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Does this behemoth auto update like Chrome?
If it did, it would calm me down a tiny bit. The absence of gradient and text shadow is really screwy.
"That makes it what, 5 times more expensive than nuclear / fossil?"

I'm not sure that's an accurate assessment, given that solar will probably become much cheaper as more solar plants are built.

And, as we're seeing with the Fukushima and Chernobyl disasters, the real price of nuclear could be much higher than just the price of a power plant.

What would be your price tag on the lives lost in or ruined by these nuclear disasters? (not to mention the economic cost stemming from the areas being contaminated by nuclear fallout)

"Not even the USA can afford to go 100% renewable with a price like that."

Of course they could. They could start by giving fewer handouts to the rich in terms of bailouts and tax breaks. Then they could cut the military budget so that the US no longer spends more on its military than the rest of the world combined. And they could legalize drugs, and get rid of the War on Drugs, cut spending on filling prisons with people who commit victimless crimes, etc.

All together that would make for many trillions saved (plus a handy profit on taxing legal drugs). Then the US could easily afford to go 100% solar (and probably much more), without any of the risks of nuclear.

I understand that there are many political reasons why none of these things are going to happen in the US any time soon (though some estimates put legalization of pot on 10 year horizon, when the baby boomers start withdrawing from the political scene, and as the younger generation is far less afraid of pot). But it's not like these things couldn't happen.

It's all a matter of political will.

If there's one good thing that's come out of this latest nuclear disaster is that it's starting to wake people up to the true dangers and costs of nuclear power. Hopefully they won't need many more such lessons before they get the point.
At the rate they're innovating and growing, I wouldn't be surprised to see the Amazon Web Services operation grow to be larger than the rest of Amazon's business.
Update on Japan's Nuclear Power Crisis
Completely agree. The AWS team is one of the very few examples of rapid iteration and improvement from a big company.

I'm as interested in the AWS team as I am in any startup that exists today. I'd love to read about the tech challenges/team make up, etc. Is there any good coverage of this?
Been using that for a year or two. Works great!
Nor does infinite white planes exist..
This sort of idiocy is what holds computer science back. C, because of how close to the metal it is, is pretty much the ugliest language in wide use, and the fact that we know a lot more about programming languages and user interfaces now than when C was designed doesn't help. It should only be used as a last resort, when you really need the speed, and even then one should keep an eye out for alternatives.
Should set him up an account. ;)
I even started working on iPhone apps. I really hate Mac OSX, Objective-C, and XCode. But I had to go with the market.

Stopped reading here.
Sorry, you seem to have hit Submit a little too fast. I believe you were about to explain why it's a good thing to unconditionally endorse realtime, unmoderated comments on your product's selling page. Take your time, I'll wait.
I think I'm married to someone who does not categorise people. Maybe she's the only one?
We use GObjects for that: http://library.gnome.org/devel/gobject/stable/

Through GObject Introspection this also means we get automatic OOP bindings to a bunch of higher-level languages
Fix the Internet connection problems for the systems behind proxies / firewalls which requires authentication.

It's a big pain to mess with the config files to set up all shipped programs to work ok in such an environment. The System | Preferences | Network Proxy... Manual Proxy Configuration, [Details] button (...enter here your username, pwd) has a very 'fuzzy' effect (even if we press [Apply System Wide...] button) - some programs work, some don't (including apt-get) etc.

For more details you can have a look at http://askubuntu.com/questions/6340/cannot-connect-to-intern...

Can we have a centralized, streamlined, intuitive approach for this which really works?
Writing code that writes code, where that written code is executable at machine speeds rather than interpreted, is a qualitative difference over a simple "eval" implementation; and it can most definitely be a feature of the language.

A language which supports it as a feature may do things like partial evaluation of closures, inlining of runtime-constructed code, transforming e.g. the typical block-passing idiom of a Ruby into specific optimized cases. Being able to rely on such transformations in turn lets you build more abstract (i.e. more highly parameterized) libraries because you know you won't have to pay the same degree of abstraction tax.
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I don't work in any other industry. If I was a doctor, I'd want to learn about sexism in healthcare. But I'm not. I'm in tech. I want to know what's happening in my industry.
In particular, person A may very well have margin requirements to meet, which means that they literally cannot not sell right now.
The latest measurements are 4μSv/h at one of the measuring stations (i.e. on site). In general, you'd expect people farther away to be exposed to less. This level is unlikely to kill anyone particularly soon, but it's not exactly a healthy level either. That said, there's a LOT more danger from the hydrogen explosions (which have killed a few people, I believe). Sadly, we can expect more of those as long as they're forced to vent gas.

"As of 0:30 pm, the measured value of radiation dose near MP6 was 4μSv/h. The increase of the radiation dose cannot be confirmed at this time."

