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Charles Darwin film 'too controversial for religious America'
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That's just too bad then.
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I wrote a little sparse bit matrix handler while toying around with a search engine. This is pretty rough code but it did the job, enjoy and feel free to cut it up and re-use or discard at will.

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the license is here:

http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/COPYING
Well, I think when friendfeed developers were writing tornado they didn't mean to opensource it or even talk about it in public, so they went for the name "Tornado".

I agree that documentation is really important in Open Source, and so is finding the documentation. Googling for such a generic names makes things hard. Considering all the hype Tornado got recently the homepage is not still listed in the first 5 pages of Google's results for "Tornado".

So I think it's a good advice to think twice (or thrice) before naming your next project.
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Is this a preference? I've tried in the past to dig up research actually proving the "most visible combination" through experimentation. I've always assumed that road signs are the combination of colors they are because some empirical research proves it. Never found anything though.
It's such a meaningless comment that I'm surprised it's getting media attention. If the economy grew by .001% from this point on and took a hundred more years to fully recover he'd still be right. So "the recession is likely over" literally means next to nothing in regards to recovery (which is what everyone really wants to know about)
How do you know?

Obviously I don't know for sure. Even the closest friends of people suffering from a serious drug problem don't even know usually. It was just an educated guess.

I wouldn't have said that lazy was a typical outcome of their drinking. That's not to say their drinking didn't have pretty major downsides on a number of occasions, but they all studied their asses off and were diligent when shit needed to get done. I do think that people tend to associate people that talk up their drinking habits with thoughtless, reckless, or stupid behavior.

You're right. Lazy wasn't what I was trying to get at. What I meant was something closer to 'drinking = failure', but that's still not quite right. Point is, some techies have an incorrect bias against alcohol.

Whether that's a fair or unfair stereotype is for each person to decide on the basis of their own experience. Apparently some of GitHub's clients have that stereotype.
Public image management is part of developing any business. GitHub uses alcohol to loosen customers and potential customers up, which may bring in new clients and maintain current clients. But that strategy will also lose them certain clients...

People who think like this are not thinking logically, and I personally wouldn't want to have them as my customer. If you're a coder and you let an incorrect stereotype you have override the fact that Github recused open source from the hell that is Source Forge, shame on you. The Github team has demonstrated time and time again a technical savvy and design sense matched by no one else in the market.
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Does this tell us anything more than the item over at
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=799806 ??

95 comments there already ...

http://searchyc.com/solar+beam?sort=by_date
there was a talk at the 25c3 from the guys who reverse engineered the chip by hand... veeeeery interesting imho.

http://chaosradio.ccc.de/25c3_m4v_2896.html
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An editor at CH's brother's friends at Penn State sent this to him and he forwarded it to on.
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Looking at this it would seem like the entire cmd.exe-behaviour found in PowerShell is based on alieses for .NET functions found in various providers. Basically the exact opposite of how I thought it worked.

I guess the fact that I never noticed or even thought of looking tells something about how smoothly this was implemented. Now I feel like trying to write my own provider, but can't come up with any decent ideas for what it should work against.
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I don't see why GPL would be irrelevant.

Providing web services with GPL software is well within the recognized use of software. It's yours to use, modify and run, and this includes creating and serving static or dynamic web pages on (modified) GPL software stack as well as essays written on (modified) Emacs. What are the copyright holders missing if GPL is not enough for web software?

AJAX is a different case but then again GPL'd javascript libraries are already covered by GPL. You're effectively distributing the GPL js libraries to the user, hence triggering the distribution clause.

Tivoization is a whole another issue that certainly stomps on the user's rights and that is indeed addressed by GPLv3. But that has nothing to do with web software.
I'm sorry, but http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/Documentation is the documentation, where I started and it shows nice examples, a high level introduction -- everything needed to dive in. Actually I learned a whole lot back in the days when I had to use this fine documentation.
"Recovery" meaning... returning to an unnatural "boom" time funded by housing debt equity?

