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> After a further six months of nagging doubts about the proprietary “window mask” technology I had designed, I decided to take the plunge and do what Jörn had suggested might lead to a considerable increase in rendering speed: namely, to abandon the window masks (which, it turned out, might as well have been called “regions”), and use a traditional dirty-rectangle window management system, as used in SymbOS.

This is pretty funny when you recall regions were a key part of the original Macintosh system software — as described in “I Still Remember Regions”:

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=I_Still_Remember_...

See also “Busy Being Born”, currently on the front page:

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Busy_Being_Born.t...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10188952
Sounds like healthcare at the medium hospital and up level.
We only really intended to make toast.

So yes. I cannot heat up bagel-bites in there. Nor can I download apps.
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I don't see the argument that Trump is trolling. He's spent considerable time over the past several years injecting himself into the political debate, which now seems like his clear intention was to position himself as a viable candidate for the presidency.

He's also reaching a point in his campaign where he's spending considerable time preparing himself for the primary season and will also need to start spending considerable money.

It's hard to really see why he would do all this in order to make Jeb Bush seem "less bad". If you recall the 2012 primary, there were a similar number of candidates, but the person who won was the most moderate of them, Mitt Romney. However, in 2012, there was never really on "outsider" as popular as Trump. I think it's less apt to compare Trump to Herman Cain than it is to compare him to the runs of Steve Forbes or Ross Perot.

Trump's current popularity might be completed related to the fact that he isn't coming from a political background and isn't acting like a politician. Mark Cuban said he doesn't necessarily support Trump's positions, but does support the idea that we need more people like Trump involved in politics.
Those subsidies have gone way, way down since at least 2008, for quite a few states. That's part of the reason tuition has been skyrocketing, to make up for the reduced subsidies. At one school that I know someone who works on the staff, the state was perpetually six months behind where it was supposed to be for payments and they had to go through a 40% reduction in their subsidy.

In Illinois, they even proposed a bill to privatize their public schools this year. I don't think it passed, but the fact that it was even proposed says something. Source: http://www.dailyeasternnews.com/2015/03/24/senator-proposes-...
It's still not working well on my touchpad. It stutters badly. I honestly would recommend removing it. I checked it on my desktop. It works there, but the difference scroll speed is unhelpful and actually a little bothersome.
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This.

My GE fridge was all Samsung parts.

Which were all made by someone else.
To be fair, pretty much everyone I know who works on high-voltage tube electronics has shocked themselves badly at some point. That stuff can kill and maim.

But the circuits were much simpler... I understand how a rectifier works... I got no idea how a switch mode supply works. And the parts were a lot larger. And the cost per device was a lot greater, too, making paying a repair person a saner choice.
That Wikipedia page is the most hilarious wtf I have ever seen. I did not see this "< 25%" number you mention, but I read that "In 2011, a survey conducted by TIAA-CREF Institute senior researcher Paul J. Yakoboski estimated that 73% of professors with senior tenure ranged between the ages of 60 and 66 and that the remaining 27% were above the age of 66."

Then I read the reference and it said "To this end, the TIAA-CREF Institute surveyed full-time college and university faculty age 60 and older regarding issues related to whether and when to retire." The survey is about seniors (in terms of age) because TIAA-CREF is a retirement account company, not "senior tenure" whatever that means. I'm actually more surprised that the number of professors over 60 is not 100% since that's the only population surveyed.

The rest of the Wikipedia page is similarly biased, "Today (2015), adjunct professors, hired for their low cost only, rather than expertise, make up more than half the teaching faculty at United States universities." I can't tell if the Wikipedia article is intentionally ridiculous or if it's some parody article.
Thanks for that link, I actually didn't know O'Reilly had such a page.

I'm not very familiar with ebook pirating platforms. So the link didn't seem suspicious to me.

Anyway, the book was removed. Thanks again for pointing it out.
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Please don't use this. There's nothing wrong with browsers and how they scroll. We all know how to use it and it works well everywhere.

You're loading more code just to mess with something that already works without any new benefit (and actually degrading the experience).
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Supervision, yes, but preventing them from pushing their boundaries, no.

I see 2 year old kids who can climb and navigate almost any playground, because their parents let them try, and let them fall, when reasonable. I have seen 5 years old who cannot do the same because the parents never let them take risks.

