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There is no proof that the speed of light in vacuum is constant - so relativity is wrong?

There is no proof (none possible by Godels incompleteness theorem) that our system of arithmetic is complete and consistent - indeed the first incompleteness theorem says that there is a truth in the system which is unprovable. So, yeah we can't use arithmetic, no proof see.

Things in reality are not wrong if you don't have a proof. Some things are true for which no proof [currently] exists.

"pbhjpbhj is not thinking of an orange", true? Well I have no proof and so you determine that it is objectively false. Presumably you see the absurdity in that?

[Aside: i was never taught grammar at school and so have picked it up piecemeal, can you direct me how Rabbi is not a proper noun. It is a class of people, for sure, but is also used as a specific name for a single person (in common parlance at least); also how I then misused it, thanks]
I've had an unusual problem with couchdb. A bad query can flatten your host. The engine uses every bit of performance in pursuit of its answer, which might be the workload equivalent of a series of stupid open joins in SQL. Your bash consoles become unresponsive. The same mistake with a traditional relational database causes less damage because those databases are less effective at harvesting the power of the host.

There's a training obstacle. I know how SQL works and how to make SQL perform well almost by instinct. NoSQL requires me to relearn data querying. The lack of standardisation across offerings means that the knowledge I acquire will be less transferable what I've accumulated from Oracle/Postgresql/Openbase/Mysql/Sqlite.
Hmm... there are different query APIs to all the NoSQL variants?

What stops you from doing a one-liner from shell (or a short throw-away program) instead of a SQL query/update? (Well, except for the power of SQL compared to the APIs, of course.)

Disclaimer: I don't know enough about these newfangled things and their tradeoffs to have a serious opinion. They do look intriguing. :-)
This are real problems. With Redis I tried to mitigate some of this problems by providing an API that allows to retrieve the full state of the database just using available commands (without having to mess with the binary dump) including for instance reading the TTL of an expiring key. This allows to create scripts that are able to convert a full database into a CSV file, and restore back the CSV file into the DB, just using the net API.

Of course with key/value stores changing the structure of the database is harder compared to SQL databases, still designing a good data layout when building your application can help a lot to make it simple to add features to the application without to resort to scripts that rebuild the data in the key/value store.
> Btw, any piece about spelling contains at least one spelling error, yours is no exception ;)

I know! It's the irony of the world. No matter what, when you complain about a general lack of spelling there is always a spelling mistake, but you won't notice it until 5 hours later. It's like there's a frigging anti-spelling Nazi out there who hijacks your post just to screw with you.

God damn gremlins always plaguing English people :(
Thanks, I do understand and agree. This link shouldn't have been here. I will be more careful the next time I post.
Backups are a particularly serious issue for distributed variants.
I was laughing before that with this:

> ". . . I point this out now so that, below, when we claim that Jewish women are easier to get along with than Christians, you don’t blame us, you blame Jesus."
Thanks! I should of mentioned I was aware of Monster, I am specifically looking for other less well known sites that people might use.
Pagerank means nothing about the usefulness to an individual.

I agree that without any info, this list is worthless.
Yes, if you can't find something you're looking for, you can make a request. The requests are short and sweet, 140 characters, and you can join groups to make sure only people who are interested in the same topics view the requests and respond.

The whole concept is about speed. I want to make it quick and easy to find what you're looking for. Many of the other sites force you to browse through dozens of pages and scroll for hours and read an enormous amount of text to find anything. Savendar is the exact opposite.
Maybe I'm the only one who didn't know Tim Schafer, but if not:
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Washington has a similar program. You can take college classes for free at state run schools for up to two years while in high school. I know a bunch of people who entered college as juniors immediately after graduating high school.
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I wonder what will happen to .tv when Tuvalu submerges into the ocean...
Job sites are more fragmented in europe meaning there usually is a site per country. You might want to be a bit mor precise from what country [countris] you are looking for a job.
Reading this comment, I knew it had to be Ryan Paul (since it's not a Mac article).

It's kind of awesome how many of their great writers still code from time to time, so they really get it.
This is not exactly chaotic, it seems pretty straightforward to me. Yes, there are a variety of numeric types, but the point of the "chaos" is that you can program with each with the same API. (A "sort" function works on any type that does "Ord".)
Sell what product? There is nothing to sell. Its 100% free.
Nope, hilarious.

