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The WAK header you linked to looks reminds me of a primitive version of NSStringDrawing.h. It is entirely possible that WAK is legacy and/or the drawing for WebCore is handled outside of WebCore itself.

Or maybe there is some common code within WebCore that is shared between Mac and iOS, and one of the files needs to import the WAK headers to compile correctly?

While it is fun to get worked up into a frenzy, I doubt this is an LGPL violation.
No, the issue that is bugging me is the one that I actually articulated. I have a FOAF file, I'm disappointed it hasn't taken off, and I sometimes use OpenID.

a) I'm not asking you to work out my address/zip from my IP.

b) If I had javascript disabled then that would be a problem, but since I don't then I'm OK with you putting things inside the script tag.

c) How do you know what's painful for me? You're not my parents, and I didn't ask you to protect me from my own browser settings. I especially don't appreciate it when features that I spent time configuring (like autocomplete) fail to work because you think you know what is good for me.
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Excellent point, and I can't help but agree.

I guess my view on it is a bit skewed since with while pursuing an undergrad degree, it's hard to be taken seriously.

In most subject areas here, depending on the school, you'd need to get sponsored by an employer to have the schooling itself paid for. Unless you're on a full scholarship or having someone else pay it, you're subtracting 20-50K from that 54K salary.

That, and personally, I'm just not an academic. I learn faster on my own and from a blog or lynda.com than I do from an actual course...

Even now, I'd either pursue an MS for pure tech core knowledge to build bleeding edge tech around or a top 10 MBA -- but that would be purely to meet and work with the individuals that worked hard enough to get to the same point.

Given the scenario you've outlined however, that sounds like a perfect setup. It'd be even more perfect if one could study something in the field related to their startup project and learn subject matter directly related to their business ventures 24/7
Fixed. I wrote the first draft of this April 10th, left it for a month as other things got on top of me and forgot to update the day part of the date field when I did the month. (Too late to fix the URL though, or Google Analytics, Disqus and Twitter will assume its a new page)
It is possible to be an accessory to a crime. If you plan a bank robbery and give the details to somebody else to perform, you're still guilty. Hell, you're still guilty even if you never perform the crime (conspiracy to commit ...)!

If you send a letter to a bank saying "I have found a breach in the kind of vault you use at your banks, I'm giving the details to some expert robbers but you can't have it unless you pay me $10m", with evidence you've done it, I'm pretty sure you will find yourself waking up at gunpoint at 6am, courtesy of the FBI.

Since unauthorised access of a computer is a crime in many places, I'm sure you can see the relevance, even if the consequences aren't as drastic. One hopes that we have misinterpreted this and that they have performed 'responsible disclosure' by telling Google all the details.
I don't think that is an appropriate generalisation, because you are drawing a similarity between the game theoretical outcome of properties on systems of rational actors and the outcome of properties due to random physical occurrences ('cosmic rays' etc...) and unintentional irrational behaviour ('human error').

While both can result in outcomes that are collectively undesirable, I don't think useful inferences can be made by making a vague generalisation by pointing to two different classes of system (especially not without defining the generalisation unambiguously and proving rigorously that it is always true).
> To this day, TV just absorbs me, I just can't stop watching.

Same here. Having grown up without much TV, I find it absolutely hypnotic when it's on, which is why keeping it off is critical to my productivity.

My not owning a TV isn't some form of elitism; I don't keep a TV in the house for the same reason a recovering alcoholic doesn't keep liquor in the house - I can't trust myself with it 24/7.

My question is - how do you maintain this discipline in the age of internet video on demand? As PG put it in his essay on distraction, I often feel like sometime in the last few years someone snuck in and put a TV on my desk.

I work from home much of the time, and that requires a fast, always-on internet connection. I've been reasonably successful at keeping my bad habits in check to date, but the temptation alone is a regular distraction.

I'd be very interested to hear how others deal with this.
Unfortunately, the dishonest minority has learned to disguise itself and move into enforcing things that benefit the state at the expense of the populations it feeds upon. With democracy and a lot of influence by government over the media, it can often even dupe those populations into thinking that the population is in control and are the beneficiaries.
For more specifics into the cognitive science behind why this is - another good book, which has lots of wonderful references to studies on this topic (amongst other things), is "Your Brain at Work" by David Rock. Or, for the general overview you can watch the Google Talk at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeJSXfXep4M
I appreciate your enthusiasm for correctness, but if I'm reading correctly, the essence of sktrdie's comment was trying to counter the group think that the idea of the article is in some way "bad", "satirical", or "wrong".

