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Disasters like this are, in theory, actually beneficial to economies--especially stagnant ones like Japan's. The capacity for immediate bonafide economic growth has been diminished but that doesn't mean that economic production will decline. There is now ample room to deploy all that surplus capital (humans, machinery, money) that was previously unproductive. The upper echelones of the financial sector will make a killing shorting and re-buying.

Advanced reading on a parallel concept: http://www.irows.ucr.edu/conferences/globgis/papers/Arrighi....
The quoted and cited David Harvey piece (2007, albeit the condensed article veresion and not the full-length book) would have been a better reference however is apparently no longer online. This, though, is amazing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0

I believe Naomi Klein made a good buck on dumbing down and re-orienting the above hypothesis.
Another anecdote: I just got off the phone with the apartment service which ran my old apartment. I moved out on 2/10 and was told to expect my deposit to be refunded via wire transfer on 3/10. It hasn't arrived yet, so I called today to ask about it. So far, fairly routine adult-dealing-with-money stuff.

"We're very sorry -- that estimate was incorrect and, since Friday, we've been overwhelmed. The computer shows this going out tomorrow. Do you need it immediately? Come to the office or tell me your new address and our manager will drive it to you."

This is, ahem, not the level of enthusiasm with respect to return of deposits that I would have expected. My bank has treated me with unfailing honesty the last seven years and never once tried to take advantage of me. The apartment management company... my, I seem to be having a bout of peculiarly specific amnesia. Oh yeah, they were really nice today.
To add to Nick's point, you can read Random Walk Down Wall Street to get an understand of why buying an index fund is probably a good idea for you. It boils down to the fact that the market is fairly efficient "most" of the time (hard to find deals), and by trading you are already at a disadvantage against the market because you will likely pay more commission and pay more taxes (based on your trading volume of course, but generally speaking, buying index funds are extremely efficient in both these two areas). To over come this and still beat the market as a whole (over a long period of time and risk-adjusted) is a extremely difficult. You have to be very very skilled to accomplish this. Most pros do not accomplish this in their careers (even though it may be due to other factors such as incentive structures, but that's for another discussion). So realistically speaking, you will have to invest a lot of time to become "good enough", which means it will only be worth while if you are trading a significant amount of money. Even Warren Buffett, who's an evangelists for value investing recommends investing in index funds for most people. And the last and most important thing to remember is that yes, people make money from the stock market all the time just like how people make money from the casino all the time. It doesn't mean it makes sense risk-adjusted, and that it can be done over a long period of time.
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In Chromium the thumbnails were something like 20×20.
Chad you've got half the screen play for the sequel to the Social Network, the best parts are ahead and I'll +1 you hitting big any day!
That's a half the time it took me. I had to apply patches from news groups and take MingW headers from CVS (because the official release broke the build).

On the other hand, once I compiled the libraries, I had no issues interfacing it with code in Visual C++ \C#.
The source files are fairly clean and documented enough that I could mostly figure out what to do by looking at the code.
C is more like trucks or trains than horses. Backbone of the modern society, but using them for all, or even just day to day, transportation needs could be called misguided.

Fortran is more horsey.
The site has a commented out css file for Twitter's widget http://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets and its code in the minified js file, it seems they chickened out on displaying realtime tweets about IE9.
From your VAX link - it was written in Cyrillic, because it was meant to be read by the inevitable Russian reverse-engineers. Russia lagged on chip design, so they stole US chip designs for their own computer industry, and told everybody they were original.
That's the 7th strongest quake ever recorded

I wonder where "8.2" came from in the engineering spec. and whether shooting for the ability to withstand a quake somewhere in the neighborhood of, say, the 10th largest is the right target. Maybe "the largest + 200%" is a better place to start? Of course, it costs more money.

but that's not the fault of the plant's designers

But it is a totally avoidable error. Not the plant's designers error, but a human error nonetheless. Why are we limiting our concerns over human error to just the people responsible for the original design? Surely there were organizations/contractors involved in developing replacement generators. Surely there are current plant safety and maintenance directors. Surely there is a complete nuclear regulatory agency.
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Ooh, I love famous last words, especially when delivered from a totally-not-self-serving position. Remember when EA bought Pogo and it revolutionized their business? Me neither.

Mr. Vesterbacka has just received a new chunk of change in the hopes of making a real go of it in the game software world, of course he's going to try and hack down the elephant in the room. It's a hallmark of ambitious VC-backed companies to overreach in a very public way, generating press and announcing their arrival as a Very Serious Player (Trip Hawkins look out). Let me know when Rovio starts making Very Small Game Studio dollars and we can start talking about market power.

