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Free of charge? He charges $399 for a premium version (which consists almost entirely of ripped-off open source software), and you think he doesn't have money to pay a lawyer?
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Flying is an uncertain business time-wise, and I think most business travellers have factored the uncertainty into their schedule, and are not constantly looking to see if they should rebook or not.

The technology is good, and it's a useful tool. But technology does not give the money, it's the customers who do.
While I understand your comment, as someone who's fortunate enough to be paid to program in Ruby, I find it a little sad that Ruby is considered mostly in Rails terms.

While I was unemployed, one of the recruiters I was with mentioned that they referred to me as the "Ruby on Rails" guy. Which kinda sucked because they were only looking at jobs for me with "web" application.

I turned around and wrote a FXRuby wrapper for ai4r that can be run on the desktop sort of as a reaction to show that Ruby can run on the desktop too.
Karma is a great tool, but mostly behind the scenes. Keep the up/down arrows, lose the points until after a vote has been made, keep the name. That way you get away from the 'group think' mode.
Larry C. Paulson - "ML for the working programmer" will have you thinking for years to come. It is meant for people who do know a programming language, but none of those an FP-lang.

It covers Standard ML, but you will find that the ideas of FP are easy to move around from language to language.
If you are not in a position to evaluate an argument about security you probably shouldn't be following the advice anyway.
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> Threads get really confusing when [name withheld until you vote] argues with himself all the time.

Randomly generated names, until you vote ?
Happens on osx, linux, win32 for me.

Quick workaround (this is the first time I've ever sent out a patch. heh)

--- scratch.py.original 2009-08-28 10:49:38.000000000 +0100
+++ scratch.py 2009-08-28 10:42:17.000000000 +0100
@@ -213,10 +213,13 @@

def one_line_description(self):
"""DOC"""
- if len(self.mod.__doc__) > 0:
- return self.mod.__doc__.splitlines()[0]
- else:
- return "(no description)"
+ try:
+ if len(self.mod.__doc__) > 0:
+ return self.mod.__doc__.splitlines()[0]
+ else:
+ return "(no description)"
+ except:
+ return "(no description)"

def long_description(self):
"""DOC"""

Save that to a file called scratch.patch (make sure there's no indentation at the beginning of lines) in the dir. Then run this:

patch < ../scratch.patch
I completely agree that it's reasonable to get mad at someone who's willfully violating the license to your code. But there's getting mad, and there's consistently behaving like a trollish asshole. If you think diego's behavior at the link above is reasonable, our notions of reasonable behavior are incompatible.
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I'd prefer to see the number of karma points hidden, rather than the user name. The user names don't really interest me that much, and I tend to forget them very quickly.
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Well, 'reach' wise google really is the only game in town.
2to3 already does the work of parsing python code looking for things that have changed between 2 and 3. Hopefully you could make it go backwards just by giving it some new rules...
Electrons in an atom don't have a [specific] location. It's not a concept that exists for them. So, yes, it's a probability.

Despite the common image, electrons don't orbit the nucleus like planets around the sun. They sort of exist around the entire thing in all locations at the same time (in 3D, not in a ring, but a shell).
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Oh please, don't risk my health even more!!!

Because it's not enough to have so much contamination, smoking, diesel particles, polymer additives, pesticides, nuclear waste,mercury fillings, let's add even more.

Because you are too lazy to make a hole for your TV once in your lifetime, you add something that radiates 50% of their energy out there. YES, it's radiation, no matter what this pseudo scientist say(don't try to fool ignorant people), it's an electromagnetic wave, it is not static = radiation. This energy are photons of big wavelength.

1mW-3miliWatts laser light could be dangerous, let's put 50-400Watts(look at TVset specs)and radiate 100-800Watts out there(2·10^5 times more energy). What could go wrong??

Just do it, profit and if people get cancer, it's very difficult to prove.
For the people that says that this can't resonate with cells and so on, look at the size of your brain, is that an electrical system? could it be affected in any way , look at your spinal cord, your testicles-ovaries(the size of the cell phone)...

Don't get me wrong, People here are young and healthy, but I have seen people die very very bad from cancer - leukaemia after working near telecom towers(20 from 40 got cancer, the company make an statistic using the total company workers "diluting" it and saying that it's an statistic atypical, that it has nothing to do with their work). When my father worked in chemical industry as a chemist, when all the workers in one place lost their teeth they(the company) said that surely the workers got a venereal disease or something their fault.

If someone dies or is affected from this thing, they are going to say: hey, it can't be our system.

I don't care about people using this on their own taking responsibility, I care about people using it near me, or my family(neighbours), invading my airspace and polluting it.I care about systems capable of radiating 40KWatts for powering electric trucks (hey, it's safe!!) on public roads and I don't want it. Let me chose.
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Will never get to see this again.. so took a screen shot

http://wanderingmouse.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/apache-org-is...
They (we? well... the infrastructure guys) have been having some issues with ZFS and FreeBSD lately. Not sure if this is related.

... Nope, it isn't.
Decent advice, particularly where he plugs my software.

