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I was talking about public transportation in absolute terms not relative (because for anything someone complains about one can always find something worse - that isn't justification, inadmissible as evidence in court and unacceptable to me ;) ). Yes, you are lucky my friend, you have landed in the lap of California’s finest public transportation system. I love it too (when I visit). Unfortunately its impact is small when you’re talking about the state of California and therefore cannot give it state-level credit (everywhere else in California public transportation sucks like NC).
Please, read some econ besides at heritage or cato. The correlation is not that strong, see [1] and specifically [2] [3] and [4]. [2] demolishes your argument -- look at the horizontal spread in the developed countries. These indicators are hard to measure, too; for an alternate measure, look at [3]: examine the vertical distance between Portugal and Australia. Or, if you prefer, in the middle of the graph between Ja/UK and Ireland. Or on the right side between NZ and the US. It's safe to say that economic freedom doesn't correlate all that well with GDP, not to mention that correlation neq causation.

Not to mention for every Singapore there's an Ireland to match.

[1] http://filipspagnoli.wordpress.com/stats-on-human-rights/sta...

[2] http://filipspagnoli.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/economic-fr...

[3] http://filipspagnoli.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/economic-fr...
I've always used a rule-of-thumb of a 100% overhead rate for employees - it's a spectacularly easy number to work with mentally, and its right to well within acceptable error bounds an awful lot of the time.

If I'm paying you $90k, I'll expect to incur an additional $90k in costs resulting from employing you.
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We have no such plans. The library is designed so that concurrency control is outside its scope. If I needed it for an application, I might consider using some application level code that looks like:

bool CAS(db, key, oldvalue, newvalue) {
lock some mutex;
read key's value from db;
bool result = (value == oldvalue);
if (result) write key=>newvalue to db;
unlock;
return result;
}

This should be not much slower than any hard-wired CAS we could provide from inside leveldb.
i feel your pain MG, @techcrunch has much better content and writers than @mashable, but they get more traffic and probably are making more revenue, its all about getting pageview, and they are good at linkbaiting and gaming SEO. At the end of the day if mashable has a conference I dont think people will pay as much as people would say pay for TCdisrupt, thats were the credibility is.
It's almost as if people prefer not to have poisoned water, air, and land; to eat safe food without chemicals; to not ingest carcinogens; etc. This is a real pain for polluting corporations, yes.
Aren't transactions that occur on bitcoin p2p and "anonymous"? I think Neal Stephenson once predicted such a system would lead to the end of nation states (since they could no longer collect taxes)...
When exactly are we expecting new line of MacBook Pro's?
Personally I think expecting stock price to always increase is horrible these days.
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I have to look at my phone every time someone asks me for my phone number. I don't know if this means that my brain is dying or that I don't bother remembering information that I can easily look up...
in North America, ‘5#’ means ‘five pounds in weight’

I've never heard this. Is this common in other parts of the US? Canada?
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I put this above, but I'd like to have access to my Apture extension. For some reason it gets disabled.
Along the M4 corridor there are quite a lot of hardware companies.
I have a PhD in Economics, and any economist will spot holes in your argument immediately. It's not shuffling money around. When a country can produce goods and services at a lower cost, another country can buy those goods and services at cheaper prices. Thus, both countries benefit and their economies both grow as a result. This is simple, basic economics.
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A security breach is never OK. Disclosure helps but does not absolve anyone. We cannot accept that these things just happen.

Besides, it's a password manager. Of course it's going to be held to a higher standard of security. It failed at the one and only thing it is supposed to do.
To be clear, is Thunderbolt the remains of LightPeak? Or is that still happening...
That's simply not the case because U.S. taxpayers can buy goods and services at cheaper prices. Sure, they might lose out on tax revenue, but their consumption -- and accordingly, standard of living -- grows because they can spend more on more goods. GDP grows as a result.
Even if they can't convert the bitcoins to dollars, it's a cheap promotion and lead-gen tool.
He's still the Chairman. I don't have any real information, but, from what we know publicly, no, betting against MS isn't betting against Bill since his involvement doesn't seem significant at this point.
You can see their transactions with Bitcoin Block Explorer:

http://blockexplorer.com/address/1PC9aZC4hNX2rmmrt7uHTfYAS3h...
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Thunderbolt is LightPeak.
I graduated in December, but we were:

Cal Poly SLO, Computer Science - Fedora
I'll be sure to look into exactly how Apture works -- and, if possible, I'll make it work inside of Readable's overlay too.
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It's not ignorance, they know full well what they are doing, generating traffic for their site.
"This is the oldest, yet often useless, criticism in the world."

