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Lemme guess, 9 days?

perhaps, you might say 'the assumed plaza' for explicit-ambiguity?

    copy the time field from cpuinfo to temp_time'
    backup the low 5 bits of goodnameformemorylocation'
    locA's low 5 to locb's low 5'

Seems like there are a fair number of nice representations. Context is obviously important though: in a kernel, you probably want fairly implicit ways of referring to bits.

Funny, I just read this — http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2010/11/programming-with-natu...

What do you mean "there won't be major new features added"? They still haven't fleshed out the <device> tag yet! And there is plenty more in the works... hopefully Mozilla's audio work will become standard.

s/tricks/fundamentals

Easy.

Carwoo for a Civic. Woops, wasn't happy, refund me.

Carwoo for a Carolla. Compare prices, get Carolla if you want, or get a refund and repeat step 1.

I really think Flattr is misapplied to blogs, to be honest.

I don't want to go around giving micro payments to bloggers to be honest. The things that make me want to Flattr are, well, THINGS.

Applications, tech demos, pieces of art. Things that make me have fun and feel appreciative, rather than things that make me go "Oh, that is useful information" or "Oh, that is an insightful comment".

Great book!

That Paul Graham quote - “Programming languages are not merely technologies, but habits of mind as well.”

Reminds me of an excellent Dijkstra quote, from A Discipline of Programming - "A most important, but also a most elusive, aspect of any tool is its influence on the habits of those who train themselves in its use."

Have you checked around your community for a shop you can use/rent time in?

Altruism doesn't exist, and this is not a bad thing. To 'provide help', even anonymously, is to help yourself by bettering the environment in which you live ("Karma" sans magic).

I don't think anyone has posted any sort of story or comment to HN (or read HN for that matter) without some hope for personal betterment as a result.

As far as chilling trends in the future, I see HN as 'the new Slashdot', and I'd be more afraid of it following similar patterns over the long term.

Interesting; perhaps the addition of SMS, voice call, or more could help people with overtaxed inboxes.

This is pretty much exactly what a normal journal doesn't do for me though (HEY! YOU! WRITE IN ME!)

Put you to 0 out of pity.

I prefer petty thieves to institutional ones.

Practice makes perfect.

Very cool, been waiting for such things to pop up. Now I can draw a penis on any site and send it to friends!

ICANN has been a big drag on the world wide web for far too long. Perhaps stupid politics like this will be the straw the breaks the camel's back.

And attempting to censor the internet could well be the straw that breaks the US federal government's back. As if there isn't enough anti-federalist / libertarian sentiment bubbling up lately, they want to start following after China's Great Firewall? Smart move...

I'm not to worried. Finally a chance to scare people off of the ICANN controlled root!

Hey now, just because anti-oxidants aren't magical doesn't mean they aren't freakin anti-oxidants!

He wants something he can debug.... JSP!?! Jesus shitting christ!

God forbid I ever have to debug something in a language that reads like fucking pseudocode!

Also, there are NON-symbiotic organelles as well! Why can't life elsewhere have created such organelles with identical function to mitochondria?

What you are witnessing is the predictions of Alvin Toffler comming about. From WP,

<quote>The gap between producer and consumer is bridged by technology using a so called configuration system. "Prosumers" can fill their own needs (see open source, assembly kit, freelance work). This was the notion that new technologies are enabling the radical fusion of the producer and consumer into the prosumer. In some cases prosuming entails a "third job" where the corporation "outsources" its labor not to other countries, but to the unpaid consumer, such as when we do our own banking through an ATM instead of a teller that the bank must employ, or trace our own postal packages on the internet instead of relying on a paid clerk.</quote>

As more internet users become Prosumers, the idea of a 'startup' becomes trite. Instead, everyone is a business or two on their own.

I disagree. I don't really think the volume of trivia is much different, just the utility and technicality of it.

Node.js has synchronous, blocking IO options along with all the async ones. Just append Sync to the end wherever it makes sense.

Egads, this is a problem that is still being solved?

I think the only reason for this is no one expected us to still be using FUCKING UNIX at this point in history.

(Seriously... Open does not mean Good, will the OSS community ever 'start fresh'?)

I grew up with 'learn by Googling' as my most used educational tool. It would have been wonderful if it didn't take so much time to sift through the endless misinformation, but doing so really leads to a pretty deep coverage of a topic. "Learning by Google" also often meant "Learning by perldoc" by proxy, or "Learning by O'Reilly e-books", etc. The real difficulty comes to when a subject is obscured by prominent shitty resourcess (Google, please blacklist w3schools.com, and please make the ACTUAL SPECS always turn up as the first result).

Google used to be "the search engine for smart people". Now, as it is the de facto standard, it is "the search engine for everyone".

That means when I search a part number it turns up a pop cd by serial number, when I ask for information on a scientific subject I get a 6 year old yahoo answers post, etc.

I realize now that, in the past, the most value I extracted from Google was finding good resources to refer to again in the future.

I've been considering writing a tool that, upon being queried, figures out 6-12 of the best resources available and googles within them for that query. Kind of the "Yahoo of Google" (back when yahoo was a directory based system)

I'd like to ask a follow up question: is there a good website that specifically tracks these things? I always seem to get news of them after the fact.

You might want to try Rapleaf. Or what Rapportive is using!

As a third option... tailored google searches?