jonprins

Thanks for this - I've been running into similar problems. I'll try it out when I get back to my cr48.. didn't bring it into the office today.

This is how I've been working on my side project. Not with EC2 or Linode, but with a Chunkhost (they're running a beta of very small, 20gb disk / 512mb ram) VPS. Using my Cr48 to develop it has been a dream (minus some minor issues with Cr48's tendency to lock up ssh terms if you lose connection, requiring a reboot to get them out of your alt-tab queue).

It's pretty great - not only can I work on it from anywhere with a working ssh client, but I get super fast speeds.

"Personally, I think if science could come to the conclusion that there is/was a deity that created the universe, then that would be wonderful for science. It would open up a vast new arena for science to play in."

No, it would not. If science could "play in that arena," science will have solved the halting problem.

And have defined an algorithm for determining any possible busy beaver number. Which, of course, is related to the previous.

How is "numerous examples, references, quizzes, try it yourself areas" even worth anything if said examples, references, quizzes and so forth are... incorrect?

It's like saying, "Well, at least we have textbooks! Too bad half of them say the world is only 6,000 years old, but hey! No body's written a better text book than this yet!"

And how is it decent as a refresher and function reference, if it's just refreshing fallacies? Try using something that's actually accurate. In fact, MDC has a pretty decent xpath section: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/xpath

Which, considering disk space is cheap, is a better way to do it than getting stuck in apt dependency hell.

If I could get unmetered 10mbps mobile internet, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

I'd pay $150 a month for such a thing.

I take major issue with his prediction that driverless cars would subsume subway usage - at least, in cities where mass rail transit is the norm instead of the exception. Five million ride on NYC's subway every day. No matter how good the algorithms, an additional 2.5m (riders typically ride twice a day - to and from work/school) cars on the streets of Manhattan and the boroughs would be catastrophic.

In that case, blip.tv (per view, content producers can make more money through us than through YouTube).

Full disclosure: I am employed by blip.tv.

I was 7 or 8 when dad installed qbasic (and its packaged games - tetris clone, etc). After getting bored with them, I asked him if there were cheat codes. He said there sure were, and handed me a Learn Qbasic book.

I'm envisioning a piece of software that lets you IM folks, but with the messages steganographically embedded in emoticons and the cleartext messages autogenerated.

Not really.

Tishman Speyer Properties and Black Rock Realty jointly bought Stuyvesent Town and Peter Cooper Village (two very large, sprawling apartment complexes in Manhattan) for over $5bn, back in '06. Of course, they had to give it up in January because things didn't work out quite like they expected (rent controlled apartments don't give up the ghost easily; they'd wanted to turn them into high-class ibanker condos).

Source: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/America...

Not to mention their stance on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_fracturing .