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Questions of how "ethical" microsoft is and what they "deserve" are always very obscure and up for debate. I imagine the company who published this list well evaluated Microsoft's recent activity, and deemed it ethical. Nevada tax evasion is not in the ten commandments. Steve Balmer's business practices have never caused pestilence and famine. This study is just an attempt to make companies more sharp about their practices by putting them in the public eye and should not be seen and the delegators of "deserve" and "moral."
It supports linux too, I've had it up and running on Mint and Ubuntu for at least 6 months.
Good on you for launching. Congratulations, i hope you make a nice bit of money for your efforts :)
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I'm really looking forward to seeing all of you guys again. Sorry for the short notice… If you can't make it we'll have a real scheduled meet-up some time soon when things are more calm.
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I found your comment much more provocative than the article itself :)

Object-Orientation exists in several different places, each of which is more or less important.

As a code organization tool, it really shines in large projects. So if you're learning to code, probably don't need it. Code organization gets much more rigorous in larger projects. Many times noobs with small programs start applying large-project concepts to their ten-line algorithm. This is a failure of teaching -- but probably intermediate-level teaching.

As a metaphor, it provides a way of looking at "where" to put your code. Noobs don't have a lot of code, so it doesn't matter. I agree that for small problems this extra layer can be distracting.

But the most important part of OO has nothing to do with programming: it's OOA. This skill lets you look at your problem, and it's the most powerful thing I've experienced for solving large problems. Functional Programming puts all the symbols and problem-space in your head at one time -- you become the linker. OOA lets you play with ways to solve a problem without writing any code and without taxing your noodle at all. You deal with small, atomic blocks and their relationships with each other. This skill is an absolute necessity, even if the student never touches an object the rest of their career. It's also one that's the most lacking in regular programmers.
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I gave up on IE a long time ago. If they don't support the standards, I don't support them.

Of course my pages still render on IE, but I don't do any quirks mode stuff, that just causes too much pain.

Oh, well, that's not strictly true, since I have to have two different things in the CSS for rounded corners (webkit vs mozilla), but apart from that I try to keep quirks to a minimum, and IE can go die in a fire for all I care.
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"safe enough" as in "safer than standard treatment". In their place, I'd prefer a taste for cheese and an overwhelming fear of cats to radiation sickness.
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I could not see any of the activity described in sites listed in the article. He must have changed something.
OOP is about (subtype) polymorphism

What are we to make of this quote: "OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things."--Alan Kay

Do we interpret that as suggesting that polymorphism is the thing and that Alan is using different words to describe it? That polymorphism is an implementation technique for achieving the goals Alan is describing? or perhaps that in the thirty years since Smalltalk has been commercialized, we have moved on from its initial vision?
Indeed, PNG is very good at losslessly compressing artificial images which have large uniform (or gradient) areas, such as diagrams, drawings and so on.

SVG(.gz) could be even more compact (and just as important, resolution independent), but alas we'll have to wait a bit before support in browsers is common.
The most interesting thing about this post, to me: it's a reminder that religious people rarely get taken at face value. Which I think is unfortunate for communication.

I read the linked Andy Rutledge post in which a religious fundamentalist tells the sinners he knows the truth and they better learn it and change their ways or they'll go to hell. In this case the religion is Objectivism, but fundamentalists of Marxism, Christianity, and Islam all speak the language.

The thing is no one takes him seriously. He wrote a post that's explicitly all about morality, truth, and changing people's evil ways. The OP, the commenters who mention him (pro and con), they can't seem to process it. They invent their own motivations and pin them on Andy. The OP even calls him a troll.

Um, no. More like a missionary.

The book What's the Matter with Kansas is a semi-famous example of the same phenomenon. The author of the book insists that the Christians of Kansas vote against their own self interest because he doesn't take their faith seriously.
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Want to get around all those silly restrictions? Pirate the film. Eventually the law will give up, in the same way to gave up about, porn, condoms, and men having sex with each other.
I actually had thought of this exact same idea about a year ago. Mainly as a way to learn jquery and because i look at a lot of web pages during the day and traditional bookmarking really doesnt work for me. I started adding alot of ideas onto it though and ended up dropping eventually. Are you pleanning on developing it further? Oh i was even going to use a very similiar name. :-)
The old icon looks more at home on Windows and Mac desktops.

