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"is actively pursuing those within its perceived jurisdiction" Last I checked, only Spain had the (very-limited) self-given authority to do that, mostly to chase down genocidal dictators (and since the Hague I think it's inactive)

UK judges already have the ability to judge whether the crime deserves deportation, but the UK-US agreement isn't at all even, and probably skips this. Germany wanted someone, but he hadn't broken a UK law so he didn't go. Personally I hope he is able to take this to some higher court like the Supreme court (formerly house of lords) and take out the uneven bits of the UK-US agreements.
It does for me. Maybe the host went down for a few minutes?
Danilo, technically speaking I am the same camp as the women. In fact I think they are more women in tech holding executive positions than African-Americans, let alone African (which I am). I did not grow up playing with a Commodore 64, all the way up to my first year in university in Dakar (capital of Senegal) I had never heard anyone I knew wanting to become a software engineer. So today I am not going to write or support articles about how we do not have enough black men on the board of leading tech companies.
You're right, but that doesn't make the advice any less valid.

It's my site, but it's just an off-the-shelf wordpress theme I'm using. What do you think can be improved about the UI of the site, aside from the comments form which I'll fix tonight?
That sounds like a really, really bad idea. No one likes the idea of Germany or France taking over other European countries. We've been there...
* Why do you want my first and last name? Hell, why do you mandate those? You don't need them and my email address is more than enough to reply.

* Provide a straight mailto link. Your contact form blows, your text boxes are not resizable if my browser does not provide an UI override I can't keep a full communication log on my side. When you reply in three weeks forgetting to quote half my query, there is no way I'm going to remember what I typed in your contact form.
Yes, with the notable exceptions of the designers of like, every successful social network ever.
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Maybe they tolerate that behaviour as long as not everyone is doing it. There's probably some automatic way of detecting people cheating the system and suspending the accounts automatically.
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See also the full set of language benchmarks: http://attractivechaos.github.com/plb/

Interesting to see V8 performing so well on speed in all benchmarks. JaegarMonkey seems to use 4x less memory in the matrix multiplication benchmark though!
I intended no rudeness. It merely seems to me that saying that someone who failed to be stopped by the glass ceiling "sidestepped" something is like saying Chuck Yeager "sidestepped" the sound barrier. They didn't sidestep it, they played by the rules and broke it.

Anyway, let me attempt to convey my general point again: The way I see it there are exactly 2 basic ways advancing. Nepotism, and combinations of luck/hardwork/getting noticed.

I don't know anyone who suggests that there is a glass ceiling preventing women from taking advantage of nepotism. Rather, every explanation of the glass ceiling theory that I have had presented to me boils down to in some way: luck/hardwork/getting noticed doesn't work for women.

Sandberg worked hard, got noticed, and arguably got a little lucky. Bypassing the glass ceiling would be to utilize nepotism but she went clear through it.

Perhaps it does exist, but Sandberg shows it's certainly not impermeable.

edit: s/wall/ceiling/
What if Google pitched Google+ to Dave McClure?
Re: sovereignity, I still can't believe it, but apparently Euro Group president Jean-Claude Juncker has suggested just that. http://www.independent.ie/business/european/greece-will-pay-...
As we turned into Ketchum, Ernest said quietly: “Duke, pull over. Cut your lights.” He peered across the street at a bank. Two men were working inside. “What is it?” I asked.

“Auditors. The F.B.I.’s got them going over my account.”

You're telling me the FBI were in that bank? And even if by some billion to one shot they were in that bank, you're telling me they were auditing his account?

Whatever.
MIT == Academia, New Jersey == Real World. That's all this debate has ever truly been about.

"The right thing" in any particular situation is whatever results in a working system. Economics dictate that perfection rarely wins. There's a reason Unix came out of Bell Labs.
Regarding encryption. Google+ with such a plugin wouldn't fix the fundamental problem. We don't need "encryption for geeks", we need "encryption for everyone".

Until we have a social network where every message posted is only viewable by the sender and the intended recipients, there will always be room for improvement.
Bravo. Well said! I especially liked "Learn a new language, or a new paradigm, and change how you see the world."

I believe the key to life lies in your ability to continually change how you see the world. To continually expand your perspective, grow with epiphany, and raise your level of awareness. As Alan Kay is fond of saying, "A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points."
Google+ => Facebook killer

Prizes.org => Quora killer
I read this recently:

> That fewer young people are trying drugs in Portugal may be the case (“Radical drug law could be imported to Britain”, April 22). But this simply reflects a Europe-wide trend, nowhere more evident than in the United Kingdom. The alarming Europe-wide increase in young people’s illicit drug use between 1995 and 2003 has come to a halt and is decreasing — in Portugal by rather less than the European average.

http://dpnoc.ca/2011/05/01/portugal-drug-direction-praised-f...

