like Adobe Lightroom because it's transparent at the filesystem level. It keeps a separate catalog, but you can point it at any directory for photos.
I have been looking at Vagrant for a while - but it seems like just another VM packaging system to me.

Am I mistaken, or will my Rails environment not sit in a VM in a Vagrant instance?
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Wikipedia admins (essentially community-elected moderators, there are thousands of them) have the ability to access the history of deleted articles. Articles are often deleted due to copyright violations, etc., so the history is not shown to the public.
Where do you think bankers get capital.
This is just utterly inspiring and something I've always dreamed about happening to me. Too often, people are proud of themselves after figuring out something that took a few days or even a few weeks to come up with. To stumble upon a solution when you had all but given up hope after three YEARS is just astounding and must amazing.

Congratulations to this mathematician. Inspiring. Truly inspiring.
Seth Godin is far from the first person to refer to the amyglydia as the "lizard brain". I really couldn't tell you who coined that term or when, but I was seeing it when I was reading about the brain as a kid back in the seventies.

Also I am in my early 40s and am not even beginning to turn into my parents, for what that's worth.
Ah, I see the distinction that you're making, though I would disagree with the statement that the latter situation is "better".

If I'm release software with that clause, I'm in a position to take advantage of anybody who uses the software, because they would have to cease using it before they could sue me, even on legitimate grounds.

That said, I'm not surprised that you (as a lawyer) would prefer the latter; it exposes your client to less liability, and lawyers tend to be very risk-averse, for obvious reasons.
Surely if it's LGPL you can just link against it, no?
Would you have, as a kid?
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Agreed re: minecraft, which is fantastic, but Plants vs. Zombies is actually a really good game too. I like to think of the planting sunflowers mechanic as the kids' first introduction to compound interest.

If the kids are really excited about logic gates, hunt down "Rocky's Boots"[1] or one of its descendants.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockys_Boots
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For faceting, there's the fSphinx library:

https://github.com/alexksikes/fSphinx
When it comes to the medical literature, I'm even cautious about doctors claims. Dr. Oz is a doctor, but he's a cardiac surgeon. So when he makes claims about the healthiness of palm oil (which is solid at room temperature, and is only healthy by comparison to lard), he is abusing his credibility as an MD.

Here's a summary of the literature about Celiacs which my wife linked me to: https://www.clinicalkey.com/topics/pediatrics/celiac-disease...

You'll note in the epidemiology section that Celiacs to genetics. The disease is prevalent primarily in western european populations (or populations descended from western europe), and has actually shown a decrease in non-european descended populations.

(My wife also notes that in the Infant Diet section it does say that if you feed gluten to infants it can increase their chance of Celiac's. This is true if you have genes which predispose you to Celiac's. If you do not have the genes, you can't develop Celiac's. And even if you do have the genes, you can go throughout your life w/o developing Celiac's, although apparently being fed gluten early in life does increase your risks. Seems more like a thing about feeding infants than it does about gluten really.)

Edit: My wife also points out that Celiacs diagnoses prior to 1997 were done via biopsy (which is of course, invasive, when we're talking about intestines). After 1997, and the availability of a simple blood screening test, testing for Celiac's has become cheaper, easier, and more prevalent. That certainly must contribute to the increased number of diagnoses.
I see it as decoupling our survival as a species from the planet earth. Growing our access to resources and land is a secondary consideration to me.
I feel a Wheat Belly debate coming on.
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Salon is just part of that cadre of circle-jerking, highly agended websites (along with most of gawker and huffpost) that regularly fire cannonballs at places like Reddit and Wikipedia that allow the kind of free expression and thought they would rather suppress. At least Wikipedia airs its dirty laundry for all to see, and on balance things generally work out OK.
I would like to point out that this is about Google actually breaking the law and not just gaming the system. Seems most commenters assume that this is about gaming the system. Google is walking a fine line here and if they step over that line they can't expect folks to go easy on them.
A single peanut can cause an anaphylactic reaction which can be lethal in minutes. IBD symptoms from consumption of slices of bread is not remotely comparable.
The money part is brave and will likely work out. However, its also a great opportunity to teach cash flow rather then balance sheet.

