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Agreed, especially considering a tank of liquid hydrogen is a major risk for a BLEVE, same with LPG vehicles. It strikes me as absurd that alternate fuel proposals will actually make our roads considerably more dangerous.

Instead of turning a vehicle crash into a wreckage with a potential for a fire, we'll be turning a crash into a wreckage with the potential for a massive explosion. Any passenger caught in a vehicle with a hydrogen fuel tank that BLEVE's is guaranteed to be dead, and so is anyone within yards of it. Our highways will potentially be more dangerous than a fire in a welding supply store.
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Another thought...

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/06/19/is-higher-educatio...

Will a college education continue to be considered worth it if prices continue to rise? Especially for majors that don't see huge post-college wage increases. This is an interesting issue as Obama plans to raise college enrollment as a nation
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Their markup over wholesale prices is only around %30 -- 4gb SO-DIMMs of DDR3 cost at least $270, where 2gb sticks cost ~$40.
A few interesting details: the iMac displays are now 16:9 (formerly 16:10) and both models are specifically stated to use IPS displays (formerly only the 24" did, but it was not advertised), which are higher resolution than the previous models. Both now have SD card slots. Both now come with wireless keyboard and new "Magic Mouse" standard. The 27" model's Mini-DisplayPort connector functions as both an input and an output.
Yea, I can understand it's expensive but the thought of spending more than what a baseline iMac costs just for RAM is a tough pill to swallow.
Yes :) I think there are a lot of ways the user can organize their bookmarks to get what they want and that is my point. I don't think the title matters.
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I always thought it's more of a phone thingy?
Auto Hotkey Scripts work amazingly in XP. I could do all of those things and more if I wanted to.
I just posted a better list over here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=892752
Keep in mind that to someone totally untrained in science, "a scientist says" is not that different from "a priest says" in terms of asking them to take something on faith. As level of scientific training increases, this changes somewhat, as we begin to understand that "a scientist says" carries a certain implicit claim as to the experimentation that went into the discovery; but even then, it's important to remember that much of what you and I _know_ about science we know because some authority figure told us. We may have chosen our authority figure wisely, but that's still what it is: do you believe light travels through a vacuum, or through a mysterious lumeniferous aether? Why? Is it because you did an experiment? Can you even explain what the experiment is?

As for me, I learned it in class and read it in a book. A lot of the "convince people of evolution" argumentation is focussing on entirely the wrong level of instruction, because it's asking people who learned one thing in class and read it in a book to instead believe a different thing that someone else learned in class and read in a book. Local evidence is no help either, because it's going to be anecdotal, and a lot of nonscientific arguments (including religious ones) can marshal evidence too. The problem is not convincing creationists to believe in evolution; it's not even convincing believers in one authority to believe in a different authority (which, while solving one immediate problem, just defers and sets up a different one). The problem is in convincing people of the scientific framework in the first place.

So no, DNA wouldn't do it.
> I have not seen anyone in Clojure doing this.

Sounds like you need to get out more.
Second part of my reply...

The not-so-hidden cost of C is that even simple things end up being many, many lines of code

Yes. If I care about performance, that is a good thing, because I immediately know the cost.

>C++ was invented because certain kinds of C programs -- programs that were already being written in C -- were painfully verbose to express and complicated to change

That is certainly true, but I think C++ has outlived its usefulness and is coasting on momentum.

> Anyway, the size of the mental model of your program is what you should be worried about.

If you can keep 2.5 million lines of code in one single mental model, congratulations. I can't. I don't know anybody else who can. Game code bases, for better or worse, are fairly large, so we need to reason about subsets of it.

This is where the C++ problem comes to bear - I have no direct control and knowledge of all classes involved in a particular computation. Yes, I can look them up - but not everybody does. And I'm concerned with building shipping products with a normal team, not some hypothetical team of superstars.
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You mean like this?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/health/research/06brain.ht...
I'm in California and over a year span, my tuition has increased about 30%. Quite upsetting.
Re-invention beats invention everytime. I think Stewart Brand of Whole Earth Catalog fame said that.
Honestly, you don't sound that reasonable. EPA, NYC, HSS are not "The Government", they are different entities with different roles and goals. Perhaps someone lied about the air at ground zero (I don't know the facts, is that even proven?), but how is that related to the decisions made by the HSS? You're claiming that there's a pattern, but it doesn't make any sense. The US government lied about the Tonkin incident, therefore the Nasa never landed on the moon?
wow i still think $599 for the mac mini with a core duo and 160gb hdd is way too much.
You're conclusions are reasonable for the assumption that the government acted from malice. You miss, or dismiss with no mention, the following possibilities:

The cause of the illness was a substance not then known to be toxic.