Now I'm fairly skeptical of any article of this sort written by someone from an organization who has "oppose legalization of drugs" as one of their principles, but I've checked some of their facts against the UNODC World Drug Report and they seem sound. Now either I'm missing something, or the UNODC report is wrong, or there's something else not being taken into account. Can anyone shed some light?
What should I do with my life?
I'm 20. Never finished high school, did several years of classes at community colleges I took just for fun (mostly art, science, and math). I really just breathed through most of my classes there, and usually would come stoned, just to hangout (and still end up passing classes most of the time). Somehow college seemed like a better alternative to sitting at home watching stupid movies.

Worked as a software engineer (Flash/C++) for some time, then was like "fuck it", quit, started freelancing/studying art.

Now, I don't know what to do. My lack of degree or specialization makes me feel like I have less of an identity. I don't know what to put in my Facebook profile.

I always feel like a drug-addled high-school drop-out, who burned his mind so much he'll end up homeless on the street. Like one of those crazy people who talk about aliens all the time, and such. But then I remember I actually worked recently, and still am able to catch freelance positions, and live without parents' support, and I'm like "whoa, I'm sooo far from a homeless drug-addict and I'm only 20".

I just.. I don't know. Ever since I quit my job I feel like I've lost direction in life and just stumble aimlessly, drawing things, coding JavaScript/C++ for clients that never pay, and generally asking myself "what the fuck am I going to be when I'm 30".

I'm probably a bit of an oddball, hence why I can't understand what will happen to me.

Am I going to be in jail? But why, I don't deal drugs, or kill people, or drive drunk.

Am I going to be dead? Probably not.

Am I going to be married? I don't know.

I guess it's hard to see into the future, but I kind of wish there was more stability in my life.

Is everybody like this or is it just me?

PS. Oh, common, no one notices I put "jail, dead, married" in one comparison? :)
Thank you for reviewing my app.

The front page is just a design I hacked together where as the dashboard once you get in is a paid theme I got from themeforest.net. I will go and do the same for the public facing site.

Thanks for mentioning the confusing upgrade, I will go and redesign the page to make it clearer, I am obviously not communicating very well.

With regards to the 2 grayed out buttons, that is because they are not available yet. But split tests have shown that with them there the signups increase, because having the more expensive options there (even though still under dev) makes the cheaper ones look more valuable. (it's an interesting psychology lesson learnt a while back.

Thanks again for taking the time to review the site.
Jobs could go anywhere and get top talent. His ability to lead is also his ability to recruit. I'm not saying he doesn't bring other things to the table, but I'd say that a good percentage of it is recruiting.

I'm inclined to agree with you, but the problem with that claim is that it is practically unfalsifiable. Nobody has or is going to try an experiment where they put someone like Jobs elsewhere and deliberately constrain his recruitment access only to average or slightly mediocre people. So, we can assume it's because dynamic, powerful leaders attract good talent, but I don't think there's a solid empirical basis for that without consistently studying what happens when they are specifically denied good talent.
It is back in discussion for html5, so may yet happen.
There is no need to save the home location with the time.

If you save the UTC date of the event, the localized date for some timezone can be extrapolated from it.
UTC is enough for - as the article suggests - storing a date.

Storing a recurring class of dates is - of course - more complicated; but then has anyone ever suggested otherwise?
Agreed, why do you think this is?
It was a pun. However, let me explain it a bit.

The FTP protocol uses plain text. Taking into account that it is most frequently deployed by web hosting companies, that lack of encryption implies a real risk for everyone.

It's not a rocket science to launch a network sniffer in an airport, a Starbucks or any other shared network, and capture the FTP credentials of a designer making quick changes to client's ecommerce site.

What makes it really bad is that nearly all web apps today include full database credentials, enabling an attacker to either wipe out the data or just copy it.

As we have already learned many times, the passwords are rarely stored securely, and users tend to routinely reuse their passwords. A database of any moderately succesful service makes it really easy to get access to hundreds of email, or Facebook, accounts.

Of course, this is just an example. There are few other attack vectors relying on that inherent weakness of the FTP protocol.

While it is not a backdoor technically, it comes pretty close to it, as it provides an effortless method to gain an unauthorized access.

In the past, FTP daemons were buggy and used to run as a root, making them pretty handy to exploit. Now, with privilege separation enabled, it's much better for the administrators but regular users are still at risk.

