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I just got a new computer.

I switched from a tablet that I've had for around a year. I thought the idea of a tablet was neat, I could draw on it, watch movies in bed without the keyboard getting in the way, use it as a book to read PDF's, etc. In reality, however, I never used the tablet functionality, and just used it as a normal PC. So I switched back.
With your code, placing a semicolon after the macro leads to a compile error. Semicolons are not valid after arbitrary blocks, but it is acceptable to place them after do-while loops.

It's much nicer to be able to call "MYMACRO(1, 2, 3);" than it is to have to remember to leave the semi-colon off.
I think the best strategy is to display a message warning your site may not work on IE6 and simply stop testing IE6. If it works, great, if not -- too bad. Going out of your way to block people who very likely have no control over the browser they're using at work just seems pointless. Most IT departments aren't going to feel pressure to upgrade based on their employees wanting to use non-work related sites. A better strategy would be to include a scary warning about IE6 being unsafe. This might at least shame some IT departments into upgrading. It works... I'm being shamed into buying legit SSL certs for intranet sites because I'm sick of people complaining about the scary warnings you get from self signed certs these days.
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The do-while "nonsense" is a pretty standard construct, so much so that I'd never seen your approach - which I admit looks nicer. How well is that supported across different compilers? Is it part of C99, for example?
In a lot of cases (including mine), IT operators are working with zero budget. While there's the obvious argument that upgrading from a free browser to another free browser doesn't cost any money, it does cost time; I work at a federal agency in which their web applications HAVE to work, and unfortunately, many of them were written for IE6. Rewriting those applications to support a new browser isn't free either.

In addition that that, there is time spent securing the installation. In the case of IE it's a little easier as I can manage it with policies, but it is absolutely critical that we're following DOD stigs regarding security, and setting up a central policy isn't free.

Regarding the PC comment, the laptop I replaced a month ago was a 1.0Ghz Pentium with 512M RAM. This was the upgraded laptop at the time, that I needed for java development. Compiling code with 512M on XP was adventurous. For the last 8 months I had it, the internal LCD had died, most of the keys didn't work, the WiFi radio was completely dead, and the power button would only work if I wiggled the frame and monitor. I made sure to use it on a plugged-in (ethernet network) to bypass the WiFi, plugged into an external monitor to get around the LCD, grabbed an external keyboard to type on, and wiggled it every day to power it on.

Before deeming it dead, they replaced the motherboard 3 times and the hard drive twice. I kept using the decrepit old machine because frankly, it was the nicest laptop anyone had on the team. They're refreshing the machines now, but we've only had IE7 in the environment for about a month. I am lucky in that I can use Firefox, but only within the firewall, and not at all to browse any external sites.

Sorry, I kind of got off on a tangent here, but it's perfectly reasonable to understand that there ARE in fact reasons why it takes a long time to get off of IE6.
Class isn't really about income. The guy in the story was "working class" despite an income that arguably put him in the lower middle class. Class is about culture and education.
webware vs fashionware

Nop, not a rivalry.
I think it's pretty silly, but it might just be my demographic -- the guys I know who are under thirty seem to complain a lot more. The Mission, in particular, seems to be a nightmare of young guys on the prowl on weekend evenings.

Here's the thing, though: the guys I know who are single and under 30 also tend to be pretty isolated and nerdy. The ones who have other interests do fine for themselves. So, a protip for young nerdy guys everywhere: if you want to meet a girl, you've got to pull your nose out of the computer screen once in a while.
The article didn't say there aren't any women. It just said they're not interested in us.
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Having owned a bunch of older and newer Ikea stuff, the real problem IMHO is Ikea knockoffs. If you're willing to buy actual wood, Ikea sells it and it works fine--it's not especially decorative but it is at least decent at being tables/beds/whatever.

However, if you're in the market for a bookcase, say, and decide $100 is too much to pay for one, your choices are all bad particle board with melamine poorly installed. If you're very lucky they last a year. Ikea makes this too, but I'm convinced it's because they felt they had to compete with the purveyors of this junk.

