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It's great to see examples where code can be side-stepped in favour of a quick-n-dirty, 'designer'-type solution - different ways of thinking about the problem.

I have fond memories of my first years in the VFX industry being made a fool of by non-programmer effects artists who, by hooking together a few nodes in the industry-standard package Houdini, could in minutes recreate algorithms that took weeks for me to code the 'right' way, and in a couple more minutes interactively tweak the constants to get results which I would have taken even more weeks to derive 'scientifically'. It was a crash-course in the value of rapid-prototyping, but also in that particular case introduced me to new ways of thinking: Houdini presents a completely different view of geometry and image processing, which is thoroughly non-intuitive to the typical comp-sci graduate. Houdini taught me an (almost literally) orthogonal way of thinking about computer graphics problems.

The lessons are more general:
- rapid prototyping is not necessarily coding
- sometimes the non-technical, 'designer' approach is the more efficient one (not necessarily in this case - there is plenty of merit in both approaches)
- the more tools you learn, the more leverage you have - why not learn some of those design tools and learn a different way of thinking about things.

(This comment is inspired-by, not directed-at, the two dice portrait posts.)
A lot of people here agree with you. I'm currently reading through it, I'm at chapter 14.

What would all of you have liked it to be?
Interesting.

Here's a random thought: a lot of people meet through World of Warcraft. Can that kind of experience be replicated and tailored towards dating?
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Like Siracusa said, Jobs picked the wrong guy: http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/42 http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/43
(Edit: I could go on for several pages to point out the books flaws, but this podcast does a good job of it.)

Do you really think people dislike the book because it was honest? Most of the criticism you see here is because the book never went much deeper than stating facts (and sometimes the wrong facts). This applies to more than just products.

Two non-product examples: We never get any good analysis on how Zen Buddhism affected him apart from his college days. When confronted with how cruel he can be, Steve Jobs just says "that's who I am". No deeper analysis here either (although Ive does try to give an explanation, Jobs isn't asked about that theory).
A solution to that for browser vendors: Don't let the user drag javascript links from iframes into the bookmark bar.
I wonder why did they reduce the number of colours twice? Using the mosaic filter pretty much canceled the effect of the first "posterize" run.
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"Maartje 1990 & 2011 Amsterdam" is going to be really tricky for people in England. The sexual offences act makes that kind of photo pretty much illegal for anyone, with narrow exceptions for law enforcement doing their job.

Maybe context would provide some kind of defence - but still the disruption to a person's life (computers seized; suspended from work; possible court cases; etc etc) are still significant.

To post such content without an NSFW[1] warning is stupid.
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I agree. It seems exactly like CBT to me. I have a pretty bad anxiety and Obsessive disorder myself and have been in therapy and actively practicing CBT and this article kind of confused me because it seemed so similar.
Here's an example: http://vimeo.com/22798433
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I believe this is because you would be getting a mosaic with all the different shades of gray instead of only 6
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To be more specified, I am looking for making a startup to sell it later and get acquired. :)
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> It is a fallacious nerd narrative that LEOs want super powers to keep track of what kind of anime porn you watch.

Tell that to the manga translator in Sweden who was recently convicted of possession child pornography, because he had some hentai on his computer[1].

[1] http://juridikbloggen.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/mangadomen/ (in Swedish)
The atrix was the first phone that recognized that use case - but the suits at motorola made it prohibitively expensive to own the dock (costed as much as the phone itself) that made this possible.

Here's the problem I see - the docking system that needs to be standardized. The ARM Mali T658 GPU promises PS3 quality... and there are better chips (Tegra 4, Adreno, etc.) on the way. The Atrix leverages the HDMI+microusb because of the way it designed them to fit into the slots into its dock.

Theoretically, you could use the Adreno dock with other phones, but they dont have the ports placed in the same way (to lock into the dock).

I think with Google's philosophy of open-ness, it is too much to expect the creation of a new dock standard. I'm not sure if HDMI (or the displayport equivalents) can carry serialized mouse signals in addition to display... but somehow the ports need to be standardized before we have a hope of leveraging hardware that will be equipped to play Crysis by 2012.

And that will be a shame - all that power and unable to use it. Almost as frustrating Skype not using most Android phones' front camera towards video calls for a long time.
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Whoa that's actually an awesome idea. I've never thought of something like that before. And I'm sure someone else has actually already attempted it but I wonder why it isn't widespread. The only reason I can think of is maybe the networks just don't offer a solid enough deal for it to be reasonable and profitable, at least for smaller startups. I bet the big boys like Netflix and Hulu could work something out though.
The victim depicted in the child porn has not agreed to the release of the material. Material that documents a highly traumatic appalling event. Surely those victims would prefer that this material is not public for paedophiles to masturbate over. Your argument demonstrates a colossal lack of empathy.
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I think it is all about productivity and if he feels or thinks he is more productive with these additions then it is really good for him. I don't think anyone should use plain vim because it's 'way it should be done'.
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I was assuming there was some post-processing going on to make the pictures look similar. Almost all of the "before" pictures appear to have been taken with a fairly low quality camera. I assume that the "after" pictures were taken with a much better, digital camera. Therefor these pictures shouldn't look anything alike (color, grain, etc.)

