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As this emphasizes, You don't own these items, you're merely leasing them. That's why I've spent exactly $3.98 on two Amazon Kindle books (a bunch more at $0), both in part to tell me if I want to buy more from the respective authors. Vs. a few hundred in non-DRMed digital books and music, the latter all though Amazon (would be a lot more if I didn't have a massive bias towards physical media and a very good insurance policy).

A good example of one of the own goals of Google+: their Real Names policy + account consolidation meant violating, in their view, the former meant loss to all of the latter, including most catastrophically GMail.

Oh, yeah, per his tweets, he lost the remaining balance of his Prime account. Nice way to reward loyalty.
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I use Linux as my desktop OS, and I use a combination of LibreOffice and Google Drive. My agent and some of my publishers are very MS Word oriented, and (don't let them know!) for the past couple of years they have never complained about getting documents exported to Word format, or edited in Word format, from the tools I use. I'm very happy with LibreOffice.
Humans are intelligent creatures and villagers killed are a result of encroaching the animals rightful land. There are no condolescence for those deaths caused by one's own mistake. Get out of the animals territory and fight for your survival with those other humans not with poor animals.
There are only 3000 tigers left in the wild if a Bengal tiger kills a villager going inside their territory of sundar ban it's the fault of that human not tiger.
Here at least American's are being right to care about 3000 tigers or lions instead of over 7 billion humans.
This article shows the sick mentality of the people who thinks it's alright to encroach on other animals turf since it's easier. They are cowards not able to fight for survival with their own fellow human.
There are no surrounding context in it. It's just talking about villagers encroaching lions rightful forest and pushing them to extinction.
According to my dictionary, work ethic is "the principle that hard work is intrinsically virtuous or worthy of reward." I think only a tiny minority of programmers would hold to that.
The sad truth is...we DO care about their people. And there is simply more we can do for their lions than their people. Because you can pass a law saying "don't kill lions," you can ban the trade of lion carcasses/trophies/etc., and you can make a big dent in the numbers of lions killed. But how are we supposed to help feed their people when their corrupt as fuck government takes all of our aid? This isn't the real world we live in, guys.
"it would have been completely inappropriate and unacceptable for me to" "complain about dullness" "Learning was the entire orientation; if it was dull, it was dull: sucking it up and moving on was the way to go."

The learning was the primary orientation in my education too, but apart from mental discipline training happening with "sucking up and moving on", I wonder - wouldn't have been best if the process have been more tailored to my capabilities as a child? It's like optimizing for the underlying platform, making it less wasteful (on energy consumed on concentration).
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Hope this gets sorted, Amazon clearly need to improve how they handle such situations. If all else fails complaining to your credit card company should get a refund.
John McAfee says a lot of things.
Indeed a great article:)
Here is a comparison of all the outputs of the popular compile-to-JS langs: https://gist.github.com/mattmccray/3916195

Specifically, Haxe's output is here: https://gist.github.com/mattmccray/3916195#file-haxe-js

In my opinion it is super readable.
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Could there be legal recourse via small claims court? They basically revoked $1,000 dollars worth of media licenses without recourse.
Instead, they opted for a raid during business hours with guns drawn.

I disagree with the War on Drugs, but I understand the political process that keeps us saddled with it despite its obvious stupidity and counter-productivity.

But I can't understand the police's change in strategy, so that paramilitary force becomes the default approach, rather than something that's wielded when the situation seems to demand it.
I think it's a mix of a lot of things:simplistic UI, being one of the first IMs that don't need a phone number and also when everyone has it you have to have it to so... it only grows exponentially from here. Last thing people underestimate how viral kids and teens are one teen can literally convert his/her class in one day.
brake on their development

Well, at the moment the economy is still growing and that makes a huge difference. Even in the west, people who feel that their lives are improving are much less interested in political reform.(+)

If the economy experiences a serious recession, then things could get much nastier.

(+) this does not apply to Tibet
Heh, you're right. I sort of glossed over that.

"With this in mind, today we’re introducing an unlimited leave policy for new moms and dads that allows them to take off as much time as they want during the first year after a child’s birth or adoption."

What kind of idiot writes this nonsense?
I think something like Slack but aimed groups of friends rather than development teams.

I play chess and I ride a bike, I have clubs with both of those things and they currently use facebook to co-ordinate and it works well enough but slack would be considerably better I think.