Kidding, kidding. Seriously, though, this bit right here:

Split visitors up according to source where they come from, returning visitors get different treatment as search and social media users

is not exploited NEARLY enough.

If you own a Wordpress blog, there is a plugin called What Would Seth Godin Do, which shows new visitors to your blog coming from search engines a discrete customizable prompt to sign up to your RSS feed.

You can expand on that general idea. Do you display advertisements? Do you display them to everyone equally? Do you have any reason to think that is optimal? Try splitting your users into two groups -- the community you've built (who are your core fans and spread your stuff) and transients (someone who just arrived off a Google search and, most probably, won't stick around). Nobody in the core fan group clicks on your ads, since they come there for you and not for AdWords -- so turn them off, and enjoy the increased visitor loyalty and spreadiness.

Many people in the Google search group are looking for something not on your page -- the AdWords ad (and Google) gives them a second bite at the search apple. Show them the ads.

This will result in vastly higher measured CTRs and higher quality traffic (no misclicks from core users who were aiming for something else), which will make your advertisers happy and might well be revenue maximizing, while making your regular users love you even more.

P.S. Did I hear someone say you could split test this?
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That's great... More parts will be coming - other parts of life has just been interfering :) If you ever feel like trying your hands at making any changes, it's on all on Github.

At the moment I'm just focusing on getting attr_reader and friends working. Sounds simple, but since I wanted to write attr_reader and attr_writer mainly in Ruby it's a rabbit hole that required me to get basic parts of Symbol and String working, as well as define_method, fixing various method dispatch issues, fixing string interpolation and more; those changes will make up the bulk of the content of the next couple of parts I write. Once all those pieces are in place a lot of the rest of what's needed to compile a fairly decent subset of Ruby is pretty simple (though lots of gruntwork). With some luck (and enough spare time) I hope to get the compiler self-hosted by the end of the year.
But you didn't get the idea too wrong, at least :)
you have exactly the same amount of information to compare as someone who did not go to university before entering their career.
It would be nice to see some data to back up this claim. Is there some study or some data from store owners available anywhere that could confirm this?
A couple weeks back we had one of those in the office. It's so humongous it could easily accommodate a second camera and let people chat in 3D.
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How about using Twitter like Comcast does? They have about 10 reps on Twitter monitoring & resolving 1Ks of customer care issues each day.

Can Google not follow in it's path? Not everyone's blog post is going to get this much attention or attention similar posts have received.
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"I am sorry, sir, but the figures in your spreadsheet for next quarter sales are ludicrous. I also would suggest you change the font for your presentation - Verdana is really out of fashion, and, BTW, that girl that's e-mailing you about that party last month, you should really give her a call. Oh. Almost forgot! You really should not use unchecked pointers that way in your code."

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Curiosity and revulsion combine. What exactly about an all juice food regimen would kill off that ball of parasites?
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It seems like some lame automatic anti-fraud (too successful SEO) trigger at google, based entirely on statistics (like high-speed stock trading, etc.)

Those people had their top moment, but google spoiled their bonuses.
I wonder how they measure happiness in those trials. Is there some kind of 'Happy Unit' metric to measure happiness?
YES, it's radiation, no matter what this pseudo scientist say(don't try to fool ignorant people), it's an electromagnetic wave, it is not static = radiation.

When you can explain the terms in this simple equation:

E = hv

... we'll all be interested in your opinion on this subject.
Or just hide it and show it on mouse over.

The only problem is that is makes conversations difficult to follow. Who answered this post? The OP? The grandparent? Somebody else? One solution is to display made-up ids, but they have to be easy to recognize. Some help would be if you mouse-over an id to show the name on all the posts of the same user.
I do not understand what is he calling boilerplate comments. I get that boilerplate headers are copyright/licensing headers, but what are boilerplate comments ?
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"You can expand on that general idea. Do you display advertisements? Do you display them to everyone equally?"

This suggestion has already been implemented with another plugin. It's called "Who Sees Ads":

http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/wordpress-plugin-who-s...
eh, if you are a content provider, the question is "who pays more" - I can't answer that question. but eh, if you have a popular site, I don't think what advertisers are willing to pay varies that much. I know most of the sites I advertise on, I saw the site first, then I tried to figure out how to get an ad on the site.

that, and I think the time-based auction model is less vulnerable to fraud than charging on total impressions or clickthroughs. Hopefully other ad networks will copy that model.
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I wonder how big an impact this one app has had on the use of Ogg Vorbis globally? Though kind of like embedded linux most people are totally unaware of its use, which is probably how it should be.
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Seems quite a lot to me. It's basically the price of a desktop or notebook.

I wonder if I could hook up an external (bluetooth?) keyboard, and a monitor and basically use this thing as a full daily computer.

I saw it has video out (NTSC/PAL), but I wonder if it can do monitor out - hopefully at a higher resolution than 800x480.
when i look at that cheat sheet, i understand why php has such a bad fame: if you need to look up those function, you can't create good code!

still, a real php cheat sheet may be helpful to navigate through php's idiotic functions naming scheme...
It's amazing how these little things have a big impact on a negotiation. In fact, sometimes you can inadvertantly enter into a negotiation...