And criticizing people for pointing out that correlation does not imply causation is the newest, yet often useless, criticism in the world.

Read the context of my statement again. The comment to which I was replying called it "a verifiably sound strategy". Sounds a little strong when the only presented evidence does not control for factors like parents' income (or f0, ... fi as you call them).

Maybe some such evidence does control for those factors, but the evidence presented did not.
I agree somewhat with that. I can't place my finger on it, but there's something I don't like about growth needing to be the norm... but that's a whole new topic.

Regardless, the opportunity for profit is why people purchase public shares of a company. Profit can only be made by an increase in share price (assuming no splits) or dividend payout (i think).

EDIT: realized there are many other ways to make money (sell short, derivatives based on price volatility, etc) but i think my point is still valid that the shareholders of a company want growth in share price or they'll invest their money elsewhere.
Unless the logo is extremely bad it won't effect conversation, and it's more important to be able to change parts of the rest of the graphics cheaply for ab testing purposes than devine the result initially (a great design can improve conversation say 15% better than the result from one of those sites, but that can be done with a few an tests).
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Well, what looks like? The evidence presented doesn't control for many factors which would intuitively be likely to matter, such as parents' income.

I didn't take "looks like" as a mere hedge on the claim, because the poster clearly said "verifiably sound".
Yes, I didn't need an analogy. I wanted to know why, in a secure house which presumably had cameras and sign in sheets, why couldn't they review the video tapes to see if someone had actually taken the keys or not. (to extend your analogy)
What advantages does this have over the built-in SQLite?
If Bill Gates moved to a run down neighborhood in Compton or Watts, that neighborhood would then have a very high per capita income.

Median income is a more useful measure than per capita income.
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I was actually hoping that they would build a small, low-power GPU into the Cinema Display so that I can daisy chain five off them off a Macbook Air and have each provide its own "graphics card" over Thunderbolt.
That'll last as your product list grows...
I'll look into this, maybe I can fix it.
Correct - the term used is "fully burdened cost per employee". The general rule of thumb is to multiply salary by 1.25 - 1.5.
It took your wife two days to verify her account by email, or login from a previous location?
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I use lastpass and 1password. FWIW, I the guys at AgileBits did a pretty reasonable job of not gaming lastpass's bad day. They did a blog post about a relevant detail of their own security, which really seems like a reasonable thing to do on a day like that.

http://blog.agile.ws/2011/05/defending-against-crackers-pean...
The link is dead for me, but googling what others quoted yields this Guardian article from 2008:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.compu...
Absolutely agreed. Social, political, and moral issues are just red herrings. Workers only care about two things: 1) How much they make and 2) How much economic freedom their employers have.
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I've actually been seeing little kids with iPads more and more. Specifically, I saw a child in a baby chair deftly playing an educational game on the iPad. It struck me how different this generation will be, growing up with touch devices that are always connected to the internet.

(I also thought about how awesomely huge an iPad must be to a small child. I estimate the relative size would be holding an iPad that's a few feet wide)
You're being downvoted but you are right.

Logo designs that look trendy have failed. A logo that looks stupid 2 years on is a waste of money.
(Atlanta native) I agree with you about Atlanta on everything except 2 things.

1) The weather here can get kinda crazy. Schizophrenic even, one day it could be 80, then 50 or 30 then 70. Mostly when the seasons change, and it can get really hot 80+ all summer (which I personally love as a southern native. I just spent at summer in California last year and found out that alot of people don't though). And in the winter we have a few really cold days but its mostly 30s.

2) If you are living in the suburbs crime rate is low to negligible, the city is another story.

But aside from that on cost of living, tolerance, etc. you are very correct.

Just thought I would share
This is getting a little absurd trying to argue with you since it seems like I would have to break down economic concepts to you because I know you do not come from an economics background.

Any economic index, regardless of its source, will show that freer trade shows more economic growth. Singapore surpasses Ireland in terms of economic growth; also, Ireland adopted more free market principles to achieve its growth when it started to privatize its industries. All the countries you mention that have high GDP per capita and high GDP growth have high economic freedom scores.

