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There is relatively good science that demonstrates, in a well vaccinated population, that you are endangering your child's life by having them vaccinated for some diseases.

Vaccinations aren't without risk (though, clearly, autism is not one of those risks)- and, as long as all the other parents get their children vaccinated, your child can take a pass on some vaccines and come out ahead from a mortality perspective.

With that said, from a _societal_ perspective, it's imperative that parent's put their child's life at this (minor) risk so that the overall mortality rate goes down.

Don't be so quick to judge the parent as "unfit", though your comment about being a danger to the community does, in fact, hold.

And, perhaps we should be a little less quick to suggest the solution to other parents not doing what we want them to do is to have "CPS take the kids away after multiple warnings."

There is a cost to freedom, and sometimes it means that we have to let parents makes the call on these grey areas, even if it offends our own personal rational models of how the world should work. Vaccines are clearly not as cut and dry as something like a life-saving blood transfusion or surgery for appendicitis, in which I would suggest that there is an imperative to over-rule the parent should they decline treatment of their children.
That is a very good question - we actually thought about that, and are about to launch a section for wanted components - people can suggest what they need and discuss it. Developers can pick up ideas from those

Check out http://www.binpress.com/wanted/list
I was referring to the fact that two opposing statements had been made.
There is actually auto-generated API doc for that component, but it should probably be featured in a more prominent place. Thanks for the feedback
Wow, quite beautifully executed... lol,
I have been in functional in almost all the three roles from Geekdom to Designer to my current assignments i.e. Strategy and Sales. All of them great experience. But the way these have depicted all this, is really funny.
I was thinking about an entrepreneurial/self-employed/self-directed/sales context... funny, I didn't even think about someone who did it on a corporate level.
That looks seriously cool. Too bad it's Win32/.NET only. (the Visual Studio Team System price tag is probably hefty, too, but may well be worth it for this alone).

It actually seems like there's something similar in valgrind: http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/hg-manual.html - I'll have to check that out.
One point I like to make when this topic comes up- Yes, it's unfortunate that people believe bad science linking vaccines to autism. That said, I think it is a symptom (at least in the U.S.) of people having very little faith in the F.D.A. or other government agencies responsible for consumer protection.
The title is incorrect. The survey is of 700 AT&T and Verizon users. Also the 44% figure comes from this:

> Among Android owners, 44% are either very likely (19%) or somewhat likely (25%) to buy an iPhone on Feb. 10.

Not all of these will actually do that of course but it does show there is definite excitement about this phone, so much so that (IMHO) you will see a noticeable impact on the Q1 smartphone shipments and I definitely think Verizon will sell 10-20M+ of these in the first half, easily.

There is serious pent up demand for the iPhone in the US due to carrier lock-In. To argue this won't have a significant impact is... brave.
> are you suggesting the Spanish deliberately spread diseases? It seems a little unfair to accuse the Spanish invaders of bio-warfare.

You're actually right, there's little evidence or even mention of biological warfare until much later, and truly only in the North American field. However, bio-warfare likely dates back at least three-thousand years, so it would be hard to tell.

Furthermore the Spanish didn't really need biological warfare, "for with fifty men one could keep the whole population in subjection and make them do whatever one wanted." However, given that the Spanish had some of the harshest policies on forced labor, it's not hard to see why they wouldn't want to use biological warfare. The encomienda system offered protection to tribe members in exchange for tribute through labour, this didn't effect tribes like the Incas where they had a system like this long established, but for the Arawak it is thought to be why they ended up with large populations on the south american mainland.

I think the Spanish deliberately chose not to spread disease so as to make the most profit, which is easy to see considering Spain basically took on the policy of strip-mining south America to send every ounce of gold they found back to Spain.

Given that most native populations at the time had nothing more than bronze-age technology, they couldn't even take a stand against the Spanish. The Spanish in their war with the Incas managed to kill easily ten times their amount of men, but there's few reports of Spanish casualties in their fights against thousands of natives. In many battles they achieved 400:1 ratios of Indian:Spanish deaths in battle.

Consider that at the Battle of Thermopylae the Spartans only managed 10:1, despite the home-turf advantage, better tactics, land advantage and far superior training as they were fighting against a largely conscripted army. Considering the Spanish achieved a 40-fold increase in advantage, it shows how unbelievably powerful steel armour, muskets and cannon were. Not to mention the Spanish made extensive use of horses.
Have a particular iOS app/maker in mind? I want to approach the best, and get the best offers for our subscribers.
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Umm... what does it do?
Thanks for the links. I've not "opened up" my app yet, because I've been pretty embarrassed by how it looks. I'd rather get that sorted out first before I unleash it to the folks who might use it!
I'm new here, but thank your for teaching me a better viewpoint.
If it were unethical, then the entire system of voting in a democracy would be unethical.

