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Is it just me, or was there absolutely no content here?

Frankly, I'm glad to see MS stepping up to the plate and working towards a better browser. If you don't like IE9, don't use it, but more competition is never a bad thing.
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Because, with all do respect do my fellow men, most guys out there really are assholes... and unfortunately many social norms reinforce they're actions. I've spoken with quite a few females who hope to find someone who isn't an asshole through online services.

To put it another way, what's the probability of a girl finding a quality guy at a bar versus finding a guy who just wants to take her to bed? I know a lot of girls who are sick of that game.

As a result, you get a lot of guys who aren't attractive enough to pick up random chicks at bars and you get a lot of women who are sick of being picked up by the types of guys that make a sport out of picking up random chicks at bars. Those types of girls tend to be attractive. That's not to say that everyone in online dating services falls into one of these two buckets, but that is why you see such weird skews in the data.
I stopped worrying about Internet Explorer in 2004.
Of course you should read your own code. How can you not read your own code?

This is about whether it makes sense to pick an open source project and start reading.
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sourcecow is really orientated more toward the person starting out on twitter vs the person with an established 500 followers/friends. the plugin detects a "follow" event on twitter and window appears the moment you follow someone, at that time you're asked 3 questions, why, how you found them, what you hope to gain by following them.

without a plugin or a way to hit the person at the moment they decided to follow someone you'd have to care to come to the site and tell why afterwards etc. the plugin just facilitates the "get'm now while its hot in yer head"
Actually, 1Password, a Mac-only app (I think) that I use reminded me of this.

For the unaware, the app basically plugs in to your browser and with a "master password" recalls all your logins. I basically go to a webpage, hit the 1p button and I'm golden. If it's the start of a session, I'm asked to enter my master password and that's about it.

Obviously the service doesn't have any control of this, and I am reliant on 1password's security and the security of my password, but it's convenient. I can't see email being the only login because I'd be worried of giving my email password to anybody.
There are no pypy bindings for gtk or QT... or the gnome or KDE libraries.
Possibly, but it is still a bit scary that notepad may be attempting to launch every open-file dialog from current Windows implementation all the way down to NT 3.1, passing through Vista, XP, 2000, NT4 and 3.5 incarnations on a "is this available?" fashion.

The code under the hood must be horrific.
I'd love to try rescuetime, but their linux client was working last time I tried. Don't remember what the issue was exactly though.
I'm confused. It doesn't seem there's a way to read the webcam from HTML5, right? Did he just upload a video? Or am I missing something here?
You all probably know about this one, as it came out a couple of years ago, but I still think its one of the best. . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWROdOMAoKQ
After reading the article I'm still torn on where to stand. School systems are under siege from parents and bureaucrats and the teachers are caught in the middle. What is the optimal amount of homework? Who benefits from rote work? If your a professor or college educated, chances are your children are in a better position, intellectually, than someone that never graduated highschool. Rote work probably won't for your kids, but might be necessary to someone else's kid. Most schools don't make a delineation between the have/have nots. So giving someone more work, and others less would create a different scandal.

I applaud Dr. Cockshutt's involvement with her kids work but there are a lot more parents that are only concerned about the reports that come at the end of the semester. Paying no attention to what's going on, currently. These are the majority of parents. But really, it's about the teachers covering their ass. That way when some parent pleads ignorance about their kid failing teacher can point to every paper that was signed by said parent.
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Wouldn't it be easier (and more elegant) to skip the built-in dialogs altogether and just ship it with a common controls dll that didn't use Windows Explorer elements? I am fine with Microsoft moving things around, but layer upon layer of obsolete functionality doesn't strike me as even professional.

Hell... If one of my developers even attempted such a stunt we would have a long code review session discussing it.
Yes it is possible. There are countless examples. ghc is one.
That is what package management solved long ago in the Linux world: you have three products: two you launch, and the third is a dependency of both.