Once I was called into my boss' office, complimented on my work, and offered a salary raise. I was caught off guard (there was no big project that I recently completed or anything), but managed to contain my glee. In light of all the nice things my boss just said about me, I asked for a bit more then they were offering, negotiated a bit, and walked out with a nice deal.

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You can bet they wanted to write "The first rule of adsense is ..."
AR technology aims to augment a real world scene with additional data.

From a real world scene, for example a camera image, you first work out the 3D coordinates. Then you can draw your own object (comic, text, 3d graphics....) in this 3D space.

http://www.technotecture.com/content/mobile-augmented-realit...

In this video printed border on the visiting card is used to workout the 3D space (it is easiest to use specially printed markers). However AR tech also works with natural objects like a street.

Though the tech has been there for sometime, it seems that mobile phones equipped with cameras and web connection are best way to bring the tech to masses.
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This reads mostly as a scala-vs-java argument, but there are plenty of other contenders that you could compare scala against.

Maybe this is written this way because scale targets the same market as where java now dominates but even then the number of languages that are running on top of the JVM is increasing very rapidly.

I've had a look at Scala, Java, PHP and Python for a new project and have finally settled on the Python/Django combo, with scala as a runner up.

The clinching factors for me were that even though the scala folks have a neat thing going their community is nowhere near as vibrant as the one around python.

Another issue was that I personally found scalas combination of object-oriented pascal and C/Java syntax combined quite hard on the eyes.

It would be interesting to see the 'scala is more readable' argument hashed out for more competitive languages than Java.

The linked PDF is quite good, but because of its age there is no mention of scala.

http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/prechelt/Biblio/jccpprt_computer...
> I think the time-based auction model is less vulnerable to fraud than charging on total impressions or clickthroughs.

Here we are fully in agreement.

It's just that if you have a site that has (tens of) millions of impressions per day that it can be quite hard to get that inventory sold, and the ad delivery network will have to be able to keep up with the demands such sites make on its infrastructure.

If I have some time next week I think I'll set up a trial account with them and see how well it performs as compared with adsense on the same body of traffic.
Another day, another cool phone, another long wait until it's available in India :(

I would buy either Nokia N900, HTC Hero or Palm Pre the day one of them is released in India. Unfortunately, we're stuck with the crappy iPhone :(
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> Note that when you specify field width & height w/ _80 or _40_20 (or whatever,) that you have to change the variable use within the code, too... Real bummer, hunh? I know.

Encoding presentation code into the controller layer seems like a bad idea in my mind. Besides being ugly to look at.
That's definitely what it feels like. My main issue with this part of the TOS is this: Google is extremely lacking in transparency, the only way to puncture that is to team up with other publishers/advertisers and compare notes.

Right now the feeling is simply that you're being screwed and you can't even talk about that feeling or verify it.

At the risk of getting my adsense account blocked, and because I'm not going to let the big G muzzle me I'm going to post my adsense stats for July.

edit: they're up: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=791158
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Actually it looks like it will sell for a bit less than an iPhone outright. 'Outright' is a word used by people in the free world to describe actual phone ownership as opposed to rental.
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Who else feels like sharing their adsense stats ?
This thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=790800 prompted me to go and do something that may be a technical violation of the adsense tos.

So, here it is (the month of July):

impressions clicks ctr ecpm total pay
6,798,064	13,694	0.20%	€0.13	€882.30

This is a minor drop in the bucket on our sites income, we are not exactly advertising driven but since it is 0 work we figured we might as well take it.

The sites these ads run on are mostly music oriented.

Without knowing more about these sites I'm sure that you'll have a hard time using those numbers directly, but it may help somebody that is considering an advertising supported startup to determine the bandwidth of income that could be generated using google advertising.

Anybody else feels like sharing ?
lsc, what's your association with pw? I've read 2 comments in one thread and seen this post in the last 5 minutes - you appear to be on a marketing mission for them?
This looks pretty interesting. The touch screen not as good as the ones on the iPhone or the HTC Hero, which is a shame, but the CPU is faster than the Hero and on par with the iPhone 3GS. The Maemo interface looks more like a proper OS than Android on the Hero or the iPhone's OS. Like the Hero, the N900 also has Flash, but probably runs it a bit better due to the faster processor. The N900 also has a 800px screen, which I believe is better than both the iPhone and the Hero.

Some people like hardware keyboards, but I don't like the additional bulk they require. The Hero and iPhone are consequently slimmer, and have less moving parts that can break. The Hero also looks like it has a better quality case. The N900 and Hero are both unlocked, which is a welcome change from the iPhone.

Overall, I think I'd still buy a Hero over an N900... but I admit Nokia's offering is tempting.
I can see what you are saying in terms of the fundamental forces. However I wonder if it is possible to dynamically 'focus' the power. That would make things possible with microprocessors that would have been too tedious to perform manually. Even then it isn't that great if you need to install some massive device.
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