The author must have used some photo processing software to correct, crop, and maybe even replace, parts of the pictures. While I really like the creativity of the images I wish that they would have expounded on how the images were created.
My point was, time better spent is coding, not dicking around (and relying) on .vimrc.

We often forgot about the essence of things such as typing the actual code or words, and focus on tools. Better investment is learning how to properly type than having countless little helpers which are nothing more than debt.

Increasing complexity in all areas of life really is troublesome.
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It's not really bitcoin-like other than the fact the store is append only. There aren't any DAGs in SK. There aren't really any DAGs in the bitcoin blockchain either (correction: bitcoin transactions - not blocks - do actually form a DAG). There is a tree with a single "correct" path that everyone eventually agrees on (the one which had the most work/computation go into it).
I think that what differentiates Jobs from those other engineers mentioned in the article is that the skills that a Steve Jobs brings to the table would more llikely have been an asset to any type of product in any era. I am not an iPhone guy, however as an engineer, I am a huge Steve Jobs fan and am in constant awe on each example I read of the depth of his work ethic (perhaps his greatest skill). I think a better choice as an author would have been James Gleick.
> The line between the two is very blurred. For example, a review of a new video card, is really just an advert.

Fair enough. However, I feel that this type of ad gives me some concrete, useful and verifiable information to base my choice on (like technical parameters, and problems with use relative to other video cards reviewed in this issue), and not just shiny pictures.

This discussion clarified my understanding of ads at least a bit, so next time I'll be more precise in what I mean. There is a subtype of ads, those click-based advertising that clutter websites providing no value whatsoever to the visitor and distracting from enjoying the content. Those I dislike, though I understand that they're somewhat necessary. I value every site which figures out how to stay free without cluttering itself with ads.
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I'd wager that a large proportion of the fan noise was probably introduced to the show via less than legal means. For e.g., there was absolutely no way for me sitting in India to have legally watched the show a few years back.

As much as you'd like to believe that a niche group of American viewers alone convinced the creators that furthering the show would be a good idea, that's just not true.
What about us foreigners?? :)
The closest thing to a guess at ad blocking rate at linked page says "I did some research on this a while back, and discovered that 14% of all visitors to MediaUK.com used ad-blockers". The only 2% figure there is a guess as what portion of all web users use Firefox and AdBlock.
It seems like it all depends... but I'd like offer up a thought. Instead of looking at the registered users side, maybe consider the main metric to be revenues & profits.

If you have 100 million users, you obviously have something valuable that could be seen as worth acquiring to the right buyer but if you have $100 million in profits, there is a much stronger case for acquiring you and you'll have much higher power in negotiations.
Sometimes we don't realize things. I was using Vim before. I loved it, tweaking it all the time, thinking it helped me to achieve various things faster etc.

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Let's say it's an art. See dozens of movies where you can see naked teens or even children, movies which are still publicly available and no ones computers are being seized. Also millions of family photo albums contain this kind of imagery.
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I'm a bit scared by this. Imagine if a company like Google did the same (they already have Google Voice), but supporting the bill?

As it's always been, media companies have a lot of power in their hands - maybe even more so on the internet.
As has the current administration even. This comes up all the time, from both parties.
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Just like standard US shows, it will air to the US first, and international TV stations (or internet streaming services) can bid on the right to air it, nearly always at a later date.
If you reduce to 6 colours, then make a mosaic, you will get all different shades of grade. Mosaic will take (simplifying) an average of colours one tile covers.
I learned not to click on shared articles because of this. Why the hell would I install an app to read a single article?
that one contains offers posted by recruiters.
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Sometimes I feel we went about embracing virtualization the wrong way. We added instructions and changed silicon to efficiently run multiple, isolated OSes on a single computer.

The bigger problem that needed fixing was how to make the hardware scale transparently. I don't have any solutions to this of course. But I do imagine that someday, a good team might build transparent virtualization that scales over a network of connected nodes without having to code this explicitly.
Just because other technologies are even worse doesn't make WebGL's security any more acceptable.

John Carmack: "I agree with Microsoft’s assessment that WebGL is a severe security risk. The gfx driver culture is not the culture of security."
Wikipedia could sold ads on articles like "antivirus software", or "ocr software", or "photocameras". Hell, I even WANT to see ads on pages like this.
> no ones computers are being seized.

Yes they are.

> Also millions of family photo albums contain this kind of imagery

and people taking these kind of photos today[1] are being reported to the police.

[1] at least, a few years ago when people were using film.
I've found that if you click "Cancel", it will still take you to the linked article, without actually having the "App" added to your profile.

Edit: added clarification.
MBPs do not have IPS displays, only the larger iMacs. Look at your screen from a downward angle, you'll see it yellowing, look from above and light colors are inverted.

