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"If you're just building static HTML files, then sure, your URL routing is, and probably should be handled by Apache, because each page is its own destination. In modern web development though, you have an application"

This is part of the problem, though: most websites should just be collections of static files, but copious kool-aid swallowing has led to heavyweight frameworks being the default architecture.
If anything that likely makes the documentation's ambiguity even worse, though.
Example: you have a car you know breaks down exactly after 200 every miles. You have a newer car you haven't seen fail yet, but like all mechanical things, you know it'll fail one day. Do you go with the old one because you know how it fails?
To be fair, not sure Rails Gurus have time to eat Hula Hoops, or any snacks from the UK - they are too busy trying to patch the security hole de-jour courtesy of the Fails Framework.
How did they make their money before cable existed and we got into this retransmission mess? Nobody was paying them for the content received over-the-air.

(I think the answer is advertisements, but I'm open to other possibilities.)
Ah I see. You failed to define "village water supply" as an open stream or river.

You also failed to explain why only women are "unclean" in this scenario, since men and animals are also covered in dirt and germs when they bathe. Wouldn't all people and animals be "unclean" then? Seems like the "pretty rational" behavior of keeping women out of the water fails to account for "unclean" men and animals as well.

Please explain.
To clarify, 10% of Americans who fill out surveys on coupon sites ticked a box indicating they think HTML is an STD. Since each question had only 3 options, I would imagine you'll get at least 10% for any option, no matter how ridiculous, as a result of people clicking without reading just to get their coupon.
We put all of our web server config in the web server config - overrides like .htaccess need to be compiled/interpreted/whatever at the beginning of each request so they can add unnecessary latency.

Deployments are still easy. Either symlink the web server config, or (in our case) deploy an RPM which copies the config to The right location. Then it's just a matter of a graceful restart.
If you think apple is spying on you through your phone, then change phone. If you don't, then it's a strong improvement over non-encrypted chats. If you are doubtful, then I would still get it because it's an improvement and thus why not, just in case Apple is not spying.
Guess what -- the link to your jobs page triggers a popup blocker under default Chrome settings. The cross-domain URL, most likely. Seriously, this should have been really obvious to whoever set that page up.

But either way -- talk about going out of your way to make it difficult for people to find out why they might want to come work for you.
While I do agree to some extent that great code doesn't need any comments, it raises some questions.
How can one be sure at the time of writing that the code is easy enough to understand for others?
I'm sure that it's understandable for the author, who's been staring at it for a few hours, but will the same hold for a future maintainer?

I agree with other commentators that with comments one can at least express the intent and reasons for particular decisions.

And on a side note, it's wonderful to strive to write great code, but I believe it's easy to misjudge and think "Oh, I clearly write understandable code, thus I'll skip comments" even when it's not that clear. That certainly has happened to me, very likely to others at some point as well.
On the other hand you could say that this function returning 'false' isn't really an error, and that the idiom is similar to the isdigit(), isalpha() etc type functions in ctype.h. And fwiw, bool is a thing in C99 with stdbool.h, although this function returns an int.
Sorry, I misread the fine print and thought the $5 fee was on top of that. OP deleted to avoid confusion for others.
Also on the "amateur historian of video games". Being a historian includes having a level of impartiality in your assessments. This article comes off more like an XBox fanboy pissed that Sony is actually selling more systems. This article was seriously a waste of time to read.
Here in 2014, who cares? It, by being on every system, provides considerable benefits for developers and users--as far back as .NET 1.1 I was able to drop a WebBrowser control into a form and get exactly what I wanted.

The idea that a browser shouldn't be integrated into an OS makes no sense to me, and apparently to everybody else shipping an OS anyone cares about. OS X has an integrated webview, too, and you can't pitch Safari out the window.
I thought it would be funny to make a joke site with this idea (even grabbed sadsingles.com a few days ago for it) - it's interesting someone is actually trying it.

The dating situation is so bad for single men in their early to mid twenties on the west coast that I'm starting to think it's worth bailing on the area entirely and moving to NYC just for that purpose. (Palo Alto has got to be magnitudes worse than SF which is still pretty bad).

At first it looked like the situation in NYC was even worse for women with the 150k vs. 50k difference, but the population of NYC is 8.2million where SF is only 805k. Still dramatic, but not nearly as bad.
Sure they do, since c99.
Section 7.16
Well, no, it does, right? The company will just dilute to accommodate investors.

Not that I disagree about 50% being crazy; the problem has more to do with founder incentives, though, doesn't it?
It's a strange thing, but C99 features seem very slow to catch on in the C community, particularly features conceived specifically to alleviate bad "C-isms". The only explanations I can think of are ignorance (not really an excuse after well over a decade) or possibly a subconscious fear that they somehow make a program "less portable", even though basically every compiler supports it (and besides, I've never noticed any aversion to trivial features like //-style comments).