IRC is awesome but it only really handles the talking to people side of things well, sharing files (well), setting events and calendars - the stuff slack does is a huge multiplier.
Aren't we constantly criticized for interfering in global politics? What the fuck should we do about Mugabe?
That's just part of the full definition.

And even in this case: it's only "distrust" if other's motives aren't bad in the first place.

If people in general have bad motives in IT (lazyness, profit, unprofessionalism etc) it's not "cynicism" to say so.

It's merely calling a spade a spade.

I'm more reffering to the "bitterly or sneeringly distrustful, contemptuous, or pessimistic" meaning of the lemma though.

Where again, if contempt is waranteed and if the situation is dire, it's not cynical to be "contemptuous" or "pessimistic" is just realistical description.
Honestly, the consumer GPU market has been in a state of stagnation for the last 3 or 4 years because there's not a ton of demand for anything higher than 60fps/1080p. Hopefully VR will drive consumer demand for higher resolutions to bring prices down.
Take any group of cub scouts to the park, they see a duck, they reach for a rock. Its built-in. We are hunters.
In general, one cannot revoke a lease without recourse.
Ignoring the fact that the question of a referendum for european treaties is one to be had at the national level, as each country can decide that for itself, the statement "No one voted for the Maastricht treaty." is demonstrably false as both the French and the Danish people did vote for it.

It's ok to have a difference of opinion, but please keep your facts straight.
Wish there was a Web app to edit video. Upload to S3 and away I would go creating (jump cut) edits which would be fed to ffmpeg to dice up.
If you insist on being above the law to uphold it, what are you standing on?
The cognitive dissonance you cite disappears completely if we accept the uncomfortable elephant in the room: we value the remaining animals far more than we value human life. And isn't that normal when there are 7 billion of us and 30 000 of them?
I have not used Meteor yet. Hopefully I will give it a try. But still I see many big companies converting to node.js and praising it in their blogs and everywhere.

Big companies like facebook, paypal, etc are investing in javascript. Using it in places where it was never thought of e.g. "react-native"
Because US policy is generally pretty worker hostile and few (definitely some) employers have any motivation to change that.
I frequently use adblock to block offensive images, like seizure-inducing GIFs.
It's awesome to have another open source image processing library to learn from and build on in addition to: G'MIC, ImageMagick, VIGRA, VIPs, Kritaimage+Pigment and GEGL. Just imagine all the great things that can be built for artists and designers.
Except in reality you're mixing your presentation with your presentation.

The issue is that the pattern for a long time has been even worse, making your logic deal with your presentation directly.
Also interestingly I get that question all the time and I've discussed it with the CEO of Kik.
I think that kind of thinking is really suitable for the JS world of a few years back. If you're just using vanilla JS + DOM API, it can be pretty messy to include HTML in your JS. However React's setState handles DOM changes and rendering, so it's less of a pain. So in answer to your question of why people don't, I think it's because they're not viewing this as a problem anymore.
I'm glad we've had a trial, in which reliable facts were presented under oath and a complete and accurate description of Zimbabwe's hunting laws was made available to a dedicated jury, who then found that the facts indicated certain people were guilty of violating the law. Thanks to that important process, you're able to come here and make this statement for our benefit.
Most likely the local people of Zimbabwe never saw that money. It ended up in some corrupt politicians pocket..
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Is is not a bug, it is a feature (image search, that does not work too well).

When you place an IMG tag, it tries to find some results by that image (similar to Google's seach by image->URL).
Try using an invalid reference or IFRAME SRC.

Edit: I stand corrected. They do embed poorly-filtered request text into the results page.
It is pretty simple if you watch or read Dan Ariely:

http://danariely.com/2011/10/06/upside-of-irrationality-chap...

It is a known problem in behavioral economics called the identifiable victim effect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identifiable_victim_effect

Basically "Vivid, flesh and blood-victims are often more powerful sources of persuasion than abstract statistic". Most people love Lions and think they are awesome, and hate seeing them caged in zoos. Now we hear about this one lion minding it's own business being lured from a preserve and being killed by some rich American guy .... the lion becomes the flesh and blood victim. Problem like hyperinflation and massive death, while obviously much worse (and horrible) are much harder for the human mind to understand and just become a statistic.