The simple fact is: nobody is informed enough to make the kinds of decisions they are responsible for making in life. Many times doctors don't know what the heck they are doing, lawyers have no idea which way the court might rule, economists can theorize all day long but couldn't tell you the GDP five years out. I would say something pithy like "we live in a complicated world that nobody can master", yet the sad fact is that we reach the limit of understanding possible consequences to social changes after the number of people involves climbs past one or two. There simply is no way for anybody to make an informed decision about these folks -- us or them. We can cite statistics or tell stories about similar situations, but that's about it. But whether or not an informed or good decision can be made is a completely different question than who's responsibility it is to make one. If I am very sick, there might be nobody on the planet that can tell me how my treatment might work out, but that doesn't mean that somehow I should surrender that decision to a doctor. In fact, just the opposite is true: the more unknown and hard-to-understand the situation, the more important it is for all of us to let the individuals involved make the choices. It is, after all, those people who are going to have to live with the consequences.

EDIT: Also remember that it's not just the individuals who are affected: it's also all of their descendants. My great ancestor who fought the Roman conquerors in Europe probably had a much different opinion of the Romans than I do today. He and I disagree, but I fully support the fact that it was his decision to make, not the Romans'. I also feel that it was best that the Romans won. These opinions are not self-contradictory: I fully believe that individuals are the ones who are supposed to make these decisions about themselves, even if they make what to all intents and purposes look like the wrong choices. For any of the rest of us to step outside the system and start making choices for those involved is an awful affront to the dignity of man. (Sorry for the over-the-top rhetoric. Like I said, it's a pet peeve)
What if they were sold as a package deal?
Fortunately, you can go to the source data on this one and come to your own conclusions.

"And so the people who go and engage in those anti-vaccine efforts -- you know, they, they kill children." BillG certainly has. It's refreshing to see someone big just say it so clearly.
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A public backlash against vaccination is nothing new. The introduction of compulsory smallpox vaccination in Britain in 1853 was controversial and protested against:

http://timelines.tv/index.php?t=3&e=10
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And I'll second FeedDemon for Windows. I've been using it for probably 3-5 years and it's the definitely a piece of software that I use more and more through the years.
I think your math is off somewhere... if England had the same population (10x more) wouldn't that be 750000 people each year?
I hang out in an anti-vax community. I do not have the impression that people generally arrive there by reading some anti-vax study, concluding it is good science and promptly deciding to jump on the band wagon.

I hang out there for reasons having nothing to do with being anti-vax and I was very slow to agree with the idea that vaccines are a problem. I did eventually stop getting my annual flu vax. The reason: Every single person or good source of info that was actually helping me get healthier when doctors said it couldn't be done had very strong negative views of vaccines. My decision had nothing whatsoever to do with reading any anti-vax studies or with any personal opinions regarding the FDA or other government agencies. I was getting real world results in terms of solving "unsolvable" health issues and this gave me faith (so to speak) in the opinions of people helping me achieve that.
Which is in itself bizarre. It's as if theses government agencies have been too successful for their own good, and now people have stopped believing in the dangers.

Smallpox - eradicated from the face of the earth (barring lab samples).

Polio - only 50 years ago, there were tens of thousands of cases in the U.S. Ten years later, after a serious vaccination push, it was down to a bit over a hundred cases. 1979 - last indigenous Polio transmission in the U.S. (globally, it just won't die, in large part thanks to the efforts of religious fruit-loops convincing people it's a plot by the U.S. to sterilise them; we pushed it more or less down to a single country, and now heart-breakingly it's spreading from there again).

Whooping cough - beaten down from tens of thousands of deaths to dozens in the U.S., and then cases started rising again when people stopped having their children vaccinated at the start of the 21st century.

The list of diseases that no longer present a real daily threat to people goes on and on. Let's have someone big from the relevant government agency on the news telling people that they're killing children by dodging vaccinations.
Entrepreneurs sometimes have trouble getting a new product into the hands of its most important target: early adopters.

It's an e-mail list, open signup for now, but invite-only soon, of picky early adopters. People that are usually the type to play with beta products (good ones, great ones).

