Does anybody know how much that kind of work costs? I'd shoot mike an email but I'm guessing you guys could give a broader range of answers.

Python is "notenough OO" and leads to Ruby?

I smell a troll under the bridge.

Around 1995, when Ruby was created, Python was "notenough OO".

Err, I thought Perl led to Ruby. The name being a play on gems after all. I think you're right. Either that or its just for fun.

Nice de-obfuscation! Though I'm guessing they don't detect packers etc. http://jsbeautifier.org/ will remain a bookmark.

It uses uglifyjs and parse-js to prettyprint the js, so its pretty much functionally equivalent to what jsbeautifier is doing. Other than specifying tab size, I don't think jsbeautifier gets you any advantages here.

But the webadmin of "whatever.io" is probably too cool to consider "www.whatever.io" as a viable web address for a startup company.

Why can't he show us the back?

Teams try not to show anything they don't absolutely have to, whether they have secrets there or not. It's just how they roll.

Mercedes, however, do have something called a "magic paddle". So they do have an actual reason for keeping the back of the steering wheel away from prying eyes.

Here is a short video clip of a reporter attempting to get Mercedes GP's team principal Ross Brawn to disclose the details of the "Magic Paddle": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luWuJx2Ukik

There was speculation that the call was related to Schumacher's use of the DRS. We'll probably never know for sure.

Because since it's hidden they don't want to disclose that information to other teams. I recall DLR(McLaren's driver) being asked about it after explaining their steering wheel's controls. Anyway, IIRC the interviewer "guessed" that it was another way of activating the DRS, so in practice it's not really so secret, but F1 its like this...

Maybe there's a Ferrari sticker there.

The stickers that scare me the most are the Microsoft stickers on the ECU's...

Creds to reddit btw: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/h62oz/x_factor_foxco...

I'm not sure creds to reddit are necessary unless the original disclosure was made there..

What does this mean? There's no useful discussion in that thread.

I assume it means that's where temptemptemp13 found the link.

Yes, I meant to point out where I found the link. Was that a bad idea?

Ah, ok. I didn't see that you were the OP. Makes sense now.

I see 2 possible solutions:

1. The coordinates expand with the universe.

2. The coordinates are static and the universe just expands. Note that this isn't awful, planets and stars are always in motion. When planning inter-galactic missions you're always going to have to know where's the starting point and to calculate where the ending point will be at the relevant time.

So to say where Earth is you're going to write down a 4D vector, specifying at what time this was measured.

Btw, the article didn't mention 3D space did it?

How do you vote down?

When you get to a certain level of Karma, you will have the ability to vote down comments (but not articles). The figure changes - I think the level is currently 500 (it was less when I rose through the system, but there were fewer members so fewer votes to go around back then).

There's some point threshold, I believe, which you have to reach before you're able to give downvotes.

You must have 1000 karma

It's 500 Karma.

Are we talking gross btw? I might have written down the net salary...

What does this have to do with computer 'science'? Sounds to me like he's talking about 'engineering'.

Either none of us gets the irony or it's simple misleading. Personally I was expecting complexity/algorithm article starting with overview of P ?= NP followed by some other less known but interesting theoretical issues.