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So you think Google has been needlessly hemorrhaging money for two decades? Seems like an odd statement.

Clearly Google sees the value in it. Even if it is simply brand identity, or "vendor lockin" (for lack of a better description). Clearly there is something that is very meaningful to Google to do it.

I bet there are a ton of companies that would love to have their maps product as the "maps app" of choice by the masses. Likewise, i'm sure Microsoft would love if i had to login to bing every time i used Navigation, compared to me never using bing for anything ever. So yea, i don't think "Totally Blew It" is that far off the mark.
I'll quote Kim Dotcom as a counter argument:

>Our Governments: "We spy on all of you to keep you safe". But why have your mass surveillance systems failed to prevent the Paris attacks?
Airbnb is not a private individual. They are a major rental agency, with a slick looking website. Why is the trust model different?
Different use case, but I can not recommend using Sibbell[0] enough. Especially when you have more than a handful of dependencies, tracking issues, fixes and their eventual release is crucial.

[0] https://sibbell.com/about/
A few cherry-picked tweets form the basis for an article now?
Do a risk analysis. Terror attacks (and most other high-profile murders) are tragic and scary, but in terms of death count, statistically insignificant.

Adopt absolute surveillance, ban all guns, etc etc and you might save a very small number of people each year, but you've paid a lot to do that.
Except these don't appear to be a political terrorist group, like the ones we have in Europe. This is jihad, blind violence, without targeting political figures. If you ask the bombers why they do it they 'll barely be able to answer beyond some religious nonsense. If you ask the ones who sent them to bomb, i bet you will find a mixture of vague anti-westernism , anti-semitism etc. Whoever is funding them does not have a world-changing plan other than general disorder. Even if ISIS had a UN-recognized state, they wouldn't be able to keep it functioning for a single day.

It's easy to be a terrorist nowadays, because it's hard to come up with solutions to fix the broken arab world. It probably doesn't take huge funding to do the things they do. Is there a viable political agenda behind them? If there was, arabs wouldn't be fleeing the area in droves.
I used this and it was incredibly slow. Clicking the arrow buttons moved the map by a fixed amount. In my opinion the breakthrough of Google Maps was the Javascript interface that let you slide around and zoom in and out, plus the engineering behind it that served the map tiles quickly.
The Community video game "Hawkthorne" (inpired by a mockup on the TV show) managed dozens of artist contributors very effectively.
I see alot of startups, in different forums ie: reddit, producthunt, etc; that have a model like Uber. For instance, Uber for breakfast, etc. It's quite shocking that some people providing X as a service forget into account the demographics of where they are starting. Imagine if there was a startup exactly like Uber and started in Alaska, would it really be successful?

So, in addition to what you said, a startup may also not work if it doesn't start (or become successful) in a city like San Francisco/ New York
1 is the correct answer. Beyond that, you say "more" as if there are many. You have a better chance of being killed by lightening, stop promoting terror as a major fear, it is not.
Asians will try as much to keep this fact about “Ibisbill Bird” away
How do you read a paper?
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Actually, there were 42k traffic fatalities in the US in 2001, so 9/11 was equal to more like 3-4 weeks' worth :(
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Your argument is that people only use C++ because of existing libraries and engines

My response is that we use C++ for the language itself, existing engine or not. :)
Of course. Where have you been for the past few years?
Riding the public interest wave about the attacks in Paris makes making click-bait easier than ever!

Additionally the article can be summarized as: "We don't know how the attacks were co-ordinated... so maybe strong encryption, and by proxy, Snowden, are to blame?"
Welp, they sure optimized the ad loading code. I got to see nice animated ads while staring at a Loading spinner for the app.
"According to a USA Today article from June 22, 1998, the initial plan with Terraserver was to list every single transaction in the history of the New York Stock Exchange online and make it searchable. But that was only a half terabyte of data. Microsoft needed something larger."

I'd be curious to see what the size of that collection is now, post advent of high frequency trading.

Side note, the article in no way explains why Google Earth would be considered a success story. The lead engineer from this project went on to Bing Maps, it's not as if MS decided geographic data wasn't worth doing.
I would be interested to see what you would think of this, your statement, if you were holding the dismembered body of your father, mother, sib,ing or loved one in your arms. Dead.

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Eed to change. Theirs do. And the solution is very simple. The problem is nobody has the balls and determination to do it.

There's a fundamental incompatibiliti between ideologies and behavior. Being poor, uneducated and without a job isn't a driver. Poor, uneducated and unemployed people in the wort ghetto's in western countries haven't historically translated their circumstances into "let's use automatic weapons to organize a multi-headed attack, kill ourselves and a bunch of people". No, there's only one ideology on the planet with a radicalized extreme minority that supports and promotes this kind of behavior.

