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Building 31 North is one of the few buildings on earth constructed under Class 100 standards:it is a structure that can withstand 1000 years of water submersion, among other durability metrics that should not be tested this side of Armageddon.

Sounds really cool, but that's not what Class 100 is. From Wiki.

Cleanrooms are classified according to the number and size of particles permitted per volume of air. Large numbers like "class 100" or "class 1000" refer to FED-STD-209E, and denote the number of particles of size 0.5 µm or larger permitted per cubic foot of air

I smell more than just a little embellishment.

The cool thing about artistic license is supposed to be the readers never see it. It's supposed to meld right into everything else.
A lot of people hear voices. Most of them are completely healthy. You should stay away from psychiatrists, who will not look out for your best interests but will instead tell you that your mind is broken and you should defer to the ideas in their minds.

Have some self-confidence and self-esteem. Don't turn your life over to people with impressive uniforms and titles.
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did you ever happen to sell it?

coz o/w it's just an added weight -- well in your case it's maybe for appearance so it's a good investment/insurance

some people do hide gold in their teeth, might be interesting if that's your thing
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Unfortunately, there is no simple way out of this. ALL the applications across the Internets will have to be changed..

Legacy code comes back to bite us in the rear again!
Browser sniffing (when you actually want to find support for a particular feature or bug) is the most idiotic thing ever.
looks like eieio came from IBM...not sure about sex (sign extend) instruction though.
I think they should just stick to /10.00 and let bad code fail. This kind of backward compatibility will only create more crud on the internet. Opera's market-share is low enough so as not to cause too much fuss (changing IE would cause too much backlash) but high enough to prompt authors of browser sniffers to act.
I actually thought of the same. The trouble is that most enterprise application vendors will not be so willing to change their application. And this in turn will reduce the rate of adoption of the new browser in an environment already very slow in adoption rates
This joke is attributed to Linus Thorvals:

IBM motto: "We found five vowels hiding in a corner, and we used them _all_ for the 'eieio' instruction so that we wouldn't have to use them anywhere else"

Unsourced history of eieio and sex:
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-fbdev@vuser.vu.union.edu/m...
I hope they don't take down the language stats... I just integrated those in langpop.com!
It amuses me that there is still good money to be made from lying to paranoid rightsholders about how great your DRM scheme is. Not only do we get middlemen, we get middlement that either don't understand their own technology or are happy to lie about it.

Unsurprisingly they don't go into details about how this all works, but if it can deliver standard font files to browsers that support @font-face then the font can be downloaded and used. It's on a par with javascript hacks to prevent right clicking on images.
The hidden powers of admins and sockpuppets. They are wary of Wikipedia due to the power it wields. See historical articles on an editor called Jossi I think. They was also a bit of a furore over the article on short selling. Lots of drama in Wikipedia land.
For what it's worth, I've had a similar thing a year ago, but arguably less intense than yours.

I was experimenting with meditation, and after a while I started hearing a disordered stream of voices during the process. First I could barely hear them, but I did not resist and with time the volume rose; some phrases where as loud as screaming.

I also started hearing the chatter without meditation, usually when it was quiet or I was calm enough. It actually was fascinating, as most of the phrases where quite surreal. I even wrote down some of them (it's hard to remember the actual words I was hearing, they disappear rapidly from the memory).

Anyway, right now I don't meditate (and sleep significantly more than I was back then); the voices are no more. I'd actually love to see some explanation, and while I have no desire to see a doctor (I don't think it's a decease), maybe you'll tell us what he thinks it is?

PS. Can you remember the actual phrases, and give a few examples?
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This is the take away from the article:

"Browser sniffing — unless you’re writing a web stats application — is always a bad idea. It’s a misguided attempt to send different content to different user agents. This is never scalable — you can’t change every website you’ve ever made every time a new browser version comes out. It is also not future-proof, as highlighted by this article."
http://www.bitlet.org/video
Takes a very long time to download and there is no progress bar that tells me how far along it is. The lack of a progress bar makes it bad. I have no idea if this will take 2 days or it will be done in a minute. Pushing play also locked up my browser.

And why use Theora? Most clips are MPEG-4, reencoding to theora will cause quality loss, so your video player will always be associated with poor quality.

You have a very good idea, but there are a few major flaws.

