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It still does mean this on the US public transportation crown jewel, the NYC subway, as there's no Internet in the tunnels. So, I still do bring a book or headphones. However, I think you still make a valid point: I certainly value the stretch of forced "chill out" time in the middle of a city that never seems to let up, whereas driving I much more often find to be stressful and aggravating (in cities at least).
You wouldn't believe how many defunct corporations in Delaware have 'google' in the name, often together with other spam words such as 'cash'.
Honestly, as a website dev during the height of flash's dominance, I think you're a little off with your hatred.

During this time, it was extremely rare to have a designer involved in website design (I can't prove it, but I think you'll see a correlation with the growth of template sites at the time, I broke my back trying to learn design and color theory at the time and I still can't even draw a straight line freehand :) so what I normally had to deal with was the client as designer. Complete nightmare...

Here's one anecdotal data point:

I was designing an eshop for a client. He demanded a long flash intro to the site. I tried to lead him through an idea-

You want customers?
Yes.
You want repeat customers?
Yes.
You want them to have to wait 30 seconds every time they shop to watch your intro?
Errr, yes!
Ok.....

So I snuck in a huge skip intro button on the flash intro...

Call from client:
'hey, my buddies tell me that the intro is ruined by a big button saying 'skip intro'. Remove it now!!! It's degrading the experience!!!'

I tried, but hey, I got paid, and his business suffered in the long run- and I mean went bankrupt...

I know of few developers at the time who wanted to do flash intros. It was normally forced on them...
I think galtwho is saying that the people who said Namaste instead of shaking hands were more likely to pass on that greeting as they were less likely to die of a handshake illness. I.e. it came about through natural selection, rather than because someone had decided it was healthier.
I suspect opening up iPlayer would be licensing hell. Especially for past content, but also for new productions. Which (IMHO) is a stupid issue, but a real one.
It's just a bit of markup over ASCII abstractions of musical notation. It looks foreign because you didn't study the syntax (just like <?php ?> would look foreign to anyone not familiar with PHP) and don't know the musical conventions.

E.g.:

- Notes are letter notation[0] plus ASCII abstractions over duration symbols[1].

- Tempo assignment is just "130 => )", which means there are 130 ")" (quarter notes) per minute.

- |: foo :| repeats, which looks like the repeat symbol[2] in a score.

- Dynamics are the same as traditional notation[3], with an alternative level notation (which looks just like a digital VU meter[4]).

- Conditionals are pretty much the ternary operator.

There's not much else going on. Compare with MML[5] which looks foreign even if familiar with musical notation.

Of course you could ask why traditional music notation is so dense (probably more than this, compare letter notation "Cdim" with how you'd write it in a staff[6]).

Musical notation is dense because you have to convey a lot of information in a very small space (less switching pages while performing) and, well, because when you have to write by hand you become lazy (just like copyist monks had their own shorthands).

Sometimes the notation is also better at conveying information: in the "Cdim" example, when laid out in a staff, I can quickly see it's composed of a bass note C plus 2 triads, with both 3rd and 5th being flat, which makes it a diminished triad chord. You can invert the chord (take the bass note up one octave) and it'd still convey lots of information, while letter notation starts to get complicated (Cdim/Eb, which isn't that easy to read since you have to calculate in your head that Eb is the 3rd therefore the chord is inverted once).

Fortunately we humans are very good at reading notation as soon as we're familiar with it :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_notation

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_musical_symbols#Notes_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeat_sign

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamics_%28music%29

[4] https://securethumbs.ebay.com/d/l225/m/mcuRjwssh-op30lD6M7as...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Macro_Language

[6] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Diminish...
Wow. I expected some pointless 'mi mi feelings' garbage but it actually had content and conveyed a message. He has to realize, though, that this is not possible for all families because some people just don't get along (or unforgiveable things happened between them), and then such a week together would be a torture. While I agree with him on how bonding works, I want to carefully select the people with whom I spend this amount of time. Because social interaction is very tiring and ultimately unrewarding if I put up with the wrong people.

Also, klean92 is right, the quality of the text is good and it was a pleasant read.
Weird article title indeed.
And just to clarify: Sweden, Denmark and UK are in the EU, none of them have the euro.
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Perhaps I may bring some enlightenment here, I'm JF, the guy who wrote the article, and I do have psychic access to my own mind.

