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There are two parts to this issue, the most minor of which being that depictions of mohammed are forbidden. Indeed depictions of any prophet are frowned apon by the majority of muslims. Disney's 'The Prince of Egypt' was banned in many predominantly muslim countries for example. The reasoning behind this is that the worshiping of stone idols was the religion of the day in Mecca before Mohammed started evangelizing. It was the desire for Islam to be far removed from these practices. Yet for any rules that are in place for muslims, non-muslims are not required to adhere to them, hence no-one at Disney was threatened or murdered.

There is some cross-over of course, where a non-muslim cannot for example walk around half-dressed in a muslim country but making depictions of mohammed in a Western publication is certainly not one of them. I cringe when I hear people say something like 'Mohammed's image might be sacred to muslims, but not us'. Muslims are, you could argue, some what responsible though as mohammed has been elevated to something far above a human being in some of their minds, ironic when his one message was that God alone is worthy of worship.

The real issue and what is being continuously glossed over when this brouhaha boils over is that some muslims take deadly issue with mohammed or Islam being mocked. There are a few accounts of poets in mohammed's lifetime who slandered either him or Islam and were subsequently murdered. Most muslims doubt these accounts are factual, believing perhaps they were made up to suit someone's agenda after mohammed died. after all Mohammed was constantly berated by a multitude of detractors while he was alive and he didn't call for their deaths, but rather peace treaties.

Some muslims though - the dangerous ones - see them as valid and regard them as instructions as to how to conduct themselves when a similar situation arises. If you managed to watch the video clip revolutionmuslim created, you will hear that the audio which plays over the montage is of an imam discussing some of these stories. So this is why the Danish cartoonists are being threatened, not because they made an image of mohammed but because they slandered him. This is why Theo Van Gogh was murdered and this is why the South Park creators are being threatened. Behind the mask of these veiled threats of course lies a sub-section of muslims who wish to rouse their brethren to engage in a full-on assault of the west. The vast majority of muslims will ignore them but those already holding a vendetta might give them ear.
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Their absolutely are reasons why GNU/Linux development is harder/more restrained than Windows at times. On Windows I can go with DirectX or OpenGL depending on my needs, with GNU/Linux I only have OpenGL. Say what you want about DirectX, it is ahead of OpenGL in some respects.
Out of curiosity: What did he/she say?
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That's exactly how I feel too. The worst part is that when I think about the cool stuff I read in the last few weeks, there's really little information I can remember.
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That's pretty cool. Except that I read it as "Not hackernews" :)
Disgust and offense are very different things. There are many things that I find disgusting, yet I am not offended by them since they don't affect me.

I can think of a lot of sexual practices that strike me as really disgusting. Eating shit, for instance. Yet the fact that people out there do it doesn't offend me; being forced (or tricked) into watching it would be, but the act itself is merely disgusting. It becomes offensive when it's forced. To be offended, particularly to the point of violent action, over something that doesn't affect you (or any other person, or even an animal) strikes me as unreasonable.

Of course, since you've opened up the rabbit hole of cultural constructs I'll admit that "reasonableness" is cultural as well -- but I think the Western, Enlightenment-inspired idea of "reason" and "reasonableness" is worth fighting for. If that makes me a cultural imperialist, so be it.
For an interesting history of the back-and-forth of Christian iconography in the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire) see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Iconoclasm

I studied this in a college - very fascinating all the fighting and back and forth over simple images. Leave it to Wikipedia to offer up something I never read about: 'According to Arnold Toynbee, it is the prestige of Islamic military successes in the 7-8th centuries that motivated Byzantine Christians into evaluating and adopting the Islamic precept of the destruction of idolatric images.'
It is relatively well-known that lack of sleep increases weight.
Please forgive the metacomment, but god TechCrunch is terrible, I've never been so frustrated reading a blog

1) What's with the unreadable, unlinked graphs? I can barely make them out

2) I tried to go to the source by clicking the "released" link, which took me to... another TechCrunch article!

3) All the other links in the article are to other TechCrunch articles too! How's that for sourcing...

4) I looked all over for a Source: link at the bottom, like Engadget and virtually every other news aggregator blog out there has, but unless I'm blind, no dice.
I think Apple will have to loosen its grip the same way it had to do it for their desktop/laptop offerings. They used to offer really cools stuff but then the cost of not having them be able to talk to the beige boxes became too high.

Also you are comparing HTC Incredible to 3G/3GS. I guess we'll see if the 4G iPhone is actually another step above everybody else.
This is certainly not meant to be comprehensive. More of a 'top hits' for those less willing to look over the entire Wikipedia article.
Yeah, good point. That is a kind of terrifying idea. They are, to a degree, accountable to their users, but other than that ... And it's quickly getting to the point where they have monopoly style lockin. I guess it feels to me, honestly, like they're already there. At that point they're barely even accountable to their users.

