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MBAs have glossy displays too, right? That would be a turn off for me.

If? Programming languages are one of the most religious prone components of the geek ecosystem.

Yes, we should complain to the AAAA.

The tried and true American Association for Acronym Abuse can help there.

The Master and Margarita is very good, but you have to take care with which translation you pick up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_and_Margarita#Englis...

Not necessarily. When I was watching the match, whole parts of the image were hidden by reflection.

If you can control the illumination around you, then maybe you have a point. But I think that the frequently that is not the case.

I don't understand your reaction. Perhaps someone has a good explanation or comment that could help people who can't cope with glossy...

Sylvia Nasar wrote a nice article about the Conjecture:

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/08/28/060828fa_fact2

'Nevertheless, Perelman told Ball that he had no intention of accepting [the Fields Medal]. “I refuse,” he said simply.'

I can't help but admire the guy.

I'm very sorry to hear about your problem. I hope you keep investigating and find out what it is.

If you haven't read it yet, maybe "The Medical Detectives" could inspire you. Jon Bentley said that it was the best debugging book he ever read.

http://www.amazon.com/Medical-Detectives-Truman-Talley/dp/04...

Do read it. Martin Gardner's notes are so enlightning and funny. Alas, sad news indeed.

I'm not sure Apple is ahead on backup & restore with the iPhone / iPad.

You shouldn't need a desktop (with an OS that runs iTunes) in the first place. I read that the first thing you need to do with iPad is to connect it to iTunes.

My uni had a copy, complete with the "barfbag".

This classic book is worth a look. Funny and well-written, including the anti-preface by Dennis Ritchie.

I'm a UNIX lover, btw :-)

I'm not sure that a good name has to be "Illustrative of our service". This can be good or bad, depending on the case.

I personally favor names that can let you change course in the future. That said, the new name "OfficeDrop" is general enough if you already have a line of business.

How old is h264? When will the patents expire?

Window controls (max, min, close) on the right of the window title?? I hope they switch them back to the left.

EDIT: my mistake, I meant, why switch to the left?

I'm so glad! He groks security and UNIX extremely well, I find his software a joy to use.

I know he has several detractors, but that doesn't prevent his ideas to spread, albeit slowly.

We all stand to gain.

Not the best forum to ask, but just in case there are any Ruby ppl reading... Honest questions (I like Ruby):

* Is there an ETA for 1.9.2?

* Are major, minor & patch level numbers being "dropped"? 1.9.1-p376 is kinda ugly / uninformative.

* Will odd minor numbers go back to indicate unstable releases?

Thanks!

As the article says, malfunctioning isn't a privilege of the body, minds can do it too.

So the word "pathetic" is uncalled for. William Styron wrote a fantastic book about what it is like to be depressed: "Darkness Visible". Well worth a read.

IMO, this argument is a red-herring: you can write bad code in any language.

Perl lit is awesome and erudite: the best idioms are described in the Cookbook. Programming Perl is a joy to read, Best Practices could be used as a standards guide.

I agree that v5 has some problematic constructs, but, all in all, what Larry Wall & Co did was awesome.

Never stopped liking it, but at some point I got tired of waiting for v6 and moved on to Ruby (mostly because of Rails) and some FP.

v6 would fix everything that I find irksome on v5.

I think this poem was present in Programming Perl, 1st edition, which covers Perl 4.

If I recall correctly, Perl poetry should parse, there's no need for it to do something useful.

That's why I liked Perl so much, the community & culture were (are) great.

Take a look at the first issues of The Perl Journal as well.

Nokia seems to be desperate. Maybe they think their situation is hopeless?

He also wrote this essay:

On Reading and Books - http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/essays/c...

in which he talks about "[those that] have read themselves stupid."

It's interesting that we can trace a parallel with technology: reading too much but building too little.

It would be great if they added a datacenter in South America (eg in São Paulo, Brazil).

Info here:

http://www.xenu.net/

"in respect and honour to all victims, and those who dare to stand up for them".

A couple of urls, in case you find this field interesting:

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

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

I'm keeping an eye on http://www.cloudkick.com/ (the core feature is management), but it isn't flying yet.