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I had the opportunity to see Richard Stallman speak, to participate in a Q&A session afterwards, and to ask him a few specific questions. I think he's a great man, whose acting with a huge amount of conviction and commitment to what he believes in - I have huge respect for this.

I also think he's a bit crazy, but then so am I! I feel he could make a bigger impact for his cause if he was more moderated and accessible in his views, but I respect his views none the less.

I think a detailed rider like this is generally a good thing, as it allows people to prepare more effectively. And from talking to the people who organised the event I attended, I think he's actually much more chilled out and reasonable than some of the things in the rider make him seem.
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According to Wikipedia, Lulea has a few other claims to fame, such as being where the first GSM call was made in 1989.

Its year-long average temperature is 5C (41 Farenheit), ranging from -8C (18F) to 19C (66F):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luleå
Some economist should do an analysis of the long term prospects of a company that builds "screwing the customer" into their business model.

I'm consistently surprised at how many people think its okay to push the bounds of what's acceptable in this area. I've taken the view in my business that "no games" is the only way to build long term value and I receive feedback daily from my customers how refreshing our approach is.

It is definitely a win-win for everyone, including investors, when a business can build long-time value. I'd argue its the best type of win.
It's actually a much older term than that.

http://www.osnews.com/story/24882/The_History_of_App_and_the...

[disclaimer: I'm the author of both the parent article as well as the article linked to in this comment]
My first web usage was via message exchange with a local BBS which did UUCP e-mail exchanges every 4 hours. I e-mailed my request to an e-mail <-> web gateway at CERN, and got my page back in the next exchange.

Thankfully that only lasted a year before I got proper access.

And yes, I remember FTPmail, as well as similar gateways for Gopher, Veronica, Archie, WAIS... I feel old now.
Businesses aim to maximise profits, not Carnot efficiency.
Given that the energy is coming from hydro power, there's no increase in heat output: The gravitational potential energy of the water was going to be converted into heating the water as it speeds up from flowing downhill and then slows down from friction anyway.
yeah, thanks for the response. I was not aware of moai, but it looks brilliant. I also love the fact that it is open source. That is the main reason that I am rolling my own rather that using corona. Corona's lack of support for extending through c code is really a pain.
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Please pass on my remarks to the design team - I'm very impressed with their work, and I do wish that they continue their excellent designs.

I truly wish that Nokia had gone behind the N9 with everything it deserves. I feel it's the first time that Apple has actually been challenged in design, in integrity towards an ideal, in making something that exemplifies that internal drive.
After seeing the WP7, even knowing it was coming, I know that their lovely design work was cheapened by that release. It's still good design, but it lost something tangible and wonderful, that sense of being something different and better. By shipping WP7, it became something that exists secondary to another goal, instead of a goal unto itself. Cheapened, as though a device that exists not symbiotically with the software designed to run on it, but any random garbage that can be sold with it.

It lost its soul.
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Learning Java for Android puts you in a good position to make the jump to doing normal-Java and C# work if needs be. Whereas if you learn Objective-C for iOs you're kinda limited to, well, iOs and OSX work. So if "a good job" is what you're after it might be a better tactical decision to learn Android.
What I was thinking was that if the brute-force took 2 weeks (say) and the randomisation added just a single order of increase it could be sufficient to make the crack no longer worthwhile (eg passwords are changed monthly) - ie impossible in a timely manner which achieves the aims of the cracker.

It is not that it is impossible technically , it is that it is no longer possible to use the crack to good effect [ie "practically"].

Do you still disagree - I thought it was a truism that increasing attempts meant the crack could become impractical.
You are clearly mistaking the BBC for some grubby commercial organisation.

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My previous work experience at a startup I shall not name had a problem with the above, which really went against my principles as a programmer, knowing that life is gonna be hard because I will come back to this code again, even if I ship it out, just in time for the scrum cycle. I hated it, and really demotivated me. This very reasoning also made me not see Scrum in such a great light, or perhaps it was the way the startup implemented Scrum. -shrugs-
Parent selector is cool but I've needed it at most 2-3% of the time when designing a site. As of now, it doesn't appear to support things I really need in almost all mid-large site layouts: variables, mixins/functions, operations, and namespaces. This means even 5 years from now, I'll need http://lesscss.org/ because browsers with CSS4 won't support variables. How does one go about suggesting to W3C that they should support variables in CSS4?
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-multicol/
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-grid-layout/
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> That will open the gates to sharing code, it is as easy as: select all, copy, switch to safari, go to pastebin, send link to someone else.