[EDIT - maybe pride in the bad C-isms?]
Or you could keep your markup out of the database and db connections become a non-issue (granted, I'm talking about the 99.9% of websites that are content-centric as opposed to web apps).
Your ex wife has changed her status to an immigrant status. The rules forbid changing WT/WB to a non-immigrant (e.g. H1B) status.
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SSL fuzzing seems like it could be a really profitable area of research. I wonder why there aren't better conformance testing tools for SSL (other than SSL being kind of hideously baroque).
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Hold on, did anyone read their proposed "solution"?

"Right now, all markets and withdrawals are still frozen, and they will remain that way until the negative balance watcher is written and in place and balance deductions are calculated."

A "negative balance watcher" sounds like a horrible idea. Isn't this a solved problem? Atomic database transactions.

Does not inspire confidence.
I don't know that there is a great way to break the cycle, which is why MSNBC and Fox News have very different but fiercely loyal audiences. Certainly there are exceptions- I've had certain issues that I've changed my mind about after hearing some very convincing arguments (opposition to the death penalty is one example), but most people come to certain conclusions about hot-button issues and then have a very difficult time changing course because they want to convince the other person why they are wrong before listening to the other person first. I think a certain amount of that is simply human nature.
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I know a bunch of people who drive Ford F-150's as their primary vehicle, including commuting and just driving around on weekends.
Many thanks for your great comments. The site is just launched, we still need time to figure out a good algorithm to link the list context and make recommendation. We will focus on accurate recommendation first and get more user then gradually create a community.
Time Warner increased speeds in Austin after Google Fiber was announced? I guess that doesn't apply to either my home or work connection, they're both still as shitty as ever.
And when a certain group of people i[s] largely excluded from a source of power, it stands to reason that there's a problem here.

This is one of the great unexamined claims of our time. It assumes that members of Group X are the best (or even good) advocates for the welfare of Group X. But if Group X is underrepresented in the halls of power, it does not follow that Group X would be better off if they had more influence. This is easy to see by setting Group X to minor children, whose representation in powerful positions is negligible, and indeed whose members are ineligible even to vote. But extending the franchise to five-year-olds isn't (to my knowledge) a top political priority, and rightly so. "Children's suffrage" would generally make children worse off, not better.

Rather than a dog-eat-dog free-for-all that pits Group X against Group Y and Group Y against Group Z, a sounder principle is this: for responsible government, the responsible must rule. Responsible rulers can balance the inevitably competing interests of different groups, using the time-honored but curiously unfashionable virtue of human wisdom. And while it is certainly the case that there are many wise and responsible women—and, indeed, not a few wise and responsible children—the assumption that all human subgroups are on average equally wise and responsible is completely unjustified. The trickery implicit in the phrase "excluded from a source of power" is thus revealed: just because a group is underrepresented in the halls of power, it does not follow that they are being "excluded" by anything.

How then to ensure that the responsible will rule? We arrive now at the key question. It is as yet unanswered. But it seems like a question worth working on...
You can open the account without an SSN. However most banks will generally require you to provide a valid SSN or TN with a certain period of time otherwise they will close the account.

Generally if you are in the US legally you will have one of those numbers.
HN makes pages by printing table tags to STDOUT...
What are your options for running a mailserver cheaply?
Yeah, this hits us Android devs pretty much daily when iOS designers send designs heavily using Helvetica / Helvetica Neue.

Not to mention the (way to common) surprise when you tell them that using that font will cost several thousand $ per year in licensing in the app.
> I am not a tax expert, but I would be surprised if a tax authority construed Zidisha lending activity as taxable investment income, because according to our terms of use the loans are not financial assets.

Your practice, as you describe it, treats them as such, and regulators are often prone to treat things as what they are in practice even if the contract between the two parties claims they are something else.

(This applies to securities authorities as much as to tax authorities.)
Not quite. They're all the same to the lighting/shadowing calculations, but it doesn't re-voxelize geometry that didn't change between frames.

From section 4.2:

> Both semi-static and fully dynamic objects are stored in the same octree structure for an easy traversal and a unified filtering. A time-stamp mechanism is used to differentiate both types, in order to prevent semi-static parts of the scene to be destructed in each frame. Our structure construction algorithm performs in two steps: octree building and MIP-mapping of the values.
Or you could just, y'know, view source.
They won't give $100k to untested business idea.
Tested business won't gove up 50% for $100k.