It is extremely scary that this is a problem but it is fairly well known and studied. Stalin even knew about the problem:

"one man's death is a tragedy, a millions deaths are a statistic"

I obviously agree with you, just pointing you to why it is happening.
Hm, is there currently any mobile anti-virus software available that would have caught and blocked the Hacking Team exploits before the reveal?

Are there actually any "standard" security procedures for mobile? I suppose a vast majority of customers simply trust OS vendors to release a secure environment.
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I'd say it isn't. How many is the right number of either of those?
Isn't this only true if what you want is the equivalent of AAA FP games blasted directly at your retinas?

If you could solve all the problems of lag, resolution and artifacting, but only give me Nintendo 64-levels of polygons and shading, I bet I could still have some pretty compelling experiences.
Something not mentioned here is the historically low interest rates. The Bank of England base rate is only 0.5%, with mortgages available for only 2.0%.

I think if mortgage rates went back to 6% - 8% a lot of people would be screwed.
My point is that ellipses are for when you're excising something that is redundant to your purposes and whose omission doesn't change the overall meaning.

Your example with JFK is fine. Here's a counterexample where it doesn't work: "JFK had an affair with Marilyn Monroe, who was a famous Hollywood actress." -> "JFK... was a famous Hollywood actress."

I maintain that your shortened quote is more like this. The article says that 142857, when multiplied, produces numbers which correspond to the digits of 2/7, 3/7, 4/7, etc.

Your version of the quote omits the words "correspond to," changing it from an observation about how an integer matches the decimal expansion of a fraction to an observation about how multiplying a number gets you a multiple of that number.
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Yes. That's why the fact that China had such a huge backlog actually works in favor of the current leadership, and it is a very strong incentive for them to keep applying the brakes. Too much growth in too short a time could easily lead to things plateauing well before parity is achieved which would wake up some nasty sentiments but as long as there is growth there is hope that one day parity will be achieved. It's a very difficult balancing act. If the economy should crash (and there are definitely signs this may be in the cards) then all bets are off.
Discussion around what happened in the Ukraine is generally presented as a false dichotomy. As much as I dislike Putin, his mafia style regime and everything it stands for, as an EU citizen, I'm embarrassed by how our (and the US) leaders acted. It was provocative and dare I say at a similar moral and ethical level to how Russia acted. I'm not sure it would have been possible to handle it perfectly given the situation but we handled it especially poorly. There was a possibility to take the middle road without unnecessary ultimatums and possibly by trying to instigate inclusive policies that straddled the line between Russian, Ukrainian and EU interests but instead the EU waded in with a heavy handed inflexible policy. It was clear that following the path we did would only result in violent confrontation and now that it has mostly settled down again I feel that the region is worse off and more fragile than before. All that death and destruction for what!?
What's the author's point? That we should wantonly kill lions? Let's just eradicate 'em all?

He should sound much happier, then. Because we're on our way:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/afr...
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> How does Haxe differ in interfacing with external libraries?

it doesn't really, you basically need to write definitions files too with Haxe, just like Typescript. Or you loose 'type-safety', just like TS.

TS is off course closer to Javascript.
The problem, of course, is that enforcing that in courts is expensive. Heck, unless he kept a separate record of his purchases (ADDED: tjl pointed out he very possiblely has that in his emails), he doesn't even know prior to discovery what his damages are.

At least the net also allows trying to enforce this in the court of public opinion.
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This strikes me as a really good use of the technology. As you suggest, it doesn't need to be high frame rate or truly immersive. It just needs to be better than looking at blueprints (which is really hard for untrained people) or, best case, doing a VR walkthrough on a monitor.

I wonder if this and AR (e.g. Google Glass) are on a similar trajectory. Lots of hype that near to mid-term--call it over the next 10 years or so--ends up mostly as a relatively niche technology for specific commercial use cases.
What is the point of arguing who owns what? Does that refute the idea that people who are most directly affected should have a greater say?

Also the world hardly operates according to that concept of owning that you mention with regards to environmental protection. Is the international community pledging resources to support countries that choose to protect the environment instead of seeking so-called economic development? See for example this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuní-ITT_Initiative
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I like the idea of being able to address content based on it's actual content. Perhaps I don't have a very good imagination, but if all you have is a hash of the content, how to you know where to find it?