And interestingly, most newer IPS panels have a gray-to-gray time similar to TN, around 4ms (60fps = 16ms/frame). You can't tell anymore if a display is good or not just by it's specs, each one is different.
That goes for 90+% of all social interactions. What makes you think people want their beliefs and opinions challqenged?
SII does not have pentile. The screen is bigger and much brighter than the iPhone's, which is more useful to me than 300+ppi (which was only done for technical reasons anyway, to get backwards compatibility with the old apps due to the 2x factor) The phone is snappy no matter what you do (it's quite amazing to see 10+ app updates download and install in parallel, and complete in 30 seconds). GPU, I don't care about (not much of a gamer), Touchwiz I don't like either (I use the MIUI ROM). I agree for people without any tech expertise iPhone is still the best choice.
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Yes there are, And Wikipedia would have to pay gatekeepers to prevent it becoming a spammy "wack-a-mole" fest

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From the proposal it doesn't sound like it's even a single log, but that each timeline server has its own log. I'm assuming when you publish your SK you send it to all of the timeline servers. So there will be 10-30 global append-only logs which are then mirrored by lots of SK mirroring servers. So not really like the bitcoin blockchain.

update: From the overview it definitely does sound like a single log, but the draft doesn't seem to specify how entries are submitted, replicated, or kept consistent between the timeline servers. This doc seems to hint at some of that: https://git.eff.org/?p=sovereign-keys.git;a=blob;f=issues/ti...

They do handle the key-being-comprised problem. When you register you can list third party keys you trust, which can be used to re-register in case of a key being comprised and revoked (by you).

But you're right they don't handle the key being lost problem (make sure you back it up!)
Great, or big? :)

The picture with Woz and the big chocolate donut in the background made me smile :)
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You understand that besides "opinions" and "sharing them" there is also an underlying objective reality right? At least in an engineering practice, like computing.

One doesn't have to consider "other opinions" or deem them "valid", if one knows them to be wrong. And in our profession we have lots of ways of knowing wrong from right.
If you have pre-allocated seating, the cinema may have to employ people to ensure people are sitting in the right place (at least, people will want someone to complain to if someone else stole their seat).

But more importantly, pre-allocated seats encourages people to show up late to the screening and miss the ads and trailers, and potentially even miss out on the concession stand. If you don't have pre-allocated seats, you need to turn up early to be assured of a good seat; and what are you going to do in the (initially darkened) cinema waiting by yourself, if not consume some snacks that you bought.

The cinemas around me (London) charge extra for the privilege of pre-allocation.
The hardware provides a full-featured CPU with DMA access to the host's memory.

What part of WebGL gives a programmer unrestricted access to the host's memory?

Everything better go just right, or it's going to end up remotely exploitable.

The same could be said for practically any program or web app. Your web browser could have a buffer overflow in it's HTML parsing engine, yet I don't hear you speaking out against HTML... - http://secunia.com/advisories/12959/
Mostly because of Apple's (or let's say Steve Jobs') attitude of "Android is crap, they stole everything from us, they are scum and need to be exterminated". Many Apple "fans" also have the same attitude. So it is great to see a man who founded the company just go over there to check out the latest phone they have done, knowing that technological progress is never coming from just one company.
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I think you're thinking about it backwards. It's usually not thinking "what could I tweak today" that results in adding something to .vimrc. It's "I keep doing this a lot / this feel uncomfortable, maybe there's an easier way" that results in changes. And if you take time to actually implement it, that's a good indication it was worth the tweak.

Let's say you work with splits a lot. Sure you could press ctrl+w all the time, but it's a bit annoying. Rebinding doesn't take much time, but makes it (in the presented example) actually simpler. So did it waste time? A minute or so. Does it make life easier? A little bit. Did the "coding time" suffer? Who cares about a minute or so ;)
That's because there has not been a disruptive change in USD banknotes for a very long time. And it's desperately needed -- their cotton paper notes are just crap.

The Australian switch to polymer meant an entirely new suite of banknotes which bear almost no resemblance to the paper ones they replaced.
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Even tiny little programs like "Hello World" take up several KB when written in C and compiled with GCC.

I've also written Hellow World in x86 assembly, and it took up something like 86 bytes.

Why the big difference? cstdlib? Can't the compiler throw out code that isn't used?
At my local cinema you can select your seat when you reserve tickets.

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The local cinema were we use to live didn't have numbered seats and was much more cozy.
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Non-geeks will not care because it will not be marketed to them or available for them to purchase. This is a High Performance Computing product going against AMD's Firestream or nVidia's Tesla. These are high dollar products for niche tasks that non-geeks won't be doing. Non-geeks will be listening to what the salesman tells them is good, not referencing some blurb their geek friend told them about a 50-core Intel product. This product is the successor to Knights Ferry which was a 32-core part released way-way-way before Bulldozer.
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I believe he was talking about execution speed (the overhead of the framework), not download size.
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