The toxin did not remain airborne long enough for EPA samples to gather it.

The EPA tests were not capable of detecting the problem.

General incompetence.

A bad batch of test kits.

The toxin may have come from dust stirred up during work which quickly settled.

Any of the above being true would invalidate your conclusions. As someone totally ignorant of the illnesses you are talking about, I have only your statement to go on, which addresses none of the above, so these may be known.

As for government lies, many many cases of government lies can be equally attributed to ignorance as they can to malice, so I am challenging your basic proposition.
Personally I'm very glad I got my Aluminum MacBook when I did. I don't want a polycarbonate case...

My guess is that machining the aluminum cases was just too expensive, it would clearly be much cheaper to simply mold a polycarbonate case. But personally I don't think they will match up from a durability perspective...
I like it, although sports are obviously a special case given the objective facts of the scores, players, and so forth, structure that's not present in other news stories.

As Sophacles says, finance reporting could also be a candidate; so might legislative development in Congress, since votes and party affiliations are also factual, and sometimes depressingly similar to sport.
Do you need 16GB of RAM? Seems like overkill unless you have a specific reason for needing it in which case the price probably isn't a huge concern anyway. I had 16GB in my Mac Pro until recently I downgraded to 8GB. I never came anywhere close to using 16GB and FB-DIMMS on the MP are power hogs. -30W of power yanking the extra memory.
...which is 95%+ of open source contributors.
I wish that firefox would start charging. Something like a $100 for a 1000 seat license or something similar.

Why?

Because when I go to one of my bosses and say "I think we try and transition away from IE. Here, this is Firefox, it is free and it is wonderful", their reaction is "Free?!" and visions of shitty freeware from the 90s fill their heads.

In order to keep us geeks happy, they could offer a source distribution that needs to be compiled or has some trivial dependency that needs to be installed.
Sorry, this isn't really good feedback, but I think others have covered most of the points. I loved some of the match ups, like the one between The Professional and The Littlest Mermaid. I couldn't decide.
The nice thing of course is that you could use BOTH languages in the same code base with full interaction between them.
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So your argument is that "bad things are happening because the government wants them to happen, not because that is just the way of the world"

That's not my argument. I'm just saying that if you trust what they say about health, you are seriously uneducated. Take a moment to consider Buck v. Bell, the test vets, MKULTRA, the air at ground zero, the drug war, farm subsidies, private insurance monopolies, legalized rape (KBR), abstinence only education, etc.
Well, it handles text/audio/video chats. But text chatting is still a big part of it: Right now I'm using it for group work, because it has a great filesharing system. It's very flexible, but I think it still counts under the instant messaging umbrella.
I would have loved to attend, but I'm on the East Coast.
Is that a new remote? It looks round.
(Completely off topic) Dystopia, huh? That's what I named my tank back when I was in the army. See you at startup school.
And you can make your code slower by changing it! Oh the horror. C++ is, imo, a good language for a lot of domains. What goes wrong is when people try to use all of the features that C++ offers instead of just using the ones applicable to their domain, eg. I don't think you would really want to use exceptions in embedded programming. If you are on a platform where performance is the key, then you should be careful of what you are doing.

I think people are mostly blaming C++ instead of bad programmers.
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This is a cool resource, but it's unfortunate that all of the "C/C++" titles are actually just C++. Here are a few C titles that are also available online:

http://publications.gbdirect.co.uk/c_book/
http://www.oualline.com/style/
http://www.nrbook.com/a/bookcpdf.php
upgradable with 4 slots - I generally buy my ram from crucial or ramjet
I'm rabidly anticipating some reviews of the Magic Mouse. The Mighty Mouse has been pretty disappointing but this new one has real potential.
Just drop that info along with the url into 4chan. I have a feeling this problem will work itself right on out...
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And the 2nd most useful one for techies, Win+r for the run prompt.
You mean the mouse?
my pre has been pretty snippy and fast most of the time, but was getting progressively slower and doing weird email syncs. after a wipe and reinstall the device its back to being fairly fast.
Huh? When did Apple ever sell an aluminum MacBook? Only the MacBook Pros are aluminum AFAIK.

EDIT: I was wrong. Apple did have an aluminum 13" MacBook before the MBP version. See replies below.
Hm? The aluminum Macbook still exists. It's just classified under the Macbook Pro line. 13", right?