Older Ikea stuff tends to be made with wood and actually holds up pretty well--I have a pair of 30-40 year old Ikea end tables that are perfectly stable and usable, although not pretty.
I think you may have misread it. Megan McArdle more or less agrees with you because though she might not like Ikea furniture for herself she absolutely believes you should be able to buy cheap(er)/discount furniture and that it's good for everyone. McArdle's debating the author of Cheap (https://www.amazon.com/dp/159420215X) who believes otherwise.
For 'drop in code', it would be nice if they cleaned it up a bit... Removed redundant whitespace in css, redundant white space between divs and used better quoting e.g. the following

<a href='#' onclick='javascript:this.parentNode.parentNode.style.display='none'; return false;'>

could be written as:-

<a href='#' onclick="this.parentNode.parentNode.style.display='none'; return false">

Wouldn't be suprised if the same effect could be created in 1/2 the size (pre deflate/gzip).
I've had more time to think about this... This link is now the number 2 link on HN. A few days ago one of the top links was about how to survive on $36/month for food. You have to be kidding me, right? Sorry, but woman and marathon, multi-day coding sessions filled with noodles, beans, rice, oats and pb&j just don't mix.
I was thinking you could use volume, which would work with 2 sensors as you describe, but I like the idea of delay as it's probably more accurate.
Curly braces and then parens is a GCC extension. If you're going to do complicated macrology, GCC is the way to go because of typeof and a bunch of related extensions designed to make macro use work. But it's still a staggering amount of effort and not worth it in the long run.
A better battery.
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This ({ ... }) syntax was not in the original ANSI C or K&R. Is it in C99 or in GNU C only? I've only ever seen it in GNU C.
Oh I loved LA too for the first few years. It's a great place to live when you're in your twenties with some disposable income and aren't looking for anything too permanent. And yes, it has a bountiful supply of women who would be knockouts in any other town but are just average in LA.

After a few years though I just found it got kinda old, repetitive and a little shallow. Ironically I now live in SF :)
District is certainly a great scene for men with deep pockets and the women who love them.
They are called statement expressions.
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I don't recall the author claiming he wasn't getting girls. He does, however, seem to be trying to form a logical argument.
A friend outfitted his apartment with IKEA and it took 4 MIT engineering students 3 hours to complete it all.
No, it's not in C99: http://www.redhatrenewals.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4...

Admittedly I have little experience with compilers other than GCC, but all things considered, I'd shy away from using anything but really basic macros without the compound-statement-in-parens and typeof() extensions that GCC provides.

Perhaps I spoke too harshly, calling it "nonsense". :-)
I'd suggest creating your own startup - and work on it in the evenings, weekends or whenever you might have a few hours. Then just deal with the crap until your startup gets rolling - and maybe by then your stock will come through too :)
It's only supported by gcc and some edg based compilers. edg has trouble with it in some c++ code. Just think of how adding this complicates your grammar.
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It compiles fine on GCC. For other compilers, the Wikipedia page I linked offers the caveat:

"This construct is not legal ANSI C; both the typeof keyword, and the construct of placing a compound statement within parentheses, are non-standard extensions implemented in the popular GNU C compiler (GCC)."
What if we already provide a notice for all IE6 users to switch, just not using your widget?

We've been advocating that all users drop IE6 at http://webs.com/ since December. Are you only listing those who've thrown up your widget?
Any idea how hard the ultrasound radiation pressure (used in the tactile holograms) would be to make?

I guess you just need transducers, and some software to time them correctly? That's unbelievable to me.

They say they can't get very powerful though or stray sound would damage your hearing. I wonder if there's any way around that? i.e., different frequencies?
And a torque-adjustable drill with an allen bit can make the assembly pretty quick!

And pretty fun after a few beers!
It does not appear to work for me in FF3 or Chrome at 6:23 PDT (linux).
I think you're overlooking the online rentals market. Netflix's original business will die (or be killed) off at some point. They already have a strong presence in the online movie rentals market.

It should also be pointed out that they do value and tackle hard problems. The Netflix prize is the most public example of this. One million dollars for a 10% improvement in movie recommendations. The battle has been fought and won in the hundredths of percentages points. http://www.netflixprize.com/leaderboard

edit: added more context to what I meant by the "online market"
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> lots of Asian girls are only looking for white men

This usually wears off around age 25 after these girls realize that the world is slightly more complicated than TV portrays it to be.

Note that I'm talking about the ones who date only white guys, not the ones who are normal and will date any attractive guy of any race.
My opinion is that this service is probably a waste of money at best and something absolutely horrific at worst. The test is meaningless, all that this is going to do is cause parents to treat their children differently.

This is abusive PR, CNN was had.
Apple now censoring dictionaries in the App Store
They'll fix that in the next release.
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Looking forward to seeing you on Web 3.0,

--Jim
I lived in SF for years and think you're nuts. Completely nuts! The Lower Haight!?!?! The only explanation I have is that you've contracted the dating version of Stockholm Syndrome. Where are the beautiful women hanging out in the Lower Haight? Noc Noc? Peacock Lounge? What's your idea of beautiful? Janene Garafalo?