Heck, it remains to be seen whether they're even more than a self-duplicating one-hit Zynga clone. Blah blah blah, now I'm contributing to the publicity.
Depends on what you mean by OOP. But function pointers (mostly in structs) are one way to do it.
Disasters like this are, in theory, actually beneficial to economies

In very bad theories, yes.
The Busybox project.
Thanks but I was truly interested in finding out where OP got these stats from, meaning did he also do a quick google search or does he just know these things.

I mentioned methodology in my post because that (to me) is the most important part of validating any statistics. My UG education was in a social science so I pay attention to those types of things. Stuff like this "Homicide as defined here includes murder and nonnegligent manslaughter which is the willful killing of one human being by another. The general analyses excluded deaths caused by negligence, suicide, or accident; justifiable homicides; and attempts to murder. " So we're saying vehicular manslaughter and shooting somebody in the head are the same while in reality they are completely different. Would you say that if you accidentally kill hit somebody and they die this is a murder? I wouldn't. But those cases get tacked on and divided and put through algorithms under the auspice of nurder. Additionally this "While many agencies report supplemental data on homicides, much of the data concerning offenders may not be reported because no suspects were identified. The most significant problem in using SHR data to analyze offender characteristics is the sizable and growing number of unsolved homicides contained in the data file. " So they guess based on what they do know, I have a problem with that. "In other words, offender profiles for unsolved crimes are estimated based on the offender profiles in solved cases matched on victim age, sex, and race; circumstances of the homicide; location of the homicide; and gun involvement; as well as year. All offender-based estimates were imputed using this procedure. "

Those are only a few excerpts that cast doubt on the true validity of the DOJ stats. We have an obsession in this society with quantifying things, even when they can't really be put in to nice little statistics.
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Or very poorly architected economies?
First of all, _recognizing_ the bad stuff IS a good thing that (many) women like. If you're with a man and a woman and the man tells a sexist joke, and you and the woman recognize that and don't laugh, then she feels like she's in the in-crowd and he feels like the odd man out. Congratulations, you just made a woman feel more comfortable. The reason we talk about the bad stuff is so we can practice in our head steering clear of it.

Actually, I think that's about it! Be helpful and friendly just like you would to a male developer and Don't Do Sexist Shit, and you'll be in good shape. Tech is fun. Women are innately drawn to nerding out the same way that men are. If they can do that without having sexism shoved in their faces every five minutes, then that's a pretty welcoming space. The positive is the absence of the negative.

As for a list... to some extent, it's not fair to ask women to not only deal with the assholes, but spend even more time teaching the earnestly "want-to-learn" guys what to do. Teach yourself. The internet is full of feminist advice.

A good place to start is just to subscribe to the Geek Feminism blog (http://geekfeminism.org) and read it with an open mind. If you want to go all out, dig through the archives. Feministing (http://feministing.com) is a great all-purpose feminist primer too.

And know that the folks who run those blogs generally Know Their Shit. They've been doing it for a while, and their analysis is mostly spot on, so if you find yourself thinking "this is insanity" just spend some time trying to really dig into their perspective before you go running into the fray with guns blazing.

And high five for wanting to learn. That's awesome, I respect that.
F1 cars do not have a reverse gear...
That prior might be valuable if it was based on the population under study, which is to say entrepreneurs. As is, based on the population at large, that prior is reasonably likely to be value-destructive.
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Was the first release of iPhone or Android really that flawless compared to WM7?
Is anybody else bothered by the use of the term "cloud" when speaking about hosted services? These services don't live "on the cloud" - they just reside on someone else's remote server, really no different than if you had a remote data center yourself. For something to really live "on the cloud" it literally needs to reside on the network, not stored on a server somewhere but constantly moving/shifting/replicating out in the aether of connections that is the Internet with the ability to pull up the service through a local terminal on demand (think Skynet).
I was about to point out that pointers are supposed to fit in intptr_t, but you're right -- there probably isn't a specification for function pointers (it's too late for me to feel like checking the spec). I will add, though, that on Linux on common 32- and 64-bit CPUs an unsigned long will always fit a pointer (excluding the possibility that ucLinux has been ported to a Harvard architecture or other "non-traditional" machine).
It's instructive that we've already engineered ways of preventing the problems TEPCO is experiencing at their Fukushima. Many newer reactor designs have a passive residual heat removal system that removes decay heat even without electrical power to run cooling pumps.

http://www.ap1000.westinghousenuclear.com/ap1000_psrs_pccs.h...
Just visited Puerto Varas a few months back. What a beautiful place! Good for you :)
I lived in Chile for 4 years. The problem is that blacks of any ethnicity are extremely rare, so at the very least you'll immediately draw attention.