Think of the polycarbonate case as Apple's attempt to make a product that's affordable as possible. I was expecting them to phase out the plastics entirely; the fact that they're keeping it and improving on it suggests that they'll be gradually lowering the price on it too.
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One of the biggest failings of the Mighty Mouse is gone, the stupid scrollball on top that was unclean-able. I was actually hoping from a external trackpad, but I will have to look at this. I use a trackball now and find a mouse hard on the wrist. Now if logitech would combine their trackball with a trackpad, I would be overjoyed.
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Yeah, the problem with most captchas is that they're visual and they're working in an area where computers are starting to get really good. The main thing that computers are still pretty bad at is understanding completely arbitrary text, so the way to go has to be in that direction (which also has the benefit of being handicap-accessible). Ask questions, in text, that have textual answers. Throw in a random-number generator so that the questions aren't just a memorisable list. And most important, make EVERY USER of the captcha system ("user" here meaning the owner of the blog or the site, not the visitor to the site) able to edit the question list. Any system that is uniform across all its users will become a target for spam-hackers to break. But if you can change the question? Maybe even just _rephrase_ the question? Way, way harder. People are still smarter than computers, we just have to give them the chance to actually do their thing.

I wrote a plugin years ago for MovableType as a proof of concept (which I still use on my own blog): http://www.blahedo.org/botblock/ Even a user that doesn't want to touch any of the code (even though it's pretty easy) can always edit "Add one to this number:" to "What number comes after this number:" or somesuch. To solve the "more humans on this end" problem, it seems like you have to let them modify the very questions themselves.
"Any of the above being true would invalidate your conclusions. "

My argument more generally though is that I don't trust the government to make my health decisions for me. You may well be right that in this case the government was just incompetent and not malicious, but how is that supposed to convince me that I should trust them to make my health decisions for me?
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It would be slower and need more power - you need esataII
This really isn't good news for the Android OS. I guess we have Zune vs Plays-For-Sure part 3.
Was there perhaps a mistake? I can't find it here: http://www.apple.com/macbook/specs.html
So then here's the deal. In the top 20th percentile of "secure" enterprise dev shops, with teams working on J2EE applications for claims processing and document retention, each dev cycle starts with a "threat model".

Threat modeling is part of the "SDL" (or "SDLC"), which is a powerful voodoo magic word that here means "secure software development". Threat modeling is both notoriously fuzzy --- nobody really knows exactly what it means --- and notoriously boring. The goal of the process is to help ensure that you're designing securely, developing securely, and dtesting securely (I forget what the 3rd of the 3 D's is).

Cory's talking about a methodology for getting teams to do threat modeling that either haven't totally bought into formal SDL development or skip the threat modeling step.

I'm not totally sure how this applies to startups and indies [1], but I am sold on the concept of "Seven Deadly Features", which is to say that any team should be able to start a project with a list of the 7 functional areas that are most likely to screw them over from a security perspective. A very typical list for web apps would be:

* File upload/download (it's a boundary crossing and often requires you to synchronize two different access control systems)

* Email (most apps have some kind of effectively anonymous account and some path for that account to trigger emails with some content controlled by attackers)

* Advanced Query Interfaces (because they're hard to implement using pure parameterized queries)

* Templating and look/feel customization (because you need to expose some, but not all, of HTMLs metachars to end users)

* User signup and password reset

(That's 5; the list on my desk is 7, but the last two --- SOAP/web services and thick clients --- are not likely to be problems for startups).

Can't evangelize enough for this idea, which is a really simple one. People who do web security memorize things like the OWASP Top 10, which lists "Cross Site Scripting" and "Cross Site Request Forgery" and "SQL Injection", but like Cory says, nobody wakes up in the morning thinking "I'll write an SQL Injection today!". Meanwhile, if you know what the scary features are, you can:

* Schedule them for extra-formal team review

* Double up the QA time on them

* Not assign them to junior team members to implement

[1] We wrote about this a few weeks ago:

http://chargen.matasano.com/chargen/2009/9/24/indie-software...
The remote is aluminum. That is newer than any of the plastic ones I have, but I don't know if it is new for this product.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook#Aluminium_unibody_model
Have you considered moving the "Pick one!" column to the middle? It might be more obvious there.

Why is the about-page styled differently from the rest of the site? It also has a stray </a>.

More (minor) html errors: http://vldtr.com/?key=filmvsfilm.com
The Apple page only refers to “IPS technology”. Is it really S-IPS or just E-IPS (or something else entirely)? Do you know? What’s your source?
no, I actually mean the remote - I was pricing up one of the new iMacs and got to the remote picture and it sure doesn't look like the old one.
Not if they use android like everyone else. In the case you mention, microsoft created an entirely new stack which it didn't license to other parties, and also deprecated the software its vendor ecosystem was using. Hardly the case here, even though the google move may be slightly antagonistic to its partner vendors and telcos.
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There was briefly an aluminum MacBook before they introduced the 13" MacBook Pro.
There was an aluminum MacBook before there was a 13" MacBook Pro. Essentially the aluminum MacBook became the 13" MacBook Pro when they upgraded the specs.
"The US government lied about the Tonkin incident, therefore the Nasa never landed on the moon?"