The Lower Haight was the one neighborhood I could count on where I'd go into a bar and there would be literally no women. Even worse odds than the Castro or the tranny parts of the Tenderloin. Try it - go to Toronado any night of the week and count the number of women.

Anyway, the best place to meet women is Union Square during lunch hour during the week. The people there are generally employed, take reasonable care of themselves, and aren't trying to live out some lame grungy hipster fantasy life straight out of 1993...
It works now btw. You probably have to refresh.
I love the fact that Apple required it be censored because if they typed in an obscene word, they saw an obscene word...

Priceless.
My impression from the slides is that they see it as a financial gain if it frees up the job for a higher performer.

No mention is made of why they feel the need to offer severance when they're shedding an underperformer, but maybe they want to make it a less negative event. Maybe the strategy is to try and avoid distracting or upsetting the high performers by having underachievers leave on good terms (this could explain the "goodbye" emails).
The FDCC only applies to XP and Vista. Additionally, there's no forced method to specifically upgrade those platforms to IE7 or above.
Dunno if it's true, but a PR flak who worked with IKEA USA told me that their fall catalog (which is distributed worldwide more-or-less identically) is the second most-printed publication every year after the bible.
That depends entirely on how they do it. If they're careless and let it oxidize it'll be "layered rust". If they do it properly you basically weld the powder into the shape you want, and you can start with most any kind of steel you want. http://www.metalpowderproducts.com/index.asp?action=material... discusses some of the stuff they do, which includes everything from pure iron to 400 series stainless to tool steels. You probably can't reproduce wrought iron with it easily (true wrought iron has veins of slag in the mix giving it a grain almost like wood has) but the commercial applications of wrought iron is almost insignificant.

You still have to heat treat it, and conventional powder metallurgy uses basically dies, but it's a lot more flexible than you give it credit for. Now, whether these guys are capable of the full monty here, as it were, is unknown. They may have been using stainless because their oxidization control is poor and so they need the corrosion resistance. Or maybe they're doing it because it's convenient; hard to say.
Woot, GT! Are you a fresh grad?
I think I understand why.

If you DON'T scan the discs every day, then you need to organize them in some fashion so that they could be picked from the shelves when an order comes in.

If you DO scan them every day, then they can just go on the shelves in random order. The scanner will automatically pick out the discs that it needs to ship that day as they go through.

So, you pay extra for machines and labor to scan every day, but you save on the added cost for sorting equipment, as well as random-accessible storage units and people/equipment to locate and pull random movies from the stacks.

This makes even more sense if, as others have suggested, most of the Netflix inventory is deployed in the field at any one time, and not sitting on the warehouse shelves.
This isn't something I've experienced in my 7 years of living in San Francisco. It sounds like a sour grapes, or as a commentator on the blog stated, "external attribution error".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribution_theory
It's supposedly also the worlds biggest photo shoot and the worlds biggest studio.
Needs more clocks.
I plan on doing this for my startup also.
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Python decorator can do more than just that.

@decorator1 can be a completely different class which manipulate foo.__class__
or avoid the reddit pain and keep an eye on freshmeat.net
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This reminds me of the 34th Street wall.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/34th_Street_Wall
Also why is there a lack of African American people there?

Anyone ever been to a technology conference? I felt like I stepped into Harvard circa 1955.
I'd like a way to filter cold calls to my business. Companies which have researched my needs, and have a legitimate product that might fill them get through; script-based telemarketers, scammers and the like, get dumped.
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I think it's less a rivalry than a kind of surprised CYA response to the new administration's ramped-up FTC, FCC enforcement.

This made me laugh: "[Apple] relies more than any other tech company on so-called 'native code'…"
Persuade your partner to learn too? My then girlfriend (now wife) and I learnt sign language together, which was fun and useful for 'talking' in the library.
wow!! This is just plain simple ridiculous. I have been using a dictionary since I was 10. I dont even know that one can buy censored dictionaries.

Apple needs to do something really quick before things go out of their hand.
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Because in my eyes, they all serve this purpose: "That means you have access to the inner working of an object."

Whichever technique I choose to use does not matter.

I am using my blog the way blog is intended to be used, as opinion piece, I had no attempt in hiding my biases, but there's no need to purposely be biased as well because I like both and make a living out of both.
"One day I was sat praying in church for inspiration about the company name, yeah I know that is strange for a Hindu, I paused for a snack and sliced open a pomegranate offered to me by a haggard monk. The pips formed a word ..."
Doesn't google show Chrome ads on google.com and youtube.com for users with IE6.