The new icon looks more at home among the other Google products. (http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/options/)

Whether there's any significance to this, I don't know.
yeah, well, we always knew they were dodgy,
but hey: they were willing to pay spot prices for our uranium, even when it peaked at over $A150/pound in 2007.

Have fun sucking up the mess: thank f-ck it's not in our hemisphere.
I think confidence is valuable when applying for a job, but I wonder if any head hunters will look at this and think "I need this applicant rather than "Well this is cute." I assume this highly capable grad will know not to just wait around for job offers. Posting an ad on a major website with one's qualifications would also be an interesting application idea..
Likewise - looking forward to seeing everyone there. Take care Tokyo people.
The colours need a bit more saturation to really pop, they're a bit too washed-out and pastel. I like the concept, but the execution is poor.
So if I just follow the interface specification about accepted inputs and accepted outputs I can switch in any arbitrary implementation of that function and have my code keep working.

The funny thing is that this is what I would say about OOP, while for functional solutions I often find the specifications much looser, so that I cannot trust this to always be true.

I'm not saying you are right and I am wrong. But I am saying that the arguments about what holds true for what, and especially the arguments for "OOP is bad" or "FP is bad" etc, they just seem to be highly subjective.

And unless someone can come up with empirical evidence to show that one side is actually better/right, I find this debate both pointless and rather amusing. Pointless in that it doesn't give more insights. Amusing in the sense that it makes people reveal lots of the preconceptions and prejudice against things they seemingly don't fully grasp.
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"messaging" / "extreme late-binding of all things" - this is about polymorphism.

"local retention and protection" - encapsulation is THE goal of every engineer (i.e. black boxes that take some input and reliably give you some output, without you worrying about the details) and is in no way an exclusive property of OOP, although thinking about data-structures as objects that respond to messages gives you powerful tools to do that.

EDIT - and thinking about beginners that can't understand OOP, encapsulation is also hard to explain, but that doesn't make it any less of a useful goal.
Here's the source:

﻿<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Code Standards | Isobar</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="assets/master.css" />
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<body>

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I see a couple of problems. First up, they're not indenting. The validator is spitting the dummy because of two things, the first is the spurious whitespace before the doctype tag, the second is the title (which it thinks is missing), but the real problem is with the meta tag which isn't properly closed.

But hey, free dinosaur. With hat.
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I have a prior commitment, but hope y'all have a fun time, and will see you at the next HN meetup.
Sorts of language used like "Perl, Python and PHP"? Areas of interest including x86 assembly and the Linux kernel?
Yep, all girly..
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Free alcohol changes the social dynamic of an occasion. There's less awkwardness about offering to get someone a drink or vice versa. Less concerns about expectations of reciprocity.

And people generally seem to end up drinking more.

All good in my opinion.
Nature adapts - it might counter with more births and shorter life spans, or whatever. Just because cockroaches prosper doesn't mean humans would.
How is Visa responsible for all this?
I can vouch for this approach. When I was younger I discovered the magic of the Winamp AVS Editor. I would not be developing software today if I hadn't of discovered it.

It should be possible to perform audio analysis within the shader using the Web Audio API. Google has some demos [1] that seem to do this sort of thing though they don't seem to work for me.

These new APIs have me quite excited :)

[1] http://chromium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/audio/index...
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The timing function can be an arbitrary cubic bezier; some common ones like ease-in/out and so forth have dedicated keywords.

You should be able to get arbitrary bezier paths if you pick your x and y timing beziers carefully, I'd think... But it does take some thinking.
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See the link that started this whole conversation. It has pretty good data, the only questionable part was the fact that their nuclear safety data involved taking self-reported fatalities from the USSR.

Coal is far worse than nuclear by every metric (environmental effects, deaths per TWh, etc etc) in any sane accounting scheme.
> JPEG still does not though.

You're right in practise (AFAIK, libjpeg still doesn't support this mode), but see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossless_JPEG
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I'll echo this comment and offer to pass along any job opportunities to the students I teach (CS at Manhattan College in NYC).
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Yes! Yay, you made me feel less crazy. I like the new logo better, too.