Simple, elegant and, since I am writing this, it works.
I've heard the theory that men mostly agree about who they consider attractive, but that women have much more varied tastes. Which of course suggests that women should approach men, not the other way around.
"Totally decent-looking" dudes are actually co-founders of OkCupid :)

http://www.okcupid.com/about-us
More competition is never a bad thing, true. But IE is so far behind it's genuinely slowing the development of the internet and it really looks like IE9.x will continue this trend.

Forget the rendering differences (for which you can argue there are legacy issues that MS should care about) the pure speed of JS in the various IE's REALLY hurts the internet. Even a moderately complex Google maps mash up requires serious thought on IE as it's just SO slow.
I use this with Firebug all the time - it's a fantastic tool for exploring the jQuery API against the DOM of any web page. A lot of the time I'll use this technique to prototype a new feature "live" for one of my own sites.
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It should be started with a well known saying that stolen waters are so sweet and it could be said for certain that anything else beats it. That is what drives a married woman or a married man to play second.
Although it's not quite what you mean there is Cython - it's a Python extension to Distutils that lets you convert Python code to C & compile it.

We actually use this in the way you describe - using the interpreter as our test bed but compile it via Cython (for code protection and speed reasons) on deployment.
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Pretty cool, but I don't like the logo, it's hard to read. V & e have too similar colors and the "Ven" part is too tight above each other.
Just trolling I think...
I think Common Lisp standard requires implementations to have both interpreter and compiler, but allows some freedom how to do it. Some implementations compile to byte code (I think CLISP does this), and some compile to native code on the fly (SBCL). Haskell and OCaml also have both interpreters and compilers available. So yes, it is quite possible.
I fail to see the slippery slope. The whole point of teaching your kid a language, or a set of manners, or religious rituals, or whatever, is to enable him to participate in a community. Raising your child into a fangroup organised around a violent species from a television show is qualitatively different from raising him into a real world minority community with an actual cultural and social life.

The "Klingon community" has no system of helping its members to make friends or find mates, no useful information about the real world, no "payload" of beneficial values to inculcate in its members (as PG put it in "Lies we tell kids"), no inspirational works of art produced by people it recognises as intellectual forebears, etc. That makes it objectively inferior to pretty much any "involuntary" (religious/ethnic/geographical) community no matter how small, and even most "voluntary" communities (e.g. hackers).
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Maybe he couldn't get in touch with him because he didn't know how to spell his name. Oh wait, he says he didn't feel he should. Misspelling the name was an entirely separate fail.

After the Scamville fame, Arrington puts things back into perspective. They just can't bother thoroughly researching a story, because somebody (Mashable, ReadWriteWeb) will beat them in a race to FIRST POST!!1
No he is saying fix it properly or just don't bother - if this was released tomorrow we'd have 3 different versions of IE to worry about.
It's a nice idea; I hope it works. Dear god how I could use a business mentor.
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I enjoyed the article, and have circulated it internally, but It's a shame that he couldn't run MongoDB reliably- Redis versus MongoDB would have been the most interesting to me.
If the future sounds like that I'm going to weep.
Based on empirical data (walking through my local park each morning) if I ever put a profile on a dating site the best picture to use would be one of my puppy.
JS has only recently picked up speed, with vastly improved implementations in recent browser versions. It is not surprising that the one or other vendor is lagging behind, but why shouldn't they be able to catch up? So what is bad about a new IE with faster JS?
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I don't know if my code qualifies as good code, but well anyway I want to share that I never read code in my programmer life without the need to read code.

I read code when I've to modify it, or when I'm really curious about how something is working, or when I searched for bugs back in my "security researcher" past life. But it was either needed or fun. To read code as an exercise can be pretty boring I guess, this is not what programming should look like.

I can't see how there is so much value in reading a big codebase that expresses more or less the same style and patterns in many places. Maybe it's better to check for some interesting code in different projects. I bet that reading SICP or an algorithms book and to code a lot is a much better way to spend your time.

A good approach IMHO is to try to write some non trivial code, for instance an interpreter for a simple programming language, and if you have problems try to check what other code looks like and how it address the same problems you are facing. Then it will no longer be a pain to read parts of the implementation of Ruby or Python or Tcl, since you are discovering very interesting things, solutions to problems you encountered.

