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Not quite: Each image descriptor has its own Local Color Table, but the delays aren't set by the image descriptor, they're set by the Graphics Control Extension block, and you can have multiple image descriptors per GCE block. So the GIF can look something like: HDR(GCT) GCE(delay10) IMG(LCT) IMG(LCT) IMG(LCT) GCE(delay10) IMG(LCT) IMG(LCT) IMG(LCT) ..., with several image descriptors per frame, each with its own palette.

However, due to historical reasons (GIFs optimized for old browsers on slow computers), modern browsers sometimes insert a small delay between image descriptors even if they're in the same frame. I generally consider this a bug. However, there are many broken GIFs out there...
This story is NOT about someone who could not pay medical bills and/or didn't have insurance. It clearly states in the article that the money was needed because the parents quit their jobs and was to be used for living expenses. Please do not recast the story to suit an agenda.
I love `self`. If it were just magically there, that would break with the entire rest of how the language works - everything is explicitly from something - even the "built in" functions are right there from __builtins__. What appeals to me about Python is the namespacing model is completely consistent throughout and explicit `self` is part of that.
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I found it easier once I zoomed in.
Technically possible but seemingly unlikely. I'm leaning towards Occam's razor here: that would be an awful lot of acting fairly consistent with panicked, unexperienced actions, and if you're a pilot it's not exactly difficult to crash the plane if you want to. Additionally, the decision to fly into the storm wasn't Bonin's, so if he did decide to crash the plane in this manner it would have been a very rapid decision, or a result of pretty specific deliberations like "next time the computer goes into alternate mode and there is confusion and panic in the cockpit I will do it," which again runs against the razor.
It's full of announcements, but seems to be missing any
calls to action.

Ok. Here is the call to action: hire a lobbyist or ex-Congressman who will get you in front of Startup America. Preferably a large bundler like George Kaiser. They will get you sweetheart loans and endorsements from the President and
Vice President.

We've seen this dozens of times before when "free money" is available. Scarcity requires an allocation mechanism. In the case of the very similar Qualifying Therapeutic Discovery Tax Credit (QTDTC) from last year, those who lobbied were those who got the bling.

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2010/10/winners_losers_in_race_to_biotech_tax_credits.html

Clearly somebody — probably a few thousand somebodies —
are going to lose out.

...

The takeaway for those biotech companies that miss out on
the tax credit, according to Eisenberg: Tell your member
of Congress to extend and expand the program.

And as with the QTDTC there will be a catch. Failure is criminalized. The failure of Solyndra prompted an FBI raid. What did the executives know and when did they know it? All government "grants" are like this. For example, to get the biotech "Qualifying Therapeutic Discovery Tax Credit" from last year, you had to essentially submit to an IRS audit.

http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=224505,00.html

Q5. What type of documentation and records related to the
application should applicants maintain in order to satisfy
IRS requirements in the event of a future audit of
“qualified investment” claims?

A. Documentation and recordation should include
information sufficient to verify and explain costs treated
as qualified investments, e.g., detailed work papers and
invoices.

Translation: embarrass us and we will retroactively find your definition of "qualified investment" to be at variance with that of the IRS. Bottom line, it is unlikely this program will be substantively different from those preceding it.
If you're interested in efficiency use vim.
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I guess I never bothered to look at anything below level 1 :)
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I work at a small startup (15 people, 8 of them coders), and once a day we have a scrum with the project manager (though a few times a day someone calls him in to show off something cool that got finished early), and once a week we have a meeting with the business analyst and project manager to update the roadmap and deliverable schedule. Once a week we have an all hands meeting with our investor where we present our progress on the roadmap.
Not only is it sensationalist, but plenty of folks are already aware of this problem. And frankly, I don't think it's that big of a problem. In fact, other group messaging apps do this if you have SMS enabled when data is unavailable.
I was just thinking of mocking up something like this...so why don't you write us up a blog post about this and get a little publicity ? If we could add on an "auto2to3" as easily as we build a virtualenv this has the potential to neutralize the "it's too hard to wait for 2to3" complaint.
yah, you are right. It looks nice but is very hard to read.
Hmmm...

That is a really bad comparison. I suspect that you misused the word Apartheid because of its emotional connetation (which circumvents any rational reasoning that a non-emotional argument might entail).

Apartheid was concerned with the area people lived in the same country (in this area it might be seen as unjust - since people had citizenship to the country. Then again, SA is a country that should not have existed in the first place - the only ties that bind South Africans together is that they were all subject to British colonialism and their mutual dislike for each other).