Everything is true in what both of you are saying. The original claim that my postdoc was ending anyway is true. But I did not fail to get enough publications to continue. I would have had opportunities to be employed and finish many more papers (in fact I was begged to choose to do so), but refused.

The fact that I have decided to synchronize my leave of academia with the ending of my postdoc, however, does not change what I express on my Facebook post, which was genuine. I am not bitter and I do not consider myself an unsuccessful scientist at all. In my country and in many universities, I see people being hired at a professor position with a C.V. much less populated than mine; so the option was certainly not out. On top of it, if I hadn't had the intent to leave, I certainly could have used my data in the last year to get anywhere from 1 to 4 more publications. I have handed all my data to students in the lab and chose to refuse to continue working on it despite a request from my PI (I actually made a joke and said that I could continue academia if he paid me $50,000 per month).

None of you are wrong; one just has to be careful with interpretations. Thanks for the person who defended the actual reading of my text rather than presumptuous extrapolations.
I can't tell if you're being ironic (I suspect you are), but the figure needs to be seen against the market context: in 2Q 2014, total smartphone shipments were 301.4m devices [1]; in 2Q 2015, they were 337.2m [2]. That's an 11.6% growth. Apple's shipments grew 34.9% [2]. So why did none of those "premium" Android OEMs see an increase in sales, yet Apple, with much pricier devices and fewer models, did? This is the key question.

(Disclosure: I'm the author of the linked post at the top.)

[1] http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS25037214
[2] http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS25804315
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This makes the lack of consumer HUDs/AR glasses even more perplexing.

The technology is here, so why are companies toying around with smartwatches (a very limited concept, imo, might as well strap a small smartphone on your wrist :-)) instead of making these a reality for everyone:

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

http://www.lumus-optical.com/
I might have the wrong picture, but apparently here in Germany teachers and parents decide at a short age which of the three education and career paths their kid is to follow depending on how dumb / smart he is.

You can apparently switch tracks later on, but at a greater cost in time and effort, and the stigma and consequences of this will affect you during your whole professional life.

As a late bloomer myself I find it sickening that I'm contributing to such system with my taxes.
Probably 15 years ago I did something similar at an overall system level with a program called pdmenu which provided a jump host menu for semi-technical users. The technical details of course are entirely different, but it did the same general system idea of presenting individual users with custom tailored prompts to log into various systems (and a few other tasks, and logging, etc). pdmenu had (has?) a great menu CLI for end users.
Have border guards not always asked those questions? I'm pretty sure it's been like that since before the 20th century.
Yeah, it kind of sucks but there is some ambiguity in the law when to comes to making fan art/games.

But basically as I understand it you can't publicly distribute a game with the same exact title, characters, story and look. You are given some leeway to parody but should tread carefully there too.

So for example: StellarCraft featuring Zerps, Terrags and Protians and use similar but reasonably distinct looks for everyone from the other game would be safer.
That's just a throwback to the featurephones of old, which were bewildering but somehow made Nokia and friends quite a bit of money.

Nobody seems to have picked up on the fact that Apple's success was also based on extreme simplicity: they sold just one model with a variable amount of memory. That's it. They didn't diversify their line until very recently, when they started to feel a bit insecure ("will people really like such a big screen? Fuck it, let's ship both") -- IMHO this simplification helped tremendously in selling to demographics that would have otherwise steered clear of "those nerdy gadgets".

Featurephone-like strategies make sense for upstarts looking for "a market, any market" and small players trying to carve niches; I would have thought Samsung was big enough to play smarter these days.
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Great show. But the article does mention micro-expressions:

> Even if we think we have a poker face, we might still give away tiny flickers of movement known as “micro-expressions” that might give the game away.

but then goes on to say:
> ... this too seems to have been disproved.
Socialism doesn't have an agreed-upon definition. For example, the World Socialist Movement will tell you that it entails an end to private property and to trades using money[1].

Whether the Nordic model is really socialist is a subject of intense debate among the Left (as usual).

[1] http://www.worldsocialism.org/english/what-socialism
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I thought HBO called jwz to the rescue...
> As a person from northern Europe, I think this is all about envy: "I don't like you because you have success, so I have to impede you".

As a person also from Europe I wish people would stop saying this, because it doesn't do justice to the issue that many of us actually have with these specific companies. All it does is divert from the real issues.

It's nothing to do with envy (for me at least, and many others) and everything to do with the way these companies conduct themselves and the outright lack of respect they demonstrate towards the public and the laws of the countries in which they operate.

