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Have you ever tried https://openscad.org/?

Great article, always happy to see my home country featured abroad.

Just to nitpick, however:

> Got independence from the USSR in 1991 and had some power struggles until a Soviet guy took over in 1994 and then won a brutal civil war against a coalition of Islamic extremists and has been running the country ever since

Calling it Islamic extremists is a bit reductive. The coalition (United Tajik Opposition) was with the Islamic Renaissance Party, a couple of pro-democracy parties which were supported by the majority of the intelligentsia, and also included a party for Pamiri Autonomy. The most common thing among them is they were all united against the Communists.

Source: I am Tajik and was born around the Soviet Union collapsed. Also studied the history of the civil war

I always considered it looked like a rabbit!

everyone that matters...

Why are we so OBSESSED with getting more women into the programming business, and creating an artificial population balance when the natural tendency shows otherwise?

We just need to make sure that there aren't active forces PREVENTING a group of the population from getting into the field.

Providing extra rewards and incentives for minorities to do the same job as the majority is fundamentally discriminatory towards the majority, and at the same time, further promotes gender, racial and other biases towards the minority (which I believe these rewards and incentives intended to diminish in the first place). Thoughts like "oh, she only got this job because she is a woman" will inevitably surface in the minds of other workers, even if they don't say it out loud.

Here is the only solution: drop all rewards that are based on race, gender, or other non-merit based makers. Level the playing field. Make it exactly the same for everyone to ensure a fair assessment of their skills. Then we can have real equality.

I am very disappointed to see this. I have been using BufferBox since the beginning, and it provided immense convenience for both myself, and all of my friends who used the service as well. I was worried that something like this would have happened when they were acquired by Google, and now it has :(

Because they are all Chinese?

Ha, well I was giving credit to where it's due. As a novice coder I find myself always wondering about the bigger picture, and so I can always derive value from a step-by-step process of how someone more experienced than myself has achieved their current status.

This is really good stuff. The roadmap from beginner to expert is generally consistent irregardless of the language or framework.

I always hoped for a "knowledge map" for programming (example: http://www.khanacademy.org/exercisedashboard) that clearly shows knowledge dependancies.

Can this be a step towards developing a comprehensive, collaborative knowledge map which would benefit programmers of all levels?

Here you go Andrew: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=v...!

I tried to be very cautious with what you were doing. I thought about it as well, but moving the analog stick while pressing it would probably put too much unnecessary stress on your thumb muscles. Try doing what I did, I have mentioned it in the comment above.

Hey guys, I did not think this would make front page so fast.

The way I mapped it on JoyToKey was to use the left analog stick as "slow" mouse (15%), and the right analog as fast mouse (100%), this way I can get the cursor to the general area that I want, fast, and then use the slow stick to further drive the analog stick with accuracy. After a while my two thumbs just start working in synchrony, and it really just feels like using a mouse.

in case you are wondering, the mappings are:

L1: Right mouse click, R1: Left mouse click, L2: CTRL+SHIFT+TAB (move to previous tab), R2: CTRL+TAB (move to next tab), D-pad Up: scroll up ,D-pad Down: scroll down, D-pad left: ALT+LEFT (back), D-pad right: ALT+RIGHT (forward), Select: ALT+TAB, Start: HOME (home directory), PS: WIN+G (Open Chrome), Triangle: CTRL+W (close tab), Square: CTRL+= (zoom in), Cross: CTRL+- (zoom out), Circle: CTRL+SHIFT+T (restore tab), Left stick click: F5 (refresh), Right stick click: middle mouse click (scroll).

EDIT: formatting

I initially agreed with you. Pragmatically, as everyone said, HN already is aware of SOPA, shutting it down will be useless. However, at an ideological level (we want internet freedom), the tech community must manifest its protest in a form of coordinated show of disapproval, we cannot be silently and passively opposed to something, and expect the bill not to pass. The OWS movement would be the obvious example of such coordinated "show".