Another thing that's worth a lot more your time is to learn new programming languages. But there is no point in learning Python if you know Ruby, or the contrary. You should try to learn languages that are really different. For instance SmallTalk, FORTH, Lisp, C, Assembler, Haskell, Joy, Ruby, Tcl are different enough.
That sounds kind of evil. It would be a great way of getting advice for dressing, hair, etc.
quote: "Similarly digitally enhanced are the electric violins, a family of new hybrid instruments that are sufficiently well-established to become a mainstay of the modern music scene."

I don't know about the new part of it, Jean-Luc Ponty has been fiddling with electricity since since the late-60's.

For some examples and maybe early '80's hair see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKkMvBvyqvE (violin starts around 1:15), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk3ffGs40VY&feature=playe.... Plenty of other examples are out there, some of it wears well.

For more recent stuff, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_T9adkdBhY.

I have good memories of reading the whole Chronicles of Narnia to the album "Imaginary Voyage": http://www.amazon.com/Imaginary-Voyage-Jean-Luc-Ponty/dp/B00...
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What I found confusing was the name. "InvSqrt" reads to me as "Inverse square root"... Well, the inverse function of the square root function is just to square the number!

Apparently, what they meant was "1/sqrt", so ideally the function should have been called "ReciprocalSqrt" or something like that.

In fact, this is so confusing that I would argue that's actually just an incorrect name for what the function does.

It's true that mathematicians write "sin^-1" to mean the "inverse sin" function, for example, but they never mean 1/sin(x) when they do this, and they would never say "inverse sin" to mean "1/sin(x)".
Prototypal inheritance in JavaScript is Object-Oriented, it's just not classical.
Actually the different between compiled and interpreted language is very weak. For example, when you compile a C program the result is a code in a machine language and the machine language is "interpreted" by the Control Unit of the processor but if you are running the machine code in a emulator it is actually interpreted by the emulation layer.
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I think the IE9, Firefox, V8 and Squirrelfish Extreme JS engines are all "fast enough". When you start performing that quickly, JS is no longer the bottleneck. The graphs the MSDN blog post has seem to demonstrate this nicely. Amdahl's Law and all that.
Here's another famous one, at the otehr end of the scale: http://www.bluejeanscable.com/legal/mcp/index.htm (The "Our response" link is the one, but the others may be useful for context.)
I really don't like the idea of one language suitable for all problems. I actually like that there are different languages that are better suited to different domains.
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I think this is the only piece of software where effort has specifically spent on making the interface more brown. Is this what Mark Shuttleworth called 'a designer's touch'?
Come to think of it, HotOrNot probably already provides that.
Emphasis should be on the phrase "...for an eight year old."
Surely this reverse lookup (or failure of lookup) should be cached by MySQL?
I have no idea what he's talking about there. Firefox supports ligatures, but ultimately relies on the OS to do the font rendering, just like IE does. DirectWrite's support for Y-directional subpixel antialiasing and subpixel positioning is what IE9 will benefit from. (A DirectWrite backend is in the works for Firefox, too.)

DirectWrite rendering is better than the next best Windows rendering, which has so far been the best rendering across OSes -- yes, this is a personal opinion, and no, I'm not interested in debating the relative merits of Windows and OS X rendering. Unless Firefox gets its DirectWrite backend first, IE9 will have the best rendering available on any desktop platform.
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The problem is then verifying that that email address _is_ you.

With a URL it's trivial. Take mine for instance - andrewducker.livejournal.com

1) Go to that URL. Look for something like this:
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2) Forward the user there, saying that you're expecting them to be "andrewducker.livejournal.com"

3a) If you're already logged in and have given permission to that server to authenticate you to the page you came from then you just bounce back to the "success" page.

3b) If not then you have to log in and then it bounces you back.