It's a lose-lose business model. Whenever transaction happens - someone loses.
How are you going to deal with disputes? ie. I buy bitcoin at tinkercoin and now I'm want my $20 back. I've only to start a dispute at my bank and I'll get my money automatically until you prove that I've received the bitcoin. I'm not sure but I think you might have a hard time proving your system has no bug and that everything went as you say it did (ie. the customer actually own the bitcoin address you say is his etc.) I've always thought that you can't prove by your own system and that nobody will ever reach your code so see if it's right and even then, what prove that it is the code which was live when the customer was here etc.

Clearly, how are you going to prove the customer bitcoin address is actually his? Note I've almost no knownledge in this field and it's been a time I'm looking for an answer to this question.

edit: one might think that one $20 loss per x transactions can be absorbed by the cost of business but I think it doesn't work since the hack's going to be shared and it will grow in quantity and in efficiency to finally reach a buzz stage. I might be wrong again here.
You mention fees and AML/anti-terrorism regulation...it seems that the major impediment to cross-border wire transfers and ACH is regulation, not a lack of infrastructural capability. Assuming most countries have the same goals with regard to regulation, it seems feasible to develop some overarching regulatory system which would permit international transfer. I wonder if one can transfer money easily within the EU -- that could serve as a next step or a guide to implementation.

Just brainstorming here. I really do suspect that most of the benefits of cryptocurrency are due to the way it interacts with technology, which can be imitated through just a bit of innovation in the banking industry. (Imagine banks allowing customers to script transactions, like Bitcoin, or providing direct APIs to bill-pay and ACH transactions.)
Do founders from Europe or other places have to come back? What if company is ramen profitable or profitable?
> So is all hope lost for Google Fiber in Seattle? What would it take to entice Google here?

> We’ve considered spending the $700 million or more it would cost to build our own fiber network, which might provide a billion dollars in benefits each year.

Why do we want Google Fiber in cities so badly? What's the benefit over building your own network, or partnering with someone like Gigabit Squared?
The ratio in New York City is hardly a problem since the population is so big (8 million). It is like 53% women and 47% men.

I am a man and went to a college that was 55% men and 45% women. I never felt like there was a lack of women.
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Really? Autoplaying music on an error page?

Sites that autoplay audio as part of the content I went looking for are bad enough, but it's even worse on an error page, since generally speaking you don't expect to land there.
Do not do anything immigration related without a lawyer. Ever.
I suppose, but that's a highly variable statement to make. Undoubtedly, there are many websites that could be reduced to static equivalents, but as I deal in web applications, that's kind of a tough pill to swallow.

With apps, even if I build a single-page app, I have to build an API to power it, and that API needs to know the difference between "customers" and "customers/customer_id", and the easiest logical way to manage that is through URL routing.

Even in static apps, URL routing is kind of a burden, unless you never link to internal pages and never grow your content beyond what you can keep in your head.
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This has the same effect on me as writing out all the zeros in larger numbers, rather than in scientific notation, and then zooming in to see only about 3 zeros at the same time and asking me to scroll through them.

Even without the horrible "zoom in", the size loses meaning and I can't tell how big it is, because humans think in logarithmic scales. I can't really estimate the difference in size by glancing at the number of zeros written out for 10^27 or 10^80 (maybe unless they were above and below each other, and then I would say it's between 2 and 3 times difference in orders of magnitude... again logarithmic thinking!). One is the number of atoms in the human body, the other is the number of atoms in the observable universe, so the difference really can't be appreciated by glancing at the number of zeros.

Given me logarithmic scales for comparing and estimating sizes any day.
> To be fair, most of them are under NDA and under a time crunch.

Notable exception being of course ID / Carmack, who open source their engine after a number of years. <3
Here's the story I was thinking about:

http://buttcoin.org/easy

Is there a service that makes the process of turning BTC into USD as easy as Tinkercoin claims to for USD to BTC?
Exactly how do any of these goals this help the non-FB-obsessed user?

Facebook needs to tie their monetization and growth strategy with, not orthogonal to, or in opposition to, the needs/desires of their user base.
This is major tom to ground control, "Im floating in a most peculiar way."
...and why didn't they raise the money to fly a planeload of eligible MEN to NYC?
It seems to generate the lemmings as they appear on the screen. Thus, you have to run this every time there's a new lemming (or you could run it once for each batch of 20 or so lemmings.)
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Like I said, we are a tier 1 tech support. What I do is work for a university. We also do tech support for another university (contacted out to us), and that other university is a 2 year trade school in Indiana.

Our service is mainly troubleshooting simple and mild problems, and escalating difficult issues to the relevant departments. A problem like spyware is a constant in our job, causing problems ranging from system instability to mal-rendering web pages.