FTP tweaks, like FTP-SSL, are nice in theory but, in practice, they are provided as an option, some FTP clients do not support them, and they do not work well with many standard firewall configurations, due to the secondary data connection port.
If you need page stability you can refer to the items at the top of the page not the page numbers, the nice thing about rest is they are still just next and prev links.
How is it not a gendered issue? Women are generally expected to be the primary childcare providers, and if you can't afford a nanny, the wife is going to be the one who does most of the childcare.
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Me to... I think it was pushed out to me in personalized search when an item I was searching for was recommended by my twitter handle.
Programming boils down to paying attention to details. C is an extremely small, simple, predictable and malleable [] language that makes you painfully aware of that fact. For me, it is a pleasure to read well-written C code, for example the NetBSD kernel. There's a lot to learn there about elegance and good design.

[] malleable in the sense of bottom-up programming and defining your own "vocabularies". When I develop in C (and C++) I usually solve the problems 75% bottom-up and 25% top-down. With bottom-up approach, it is easy to stay focused at the problem at hand and write mostly bug-free code. The "top-down" bits just put pieces of the puzzle together.
I guess it depends in how you measure those things.
A quote I like is: "What one faces in his/her life is destiny. How he/she faces it is personal choice". We are what we make ourselves into. With our last breath we stop fighting for our goals.
She is not more or less successful than one fighting to make her monthly wage. She was in a different playground, that's all. If she fought well to get where she is, good for her. If not, well there is not much there for a hacker to admire, is there?
No precedent? I assume you know of MySpace and the like so what do you mean there is no precedent to Facebook? Or do you mean to a product that has 750 million active users?
i couldn't agree more with the sentiments captured here. it's critical to help users experience some satisfaction, to help them achieve their goal as quickly as possible, without presenting tangential tasks. user patience is virtually non-existent.
Dude, you're 20. Go back to school and get a freaking diploma. Take those 4 years to figure out what the hell you want with your life. After that you will be.. what... 24?

Life haven't even started yet kid.
What do you expect? To implement syntax highlighting, you basically need a full parsing and lexing engine, and you need to communicate with the actual editor so that it knows how to color and lay out the source code.
Could you be more specific about this? I've seen this argument several times, and it always seemed flawed to me.

Let's say you cut the budget by X. Part of this X (X') doesn't get invested in money making enterprises any more, and less money goes back as taxes (X" less money).

Now, unless the economy is super efficient, I'd say X > X' > X". And given the realities of public government, usually X >> X".

How is then any better to borrow X just to get back X" (and still owe X), then to simply lose X"?
I was like that when I was 20, except for the art stuff. I write code, that's what I'm good at, everything else is uninteresting, therefore I fail at it horribly.

Nevertheless, ten years later, I have a good job, which I absolutely love, and even when I leave home, I can barely wait the next morning so I can come back in and work. (Ok, it's not THAT bad, but you get the idea!)

And whenever I ask myself "what the hell am I going to do when I'm 40?", I know the answer: I'll still be working here, still be loving it. Perhaps I'll have a mid-length tie by then, perhaps not - I'm not worried.

Life, and jobs aswell, has its ups and downs. Starting a career is usually a bit of a downhill ride at first, but don't worry, once you find that one thing you were meant to do, these questions about the future will vanish.
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UTC is enough if we have a single instance of an event. If we have a concept of recurring event ("this event will occur on every Monday 9am"), then it's not enough.

I just wanted to highlight that "time" is a human concept that in informal setting means a lot of things, but when you start to model it formally, it can be more complex than a single timestamp.
Diploma in what? I'm all over the place, and I can't just choose one area of study. What if I want to study art but the diploma will be useless? What if I want to study business but end up writing TPS reports for 100 hours a week at Wall Street? What if I want to study math but will end up hating whatever it is I studied.

The possibilities frighten me and excite me at the same time.
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And humans have been endowed with brains to get around instinct controlled behavior that is not useful.
<i>"this is useless for anyone other than the author"</i>

I thought we had gone over this: EVERYBODY LEARNS MATHEMATICS DIFFERENTLY :)

