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My point was that your "entry level" car was the same as my "luxury sedan".

My previous ride was a 1990 BMW 535I and before that a 1982 Mercedes. Both purchased when they were over 15 years old and both for less than $3k so paying closer to $10k was quite. Move up.

And I agree that the b6 is the pinnacle of Audi style (at least currently). The b7 and b8 front ends are uglo-cars IMHO. I'm hoping to keep this car for as long as I can. I'm even looking to pick up a spare motor in case mine blows up (I'm getting current one chipped next week).

> old-ish entry-level German car... 2005 Audi A4

Funny... I just bought a new-ish German luxury sedan: 2004 Audi A4. It is newest and most expensive car I have ever owned.

Perspective is a weird thing...

There is a difference between ostracism and witch hunting.

The former is saying no more than "you are not welcome here" while the latter is more insidious.

Besides, it isn't witch "hunting" if the witches are putting out press releases saying "I'm a witch!"

All you need to do is write a regex to match. Currently supported languages are:

BibTeX, C/C++, html, java, ObjectiveC, Pascal, PHP, Python, Ruby, and TeX.

More details can be found in the gitattributes(5) manpage

The author should try adding this to his .git/info/attributes file:

     *.py diff=python

That should make --function-context work better on python source files.

But it is easier to check the the GP's solution:

    return definitions.get(candidate) != null;

vs

    foreach c in definitions(candidate.charAt(0)) {
        if c == candidate.charAt(1)) return true;
    }
    return val;

That leaves aside the general usefulness of knowing the definitions of words.

Also potentially of interest:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3327828

In several of these transcripts you can read the pilots reactions to various warnings (including stall warnings) which might be interesting to look at for comparison.

This is a fantastic question. I can think of no situation where this behavior would be desireable, but then again IANAP

Agreed.

I personally can't think of much more to say than that.

> Most homes are built on top of cinderblock basements,

Block foundations have been replaced in new construction with poured concrete in general (in the midwest, at least). The solid walls are less prone to settling, cracking, and most importantly leaking.

> A lot of commercial work is done in a similar fashion but with aluminum studs instead of wood

Steel, actually. Fire safety is one aspect but it also saves weight and can be lower-cost.

Some home exteriors are made with brick or concrete blocks but a large number (I can't quote a percentage) of American homes are built entirely from lumber. Current construction usually involves sheathing the outside of the house with plywood sheets and covering the sheets with vinyl siding. Interior walls are generally covered in drywall (also called "sheetrock" or gypsum board)

Where are you from and what are homes built with there?

The house has a stucco exterior. Rigid foam insulation clad with a metal mesh covered with a thin layer of what is basically concrete.

> But you can replace the ECU with one of your choice.

As a counterexample: There are certain maintenance procedures for late model Audis that can only be done at the dealership. The diagnostic tool is connected to the car and then phones home to a central system to get vehicle-specific codes required to perform some actions. One such action, oddly enough is getting the car to recognize a new ECU[a].

[a] you can circumvent this by reflashing another ECU with special firmware to become a 'clone' of the original but this would be very analogous to having to 'root' your phone to install different software.

I would watch it too but only if it was 100% BS-free. Simplified, fine. I would even stand for a fair bit of handwaving. But it all needs to be possible.

The words of Sherlock Holmes are apropos: "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."

Just a note: Short and leveraged ETFs are designed to match intraday movement and are poorly suited for long-term holding. It says as much on the website.

To wit: YTD EUR/USD is down .2% and that ETF is down 5%.

Of course you will need Euros for day to day expenses. The idea would be to move your savings onto USD or GBP before the exchange rates spike and convert them back into $local_currency after things in europe settle down.

     ...can you short a currency somehow?

If you have the right brokerage account you can trade currency futures and options but be careful. Such trading is generally very leveraged and the possibility of losing all of your principle is very real(1) so be sure you understand the risks.

(1) this does not apply to buying options.

The enclosure and switch are the same parts used to make guitar effects pedals.

Are there actually a significant number of posts which consist of just a single "This"? Or are you making a statement against the use of that as an opening line before someone adds their two cents.

If the former I might suggest it has something to with the fact that commenting is the only visible form of 'voting' on HN now that comment scores are hidden.

If the latter, I am completely ambivalent. Its a popular turn of phrase it successfully and succinctly communicates agreement and endorsement of the parent comment. At the same time I wouldn't mind terribly if it fell into disuse.

> What scenario can you think of where coercion would be a real issue?

Forget about intimidation and consider bribery. Instead of a domineering boss threatening termination imagine a man with a laptop and a roll of $20 bills.

This article (or one like it) needs to see wide circulation as a counterpoint to the posted article.

All things being equal and assuming some sort of positive savings rate and return on investment older people will _always_ be richer than younger people.

What's more when your denominator is so small (old / young) the increasing X% just becomes silly. If their average wealth decreases $600 (which is the projected impact of rising gas prices next year, I believe) the elderly will then be 56X as wealthy.

Personally, the fact that the average not-old person is swimming in consumer debt, has a 0% savings rate, and that by their own choosing is the real story and one that no one seems willing to touch.

'git diff' already supports --word-diff natively.

There is a difference between setting up shop on a public sidewalk and conducting business on private property.

I'm certain that there are similar legal questions surrounding children doing manual labor. I guarantee you someone would have a fit if they caught an 11 year old cleaning windows.

The only difference is that someone in a chair with a sign is a really easy target.

Sounds like they are trying to push their high-bandwidh users to enterprise pricing.

The $10k/yr Enterprise licence works out to $27/day which breaks even with the incremental pricing at 58k visits/day.

I was expecting this "Scotty Effect":

Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Look, Mr. Scott, I'd love to explain everything to you, but the Captain wants this spectrographic analysis done by 1300 hours.

Scotty: Do you mind a little advice? Starfleet captains are like children. They want everything right now and they want it their way. But the secret is to give them only what they need, not what they want.

Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Yeah, well, I told the Captain I'd have this analysis done in an hour.

Scotty: How long will it really take? Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: An hour!

Scotty: Oh, you didn't tell him how long it would really take, did ya?

Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Well, of course I did.

Scotty: Oh, laddie. You've got a lot to learn if you want people to think of you as a miracle worker.

You have a tool that quantifies real-time performance of indivicual stocks. This information is helpful to make long-term buy/sell decisions. Making such decisions based on this information is apparently profitable.

How is that NOT a stock market predictor?

If everyone knows the secret it is not a secret anymore and the information becomes useless. If too many people are trading using the same algorithm the profit will be squeezed out and the data will be about worthless.

Find a Hedge Fund manager somewhere and get some money to put into the strategy. Of course you may find then that the simple act of investing larger sums will destroy your edge as your trades start having more significant market impact.

Re: A vs AB.

The difference is the fundamental mode of operation with different distortion characteristics. Class A amps will have both odd and even-order harmonics but class AB will be mostly even-order. That is both an audible and and electronically quantifiable difference.

If you are talking sound reproduction then A vs AB is insignificant because you only see the difference when the amplifier starts distorting. If you are a guitar player who drives an amp to distortion as a matter of course this difference is germane.

It is called a slide hammer. The blow to the end of the shaft is transferred to the magnet on the opposite end and pulls the magnet inside.

A major difference is that those agitating for change stand to benefit greatly (or believe they do) by that same change. White civil rights protesters were more altruistic.