It is OK for kids to fall and get hurt sometimes. One of the harder parts of being a parent is letting that happen, and making judgments between when it is safe to let them fail vs. when it would truly injure them.
vow what a Joke! I guess this Cucumber guy has nothing else in his life to do. He talks about how testers and developers should interact as a solution to fix the Agile process which sucks anyway no matter what. so developers need to worry about the stupid tests that they need to pass which are created by the testers. Testers are way less qualified than developers in most companies obviously there are exceptions here and there. I am a developer I write my own tests instead worrying about tests created by testers. Make the development experience more enjoyable than making it tedious. Fuck you cucumber guy. btw Matt Wynne, you do look like a cucumber. go stick that BDD in your butt hole.
Kind of like that, only a lot more flexible in what it can do since it isn't a public service. You can run arbitrary DB Queries, and it supports more sources of data like FTP and files dropped on the local file system.
I don't believe that Apple has a tendency to sell their chips to other companies.
The biggest gain of Cucumber I have seen is executable specifications. That is, every development task is described somewhere, whether it's pages and pages of a Google Doc or a couple lines in a Github issue. Code then gets implemented, and is almost certainly iterated over time. The question is, does the specification ever get updated to match the code's behavior?

With Cucumber, you have a relatively clear specification (written in Gherkin's Given-When-Then syntax), and it always remains up-to-date because the developer needs to update it as corner cases or new scenarios arise. (Of course, this assumes you are running continuous integration with something like CircleCI and tracking code coverage with something like Coveralls.io.)

I don't think there's anything magic about Cucumber, vs. Turnip <https://github.com/jnicklas/turnip>, or Spinach <https://github.com/codegram/spinach>, or even Steak <https://github.com/cavalle/steak>. But I do think the Gherkin syntax encourages use of clear descriptions that make it easier for a new developer (or yourself, 6 months later) to understand what a feature is supposed to do, and in particular, to avoid accidentally breaking it as you make other changes.
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You can easily get very close to this with Capybara: 'expect(page).to have(:css, ".article table th td", text: " hello world ")'
Save functionality but you won't have to support that silly regex abstraction layer. If this is still not human readable enough, I would still recommend writing your own DSL on top of Capybara rather than matching to regexes like Cucumber does.
How much did you bet at what odds did Trump won't become president? Surely it's a wise investment strategy, given how certain you seem to think the future is.

Odds are something like 15:1, so if you think it's 150:1 - or more - that's a 10x certain return. It's a no-brainer, in that case.

The point is that talk is cheap. Of course it's more likely that he won't become president, but don't rule out the chance that he might. If you do, it'd be wise to put your money where your mouth is.
Even with ebooks that some libraries offer, which have the same costs close to zero as you say, there are often arbitrary limitations as to how many they'll lend out at a time.
Sounds like you disagree with the core concept underlying one man, one vote. Why should a person who squeaks by with correctly answering 6/10 of the test questions be given the exact same voice as someone who gets 10/10, and someone with 5/10 gets no voice at all?
> 10 years later they are now in the same position with Intel. If Intel delays the next version of its product line by six months then Apple has to put things on hold. This is bad for a company like Apple as it could cause them to miss out on potentially lucrative periods (back to School, the Holiday season etc).

This article isn't about laptops, though. It's about ARM. Apple isn't dependent on anyone for ship dates in the ARM space -- they license the ISA, but they design their own chips based on the license. Yes, they're reliant on Samsung to fab the things, but Apple doesn't need their own ISA if they want to use their own fabs. I don't see how replacing ARM with a custom ISA helps Apple any.

(As for Intel -- it's not like Intel's other customers don't have the exact same sales periods that Apple does. So they're motivated. As others have said, if Intel slips deadlines like that, who's to say Apple has the ability to meet them where Intel couldn't?)
Bernie Sanders has a long history as a public servant and advocate for the people. He doesn't have a legacy of corruption, self interest, exploitation, profiteering, deception or scandal that you find in all the other candidates. He tries to be a good steward of the tax payer's money from his walking to work instead of being driven in a limo, to his work on the Senate Budget Committee.

He doesn't strike me as having ulterior motives like every other candidate out there right now.

Unfortunately he lacks the charisma, command, and authority necessary in a President and I think his handling of the OA 206 protesters at his Seattle Rally is pretty telling of how he'd flounder in that role.
And if we also split those electoral votes as close as possible to the way the people of the state voted we can get even closer to a direct election. And that's what the author seems to want - he's still got butt-hurt that Al Gore lost even with the popular vote. Why not just say what you want instead of proposing something that sounds kinda interesting but will never happen?
It's the same old suburban flight problem, except that it's happening to a residential neighborhood rather than a commercial city center.