They need reigning in.
A coffee brake? Yes, please.

(in the screenshot)
> I suspect that productivity simply isn't increasing for a lot of jobs.

It is a lot simpler:

What happens when you have fixed demand combined with huge increases in productivity?

If an individual has enough leverage they can capture the extra value.... otherwise they will actually find themselves worse off.

For example, a cleaner today can handle roughly 3-4x the floorspace (etc) compared to a cleaner 50 years ago. That is a clear productivity increase. And I'd argue people still value clean shops etc as much as they used to.

> I would expect that workers who can do that will be highly compensated for such value produced.

It's more because as a group they tend to have better leverage and they aren't currently demand constrained.

For example I have enough cash in liquid assets to cover 12 months living expenses, and I work in a field where I'm unlikely to be out of work for more than a month. Even more importantly a good chunk of the other workers with my skill-set also have lots of leverage.

So if my job adds $1 million to the bottom line I'm in a good position to negotiate for a decent chunk of it. Especially because demand far outstrips supply.
I don't think it would have much effect on SEO, since the "ads" are injected into the page via JavaScript. Google does render the page with JavaScript now, though, so it might help. I'm using it with AdSense now, it works fine and I've been noticing higher-than-usual clickthrough rates on the real AdSense ads.
It so happened I was given 5 different pens over a course of a week. Each pen had a different interface twist, pull, slide, press, not one was of the traditional variety of clicking the top. The following week I had to go to the bank to sign something. The banker handed me a pen, I pulled, twisted, pushed, and could not figure it out then I realized it was of the tradituinal variety, and sheepishly clicked the top.
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This is it.

It's easy to dismiss the issues many in Europe have as 'hey you're just jealous' but fuck that.

That's just distracting from the issue many people have and it does nobody any good to debase the argument like that.
How does one parody a parody? By being serious?
I’m not quite a fair case as I already understood all of the stuff in this talk (or at least broadly in the case of the more advanced maths), but I’m quite confident that when I was starting delving into graphics stuff that I would have got more out of half an hour going through this presentation by myself than ten times as long with a lecturer at Uni. Even one-on-one would have taken a few times as long without such visible demonstrations as are contained so beautifully in this presentation.

Uni lecturers can actually work on these sorts of things if they are so inclined; I remember one lecturer who had developed such a system, with the assistance of one of his students for part of the time as part of a research project, all as a part of his job at the Uni, not as volunteer work.

You are, of course, quite correct that the actual implementation of such a thing would take a long time; I’m familiar with this as I’ve been working on a number of more advanced interactive things and visualisations as part of some Rust training materials that I’m producing (“a book” is such a sad way of expressing such a rich subject). These things definitely do take a long time, but if they’re done well, they seriously are well over an order of magnitude better than the alternatives.

Most of all, I just want people to see things like that so that they realise just what is possible. Slides! Oh, such shackles we needlessly place upon ourselves. Static text! Oh, the vistas of imagination never explored, never seen, never even imagined.
Haha nice!
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You're right, you can do all those without applying, but why not just hit submit anyways? It's not going to hurt you and even if you do get that soul-crushing rejection, who cares? You're going to face a lot more cruel rejections from angels and VCs so you might as well start building up your tolerance. And if you really can't tolerate it then pursuing a startup isn't for you, because it gets much more stressful as you go. This is a good explanation as to why they might reject your app: http://www.ycombinator.com/whynot/

They eventually do share the ideas; just not in the beginning. Some companies announce themselves in the beginning and some don't. Eventually we will hear about them when Demo Day comes around. This is a post listing the recent class: http://blog.ycombinator.com/congratulations-to-the-yc-summer...

This is a compiled list of all the companies that have ever attended YC and their status (though it seems it hasn't been updated yet): http://yclist.com/
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I think your suggestions are great, but I don't see why Twitter should do it -- what they should do is open up the game for developers, so Kanyer's software development/PR team can work a specific system to do that. Or a company do a generic platform and sell the service to celebrities.
Crossing into the US from Canada, its seems that boarder officials have always asked those type of questions.
Trademark is the only form of intellectual property (IP) for which selective enforcement is a problem. Presumably the name of the game is trademarked but the images & audio are covered by copyright law, not trademark.
A few days ago I wanted to check pricing/features of linode, so I googled linode and clicked on the first link:

http://welcome.linode.com/features/

This gave me 0% of what I wanted and no way to get there, I was confused before I realized it was just a glorified shitty landing page.