Source: http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11031405-e....
Exactly, and C is the worst offender for boilerplate code. There isn't even a list abstraction! It's surprising that there's an array abstraction and that people aren't just forced to use pointer arithmetic.
I'm a WASP land surveyor in the Mid-Atlantic region and recently I had to do an out-of-town job in Providence, RI. Our crew stayed in a not-that-busy hotel but the only people other than the staff who would talk to us were an Orthodox Jewish couple who were from Brooklyn. Maybe they just recognised a fellow traveller, but they were quite friendly and conversational on the elevator and in the common areas. People from RI wouldn't talk to us, though.
This is what happens when publishers are afraid of new media and they want to secure their bread. But it's not happening.

Most of the people who "share" books (they are hinting on piracy, if I am not wrong) don't buy it anyway. All they are accomplishing with this is - scare away the users who buy it.

Not to debate weather it's fair or not - but generally an "expiring" book will have a psychological effect on customer for sure. And this is not the best option to go for.
...and none of this says anything about the facts that have been reported (most of which, you'll note, have not been pretty for pro-nuke advocates). Are the facts that have been reported wrong? If you don't have evidence that they aren't, this is just a "hunch", and not really worth serious consideration.
Even if it is 23 times normal it appears to be lower then living next to Ontario's nuclear plants with 1.1 microsieverts at Darlington, 2.8 microsieverts at Pickering.
http://www.opg.com/safety/nsafe/nuclear/
not an expert and the spelling of the unit seems wrong in the story.
In case anyone else wasn't quite sure what the acronyms are:

SDE = Software Development Engineer

SDET = Software Development Engineer Testing
Just a note - all radiation levels reported from around the plant are measured in milli(m)/micro(u)-sieverts(Sv) per hour. For comparison, the worldwide average background radiation level is approx. 0.274 uSv/h, and the usa recommended continuous occupational limit is 5.71 uSv/h. For example, the highest level I've seen reported is 400 mSv/h, or 70000x the recommended limit. Info from wikipedia.
You fall in love with the development environment and then you transfer that love to the platform itself. The problem is sometimes great platforms aren't paired with great products.

I hit into this with the Amiga in the 80's and 90's. Boom, Commodore goes down. Lots of anger ensued, got over it. Then did the same with BeOS in the late 90's. Boom, Be Inc goes down. Lots of frustration ensued, got over it.

At this point I seriously considered buying my first (and last) Windows operating system box, just to get "Boom, Microsoft goes down", too.
"Solar array and wind farms kill people too."

Just how many people do they kill?

You got any stats on that?

"The by-products of mining and industrial production are often dangerous and result in disease"

How does that compare to the hazards of mining radioactive ore and the hazards from storing and transporting nuclear waste?

"Have you really considered the compromises that have to be made to live entirely(electric, heating, cooling, transport) from wind and solar?"

These compromises aren't necessarily all bad. For instance, if the impact to transport means that we'll have to live on goods made locally and not be able to commute as far to work, that could make for stronger, more pleasant, and more sustainable communities and economic systems.

"It's not easy, it demands changes to all aspects of ones lifestyle and has a significant price."

Does that price approach dying of radiation poisoning from a Chernobyl-style disaster? Or how about having your children be born with all sorts of mutations caused by radiation? Or of poisoning the environment with nuclear waste?
He got arrested in a ridiculous way. Worst case scenario is he'll have to change his name. People are far, far worse off all over the planet.
Speaking from personal experience, other major events which can result in a Japanese salaryman sleeping at their office include "the day is Monday", etc. Apparently moving one's toothbrush is a sign of commitment in romantic comedies? I had a toothbrush and shaving kit in my desk for three years. My boss had three changes of clothes.
> boiler-plate high level code

If it were truly high-level, this would be an oxymoron.
asahi.com also reported a similar number (400 mili sievert near reactor number 4, believed to follow fire at that location): http://www.asahi.com/national/update/0315/TKY201103150154.ht...
Not sure if you are the down-voter. But regardless of that I have to say, I totally believed in what you just wrote, said so much myself if you note my last paragraph. But I was naive then. I have come to realize that the situation you describe is mostly hypothetical and fictional...good argument to buy favors...but not one that represents reality. The private companies are not the ones who are spending money or taking the risks in developing new drugs/molecules (it is mostly the tax payers by way of NIH). If it were the companies then I wouldn't mind it all. The companies do spend money. But it is not in the (re)search for more effective or new drugs.

Edit: Re govt funding, I have quite a few friends who are in drug research, well, in the capacity of current and ex grad students and spread across 3 universities and a research institute. All of them are fed funded, and they claim that this is generally the rule rather than the exception. In my opinion the privilege of exclusivity should be doled out in proportion to the aggregated (monetary)risks entertained.

