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Why do you need to cancel the full account? Can't you simply turn off the services that you no longer want to use?
Due to its seriousness, it certainly is not a label to be bandied about lightly, but that's entirely besides the point in this case.

I was talking about whether people who get offended at actual, real cases of racism are "backwards" or not.
>Unless it's supported by a legal framework, racism is a self-defeating phenomenon.

It's more complicated than that. Substitute legal framework with 'cultural normative behaviour' and we end up at a different position.

I just highly doubt there's a lack of women or black people physically capable of being engineers.
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How would Chrome OS replace Android? Android might adopt "omg webapps" but that seems about it.
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I have noticed a popular aversion to "fork", and I don't quite understand it. It uses the "copy on write" technique, and it seems very fast in my benchmarks. For example, I have a benchmark where I can spawn 1000 or more processes right from the command line, all banging away on shared files with locking, and it all seems very fast and stable, every time. I don't even bother with pre-forking. But I do make heavy use of "Keep-Alive", with appropriate guards against abuse under heavy load. I'm a big fan of the simplicity of fork and blocking I/O, but I'm sure other people have different requirements and constraints they might want to share here.
a situation that hardly any developer ever finds himself in

"To a worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."

(Sorry, have actual work to do today, so I'm going to reply mainly in epigrams where I can. ;)

pass myself off as... a business problem solver

Nobody is suggesting that. You don't pretend to solve problems for your business. At least, the business doesn't think so. They pay you. They don't pay people just for fun. They obviously think you're solving some kind of problem, right now.

Even within the seventh layer of a nine-layer bureaucracy, your peers have a problem that they are paying you to solve. Figure out what it is and learn to talk about that.

This needn't be self-aggrandizement, either. "I am one of ten interchangeable members of the QA team that keeps our customers happily renewing their subscriptions by finding bugs before they even see them" is fine. You needn't claim to walk on water all by yourself. People like loyal team players.

If you find that you can't talk about your problem without feeling dirty: That's a data point. If part of the job is "follow orders without thinking like a good little interchangeable part", that's a data point. If you discover that the problem you're solving is "win our division's internal war against the Other Division, customers be damned", you have a data point. If you come to the conclusion that you are in fact paid to cause problems, but the company can't figure that out because the intervening tangle of bureaucracy is disguising the fact, that's a data point. Try to keep doing your job well, but as the data points accumulate, and depending on your personality, you may find that other jobs are calling.
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Some missiles run a proprietary operating system for which one has to buy a license per missile. I always found it funny that those instances of the OS were going to destroy themselves.
The interesting thing about CouchDB is that it's actually more like an HTTP storage and query API/protocol than a particular database implementation.

As you've noted, there's lots of implementations and variants, platform targets and hosted services. What ties them all together is that you can point your CouchDB client library (or curl! :-P) at any of them, and be off and running.

While having a tip of the spear with a consistent message, canonical implementation and download, etc. is one approach (and I could certainly live with better messaging from certain places!), I think people are convinced enough by the merits of the CouchDB model to effectively route around the lack of that and some have produced fantastic (compatible / interoperable) alternatives.

(FWIW, I've been using CouchDB for a long time with a lot of apps and instances, but have been able to use all of them with Cloudant instead.)

Insofar as MongoDB's fate is tied to 10gen's, the distributed nature of the CouchDB ecosystem is actually working out quite well AFAICT.
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> Contrast that with the iPad which excels at providing consumption.

That's not a contrast. Just because iPad excels at consumption doesn't mean it fails at creation.

Paper excels at providing consumption. Far more paper is used for consumption than for creation. Doesn't mean paper isn't also fantastic for creation.
that's why many people favor this variant:

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Why does the rate of propagation matter? I presume that during the course of the explosion there are several sequential phases. If phase x emits some non-EMP but detectable signal, say an X-Ray burst and phase y emits the EMP, both of which propagate at the same rate, then you have time(y) - time(x) to respond to detecting x before the EMP from y reaches you.

