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In his Q&A session after day 1, Jennings said that "I wouldn't call this unfair...precise timing just happens to be one thing computers are better at than we humans. It's not like I think Watson should try buzzing in more erratically just to give homo sapiens a chance."

So my guess is that the daily news had more to do with that title than Ken. It doesn't seem like him, at any rate.

Sounds like the Onkalo nuclear waste repository in Finland. There's a documentary about it where they talk a bit about the difficulties of marking the site in a way that won't just pique someone's curiosity after it's been forgotten.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoyKe-HxmFk

Unfortunately it's not a very good, or enlightening, documentary. Has its moments though.

It was added in the first "CS" version.. Photoshop 5 is, unencumbered.

It's been around for a long time, and was accompanied by a message from the guy who registered it:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=84039

I can't claim to be that well versed in the field of Gantt charts, but a guy I used to work with made:

http://ext-scheduler.com/gantt.html

if you're okay with ExtJS.

While I do not agree with his position, I think it's a little unfair to claim him to be hypocritical based on this article. The linked website is not his, though the text is written by him, and he lives without electricity or running water, and grows his own food (at least he did in the 90's, now I don't know.)

It's because spacing is used for both structure and presentation in HTML, so something like:

    <span>This is some text</span>
    <span>while this is some more text.</span>

shouldn't render the 4 indentation spaces that I used.. If it did we'd have to pack it all into one line. Can be adjusted appropriately with CSS though, if people here were obsessive about the presentation of their spacing.

I've heard the same complaint from a client, adding products to Amazon, and having them taken over.. Definitely a risk to consider when giving a potential competitor all your sales statistics.

I'm not what you'd probably call a WoW 'addict' (never managed to get into the 4+ hours a day for longer than a couple weeks at a time before getting sick of it and quitting,) but I would consider the time that I've played WoW to be a net benefit to me..

I've played with a fair number of people who are in the same field as me, as well as with my own coworkers and managers, which has allowed me to get to know them pretty well and get pretty good job offers and consulting gigs.

But sure, if I had been spending every free moment on WoW, it likely wouldn't have been a worthwhile endeavor.. And for all I know, I would have done something better with the time put into it had I taken up a different hobby.

> I might be getting a chance to work with Dot Net Nuke soon.

Prepare to be disappointed.

I used DNN back in '08, and there were plenty of vulnerabilities if you peeked around in the code a bit.. The up side I guess was that they're rarely actually discovered, since there's not much of anyone paying attention.

Actually working with it was slow and tedious as well, really not an experience I'd like to relive (though for all I know it could have improved a lot in the past years.) When forced into using a .Net CMS I find that Umbraco can do the trick and be.. comparatively painless.

The quoted article (http://web.archive.org/web/20070129125831/iq.org/conspiracie...) was written the same month as the launch of Wikileaks, that seems a fully appropriate time to have made his mission clear.

I don't have anything measurable, but I do work on a slow, glitchy VM with a bloated application on an old machine in some of my projects.. It takes in the several minutes for me to test any changes to the codebase.

It's possible that under the right conditions this might work (though I doubt it..), but in my situation the code has been steadily degrading due to refactoring being too painful of a wait, and having the time for a coffee break between any code change shakes any semblance of concentration on what you're working on straight out of you.

You might be better off deploying to a slower test machine and have it run some time-tests there.

It's really made me realize how irritated i can get by gray blocks moving out of formation.

Yeah, he has 3 monitors and a Cintiq.. http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2010/08/21/getting-started-he...

I live in a kind of dead area, and haven't met people that I respect enough to want to do something with, who wants to do something, and who feel able to committing to do something.. I also don't care much for doing something completely alone, because I don't feel that I learn nearly as much when I'm solo as when I can have people questioning my work.

I'm working on trying to get a hold of work in the US so that I can start the journey back to permanent residency (moved away and am 'back to square zero,') hopefully that can net me some fun people to work with.. But you know, years off, even if I manage to get a hold of a job. I've had a fair amount of smaller companies who have been interested, but not capable of bringing me over, and my (rather few) attempts at getting into larger companies have been stopped thus far by my lousy résumé writing skills.. Have a couple in the works that I still have hope for, but we'll see.

So now I got that off my chest, congratulations on your launch btw! :)

I've tried to come up with which use-cases make sense for C#'s dynamic as well.. Where I mostly could figure that it would really help is with COM interop. Working with something like MS Office is fairly painful in C#3, since you have to pass the "Missing" argument to each of the 20-30 arguments that every method can take, and cast the result of every method.. The named arguments feature would also be useful there.

I've been fortunate enough to avoid having to interop with COM that directly recently, so haven't had to find out whether or not it makes a difference.

Yep, move to Sweden and he'd be shelling out some 90k to put $44000 in his employees pockets (46% payroll tax, 5-15% social security, then 30% income tax on that).. And then there's the 25% sales tax.

I've had a bit of the same issue.. I wrote a similar library a while back, and was hard pressed to find a situation in which JavaScript's method invocation overhead didn't overshadow much of the benefit of the lazy execution.

They're fun to write though, it'd be interesting to see if there are any useful applications.

> Apple doesn't need to be persuaded about HTML5, developers do.

This is only really true if you're not interested in the 1-3g users. The reason developers didn't take to the HTML5 solution was that it was too slow for anything non-trivial.. I don't personally even care for it when making trivial applications, due to the half second delay before interactions make it to your javascript events in WebKit on my 3g phone. The linked game (which isn't particularly complicated) is completely unplayable on it.

But sure, on the current (3g s) and future gens, it does seem like a reasonable alternative.

What he's getting at (I think) is that, you could work around that by using Mono on a linux server, Postgres, MonoDevelop, so on..

Though I wouldn't go down that route personally, so I agree with you.

this surprised me a bit as well.. it seems like:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi...

is likely the case, and it makes some sense if she's incessantly scratching the same area over a year.. (I didn't buy the pdf, but the abstract explains it)

It could well be true, this took effect in Sweden a few years ago anyway. You probably shouldn't be getting PCI certified unless you have a fair amount of time and money to spend on the process.

If your gateway doesn't intend to supply a PCI compatible solution of their own you should probably get another implemented instead. (I have one or two customer that went through PCI certification, it's a pointless hassle and they have to get reassessed once a year)

For smaller sites the conversion rate has tended to increase slightly (in sweden, so ymmv..) when using a reputable vendor.

When it comes to rounded corners, I think the CSS3 solution of both "border-radius" for simple cases and multiple backgrounds per element will solve a fair few problems.

Some of my particular problems with CSS would be that it's insufficient for styling a document, the idea is fine, but to be able to do any advanced css you'll need to muddy up your markup with additional elements to hold styles.

If that were fixed, then it would at least be reasonable, and sure it's slowly moving closer to it. Aside from that I personally dislike the oversimplicity of the style of CSS that leads to difficulties in creating stylesheets that are easy to navigate what with the lack of structure (over a couple of years of fixing up a design stylesheet are rarely that pleasant to look at), having some basic support for variables and calculations to more easily create complementary colors to your document styles also be nice, but eh.

See if I get killed for those opinions.

though i will say, i find this hilarious..

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=population+of+japan+/+(...)