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Felt in NJ as well.

For Linux users wanting to watching without using browser + flash, using mplayer + rtmpdump:

  rtmpdump -v -r rtmp://livestfslivefs.fplive.net/livestfslive-live/ -y "aljazeera_en_veryhigh?videoId=747084146001&lineUpId=&pubId=665003303001&playerId=751182905001&affiliateId=" -W "http://admin.brightcove.com/viewer/us1.24.04.08.2011-01-14072625/federatedVideoUI/BrightcovePlayer.swf -p "http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/ -a "aljazeeraflashlive-live?videoId=747084146001&lineUpId=&pubId=665003303001&playerId=751182905001&affiliateId=" | mplayer -

Google Cache ftw : http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:h7y-OFV...

This comment by coffeemug is the most relevant advice I have every found for anyone wanting to become a competent programmer/hacker : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1747713

Also from http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html :

"So, if you want to be a hacker, repeat the following things until you believe them:"

To follow the path:

    look to the master,

    follow the master,

    walk with the master,

    see through the master,

    become the master.

I find articles like this on how to date a female / male geek very aggravating unless they are meant to be satirical or in plain jest . Analyzing some of the things mentioned in this blog post:

"As opposed to their male counterparts, many female geeks are into hygiene and looking nice for public viewing. But that’s where similarities end."

Really? What is similar between geeks regardless of gender is their geeky interests and hobbies. Some kind of sad generalization about appearance and hygiene is just pathetic.

"Female geeks have very particular needs, and if you can’t meet them, consider yourself pwn3d."

The usage of pwn3d makes it hard to take the author's advice seriously.

"Tell her she’s pretty"

Hard to grasp how the author managed to figure out the golden mantra to woe all female geeks.

In conclusion the person who wrote this blog post needs to change the title to : "How to date me".

These days I find this comment by coffeemug (lists three things) relevant when it comes to advice regarding programming as a career : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1747713

Reminds me of another female virus writer "Gigabyte" who she references in the interview : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte_(virus_writer)

I moved to Mountain View about 2 months ago and paying $1400 for a two-bedroom as well.

I would recommend adding a slide-show or short screencast on the homepage to give users an overview of the features.

Feature request: Ability to browse list of existing tags would be great apart from the auto-complete feature.

In what ways have you found aspiring hackers participating in open source projects use Github to become competent hackers?

Also, thanks for the very inspiring talk at Startup School.

I personally find the 'cyberpunk' sub-genre of anime fascinating.(According to wikipedia entry: "Plots often centered on a conflict among hackers, artificial intelligences, and megacorporations")

The prime example would be the "Ghost in the Shell" anime series and movies. The Wachowski brothers, makers of "The Matrix", have mentioned this series as an influence.

Also "bpython" is useful for exploratory programming in python and is an able replacement for the standard python shell http://bpython-interpreter.org/ The screenshots speak for themselves: http://bpython-interpreter.org/screenshots/ Some of the features I love are:

* Readline-like autocomplete with suggestions displayed as you type.

* In-line syntax highlighting.

* Displays expected parameter list for any Python function.

* "Rewind" function to pop the last line of code from memory and re-evaluate. etc

A command line version:

curl -silent randint.com | grep "</h1>" | sed 's/\<\/h1\>//'

Notifo is awesome! I have been using it for some toy projects like: http://github.com/himanshuc/macanator. Also, http://push.ly works great with notifo for twitter notifications. Overall, I am a satisfied user and think you will most definitely be away from the deadpool.

I bought an Asus Eeepc 1201t 12 inch netbook from newegg a few days ago and the experience so far has been very pleasant : http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220...

* AMD Athlon Neo MV-40(1.60GHz)

* 12.1" WXGA

* 2GB Memory

* 250GB HDD

* ATI Radeon HD 3200

Not bad for $380 I think! Also Ubuntu 9.10 runs fine on it except the wifi driver which has to be manually installed but only involves an extra minute or two.

Link to the announcement on the developer's blog: http://linuxoniphone.blogspot.com/2010/04/ive-been-working-o...

It seems to be automatically disabled for any Google domains like Gmail or Google search.

Is anyone hiring in Dallas, TX?

I am currently reading the beta ebook version of "Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages" : http://www.pragprog.com/titles/btlang/seven-languages-in-sev... My expectation from the book is to get a brief but fun tour of seven programming languages and the different paradigms that they embrace.

During the live event they mentioned that it might take up-to a few days for Buzz to show up in Gmail for everyone.

For those wanting to read the book offline :

wget -r -l1 --no-parent -A.aspx http://www.ctocorner.com/fsharp/book/

In this episode of the online show "Hak5" they demonstrated some home-brew multi-touch interfaces and they used those to interact with demos built in Flash : http://www.hak5.org/episodes/episode-624

Raganworld's markdown rendered blog @ github http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic has convinced me that while eye-candy and design is great, it is the content of the blog post itself that is of more value to me as a reader.

This has been built using terminal.js : http://www.masswerk.at/termlib/index.html

This sort of in browser shell seems to be useful for building stuff like "MongoDB Browser Shell" http://mongo.kylebanker.com/

I should have probably waited for the video to be up on http://rubyconf2009.confreaks.com/

The same thing happened to me a while back when I was bored in history class and was solving some Project Euler problems in Ruby + Vim. The guys behind me just bluntly asked me if I was a hacker and if I could get "into" the school network ..whatever that was supposed to mean!

I recently submitted this article about Ruby design : http://www.scribd.com/full/24764060?access_key=key-bmp10h1nw... which also uses the idea of Huffman coding in the context of evaluating language design.

Seinfeld's Calendar + Github = http://calendaraboutnothing.com/

"The Calendar About Nothing generates a "Seinfeld Calendar" from your public "Github" feed."

Not only is this useful for visualizing proggit but I am guessing it would work nicely for visualizing any other sub-reddit also!