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"Statements like "warns me that if I remove an electrode and break the connection, the voltage passing through my brain will blind me for a good few seconds." which may be a misreporting"

Could be, could be what the fella actually said - if someone did say that to me I'd be less inclined to allow them apply electrodes to me... and that's the professional.

The amateurs (as linked from the article) are burning themselves...

From http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showtopic=7943

"it actually burnt though the skin and left bruise marks. i hope it's gonna go after few days coz i look really silly"

Yeah, I think I'll give it a miss, thanks.

"we own any App you write for a phone"

Does this refer to apps written on company time or using company resources? Or any application written for a phone from anywhere at any time?

Ah, is there a time limit on link reposting, then? Usually I get redirected to the discussion if the topic is stale.

"Despite the articles pro-capitalist rhetoric"

Ah, so it wasn't just me who heard "Closer to the Heart" play ;)

"If Google+ is opted in by default on Android now...

...I think this is the case with ICS"

A Google+ account is created from any account I use to log into ICS? Have you a link which confirms this?

I use a pseudonymous account on my Android phone.

I'm sure this has been posted here many times before, but I think it deserves another airing:

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm - Fibonacci Flim-Flam

I got an NC100 from a friend of mine and I (hopefully just) blew a fuse by connecting the wrong power supply.

I must get it up and running again - the z88dk[1] compiler supports it. It also makes a serviceable portable serial terminal.

[1] http://www.z88dk.org/

Different class of thing altogether, but a BASIC compiler targeting the ZX Spectrum implemented with Python/PLY:

http://www.boriel.com/software/the-zx-basic-compiler/?lang=e...

It's on here because I posted it.

I write code, I do not like waste.

Dancer and Plack middleware:

http://advent.perldancer.org/2011/16

I don't believe Google caches images, just the text content so the inline images are still being pulled from the troubled site.

Have you considered using RVM?

http://beginrescueend.com/

I use it to replicate Ubuntu 10.4 server setups on my Arch dev box. RVM does weird stuff with 'cd' so you may prefer rbenv:

https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv

...though I have no experience of that.

"Humble Bundle games always work on Windows, Mac, and Linux"

The experience of the mono-compiled Atom Zombie Smasher (from Bundle 1 or 2 IIRC) was pretty poor on Linux.

Never got to play it myself - I saw it mentioned that it was easier to get it running using wine + the windows installer (including all the faffing about with dotnet under wine) than natively. Might try that this weekend.

All other bundle titles I have played run well, apart from the occasional dual head quirk (though I am more likely to blame nvidia's poor randr support for that)

Have you seen Sunvox? Tracker/synth/sequencer all in one:

http://www.warmplace.ru/

Lots of fun.

"It's a false dichotomy typically imagined by those who have never worked on medium to large-sized products"

In my experience it's not necessarily false, especially when the test cycle has a weak regression suite.

One project I worked on was an embedded system with tight resource management requirements. The teams were split into features and stability/performance scrums. Each new feature would have the performance people crying out loud at the new overheads introduced.

A performance/stability-minded code reviewer on each team alongside a strong performance regression test cycle might have seen the project succeed but the pace imposed by a fast agile dev cycle precluded this sort of discipline.

Marketing wanted features and wanted them now - The demo is Friday, chop chop!

Not a false dichotomy but a manufactured one, perhaps.

Pithy, but I usually answer headlines framed as a question "No". If evidence was present or the idea cogent then no question is required.

"I'm simply asking questions" - an intellectually lazy way of implanting an idea.

"It's like Microsoft 3389 RDP without fullscreen but each individual window"

Sounds more like plain old X forwarding.

"It's not a coincidence that Google, Apple, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Zynga, and Yahoo are all in the same area"

Dublin?

I kid. But seriously, come to Ireland startups! Tax haven! Economy in ruins! Need jobs!

I might move to the states but it seems counter-productive to me to move from one insane theocracy to another.

