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All this reminds me the story of this guy

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

For these the best approach is to write the whole app in some higher-than-C++ level language with performance critical parts (usually less than 10 percent) in C/C++.

And here is the problem: YOU ARE POPULAR.

And because something is popular doesn't mean it's good. Take modern music. A lot of popular singers attract crowds of people and make tons of money. But very often the music just sucks. And people forget these pop idols as fast as they make new ones.

It would break many of the programs which rely on 2.6.x naming scheme. Linus always was on the side of not breaking things if they do work. It seems that he changed his views for this particular case.

Actually the first beta of FF5 is available for almost a month on their ftp here

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/5.0b1/

People usually tend to construct a perfect image of a person they admire. For example, this is the case for many famous actors and actresses. Some of them play heroes and almost perfect people in movies. But these movie-good-guys in many cases turn out to be ass-holes-in-real-life.

Or consider some beautiful fashion models looking at you from covers of big magazines. People tend to transfer their beauty (which is only due to good make-up in many cases) to their personality. They construct an image of a perfect women usually forgetting the what they see is just a picture in a magazine.

When we meet people we admire in everyday life we can be badly disappointed by reality... unfortunately.

"U.S. citizens order from Canadian and overseas pharmacies to get cheaper prices on medicine, though it’s illegal even with a prescription or for drugs not available in the I.S.[sic]"

It is illegal for a US citizen to order non-US drugs. WTF???

This will be another occurrence of Streisand effect.

Does community have expert economists? I mean the traditional currency markets have been around for quite a while and a lot of really smart people participated in their development. Bitcoin has a small and immature community and there are a lot of things which require certain expertise and experience to judge about correctly.

I think mutability was unavoidable because in the early days memory an CPU cycles were too expensive to waste them for copying data.

I think in the long run for such amounts of storage Tape Libraries would be the cheapest solution (in terms of cost per GB and management)

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

While F# is a great language, its main problem is that it is basically MS only. At the current stage of development mono lags behind official MS .net implementation too much in terms of performance/stability/features.

If the attack is specifically against your site these won't help.

jacquesm really added ads to his site.

I think you should apply. In case your application will be accepted you'll have a unique YC experience. As a Canadian you shouldn't have any visa problems to come to US for 3 months.

In case you won't be accepted... At least you have tried.

Here is a video of tsunami caused by this earthquake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcaFBlH8tjM

He means that instead of implementing an Abstract Factory for creation of related objects you can simply use plain old KISS new keyword.

1. Communism is a political system & ideology; not an economic system (See Communism article in Wikipedia). In fact the country can be a communist society and have a fairly open (liberal) economic system (China).

2. The ideology in USSR was exactly the same - the war against evil west. There were a lot of propaganda about decaying western society and how in 10 years we will build communism and win the Cold War.

3. The economic situation in North Korea is very bad. People would starve there if China would cease it's economic help.

4. Don't think that people there have no understanding of the situation inside their country. In USSR there was an Iron Curtain and totally controlled media but still many people understood the situation and discussed it in their kitchens. People feel the situation very well when they see the dramatic difference between the idealistic picture in government controlled media and in real life.

The history shows that this may happen sooner than many expect. In 80s nobody in the USSR could even imagine that in several years the country would not exist.

There is one big difference. In North Korea you have only one point of view presented to the people - the point of view of the party. In democratic society you can have and freely express an opposing point of view.

Single page:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9206998/How_App...

I don't know about rich/poor suicide rates but in developed/developing countries the suicide rates are higher than in undeveloped world.

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

I wonder if the guy who wrote this went to college himself...

While I agree that many scientific articles are worth reading, I think that it's almost impossible to read everything even in your field of interest. The point is to get the most interesting and important ones.

So I suggest reading what is called Review articles following the references if necessary.

Single page:

http://www.newsweek.com/2011/01/23/the-genius-dilemma.print....

If you are talking about VKontakte in Russia, you are wrong. VKontakte (launched 2006) is a clone of Facebook (even the design is copied from FB). It's criticized in Russia for the same reasons as FB here.

FB lost because VK was specifically targeted at Russian audience from the beginning.

Single page

http://www.slate.com/id/2281146/pagenum/all/

This should be:

1. Think about mistakes you've made today 2. Make a "list" of the #1 thing that you must complete tomorrow

Maybe it was a wrong word. I have to see the book to make conclusions, but I doubt that a book on Bayesian statistics may contain something highly controversial that needs to be banned.

I didn't realize that things in China are that crazy...