Entrepreneurs create a killer offer to attract these early adopters (BetaCandy subscribers) and the "best" will be sent to this list. Hand picked, no spam.

Think of it like a shortcut for the famous "email signup splash page". If we grow a quality list of true early adopters, keep the offers relevant and awesome, it should work out well for both startups and subscribers.
A lot of them would be linked in ways you couldn't imagine. If they brought one stock market down, it would generally bring all stock markets down.

Especially if someone brought down NASDAQ, then confidence in all stock markets would be eroded, bringing them all down.
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Good point, I don't think conversations should ever be split if possible as this is confusing. I contribute to quite a few projects that only have a github project and associated issue tracker though, and "pull requests as conversations" seem to work fine in those cases.

These projects are generally smaller than redis though :-)
" I was very slow to agree with the idea that vaccines are a problem."

Just out of interest (and without making any statement on what these problems are), would you agree that on a societal level (i.e. I'm not talking about individual unlucky cases where someone has a bad reaction to a vaccination, but in terms of wider society) the problems of not having vaccines (i.e. the problems that would exist had vaccines never been invented) outweigh the problems of having vaccines?
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Although I have seen bugs which resulted in feature changes, I'm not arguing for or against anything.

It was just another post around the same subject from an equally hardcore NoSQL hacker.
Reeder for mac is still in Beta but it's pretty good.
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I doubt the OCR would be 'live'. More likely, it would be used when transferring files back to your computer. As the device doesn't have wifi or any files to rename, there is nothing that would take character input on the device..
Currently at about 50 subscribers (double opt in).
Hi there. How about pludily.com? (I'm a holder of a few domain names for apps I decided not to pursue, they're short and I find them elegant.)

Or add some details like keywords for your app. Maybe I have something more suited.
Those 5% deals are generally time limited. Also not available in every country.
I think that, unfortunately, most people aren't going to do the kinds of things I've done. I don't want vaccines to disappear. I think it should be a choice. As an analogy: I would have almost certainly died without antibiotics during the years that I lived without a diagnosis. Now I am able to combat infection without antibiotics, but I simply didn't have that knowledge for most of my life. So I am not anti-vax per se. But I do find it enormously disturbing, threatening and frustrating for people to a) make sweeping generalizations about the intelligence/thought processes of the anti-vax crowd and b) make sweeping generalizations that they should be required by law and you should have kids taken away if you don't comply.

Ideally, I would prefer to make effective alternatives more widely adopted. But I am not happy with the general stance on both sides of this argument that it needs to be an all or nothing approach. The anti-vax crowd wants them outlawed. The pro-vax crowd wants them mandated for everyone. I think both positions are insane.

I guess that's a form of saying "yes, I agree" but I'm not really comfortable with your framing of it.
Thanks for the library! It's always great to see new game-dev solutions for JavaScript coders.

It would be interesting to embed the game inside a native iOS app and distribute it through the app store...

http://ejohn.org/blog/iphone-javascript-apps/

I'm assuming it'll take a tremendous performance hit vs. native apps, but not all games need 60fps.
I think the term has nothing to do with looks. It originated because, when Columbus first came to America, he thought he was in India (that was his destination, after all), so he called the people there "Indians". Now the term tends to mean "natives".
I use git-backed wikis for the 'conversation' part. Project mailing lists are wrong for the same reason that Subversion/CVS were wrong: Centralization turns a project political, at least that's my experience. Git's distributed storage encourages forking at a whim. If your 'conversation' is via a wiki you can fork that conversation any second.

Git-backed wiki how-to: My "wikis" currently simply are HTML pages served by gitweb right out of the repo, however I am experimenting with gollum and smeagol. That is: if your repos are on some server of your own, not github. I have no exprience with github and won't be caught dead using it.
Idea: Require survey pushers to place http://www.longbets.org/ before publishing their results.

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I don't see why you had to be so rude to them, just because customs in their circle are different to your own.

A simple "You go ahead, I'm just going to pay for my own" would have sufficed.
Misleading title, the article spells out quite a few legitimate reasons for this, none of which have to do with people's ability to procure passports:

Tourism experts and avid travelers attribute Americans' lack of interest in international travel to a few key factors, including: the United States' own rich cultural and geographic diversity, an American skepticism and/or ignorance about international destinations, a work culture that prevents Americans from taking long vacations abroad and the prohibitive cost and logistics of going overseas.
There is a long and documented history of governments and other organizations abusing their power by performing unconsented tests on people under the auspice of a vaccine, which lends credence to people's skepticism.
Well reddit had a link to this same jetpack 2 years back. I think the news part is that it's about to launch commercially so you can actually buy one.
Funny how the BBC has on his web site main page stories like
"Border clash kills Thai soldier"
"Key Hmong denied Arlington burial"
and so on, ...but as much as you look for this one, there is not a single word.
Not a single word.
Live and learn, eh?
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these surveys are meaning-less

What the actual number you have to care about is new subscribers. New subscribers to AT&T for iphone 4 was less than 10% last quarter.