Trying to argue against freer trade for economic growth is like trying to argue with someone who says the Earth isn't round. China, India, Poland, Russia, etc., etc., grew their economies rapidly by moving to privatization and eliminating barriers to trade. Economists across the aisle support free trade; for example, read Paul Krugman's views on free trade in his Wikipedia entry (or research Goolsbee's, Geithnner's, Stglitz's, DeLong's, Sach's, Summers', etc, etc, etc, -- not to mention the plethora of economists' from across the other aisle -- views on free trade's effects on economic growth). This concept is not even debated anymore among the world's leading economists.
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I'm looking for creative ideas in fundraising and awareness. Either actual charitable causes or companies/organizations that facilitate charitable causes.

Specifically anyone using the web to innovate the process.

Thanks -
If anybody else wants to play around with 3d game development turbosquid ( briefly mentioned in the article) is a great way to start.

If you can spare it, play around with blender for a week and you should be able to make simple models (ships, guns, etc) and tweak more complex ones.
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In which case Kaspersky is already being untruthful, which is hardly surprising, considering they sell a competing product. I would expect more honesty when a company reports on it's own game: if you understand full well how subtle things are, then let your reporting reflect that.
So did you measure their median income? Bermuda still comes as one of the highest in the world.
Hanlon's razor[1]. They may very well believe that what they are writing is true. Most people don't engage in dishonesty easily, but they are quick to fool themselves into believing they aren't being dishonest.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlons_razor
I think that clients vary in their preferences. I would usually have a very granular template (i.e. broken down into little chunks), and I would directly ask the prospect, "What level of detail would you prefer in this quote?" Then I would adjust the quote accordingly, because I think you will find that more detail is not always better for some clients that prefer to pay lump sums, but the opposite will also apply.
http://guides.macrumors.com/Mac_Pro_Buyer%27s_Guide is a reasonable resource (not sure if you're already aware of it?)

Time since last update aside, I reckon a June release timed to coincide with that of the new version of Final Cut Pro ( http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/04/12/apple_unveils_... ) would make a lot of sense.
While I wouldn't go as far to call it BS.
I agree with your argument.

I believe we need better laws that will ensure the freedom rather than modifying the system. In all other aspects of human life, we have relied on legal system to achieve economies of scale, while preserving our freedom. We dont grow our own food, or manufacture our own drugs, rather we rely on oversight of FDA etc. Sure the system isn't perfect but still its better than having a farm in your backyard and a chemical plant in your basement.

We need a legal revolution to address issues posed by rapidly evolving technology.
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I went looking for the trends in previous years.

In 2007, "Rubber bands" were cool. http://www.logolounge.com/article.asp?aid=hjP

In 2008, "Loops"
http://www.logolounge.com/article.asp?aid=knW

In 2009, "3D curls"
http://www.logolounge.com/article.asp?aid=kfP

In 2010, such logos apparently became uncool. ;)

In 2011, these logos were back in style again, as "Banded"
http://www.logolounge.com/article.asp?aid=lnPf

I'm not denying that trends in design exist, but they tend to be much slower than year by year. This type of article is just about establishing Logolounge's brand.
Does LastPass know my passwords?
If so, why it needs to know my passwords?

I thought that my passwords are encrypted on my computer with master password known only to me, but same master password leaves my computer every time I log in to LastPass site via their website.

Could someone point me to where it is detailed how they manage without knowing my password or where it is explained why they need to know it?
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grep is Select-String

diff is an alias for Compare-Object so if you tried it, you should have seen it do something. But unlike actual diff it operates on objects rather than files, so you need to gc (Get-Content) the files you want to compare.

sed/awk: string manipulation is built-in to PowerShell, but sed's in-place file editing is replicated by piping Get-Content into Set-Content. Sometimes more verbose, sometimes not.

I personally don't see what value PowerShell would bring to other platforms, given they already have huge swathes of scripts written in well-developed (or at least well-discussed) languages and command-line tools for system administration are plentiful. But why would you bother using Perl when you already have Ruby? Obviously some people will take the choice if they know it.
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From a security perspective Thunderbolt is one of the worst things that can happen.

Imagine being a speaker at a conference where you use your own laptop for a presentation and where (at some point in the future) the projector only has a Thunderbolt interface. Are you going to connect your laptop? If you do the projector has basically full access to your laptops memory - and therefore full control over your laptop. Even if you use disk encryption this does not help, as the key is still stored somewhere in memory.

I think that if there's one thing that we've learned in the past two decades it's that physical interfaces should try to provide a little bit of security. With Thunderbolt, all security is traded for a little bit of additional performance.
> I don't understand why so many people write like this

I always assume it's because they are pretentious wankers trying (and failing) to sound impressive.
You don't have to write a fully functional HTTP server to
better understand how HTTP requests work.