They have parking problems: consider 4 small businesses in a 2000 sq ft house: that'll be 8 or 10 cars parked around the house, rather more than the property is designed for. I'd imagine traffic during commuting hours would be interesting, too, given that residential neighborhoods are usually laid out to prevent it.

The start-ups and the pseudo-commercial property owner are primarily interested in keeping costs low, rather than keeping the neighborhood viable. Residents can no longer expect infrastructure upgrades (other than street maintenance) if the commuters are in the same voting area. Even if they aren't, you can probably expect the tax base to go down since they probably will go back to their own neighborhoods to use other facilities.
If Whatsapp was worth 19B it's easy to see the ISA being worth at least that much.

edit: for what possible reason can this be downvoted? It's just a datapoint.
Interesting paper. The end result wasn't very comprehensive though, or am I missing something?
> The con is it's very difficult to get a government to lower taxes

This isn't true at all. It's very difficult to get a government to decrease the services it provides. If you decrease taxes without decreasing provided services, then that would be extremely easy to do -- until you run out of money. Look at the cluster fuck that is Kansas.

> I'm not aware of having met anyone who has ever said "I want to pay more tax"

In that case, you must either not live in the US or else live in a place with either really shit or really parasitic public schools. A huge percentage of school districts are majority funded by local (not state) tax dollars, at rates that are approved directly (i.e., by ballot measure).

Schools are the most obvious case because increases in (local) taxes that fund schools are typically ballot measures, and usually affect the population in a pretty homogenous way (except in very urban areas, but even then, property owners are usually a key voting block in local elections). But there are other taxes that a lot of people support increasing and would end up paying -- gas tax, alcohol tax, etc.

If you've really never met someone who said "I want to pay more taxes", then that's really just an indication that you're living in a bubble. It's not at all an uncommon sentiment. In fact, I'd say that "some of the taxes I pay could be higher if it's spent on the right things" is a far more common sentiment than "taxes bad, period".
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Join a Facebook group called "Deaf World Love Sign Language V.I.P" (signers from all over the world. can't even comment in the same language)

If you know sign language, you can pretty much understand what they're saying. The first time I noticed I understood someone in Brazil, talking about work, I didn't notice that... I was understanding them. I didn't understand certain stuff -- slang --.

Yes, abstract and non-literal. It's because of the PC brigade. Growing up... things were a whole lot different. It's still pretty much literal.
I'm surprised voter turnout isn't lower. Unless you live in a swing state, or Maine or Nebraska, voting for president is a waste of time. If you are in a swing state, it still might not matter unless you are in a swing district. It's a terribly broken voting system.
A 3rd world country perspective : I've seen an increasing trend of appliances at home that are intentionally designed to make repair difficult. The manufacturer/dealer nexus forces you to depend on paid but poorly trained mechanics that quote ridiculous prices for repairing (essentially using re-furbished parts).

Another case, I've got a water purifier at home that uses a series of filters (sediment, reverse-osmosis, UV radiation, carbon etc.). Due to the quality of water supply, the sediment filter requires manual cleaning every month or two, else everything down the line stands a chance of getting damaged. These filters aren't cheap ($100 every 2 years in a 3rd world country). I find it annoying that the design of these filters is such that it is cumbersome to remove that simple sediment filter. Almost everyone I know ends up paying the service provider for annual maintenance. In reality, a simple design change can make the maintenance super easy.

It's the same story with modern cars, gadgets, washing machines, everything. The money to be made from repair is a whole industry. On the brighter side, the industry is begging to be disrupted.

P.S. I've tried repairing my laptop for broken hinges, displays, heat sink etc. by watching youtube videos & ordering cheap parts from ebay. It's an immensely satisfying feeling when the gadget starts working again. You not only save money & environment, you can justify your engineering degree too :-)
Holodeck vs Lightsabers, hmm I am sticking with Holodeck. :)
What an absurd title and statement. Of course you can defend public libraries and oppose file sharing! It costs almost nothing to share digital files, while libraries have very real physical location costs and costs to maintain physical books (and maybe even to purchase digital books?). Not to mention the local community benefits a physical library offers.
He said that last one because he was being harassed by the government in Belize. Apparently they later shot his favorite dog and his house mysteriously burned down soon after. So it's not relevant to the question but a public reminder that he's not defenseless.
I wonder if some of the change is simply due to increasing screen sizes and resolutions

The original Mac had a 9" screen. The menu bar was 20 pixels tall, about 6% of the total screen height, and about a quarter of an inch tall. It was necessarily close and obviously related to anything on screen.