What applet are you using? Did you program it yourself?
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That doesn't even begin to approach reality, and sounds more like a list of talking points you've picked up from somewhere than a genuine opinion.

I'm getting really sick of Microsoft's new "we can't even begin thinking about implement anything until after it's a fully approved standard" while churning out their own proprietary, unstandardized competitors to those same standards. It's so brazen it's insulting.
How did you get hold of it?
I mirror the sentiments of everyone who said to see a psychiatrist. If you do have schizophrenia, the good news is that it's not the end of the world. Start taking medication, establish routines for yourself, and you can (continue to) lead a meaningful life. One of the smartest and most productive people that I know is a paranoid schizophrenic; another of the smartest people I know is a chronic untreatable undifferentiated schizophrenic. I myself am a disorganized schizophrenic, having been diagnosed eight years ago.

Now for the bad news: you should never have posted this, unfortunately, and you should definitely keep information regarding your mental health very private. Make sure everybody that you tell understands that it is confidential information. I'd love to tell you that we live in a tolerant and understanding society, but we don't. Schizophrenia is not well-understood by the general population, and if people find out that you have it, you will have been marked by the proverbial scarlet letter. If you're lucky, you'll find a group of people who support you. If you're not, you can expect to be hounded, and you may never escape it.
Some thoughts:

1) Being forced to click "Trust" just to watch a video is pretty bad, and would turn away many of your users.

2) Having an alert box "Are you sure you want to leave this page?" is also pretty bad, and unnecessary.

Overall, I can see the value that this technology gives to you (less bandwidth). But what value do you give to the consumer? Why would I want to endure the various hassles of this site, and give up some my scarce upstream bandwidth, when I could just go to Youtube or Vimeo instead?
Isn't this similar to dynamic scope?
I wish there was a standard package management protocol. Why does every language have to reinvent package management? They could still write the package manager clients (and servers) in their language, as they all seem to love to do.

We (the ServerJS pseudo working group: https://wiki.mozilla.org/ServerJS) are currently looking at package management solutions for server-side JavaScript.

Using Rubygems with other languages like JS is one possibility, then we would get the Github integration for free.

And there's JSAN (http://openjsan.org/).

Kris Kowal hacked together one that pulls zipped repos directly from GitHub (or potentially any HTTP server) (tentatively named "tusk", implemented on "narwhal": http://github.com/tlrobinson/narwhal/tree/integration). One neat thing about that is you can create new versions just by tagging.
What are you talking about? Google IO is going on, you expected them to just sit around and have a big circle chat about Bing? If anything, Microsoft is trying to sideline Google. Big companies compete for the spotlight, get over it.
I couldn't believe you so I read the article. You're right! I'm surprised they thought this was newsworthy.
3131 fyi. Here's the top 10:

18 webrat
18 will_paginate
20 god
29 rack
30 sinatra
31 twitter
33 integrity
37 merb
48 dm
71 ruby

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Amusing, though I didn't quite get why this would make Kurt Gödel laugh his ass off...? Anyone care to enlighten me?
The GigaOm article is a long whine that they got to see a tech presentation instead of a business presentation. At a developer conference. I'll try to remember this the next time I want to whine about how I got a business presentation instead of a tech presentation at a business conference.

I don't understand how "not about business" equates to "arrogant".

As for SharePoint — is there anything less important than SharePoint? Maybe one of my socks or something. Or one of my less important GitHub projects.
Out of curiosity, why did you use Java rather than Flash/Flex? Do you know that Flash 10 has some p2p distribution technology built in?

More info at: http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/2008/05/flash-10-p2p-and-cd...
Today. Now. Go to a doctor and camp outside their office until you get to see them.

The great news is that your ability to perceive these voices and think about them makes it highly likely that you will be able to deal with it, and not have it destroy you. All the people I know who have described similar symptoms are now active and productive people.

However, without getting proper medical assistance there is serious danger.

So deal with it now, and it's likely you'll be fine.
Although harassment in the form of lawsuits is much more effective against individuals than it is against a group.
Yes. I also subscribe. I probably should have written 'non-computer geek magazine'.
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I don't think it is high enough to prompt authors of browser siniffers. More likely result is that, sniffers will stay the same and opera users will suffer.
Does anyone else find the idea of a package installer that /screen scrapes a website for download links/ deeply and fundamentally disturbing, or is it just me?
> Its easy to understand recursion when you understand recursion!

