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> an "important" flag you could put on the key types, functions, etc.

I liked the "start here" pictures here: http://www.gridgain.com/javadoc/index.html

> grouping of related information

I agree -- if the output of this could be made to make sense. I usually end up doing this manually in a tutorial with a bunch of English around it, I'm skeptical that a list of related items, even if carefully picked, would do much good without that hand-held context from "above" the situation.
I'm not sure if it's actually wrong, but rather a function of how they draw atoms versus molecules.

Diameter is a funny concept for atoms and molecules because electrons orbit at different distances around the nucleus probabilistically. The depiction of this carbon atom I think represents this, with the lighter color areas denoting areas of lower probability.

However, drawing such a diagram for a molecule isn't very pretty, because the orbitals for each atom in the molecule overlap. They probably drew the water molecule using intermolecular distances, and then filled in the distances so that each atom was a sphere. In actuality the electrons are found with some probability outside this area.
Stupid question: are the Germans allowed to commemorate their dead as well? or did we take both victory and moral upper-hand in this, giving the pesky deutsche-dudes full freedom to improve their lives and work for a better future, instead of living a life of militaristic nostalgia.
One does not need to trademark names in US.
Charles C. Mann (the author that the OP quotes) mentions this in the introduction to 1491 (the book that the essay is excerpted from). He says he calls the native Americans "Indians" because most of them prefer that label.

(Of course, when possible, it's better to use a more specific name. I was irritated to discover that my son's Cub Scout manual uses the phrase "American Indian Sign Language" to refer to a language that was really only used by the Plains Indians.)
Yes I think there is an above average amount of geekery in Canberra. Startup / entrepreneurial spirit I am not so sure about. Although I am hoping to be shown otherwise.
Might be able to save yourself some trouble if you can generalize it to an n-dimensional set of operations. Then again, that might not work for your situation.
I don't see this as a problem since this is for user interface elements. Pictures and larger graphics probably wouldn't be a part of this and would be handled separately.
I don't think Patrick read into anything there. He does not imply that Google did this intentionally at all.

His point holds water for me, getting blocked by Google is a huge problem for any business, and its impossible to get in touch with Google short of making a fuss.

Consider this tweet from Dropbox:

"Having trouble reaching the right folks @ Google re: browser warnings; email abuse@dropbox.com to help, thanks"

http://twitter.com/Dropbox/status/5612052146

Not to mention, the timing sucks: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=935009 (Google announces today they've increased their storage quota to 20GB/$5, which happens to be very competitive with Dropbox).

Not getting out the tinfoil hat, but this isn't right.
>And how many times has the system worked as intended? Any system is going to have some false positive rate.

So it's fine by you to fuck over an occasional innocent person to help some mega-corp's profits?
That's pretty interesting that he'd put his money into Prosper rather than Lending Club (lendingclub.com). Maybe as a company it's currently more profitable, but for investors (ie. people making the P2P loans), its far more risky than lending club.

I just started up using lending club, and I chose it over prosper because of lending club's more rigorous screening process for who can obtain loans (must have a 660 credit score to qualify for even the lowest grade loans). As such, lending club loans have a far lower default rate across the board (Prosper indicates a >20% charge-off rate -- that's 20% of loans becoming unrecoverable losses. Lending club has a year-to-year default rate of only ~5% for even its lowest-grade loans).

Anyone else doing P2P lending?
And he could have expected 18AB to point out that those strings wouldn't necessarily be interpreted as strings in a math context.
yeah, i admit, i'm kind of reaching. i am sure i read a story about where the original limitation came from, i just can't remember the details.

maybe it had something to do with kernel functions versus library functions? creat(), read(), write(), etc were all part of the early unix kernel, and were accessed via call gate or syscall or something, whereas printf() and friends were part of a library, and didn't require a trip into kernel-land, and therefore weren't under the same restrictions. something like that.
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One thing that really struck me on my US (and Canadian) travels was the respect given to the armed forces past and present.