From within a single app it's easy, but what about in other apps or other machines. Would there be a (possibly distributed/voluntary) lookup service? Could comments or lookup "hints" be added to the spec?
I duplicated your comment, making an opposite point. There's also http://www.pepfar.gov, one of Bush's (43) positive legacies. Unfortunately, I'm fairly certain that the average American does not think or care much about USAID or PEPFAR.
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> Even BASIC would at least give me a line number!

You can get line numbers and even stack traces if you compile your program (assuming you use GHC) with `-prof` and execute it with `+RTS -xc`. But most libraries try their best to avoid using exceptions altogether and it's generally discouraged to use the non-total functions from Prelude like `head` or `!!` and use safer alternatives instead.
Chutspah? That's a very, very generous characterization of these cops in my opinion. Tyranny, law-breaking, cover-up, abuse of power and assholes are among the words I'd use.
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Yeah, those Cambridge idiots were probably drunk when they conducted their research and produced their report.

You're probably best off just trusting your gut instinct on these things.
I'm not saying he's more or less ignorant than I am. I'm simply saying that he is clearly and objectively an ignorant person. One of the steps we took to stop lion hunting was to have airlines ban the transportation of lion caracasses. That's a pretty easy thing to do. Do you think there's anything similar we could to do to improve the human rights situation in Zimbabwe? Can Delta refuse to transport Mugabe? Will that help?

It simply IS ignorance at the root of his childish complaints. It's ignorance to the fact that one problem - lions - is of a vastly smaller scale than another problem - human rights issues in Zimbawabe - and thus the solutions to said problem are far, far easier to apply. In short, we want to help where we actually CAN help. But decades of failed US intervention have proven one thing time and time again: our help never sticks until you start helping yourself.
You don't need to do or interfere with anything. It's about how much public attention and coverage it's getting. One furry lion being killed trumps the misery and suffering of millions.

Imagine a world where the US economy is reduced to ashes and people are starving in the streets of New York, and the rest of the world is only outraged by somebody shooting a specific moose in Alaska.
Cite them then. You are the one making the claims! Demonstrate your point is based on something other than xenophobic rhetoric!
> Sometimes a simple quip requires a long response to accurately address multiple potential issues.

Not sprayed with gratuitous ad-hominems, not really.

> bringing up how forward-looking government regulation failed in other cases is pretty relevant.

I struggled to consider it relevant, considering how it's widely accepted that reduction in regulation is one of the main causes of the recent financial crash. Forward-looking regulation was there and was removed. I think that particular example doesn't make the point he thinks it makes.

> And never was the idea mentioned that these things should not be governed at all

It was basically inferred. If you take his points to the logical conclusions, there is no point in regulating the car industry, they hire the best minds so they will know what to do.

> "Good" advancements can be just as restricted as "bad" advancements

Of course; but it's extremely difficult to prove whether the advantages of outlawing both outweigh the advantages of allowing both. So we came up with this rule that "we legislate only after shit happens". Is it crazy to think this arrangement could be sub-optimal, and there might be a better compromise?
Most questions that you get asked are technical in nature and specific to the job they are hiring for. So it is not uncommon to have people answer questions in a technical and pretty sterile way. And most people don't add much in the way of conversation, which can lead to awkward silence or the uncomfortable feeling for everyone in the room.

Selling yourself means answering more than the question on the table, answer it with examples to show proof you know it not just read about it. People have to feel like you did more then stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night, they need to feel like you really know and can demonstrate it. So examples are good, past experience good and bad is relevant and helps. Asking questions during the interview that are detailed and show you have studied the team, individual or at least the company goes a long way. Also, asking questions during the interview instead of waiting until prompted can many times throws the interviewer off the question/answer method and turns it into a conversation instead.

Treat the interview like you would a date and that alone goes a lot to selling yourself. Turning the interview into a conversation where the interviewer comes out knowing you are competent but you can also communicate. Learning to do this takes a little practice, but it is just common social skills mixed with asking questions so you can open conversation paths. Think about any date you have witnessed or been on where it was awkward and there wasn't any give and take during the conversation, it never ends well, same with an interview.

You won't be able to do this with everyone, there are people that are so nervous themselves or such complete asses that they won't budge, so just hammer through those best you can and move on to the next interviewer or company.

edit: BTW humor goes a long way many times. Breaking tension by recognizing it and saying something can sometimes be the fastest way to get people to let their guard down.
encroaching the animals rightful land.

What is a human's rightful land?

Do realize there is no "rightful land" in nature, which is the only sphere in which lions operate?
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