Yes. But his example is not very typical. Most of the time one employs recursion to solve a problem using simpler versions of itself. He just used the same version.

Though one could argue that a REPL in e.g. Scheme works this way.
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It's not that simple - see the original:

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/scripts/print/article.php?asse...

Then consider this quote, which to Harvardites is as bad as it could possibly get:

"We are in trouble," says one Crimson professor. In the aftermath of deep and damaging cuts, "there is a real chance that Harvard will no longer be considered the best there is."

That may not mean "destroy" in the bankruptcy/going out of business sense, but in terms of forever altering their identity.

The numbers are troubling:

$400 million/year deficit in FAS

$100 million/year in debt financing

$100 million/year in Alston maintenance

Sure, $600 million/year into $15 billion isn't a huge deal. What is, however, is how they've had to leverage that reserve to pay existing and new obligations - interest rates, bonds they've offered, etc. "In February, HMC, suddenly not looking so smart anymore, started laying off about a quarter of its staff."

This is a real money crunch that has a real trickle-down effect. "And by the 2011 fiscal year, the university would be cutting FAS's annual infusion of endowment cash by $125 million."

That's scholarships, classes, research facilities, new faculty hires - you name it. When the "best" university in the world is cutting drastically, on it's guiding mission, I'd say folks are legitimately worried about the identity forever changing.
Just a guess here, but maybe the author thinks that Kurt Gödel actually "...is widely regarded as the most important innovator in scientific and technical computing today."?

Then again, I don't even understand what the term 'technical computing' means.
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I also completely miss the connection and I clearly wouldn't put those two in the same league. Godel was a very thoughtful if troubled soul who totally shook the foundations of mathematics.
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Biomedical buildings, which the new campus is full of, are insanely expense - on the order of $50 million/floor. Almost everything is close to a custom design to insure safety and research fidelity.
Bit saddened to read this quote:

“Open-source software has become a means to an end,” says Forrester’s Mr Hammond. “Most firms don’t really care that it is libre, as in freedom, but that it is gratis, as in beer.”

a) because "gratis, as in beer" is a simply ridiculous turn of phrase, and b) the previous paragraph has a far more insightful comment that totally repudiates this:

"But cost is not the only reason for open source’s growing popularity. Many firms now know that it offers more flexibility than proprietary programs, the licences for which often include restrictions on how they can be used"

The forrester guy appears to be trying to say "Companies aren't interested in the politics of free software, they just don't like having intrusive controls and limitations placed on what they can do with the software" i.e. he's entirely missed the point of Free Software and has just mentally labelled it as "political" or "religious" and so ignores it.
Unlike Wolfram, Gödel did groundbreaking work. Gödel was revolutionary. Wolfram is quite smart, but other than Mathematica, I don't really think he has achieved much at all. Any comparison between the two men is ridiculous. They are in entirely different leagues.
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Live and learn, I thought the reward for bugs in Tex increased by a nickel for each new one found. Could this Wikipedia entry be wrong?

In any event I wouldn't cash a check like that, it's a nice keepsake.
IE already has a solution.

Compatibility mode.
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Shameless self promotion has gotten him pretty far, so I can at least see why he'd not stop.

I mean, hell, he's better off than Godel ended up, right?
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How do you propose that would work? The problem is that scripts detect Opera as version 1, not 10, and then failing - "if digit 1 of version < 4 then fail". To the browser, the looks like (and IS) the expected behaviour, so there no not-horribly-broken automatic fallback.

In a way this solution is compatibility mode. "Broken" detection scripts see version nine (which is good enough), scripts that know about Opera 10 sees version 10.
Clojure's vars can thread-locally, temporarily be re-bound, see

http://clojure.org/vars

and

http://clojure.org/api#binding
Not surprising. We had to take glasses and (now) earrings off when pictures were taken here in Canada... Of course, they might just be looking to get pictures that more-accurately show how people look in airports?

If so, yelling rather than not smiling will be next :-).
Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

1) You're right: It's bad, but in order to open connections to different clients it needs a signed applet. I also considered a custom plugin but I thought forcing a user to install it could be ever worse. Do you have any better idea?