Edit2: Don't like threads that nest too deep, so adding here. I would readily concede that I wouldn't have names of drugs at the drop of the hat. My opinions are largely assimilated from my friends working in the area and what I get to read. So hardly the person who would be able to quote stats. Recently an application for extending the period of protection for a anti-retroviral drug was denied in India on the grounds that the molecular change adds nothing to the efficacy of the drug and that the molecular changes in itself do not constitute a non-obvious modification to the chemical to a person of the trade. However, denials of extension like these are very very rare. It is common to keep extending a patent on an old molecule in quantums of decades at a time (Now I wish I had it bookmarked)

However I think your test is stricter than need be. As I said, I am looking for proportionality between risk taken and period of exclusivity. That can be broken even if the govt did not carry the full weight from end to end (the example that you are seeking). Generally it is the research phase that incurs the most uncertainty and the kind of research that targets greater efficiency or cheaper production, not what will get the drug or derivative an extended protection.

In the context of the older Indian scene, it was the govt funded labs that carried out the research, so it made perfect sense that patents be granted on the process and not on the compound. It also makes sense for the govt to be in the business of funding drug research as for many of the diseases the affected demographics are not most lucrative. (Well unless one is of the opinion that such a population is better of dead, not an unheard of opinion on the net) The research scene is still the same but the laws have been changed subject to international pressure.

There is substantial benefit to be had by driving costs down. In the current scheme of things there are very little incentives to do so.
That's all wonderful etc., but unfortunately it's Utopian pie in the sky which can never come to pass in a democracy. When people die owing to other people making mistakes, the people demand the government takes action, and it does, and there goes your libertarian wonderland.

To the downvoters out there: if you're serious about this problem, you need to live in the real world. That would be more productive.
I prefer:

1. Work to close the existing nuclear plants, most of which have been sitting around 30+ years.

2. Work to replace that aging technology with newer, safer designs like the pebble bed reactors.
Thanks. Of course (just for the readers who don't know) even much shorter Perl doesn't have "loops" (in C sense) fits the requirements and works:

$,="\n"; print 1..1000

I don't know if it can be made shorter. My previous example was (also for the readers who don't know that) to demonstrate the "C inspired" features in Perl and almost 1-1 mapping to the C solution, minus declarations.
I love good graphic design. I've actually never met an actual graphic designer who bought this shit. There are much more advanced theories of design harmony. This kind of stuff always seems to come from graphic design enthusiasts, not professionals.

It's like the CutCo of design theory. You're like "WHOA IT CAN CUT A TIN CAN IT MUST BE AWESOME" but pro chefs don't cut cans or use CutCo knives.
it doesn't work on XP...and i have personally download IE9 and working smooth like butter and also it's fast!
What a boring national controversy.
Are they not bult already?

The next free/social Flickr is Facebook

The next pro Flickr is SmugMug
Yes I have extensive experience with discrimination, and it was much worse than any founder that had to put up with being hit on. Does this make my point more valid or less?

The point isn't a defense of discrimination, but merely a question of total impact. A guy hit on you and you didn't like it? Tell that VC to get bent and go make money without him. See my other comment about how I'd never partner with anyone whom acted in this manner.

There will always be someone that doesn't like you for no good reason male or female. If you look you'll always find a few bad apples. The special treatment is expecting everyone will be nice to you because otherwise it's "discrimination". Men get taken advantage of too, but that doesn't excuse what is effectively a hit piece on an entire industry.

"Additionally your logic is flawed--just because you have never heard anybody complain about the lack of women in blue collar jobs (the only jobs you mentioned) doesn't mean it doesn't happen."

This is true, I admit I'm not a regular jezebel reader and must have missed the article where they mentioned that. Or ever seen an article anywhere lamenting this. Compared to the cacophony of articles lamenting that the geeks are making money and they are all male!

I'd cite my stats, but looks like someone already beat me to it.
Crowd-sourced free interpretation for Japan
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It's good to see people helping each other. This sort of thing is happening all over Japan, though, not just at any one company. I hope that people encourage each other to do more of this sort of thing.

That said, I was impressed by Google's approach, even though they're not a Japanese company. They set up a page to give people the latest news on the disaster, made a widget to help people donate to the Japanese Red Cross, powered a person finder to help people locate their loved ones and linked people to all kinds of other official resources so that they know when they're expected to ration power, etc.

It's linked from their home page. Honestly, I didn't notice it for a long time, because I always search straight from my browser.
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I don't know why..last night i download it from the same link and Microsoft have changed it to IE8...BTW if you still want to download ..Here is the Exact link direct you to IE9:

http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/
http://www.bolthole.com/OO-C-programming.html

That's a simple intro to doing OO in C, mainly by becoming a human compiler that goes from whatever OO language you really want to C.