They have a couple more page views than the YC alumni network.
You know how IKEA has those showcases, and some of them are complete apartments with nothing but IKEA in them? 12 man-hours would be impressive to put one of those together.
This is really getting ridiculous.

I think the hardest part to understand is that we all know that Jobs will come down on people who make mistakes with furious anger. He will protect those he agrees with even in the face of public outrage. We can also assume that Jobs is aware of what the App store reviewers are doing. Knowing all of this, we can only assume that they are doing what they do with his blessing.

That's the thing I can't reconcile. I keep waiting for an explanation, but I'm thinking its going to be a while.
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What's interesting is that the Dictionary.com app (free) contains every single word mentioned as "objectionable content" and it's rated 4+. Gotta love the consistency.
Huh? Of course Netflix can't pick it up from the post office if the post office hasn't picked it up from the mailbin yet.

What they're referring to is the fact that it doesn't matter if you drop you DVD in the mailbin at 9am or minutes before last pick up.
Users and Advertisers as Stakeholders in 2.0 Organizations
...Hulu has two audiences – potential advertisers (a customer audience), and people in the market for hit of internet video (a user audience). It would seem that much of what will govern Hulu’s further success is the user experience, their stated point of differentiation and a locus of value creation.

In the pursuit of understanding such management challenges – academics have developed many different organizational theories – one of which is stakeholder theory.

...One definition cleaves stakeholders into two groups – normative stakeholders and derivatively legitimate stakeholders. This theory can be directly applied to Hulu, but first, we need a few definitions...
December 08, so pretty fresh. ;-)
I lived in SF for years and think you're nuts. Completely nuts! The Lower Haight!?!?! The only explanation I have is that you've contracted the dating version of Stockholm Syndrome. Where are the beautiful women hanging out in the Lower Haight? Noc Noc? Peacock Lounge? What's your idea of beautiful? Janene Garafalo?

I met my wife at the Noc Noc, and she doesn't look like Janene Garafalo (not that there's anything wrong with that), but your anecdotal mileage may, of course, vary.

The Lower Haight was the one neighborhood I could count on where I'd go into a bar and there would be literally no women. Even worse odds than the Castro or the tranny parts of the Tenderloin. Try it - go to Toronado any night of the week and count the number of women.

The Toronado is for beer. You go there to partake of their positively astoundingly amazing on-tap selection, not pick up women.

Anyway, the best place to meet women is Union Square during lunch hour during the week. The people there are generally employed, take reasonable care of themselves, and aren't trying to live out some lame grungy hipster fantasy life straight out of 1993...

I see -- you were just in the wrong city! If you wanted post-sorority "generally employed" women, you really shouldn't have moved to San Francisco. You certainly shouldn't have been surprised that this restricted your options to department store neighborhoods and office commuter destinations.

I'd suggest a location such as such as LA or Manhattan, which are probably more socially amenable to your cultural presumptions.
Functionality that I do not mention means that I don't have to use them often, both for work or personal projects.

I don't miss anonymous functions that much, yet, because I have inner function and list comprehension in Python.
Look at the bottom of the page - "Weebly" and, more importantly, "free website". If all goes well, this domain should get a ton of incoming links - which should give Weebly a lot of weight for the keyword "free website".

I don't mean this as a criticism in any way, btw - if you can save the world and benefit at the same time, so much the better :)
I've noticed this in other articles/media "trips" to warehouses before:

Forty-two people work here, nearly every one in a red Netflix T-shirt.

What is up with the shirts?
Not to be the bearer of bad news here, guys, but I very much doubt that this is going to do much to slow apple down.

Their core user base for the iPhone seems to be not geeks, but teenage girls. Even if it WAS just geeks, we make up a minuscule percentage of the population. Chances are that if I told one of my sisters, or my mother (who all have iPhones) about this, they would roll their eyes a bit, add an entry or two to the "brother is a conspiracy nut" column, and point me to the latest "omg cute!" app that they downloaded.

The iPhone and the appstore are not going anywhere. If developers like us stop building things for it, people who value cash more than they value principles will take our place.

As much as it sucks, this is the world that we live in.
You seemed to be missing the word slightly in the blog title =)
I would imagine that working as some sort of engineer in the corporate headquarters is worlds apart from working in the warehouse sorting DVDs, and that you couldn't draw inferences about one from the other...
You're asking what the gay scene is like in San Francisco?