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Google to delete all private profiles?
Do you think this will lead to avoidance of google especially today when everyone is so concerned with data security? Should google go the facebook route too?
Also if you can read German, theres a more comprehensive article at spiegel.de.
I agree. I personally like 8 spaces, but I code in a way so others can choose their own preferences. Meaning, I use the tab character and avoid ASCII art in my source / comments. This way people can set up their tab width in their editor as they like and don't have to put up with my style de jure.

That's part of collaboration basics:

* Try to find an acceptable middle ground for the minor things and focus on coding and not politics.

* Don't be a douche.

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http://learningwebgl.com/lessons/example02/ told me it could not initialize WebGL - think I'm missing the DirectX runtime.
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Off the top of my head:

Amnesty International

Greenpeace

WWF

Red Cross and ICRC

Oxfam

Numerous planned parenthood organisations

Numerous medical foundations

Gates Foundation

Grameen Bank

Numerous arts organisations and Rockefeller/Tate/etc foundations
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Monsanto clones in genes that are resistant to its herbicide, Roundup, which is a simple glycine derivative. These molecules bind tightly to a key enzyme in three amino acid synthesis pathways, and since these molecules bind with such affinity, the enzyme can't dislodge it within a reasonable timeframe/equilibrium. Without the AAs, the plant dies.

Due to patents, Monsanto owns the rights to any plants with the gene--including offspring. Farmers have to continually license the plants to grow them. One unfortunate soul had a neighboring farmer's crops cross pollinate his own, and Monsanto came down hard on him--it was a pretty big incident.
Really impressive, but it's a shame that this is being labelled "CSS3" or "HTML5" when clearly it relies on a lot of JavaScript. It's a great example of weaving several front-end technologies together...and there should be nothing wrong with saying so.
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All the more poignant given the announcement to restrict API access for 3rd party clients a couple of days ago.
If you build a house you dont need worry about the inside of bricks. Objects dont have that property, Pure Functions do.

The Objects loss this proberty because they have inheritance. The other problem is that every in OO the data is mixed with the functions.

Rich Hicky on how it can be done right: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hic...
Thanks :) that will be useful if i dig back into mucking around with Python.
NPD smartphone sales stats for the US:

Quarter-Year: Android%/Apple% = ratio

Q2-2010: 33/22 = 1.5

Q3-2010: 44/23 = 1.91

Q4-2010: 53/19 = 2.8

You can find graphs from various sources that show a consistent trend for Android (i.e. the sales in the last month of Q4 are higher than the average and much higher than the sales in the first month) if that wasn't already obvious from the quarterly numbers.

My prediction for sales right now i.e. the month of March is about 60/15 but I guess we'll hear the Q1 numbers in a month or so and it'll be something like 3.5 overall.

edit: a final note, this isn't a prediction that Apple sales will fall, they'll certainly grow (though I think their U.S. marketshare just peaked) it's simply that Android's massive growth will expand the smartphone market and shrink their sales share.
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I agree but STL/Boost hard tiny bit to hard. Teach that stuff with Scheme, python or something that isn't <insert what you hate about C++>
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To verify the correctness, they can type provided answers and the computer will do its job, checking the hashes. That is, in case phone support person has immediate access to the computer (which is probably the case) and can type fast enough.

The only thing required is a well-designed text normalization algorithm, which will neglect all variations in case, spacing, punctuation, spelling (i.e. "color" vs "colour") and other similar sort of issues.

(In edge cases, where this may fail, the plaintext answers could be recovered by authorized person from off-site write-only-API "secret storage" server, where the data should lay encrypted with asymmetric crypto. Less convenient, but more secure.)
1. PayPal doesn't have a corporate motto of "Don't be evil"
2. We have existing data for the big G via their Google Payments
> I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be concluding from this.

A day after the reddit comment the NyTimes had a front-page article on them: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/world/asia/16workers.html . The general tone of the article and of the people commenting on the article was that of "sacrifice", i.e. people putting their lives on the line for the benefits of the greater community.

Updated:

More about it from here (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/japan-tsunami/news/article.cfm?c_i...):

> David Richardson, a professor of epidemiology at the university of North Carolina who has studied the long-term health risks for nuclear plant workers, told the BBC those at Fukushima would receive in an hour the same amount of radiation a US nuclear worker is exposed over an entire career.