A friend of mine recently posted (FB) the following story on the police blitzing a black foreigner for jaycycling: http://www.emol.com/noticias/nacional/detalle/detallenoticia...

I'm inclined to say the same about Argentina and Uruguay, where I've traveled a few times, but not lived. I've also been to Brazil, and can tell you people of darker skin are quite the norm, as in the caribbean like Venezuela, though I wouldn't recommend going there for other reasons.
Can you say how many lives have been saved because of the nuclear power plants over the past 30-40 years? This would include cleaner air in the meantime, costs which were saved and re-deployed to social welfare programs, cheaper power for individuals and businesses, meaning cheaper goods and more money available to feed and house love ones and spend on health care, and hell, even more money to spend on the expensive construction codes which undoubtably saved many thousands of lives during this tragedy.

I really can't say how many lives are enhanced or saved by simply being more efficient. And I can't predict the future, so neither do I know if nuclear power will ultimately be our downfall. But the question is far more complex than "society considers the loss of life acceptable." Society makes these choices to support and sustain better (and more numerous) lives.
This is a tough bet. My first reaction was, "They are going to open up their wallets and spend like crazy to rebuild." Then I heard on the news that Japan runs a massive fiscal deficit and I thought, "Where are they going to get the money." When the market cools, it might be good to pick individual stocks (construction and pharma come to mind). Right now though, staying out of the broader market (index funds, etc.) might be prudent.
An 8.9 Quake Could Have Irradiated the Entire US
And of course the music industry really isn't going anywhere. Lady Gaga could charge $0 for her music and she'd still be very wealthy. Look at 50 cent -- he made north of $100 million off of his endorsement of Vitamin Water alone. It's just a guess, but I doubt he's ever made that much from his music.
The counterargument is that if a company is the first to discover that a given molecule is useful medically, and is safe in humans, then they should get exclusive rights to sell that molecule for some time. This makes sense because it is atrociously expensive to get to that point, and the idea that another company should be allowed to manufacture and sell that same molecule after all the hard work has been done by subbing in different chemical reactions to get there is sort of silly.

EDIT: Didn't see the last line there. Are you sure that the vast majority are govt. funded all the way to the end of clinical trials? This doesn't jive with what I've heard.
I was the gaim/pidgin lead dev. for many years. That's pretty much the gist of it, from what I can recall. While we aimed to be more cross platform, empathy was more focused on straight up gnome integration.
Water, wind and sun won't displace nuclear and carbon-based energy for a number of reasons, cost being foremost. The best that "renewable" energy can do is temper demand for carbon-based energy.

The only reasonable replacement for the power infrastructure we have today is fusion power, but that's between 10 and 50 years away from commercial viability depending on who you listen to.
I was an enthusiastic Flickr user starting about 6 years ago or so. It had an excellent feature set and was even fairly reasonably priced.

However, Flickr has barely changed (at best only minor cosmetic changes) in that time frame while the entire rest of the web has transformed around them. Absolutely free image sharing on the web is now ubiquitous (imgur, twitpic, etc.) The smartphone market has exploded, the state of modern web development has advanced greatly, and social platforms (twitter, facebook, etc.) have utterly transformed the landscape. Meanwhile, hosting and bandwidth has gotten much cheaper though flickr's pricing model remains the same.

I think Flickr's business model is now irrevocably broken, they are surviving off of fumes at this point.
Who are most intellectual engineers ? I agree that most news seem to be conflicting, and very hard to understand for the layman, but I cannot possibly see how anyone can claim the issue has been solved when even the people with incentive to downplay the reality (Japanese gvt, TEPCO) say that the situation is increasingly worrying.

When you read nuclear news website (http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/), it seems the issue is potentially very serious, where the potentially become less and less uncertain rapidly. Given that this news website has the support of the world nuclear association, I would be inclined to trust them most than any general news channel out there (being tv/journals or of course Japanese gvt).
Don't wonder why you bothered writing that.

You wrote it because it made me laugh really hard and gave us some awesome tweetable quotables.

And because you're right.

And because as long as they keep fighting the Internet in lame ways, we all should fight back in fun ways.
The hope of something like this isn't to replicate Skype (the UI and behaviors) in an "open" form but to set the stage for new and different communications tools that wouldn't have been possible.