Explosions, like all other macro scale phenomena are not instantaneous, they just appear so until an appropriately small time step is applied.
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I don't know about this one. I have a degree in comp sci and a master in software Eng. I've worked too hard in my life to be treated as a janitor. Why shoudnt we get the respect other engineers get?
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This is one of those stories in which the facts are construed to fit the conventional wisdom regarding Microsoft, e.g. no mention of WP7 which was announced and previewed in the quarter immediately prior to the Courier's cancellation, no mention of the investment Microsoft made in development of the Metro interface, and of course no mention of the manufacturing costs inherent in a dual screen device or the energy such a device would consume with mainstream technology.

Instead, there is the criticism that Microsoft is not enough like Apple (and a focus on personalities).

When manufacturers don't see a way to build and sell dual screen tablets at a profit, Microsoft won't sell much of the software to run them. It is not as if Microsoft doesn't have the enough experience as a hardware provider to evaluate the economics of going it alone versus partnering with the electronics industry. And partnering with the electronics industry rather than competing as a manufacturer has - with the exception of the XBOX in a market dominated by proprietary hardware - been a highly successful course.

Finally, it is not as if the design decisions underlying the courier are dead - a viable dual screen tablet is still as plausible today as it was when the iPad started shipping and there is no reason such a device could not run with a Metro interface or that the technology developed as part of the Courier project could not be incorporated.

What was killed was a project which required forking the Windows roadmap in ways analogous to past Microsoft decisions and which led to Windows Mobile becoming a dead end overnight - never mind that a mobile device without email probably would have been stillborn.
My guess is that if Stephen King couldn't make it work with a massive installed fan base and a global reputation then it's a non-starter (or at least a very tall order) for an author who has neither of those.
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The courier would have had a stylus, handwriting recognition, and a really nice screen. You'd have been able to cut and paste text and images by drawing circles around them and swiping them into a clipboard-bucket-thing on the other screen.

I don't know how well it would have worked in the final product, but it looked pretty snazzy in the demo videos. :-)
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Kutcher,Max L, Zuckerberg, Ron Conway.

First three were most candid and honest(for the most part). Ron Conway was interesting to me cause it was interesting to see examples of great entrepreneurship.
In corporate settings some of them banks I have come into contact with racism, sexism and age-ism against Blacks, Indians(both from India and from Native America), Jews, Mexicans, etc..the point of Feld's piece was that its alive in the infrastructure and only by shining the light of day on it will make it go away..
Awful is still awful :) And from that description it is a truly awful system. And saying "if your so great why don't you fix it yourself" is a really stupid response to criticism. Why be so defensive about a bad system, YOU didn't write it, right?
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Maybe with Android that list is too long?
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Yes, but the Courier was leagues beyond anything you can do with an iPad in terms of content creation. Even now, there's nothing on the iPad that works as well as OneNote (yes, that includes EverNote), and Courier extended far past OneNote to integrate a bunch of more advanced, integrated design ideas.
Ouch. I don't necessarily disagree with you. But building a scalable business is all about (and has always been about) dealing with typical users and crapping on untypical ones. I mean, look at Paypal—at least here we are talking about a fairly low-level privacy invasion to sign-up—Paypal freeze your money for being non-typical.

I agree quality might pay off longer term, but how can you provide quality to your users if you can't put food on your own table? There are always trade-offs; at the end of the day, real artists ship.

In this specific case, well, implementing a reliable registration system is a small hassle, maybe two days work to integrate and do well. I made the Siri example since there are about 6 million Scottish people and its pretty hard for them to change their accents, so it's hardly a minor issue. Ultimately everything is a hassle.

One other thing to consider, if you care about users: Facebook login is more convenient for the average user, so one way not to value your users is not to provide it. Obviously both might be better, but what other feature won't you get around to instead?

TL;DR they are doing the right thing by choosing a good, easy option for the MVP. They are accepting feature requests, so if its important and valuable, they'll do it.