Subjective retro-ness aside, the new logo is more of a logo (less textures, passes the silhouette test, etc).
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There are actually two lossless JPEG modes even ignoring JPEG-2000: JPEG-LS and LJPEG. I don't know how widespread support for either is, but ffmpeg can encode to both. It confused the crap out of me a few months ago when I was trying to fix a bug and realized that the two were actually totally different formats.

The latter seems to be older and part of the original spec, while the former seems to be newer and a lot less bad.
Have a look at http://vendetta-online.com - it's pretty much its spiritual successor, and a bunch of players are ex-Jumpgate fans.
Didn't Apple drop ZFS on OSX for fear of patent lawsuits?

edit: it looks like ZFS is clear: http://www.sun.com/lawsuit/zfs/index.jsp
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Anyone marking me down who doesn't have friends and family in a disaster area, can go die in a fire.
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> At that point, it's as good as lossless for most uses, IMHO.

It's not, and the size of the file blows up to insane levels.
As someone who saw the fun Paypal had with the Indian government, I suspect the key word in that above quote is "eligible"
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These are not modes, they're different formats (like very, very different) using the same name.

And yes, LJPEG is the "complete crap" version which predates (and was blown away by) PNG, JPEG-LS is a second take on a lossless jpeg format.
I will simply quote myself:

> No you can't. You can use Lossless JPEG
Nuclear energy is still pretty safe
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Oh, it's much worse than that. Not only would the original be the father, it would also be the same person. Hence, the original could be tried for any and every crime the clone commited.
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Does this mean I'd have to give someone my credit card number to have them pay me? Or would they have a separate deposit-only account identifier?
Yes, I remember that one: http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-02-chernobyl-birds-smaller-...

Rereading it, it seems that the effects seen on the birds are seen in humans too, but at higher contamination levels.
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I wouldn't expect it too much. Photoshop also had a generally dreadful support for PNG (it would compress them very, very badly, sometimes to twice or thrice the size needed) before ~CS3.
Mismanagement and the poor training of operators seems to be a consistent theme with incidents at nuclear plants. For example, from the investigation of the TMI incident,

"The investigation strongly criticized Babcock and Wilcox, Met Ed, GPU, and the NRC for lapses in quality assurance and maintenance, inadequate operator training"^.

So here's a relevant question:
Do accidents happen at mismanaged plants, or do accidents reveal the level of mismanagement which is common across the industry?

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I've read the thread again, could you tell me where I came across as "throwing out IP Laws completely"?.

I think -
A) Competition is good for some types of goods, not all. (I don't remember/know the correct economic criteria to define this.)

B) IP laws are good/great for some research, and bad/terrible for others.

C) I do not see the current system incentivizing humanity's good over personal/shareholder profit.

D) The current system has 'Human Good' occur as a side effect of rewarding people to do their best. It is vastly better than any system which has existed before. it will be better if we can fix C).
For line arts, you can probably use 8bit PNG.
"On OS X, each icon can have different images from"

As on Windows and on the gnome desktop.
I don't think the new one looks better than the old.
New = too basic
Old = too much details
Photoshop's PNG support hasn't changed for years, so don't hold your breath.

Fireworks supports 8bit+a. I'm also working on modernised pngquant, which might give higher-quality results than Fireworks:

https://github.com/pornel/improved-pngquant
Random (keyboard mashing, random enough) works a charm - I've found that support often give puzzled sounds over the phone, before moving on to other forms of identification that render the secret question irrelevant.

The exception is any website that doesn't require use of their prescribed questions.
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You're right — I could have made that clearer. My main concern was people saving photos as PNG (and then thinking PNG sucks, because files are so big)
I read this as restrictions on cloning the git repo rather than the person, I'm obviously too deep in the code!
I would love to go, but I do not want to stray too far from home when a strong aftershock might make it difficult to return. ;)

Have a great time, and I will be looking forward to the next one!
The ordering is sometimes the other way. You write the stuff you think is interesting, discover that you're not as fast as you'd like on it, fix whatever performance bugs you find.

Though in this case the demo was actually written after Firefox 4 development was frozen. So the fact that it's particularly fast in Firefox on Windows just has to do with hardware acceleration, nothing else.
The original article was about Chomsky saying IP was a bad thing, and a lot of commenters here seem to like the idea of ditching it, lock stock and barrel.