However, that is exactly what the OP is advocating. He is complaining that 'kids these days' don't first write their own ORM layer, templating system and MVC framework.

I agree with your parent and call BS on that attitude. You don't need to handwrite a BIOS in microcode before you can say you understand how it works and call yourself 'a real coder'.

Newbies simply need to practice, practice, practice. Whether they are gluing stuff together or designing large, important components from scratch is irrelevant. You don't need to write an ORM layer to be able to get a very thorough understanding of how it works, simply by using one and reading it's code (which you will have to do anyway if you want to do anything nontrivial).
The use of the infinity symbol seems really confusing. I would think a circle with midnight mapped to the top and noon to the bottom would make for a considerably more natural mapping. I'd find myself confused by the twist in infinity switching up whether clockwise or counter represented the flow of time.
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We are seeing a rapid migration away from Microsoft's product in the consumer space.

Are we? They have the fastest selling consumer electronics product in history, the Kinect. Windows 7 is selling faster than any version of Windows to date. Office 2010 is selling better than any version of Office.

Consumers never used MS phones. Consumers never used MS MP3 players. Consumers never bought MS tablets.

What we're really seeing is that as certain market segments move to the consumer space, MS hasn't been adopted. So there's no migration away from MS. Rather MS isn't finding as many new markets in the consumer space. But they haven't really lost ground in the consumer space.
The submission is only the first sentence of an article and a link - here is the actual article: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/canonical-ubuntu-linux...
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Never heard it before. I actually paused and came back to look at the comments here before continuing just to make sure I wasn't crazy.
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I don't really understand where the term "Walmart disease" comes from. Certainly, Walmart is not an exciting company but it's far from poorly managed. The fact that it's stock has been in a holding pattern for a few years does not mean that it's future is bleak.

Walmart as a company has incredible focus at their core competency. It may be true that they've come close to saturating their market but they still do what they do better than anyone else. Microsoft has saturated their core markets, are losing ground in their core business, and have no idea where they're going to go in the future. But hey if they throw enough money at everything they might hit something...

The one thing they do have going for them is that they still have an incredibly smart collection of engineers. If they somehow find a way to get some leadership at the top, they could turn it around much the way Apple was able to turn it around once Jobs retook the reins.
I have also created one bitcoin iPhone app which Apple rejected: https://github.com/kangasbros/BitcoinWatch-iPhone

It is a just very simple app for following mtgox USD rate/market depth/last trades.
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Why do you find midnight at the top more natural? I find the author's choice more natural as it reflects the apparent position of the sun.
Rss was just a transitional technology. Twitter and Facebook have made it far easier for normal people to get news updates, and for developers there are API's. RSS will live on for podcast delivery (at least until apple dropsre-invents" podcasting) but other than that, let's just let RSS rest in peace.
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What makes you think the projector "has access to all your memory" any more than any random card has? That's simply not true, and completely depends on the driver. Maybe the projector can get your computer to hang or crash, but it seems to me that building security feature into this isn't very hard, even without sacrificing performance.
Seems reasonable for the Mac Pros. But for MacBook Pros, they just updated the line, so the next revision is probably going to be a 2012 thing.
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In a previous startup I spent a long time talking to TOM about taking our product into the Chinese market. It comes down to them knowing people, and they are very very good at what they do and very reasonable. I have no doubt that because of the culture in the country and the way that business is done that having somebody like TOM would be a huge gain for Google. Kai Fu-Lee was supposed to be that, but he left. You can't really send Americans out there to establish a business
The problem with this article is that it is based on an incorrect thesis, which is that MS revenue has stalled. It hasn't. See:

http://ycharts.com/companies/MSFT/revenues_ttm#zoom=5

MS revenue has continued to climb to this very day, with only a drop during the recession. Outside of Apple, there aren't many companies that wouldn't take this type of revenue growth at this size.

The article makes a mistake a lot in the tech sector make which is that if MS isn't doing better than Apple then its in serious trouble. Doing worse than Apple is hardly an insult. There are probably no more than a couple of companies in the world that are doing better than Apple. Yet, there are few F500 companies that can match MS's revenue/profit growth -- yet almost all can beat its market cap growth.
> ignorant people

Aren't the ones writing "headlines". They are the one's reading and believing "headlines" without understanding.
If it were his IP getting taken, would he really need the government to tell him not to do that?