4) Success

How would you do this with an email address?
Eh, I don't buy that. I've got a client site that does fade-in/fade-out effects on multiple simultaneous elements, ajaxyness, and horizontally scrolled lists of images. It also uses jquery-like css selectors to target elements, and it intelligently re-renders (in realtime) selected page elements when the page is resized.

I can do all of that in IE 6, 7, or 8, without maxing out a CPU core.

What I can't do, and really would like to do, is offload more of the page rendering to Javascript, and the only reason I can't do that is because of the various noscript users out there.
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The demo is using a recorded video in the left view, with JS processing on the right. When he (I) was developing it, I used VLC to stream the webcam to the page.

If you view-source, I've got a link to the documentation on how I did that: "To use this with a webcam instead of a saved video you'll need to stream your webcam via the same domain this is running from. http://nicklothian.com/blog/2009/11/17/using-a-webcam-with-h... has some docs on this."
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> It doesn't completely surprise me; it's always been my impression that the average female is more attractive to the average male than vice versa.

Average looking != average attractive. If asking a woman about how attractive a man is based only on a photo you will get results like that because you've withheld most of the information she'd use to judge his attractiveness in person.
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No, the real concern is that someone who doesn't understand the issue as well as "root" now can install software that has an exploit.

Ex: I have a server in my office. My kids use it for this and that. One of them decides it's be cool to install the new TI->Ipod widget. Three days later I'm unknowingly hosting pirated movies.

Edit: I made up the TI->ipod thing. Don't want to waste anybody's day!
Read this earlier. Dead on. Any company which cannot build decent software does not have a bright future. Not just in computers -- probably any field. Software is becoming a more pervasive part of life every year. The many who cannot adapt will be easily replaced by the few who can. And with software, it really is easy for one person or company to replace thousands in a single stroke.

For now, though, this effect is probably most visible in the tech field. There's a large and growing disparity in profits between companies which can produce good software, such as Apple, Google and Microsoft, and those which cannot. I suspect this disparity will more and more reflect how the economy functions for individuals. It wouldn't surprise me if the wealth gap further widens every year. I'm not sure if our politicians, society or culture are prepared to deal with it.
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I assume he means creating their own user experience. As all the examples he gives of companies creating their own OS are actually using Linux.
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(Full disclosure: we homeschool our kids.)

My impression is that things have changed in the last ten years. We have friends with young kids who have been through interview processes for preschool. Other friends have complained about the academics in their kids' preschool, or kindergarten (academics in kindergarten? Really? I recall playing and napping, and maybe learning the alphabet.) Many parents are concerned with preparing their kids for college while still in grade school, and the in many cases, it is likely the schools caving to the pressures of parents--they feel without homework, their kids won't be properly prepared.

That said, I don't think this is universal. We have friends who teach at smaller private schools that follow a more classical education model, and their students generally aren't required to do large amounts of homework.
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Ubuntu has adopted a not-widely-used colour (probably there are reasons for /that/) and sticks to it consistently (to the dismay of many :). As an effect, many people (who have seen Ubuntu) now associate orange/brown with it. It's simple brand recognition.

(Personally I don't like their choice, but in a world saturated with bluish/lightgrayish/greenish/sunny spring morning colours, it's a brown cow)
OS is more than a kernel and some drivers.

Unless you would consider Android, Palm's WebOS, Nokia's various OSs, Arch and Ubuntu to all be equivalent.
I have had Google give horrendus CS on accounts on that scale. 100k is still small fry to Google.

But that shouldn't matter. No one is trying to get Eric Schmidt on the phone. $150k, $15k or even $150 is plenty relative to returning a phone call, which is what it costs them & what your relative fry-ness should be measured against.
Come on! Extensively testing notepad?! How hard can that be?
You're right. Its much easier to have domain specific languages specially built for certain problems. The appeal of a single language, I guess, is that you only need to learn one language and you can work on all problems. Then again, if you have good support for macros and other such "niceties" then you can remold the language to be domain specific anyway, so I think having a single super language isn't so far fetched and is actually not a bad idea really.
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Is Will Shatner writing titles for TC now? ;-)