I don't know why but this reminds me of my Amstrad CPC days where you mostly shared code by retyping it (notably from magazines and books).

I find it interesting also in that it makes the code as the thing shared, not the resulting blob.
Well... Suzuki did change the name of their "Suzuki Wanker" (Suzuki Pajero) in Spain. It depends...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3162221

(which links to through to a www-style list discussion from October 24: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0699.h...)
Why slow down CSS with constructs that can be achieved by prior compilation and a few Makefiles?
I've been reading Thom's posts for long enough to infer that Apple is his least favorite company bar none, and that he would much rather side with Microsoft than with Apple.

This anti-Apple bias is common in people who write tech reviews because (a) their audience is often international and Apple has been historically been popular internationally than in the U.S. (today, with China and Japan, things are a bit different), and (b) the reviewers are interested in creating as much confusion as possible about a large variety of tech products in order to ensure page hits, and Apple is actively working towards eliminating consumer confusion. Who wants to read boring, often poor-quality tech reviews when things just work?
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As an owner of an N9, this makes me kind of sad.

I wrote a longer comment on another thread, but what this really makes me feel is that, instead of utilising a great design paired with WP7, there's just another indistinct me-too device to be drowned out by the iPhone.

It's sad, because the people who were behind the N9 really seemed like they understood what Apple was on about, how and why the iPhone was like it was.

Nokia may not have gotten all of it, but they were catching on, and with this release, I fear that spirit may have been lost.
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Really? Do you have numbers to support this?
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That's odd. I found no references to either subtle or downplayed humor in the rider.

You sir, are really subtle with your humor.
Why couldn't you place it in a cold windy place? Solar is not the only renewable energy.
There are also smaller implementations of libc, eg.

http://www.fefe.de/dietlibc/
I record directly into my Linux DAW (Ardour) through a Presonus Firepod. I don't do "recall and play", I do more "play and play" style music-making, for me the patch recall is not ever as useful as the dynamic process of building new stuff live, so it hasn't been an issue personally - but there is definitely technology in the iOS Music-making sphere that will make this brain-dead seamless and simple soon enough.

I will check out GrainBender - I've got a huge collection of these apps - and add it to the collection. I'm currently working on my own MIDI sequencing engine/workspace product for iPad too - definitely, its an exciting platform for which to be making music tools.
I don't think you've been reading my posts long enough, then. Every review I've ever written on an Apple product has been positive. Each and every one of them.

On top of that, OSNews barely does any reviews - only a few every year. In other words, your post seems to be of a trollish nature :).
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> but the raters did not even pick a single private eye out of the phone book to verify that the house even exists.

Can you cite a specific example(s) of mortgages being approved for houses that didn't exist?
"pay for the fiscal and political indiscretion of the Greeks"

- what about -

"pay for the massacres back in the 40's"

?

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Greece]

And it's more like loaning so that the Greeks may afford to buy their high quality products.
What I don't get is the idea of theft.. Of course it cannot be code theft.
They are different implementation of an idea.
It could be that the idea originated in the iPhone, but if the customers ask for a virtual keyboard, for example, are they supposed to restrain from implementing that feature because it was "not invented here"?
Quoting from George Bernard Shaw: "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
Well, in this instance you wouldn't need any work factor, since it would always take half a second. And if a zero work factor hash is taking half a second to complete, something is very wrong... But granted, for almost all cases it would be best just to bcrypt in every circumstance.
Because the tablet is a variable geometry device. You can develop on the device with keyboard, take the device away without the keyboard and play your game. Then hit a bug and fix it on the spot with the OSK.

Besides developing NUI apps straight on the device is interesting, instead of developing on a machine then upload and test on a tethered device.
What I find fascinating is whether or not the genes altered by our environment would send those altered genes through the reproductive system. It would seem like the answer no; otherwise each successive generation would just get weaker and weaker as a simple function of genetic damage carrying over decades, centuries, across multiple generations.
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Sounds like we might need more data? As you noted, your question got upvoted, so presumably some folks are curious. Yet there hasn't been any kind of substantive reply. Maybe start linking similar threads here or something and see if the picture can be fleshed out some?

Just thinking out loud (and I'm possibly the worst person here to help you with this as I am not a hacker).

Take care.
> "as long as the resulting apps do not download any code"

Does that include using the App Documents mechanism?
> Does this accomplish anything above and beyond what XPath is capable of?

Nope. In terms of pure capabilities CSS selectors are still (mostly) a subset of XPath selectors (even XPath 1.0 I'd say)

> I've always wondered why W3C has been pushing more than one standard for selecting elements in SGML and XML documents.