And that's the first really solid evidence that I've seen shared that zodiac signs are utter BS, which makes me doubly grateful to them. Something to point to when someone says it can't be proved otherwise...
From what I can tell, it seems the "dark side" mentioned only really affects Voldemort and Cassandra, out of all the databases that fall into the "NoSQL" category?
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What happened to URIs shouldn't change ?

http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

It seems to me that all your efforts at maintaining a URI over the years are in vain when your TLD can be shut down.

This is a very good argument to not invest a single sou into whatever the local TLD is in a politically unstable region of the world.

I'm also quite surprised that the TLD actually can be shut down, why not simply close new registrations and keep it alive as long as there are websites ending on .yu ?
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Point taken. I'm mainly interested in the following:

Denmark
Sweden
Germany

It's a pity there's not a decent aggregator like Indeed.com for EU.
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I can see your point but I think the GPL is more important than ever. I'm not sure "most" free software is written by people from hated proprietary companies. It's a little more complex than that. For example I love IBM, they sell proprietary software and also contribute heavily to free software. In what sense is the FSF not thriving?

Many of the open-source licenses (I say open-source deliberately to distinguish them from GPL) are commercial friendly by design, .eg. ASL. Since we all need to earn a living we make compromises. Many corporations for better or worse prefer these licenses as they enable them to benefit from the collaborative model without having to give back the value they add. Some do this in a very ethical fashion by employing major contributors to projects, thereby by giving and getting, all good. However I would argue that these serve the interests of companies more than individual programmers.

So a question I have is, if the GPL is no longer relevant as many now claim, why was Git released as GPL?

I can totally see Oracle sales folks playing this FUD argument. As a programmer I typically look at sales people as what they are. They will say anything to make a deal.

Happy 25th FSF, I'm looking forward to the 50th.
I assume this is about 'coders at work', it's a great book.
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According to the article: A two-year transition period started in 2007 that allowed all existing .yu names to be transferred either to .rs (for Serbia) or to .me (for Montenegro).

That sounds like a reasonable transition period and an effective migration strategy for all of the .yu domains to me. I suppose the standard investing advice applies to choosing TLDs also - diversify your portfolio.
the problem isn't the app store ("the program"), it's that you can't easily download and install random apps. that includes the TOS that says distribution outside the app store is banned without written permission.
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If you've spent a decade building up a website and the links to it and you depend on these to bring you your business then that's a bit of a problem.

According to google there are currently still about 21,000,000 references to page on .yu in their databases alone.

Imagine getting a letter from the .com tld registry that you've got two years to move all your content over, does it still seem like enough ? Or do other factors come in to play, such as the availability of your old domain names in new places and so on ?

I see domain names as 'given names', your website has mindshare and web presence based on that name, if you're paid up and you had it you should be able to continue.

Otherwise all this does is tremendously devalue localized domain names.

After all, the land underlying the old .yu domain is still there, if people want to hold on to their names I really don't see any good reason why that should be taken away from them.
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Do you have links to a fuller explanation of the problems with the AGPL?

A quick Google returned nothing obviously interesting (except this very discussion as result #2).
The Nice classification ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_(Nice)_Classifica... ) is not CMS but "classes 9,42" which encompasses computing and lots of other [sort of] related things.

In the UK at least any other use of a similar mark to your RTM in that classification is potentially infringing.

Whilst USA is a signatory to the Nice Classification I don't think that means anything beyond the requirement to use the Nice terms as classifiers, presumably finer classification can be used as the region of exclusivity.

Four EU and UK results from ipo.gov.uk in classes 9,24:

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/madridEU?madridEUnum=U00000909350 - Magnolia Int. Ltd.

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/domestic?domesticnum=2510591 - Magnolia Hi-Fi, Inc.

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/domestic?domesticnum=2422850 - Jayne Nation (Dr)

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/madridEU?madridEUnum=U00000898571 - Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH
Beardyman has a lecture on that, see Youtube.
Joining Special Interest Groups on LinkedIn and subscribing to a daily digest of activities is a very nice way for 'focussed' job-searching. Quite a few analytics jobs posted in the Business Intelligence group (which I'm a part of) were EU-based, at least over the last week or so. Give it a whirl.

http://www.twitterjobsearch.com/ seemed interesting as well.
Well Greek and Roman cultures exemplified plays and indeed still have some of the most revered plays to date, likely second only to Shakespeare. We also know that there was music played to accompany them, and I have little doubt that they would have understood the use of music to make the play.