To use the priot poster's analogy, let's stop blaming the cancer on the patient. We are not the problem. They are. And those who support them.

We sit idly while watching whole societies who behave like animals. Women in muslim countries walk around u der tents and are stoned to death. People are beheaded. Brutality and cave-men behaviour abounds. And we are supposed to respect it because it is religion? As a scientist this whole concept is revolting. Religion, a collective stone age dellusion that infects the minds of billions of people. It deserves no respect whatsoever. None. In that sense we are at fault.

We don't have to change. The delusional stone age brutal inhuman apes pushing around nonsense have to. The world needs to unite against them, not respect their bullshit religion and ideology.
The keyboard shortcuts are such a blessing. Truth be told, I learned all of them even when I used a Mac in the System 7 era. For me, the mouse [0] is not just an ergonomic problem by itself, but using it with graphical software gives me pounding eyestrain headaches and neck fatigue. The keyboard lets me divert my visual focus away from the screen, yet know "where" the commands are.

To this day, programming is my favorite design activity because it doesn't require interacting with a graphical display. I can't do CAD.

I always just assumed that Windows kept the keyboard shortcuts because they were such a good idea.

[0] or touch pad, track ball, whatever. I've tried 'em all. The best of the bunch is the touch screen.
More propaganda from the american Gestapo?
I think a heroic act happens at the individual level in the moment. It's when someone has to overcome their survival instinct to do their job in a given moment. Are terrorist heroic? No, they want to die because they think they will be rewarded. Where there heroic soldiers fighting on every side in WW2? I think so. Just because Hitler was a psycho doesn't mean that a German soldier jumping on a grenade to save his close personal friends didn't act heroically. He wanted to go home to his wife and kids but in an instant, without thinking about the macro political motives behind the leaders of his country, ignored his survival instinct and saved a few friends. Dying doesn't make you a hero, but I do think by definition a heroic act is when an individual ignores their self preservation instinct with no expectation of reward or gain to do a task that they might rather not do. I think the word is watered down to describe people that do nice things, but aren't risking literal life and limb.
Not very difficult, see http://doc.perl6.org/language/nativecall
AirBNB are middlemen, they are not - surprise - in the business of renting out apartments, they are in the business of facilitating the renting out of apartments/houses/whatever and that is exactly where the problem lies. People enter properties they rented through AirBNB not from AirBNB with the same expectations that they would have entering a hotel but with a nicer ambiance. And that expectation is terribly faulty.
Very cogent point! Living in North Texas, I recently saw a map highlight thing that showed this region is about the same size as Connecticut. Sure, there are some population density centers to make urban stuff work, but the 'inconvenience' factor of getting around, parking, etc, etc aren't parallels.
Well that didn't take long ...
I used it too and, indeed, it was slow - but I was also using it on a Pentium 90 CPU and a 28.8kbit/sec internet connection.

I don't know if gMaps would have run any faster on that hardware back then, especially if it was all jscript-driven.
If anyone else thinks to check if it's only the top result in fasterthanlime's filter bubble, it is also the top result on Google through search.disconnect.me.
Fully disagree.

It is precisely during tragic times like these that people need to be reminded that an unarmed citizenry is completely vulnerable to armed criminals/terrorists.

Gun control has zero effect on people who don't care about the law.

And many innocent people have just died as a result. Hundreds of families have just been forever changed because of it.
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> It's completely possible that the message sent here was not aimed to anybody living in France.

Why? France is bombing ISIS in Syria. That's also what the attackers were saying.
I regret the use of that word.
I attended one of these ten day retreats in September. It was a worthwhile experience, but it hasn't produced any great change in my day-to-day experience.

That said, many people I met at the retreat reported feelings of great personal significance. I'm completely open to the possibility that the fault lies with me, but I wonder whether these reports were influenced by group pressure, since there is something of a sense of community and to admit that you "didn't feel anything" is to exclude yourself. After ten days of silence and seclusion from the world (there's no technology, communication, reading, etc.), you will want all the social interaction and acceptance you can get.

Also bear in mind that this is basically a self-selected group of people who are searching for "something." Whatever "it" is, it doesn't come as a surprise to me that people find it after ten days alone with their thoughts (which still come to mind, however much you try to focus on bodily sensations).

As an aside, I was also turned off by some of the quasi-religious content of the retreat. The website claims that this is a strictly evidence-based practice, but you'll quickly realize this isn't the case when you hear Goenka chanting in Pali or explaining the benefits of meditation as an effect of releasing "sankhara."

After the retreat, I thought a fellow named Harmanjit Singh did an excellent job evaluating Goenka's teachings here: http://harmanjit.blogspot.com/2007/07/critique-of-vipassana-...