Like you said, they're not bad people, and they make a fantastic product, but it's still scary.
Gruber: Journalist Shield Law Won't Help in Gizmodo Case
Ugh. If there's anything that makes a fight between friends worse, it's women. Having lost a (basically) fiance to a close friend once, I can only imagine how devastating it must be to have business involved as well.

The startup crowd is generally okay with instability in life, as it comes with the territory. But kudos to him for being able to get over it, move on, and succeed. Great story.
I agree, but only if Apple allows unsigned apps on the iPhone. Then its a matter of taste & money. Money that I would be willing to spend if I owned the phone after purchasing it, like I own my MacBook Pro.

My hope is that Android is so successful that Apple has to allow unsigned App. Until then I am happy developing apps for Android.
If it is not in your contract there is no way they can dictate what you do in your own time. Even non-compete clauses are often dismissed in court (in the Netherlands) because they are overly restrictive for the employee. See for example http://jure.nl/bm2162

Please do ask legal advice. There are lots of low-cost options for an initial opinion. Google "arbeidsrecht" and you'll find a few lawyers offering a first consult for free (check the google-ads as well).
Like I said:

The different sects will disagree on its implementation, style, enforcement, and other details...but the vast majority of Muslims will agree that it's not simply "again a traditional approach from a small sect in Islam"
I agree that Alice has not provided a substantial argument, but this does not make Bob's response any more legitimate.
This ties into the ugly cycle with obstructive sleep apnea. People who are a little thicker around the neck tend to stop breathing and interrupt their sleep. Of course, if you're not sleeping well, you'll have more trouble functioning, let alone getting proper exercise, so you'll just get thicker and thicker around the neck, you'll just make it worse and worse until you're so tired when you get up in the morning that you physically hurt.

My advice (from personal experience) if you're tired and cranky all the time, you've been told you snore, and your dress shirt size > 17'' or so, you should see a sleep medicine specialist.
In the US this is legal (in certain states), at least with regards to IP and other assets that the company may see as being in their interests.

In Canada this practice is not legally supported, but still relatively common.
You can use directly Google http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2F...
DDT has done a ton of good, too, saving millions of lives. From the wiki article:

"For example, in Sri Lanka, the program reduced cases from about 3 million per year before spraying to just 29 in 1964. Thereafter the program was halted to save money, and malaria rebounded to 600,000 cases in 1968 and the first quarter of 1969"
From personal experience, I doubt it.
Journalist shield laws are about journalists being able to protect sources who may have committed crimes. They’re not a license for journalists to commit crimes themselves.

But the Apple employee, Gray Powell, admits to having lost the iPhone prototype. It was not stolen, and no one is accused of having stolen it. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/apple-engineer-gray-powell-...

So where's the felony? Chen couldn't have bought stolen goods if the goods were not stolen but merely lost.
> Also you are comparing HTC Incredible to 3G/3GS. I guess we'll see if the 4G iPhone is actually another step above everybody else.

Well if you try and review the iPhone 4G you get arrested.
Another good intro to lambdas and more: http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2008/10/28/lambdas-auto... . It's for Microsoft's VC++ (including the free Express edition I'm using right now), not GCC, but the syntax is obviously the same in both cases.
Thank you, corrected.
True.

it's pretty awesome at retarding growth of some of the most virulent disease vectors - but at the same time, it's also a fairly awful carcinogen and I wouldn't want it sprayed on my lettuce to keep away some pesky caterpillars. :)
Outrage and attention are also political currency. In our outrage at injustice, we draw attention to it and create incentives for something to be done about it (and of course, not always to good effect). It's a counterpoint - possibly the main counterpoint - to buying justice.
I did a lot of follow up work and watched as he basically out competed his old company to pieces.

I can't help but wonder if the pain of losing so much to his co-founder gave him the motivation to beat his old company and become a success.
Makes me want to mangle that Animal Farm line: "All lost phones are equal, but some lost phones are more equal than others."
My comment has nothing to do with unintentional conception.
Looking at the features...I will upgrade when I get home.
That being said, at least in the US, employment is at-will, and companies can fire you for pretty much any reason.

This is not the case in the Netherlands (where the OP is). Employees are fairly well protected here, apart from the first month or months. That's the "probation period" (proeftijd) when an employer can fire you for any reason. It is also likely that initially you are employed for one year, which means that the company is free to fire you after that year (it's not technically firing of course, just a contract that ends). After that, people usually get a permanent contract and firing gets more difficult.
Let the startup go. If it was meant to be yours, it will come back to you.