I believe NASA landed on the moon because I've thought about it for myself. I don't automatically believe it because the government said it happened.

If the data says the the H1N1 vaccine is safe and effective then I'll get it, but I'm not going to put something into my body just because Donald Rumsfeld or whoever says its a good idea.

All I'm saying is that you shouldn't abdicate your thinking to someone else, especially when they may have an incentive to mislead you.
10. Maybe they have an agenda. Ask yourself: Does this person stand to benefit if I follow this advice? The VCs I know and trust are honest and very pro-entrepreneur, but I routinely hear others give advice that entrepreneurs should be suspicious of. Fundamentally, their incentives are based on having a portfolio of startups. As an entrepreneur, you have a portfolio of one. Think about that the next time a VC advises you to swing for the fences.
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Ah, sorry - was just looking at the article pics.
I have had similar experiences with my Pre, but FWIW not consistently. As expected, the more apps left running load times for new apps definitely increase. I tend to keep most apps closed when not actively using the phone and rarely experience more than a one or two second delay. For example, I just took a picture and capture to view was less then 5 seconds. I closed the camera app as a phone call came in and saw the keypad immediately. On the few occasions where the phone has started creeping, I popped out the battery. Once the OS reloaded all was smooth again.
Expressiveness in a single line of code is such a stupid metric.

magic()

What's that? It's a function call. What does it do? Anything. Everything. Why does it need a complex grammar? It doesn't. Spend your time thinking about the problem, not the language. What a concept!

Do simple things take many lines of code in C? Yes. If you only have a few data structures and algorithms in your mental toolbox, simple things will take many lines of code in C, or C++, or in any language. Why do people advocate baroque languages by claiming that you cannot do simple things simply except with baroque languages, and then blame people for complicating their programs by using that baroqueness?

Yeah, C++ programmers are feature junkies; the language is designed by a feature junkie and promotes language features as the solution to every problem. If you go against that, you are going against the whole culture.

If PL/I was the fatal disease, C++ is the shambling corpse.
A good post on how this fits in with the War on Drugs can be found here: http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/10/19/is_obama_wind...
He was looking at the Macbook Pro specs.
No, it's not open source. We use a custom H.264 encoder.
Looks like it: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC377LL/A

The scroll wheel is moved up to the front of the remote, and the play/pause button is now separate.

Engadget's short write-up on the new remote (from unalone's comment): http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/apple-updates-19-remote-p...
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It doesn't have that port, though. Nor do I really feel like opening up an iMac to replace the HD.

That said, it's more the seek time which is appealing about the SSD rather than the raw data transfer speed, which is why using the Firewire interface may not be too much of an issue. Obviously I wouldn't want to use USB.
You get an escalating war that way with out actually fixing the problem. They're better off warning users on download.
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Right now, no, but it's in the works. We want to make sure that quality of service is just as good for non-U.S. customers before we ship anything internationally.
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We take data privacy very seriously. The online service component is the key to customer adoption of network cameras, because it is the only way for a non-technical user to have a camera up and running in less than 30 seconds.
It is still really hard to go up against the company doing the development of an OS. It just seems like one of those red flags that should be looked at. At the very least, Google's own phone will probably have all the updated software in a more timely manner then outside vendors.
My absolute #1 recipe for a project disaster is a customer hell bent on shooting themselves in the foot.

Technically incompetent, yet forcing technical decisions. The one whose motto is "This is what I requested, but not what I need. It is your fault." No amount of signed requirements will protect you from getting the blame.
At this point, Dell should buy Palm instead of using Android.
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"I am working on another Lisp book, specific to Franz AllegroGraph"

I've been curious about AllegroGraph. Too many Lisp books take an academic / implementation-agnostic approach. Lookng forward to reading it!
The problem is that, as soon as they start charging, they open themselves up to liability. That's actually exactly what your bosses want: someone to take the liability.
"27-inch models also support input from external DisplayPort sources (adapters sold separately)."(apple)

Does that mean that the incoming signal can be displayed on the monitor, or does it actually treat the port as an incoming data stream (i.e. recordable with iMovie/Quicktime)?
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Perhaps - I guess I need to provide my definition of a website: No more than 10 well structured, well thought out pages.
Haha, I'm sure! I suspect knowing the head honchos helps, though I miss Gary.
That sounds pretty awesome. I'm definitely interested if there's an easy place for us to rent mountain bikes for the day :D
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