Consumer spending outpaced wage growth, while the real cost of living increased. This was paid for by the housing bubble.
"It would be a great shame if those with religious convictions spurned the film out of hand as they will find it even-handed and wise."

How can it be even-handed?
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> Decentralized doesn't mean client-side.

I think that's a good point. Is there any reason why Twitter couldn't be decentralized in a way that's transparent to the users? The article seems to go off on a bit of a daydream about open, decentralized protocols, implying that the system would be somehow more "democratic" that way, but that's beyond the original problem of reliability and robustness to failure. I'm thinking of something that looks more like content distribution.
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Quoting from John Scalzi http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/09/13/they-should-have-calle...:

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A producer of Creation, the film about Charles Darwin and his wife Emma, starring Paul Bettany and his real-life wife Jennifer Connelly, is griping that the film has no distributor in the US, apparently because so many Americans are evolution-hating mouth-breathers that no one wants the touch the thing; it’s just too darn controversial.

Well, it may be that. Alternately, and leaving aside any discussion of the actual quality of the film, it may be that a quiet story about the difficult relationship between an increasingly agnostic 19th Century British scientist and his increasingly devout wife, thrown into sharp relief by the death of their beloved 10-year-old daughter, performed by mid-list stars, is not exactly the sort of film that’s going to draw in a huge winter holiday crowd, regardless of whether that scientist happens to be Darwin or not, and that these facts are rather more pertinent, from a potential distributor’s point of view. . . . Maybe if Charles Darwin were played by Will Smith, was a gun-toting robot sent back from the future to learn how to love, and to kill the crap out of the alien baby eaters cleverly disguised as Galapagos tortoises, and then some way were contrived for Jennifer Connelly to expose her breasts to RoboDarwin two-thirds of the way through the film, and there were explosions and lasers and stunt men flying 150 feet into the air, then we might be talking wide-release from a modern major studio. Otherwise, you know, not so much. The “oh, it’s too controversial for Americans” comment is, I suspect, a bit of face-saving rationalization from a producer
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Is there any objective evidence that the distributors have shunned this film for fear of a religious backlash, other than the claim in this article? Not saying it's not true, but how do we know it's not a publicity stunt by the film's creator?
You're on to something about community. A healthy OSS project has a healthy community. Maintaining a painless ramp-up with thoroughly organized documentation goes a long way towards nurturing an expansive, and inclusive community. By expansive and inclusive community, I do indeed mean that copy+paste jockeys can hack their way through it. If copypasters can get something done, then usually it means the defaults are usable, the common use-cases demonstrated, and the examples are up-to-date. When all of those conditions are met, it also means that the inertia to just trying something out is WAY less, and the interest:effort in just "screwing around" with it is now much better, which is the first step in getting some programmers (like me) to give something a try.

If I needed what twisted had to offer, I'd give it a try. But if I'm just screwing around (an exploratory phase that sometimes leads to much deeper commitment) then I'm going to go with whatever is easiest that seems to have sufficient depth.

Anyway, I have plenty of self-respect, thank you. I am sure there are others like me.

edit:textarea != vim
Quoting the article:
"It has got a deal everywhere else in the world but in the US"
So are we saying that everywhere else in the world likes dull movies?
Half of the UK also don't believe in evolution: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/feb/01/evolution-darw...
Think of those posts as an immune response. Without it, the content of the articles and quality of the comments quickly matches that of Digg.com. Without enough of it, you get Reddit.
Well its probably true that eHarmony will attract more Christians than OkCupid. But I wonder if Christians or atheists are more likely to try OkCupid.

According to Wikipedia, 78.4% of people in the US are Christian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States

I wonder what the numbers show for OkCupid members.
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Also, "The film has sparked fierce debate on US Christian websites,"
I guess the question is how much influence the people who don't believe in evolution (or any useful subset of them) are in the UK.
By being historically accurate about Darwin's life?

