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Same here. I'm with Heisenberg, "When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first."

Its the 80-20 rule in effect. Most optimization happens either by choosing the more efficient implementation or by better use of IO (see Efficient Persistent Data Structures). By the time you are down to putting in your own rewrite rules in for the optimization pass you have gone a long way into the weeds and it is a pretty advanced skill.

Twitter is working when proxied through Europe. Not working on the west coast of the US.

Global Variable? Make it go away!

To me this feels more like the head of the KKK suggesting that we should have a national conversion about the proper place of blacks in society.

It is not very obvious that this is an active site on the page.

Ok, I'l be candid, I never feel very confident in my ability to separate news from hype when it comes to medical innovations. Can someone with some experience in the field give me some idea about how authoritative and well founded this report is. So many times researchers with put out this big press release of an initial finding that is going to completely rewrite a branch of medical science, then it gets peer reviewed into oblivion and is never mentioned again.

Are we sure that this should not be Carbon Monoxide rather then Carbon Dioxide. CO2 is the ideal result of complete combustion of a hydrocarbon. The only way it can be too high is if the engine is burning more fuel then it should be. Are they cheating on their CAFE standards? Usually tail-pipe emissions are checked for unburnt hydrocarbons, oxides of nitrogen, and carbon monoxide.

Here is a good rule of thumb. Three feet is about the swing of a car door. If you can park next to another car and your passenger can get out without denting the car next to you that's three feet.

I commute by bike daily and 100s of cars a week manage to pass me safely. It is not that hard and has been common sense for 99% of all drivers who pass me even before this law. It is that one super-sized SUV who passes me with mere inches to spare while going 50 in a 35 zone.

22 other states say 15 MPH is reasonable in that situation. Our Governor was not so sure and would not let the bill through with an actual number in it.

I commute by bike in city traffic daily. With a standard 13' lane a passenger vehicle can pass a bicycle riding comfortably in on the right edge of the road with 3 ft' clearance and without going over the lane line. You may need to move closer to the lane line then is typical, but you will be in your lane and have 3 ft. 100s of cars a week pass me safely and I'm not the only bike on the road.

The situations that cause problems are drivers who don't see the cyclist or who try to "make a point" by not yielding the right hand edge. It also effects large vehicles who may need to change lanes to pass a bike safely. City buses and big rig trucks are quite good at this. Super-sized SUV's and box trucks not so much.

I and everyone else knows that recreational road bikes and cars are going to continue to have trouble on narrow country roads with no solder and no passing visibility. But that problem did not just come with this law it came with poor road design.

Starting Tuesday, there is. California's "Give me three" law goes into effect. However in a standard 13' wide lane a passenger car and a bike not forced off the right curb by parked cars or trash in the road can pass without the car needing to leave the lane. Happens all the time, no problems.

Check your privilege driver dude.

Water in SoCal _is_ very expensive. The problem is that by the time you make it expensive enough for the country club set to need to conserve, the rest of us can't afford to flush the toilet. There are solutions, but billionaires with green lawns while low-income workers are loosing service just doesn't work.

Most could come from the money diverted from existing anti-poverty programs. The rest could be made up by the increased taxes collected on the jump in spending by those receiving the BI. (Those at or below the poverty line spend more then 100% of every dollar they receive.)

Generals are easy to fire and rarely have direct effect on the day to day operations. A new general may attack today instead of tomorrow, but it will be the mid-ranking officers who determine what set of rape pillage and plunder happen in the aftermath.

It is the same with the CIA. The director may set targets and direct stratagity but it is the untouchable civil servants who run the show. Given the Hall of Mirrors effect, I think it could be possible that the appointed leaders are mere figure-heads just there to take the blame what a job goes bad.

BASIC on the TRS-80. I was 8.

excepting that the logic at the end of the article is justs as incendiary -- and just as flawed.

The most sited example is ActiveRecord where finders can be auto-generated. For example `find_by_name_and_address` will be defined on the fly the first time it is used in code. Another common usage is a wrapper class that provides a unified interface to a set of underlying objects. If many of these objects have almost the same interface `def method_missing(method,args); @object.send(method, args);end` can save a lot of redundant definitions.

Hot Dog! The best Americans (US Citizens) are the children of immigrants. I wish I had a way to prove this, but for now take it as my opinion. By and large immigrants (legal or no) have a rather minimal impact on US culture, and tend to occupy the extremes of the educational and economic spectrum. For most, integration is difficult and can never be fully obtained.

The children of immigrants on the other hand have a foot in both worlds. They have heard their parents tell them about the opportunities that our country provides, and see in their parents how hard one must work to obtain them. They also have the advantage of full unquestioned citizenship (until the Tea Party messes thing up) and cultural acclimation that their parents lacked, along with social networks that extend beyond the immigrant community.

My experience is that the children of immigrants are more political and socially active then their peer with more established ties to community. They are better at taking risks and working for their own success. Most important, they understand the value of the opportunities, and the personal responsibilities that come with them, far better then other Americans who feel entitled by their birth to all that the country can give them.

Say what you will about immigration and its effect on jobs and the economy, but make sure to keep the children. They are worth every penny spent on their education, health care and other social services.

There seems to be a bit of myopia in the political/medical establishment here. Common salt is a cultural icon that is not likely to be replaced or altered. Why not be creative and add Iodine to something else? Ghee would be my first suggestion. It is prevalent in Indian cooking, and almost always used in strongly flavored dishes.

Any Idea how to extract these stored images. There has been more then one occasion where I would have likes copy of an accentually shredded original.

Its not only languages, but data structures that need to change. C.f. this video (http://vimeo.com/6624203) from ICFP '09

I'm fairly certain that a graph is generated the first time it is requested. When a commit comes in a new graph is generated on the first request, and the old one is shown. For rapidly evolving, low visibility projects this is frequent, as projects get more popular, and the updates slow it becomes less so.

"I don't see how Ubisoft isn't getting sued for this." There is a very logical explanation: The courts are not open on Sunday.