2) True, will remove it.

I think reducing publisher's costs could lead to benefits even for consumers, I'm thinking about hd videos.
Probably most people would not put those two in the same league, but I suspect the author thinks that Stephen Wolfram himself would certainly do so.
"I mean, hell, he's better off than Godel ended up, right?"

So far, at least. In 20 or 30 years we will know the answer to that...
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I really don't understand the purpose of this article. Sure, Wolfram has a super huge (and possibly fragile) ego...does that in some way make the author feel less secure such that he has to invest time in trying to convince the world that Wolfram "ain't all that"?

I really feel compelled to point this out because as of now, this headline is #2.
It's an interesting article, but the title could use some work. It does get around to asking "So What's Perl Got to Do With It?" which is what you're thinking throughout the article, but it doesn't do a good job of answering it. You could have dropped Perl from the entire text (minus the "Conclusion") and had a good article as well.

It also never really makes the case that the Human Genome Project was in jeopardy, much less that Perl saved it.

Interesting article, but crap headline.
In contrast to what these others are suggesting, I think you should be somewhat reticent to approach a doctor about the situation.

My take on what qualifies as a mental illness is this: If something is harming you to the extent that it is disrupting your ability to survive in society, it might be in your best interest to classify that thing as an illness and seek medical help.

If, on the other hand, your brain functions in a way that is toward the end of the human bell curve but you're a functional member of society, take pride in your unique situation and learn to deal with the areas where you're rough around the edges. So if you hear Abe Lincoln in your head telling you you're a swell guy every day and it doesn't affect you negatively, who cares?

A couple other things to weight before you decide to classify yourself as having a mental illness:

As some of the other posters have mentioned, there is a stigma associated with mental illness.

I don't know what your health insurance situation is, but if you're self-insured in the US, having this kind of thing on your medical record can cause you significant grief.
Perl also powers the daily batches in the Swedish pension system, handling billions of dollars every day.

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I must say I haven't hated something with such great passion as I hate scribd and similar services. The only reason why I still end up on scribd.com is because some idiotic friend is not able to link the direct source for the document in question.

I absolutely don't get it how such a service adds value to the web. It's great for scribd to have 60 million readers. I am one of them. Why? Because I'm freaking forced to sign up to download a pdf.

"A social publishing company that aims to liberate the written word by democratizing the publishing process for everyday people". - Sounds great. Could you please provide the link?
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So this post was about how Wolfram has a big ego?

That's it?

Nothing wrong with a big ego, is there? Self-promotion is still okay in the world? We're still free to toot our own horn? Write our own resumes, pitch our own products, spin our own political ideas, sell our own worldviews?

And what, exactly, does Godel have to do with any of that? I take it the idea is that Godel was the real genius?

If we're going to be measuring who's really smart, maybe we'd want to wait a few hundred years.

I admire people with big egos and positive attitudes. We could use more of them in the world. I don't buy into their self-image, but I admire it. Positive mental attitude -- the idea that you're capable of making something really big -- is what's going to keep you hacking on that startup long after others would have quit. Arrogance, on the other hand, is a different matter. But this post had nothing to say about arrogance.

Just wondering how it got so many upvotes. I guess Wolfram must have a natural ability to tick people off?
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I know that lack of a progress bar is a problem, but please note that it's a prototype I built in my spare time.

I used theora because I wanted a free video codec.

The bittorrent client is coded by myself with help and support from a friend, the video codec is jheora from fluendo, it also uses jogg and jorbis from jcraft.
This link from the article is a lot more interesting than the article itself:

http://www.canyoucopyrightatweet.com/
I usually avoid the Reg but never quite noticed this when I have been there. I had only skimmed the first couple paragraphs but after reading this I went back to it. Wow. You're right. It is pretty juvenile writing. This writer abuses the use of "and" and "but."
Beautiful article...please more like this. I had no idea that Perl was used for something so important and on such a large scale.
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The absolute last thing you want to do with your 1.5%-market-share-having browser is allow it to show people broken web pages. They're correct here that nobody is going to change their site to accommodate a dying browser. The best thing they can do is what they've done.

If you're Firefox with 25% share and a strong developer following, then MAYBE you could get away with that. Opera, treading water as fast as it possibly can, would simply die if it didn't render every existing page on the web correctly.