It may be that I only ever merit to use this pattern once every 10,000 lines, but that in no way makes the idea of calling with reference over primitive values incorrect. Readers should understand the difference between rare and never.
Hm. Let me remind everyone of a recent link here on HN: http://www.mobileinc.co.uk/2011/04/inspired-use-of-qr-code-o...
Copyright comes into existence the moment you create a work. You may do whatever you want with it. Society leaves it to your discretion.

Yours is a moot point.
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But if you go down the road of leaving it up to suppliers to secure against copying, you end up with ridiculous DRM systems.

Would you rather receive an un-DRM'ed mp3 in exchange for the promise that you won't make copies of it for everyone else, or receive a DRM'ed file that you are free to try and circumvent? Particularly for less tech-savvy people I think the unDRMed option is better.

(the third option is an unDRMed mp3 that we can legally copy and give to our friends, which you can have already as long as you stay away from the major record labels, but I don't see why the big industry players shouldn't be allowed to continue to use IP laws - no-one is forcing you to listen to their music/play their games/watch their movies).
Morality's purpose is to further human life, not result in the sacrifice of it.

Its quite ok to lie to a thief or to protect someone that you care about. Or even a random stranger.

These are exceptions but it is in the interest of those choosing to be honest with those who are honest with them to make such exceptions.

Giving the benefits of honesty to those who refuse to practice it is simply enabling the parasitism.
I've used Webby in the past: http://webby.rubyforge.org/ - you can use your current text editor to create content and it has rsync built in to copy the generated site to a server somewhere
Interesting quote:

"the most interesting set of companies is being built around smartphones and here, for the first time, Apple’s iOS doesn’t have the coolest apps"

And he goes to list a few Android-only apps that he seems to think are leading the way.
I'm confused. I thought ARM was just an architecture, completely unbound to any process technology. Is it not plausible that ARM dies will eventually be fabbed on tri-gate as well?

This article also makes it sound like Intel has a monopoly on 3D, but I believe I read elsewhere others are looking at it too, notably TSMC.
There will be more hardware acceleration to come for CSS3.
Gotta give Google, Apple, Mozilla, and Microsoft a high bar to shoot for.

Someone should gather all these cool demos for browser "certification."
America in 1860 may have been one of those places and times where most people believed slavery was a good thing:

http://www.civilwarhome.com/population1860.htm

Total Free Population	27,489,561
Total Slave Population	3,953,760
Grand Total	31,443,321

The freemen outnumbered the slaves in all but two states. And in any event, nobody asked the slaves.

As for the file being "just" data, so is a picture of a man with his mistress, or an email conversation, or a list of the books you purchased online, or a list of URLs you visited this year. You tell me: Is this all just "data?"

Are you good with the FBI/CSIS having all this stuff about you or any other citizen who is not being investigated with cause? I'm not, and furthermore I won't be tricked into some kind of reverse onus where I have to explain why it's a bad thing for the government to have this data just for the sake of having all this data. It's the other way around: The government should have to tell us, the people, why it needs this data. If it can't justify the collection of this data, it shouldn't collect it.

The reason why the onus is upon the government to prove why it needs the data and not on us to prove why we're entitled to some privacy is because humans have an unbroken track record for abusing information about each other, and governments even more so. To argue that somehow 2011 it is all going to be different is to argue that this month will be full of Sundays or that pigs have finally taken flight with their new wings.
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Yea, maybe "intangibles" was a bad choice of wording - what I meant was more along the lines of "unquantifiable", in the sense that it's not just more options or salary or maybe 401k matching. Branding and title would fit well along those lines.
This is what the "Debug Console" setting should be in the Safari->Developer menu.

iOS 5, maybe?
The source cited for the Gohmert quote on batteries is a joke site called rumormill.com.

I'm glad that dailykos checks their sources thoroughly.
Now if we could get every person educated and productive, we could solve tens of billions of problems. Unfortunately, most people are just trying to survive.
Quote from that link:

"There is some evidence, based on mitochondrial DNA, that the human race may have passed through a genetic bottleneck around this time, reducing genetic diversity below what would be expected from the age of the species. According to the Toba catastrophe theory proposed by Stanley H. Ambrose of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1998, human populations may have been reduced to only a few tens of thousands of individuals by the Toba eruption."
I think tax collection records are always one of the earliest examples of writing in a ancient language
You definitely misunderstood my point. While I wouldn't consider myself a new coder anymore, I've only been doing it 4 or 5 years, so I'm not complaining about odd these days not learning anything. I'm more speaking from my own experience. Most of the books I had stressed finding a library that already existed and using it for your purposes and when I showed people my early apps, there was a tendency for people to go "why didn't you just write a drupal plugin?", or "why didn't you use PDO?"