To a non-specialist like me that sounds like "sacrifice".
I wonder what wiping of a web account exactly involves. Email, FB? Sounds like something a journalist would say without really knowing what they are talking about.
I didn't get the impression that the article was implying that DNA damage and other stochastic effects are prevented, but that maybe the initial effects of radiation poisoning are avoided, and that (maybe because of this) cells are more able to repair themselves.

That said, I can't disagree with your last point - it's probably at least a little embellished.
According to http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/tsunamiupdate01.html, "all units at the Fukushima Daini, Onagawa, and Tokai nuclear power plants are in a safe and stable condition (i.e. cold shutdown)".

Dai-ichi is Fukushima I: 'ichi' is Japanese for 'one'.

Dai-ni is Fukushima II: 'ni' is Japanese for 'two'.
They can, they just charge an arm and a leg for it and make you go through a big hoop and dance to actually use it. Wire transfers cost $20-$40 for each transaction (And usually are associated with systems with such names as "Large Value Transfer System (LVTS)". ACH is usually only allowed with accounts you can prove ownership with and they charge for pushing money into another external account, but usually not for pulling money. Even then they hold the funds for 3-4 business days. It's cheaper and faster to just order paper checks, write them down, give it to a teller or ABM to take the check to deposit into your account than to use ACH or wire transfers. It's even worse in canada. At least US banks have ACH transfers and wire transfers available on their online banking websites! The closest thing is Interac e-transfer. I think it just comes down to liability and fraud risk exposure. A guy who knows your password can clean you out.
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If you build a house you dont need worry about the inside of bricks. Objects dont have that property, Pure Functions do.

I see this exactly the other way around. Objects makes sure you don't have to worry about what's on the inside, but if you use pure functions you need to know how the function is implemented, how it processes data, how it expects input to be and how the output will be.

Using pure functions requires you to seek out lots of information and verify implementation. Not that you shouldn't investigate this when using OOP, but in OOP a lot more of this is formalized in class-definitions IMO making the interaction easier to understand.

The way I see your analogy, is that if you use pure functions, the electricity in your house needs to know what material the bricks are made of so that current doesn't accidentally leak and cause a fire. With OOP this is a detail you don't have to worry about as long as the pieces fit.

If that sounds somewhat flawed or too simplistic, I will take the liberty of blaming the poor metaphor. I'm just pointing out that I see the exact same metaphor in the exact polar opposite way ;)
The IT in a car is even worse a black-box then most closed-source devices. The whole internal network is a black-box, not just devices. Nothing forces car-manufacturors to use standards for informantion exchnage, or even TCP/IP.

I am waiting for the first Open Source car on the commercial market. One where not only the software and "drivers"(no pun intended) are freely available, but one that uses standards to communicate, internally and externally.
Very cool, but on every planet I wanted to be able to spin it on it's axis. That would be a demo.
Also good to take into account is that Chernobyl and TMI and Fukushima are installations from the 1970's or early 1980's.

And even for those old birds the stats seem fairly favorable.

But as long as emotions fueled by scare-mongering have the upper hand, rationality and facts make no chance. So really widespread adoption of nuclear energy (be it fusion or fizzion - I'd be surprised if the public at large makes any distinction between them) is probably not going to happen for the near future.
And that's a shame as it could be our ticket out of both a lot of environmental issues and socio-economic issues.
Why don't you use Erlang? Its much closer to you definition of OOP.
The article suggest you could use (among others): "OptiPNG + Pngcrush combo"

What is the benefit of using pngcrush in addition to optipng? I got exellent reults using optipng only.
Atomic Power was invented to build bombs do you really thing that we should use everything for what it was invented for?
> The latest Chrome Dev Channel release comes with a new Chrome logo that's more plain and boring [...] Chrome lost some of its magic by switching to a visual identity that's no longer vibrant and picturesque

Wow. My thoughts exactly when seeing the new logo, but I'm surprised Google would put it this way!

> An unofficial blog...

Ah, that makes sense.
I’m not really sure what’s supposed to be hysterical about this article. They are just reporting about a surge in demand for iodine which is perfectly good article material.

