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In other news, go.com is still a thing.

Well it's certainly not a science as the scientific method is nowhere to be found. The closest thing to it at most universities is the math department, which seems to end up in the arts faculty as often as not. I'd argue there's widespread acceptance that neither math nor computer science are sciences (in the sense that, say, physics or biology are), and if something isn't a science, it's either an art or its own thing.

Who did you have in mind as the source of hatred?

This is so laughably wrong as to be absurd. Your explanation for Canadian telecom entrenchment and protectionism is that it's anti-American? Canada and its provinces have imported America's love of faux-competition in media, telecom, electricity, non-health insurance, and other areas nearly whole hog.

Anti-Americanism also runs contrary to Canada's: plans to imprison more of its population; paying extra for ill-performing military hardware; treating its First Nations like shit; increasing gap between rich and poor; busting of unions; beating the hell out of protestors; resisting all meaningful measures against climate change; and fighting pointless wars.

Canada could use some of this "we're different from the Americans" attitude that you claim pervades the nation. Sadly, I don't see much evidence of it in any of several areas of society, especially the telecom industry.

Right.

If I recall, the issue with a public 0mq socket was that anyone driving by sending something 0mq didn't like would cause an assertion to fail, so your process would crash. It wasn't so much a "supposed to be exposed" as "expose it and crash".

I'm curious why you ascribe that preference to historical reasons. My exposure was in reverse order to yours but we have the same preference.

> btw, swegr ~= hacker ?

I think it's an abbreviation of 'software engineer(ing)'.

> Arguably, an ObjC programmer should know that booleans are YES and NO and not true or false

It's just C. 0 is false, anything else is true.

> Python's auto-concatenation of runs of string literals is convenient but I don't know of another language that does the same thing.

The C preprocessor (in GCC and Clang at least) will concatenate adjacent literals, so add C, C++, and Objective-C to your list.

Perhaps Apple thinks different by being better, not just different for the sake of being different. I think maybe you're giving evidence for, not against, the post you replied to.

If I could, I would answer "As little as possible". If there's anyone building towards scripts that will, say, build an app and run it in the iOS simulator without using Xcode, I'd love to dive in and help out. Otherwise, someday I'll get to writing them.

This puzzle is mentioned in the lovely documentary Wordplay[1], which ostensibly follows a cadre of competitors in a year of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. Well worth a watch, and I believe it's on Netflix.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0492506/

It uses CoffeeScript's grammar, so there's no need to learn a new one or switch between two different grammars as you work.

It's also way less code than Haml. CoffeeKup's src folder is 240 lines of code.

You can certainly use the client for plain ol' Git. The GitHub-specific stuff is a "Push to GitHub" button on repositories that aren't already on GitHub, and a list of your GitHub repositories.

It's more than useful without ever using GitHub the web service/site.

The "safety factor"... is huge for THC, LSD, mushrooms, DMT, K, etc., and much smaller for MDMA, Meth, K, opiates, coke.

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I spy a repeat...

Egg carton!

I was looking into turns-into-whiteboard paints/stickers recently and turned up a handy comparison of various surfaces and their whiteboard-ability. Turns out washing machines and dryers often work great, though are likely impractical.

http://rumkin.com/reference/whiteboard/surfaces.php

This article is unreadable. And that may be the point.

Is your refresh button broken?

Any word on whether this affects version 2 of Skype for Mac OS X (the old one), the current Skype 5.1, or both? Neither the article nor the linked blog post would say.

If the former, I don't imagine they'll update it, and this might finally force me to grab 5.1.

A very little color.

Can you add anything that wasn't in the originally-posted article? For example, answers to any of these questions:

Why was the accused infringer of trademarks not given specific, actionable information about the trademarks in question? You state that the reporter is required to provide additional information in many cases. Assuming this was one of those cases, why was this additional information not shared with the accused infringer? (And if this was not one of those cases, why mention this at all?)

You invoke the DMCA, citing it as obligating you to take appropriate action. Was the action taken in this case the most appropriate one? Who decides what's appropriate here, Facebook or the relevant laws?

Care to discuss any of your specialized tools, systems, and technology to review and properly handle IP notices? I can't speak for others, but their mere presence says little to me.

No sane person expects a perfect system. We're just curious about the particular circumstances of this particular case, and you have a reasonable audience here who would love for you to share some of them.

Were you actually confused, or are you just picking nits? If the latter, then it's not really a bug is it.

"Big 'r'" and "small 'r'"?

Very realistic until you need to debug your code. Debugging's JS-only, as far as I know, so you're picking through the compiled CS looking for errors.

edit: Well listen to the man himself, but I learned tons about JS's semantics by picking up (and picking apart) CS.

Do you ask museum curators what point value they assigned the paintings in their exhibits?

The curation still happens without numbers attached.

Good call, I had no idea.

Looking into it, apparently the CRTC believes that internet audio and video broadcasting services are under its jurisdiction, but it has exempted all such services from regulation. The notice is at http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/1999/PB99-197.htm.

As far as I can tell, it's a combination of the licensing being different (as in the terms of your license probably only cover the United States to start), and the CRTC's content laws and other regulations being annoying enough not to bother with considering our relatively smaller market size.

(I think it's considerably easier to go from Canada to the US than in the opposite direction.)

Great idea!

Minor note: the "Think something should be here? Contact us about it." link text was very hard to read (Chrome 10, OS X). Maybe it's too small for that font and weight.

Consider it done.

He's licensing the code to you under the GPL. He's free to use his own code however he likes.