My point wasn't that people should do those things before anything else, but that there shouldn't be as much discouragement against it in code that's being written for fun or for learning. (Obviously production code is different and in that case relying on the tried and tested code is best)
Prophet (http://syncwith.us/) was originally talked about as a way to build a darknet or sneakernet. Perhaps some are still pursuing that, though the main public development has to do with building SD on top of it and using it for distributed bug tracking.

I'm sure you know usenet still exists. It's weird to hear it described in the past tense. :)
Why do you think slavery isn't voluntary? Why can't you sell yourself? Do you not own yourself? Why can't you enter into a contract to sell yourself for a particular period of time, or to a binding set of responsibilities, etc.? Many (I've read some accounts that say most) slaves in history were willing slaves, in that they faced destitution and starvation outside slavery. Part of the implied contract of becoming a slave would be that your owner would look after you. And he would have every incentive to, of course - he doesn't want his investment damaged.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_slavery etc.

I'm not familiar with the situation in all PIIGS, mostly just Ireland (I'm Irish). The money came from British, German, French banks, over the course of a decade. ECB was the source of emergency financing when the bubble collapsed; i.e. you have your order of events backwards.
For me, start small and work my way up to big tasks. If I try and do something big right away, I'll get distracted halfway through.
I so much second this!
> he essence of sktrdie's comment

Sure, however the first part of my comment is not intended to address the essence of their comment, so it has no bearing. What they said is incorrect, and in fact a common mistake and I wanted to correct it.

However, I'd also note that what sktrdie is describing is an Array (in Javascript an Array is just an object with numbers for property names and some helper methods).

As far as I can see there is absolutely zero benefit (and many drawbacks) in using the technique outline in the OP article as opposed to just using an Array.

You could get the same result by simply using an Array directly...or if you want to get fancy, add a few simple helper methods.

In this way (and perhaps others) the article is "bad" and "wrong".
I have one of those Chinese mp3 players (branded mp4 player), it had all these realistic icons that really made it look crap (besides the fact the interface was slow and clunky as well).
Thanks so much for that link.

I had been looking for a succinct article that explains the physical constraints on a Mars landing (for equipment only, say). It's safe to say nobody knows more about that problem than Rob Manning. The node in the discussion you refer to is:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2479398

As with most threads on this subject, commenters not reading TFA believe that the retro rocket solution is straightforward. TFA explains why it's not.
That band is a shared service.
Yea, when I said "afford it" I meant in time and money, which are both scarce in the startup space.

I was unaware of the possibility of an O-1 until the H-1B process failed for me, it was brought to my attention only recently..

It's good to know it's an option. Would you be willing to disclose some of the strategies you used to get the O-1? It seems very much geared towards traditional sciences and old media from looking at the criteria.
Browser bugs are found in every single browser on every single platform. They're reported for free, traded privately, sold privately, given to the vendor for a bounty, used to spread malware, discovered in American corporations, discovered in Iranian corporations, and more. There is nothing exceptional here. This is business as usual. It's non-trivial, but far from exceptional.
I'm not buying it yet. Removing the link to their bookstore is an easy change for Sony to make, but somehow the Sony Reader app isn't in the App Store (even though Sony's users want it badly).

I think it is equally possible that this is another false alarm and that the Dutch e-reader app slipped through because it wasn't high-profile. Hopefully this is at least a trial-balloon Apple is floating, but even if it is, I wouldn't count on it. As the article notes, Apple hasn't exactly been a model of consistency so far.
I'll do it, but to answer your question:

Is there a popular message board, or Facebook group for your city/state? You could try pick up someone from that. A person who participates in a community might make a good community manager but it all depends on how technical the role is.
>> The problem with politicians (in places where they are democratically elected) is that they are concerned only with short term solutions because they are only concerned with getting re-elected and scoring political points.

You are very naive. There are ppl with enormous amounts of money and power behind the TV politicians. And those ppl have long term plans how to increase their power and money.
Your comment sounds like FUD to me, for three reasons:

1) You haven't done your research, nor do you sound like an insider. Cocos2D is licensed liberally and a forked version could be used in closed-source commercial projects without any trouble. It took me under a minute to find the license. I think it's the MIT license. https://github.com/cocos2d/cocos2d-iphone/blob/master/LICENS...