Yet just like a silent film without a pianist, we'll never have a complete understanding of what was intended by the Greek and Roman play writes.

Anyone watched Psycho without music? It's crap.
Google for deutsche arbeitsvermittlung, that should give you some leads.
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Don't believe till things really happen.
".su", the TLD assigned to the Soviet Union, is still in use and has no expiration in sight. It seems a bit strange that .yu is being phased out so rapidly.
"Mark Thomas, a geneticist of University College London who considers the Human Provenance program 'horrifying,' contends that even determining a person’s ancestry--as distinct from nationality--is more problematic than many believe. 'mtDNA will never have the resolution to specify a country of origin. Many DNA ancestry testing companies have sprung up over the last 10 years, often based on mtDNA, but what they are selling is little better than genetic astrology,' he says. 'Dense genomic SNP data does have some resolution . . . but not at a very local scale, and with considerable errors.'"

This is a good response to the commercial services that claim to be able to place people's ancestors to very specific locations in continents that have been very poorly surveyed for geographically correlated genome variation. (The worldwide number of well located, well analyzed human genome variant samples is still shockingly small.) Other forms of investigation would be much more informative of an asylum-seeker's genuine national origin.
Germany:
www.monster.de
http://www.jobscout24.de/
http://www.jobpilot.de/
http://www.stepstone.de/jobs/jobs.html
http://www.exposurejobs.com/ is quite good at breaking down jobs by language and country
It'll definitely slow you down, but it might not last long. If I was in that situation I'd definitely try unsticking the gas pedal first. I'd also say be prepared to cut your ignition, because if your brake pads fail (brake pads are designed to cool down between use and I'm not sure what prolonged heating would do to them, I know when your callipers get stuck you can wear out the pad and the router pretty quickly) you're going to be up shit creek without an anchor.

I'd always suggest trying to slow (by whatever means necessary) before turning your ignition off. Probably #1 would be to unstick the gas pedal, #2 would be to put it into neutral, #3 would be brake like a nut and #4 would be turn off the ignition (if you can't get it into neutral for some mysterious reason, or if you stopped safely of course). In reality your ignition really shouldn't be turned off until you've got your parking/hand brake on, turning it off while driving is dangerous, especially if you're on a highway.
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The following site is focused on freelancers but there are also full-time jobs listed.

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In many vehicles turning the ignition off is likely more dangerous than having a stuck ignition as it can cause steering wheel lock; either way you're doing 120MPH and one way you can avoid the bystanders, the other you'll plough right into them. The cops, no matter how much you want them to, will never ask you to kill the annoying bystanders.
One of the complaints that people have about the NoSQL label is that it attempts collect a huge variety of databases that don't fit the traditional label under one name. The problem with that is illustrated in this article, which does a great job of describing problems that some of the NoSQL alternatives experience – but the problems here don't apply nearly as strongly to document-oriented databases, or to graph databases. I think the title's overstating the argument, in other words.

Now if it were "the dark side of column-oriented databases," Bob's your uncle.
I don't care what it is but anytime anyone makes a statement on HN there's always someone waiting to say, "No, actually."

Look - there's no way you can definitively say, "No" or "Yes" because there are so many different situations. Funded vs. non-funded, competitive market vs. build the market, require proprietary hardware vs. web app, etc. How the hell can we say, "Smaller is better" if we are trying to build a legitimate competitor to Google? Clearly it hasn't been (historically speaking).

Enough with the absolutes - there is a correlation between the size of IT and time to market in many situations yet in others there is none.
I think the wording is a bit strong- it's really not that horrifying- but it's certainly not scientifically sound. It's not like there's a mountain range surrounding Somalia that has prevented them from interbreeding with individuals from other countries for the last hundred thousand years. Heck, the place didn't really even exist until the 1950s.
I don't think it is really as neutral as it seems. Match percentage is a very preliminary survey of how compatible two people are, and the article itself is fairly judgmental.
I should have been a little more clear in my initial reply. If the .yu TLD is going away, I think 2 years is sufficient. That said, I don't necessarily agree with getting rid of TLDs but I'm sure a lot of politics is involved when countries change names.