My dad did something really great when I was young: He paid me my entire allowance in bulk once a year. Of course the first year it failed and I bought all sorts of crap and was out within weeks. That was the idea. The year afterwards I was too afraid to spend anything because it was so painful having nothing. The year afterwards he introduced me to bonds and some stocks to help build some income.
You gave them software for free, it's not clear what legitimate grounds you want to accept liability for, but that's up to you :)

Given the "get sued by people over patents for releasing popular open source software" occurs very often for companies that deal with open source software and have money, ...

As for risk aversion, I am probably one of the least risk averse lawyers you will meet.

My goal in this case is not to protect my clients, my goal is to see the open source ecosystem stop being destroyed for dumb reasons.
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>Dymaxion: ... "you type in Dvorak"

Agh, I've been hit! Man down, man down!
re 10x: I filled out the profile more completely and then emailed one of the founders to say "I'll supply references if we both decide to move forward with this." They said they would be in touch. Not too worried about 10x. I am used to picking up freelance and consultant work and do my own marketing and sales, it would just be nice to have another channel of dealflow to smooth over the feast/famine times.

re No offers: I was wondering if I was to be the first on DeveloperAuction that would receive no offers. Glad to hear I am not the only one. Agreed on the randomness -- if the stars align just right -- and the opacity does not help. I was contacted by one of the founders of DeveloperAuction to ask if they could use my profile in their marketing, but when I pointed out that I was probably not going to receive any offers, should they really be holding up my profile as an example of what to do. I heard nothing back from them after that.

re List of companies: I got the list at the end. I took a screenshot and saved it off.

re Exhausting: I don't think it will ever change really. "This is how it has always been done" and whilst the system is utterly broken, there is a long chain of component people with only a few of those components willing to change.

re Github: "Github is the new resume" is a lot of bollocks. However, it means I can just direct people to the code rather than having to email it. Though I still hear "We don't know how to use github, can you just email me a .zip?" and the best one "What do you mean all of it? No, that's not right, you must have used someone else's code to base this off of" which usually dovetails in to "Oh, you only work on your own projects? Well that's not good, you really need to learn to work in a collaborative environment." You can do nothing but roll your eyes at statements like these.

Whilst I am not volunteering to patch RGBDS, I am surprised it is "crashy" for you. Like all bad customer service: "I am sorry to hear of your plight but there is fuck all I am willing to do to fix it." Or would you prefer I invoke the OpenSource mantra of "You've got the code, you could fix it yourself!" :)

RGBDS has quite a few quirks (it started as a hack because the GG tools sucked big time). I would guess you're probably pushing it to the limits on the Pokemon games. The tool was used to ship hundreds of games but probably not on the magnitude that you are stretching it to with those particular games.
Gluten free doesn't mean 100% of the gluten is removed from the food. So most people who are 'severely allergic' to gluten are really just convinced that is the case.

The last time I saw my cousin she looked and acted anorexic, meanwhile raving about her new gluten free vegan lifestyle. She looked terrible. My other cousin who suffers from narcolepsy was on the same diet raving about all her new energy while falling asleep at the table. Meanwhile I went from being the fattest person in the family to the most in shape in less than 10 months. I usually jokingly order a side of gluten these days, just to piss the gluten freers off.

Tip for American grocery shoppers: Don't hit the isles. Stay within the vegetable and fruits section, shop there, only there, then leave. That is a healthy diet. Usually there are nuts and meat in that section. Don't be looking for the gluten free potato chips and cookies, that isn't healthy.
Or to avoid kids accidentally killing each other with peanut butter.
Qworty's rant is rather entertaining and even a bit more persuasive than the Salon article that quotes it. Oops.
Even GeoCities is actually still around in the form of Yahoo! Small Business. At least from a technology perspective.
Actually, commercial speech is among the least protected forms of free speech: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_speech
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