2) It's based on fallacies. Just because it's possible doesn't mean it's likely. Companies often benefit from outside contributions to their open source projects. Releasing an open source project doesn't always mean it's significantly easier to replicate a company's business model.

3) It's useless. It's not a serious attempt at getting a fork going. It's also commenting on a career decision that's already been made.

Congrats to Ricardo, Zynga, and Cocos2D!
So, basically--you create a work, copyright attaches at the moment of creation (not actually correct, but close enough for this discussion), and then you get to do whatever you want with it. Society lets the creator decide.

Isn't that my position? You seem to be arguing the same side as me. Shouldn't one of us take the opposite side--I believe that is the customary way to argue. :-)
I agree that these are two ways to parse "The Selfish Gene" and the first one that you listed is more accurate, but what I don't like about the title is that is sounds a bit like an excuse that someone would use.

"Hey, that's just the way my genes made me : I'm selfish, okay, but that's, like, genetics, survival of the fittest so it's all fine and I don't have to feel bad about it ..."

The bad thing about the "Dishonest Minority" title is that is sounds like he's referring to a bunch of freeloaders who are abusing the system and ruining it for every honest tax-payer. From reading his excerpt, we know that it's not what he's saying at all. I like the shock value of using "Dishonest Minority", but sometimes book with titles like that nuance it by having a subtitle that goes like "How we all benefit from them" or something like that.
This is exactly my answer to why I don't watch TV. "It's not because I am good, it is because I am a filthy addict who can't handle it."
Thanks for the suggestion. This is already a planned feature; so look forward to seeing it sometime soon.
That's good news, though I can't help but think it might also be an HTML5 trial run to help figure out if "Kindle for Web" might be viable on iOS (in a worst-case scenario).
Thank you. It's ordered.
It just sounds to me like they are exploiting a size overflow in some kind of content - a 400MB image, video, sound, 400MB of self expanding Javascript ... I'm not sure how you can conclude only flash can take such memory.
I'll look into it, and see if i can fix that.
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Really? Even one from 2009 is pretty impressive.

http://9elements.com/io/projects/html5/canvas/
What school did you go to? Honestly, it really depends on the type of school you went to. I felt that most of my learning in college came from meeting other really bright and motivated people, which are in higher concentrations in some schools compared to others (note the phraseology -- I did not intend to argue that some schools are better than others)
You keep coming in with this notion of what's legal. That's my very point exactly; what's legal and not is external to the free market itself. It is imposed from without, constraining it, and is not intrinsic to it. Whether contracts for assassination, or prostitution, or raw milk, or cigars from Cuba, etc. are legally traded is a matter of degree, not some self-evident binary choice. All constrain free trade.

People arguing for free trade are generally arguing for a particularly scoped subset of "free" trade, but they take as a relatively unexamined assumption that free trade is inherently good. Usually, there is some trade in particular that they would like to pursue, and they fight laws that inhibit it using free trade as a rallying cry, as if it were a self-evident justification. My point is that free trade by itself is not intrinsically desirable, and that we do in fact want all sorts of limits on what people are free to trade in.
I just took a shower................nothing.
Sam's club is a subsidiary of wal-mart http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%27s_Club He was also executive vice president of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
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When I was first, first starting this transition, http://railsforphp.com/reference/ was helpful for the "What's Ruby's equivalent of this PHP method?"-type questions, because I was learning Ruby at the same time.
Anyone smart who is participating in potentially illegal activities would be particularly careful about using proxies for sensitive work; and planning is definitely sensitive

I'm not sure why you assume they're smart. Most of 'em are probably about fifteen years old.
evidence of skullduggery I'd accept.
Is there no link to the service from this blog post? I hope I'm just missing it...
Lispers know the value of everything, but the cost of nothing
Given enough time, it could be written as a haiku. Don't count on me though, I'm afraid my version would be an anti-ku of the worst kind.
If VUPEN found the vulnerability, the work around is to pay VUPEN in order to patch your codebase. Pretty simple, theoretically.

If you don't have access to the codebase (like a Safari or MSIE bug), then you pay VUPEN to disclose a firewall filter, or some other kind of deep packet inspection to disallow the code required to execute the vulnerability on your network. Again, pretty simple, in theory.

VUPEN plays a pretty tight game. The only way to get in on their action is money. You know this though, and I doubt our opinions differ on the matter. Unlike opensource, full-disclosure GitHub junkies, some people find enjoyment in financially benefiting on everything they stumble across. Just another side of the coin, and the argument about that topic is best left for other sites. :)