Personally I've never really liked any of the localized TLDs precisely because this sort of thing happens. It has already happened a few times in the past - .cs, .dd (although it never made it to the official root nameservers), and .zr. The .su (Soviet Union) is, according to ICANN, being phased out but is still accepting new registrations.
20. Have something cool to work on. Top talent doesn't want to rewrite your java accounting system (again).
For Sweden there's http://platsbanken.arbetsformedlingen.se/ which is the government's job listing site. Not sure if it's usable if you don't read Swedish, though.
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It feels like there should be some commas in your sentence.
Not to start a holy war or anything, but I think the choice would be between YUI or Dojo and not JQuery to YUI, if you where trying to make a comparison. They kind of compete in different spaces. to me YUI and Dojo try to provide a full stack in the browser for (and I hate to use the word) enterprise scale applications. They are trying to build an application development framework for the browser. Where as the others are trying to make you job of developing web pages easier. Here is my personal opinion on the matter and it is solely based on my preference. YUI and Dojo provide all of the capabilities that the other frameworks provide and in may ways a lot more, but at added complexity. You have to do custom builds to remove out the feature you are not using so that it is a small package. Further they have a verry consistent API so once you understand their constructs it is easy to discover and implement new functionality.Needles to say, if you are implementing a stock trading web app YUI or Dojo should be given serious consideration. The kicker is that they have a steeper learning curve than JQuery, which is a tool that you can pick up and use the first day. That being said I prefer Dojo over all of the frameworks that I have used, because I do that kind of development.
Thank god I'm emigrating not immigrating to the UK.

First 'Citizenship Education', I said it then when I refused to take the course and now; you've got to be fucking stupid. Last time British people were nationalistic we committed genocide across the Americas, Africa and Australia, with a few places here and there on the way.

Now the governments gone about ten steps dumber and now believe mitochondrial and Y chromosomal DNA corresponds to nationality. So when my Canadian immigration papers come through, where do I go to get my DNA changed? Oh wait, everyone here's still fucking British! (Aside from Quebec and NB, but you're likely to pick up as many French Chromosomes in the rest of Canada as you would in the UK)
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Perhaps a name change wouldn't be such a bad thing for him, to make a clean break with his previous site which died spectacularly with no backups.
Ha. I feel so much better now! ;)
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Thats my first negative score! takes it on the chin

A nice feature would be, "negative points because". So that I can learn from it. I have a sneaky feeling it will be related to my opening line.

Im guessing im probably not the first to ask for that feature.
Well it is horrifying, they're planning on refusing people who are immigrating on humanitarian and compassionate grounds (refugee) based on their DNA.

Warfare doesn't check your DNA before it kills your spouse and children. Apparently Britain, however, checks your DNA before it decides to save you or not.
Well, that was pretty common form for MS during the 90's. There's dozens of companies who's work MS stole blatantly, often under the pretence of 'That's a great tech you've got. let's work together on it'
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"The choice to go with 3.1 was because of a limitation with 3.0.1. Under 3.0.1 if you record video from within the Dropbox app that video couldn't be saved to your iPhone photos directory, so if your upload was interrupted for any reason the video would be lost. With 3.1 we can save the video to your photos on the phone, so if the upload fails you still have a copy and can attempt to upload again.

My apologies for the inconvenience, but when it comes to data loss, we always have to aim for the safest option." - http://blog.getdropbox.com/?p=102#comment-17809293
It seemed to me like the article was more about particular "NoSQL" databases than it was about the genre as a whole. In other words, I don't think the author's pain is endemic to this admittedly broad class of data stores, just the few that do exist.
I see what you mean and generally agree - if .com was being shutdown that would be annoying.

But that's not quite the same thing - if your country was changing it's name, would you really want your business to stay with the previous name? If you were "Yugoslav Cars" would you keep the name as the country stops using it? No, you'd change to "Serbian Cars" - same with the domain. You wouldn't want "dot yugoslavia" when there is no such place anymore.
Actually pretty good tips.
Maybe if they get to use the tools they think are best for the job. But then you have a maintenance nightmare finding someone who can think at the same high level.
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The "missing alter table" problem affects more or less any kind of schema-free DB.
Seems really over complicated to me, and I can't understand what problem it's trying to solve really. The scope seems to be ridiculously broad.

Guess we'll see if people start using it or not, but it seems like there's a fair learning curve before you even understand what it is and why it exists.
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Did nobody consider making it .fyu (Former Yugoslavia)?
I wonder if Apple would be able to buy them off?
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