Carriers will always choose those devices that they 'think' can give a new subscribers rate boost, hence Nokia failing in the US for some time with out-of-date-ui.

If Verizon iphone results in 10% or more new subscribers than Verizon made the right decision as they still will than have the new subscriber rate from android sales as well. If the rate does not get higher than 10% than Verizon iPhone move is a loss for Verizon counting the subsidies it pays to Apple.

Conversely AT&T will now use android to increase their new subscriber rates.

Also, in that mix android has LTE devices coming and Apple still has not launched an LTE iphone.
Agree. I had to optimize my wordpress installation recently including some caching. Since there is not that much information about nginx, I took some notes and wrote about it. Here is my blog post:

http://blog.rassemblr.com/2011/01/wordpress-need-for-speed-o...
But what effective alternatives are there?
> I don't think this has anything to do with dynamic vs. static typing.

Well, yes and no.

In a sense, the real problem here is the overloaded + operator, which has two quite different meanings, numerical addition and string concatenation, depending on context. This is particularly a problem in a dynamically typed language, though, because you don't know in advance what that context is and therefore which overload will be chosen.

> It would be theoretically possible to define operator+ in C++ to produce the same behavior as Javascript.

In C++, you can't actually change the behaviour in this particular case, because you can only define overloaded operators where at least one operand has a user-defined type.

So in fact, just to make things simple, the C++ answer on most modern computers will be 56. Go figure. :-)
Unfortunately, we don't currently bring up the parents of children who die from lack of vaccination on negligent homicide charges in large part because of your line of reasoning. Parents are in no way equipped to make informed decisions about vaccination, and giving them the option is a horribly bad idea.

Globally there is a huge unvaccinated population http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_2729_134/ai_n... all it takes is one passenger to bring something back and suddenly you end up with a large number of dead children. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1291987...

PS: Because it's often local doctors that accept this Anti-Vaccination bullshit small locations often lose their herd immunity. It's one thing to randomly replace 1/100,000 vaccinations with an inert substance it's another for 10+% of the children in a small area to avoid vaccination.
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Can you please post a link to the "good science" that demonstrates your claim?
For a graphic explanation of the concepts of a DVCS, you should check Joël Spolsky's http://hginit.com (if you can bear the humor). This is quite well done.
I really, really don't want to start a flame war here, and I'm trying very hard not to make any statements about any individuals or even groups of individuals. I thought my framing of it was pretty even-handed, but fair enough.

I wasn't aware that there were any serious effective alternatives to vaccination (besides living in a sterile bubble) and I just did a quick search. Obviously it has been only the most superficial look, but I'm seeing things like homeopathy and acupuncture recommended (as well as changes in diet, which I think is very optimistic indeed when confronted with the horrors of Polio), and at risk of offending, I'm still not convinced there are any effective alternatives. Of course, it was only a brief search, so I'm by no means stating that there aren't any; just that they're not in the top of the google list :)

However, this is at risk of turning into an off-topic digression and, even worse, one of those vaccer vs. anti-vaccer flame wars.

Back on topic, go go Bill Gates. If he decides to spend his fortune killing a disease, I for one will consider the years of putting up with MS Windows an extremely good deal.

I bet I wasn't careful enough and I've sparked a war now. :(
When things evolve along a bit and the pseudo-science hysteria dies down, we may be faced with the following question: Who gets to decide which children shall be saved because the rest of the herd is vaccinated, and which shall be forced to risk vaccination for the good of the herd? Perhaps we should do it by lottery, like when we decide who must go to fight in wars and who gets to stay home.
I think he left off the SARCASM signal on his post.
You should have picked the Silver Rule, then. ""Do not do to others as you would not have others do to you."

Much better than Golden Rule, IMHO.
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Of course that doesn't speak to the fact that a smarter dynamic loading capability couldn't inline at runtime. That is what they are doing after all.
Does intelligence involve dealing with facts? Cuz the title is factually incorrect.