I agree with your points, and think that D and C are incremental improvements to the existing system to try and make with time, rather than a reason to junk the entire thing.
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Yes, absolutely. I was probably unclear; I wasn't trying to say it was a GOOD idea, just that it works.
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No, Egypt's domination by Islam alone was effectively a cultural reset. There were also other invaders, like Rome.
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I think it might require trip to about:config

Here's an evil image that will look red (instead of blue) when ICC isn't working, and it's also easily ruined by invalid gamma:

http://pornel.net/iTunes-icc-gamma.png
I'd actually skip on Python and give them Scheme with a copy of "The Little Schemer."

However, I agree with the OO sentiment. It brings a lot of vernacular and concepts that are not important to the building of a program; at least not at first. Classes, objects, meta-classes, inheritance, multiple inheritance, method resolution order, operator over-loading, class methods, static methods... it's all baggage for a new programmer. It's an interesting way of organizing code and encapsulating the responsibilities of different parts of a larger program... but it's a purely architectural tool.

For a beginning programmer they aren't worried about such design concepts. They just need to understand inputs, outputs, and control flow. A single function is a program for them. Once they have a grasp of the fundamentals then you can think about introducing them to OO programming.

Beginner's mind. It's hard for an experienced programmer to grasp.
Thank you for telling this.
Yeah, but that was hardly my point, if the reason for the change was visibility in small size, they would have been better off just modifying the icon. I definitely agree that it does have higher visibility in small size than the old one.
Would be interested in the next scheduled one.
Looks like beautiful country. I can't read the signs from the satellite, though... ;-)
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Well Japan still has the death penalty, so there should be ample opportunity to punish him for that.
I don't have an android phone. Would love it if it were a web app.
I like it. The old one looks like an electronic eye, monitoring my every move on the internet.
This looks like a purposeful action by the page: it calls preventDefault on mousedown events for some reason. :(
Unfortuantely, can't make it this time. Wish you all good time and catch you at the next event.
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Yes, once transforms enter CR.

Note, by the way, that right now -moz-transform and -webkit-transform have different syntax, so "consolidation" involves deciding which syntax to standardize on.
Vladimir, I won't hire a developer to work for free. But if you can pay me 5$ (I donno what's the unit they talk here per hour, per day or even per week) I'll assign you work. And... you can have all the experience.

Your 1st assignment: As my office work is worse than yours like ftping files sending reports etc. you can create some apps for teaching me Ruby, Javascript etc. and then add my details too in you website.
Simplicity. That is one of Google attractions. So, the new Chrome logo fits that image better than the old one.
Dead, according to certain articles. I still use it daily though...
Going back about 10 years, there was a community that made a pseudo-sport out of this kind of activity and similar online masquerades, it was called baiting.org. The site is still up, though inactive.
People often ask what's the single biggest difference between a good programmer and a great programmer.

I've heard a lot of good answers dealing with talent, hard work, experience, imagination, communication, cleverness, simplicity, vision, and even laziness.

The shift from procedural to OO brings with it a shift from thinking about problems and solutions to thinking about architecture.

This makes me think about my answer: You first enable yourself to become a great programmer the moment you stop worrying about your own problems and focus primarily on your customer's.
Firefox 4 beta 12 (on OpenBSD) actually has a "Permanent Private Browsing mode" checkbox on the privacy tab. So you can already do this. ;-)

That said, you may be interested in http://panopticlick.eff.org/, which shows just how private private browsing is...
You could say twitter is a friend-curated RSS feed that actually kind of works.
Ok Paul, might be just you and me. I'm cool with that. :)
(I work on MongoDB, but trying to give a balanced opinion.)

Redis is a great key-value store, MongoDB is more of a fully-featured database. Redis has some nice set operations and is pretty easy to learn (all of the commands are here: http://redis.io/commands). MongoDB is also pretty easy to learn (click the "Try it out" button at http://mongodb.org/), but there are a lot of advanced features to learn about.

So, if you need a key-value store, Redis is a great choice. If you want to do something more complex, MongoDB would probably work better.
He does. Also, he doesn't like contributions that much because most of the contributions he gets are (his words) "bad". Dmitry is ultra talented, but some of his opinions are bound to shock a few developers. If interested, see this interview with him on The Changelog:

http://thechangelog.com/post/631899187/episode-0-2-5-rapha-l...