Or, for Neil Strauss fans: You have startup one-itis. The best therapy for you is to go start up a new company every weekend.
Unfortunately, "militant" Islam is what the world sees.
I think it will have to. On the other hand, I try to remind myself that 95% of iPhone/SmartPhone users out there don't care about Apple's embargo on certain apps. The most visible one was Google Voice, and that's still in a very closed beta. Things will dramatically change when the Andriod phones have something the iPhone doesn't that matters to those 95%.
> Also, don't quote me on this but I think the very first cartoon that triggered all of this was done by a guy specifically to rub it in and cause hurt--and not as an innocent comedic act.

If you're referring to the bomb-in-the-turban cartoon which was published in the Danish newspaper, then that probably isn't true. I'll quote the newspaper editor who ran the cartoons:

"One cartoon -- depicting the prophet with a bomb in his turban -- has drawn the harshest criticism. Angry voices claim the cartoon is saying that the prophet is a terrorist or that every Muslim is a terrorist. I read it differently: Some individuals have taken the religion of Islam hostage by committing terrorist acts in the name of the prophet. They are the ones who have given the religion a bad name. The cartoon also plays into the fairy tale about Aladdin and the orange that fell into his turban and made his fortune. This suggests that the bomb comes from the outside world and is not an inherent characteristic of the prophet."

I recommend reading the full NYT editorial from which I drew that quote, called "Why I Published Those Cartoons", which can be found at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02...
The analogy is a tough one to work with because the word "nigger" has a lot of historical baggage, and is connected to and used by a lot of groups with very violent histories.

So it's tough to say what I'd do if someone who was honestly racist, and was perpetuating a violence-laden dialogue of racism, started getting death threats. That might seem like par for the course.

But if they were a comedian who used it as part of a routine, in a venue that most people understand to be one of satire, then I might very well think that the cost of offending a lot of people in order to express solidarity with them, and rub it in the face of violent extremists, was worth it.

It depends a lot on the context and how much worse the person making the offensive statement is than the violent extremists. In the case of the Muhammad cartoons, I think the original cartoonist may have definitely had some race issues, but you'd have to use a logarithmic scale of crazy in order to plot where he falls versus the people who decided it was worth killing over. So in that particular situation I'm solidly on the side of cartoonists, even if the first one was in poor taste. The response was so disproportionate to the original offense that I'm willing to set aside good taste temporarily in order to make it clear that using the threat of death to push your religious morality is totally not OK.
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Trivial - I never say "I want ...".

I say "I'd like ..."
Sure, it's a dick move, but it shouldn't be a crime, let alone a capital crime. Having dicks around is just a price you have to pay to have a free society.

To mangle a quote from Voltaire, "I may not like that dick move, but I'll fight to the death for your right to be a dick like that"

Update: I don't mean to paint everyone who doesn't like this as wanting to make it against the law. I personally don't like this, just as I don't like flag burning, but I do like and appreciate the fact that it can be done.
Yes, the title was designed to be somewhat tongue-in-cheek.
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This is the reason why I prefer a Mac over a Windows PC: the attention to detail in Mac-only applications, such as Transmit, is unmatched on the PC.

Everything from the subtle animated transitions to the product's website radiates love for the work they're doing.

The only thing that can come close on Windows, in my opinion, is Google Chrome.
But it was not stolen: the Apple employee who had been in possession of the prototype, Gray Powell, admits that he got drunk and accidentally left the phone at the bar. It was not stolen. It was lost.
We use virtual machines to emulate larger networks, particularly when we need true independent actors at the edges. We chose KVM over Xen because it is easier to get an embedded system to run on emulation than it is to run on a hypervisor kernel. Also, some systems are just not able to be hacked at in that way. Our performance has been good, its nice to see how our intuition shakes out compared to actual measurements.

Some notes I have on top of the article:

Network performance monitoring:

--iperf has a tendency to use a ton of cpu. This can impact network performance metrics. Lately I like using the 0mq performance tests, slightly modified to last longer than the default 10s.

--In my setups KVM adds approx .5ms latency to network transit, when using para-virtualization through a tap device and bridge, having the host os do the routing.

--The virtualized e1000 works better in most cases than any other NIC KVM will virtualize.

CPU performance:

--The best results for KVM come when setting cpu affinity, if you have a workload that coincides nicely to 1 vm/core, there is a performance boost.
Interesting.

In the German system the oral addition stands above the written contract. The written contract is considered boiler-plate by the courts and the oral addition is more specific, and bears more weight.

Of course all parties have to agree to amend a contract. So just the employer changing their mind wouldn't cut it.

The Netherlands is a civil law country, so the German standard might be closer to what they have than the common law American standard.