I'm writing this on a 30" screen with a resolution of 2560x1600, and the menu bar is still 20 pixels tall. The menu bar is far away from whatever my attention is on at any given moment, and it physically takes more time to get the mouse cursor there if I'm going to actually use it.
Yeah, I was talking solely about b), which seems impractical/impossible to mitigate.
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I was also inspired by this and wanted something with a bit more polish I can get my kids excited about:

http://midword.com/
That's sort of how I look at it. To me, Netflix (streaming) isn't a replacement for Blockbuster or PPV/VOD like their DVD-by-mail service. It's a cheap replacement for basic cable.

For under $10/mo I get the mostly the same thing as I get from all those USA/TBS/TNT sorts of channels: something to skim through and usually find something to watch with the occasional original show that I specifically seek out. With basic cable, I also can't count on a large selection of recent release movies or being able to find a specific movie/show to watch at any given time. The main difference is that basic cable costs more than the $8 or $9 per month that I pay for Netflix streaming.
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I know there's a difference, because he hasn't been convicted of anything, but imagine OJ Simpson on a video making stabbing motions into the camera.

No wait, don't imagine it, watch it happen in this 1998 episode of the Ruby Wax show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwYctVDQFqQ
...And once implemented, the implementation is more specific than the "specification" (a document detailing the requirements).

That's why the OP said, correctly, that code is the highest level of specification, because nothing can be more specialized than code (as you said correctly, an implementation is less specialized than code).

Also cf. Operational Semantics (no, not denotational), which is literally the highest level of specification, and is runnable code.
Some interesting discussion by Woz and Robert Scoble on the topic: https://www.facebook.com/RobertScoble/posts/1015356891824965...
Marc Benioff and John Sculley on the thread too.
The article main point is that Public libraries are more expensive that File-sharing, and that a zero-marginal cost hyper parallel public library would be indistinguishable to File-sharing.

The argument against file sharing then becomes the argument to keep tax paid public libraries sufficient inefficient that the copyright industry can create a living by supplying a better product.
Because big companies never make mistakes? The people who work for big companies never get caught up in a circle-jerk of cool-kid syndrome?
I convince people to not vote. If I can convince you not to vote with a single argument, then your input is something our country doesn't need. I do not at any time stop them from voting; I only tell them it doesn't matter and they shouldn't waste their time.

Everyone gets a vote, but I'm not losing any sleep when those who don't care enough to vote don't get their say recorded.

(Of course there is a problem where people who want to vote are prevented from voting. This is an issue that needs to be fixed so that everyone who wants to vote can vote.)
Pretty much that. The toaster looks retro, but only because it was built before that type of product hit commodity market saturation and manufacturers realized that cheap meant both better sales (and margins) and a built-in time lagged replacement market.

The toaster-oven, with its newer features, had not the staying power.
Voting for president is essentially always be a waste of time.[0] Many people have convinced themselves that this isn't the case, and we still have 'competitive' elections.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_voting
There's usually more than just the president on the ballot during national elections.
Pity they dropped the proportional scroll bar, then everyone else copied them. Not sure how they reasoned it would confuse people.
This was something that I was just kicking around in my head and wondering "what would these results actually look like?" And then I realized that all the necessary data was publicly available, so I grabbed a coffee and went to town. I'm not actually proposing this change and had no idea what the results would be until I started writing.
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Well to be fair the costs are irrelevant, you can claim the big issue is that Libraries actually getting their copies for free and in many countries actually charge (even if minute) fees for people to be able to borrow books making them more akin to Netflix than to TorrentFreak.

But the setup cost is really not the issue especially considering that you can setup a new digital library at little to no costs these days and as a very large portion of the books (I would say probably 99%>) that you would be able to get a hold on in a public library got digital copies than setting up the same exact collection isn't that hard.

Another argument to be made is actually the "value" of the information shared in libraries vs file sharing sites, while you can argue that even the poorest made film or the buggiest game has some educational value you would be hard pressed to claim that file sharing sites help propagate knowledge on a level that is even in the same order of magnitude as public libraries used too.

Yes some people might download a book, even a school book or some documentary (which today they are pretty worthless sadly) but majority of downloads are TV shows, Movies, Porn and Games which sorry claiming that they are akin to a public library is just blasphemous.
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Which isn't that bad, that's the same price as buying a replacement battery for my 2008 MB 5,1. I think I paid around £80 for the last one. At least you're not being charged any extra for servicing.