This book is useless for you and wonderful for me.
Julian Date FTW! Seriously, JD is much smaller than Unix time, so it's less wasteful of numeric range for most practical purposes. And its use would eliminate a barrier between the computing world and that of science.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day
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I'm not sure how easy it is to learn something new from those notes, but they are probably the greatest calculus refresher I've seen so far.
Maybe nobody explicitly suggested otherwise, but I just wanted to highlight that time is a human concept and in informal context can mean a lot of different kinds of things (e.g. a time of recurring event). When you start formally modeling those, a single timestamp isn't enough.
I have something personal against spec work, and this site seems to be all about it. It's sad that this kind of behavior is becoming more standard. But, what can one do if not educate future professionals not to take it.
Another thing to add: When asking people to put in the timezones, don't ask them for a UTC/GMT offset, and the dates that DST starts/ends. Instead ask them for the tzdata format (e.g. "Europe/London"). Then you can localize that wherever you want.
Wait, so writing code is actually interesting for you? That's funny. I always thought of it as 'means to the end', something you had to do, like paying taxes to the machine in order for it to animate your stuff and make it do things.
Hah! Exactly.

There is one that I can recommend, for the record, at least for C++:

Qt's QMake.
How on Earth is that affordable to them? I get that they need money now, but they can't expect to be in a better position to repay in 2 years.

They aren't actually paying that. Since the EU/ECB/IMF gave them all that money they have a nest egg and don't have to go to the market and sell more bonds.

AFAIK the 26% is from secondary sales, people who bought a bond before and now, in order to sell it on, have to offer a high rate.

However if the EU/ECB/IMF money runs dry, and they need to go back to the bond market, then this is the rate they would pay. As you said, that's impossible. So if the EU/ECB/IMF money runs dry, they'll default.
Yes, we have. Germany took over Eastern Germany just 2 decades ago and paid huge amounts of money to get the East to a more or less equal level. The result is that the old communists that had destroyed Eastern Germany, today still get over 30% of the votes by people without memory.

Its no use to help people from the outside. People must learn to run their own countries themselves.

In the case of Greece, they have to learn to not cheat to get money from Europe (like they did to get into the Euro Zone) and to pay taxes if they want that the government does stuff. Especially the wealthier people in Greece seem to be extremely selfish in that regard.
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I hate first-name last-name fields.

Chinese (among others) have their names ordered "Family-name, middle-name, given-name". And some cultures have only one name. And you just know that it's going to go into a terribly localized "Dear Mr. X" template". And unicode characters will probably get truncated out.

Here's an alternative: Full name, Short name (optional), Formal name (optional).
I really doubt that this is Google property. If it was, the first thing to expect would be to sign up/in with my Google account.
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Don't feel bad about not having a destination it's not an indicator of anything but you being 20.

Spend the next 10 years learning stuff. Do what you feel like even if it means you will change area of interest every 6 months, even if it means you want to learn knitting.

What will happen is that you will learn how to learn. And that is going to be more beneficial than having a degree.

Enjoy the ride but for frogs sake.... quit the weed.
Any woman who chooses to spend the majority of her waking hours engaging in non-work activities did so knowing full well it will probably harm her career.

If she didn't want to do this, she could have freely chosen to a) not have children or b) have children with an unambitious man willing to become a full time parent.

If you want to argue that women are somehow "defective" because they prefer children to careers, be my guest. But it is dishonest to call it a glass ceiling - that phrase usually implies it's something inflicted on her by other people.
If you've got some coding skills and some art skills then I'd suggest you think about working in the computer games industry where these things tend to collide. You'll probably need some maths but you could probably study that.

I don't think it's just you. When I was 20 I had a really hard time knowing what I was going to do next (in fact, when I was about 22 I had a real crisis about how I was going to get through the next year because I felt so lost).

I would suggest that you do a couple of things: feeling lost can be a real drain on your ability to see clearly, so you might want to find a counsellor of some sort to talk things through. I'm not suggesting that there's something wrong with you, but my experience is that in life it can be hard to explain to someone you know all the thoughts you are having and it's easier to explain to someone neutral. I've been through that and it does help. It's not a magic bullet but it helps.

Secondly, have you thought about producing something yourself? For example, perhaps you have an idea for a mobile phone app (or game) that you could produce to show off your skills (and perhaps make some money).
I like the notes.It makes it easier to grab the concepts. After going through notes i will dig deeper in the concepts.
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You can apply this reasoning to any decision you want to make and talk yourself out of it immediately. But even then at the end of the day you have to make a decision. Why not back yourself to succeed and commit to it for a while. You can always change course later on. Life is all about experiences and learning from ones mistakes. Good luck to you.
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The EU, unlike the USA, is much less centrally controlled, and has much less tax raising powers. In fact, it has none. We have 'european taxes' or 'federal taxes' here in EU.

So one country can do crazy things with it's finances, and the other countries can't really stop it.
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After the first 10 I disabled everything that seemed like it would cause these emails, but no change.

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