I would be very interested to know if this is in use outside the US (specifically, inside the EU).

Looks like a serious breach of data protection directives:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive

Personally identifiable, highly personal information gathered by a third party without permission, let alone notification.

"So what web framework are we supposed to use now?"

Flippant answer: Whatever works

Pointed answer: I am paid to write RoR apps. When I need to get stuff done at home I use Perl, if it's for the web I recommend Dancer[1], which was inspired by (i.e. nicked from[2]) Sinatra[3].

I've found MVC to be a little bit too much architecture and scaffolding for many tasks.

edit: Not to say I don't want an architecture, but the routes and templating of Dancer are the essentials. Occasionally I will find myself missing the bloody lovely validations in Rails' ActiveRecord, but I am usually grateful for the light weight of the finished product and the fact that the entirety of it fits in my head when building with Dancer.

[1] http://perldancer.org/

[2] ;)

[3] http://www.sinatrarb.com/

"I have two children and one is a son born on a Tuesday."

If it were about the phrasing you could assume the other child is a daughter - if he were to continue ... "The other is also a son, born on a Friday" it would just sound strange.

Perhaps it is all down to his turn of phrase :)

"This is an important reminder that events do not progress in a straight line"

Yes, Google+ is the intermediate step in the all seeing "identity" service depicted in this story ;)

"Definitely shame on your IT guys for not blocking outbound connections to your own proxy at the firewall"

So, are you going to try to distinguish between me using my https banking service and my VPS with sshd bound to ports 22 and 443?

In the EU you may find yourself in an legally ambiguous situation deploying the level of packet inspection required to achieve that.

"A lot of my problems with IT departments would be solved if the IT folks recognized that people with degrees in computer engineering and computer science tend to be able to take care of their own machines"

But that's not true. I work as a developer or an admin depending on my mood and the money, I would not consider one able to do the job of the other even though I have done each with the same degree in hand.

The discipline of designing stable, maintainable systems & networks or writing code to requirements precisely and accessibly are distinct and often wildly different. Little of it comes with your degree.

That said, my current gig is quite good in that regard: "We support A, B and C. If you want to use X and Z you're on your own. Here are the guidelines on security and patching."

You need the Doom 3 data files - buy the game.

"Please, do elaborate! In detail, why is git better than subversion if all I need is a central repository for a few people working at a company on one site, sitting in the same room with permanent network access. No distributed or remote or on-the-go development, no forks"

You describe my environment almost exactly. I am pushing for a git migration mostly for the low-overhead branching/merging as I can have multiple discrete tasks on a given project which need to be rolled out individually.

"hard drive sealing system" - I'm pretty sure you can't completely seal a disk, it needs some surrounding air to deal with pressure changes and such.

Wonder if they can control the pressure to the point you can seal it... or if the seal itself incorporates an air flow system.

How complex can this sealing system be while still allowing the disks to fit in the bays?

"Google is much faster and more reliable"

Until our novice looks for information on PHP and mysql and thinks 'mysql_real_escape_string_honest_this_time' is a great idea.

Or until our novice decides to learn Perl:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3158276

"Actually, last year Twitter launched a JavaScript-heavy rewrite that was much slower to load and interact with than it was previously. It seems to have improved since then, but at the time it was fairly tiresome to use"

I use twirssi myself, but a common complaint I've heard of the twitter site istself is that its auto-refresh will destroy work-in-progress tweets.

(The 140 char limit can lead to serious time spent crafting responses without resorting 2dis typ o stf)

"2. Merging/branching/comparing etc. of various versions.

For a single developer with a pre-MVP development, point two is really irrelevant. (I'm sure there are cases where it wouldn't be, but I'm generalizing)"

For me, most of the the strength of my chosen revision management toolkit comes down to its simple-to-invoke branch/merge alone. The ability to start a new branch for every idea and change request means I can manage and roll out changes far more effectively than with plain old versioning and backup.