If I ever have another continuous twelve days to spare, I'd still be willing to try another retreat with a more secular focus.
Call him not a LIAR, rather do a name-shopping here
Political Interference, Religious intolerance, Social injustice - no those had nothing to do with terrorism - it's all about encryption.... /sarcasm
You seem to misunderstand what displaced people want. Why would you send them away and stay in a refugee camp? Refugee camps are precisely the first relatively safe place displaced people find. They are attended by aid agencies, and provide basic needs. They are temporarily a place of shelter and food. Traveling on the road from border crossing to border crossing around Europe is less safe than staying put in the refugee camp. You'll need to find food and shelter in different places each night. You will be hassled by authorities. You might end up living rough on the streets of Ljubljana for the winter. But if you make it to Berlin you might be able to apply for asylum, find a job, and get enough money together to bring your family (if you have papers, they will be able to use trains or planes - they won't have to walk 800 miles). That seems a rational calculation for a young man.
They invented Google Earth, yes, but looking at satellite images is mostly a novelty unless you're searching for concentration camps in North Korea or nuclear plants in Israel.

Google Maps is a much more generally useful product. And Microsoft was well ahead of Google, they sold numerous offline mapping products.
WordPress was b2/cafelog (2004)
Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap are two fairly significant ones.

(I suppose more for the first part of what you are asking and not so much for the second part, but then there are several companies paying people to make edits to OSM)
Please cite your sources. I appreciate what you're trying to say, but I've been dealing with this for the past 19 hours and you're putting words in the mouths of attackers who are dead or have not been caught.

> Even if ISIS had a UN-recognized state, they wouldn't be able to keep it functioning for a single day.

Do you know why we say "know your enemy"? Because the worst thing you can do when facing a threat is underestimate it. You don't want to be caught off-guard. Statistically if you read this site you are familiar with computer security. Think, how does downplaying and underestimating threats work out, in the itsec world?

> It's easy to be a terrorist nowadays, because it's hard to come up with solutions to fix the broken arab world.

These are two very faintly related points. They're certainly not cause & consequence.
You're the second person to misquote me.

> is to monitor all Muslims living in Europe who have the potential to be radicalised

This is about targeting those who are becoming radicalised, not monitoring every single Muslim in Europe.
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People renting out their homes on AirBNB do not normally see it as a business venture. They usually do not register as a business and they usually do not follow the regulations set for the hospitality business (in fact, they try what they can to avoid those regulations, associated costs and taxes).
"Blame Snowden and Encryption" is starting to look as coordinated as the Paris attacks.
Thanks for the Cmd-Option-I, never even thought about googling for this.

I know some of the shortcuts including how to open something but some of the defaults here are not about mac being different from windows (commenting on the parent) but stupid at least to my understanding. No one renames file more than they open it in a file browser so making the most frequent operation in a file browser a two key shortcut is irrational. Same goes for multiple files showing multiple info window. I think windows/linux now even shows you warning when you have too many files selected and you press return. OsX the first time I tried Cmd+I on multiple files opened 140 info windows. How many times in your lifetime do you want that when pressing Cmd+I on files?

And lets not talk about highly expert commenters on apple forum explaining why cut paste is supposedly something that can make you loose files :(
I always did wonder about that. Current research implies that placebos work as long as you believe they will work, even if you know they are a placebo. But then why would you need the placebo in the first place?

There seems to be no need to do anything really, if you can just stop thinking you're feeling bad then you'll actually feel better.

In principle there's no need for any specific instructions on meditation either, but it does seem to be related to meditation where you also aim to stop thinking about certain things, so those instructions are likely to be useful, even if they only turn out to be yet another placebo. After you gain more confidence that you can do it, you should have less need for those instructions though.
How I wish MSFT executives were more competitive and less dismissive of non-OS related technologies back in the day. I am really glad that things are quite different today and they are -atleast- competing with other tech companies if not leading them.
> It's a tragic accident, I don't see much in terms of liability.

> Liability insurance won't save your life if you get hit by a few hundred pounds of tree. It will just move money around.

By this argument you seem to be claiming that there's no liability in cases where people die. Just because you could have stayed alive by not doing something doesn't mean there is automatically no liability.

Obviously we agree that it would be better to not sing and be alive than to swing, die, and get a payout. I'm also not sure whether there is liability here legally, or even whether I think morally there was reasonable expectation that the swing was safe.