Not the silly over the top devotion some people exhibit (I actually dislike that) but the silent respect and appreciation exhibited (like, for example signs announcing uniformed service men get into XYX free/cheap or the way uniformed people were generally treated or the seriousness devoted to days like today)

If there is one thing I could bring back here to the UK and instill it would be that.
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Not today anyway. November 11th being the start of carnival season in Germany, since long before WW1...
Dont forget the war ended for them that day too: whether a winner or loser in the war we are all winners in the long term (i.e. our ancestors survived!) - that is worth celebrating and remembering those less lucky. :)

So, yeh, they do commemorate but not today.

(although it must be said that whilst sombre remembrance is an excellent thing a carnival is, in my eyes, no less of a celebration; being of the belief that the best way to honor the dead is celebrate/appreciate life :))
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> Stupid question: are the Germans allowed to commemorate their dead as well?

Who would have the authority to forbid it? Naturally, they don't do it on the 11th of November, they have [Volkstrauertag](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkstrauertag) (the "national day of mourning") which takes place "two sundays before the first of Advent", which yields the Sunday nearest to the 16th of November (can be any time from the 13th to the 19th, this year it'll be on the 15th).

The 11th is actually the starting date of the German Carnival.
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Except that the term native is overloaded; it can refer to an individual (as in "native speaker") as well as to a population, with different implications. I'm a native of my country, i.e., not an immigrant, but I'm not a member of the continent's native population.

The difference is typically clear from context, but not always.
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Excellently written article. A shorter version of it would be: "the plural of anecdote is not data", or "advice = limited experience + over-generalisation". Applies to Stephen Covey as much as to any blog post.
In this case the legality of modded consoles to play backup isn't an issue because it sounds like Microsoft have something specific in the Xbox Live TOS to cover all modded consoles.

IANAL, but I believe that over here, that doesn't matter: if something is said to be legal by law, no company can forbid its customers to do so. Just like with renting an apartment: a landlord can demand all kinds of ridiculous things, but if there is a law that explicitly protects certain rights for homeowners, a landlord simply cannot take those from you.

It's the same with a TOS: a company simply cannot take certain rights away from you if a country's laws explicitly protect these rights.
I've been working (slowly) on a real-time viewer for a 2D and maybe eventually 3D Lyapunov fractal[0] viewer, and I think implementing the algorithms as a shader program is more practical than using CUDA. After all, CUDA is meant to get around the limitations of using graphics hardware for non-graphics applications, which isn't necessary when you are doing a graphics application.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyapunov_fractal
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=903001

I really liked it, in any case. Part of what "Squeezed Books" aims to squeeze is all the bloat from some of the books those guys churn out.
I think this is a deal breaker for a lot of people.

It's gotten to the point now, I think some people think RT stands for Reply To.

True, you don't have much room at the end of the tweet for your reply, but most people will just add a simple "LOL Yeah!" or something like that to the end.

This is the main reason I recently pared down my list of people that I follow - I just don't want to see all the personal conversations that other people are having.

More proof that users will just do whatever they want. People didn't use @Replies or Hashtags the way Twitter expected that they would. It's the same for RT.
C is also, and was in 1970, a terrible name for a language.

In fairness to K&R though, they weren't able to predict that search engines would exist and single-letter names would be a pain in the ass. It was still a terrible name though.
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Anyone know of a developer API you could use to take advantage of this offer? Ala gspace possibly?
A more careful analysis: "C++" requires the use of the shift key for all characters, and extension below the home row and to the top row. On the other hand, the characters of "Go" are on the home row and the row above. The shift key is only required for the 1st character.

So the actions for typing "C++" are going to be [shift] [C] [+] [+]. For typing "Go" [shift] [G] [o]. The "+" keys are repeated, which makes the 2nd action faster. However, the spread between C and + is much wider than between G and O.

I would guess that it's probably 33% more.
I find this use of the word Karma somewhat annoying. Karma is cause and effect - I downvote you, you lose points.