Fuck them for trying to scam me into creating an account and making me waste my time, I thought.
It sounds like your high school experience is a reflection of attitude not ability.

While it is currently possible to have a career in computing with just discreet math, my observation is that many of the most interesting problems and work in computing are more readily understood in mathematical terms...that's sort of the nature of any technical discipline: I've read Einstein wished he knew more math.

Good luck.
Looking at the pictures it reminded me of first prince of persia sands of time.
What do you think is special about the US? Copyright law exists everywhere.
It's indeed a problem. I've lived with flatmates who basically lounged around for 3+ years on Harz 4, and despite the fact that I am rather left-leaning (to put it mildly), there were moments where I thought 'if I paid taxes in Germany, I'd be really pissed off about the fact that my flatmate is using my tax money to get high all the time and not improve his life in any way'.

Of course, when my rational mind took over I realized that 1) he had some serious psychological issues that he was trying to address, 2) he lives on practically nothing, to the point of collecting and returning empty bottles to get himself a beer, and 3) he's a really warm, caring, awesome guy who shares what little he has whenever he can, even with a well-paid person like me.

But imagine the situation when 1) someone is not as left-leaning as I am, 2) someone is faced with 'strangers' benefitting from their tax money, rather than people they can easily identify with, 3) this 'stranger' is easily associated with crime and cultural practices and religious beliefs that baffle me, and, perhaps most importantly 4) I am not working in one of the few areas of business that still does well (IT) and I'm feeling the economic problems myself.

I suppose I could add 5) I have a partner and kids and a mortgage and a car that I cannot just 'ditch' when times get lean.

None of what I'm saying should be taken as any kind of ethical judgment or opinion. I'm simply expressing my fear of what might happen because of these issues, and a desire to work toward solutions that benefit all parties involved, or at least prevent serious consequences.
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Could be an aspect of the time in the article, "many years" of these parties and a full week at a time, frictional points would be burned out a long time ago.

I don't do the annual prison term from the article, but at family get togethers my MiL somewhat annoys me; I know the feeling is mutual; I probably cared about that twenty years ago, not so much now, other than as a source of comedy.

I guess the programming analogy would be springing unit tests suddenly on an ancient codebase is going to result in a terrifyingly huge pile of errors after the first run of a complete set of tests, yet if unit tests were run throughout the life of the code, even if the total amount of failure were higher (which it probably would be) the peak amount of unit test failures at any given moment would likely be rather low, mostly zero or one failure at a time.
Well, the problem is that, while I had never heard of "GAFA" and "NATU", there is absolutely an amalgamated opposition to these companies, not because of those particular problems, nor (I would claim) from sour grapes, but from a general aversion to American multi-nationals, which is common among the whole political spectrum in much of Europe.

It's waining among the younger generations, but around here Coke is still referred to as the "dirty water of imperialism" - and only half-jokingly.

So, often these specific complaints are less actual grievances, and more excuses to criticize and call for restricting the expansion of these companies on our soil.
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For years fulltime profs number < 25%.
This article (with refs) shows that essentially all tenture-track professors are over 60:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professors_in_the_United_State...
Great presentation, although I didn't finish it because the load times between steps got to annoying (it seems like they only load when you switch to the next slide, instead of preloading at least the next one or two slides)
I haven't heard any of those abbreviations either. And what is Tesla doing in "NATU"? I thought it was in some states in the US where Tesla's business model is forbidden (i.e. selling directly to the customer). I don't think an EU member state would be allowed to forbid it. And you can't really compare EU/US like this, different states/countries can have very different rules.
Hmm a bit more info in the readme would be helpful. My .keychain directory only contains shell snippets that set environment variables to my SSH agent.

Where's the vulnerability? In ssh-agent? Or are we talking about a completely different keychain tool here?
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Voluntary compliance is still the guiding principle of income tax collection. Basically 80/20. The optimal strategy is to target a portion of non-compliant taxpayers to keep public perception of tax collection intact.

Keep in mind that government expenditure and revenue sources were very different in those days.
Great prespective.

Thinking of the future: Recent experience suggests that we are able to do around 50-100 Mpps of traffic dispatching in Snabb Switch using one CPU core. I suspect that dedicated software traffic dispatchers will displace hardware (RSS, VMDq, etc) in the immediate future.

We are planning to explore this soon in the context of software dispatching for 100Gbps ethernet ports.
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

Is that just a complicated way of saying blue?
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