Some random thoughts on scenarios where this might make sense over Skype

1. You want to make a game that includes voice chat.

2. You're building something that's more a one-way flow of audio (like a baby monitor).

3. Self hosted Twilio type services.

4. An in house/office intercom system.
WM7 is entering the game a lot later than those two OS's, so presumably they should have learned from their mistakes by now.
From the development side, the Android emulator is really wonky, which is annoying at times.
When I was in high school I thought I could implement shared libraries for DOS/DJGPP by subtracting function pointers to each function I wanted to export and dumping the intervening data to disk. I quickly realized that the code was not position independent, and that other segments (like strings) were not being exported. I also discovered Linux, and thus abandoned the idea.
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At my HS they gave everyone a piece of pie on pi day.
I work at Amazon (not on AWS). I must say, the frequency that new features are rolled out impresses even me.

Congrats on shipping, guys.
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Just guessing but if you are doing short term trading isn't it better to sell if you think it can go down a bit more then buy at the absolute lowest price.
I just had a discussion with someone else about fast release schedules and QA teams.

If an organization wants to ship often, then QA teams don't work. You need the developers to write and own the test system. The new feature isn't done until the developer has tests for it and all the existing tests pass (even if this means changing those tests due to functionality changes). If this is passed off to a QA team, the whole process will always be broken.

Your organization is broken, and you are setup to fail (2 QA and 25 engineers!)

You can stay and try to help fix it, but this will be hard for you, since you are new, and change needs to come from the top management, or an engineer that the team will listen to. Even the top engineer will find it hard, since a lot of programmers get used to having a QA team to avoid this process!

If it was me, I'd be looking for my next opportunity and planning to leave pretty soon.
Is this cost like "organic" cost? (In that organic things get cheaper the more that gets produced).

Is there hope of renewable energy sources getting cheaper if they get more ubiquitous? In Portland we have a major wind turbine manufacturer, Vestas (http://www.vestas.com. They are from Europe, but have a big location here).

I guess my question is, the blades + farms get cheaper in large quantities, like anything else. So it seems the cost part could get better. But if they simply can't make enough power, that seems harder to conquer. Are you saying these things can't make enough power? (I suspect everybody knows this except for me.)
If you're going to pull out the murder/jail card, you can't just quote figures about gender. The elephant in THAT room is race.

The truth is, both the prison system and the murder culture are HIGHLY skewed against black men. If you look at white people in the U.S., 4600 men were killed in 1999, and 2000 women. White men are roughly twice as likely to be killed as white women.

If you look at black people, 5500 black men were killed, versus 1000 black women. And let me remind you that black people make up something like 10% of the population.

The situation is similar for incarceration rates.

So, two takeaway points here:

1) If you're a black man, and a white woman is complaining to you about the sexism she faced in her VC pitch, you may have a right to bring up the Oppression Olympics card.

2) If you're a white man, crying about how horrible is the specter of you getting murdered or sent to jail, in the middle of a conversation about sexism... you're just making excuses. Your likelihood of going to jail or being murdered is much closer to a white woman's.

And the truth is, men commit a much higher portion of violent crime. It's not like women are out there murdering thousands of men every year and getting away with it.

Although white people do sell a lot more drugs than black people and get away with it.

Source: http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2009/offenses/expanded_informati...
Sounds a bit over-sensitive to me. I certainly wouldn't cry about being asked what size my chest is.
One is actually a pretty big issue for me. Worse is that my laptop does have a hardware volume dial, but that dial only works after I've logged in.
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You aren't really exchanging ideas, but rather making repeated, sweeping generalizations.
Why are you only close to giving up? Is this windows phone thing a significant platform?

http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/12/07/microsoft-doesnt-expe...

Mossberg asked: “So.. how long before you’re back into the market… back up to a good marketshare, up there with Android and Apple?”

“I don’t know..”

“Couple months?”

“Longer than that.”

“Couple years?”

“Maybe.”

Isn't it time to stop developing for OS/2?
Last I checked (6 months ago), cufon was broken due to VML.

EDIT: Fixed cufon-side, probably the day after I last checked. Oops.
Yes, and you should expect more hydrogen explosions as long as they're forced to do venting. The measured radiation levels are approximately 4μSv/h.

"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.

As of 0:30 pm, the measured value of radiation dose at the monitoring post in Fukushima Daini Power Station located approximately 10 km south of Fukushima Daiichi Power Station remains at the same level.

In light of the incidents that have occurred at Units 1 and 3, we are considering applying prevention measures to the wall of the reactor building to ventilate the hydrogen gas contained in Unit 2."

Sources:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Sievert

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