Note well that OO isn't a well-defined concept. Look at this list of features and ask yourself which of them you think of as being OO:

http://www.paulgraham.com/reesoo.html
Actually, some kind of prize system - setting a reward for a drug which has a certain degree of efficacy on some problem - has been proposed as an alternative to the government monopolies we currently have, which alleged free marketers are so in favour of. Dean Baker has written some stuff on it; http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=patent_medicine has an overview of and argument for the approach.
In my opinion both were a little light.
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Green FUD

There is a wholy unsupported assumption that a US reactor of completely different design would failure in a manner comparable to Cherynobl.
Not being familiar with OpenBSD, what are some of the pain points you have when using Debian that you don't experience with OpenBSD?
And to complete this, even if you compare W7P with the early iPhone OS (arguing that both are version ones, not that they're both living in 2011), the first 6 months Apple shipped 1 major updates, 3 bugfix updates and 1 compatibility update (for the 1st gen iPod Touch).

And a second major update in month 7.

2.0, 3.0 and 4.0 were all followed by 2 major and 2 bugfix updates in the first 6 months.
Only an economist can consider a theory like that for more than a few seconds and not laugh hysterically. As Tom Woods has said, following this logic, the best thing we could do for our economy is build a huge armada of amazing battle ships, have Japan do likewise, then float them to the middle of the pacific and, after evacuating them (surely, the loss of human life is not a necessary component in this economic model, is it?) blow them all up.

Rinse, wash, repeat. We're all rich!
Not sure how I feel about this, or the "We’re All Adults" rationalization. What about the mormon, or the recovering alcoholic? Drinking at work won't put them in danger, but it may make them slightly uncomfortable. I understand a special occasion, or even casual Friday, but anytime, all the time sounds like a bit much.
A death owing to a mistake by a drug company is worth at least 100 deaths owing to lack of drug innovation and experimentation. It's psychology in the large, and it's very difficult to counteract. It's simply much easier for the free media to demonize the evil profit-grubbing soulless corporations killing babies than an abstract notion of opportunity cost.
Jeff Bezos spoke about this in some depth at startup school in 2008. He even highlighted a journalist's quote suggesting that Amazon was sneaking web services through the back door and it would soon be larger than Amazon itself. I don't know the numbers offhand, but I wouldn't be surprised if they've already surpassed the storefront side of their business.
Which language would you suggest as replacement for writing of sched.c and page_alloc.c?
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Not supported by Chromium 12?
"then they should get exclusive rights" - you say this like it's a tautology, like it's self-evident, but it's not. What you are actually arguing is "then the government should grant the company an exclusive monopoly", like some kind of royal commission (which is, of course, the source of the word patent, with letters patent etc.). It's the antithesis of the free market.
I feel bad for posting the same thing so much, but there are just too many discussions of this going on.

"As of 0:30 pm, the measured value of radiation dose near MP6 was 4μSv/h. The increase of the radiation dose cannot be confirmed at this time."

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11031405-e....

I've seen lots of things reported, but I'm always leery of things that have gone through two or three languages to get to us. We've all played that translation party where things get translated into gibberish. I'm going to have to take it with a grain of salt when people get their news from the French embassy (which, last I knew, was not known for nuclear expertise, but feel free to prove me wrong).
Empiricism is not on your side. The richest country in the world spends more than its fair share on 'a huge armada of amazing battle ships', actually, as much as everyone else on the planet put together, and also actively seeks out remote spots of the planet to blow stuff up in.

Rinse, repeat, very rich.
Fukushima: "...much worse...larger radiation releases have occurred."
That's the basic problem with nuclear power, isn't it? There's no kill switch. It stops when it's ready to stop, not when you need it to stop.
This was super easy to configure which is nice. I'm a little uneasy about the 100 minutes per month meaning at minimum 1 minute for every call I receive. Per-second billing would be nice.

My ideal plan would be unlimited calls straight to voicemail. I recognize the transcripts eat up some EC2 time but I have a feeling the total cost would be pretty reasonable.
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I'm always under the impression Microsoft is counting on luck when it comes to bringing out software. The kinect (or what's the name) is a big success, but is this because of the hardware or the software? I'm wondering too if Microsoft takes itself serious at times.
Well, that's why democracy must be limited by individual rights. Remember, an unlimited democracy voted Socrates to die when it ordered him drink hemlock. It was his punishment for "corrupting" the youths of Athens.

America was founded as a republic limited by a constitution, and it existed that way for a long time. It wasn't an unachieved pie-in-the-sky wonderland (nor was it perfect: I think the civil war was a just and necessary war).

You can make this world better. It's just a matter of understanding things well enough to argue rationally for the right thing. After all, how did the Rennaisance happen, or the American revolution? The people that lived then were just like you and I in this respect, and they didn't even have the benefit of the Internet to communicate.