(This is getting long so I should stop, but also, what's so wrong with a Facebook account? Since it has been shown they collect information on people who don't have accounts anyway I can't see any meaningful privacy loss from just getting an account).
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Adobe provides the backend infrastructure for this and every other service except for Amazon. And yes, they have DRM but its trivial to circumvent with the proper tools. But consider the independent book stores that might stay open a little longer if you suggest they get with the program. I mention this because a longtime friend of mine opened her store 5 years ago and now that occasional Harry Potter release is not something she can rely on, she found Google's reseller program super easy to set up, maintain, and integrate with her main & mobile web sites. Look up St Johns Bookseller if you're curious.
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Just a heads up, it looks like the links to your product[Samurai] are not resolving.
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Or using js2-mode in Emacs. That's just one small reason why Emacs in my JavaScript workhorse. I use TextMate for most things but if I'm writing JS all day nothing beats Emacs.
You are the exception and not the rule. It's great when things work out as they did for you but it's not the norm. Just because this has been your experience as a black programmer doesn't mean it is that of all others.

I also don't think its true that "This entire issue is being exploited to get attention for Angela Benton and her new accelerator." This issue would exist regardless of whether the NewMe accelerator existed, Benton is just bringing some press to the subject.
The real failure that opened you up to this race condition is naming. Initial is not specific enough and thus colided with another variable, that was also not named specifically enough.
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It does. As does Cassandra.
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> "Whatever optimizations Apple has done to it will have a minimal impact on performance."

I agree in general, though I think Apple is going to continue adding custom DSPs to their package. And that will provide an advantage in those targeted areas that software alone will not be able to bridge.
Microsoft has a long history of commencing marketing well before a product is ready. How long was the run-up to Windows Cairo? (Ki-Rho; XP)

That can be a very effective way to reduce or eliminate competition, and it's a technique that's helped Microsoft acquire dominance in a number of markets.

With the current fondness for years of lead time for some Microsoft products and the occasional failure to release, Microsoft's competitors can target Microsoft's products well prior to release, and the inevitable critical reviews can gain visibility in the market.

The actual Microsoft product releases - when the products are available to consumers, and the profits commence and the reviews and the competitors have all adapted and retargeted - have become anti-climactic.
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Well summarized.

Some surprising-to-me data points I researched last night while working on a longer response to bad_user I decided not to post:

1) Apparently (based on a couple of surveys) at least 25% of American Christians don't believe in hell at all.

2) Based on an admittedly quick survey, the four gospels seem to strongly emphasize the positive benefits of believing in Jesus. When they do speak of hell, like the Sermon on the Mount, it's all in terms of what will happen to you if you're not a good person: "Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire."

3) The strongest phrase I was able to find in the gospels was "...but whoever does not believe [in Jesus] is condemned already..." In that context (John 3), it seems to "be condemned" is to not have eternal life -- and then it immediately softens it up three verses later with "But whoever does what is true comes to the light..."

All in all, I found a lot less Biblical support for "If you don't believe in Jesus, you will go to hell" than I thought I was going to. Perhaps I just wasn't looking in the right places...
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That's very interesting. What sorts of DSLs are you creating, or can you say?
You raise some good points here. I think ultimately it's clear that as cool as the Courier may have been, a "real" Windows tablet like the Win 8 Metro that's been previewed is the product Microsoft can really build around.

In a perfect world, we'd have both devices, but there's an enormous danger in releasing an interim niche product before your real product arrived -- for example, the press surrounding the Kin phone was devastating, and almost certainly hurt the release of WinPhone 7. Even if the Courier turned out to be a success, it could have confused the marketplace.

It's often said that one of Steve Jobs' greatest strength was his willingness to kill products before the light of day unless they were the right products and they were good enough. It's interesting that Ballmer leaned on Gates to make this decision, but I think Gates's decision was the right one for Microsoft.
That's true. I do everything from the manager. Maybe write a checker that makes sure the node is actually deleted, and if not try deleting it again, or even notifies you it failed to delete?
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