The whole doing bad things results in future bad things for yourself is really a misconception. Although it seems to be rapidly becoming the de-facto use of the word in North America.
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That is indeed a stupid question. If you're just asking it anyhow for info, ok. If you're trying to imply something nasty, you've picked a horrible example. The Germans, without our prompting at all, have very... mixed feeling about their involvement in WWII, and in particular the atrocities so many of them were complicit in committing. There are very few groups of people who A: lost a major war but lived to tell the tale as a group B: in which they committed one of the most notorious ethnic cleansings in human history (note I said "notorious", not "largest", though it was up there in size) and C: which the populace has enough conscience to regret the results. I think they are far more ambivalent about the whole thing as a result of those factors than they might otherwise be, and that has little or nothing to do with the attitudes or compulsions of the victors; it comes from within.

(Further edit: It is, in some sense, a credit to them. I had to include C because there are many examples in history of ethnic cleansings conducted with no evident regret, before, during, or after. The Germans may be disturbed by their history, but anyone who has taken the time to learn how it happened must also come away disturbed, as it is so easy to see it happening in other places as well, even right where you live, and stopping it is easier said than done.)
Don't forget that since the resultant file is sent over the wire gzipped, a lot of that is undone by the fact that you are gzipping all the images together instead of separately.
Thank you.

War remains an ugly part of life. As it becomes increasingly remote for the majority of the West's inhabitants it is especially important to honour those who have sacrificed and those who continue to make sacrifices on our behalf.
Thank you, my father's brother, George Weissman, KIA, and my mother's brother, Max Marcus, KIA, and to all the cousins who never were. They made the ultimate sacrifice so that we could have a better life. Let's not let them down.
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I think that because it is the online service they have a much more solid footing - they can say under what circumstances you are allowed to connect to their network.

I cant comment on the specific Netherlands law but I am fairly certain most laws have solid provision for companies deciding what they consider right/wrong on their own networks.

If you want to consider another example what happens if a cheat hack appears that gives you a big advantage over other online players; would M$ be within their rights to ban you then? Is the only difference that gamers believe one to be morally wrong (cheating) and one to be floating somewhere in the middle (chipping)
Also, the spread of disease did go both ways. Syphilis came from America to Europe.

It's also worth noting that Europeans are not at the top of the food chain in terms of disease resistance. Various European powers raised a flag on New Guinea, but they never successfully colonized it. It's a cesspool of disease, and Europeans never managed to do more than establish a few trading posts on the beach.
Well, C++ is at least. C# was just trying to piggyback on the success of C languages.
Although on a positive note we are becoming more and more peaceful as a global society! That the wars of the past seem remote and detached is, in one way, a good reflection on modern times.
One thing you could do is actually thank a member of the armed forces in person. I have done this in the past. A few months ago I saw a uniformed RAF man standing at Green Park tube waiting for the train: I simply walked up to him and asked him he was returning from a deployment overseas. He told me that he was returning from Afghanistan and I simply said "Thank you" to him.
My girlfriend is German-Canadian (her grandfather immigrated to Canada after the war), and this topic always comes up around this time of year. Basically we think this:

Remembrance day is about honouring the terrible sacrifice of soldiers, and reminding ourselves of the horror of wide-spread warfare. All soldiers, regardless of their allegiance, were compelled to fight by forces out of their control, and driven by political motivations they had no hand in. Therefore I honour the Germans as easily as I honour and remember my own grandfather who fought in Italy.

I think your comment was more directed at Germany as a country, but I thought I'd throw in my two cents.
You need three keys or two keys and a long hand movement to type C++, but you only need two keys for 'go' - and the keys for go are alternate hands and strong fingers, but even the nearest + symbol requires a weak finger or a contortion.

Also, go is typed as a typical word more often than ++ is, so it's more habitual and familiar and automatic.