Ideally, a backup/wipe/reinstall is the idea solution here, BUT these are regular non-tech-savy users. The computer is a means to an end here. "It goes beep-blip-boop that my teacher wants" is the kind of thought. Explaining that a reinstall is ideal is ignoring the fact that this operation would cost ~200$ at Best Buy or similar place.

Frankly, I use what tools I can. If that means manually uninstalling what I know is spyware, rebooting in safe mode and running Malware Bytes, I'll do exactly that. At least it triages the problem until next week when the user goes and downloads something Adfly or Softonic... again.
Good thinking, this should save them all.
setInterval(function(){ $("*[alt='lemming tombant']").trigger("mouseover");},100);
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I am interested in knowing what kind of app it was? Is it possible to share something more?
...because like Horoscopes, Magazines telling us what we should eat/wear/say, and the rest, Men don't generally fall for this kind of thing.
At this point, Gingerbread devices are so old, these numbers need some weighting. Are those Gingerbread users still downloading new 3rd party apps? If not, the raw share of active devices is misleading for the purpose of planning development of new products.
The bug in this case was in fact one which could readily have been caught by unit tests, no? I don't see why demanding test coverage is intellectually incoherent. Arguably it's somewhat half-assed, but not incoherent. Why shouldn't systems developers at least pick up the low-hanging fruit of tests? The effort isn't too monumental for Rails.
Yeah, that's a more generic form of what I said.

ok, hold on...

e^(i*x)= cos(x)+i*sin(x)
e^(-i*x)= cos(-x)+i*sin(-x)= cos(x)-i*sin(x)
cos(x)= (1/2) * (e^(i*x)+e^(-i*x))
sin(x)= (-i/2) * (e^(i*x)-e^(-i*x))
cos(i*x)= (1/2) * (e^(i*i*x)+e^(-i*i*x))=(1/2) * (e^x+e^(-x))
sin(i*x)= (-i/2) * (e^(x)-e^(-x))

That's the amusing part.
True. I guess it's a grey slippery slope, rather than immediate black and white of the others.
It sounds like your wife is the kind of person who wants her body to be completely free of any sort of body smells and doesn't want to come in contact with any kind of body fluids. Those are exactly what I was referring to when I said there is cultural resistance. My community are "pro-natural" and don't have issue with the smell, nor do they use tissues. They just use their hands and believe that vaginas and menstrual fluid have scents and that it's ok. It's just cultural differences.
I quite agree that there are better things to do with all that spectrum than broadcast TV. But until we do that, it seems quite obvious to me that when Congress and the broadcasters carved out the special case for over the air TV, what everyone had in mind was being able to receive signals on an antenna attached to your TV. Given that, Aereo's service is just a legal and technical hack to game that special case.
Unless they have anti-dilution provisions as well. Sounds crazy? ERANYC has this (unless they've changed their terms). We were accepted, but turned down their $40k because the anti-dilution was a show-stopper for us.
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I think what most developers need is mentors, direction and a community... that's why we'd do almost anything to get into an accelerator. We think "if 50% stake for $100k is the best offer I can get, I should take it because I want to go where things happen."

There should really be an alternative. Something where we could just help each other out. That's why I'm making a club... it's called Indie Developer Club. I just had the idea this weekend so the website isn't operational yet, but anyone can send me an email if they like the idea and want to join.
Some of it just comes down to how you want to define things.

I mean, how do the various levels of problems dealing with Mt. Gox not fit under difficulties?
Stan Grof's books are some of the best I've found on the topic of consciousness and 'reality' in general. He is so committed to learning about consciousness, he kept exploring the subject by whatever means he could find or invent, even after he could no longer work with psychedelics. I was lucky to attend a talk he gave on LSD just a few months ago.
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i'm glad to see there is a pleasant range of disagreement
on some of the crucial dimensions running through this...

still lots of room for experimentation, i would say.

-bowerbird
One of the snippets mentioned Sun->Pluto was around 665~ widths, I believe; does this mean the distance from Pluto to Proxima is 10x the width of our planetary system?

If so, that is much closer than I thought. I had always held the notion that the nearest solar system was magnitudes greater distance than our own planets (although I admit the distance to pluto from here is pretty damn enormous relative to the distance to other planets in our system).
Well, the existing value in Bitcoin, for one. I'm mining dogecoin largely to learn a little bit about these currencies, but if everyone did move over, by the time it reached the same value Bitcoin has it'd be regulated too.

From what I've read, I doubt the Japanese government (mostly Aso, whose game I'm guessing this is) actually understands that there are other cryptocurrencies.