I don't have an answer, but I see 4 reasons:

* NIH, the W3C is not really a big coherent group, and technically CSS selectors predate XPath (CSS level 1 became a CR in December 1996, XPath 1.0 did not reach this status before November 1999)

* CSS selectors are purpose-built for HTML and have efficient (and simple) shortcuts for a bunch of tasks: selecting on ids or classes has a 1-character overhead in CSS versus XPath having 5 for ids and classes... well you're looking at a good 50 characters in XPath 1 (w/o exslt) I'd say, there just isn't a convenient way to say "an element with this value in an attribute which is a space-separated list of names". Another one is XPath being built for parent/child relationships where CSS selectors default to ancestor/descendant relations, and makes it easier and shorter to broadly apply rules. The last one would be pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements, to handle these in XPath you'd have to add a bunch of functions to the core set (see point 4 for what I think of XPath functions)

* For rendering-speed reasons, CSS are processed back-to-front, I'm not sure how good/easy it would be to process XPath that way (not too hard I'd guess, but it definitely wasn't standardized based on this thinking)

* XPath is actually pretty complex, much more so than CSS selectors (even CSS3 or CSS4 selectors), I know I always a hard time with getting those fucking funcalls right, the syntax is fiddly and different XPath libraries tend to behave very differently on namespacing & al of funcalls. Also, the data-typing is complete shit.

I like XPath 1.0 (though I think XPath 2.0 went full retard in backporting XQuery stuff and integrating a bunch of garbage relevant only to XSLT 2.0), but while I regularly pine for some specific XPath features in CSS selectors (usually more flexible axis modifiers) I really wouldn't enjoy having to use XPath instead of CSS in my style sheets.
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Why require adding a fiddly and complex toolchain making ramp up and usage of these features more complex than it has to be, and harder to troubleshoot, when it's something making production easier to maintain in the long run?

Because unless you suggest adding source maps to CSS (even though they still are not in JS), a preprocessor generating CSS makes CSS far more annoying to debug or play around with than native constants support would (and even with source maps, the usability of devtools style inspectors and editors would be significantly inferior to native support)
The only way to simultaneously...

Everytime someones says there's "only one way", that person turned out to be:

* Dogmatic

and

* Wrong

There's certainly not a single reason behind the current situation, and certainly not one single answer to it.
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Love the motion blur effect around his body.
Suggestions: (1) emulate the time required to move the mouse, (2) reduce the number of times that objects are focused as a human player would do by keeping track of recent commands and not repeating them especially when there is no attacking/defense occurring, (3) emulate human reaction delay. The goal should be that it shouldn't cause convulsions when watching it due to the rapid changes in focus. This is incredibly awesome, though.
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Totally, totally irrelevant - not only did greece benefit from a free handout because this happened (the Marshall Plan), or that it received 4.4 billion euros in reparations for the war from Germany, or that the number of relevant deaths listed on your source is equivalent to only about 6 years' worth of Greek road fatalities - but that is an entirely different generation's mistake
That is quite elegant. That should take care of the variables requirement. Thanks!
I get that a lot :)
Well yes, since you mentioned it, I think that's the author's right.

That's nice, but seeing as you seem to be defending the GPL, how I'm I supposed to collect my $50, if the next dev down the road packages up my code as an application, and makes it available free, with source code and what not. In the real world, I can no longer get paid for my software in such a circumstance. Or how about you produce a module, I see the module, recognise that I could make it substantially better, but with a non-legligeable investment of time. I would like to be compensated for making the software better, or I'm simply not going to bother. I, as a developer, do not have the right to develop a module of software that uses a GPLed module of software, and then sell it as closed source (to stop someone else from packaging up my work and distributing it for free).

The GPL is rather good at giving freedom to end users, provided that the end-user is a competent programmer. The GPL is lousy at giving freedom to programmers that want to add value to GPLed software, which in the long term ends up costing non-technical end-users access to better software.

What threats?
What do you think the GPL is? It's a threat to use legal remedies if you don't play by the rules of the GPL. Without that implicit threat, we could just ignore the GPL as a rather boring piece of irrelevant text.
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My understanding is that IIS is thread based. So wouldn't using it as a host/balancer inherently cripple Node? I mean I get the benefit of the possible inter-op with .NET. However, I, and perhaps this is because I come from a Java background so I make things hard, would use Node.exe, but would have everything talk in more of an SOA manner. Node uses itself and other tools that are good for load balancing a tool like it and .NET talks to Node via services.