Labour relations and law are of course a strange thing in themselves.
Also, your ethnicity, country of origin, or skin color is not something you can control. The arbitrary set of beliefs you happened to be introduced to when you were born is.
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Nobody's saying that it should be a crime, either. They're just saying that it's not a good idea to do it.

It's kind of silly that you can't argue against this without people assuming that you're in favor of criminalizing the cartoons. You can disapprove of something without wanting there to be a law against it.
Word of mouth mostly. We did post on a couple job sites, but none of them did as well as just tweeting out that we were hiring, and that remote was OK.
I don't see how this is surprising. iPhone is a single device. There are many Android phones with many more to come. I would be surprised if any one device (say, Motorola's Droid for example) surpassed the iPhone but the Android OS as a whole? Not surprised.
Lua's designers have acknowledged a lot of Scheme influence, especially from 4.0 onward, but I think it's more about the semantics than the implementation.

Lua uses a type tag + union rather than tagged pointers because it's not strictly portable, and they've placed a high priority on strict ANSI C compliance (with the sole exception of dynamic library loading). Also, Lua tables recognize when they're being used as arrays and use an array internally.
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I wrote up some comments on using a screencasting tool here

http://jamesbritt.com/2010/3/5/a-technique-for-creating-a-ta...

and

http://jamesbritt.com/2010/4/11/a-technique-for-creating-a-t...
"Pro" users who are monetizing their blog should be able to figure out how to set up a self hosted Wordpress blog or hire someone to do it cheaply. It a business expense and is well worth it.

For companies who just need a blog to communicate with their customers, then a standard posterous account should be fine, and they don't need to pay for "pro" features.
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I don't agree with the inequality of shares when each party is the founder of the startup. I think that everyone should have equal shares. In my experience not having equal shares causes people to gripe over stupid things such as the amount of work to do based upon percentage. It can also breed resentment.

Paradoxically to my previous statement, I do agree that a business is like being in a marriage. That means that at times, one party is working harder than the other party.

The real key to success with partners is conflict resolution, communication, candor, and empathy.
I am 100% sure that I would not threaten to kill you for any of those things.
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Revolting? I think that's a pretty good, if complex, example of "pushing the limits". IMHO, the label "revolting" is reserved for code like this:

Derived() : Base() {
THISCALL(0x535AA0);
*(DWORD*)this = 0x7E1AF4;
}

That's the kind of code I get to write in my hobby project.
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To sum up for those too lazy to click:

This just contains bug fixes from 1.4.1
[10Gen] recommend[s] all users of 1.4.0 and 1.4.1 upgrade to 1.4.2.
Changes:
- $ positional operator and $set replication issue [0]
- invalid extent size and inefficiency [1]
- maxDistance fix for geo search
- extraneous file descriptor for log no longer left open

Downloads: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Downloads
Change Log: http://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER/fixforversion/10155
It's not making fun of Islam just to make fun of Islam. Making fun of Islam is not the main purpose. That's just a means to an end. The purpose is to stand in solidarity with those who offended, and rebuke those who use violence and threats of violence to impose their views on others. The fact that Islam is being made fun of is incidental, coming about only because that was the action that incited the threat in the first place.

The main message that is trying to be conveyed is not "Islam is silly," but rather "We will not be cowed by death threats." I wish there were ways of communicating the latter without conflating it with the former so we didn't have to wade into that mire of offending innocent Muslims. Unfortuantely, the death threats being rejected in the latter are issued for making the former statement, so the two statements are inherently entangled. If there were a better and less contentious way of making the point, I would support it, but I haven't seen one and can't come up with one myself.

The one thing I don't like about the whole thing is that taking action is taking sides in a conflict, and that implicitly accepts the conflict as valid. I don't like dichotomous reasoning in general, and I disagree with the whole Islam vs Western Secularism conflict in specific because I think they're less incompatible than partisans of either side want to realize. In this particular incident though, I think I disagree with radical Islam more than I disagree with the conflict as a whole, so I'm tempted to take a side for once.
NoSQL, ObjectDatabases ... all of these are just the ugly Cobol-era hierarchical databases trying to make a comeback. These things were so nasty that SQL seemed like a breath of fresh air, so just wait.
You can add Unix Manpages to your "Subscribed Links" in your Google preferences, and then you will get your answer on the first try.
According to the link, those who slept less had an increase in appetite, which is the opposite of what you claim in your first sentence. From the article:

> "After the night of abbreviated sleep, the men consumed more than 500 extra calories (roughly 22 percent more) than they did after eight hours of sleep. ... Some studies pin the blame on hormones, arguing that decreased sleep creates a spike in ghrelin, a hormone that stimulates appetite, and a reduction in leptin, which signals satiety."

I think what you want to say is that the studies have shown a correlation, but it might not be a causal relation.