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If you're in a state that allows gay marriage and have a non-married co-founder with citizenship ...

I'd just keep talking with immigration layers, until someone gives me a way out.


Whether you are being serious or not, the Federal Government does not recognize Same Sex marriage (Defense of Marriage Act, I believe) and thus, it cannot be used for immigration purposes.

Not to mention, seeing that the OP is already in hot water with being here illegally, recommending he defraud the government with a fake marriage can only serve to make things worse. Especially as when they see his prior status they are going to look very, very closely at the legitimacy of the marriage.


>> Aim for C-style abstractions in Python.

Worst programming advice ever IMHO. As Sir Isaac Newton used to say: "If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants." If you think and program in simple abstractions, you'll be unable to solve complex problems.


Newton is a great choice to use in the example as he invented calculus which is an incredible abstraction. I tend to look at the lambda calculus in the same way. Yes, calculus is more complex than algebra but once you understand it you can solve much more challenging problems because of the abstraction inherent in the notation.



The root cause seems to be the existence of independent central banks in those countries. That is what allows them to switch the trade to euros and provokes occupation by NATO.



Yes, really. There is a huge amount of US dollars circling in the oil trade. If those were instead used to buy non-oil stuff, the price of non-oil things will go way up and so the value of dollar way down.


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You don't understand, Skynet is using all Amazon resources, hence the outages ;-)

Amazon have stated many times that amazon.com itself runs mostly on AWS platform, but it works fine now ...


AWS platform on a private cloud, it is not the same as AWS platform for us commoners.


>> Can't see why it wouldn't work.

There is a great (no sarcasm) air company in your country, called Ryanair. Don't even try it with them :D


Actually, Ryanair is surprisingly open to technological innovations as it dovetails perfectly with their ruthless driving down of costs. Examples include ~100% of bookings and check-ins done online (before other airlines woke up to this opportunity), use of mobile phones in-flight (Ryanair gets a massive cut) and the wingtips on the end on planes wings which help save fuel:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryanair#Past_fleet

I'm not sure if they do it yet, buy I'm sure I read somewhere that there was talk of Ryanair introducing the scanning of barcodes on mobile phones screens. Of course, you can't take any gossip about Ryanair seriously - past examples include €10 transatlantic seats subsidized by €10,000 first class seats, charging for toilet access on-board, in-air blowjobs (yes, Michael O'Leary actually said that!), standing section instead of seats.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfIY24BErBE


There is no max length in the standard. Of course every browser has a max it can handle. For IE it is 2000 characters.


End users are given bit.ly URL with a hash.


Splitting hairs because it's closer to a common understanding, but bit.ly URLs aren't hashes they are just alphanumeric IDs.

The difference is that AFAIK there's no algorithm to take a URL (plus or minus a username) and give you a bit.ly ID, short of looking it up at bit.ly.


And the relationship is this: 'path' element of bit.ly URLs are keys in a key->value mapping (where the value is your target URL), and one of the best implementations of a key->value mapping is a hash-table. (At least, it's good for in-memory implementations... I suppose that on disk something a little more elaborate may be called for?)

Historically, the authors of Perl and Ruby (and WP tells me, Common Lisp?) decided to confuse the interface with the implementation, and use "hash" or "hash table" to refer to the mapping, and not ever Perl hacker has a Computing Science degree, so now we live in a world of people who think that "hash" means the thing that bit.ly does for you.

Once again, Larry Wall Ruins Everything. :P


In Common Lisp, it's not interface for mapping but really an hash table as some internal details of hash table implementation are exposed by the interface.


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