They also, for example, say this in the article: “For Americans trying to buy the pills, some experts say there is no need for them — and certainly no reason to use them now — because Americans are not being exposed to dangerous levels of radiation from the Japanese plants, nor are they likely to be.”
The problem with full disclosure is always scriptkiddies a la blackhatworld who'll try to do the same
Looks like a nice Rest API.
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> For the mouse-loving people I wrote ImageOptim. It combines all the best image opti­misa­tion tools with drag’n'drop Mac GUI.

I roll with PNGSquash[0]

[0] https://github.com/msanders/PNGSquash
I feel this logo looks better when sized way down to "Windows quick launch bar" or "GNOME launcher" size, but for instance on a Mac dock it's completely out of place with it's 2D look & feel.
Computers and the internet come out of public expenditure through the state system? Where did he get that fact from?
The agricultural "green revolution " , which probably saved around a billion lives , was started by the Rockefeller foundation who cooperated on agricultural research with the mexican and u.s. governments.
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That's true ONLY IF America started to produce textiles. But the textbook trade models (e.g. Ricardian, Hecksher-Olin, etc) all pretty much recommend that America should just stick to producing fish and fur to maximise its gains from trade, and forget about a homegrown textile industry.
PNG recompressors perform different optimization and try at different levels of hard, so the improvements coming from one compressor may be different (and combinable with) another's.

Furthermore, depending on agressivity they may change some encoding property of the PNG and make them easier (or harder) to recompress via other compressors.

The benefit of using both is that it often allows you to squeeze a few extra percentage point of compression. Ideally you should test all combinations of compressors (presence and sequence) but that tends to be a bit expensive, especially when you involve PNGOut as it takes a pretty long time to run.

FWIW, I just tried the following on a screen capture:

* OptiPNG alone

* PNGCrush then OptiPNG

* OptiPNG then PNGCrush

* Squash (which runs a sequence of PNGrush, OptiPNG and AdvPNG, it can also run PNGOut but I didn't install it)

The source file was 250K, the files that went through OptiPNG, PNGCrush+OptiPNG and OptiPNG+PNGCrush were compressed to 159K (with a slight edge for the one compressed via PNGCrush first: both Optis are 162997 bytes, while PNGCrush + OptiPNG is 162978) and the file compressed via PNGSquash is 144K (147249 bytes).
This:

When you need full color, but don’t need transparency, use JPEG instead.

implies that pixel-perfect results (non-lossy compression) is never desirable for images with full color, which I find to be a very provocative simplification.

On the other hand, on the web in general, perhaps it is good advice as a "rule of thumb" for people who aren't likely to deal with images where each pixel really matters.
> Why does everyone always seem to punt on doing geospatial right? It's not _that_ hard.

Do you mean you think they don't know how to do it?

As I followed the roadmap on this specific point, it looks more like an incremental development to me: they first used rectangular coordinates in 1.6, then a spherical model in 1.7 etc.

It allows to bring a more lightweight solution quickly to people that need it (like me), then to evolve based on the feedback etc.
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Dropbox wasn't the first such product and you can argue better ones exist out there. What they have done is make a product with little or no friction to get up and running across multiple devices. That is the power of their product. It is super easy to use and difficult to break. A lot of companies can learn from their success and focus on user experience.
Nature is doing so well around Chernobyl because of the lack of humans. I don't have a reference to hand but I beleive that the birds in the area have a high rate of genetic defects and low reproductive success. That fact that the environment seems to be doing well is a statement of how much impact humans have on their surroundings.
a new Chrome logo that's more plain and boring

Or less chintzy and less like a VCR manufacturer's logo from 1979. It looks good! It seems typical to have a strong reaction to a new name (iPad, Wii, Vista) or a new logo but it passes. Everyone will be used to it within months :-)
Is there any design related reason that explains this change? Or is this just random?
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For me the sweet spot is its flexibility.

I work a lot on data aggregation, where I can create a bunch of tables each day, then maintain them etc. For me it's almost a dream really :)

As well they are adding features such as geonear that makes it appealing for other uses (which I have, too).
Scheme should be used not Haskell! Haskell can be used in a Algorithems class or something but in the beginning use Scheme.
1. PayPal doesn't have a corporate motto of "Don't be evil"

If you think Google wont do bad stuff because of a good PR-stunt, my personal motto is also "Don't be evil" and boy do I have a bridge to sell you.