I'm not sure if people would still consider it even-handed but, to me, that would be the best way.
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Is anyone saying Palm is engaging in false marketing because of that

Why bring marketing into it?

Well yeah, but does that really mean anything?

All that phrase says to me is "you're technically right, but I'm going to adjust my value system until it doesn't matter to me"

e.g:

Person 1: You said you'd love me forever!

Person 2: Well yeah, but does that really mean anything?
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There was never any claim they supported encryption on the client.

yes, there was. Apple's software made that claim to exchange.
`action`, `dest` - this is particular examples of boiler plate. Why do I need to specify action if it's easily inferred from default value?
What a bunch of bull. Suppose for a second that Americans had happily reconciled religion and evolution a hundred years ago. Would that mean ignorant American yokels would line up to see a movie about a fairly boring (personally, anyway, by movie protagonist standards) nineteenth century naturalist? Jennifer Connelly or no, blaming creationists for the commercial unviability of a movie about Charles Darwin is like saying, "My discount liquor store would have been a big success if Google hadn't closed its local campus. Now that the Googlers are gone, who's going to buy these bottles of King Cobra and Mad Dog 20/20?" It just doesn't make sense. If anything, the controversy would have helped the film, since it would polarize communities and make non-creationists feel like maybe they should see it just to make it clear what side they're on.

In the end, you can't blame lack of broad appeal on politics. Look at Brokeback Mountain versus the zillion previous gay art-house romances that went nowhere. Did Brokeback Mountain break out because American evangelicals got soft on gays for a moment? No, it broke out because it had big names (Heath Ledger, Ang Lee, Maggie Gyllenhaal's brother), a plot, accessible dialog, and a bunch of familiar elements (cowboys, forbidden love) that made it easy for audiences to engage with the characters.
Perhaps we could leave religious wars for other, more appropriate forums?
If it is historically accurate.

Darwin was tormented by conflicting religious views, being simultaneously unable to shake his Baptist upbringing nor ignore the mountain of evidence he was accumulating which did not support the biblical story of creation. And of course, the death of Annie greatly deepened this conflict. If that is the Darwin they portray, then I would consider it even-handed.
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Maybe a little nitpicky, but does the font they used in the book seem a little... plain? Maybe it's just the sans serif that's bothering me, but if I were designing a book about the ultimate engineering anything, I'd want to put similar thought into the font face.
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Honestly, it does read like a piece of well-crafted and placed PR. I find it hard to believe that something that's so awesome about Darwin couldn't get distribution, while Religulous, which tackles religion head-on, could.
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We got good response from HN when we first launched quarkbase an year back. We hope to get feedback on usability & content.
Yep, my experience with EC2 is that it gets pricey fast, and that the slower instances aren't really that speedy. The sweet spot is probably where you don't need critical performance (like a database box with a really fast RAID array).

My solution is to run most stuff in a colo on dell boxes running the linux-vserver kernel patch, sort of a cheap mans cloud solution.
No, because exceedingly few people are wanky enough to consider it.

It's basically a shrinkwrap EULA -- and about as legally enforceable -- the restrictions it adds on top of the GPL have no basis in copyright law. On top of that nobody's going to notice if you break it's rules, and there's no enforcement mechanism anyway.

The only logical reason for its existence is so that you could open-source an end-of-life product in a form that noone else could legitimately pick it up and take your place. Poisoning the well.
Easy to get readers in the UK with smug Anti-US stories too. (I am British by the way ;) )
You might be right that there is an alternative explanation, but I don't think its that the film was bad (at least if the article is at all accurate). The article claims that it did spectacularly well in other countries.
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The only meaningful changes in the GPLv3 are the Tivoization clause (distribution doesn't count if there's code-signing) and marginal edits to remove their imagined incompatibility with the Apache license.

The GPLv3 doesn't have shit to do with SaaS -- for that kind of wank you'll have to look to the AGPL
Edit: errr, nevermind. I read your posts further down.