I suggest it's much faster.
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If you want to consider another example what happens if a cheat hack appears that gives you a big advantage over other online players; would M$ be within their rights to ban you then? Is the only difference that gamers believe one to be morally wrong (cheating) and one to be floating somewhere in the middle (chipping)

I get your point, since one is a software mod and the other is a hardware mod. The difference is that our law says nothing about software modifications, while it does explicitly allow a consumer to mod consoles: you have the right to be able to make a backup disc of any game you purchase, and use those backup disks to play the games. You need to mod your console for that, and you can literally walk into any computer store and ask your X-Box to be modded.

But, I think you made a good point: the hardware in essense makes the software function differently, so if you would convert a certain software cheat to a hardware mod (if it were possible), you have a problem.

So I think the (legal) matter, in the end, is intent. This is why I think it's weird that Microsoft chose to ban all people that modded their console, instead of all the people that pirated games. One targets the fact that a hardware modification was made, the other targets the intent.
I can't endorse this habit highly enough. I do it every chance I get.

You can't imagine the morale-boosting effect it has to simply have strangers come up and say "thank you?"
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Redundancy is an argument against braces, not in favor.

'They're like guard rails on the highway, they make totally explicit what is going on.'

Using this logic, perhaps you should add some ASCII art to your source to denote blocks a third time? This is also a common practice. Do you feel the same about duck typing?

'The 'but you're writing for other humans to read' argument imho is not 100% the truth, you're writing for both the computer and other humans to read.'

Yes, that's true the computer also parses the code. You still haven't provided an argument why using seperate blocking formats is required.

'they cost next to nothing and make me feel a lot more like things are spelled out to mean exactly what I'm reading.'

The cost is evident: there are many cases of indentation not matching braces and vice versa, and the inconsistency between these causing confusion between the language and the humans trying to debug issues.

Tell me you've never looked for an unmatched brace in code you can otherwise parse?
Tcl is quite good at that sort of thing too:

http://wiki.tcl.tk/685

Because everything is a command.

I have a question though.. what's the 'Unit'? That's how they're passing in a block of code, but http://www.scala-lang.org/docu/files/api/scala/Unit.html doesn't seem to have much information.
I'm a semi-professional photographer, and I have around 3TB of photos. Pros can easily hit 16TB in a year or two.

HD videos are much much worse.

The main problem is how to upload all that stuff. Even at 20 mbit it would take 77 days to upload 16TB.

(16 terabytes) / (20 (megabit per second)) = 77.63 days

How many people have that kind of upload speed? I certainly don't.
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In the US it's mostly about shopping, like most holidays...

But I would say that it is supposed to be for all veterans, versus Memorial Day, which is to honor the dead.
Well, we do have PHP5.3 now and it has namespaces as well as PDO.
I'm a Canadian as well, and I didn't realize there was a difference in how Canadians and Americans commemorate this day. Would someone mind explaining the difference?
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The ability to use Microsoft's servers for online gameplay is not a "right."

While there may be laws that give specific rights to tenants, there is no such law for game players.

At best, banned players could sue Microsoft for fraud, but I think they'd have a weak case and it would certainly not be "illegal."
The partnership doesn't make much sense to me. On the scale of business to personal, the two sites couldn't be much farther apart.
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It's based upon the phrase: if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck.

In this case, if the object has the methods of the duck interface, treat it like a duck object.
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Typical cappuccino apps are cached all at once with far future expires. Simply changing the URL (in an automated way) is enough to break the cache for new versions.

The caching tradeoff is there for any spriting technique, it will always be a tradeoff between reducing HTTP requests and increasing caching granularity.
I just said that I use it as an alternative, since I use Windows. So it is a competitor for PC+Windows users, if you want me to be more exact.
Good stuff! I'll be moving to Canberra in January and I was a bit worried that there was very little of this sort of thing. If you're still meeting in 2 months, count me in.
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> That's what the trademark system is for.

Very true. But there's also a place for common courtesy and pragmatism, bypassing legal inefficiencies. Go is really not that great of a name, so there is no loss for Google to change it.
Ah, I misunderstood then, that's the return type. What type is 'code' and how does it work that you can just put it on a line all its own and it runs? I get that it's figuring out the type via type inference, I'm just curious what the 'magic properties' are.
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