You may be affiliated with Google trough some of your former projects and don't want to think you are part of something bad, I don't know.

But as an end-user who only sees Google's complete dominance all over the web, as the company who now anonymizes search/keyword-data for site-owners, unless you deploy Google Analytics and further increases Google's grip on the web, etc etc, I see a big beast who could go monster overnight with the rest of the internet powerless to stop it.

Google may not be evil now, but being OK with the power they wield just because they aren't abusing that power is something I cannot be content with. A silly "Don't be evil" motto isn't going to change that.

I'll welcome good options anywhere I can find them, and I don't use Google's products for anything I can't replace with something else. Having another non-Google option in the Android market would be very much welcomed. Especially considering Google Checkout's extremely poor track-record.
I find that it actually looks better. Then again, as a zen master would say, it does not look better or worst, it has simply changed.
I do a lot of Ruby development. It would be nice to see them offer a XML or JSON API as well.
The PNG with ICC profile seems not to work in my system, Firefox 3.6.15, Windows 7
"When you need full color, but don’t need transparency, use JPEG instead."

No. Don't. JPEG is for photos (and rarely for gradients). For drawings, line art, cartoons, clip art, etc. use 24bit PNGs - they work just fine.
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It’s interesting how few of these are eligible for Google’s programme, which is open only to organisations whose headquarters are in the United States. (http://www.google.com/nonprofits/eligibility.html)
I've gotten the best results by far by first doing pngout, then optipng, then advpng - in that order!!

On some images each step cuts the file size by 10-15%.

Change the order and you'll get worse results.

Also pngout (and optipng) will convert 24bit PNGs to paletized PNGs if there are not a lot of colors. The often makes the file smaller - but not always. So I also suggest using the -c4 -c2 or -c6 options to pngout (as appropriate for the file) and checking if the file got smaller. But sure to pass -nc to optipng in that case.
You can set JPEG compression levels such that it's lossless, which gives a filesize not dissimilar to PNG.
My favourite quote from the comments: "looks ugly and is not the original"

Sums up every UI change reaction ever.
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Well, plain is not necessarily boring. In most cases, including this one, I prefer the plain version. One example other than Chrome is Pepsi, the new plain logo looks so much better to me than the sort-of-3D old one. I guess it's very subjective.
> You can set JPEG compression levels such that it's lossless

No you can't. You can use Lossless JPEG instead, but regular JPEG (or JPEG2000) is a lossy format period.

edit: as tspiteri points out, JPEG 2000 does have a lossless mode. My bad. JPEG still does not though.
One reason might be that the change brings the logo more in line with the Google identity. Google usually doesn’t do shiny and photorealistic, the Chrome logo was always a strange aberration in that respect.
While I think the original Chrome logo maybe had a bit too much “3D”, I think this is a bit too far in the other direction.

Something in between this new logo and the previous would probably be appropriate IMHO.
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I completely agree. I wish I was taught Python or Ruby at University instead of Java.
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World Health Organization and its predecessors as well as the Food and Agriculture Organization (which have eradicated smallpox, renderpest, and have nearly wiped out polio and guinea worm disease)

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Have you analyzed and documented the formulas you mention? This would be a first step into formalizing and eventually monetizing your experiences.
research shows that there is some psychological attachment to the concept of "free" that bypasses people's usual cost/benefit thinking. see this article [http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/04/free-but-at-what-price.php] for instance.
Very cool - thanks! Looks like the latest update is that "The CCR-NCI of the NIH recently recognized the work of Dr. Isenberg and collaborators in controlling radiation by CD47 blockade as one of the 'top science advances for 2010'". Nice to hear that the work is apparently regarded as credible. Hope to hear more about it soon!
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The point is, he doesn't have to work with these people any more, since he is no longer a programmer.
Yes, it certainly seems that way. Recently Google has also changed the logos of gmail, gcal, greader etc and this looks like Chrome's turn.
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It looks like a 9.

Once you've seen it, you can't unsee it.
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