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well there goes the next 4 hours of my life. the math ones are pretty neat - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_number

how does this compare to something like MixPanel?

doesn't Adobe all ready have a LLVM backend to target the iPhone from ActionScript3?

what sort of data would you want access to? the urls discovered by topic or more like the clicks/url (since thats available from Bitly)

being passed out for a 20+ flight to Asia sounds good to me :)

I think he was referring to the students difficulty in "expressing" themselves in code. In the same fashion non-native speakers have a hard time expressing ideas in a foreign language.

For example, I know I want to ask for another beer but composing the sentence along with all the right grammars is hard for me in Spanish. Similarly, to a novice programmer she may know she wants a loop but writing out the correct syntax is simply difficult for her.

we've all seen how well voice chat works on say multiplayer console games...no thanks.

I don't like it either. Doing this without any context is creepy and a little un-nerving. People would probably go to some length for $1000.

I'm in Boston and I agree, Yelp is pretty much the de-facto real world review site.

the biggest problem with flash sockets is the insane security policy file business.

I got the impression that in a lot of big organizations they just get automatically added by the email client. The funniest by far is when you get a forwarded email with one of those signatures in the footer.

would probably lead to some pretty crazy GPU/CPU rigs. especially if the CPUs were "aware" that workloads could be offloaded to the GPU.

Another thing to consider is physical disk i/o. I know on our VPS (its not hosted with one of the big guys), if one of our VPS "neighbours" does something IO heavy like importing a big MySQL database they can basically bring our VPS to a crawl.

It seems like the real shock to the world markets was that Abu Dhabi stood quiet instead of immediately stepping in to guarantee at least some of the money.

It happened before http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123532630416442781.html so why not again?

HBO

people always butcher the camelCasing on our company name. It's supposed to be Setfive but people will often write SetFive or Set Five. good thing the bank really doesn't care.

well a Porsche might be a poor example because its an easily recognized symbol.

what about two men entering a trendy club and one is dressed in an off the shelf suit and a $20 watch while the other is wearing a suit that costs as much as some people's monthly paychecks and a watch to fit. Will the second man project more confidence and therefor be more successful?

I've always been interested in truly alternative captcha designs. I like the "math problem" idea or even something crazier like reading the time of an analog clock?

I have trouble finding interesting and attractive girls to go drinking with ;)

PHP's closures are abhorrent. The syntax is partly the problem but also the fact that functions aren't first class objects in PHP.

I wonder how this gets such detailed information about network and DOM events without injecting debug signals into the browser binaries?

would probably be a lot of work for you.

I mean the cheapest slices over at Slicehost are $20/mon and that should be pretty decent for experimentation puporses. Granted 256mb of RAM isn't a lot but hell I managed to get Firefox to start...

I guess we should find a cheap fab plant and start selling these to hobbyists?

it sounds like Jaxer has a build of SpiderMonkey running inside it which provides server side JS support.

Selenium RC starts Firefox instances though which means I'll have to be running a X11 server on our CI box. I actually gave this a whirl with Xvfb but it still uses tons of memory.

no kidding. I'm running Ubuntu Jaunty and I still can't get decent drivers for my Radeon X1550

I'd be more interested in seeing these techniques applied to Javascript that is coded up with a framework (say jQuery for arguments sake).

For example, what is the performance penalty of:

  var arr = [1, 2, 3];
  for(var i=0; i < arr.length; i++){ //stuff }
  // versus
  $.each( arr, function(i, val){ // stuff } );

Or @ caching:

  $("a").each( function(){
    $(this).click(
      $(this).find("img").hide();
    );
  });

  // versus

  $("a").each( function(){
    var targetImage = $(this).find("img");
    $(this).click(
      $(targetImage).hide();
    );
  });

"This is a high quality crawl of top web sites, using AWS’s Elastic Map Reduce, Concurrent’s Cascading workflow API, and Bixolab’s elastic web mining platform."

so two questions. what exactly is a "high quality" crawl? and who is going to be the judge of "top websites"?

agreed. what's up with the "z"s also? "skillzneeded" really?