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Anytime in the afternoon after 1300 is OK.

I shall be there.

No love for Osaka. Bummer.

Japanese & Korean.

A poorly thought out point: a defensive move against the whole company folding due to some reason?

My understanding is that it is a tool for use with a very niche market: 3D CAD in a budget. I would think that such a use is not in their roadmap.

Here is my take: If you are just going to learn a programming language, there is still plenty of competition. Instead, I would suggest that you build a web-based product. It involv…

They don't. They do have an RSS feed that you can monitor with your favourite feed aggregator: http://status.linode.com/rss.xml

Off-topic: women is plural while woman is singular.

Is there a way you can collect browser stats? You should be able to pull something from the server logs. Once you have done that, take a look at them numbers and you will have a fa…

I was able to augment Pimsleur's Japanese tapes with some reading to crack the old Level 4 of Japanese Language Proficiency Test. It was a very good starting point. Worked well for…

sqlite and postgres are often regarded as projects with good, clean style.

You are correct. From what I could gather from reading that write-up, "size" is used to mean the magnitude of a number.

What happened?

A visual language called G exists. It is forms the backbone of LabVIEW (a product of National Instruments [NI]). You could use it like any other programming language to solve probl…

You might want to ask such tech-related questions at stackoverflow.com.

This page http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/46716/what-sh... suggests that both bcrypt and scrypt can be used (4th bullet under 'Security'). Disclosure: I added the sc…

Such an arrangement of payment in a different currency might fly in the US. But I am guessing such stunts in the top two populous countries can get you arrested? edit: s/pretty sur…

But be warned that usage of psychotropic substances may act as a catalyst to bring out any latent psychological issues. Also, there is the possibility of a bad trip.

When I slide to 512MB on the RAM slider, incorrect linode plan is shown. Edit: Ditto for 256.

Estimate is 26 seconds on an average per person "wasted" on this doodle. Also, a possibly incorrect assumption that all google visitors on that day played with it. What exactly is …

"And so we're back in the magical world of risk perception, where science can become the tool of bias—conscious or not." I just cannot wrap my head around that one.

NIH much?

My apologies. I misread the whole thing as a question about fault tolerance (which is not a bad thing to consider at all IMO). RAID will certainly help in your case. You need to co…

At 8k USD a month, each day is approx. 267 dollars in revenue on average. So, downtime of 1 day due to a catastrophic event is that much loss. That is the base cost. However, how m…