Well to be fair, the article isn't claiming that parameterized queries will make all your DB transactions secure, just that they will prevent injection attacks. Which is true isn't it?

Unless you have dynamic code generation in your sql, parameterized queries make injection attacks impossible, don't they?
Blue eyes and blonde/red hair are recessive traits, while brown eyes and hair are dominant. You having blue eyes means both of the gene pairs that control eye color have the recessive blue, while your wifes brown eyes can be caused by having a set of blue and a set of brown genes, and as brown is the dominant one, it is what was actually expressed in here eye color. The fact that your children have blue eyes means she does have genes for blue eyes, and they are inherited into your children as well as your blue genes, hence their blue eyes. The same goes for blonde/red vs brown hair.

Either that, or consult with your milkman/gardener.
I think Adobe has bought Omniture's sales fleet, not its technology. Omniture sales team has significant reach across all big publishers on the web. Almost every big player knows or has used Omniture's testing, targeting or analytics solutions. Adobe may well utilize that reach to cross-sell its proprietary technology.
I think you're taking a reductionist view, and I think you've missed the point the author was making. The author first expressed his understanding of the influences on individual behavior and then he made specific suggestions (with examples) of how twisted had failed to optimize for a specific outcome within that framework.

I consider this analysis and feedback, not whining.

You seem to suggest that the author is whining in lieu of being self-sufficient. I can't speak for the author, so I will just speak for myself. I wholeheartedly believe in the self-sufficiency that programming culture promotes. However, I also believe that the easier you make it for others to achieve self-sufficiency in your open-source library, the more successful it will be.

I'm happy that you found it trivial to drink deeply of twisted's essence. I also think that you are right that you have an opportunity to blog! I for one would love to read about why you think that CL's iolib is a better abstraction layer than twisted. You haven't missed the opportunity -- I'd upvote that over most of the stuff on the front page!
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Hi. I am currently looking at building a community site around an online game. The game is very well suited for a community and they would most certainly complement each other. The community site would be your basic register, chat, friends etc. Nothing too exotic. It would be nice though to incorporate some dynamic behavior through Ajax/Comet/JQuery etc.

My question is: What would you recommend in terms of language/framework to build an online community site?

At this state I am pretty much open to any language/framework. My approach is to go as lean as possible, releasing very early and try to adjust the site from what we learn once we go live. I have looked at frameworks such as Django/Wicket/RoR, but also at pure CMS solutions such as Drupal/Joomla.

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Yup, the acquisition of Macromedia comes to my mind. They have leveraged that pretty well.
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1) Maybe, but at least you have control over it now. A lot of sites, for me (with slow Ireland internets...), seem to be slowed down by between 5 and 15 seconds by external adverts.

2) True, but I've rarely seen this be a win (for me, YMMV).

3) What? I don't understand, explain.

3[b! emm typo oops]) Why do they need to be flash when a simple image is just as good? Need animation? gif images have supported that since roman times. No need for hefty flash for these. Lots of sites (again YMMV, maybe I just go to all the retard sites) have useless crap that supposedly makes the site look prettier. Well, it doesn't and it makes it slow. Throw it out and go for user experience. (You can still make a site pretty without making it slow)
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Thats true. Nobody reads it anyway, we're all here just for the porn, everyone knows that.
You're right of course but the quote was was really aimed at those with "religious convictions" who aren't going to consider a man struggling with his faith whilst collecting clear evidence for evolution "even-handed".
> Tornado is a web framework

Not really. It's the combination of an asynchronous HTTP server and an optional web framework. And work is being done [to add WSGI support](http://github.com/facebook/tornado/commit/8ca616088cfb26ff19...) so other frameworks can be plugged into the server.

At its core, Tornado is a server not a framework.
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I think that Apple does resolution independent icons by embedding several bitmap versions with a vector version in their icon files. That's the way to go in desktop applications, but similar system would produce too much overhead without significant advantage in web.