But surely the question of liability doesn't factor in whether or not the payout brings someone back to life, and this part of your comment obscures your point a bit.
Maybe everyone would benefit from a centralized solution where open-source projects submit requests for designing something and designers can have a go at it. This way designers will be able to quickly browse and find the projects most appealing to them / suited to their skills, are able to build a portfolio, and will be able to avoid awkward conversations with uninterested developers. I guess having created parts of a real game or program is worth more than the thousandth redesign of a popular web page, and it actually benefits someone.
I'm not sure if WoW and similar games fulfill the deep needs of connection and belonging people have (for example, Breivik was pretty much playing WoW 24/7 for a couple years before he moved on to his radicalism and, eventually, mass murder). Given by the amount of negative emotions I've seen in online games, my guess is that's more of a paliative, similar to alcohol or drugs.
As for the Fight Club -> music production story, that's great and gives some hope. However, most people are not cut for and/or interested in solitary activities like this.

I don't see first option as a viable one, simply because there's currently 1.7 billion Muslims in the world (most of them doesn't support the radicals, but I'm guessing that could change very quickly if their innocent family members get killed during the "levelling of the ground"). It would lead to WWIII.

I think the positive route, along with some smart interventions (i.e. not having borders open to any and all refugees which want to enter Europe, but rather absorbing them at a manageable rate), is the way to go.
It is actually succesful in Israel. Check airport profiling.
> Current research implies that placebos work as long as you believe they will work, even if you know they are a placebo.

It depends on the research. There's some that don't find a strong placebo response.
> I would be interested to see what you would think of this, your statement, if you were holding the dismembered body of your father, mother, sib,ing or loved one in your arms. Dead.

I pray that I would have enough presence of mind to not be overcome by grief and be able to utter the same statement as I did now.

People who are now holding their dead are a fraction of a fraction of percent in Europe. I feel for them, we all do, and personally I think I'd let them react in any way they want. But the rest of us were not affected directly. We have a responsibility to stay focused and stay sane if we want to get through it with a society that is worth preserving. Or with a society at all.

No amount of pain dealt by attackers justifies retaliating against innocent people who had absolutely nothing to do with it. And yes, I understand the clash of cultures narrative. I worry about it too. But even if the terror attacks were directly related to immigration, which I'm betting they are not, turning aggressive because of it would still be one of the worst possible things to do.

> The delusional stone age brutal inhuman apes pushing around nonsense have to. The world needs to unite against them, not respect their bullshit religion and ideology.

Their ideology may have problems, but that was totally, 100% uncalled for. It's below standard of dignity I'd expect from a civilized human being. And please don't blame individuals for what is a systemic problem.
If you want to know how much the property owners care about fire safety, don't bother checking the smoke detectors, just look at what kind of lights they have next to the beds. I.e. if they are halogen or incandescent then you can tell that they probably don't give a shit about whether or not their renters die in a fire.
Finding artists is much easier for open source games that based off known titles because there is people who like original game or already participate modding community. Many open source games even started this way (like The Dark Mod).

Personally I'm participate development of VCMI (FOSS engine for Heroes of Might & Magic 3) and there is plenty of artists that contributed to modding community in past and totally okay with contributing their work under CC licenses. Sure that for more popular titles it's may be even easier.

But I agree it's really tricky to find contributors who going to work on brand new game or professional software like GIMP.
Good point. More like they aim to eventually deploy to many different infrastructure providers.
Interesting discussions here https://github.com/json-schema/json-schema/issues/167
Not really. Try this experiment: hit yourself on the head with a sledgehammer and then try to "interpret" the pain as something else (eating chocolate, say) or just "disregard" it. You'll find it's not so easy.

In fact, you already know that I'm right about this. You are in fact so convinced that I am right that you will not try this experiment. How do I know this? Because millions of years of evolution has hard-wired this understanding of pain into your brain. Anyone who doesn't have this understanding hard-wired into their brains tends not to survive because they end up doing stupid things like hitting themselves on the head with sledgehammers just to see what will happen. In fact, there are a very few people who can't feel pain. It's a very serious problem. They have to be extremely careful because they can easily sustain life-threatening injuries and not realize it.
I also used it just when it was introduced, but with a 2 Mbit/s uplink at work. And a 10 Mbit/s student residential uplink at home connected to a 34 Mbit/s link that the Linköping University had via Swedish University Network (SUNET). (Back then 34 Mbit/s was something fantastic!) I probably used a P133 with Linux at home and a 110 Mhz Sparc 5 at work. And Netscape was the browser in both cases.

My vague memory from then is that the server was super slow, and that my connection wasn't the limiting factor. Still, it was fascinating to play with for a few hours.

This was before P2P pirating was a big thing. Pirating was mostly done via SMB shares in the local network (no-one was afraid of getting caught since the authorities had no clue at all, and also because it felt like we were spearheading something new and interesting), so the external link didn't suffer. Online video at that time was like 50 kbps RealVideo streams, at most.
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