What am I missing?
1. Transparency. We need to see where every dollar of the US federal gov't is spent. It needs to be on the internet

Every item bought, even if it costs $1.50 should be recorded? That will cause a massive increase in paperwork (how much will that cost? Will it be in paper? Or an online service that employees fill in when they buy something? What happens when their internet/computer in their office goes down? Should they not buy the thing or buy the thing and fill it in later? Do you want to turn up to your office, find no paper there and hear 'Sorry we can't go across the street to get paper cause we have to wait for the person from $FAR_AWAY to come here and fix our computer's browser?')
when it comes down to money/business nothing is irrelevant :D

edit: bah! The truth always hurts :C
You could still compile css to backwards compatible, compact css and test and debug in the browser without effort?
A lot people think there is only a fixed amount of wealth around.
Stu Nicholls, the clever guy behind cssplay.co.uk did start with css experiments that you could qualify as useless (like this amazing puzzle[0]) and this developped into real browser proofed css menus of all shapes.

[0] http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/amazing.html
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Is this comparable to an organised default? If the Greek government had instead defaulted on its bonds and the price naturally fallen to 50% of the original, would the effects have been similar?
But random-mutation is just ONE part of Darwin's theory. The other critical part is natural selection and that is what allows for organisms that are specialized for their specific environments. Epigenetics is certainly important but it does not mean that evolutionary theory is incorrect.
Couldn't agree less.

Projects like this are analogous to F1 cars. I'll never drive one but they demonstrate the bleeding edge of automotive technology. Much of this technology trickles down to production cars that I will drive.

Projects like this show the potential of CSS. Tho I will likely never create a logo out of CSS, the techniques displayed here will likely trickle down into more mainstream applications of CSS that I will use.
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That website needs some design craftsmanship. I needed to Ctrl-a just to read the text.
sigh. For how long will every paragraph from the Steve Jobs biography be buzzed as news? Just buy and read it, I'm pretty sure it'll be well worth both your money and your time.
The solution for destructive brainwashing media machines is not to disrupt them, I believe the solution is having an extra emphasis in school and during parent-child interaction that teaches them the scientific method in the reasoning process and how to shield against predatory mind control.

Fox news is one of those predatory mind control machines, if you make them illegal, then another country will build one and vacuum up the hearts and minds of all the idiots in this country, THAT would be an even greater destructive force.
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An ambiguous question that does not consider the requirements.

eg Latency vs cost.

Being based Antarctica can be very cheap and fast. But there's poor connections.

It's like a PHP vs C++ argument. While C++ is secure, efficient and takes longer to implement while PHP is cheaper, faster to implement for MVP.

tl;dr: Doing science with servers in bulk? Better in cold. Doing business? Better more closer to customers that tend to be in warm places.
It's not the way this particular startup implemented Scrum. If you're doing fixed-length iterations, I've seem many times managers/PO asking for some stories to be done during the next cycle.

Now, some people will say "You're doing it wrong", but here's the deal: Scrum facilitates this to happen, and you have to spend a lot of time and energy fighting against it. The boss will come and say "Here's what you have to do in the next couple weeks". And the velocity becomes a purpose by itself. Instead of measuring what happened, it's a number to be beaten. It's really sad when this happen, but I've seen it a lot of times.
Anyone can write a text editor though. It's fairly simple.

It's beyond bizarre to compare the creation of a massive company, thousands of jobs, numerous earth shattering products which enhance the lives of millions, with a text editor a few programmers use.

IMHO Stallman has been a net negative on the computer industry, and will not be remembered fondly outside the emacs niche userbase.
Like, a fee of $50, for example? I would say that your position is diammetrically opposed to Stallman's stated goal.

This is incorrect. I quote:

"Free software" is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of "free" as in "free speech," not as in "free beer."[0]

[0] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
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BS. Free software existed well before Stallman.
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Yeah, I lol'd

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Are the ms-grids and the multicolumn layouts in CSS4? It doesn't look like it from that draft. Are they just free-floating proposals at this stage?
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It could just be the signs of malnutrition. 200 years ago there was about 1 foot difference between English nobles and Welch coal miners, because the nobles were better fed as children. It would probably show in a different facial structure too.
In the UK the government bought in a system where all purchases over £25,000 are recorded and publicly available on the internet.

I was pleased about this but I would say it is not a perfect solution, payments could be split up to go under the limit for example.

Ideally we would have a system where this is all automated, every invoice goes through a system and the results are collected. I admit this is a very tricky one though.