In any case, the Apartheid regime tried (very successfully) to prevent illegal immigration from neigbouring countries (since for some strange reason South Africa was the only industrialized country). This was done with fairly great success. The motivation for this was twofold: to prevent insurgents from infiltrating the country and protect the jobs of black people (the white minority government was fearful of black unemployment - for this reason unemployment of black people were far less than 10% then and regularly 30-50% after '94).

Typing on i phone, continued below.
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And for a ridiculously difficult procedure like this? Doesn't it make sense in a way for health care to pay for it?

The parents needed to quit their jobs because they needed to move to NC. They needed to move because of the procedure. Yes it might be a grey area but I'm okay with exceptions like this.
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> It's a difference that doesn't matter in the slightest.

In a courtroom, maybe. I'm drawing a distinction here because of the propensity of people to create elaborate narratives.

"UMG is censoring MegaUpload in a deliberate attempt to silence them. This is no different than a mobster trying to silence a witness!"

> The organization is acting illegally, and people are
> rightfully angry about that.

If 'illegal' was as binary as you want to imply, then all penalties would be exactly the same.

> You realize that the DMCA is a law, right?

... and HN is a court room, apparently. Are you going to hold me in contempt of court because I don't agree with you?

Especially when the article itself has quotes like this:

> “Dirty tricks in an effort to stop our massively successful
> viral campaign.”

This statement implies that UMG was making a deliberate effort to shut down MegaUpload's campaign.
Works fine on my Android phone's stock browser...
Amber Smalltalk is a pretty popular and alive JavaScript project so I vote for renaming.
From http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Greys_Law :

> There is currently no text in this page.

My point is not to get carried away by making claims like this:

> “Dirty tricks in an effort to stop our massively
> successful viral campaign.”

If these claims turn out to be false, then you just end up looking stupid, even if UMG is still on the wrong side of the law.
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Good luck with that....and please....if you can make Bingo Card Creator with your free time I would consider you a highly skilled technical person...Most "idea-guys" have trouble making their wordpress blogs!
If there wasn't a DMCA takedown request then Google might be liable for content put on the site. My understanding is that they must follow the laws to keep safe harbour. This is why Megaupload was able to dispute the claim the first time.
Well I mean it's all what you are used to. Personally, I've fallen in love with Emacs once you realize it's power. A lot of people don't like all the keyboard shortcuts you have to memorize, but in the end it all becomes muscle memory. I've used Textmate, SublimeText2, VIM (though not extensively) and they are all great editors. But for me, Emacs is insanely powerful, incredibly customizable, and once you start getting into it and get all your .emacs set how you like it, it's hard to beat. In the end though, they are all just text editors. Try them all and see what suits you best.
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This may not apply to everyone, but I found the thing that consistently removed my procrastination was simply to stop working in isolation. Whether it's going to the office of an employer or renting a desk at a co-working space, being around other people who are being productive worked wonders for me.

I used to think there was some fundamental flaw with my psyche; I would procrastinate quite often and always feel utterly depressed afterwards. Turns out that external motivation and clear delineation between "work space" and "play space" was all I needed. I still work after work pretty often, but usually on other projects. If I just sit around and watch TV or play video games I don't feel badly about it because I know I just put in 8 hours of solid programming, which is something I used to think myself utterly incapable of.

If you're in an environment where watching Hulu all day is acceptable, find an environment where it isn't. I practically guarantee it's all you'll need.
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Wasn't NPAPI basically a Netscape API that was cloned by other browsers and thus made into a de facto "standard"? Why isn't Google allowed to do the same thing?
I just find the "for now" pretty hilarious: we are already seeing a shipping version of Python 3.2, with Python 3.x having been released for years, and we still need to encourage people to develop code for Python 2.x and use a build step to convert their code to Python 3.x. The effect of this attitude directly contributes to the behavior described in that recent article by the Jinja2 developer: where Python 3.x support is often considered by people to be just "look, I did it, and while it is a horrible hack and much slower than the 2.x version, it sort of works; now leave me alone", as opposed to helping people slowly embrace Python 3.x.
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Yes, it works fore me on OS X. I have the Windows version as well and the NaCl version looks and feels identical.
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On my iPhone, it doesn't work as well. Yes, the dropdown selections show up, but the keyboard pops up as well, and on top of the selections, so unless you know that the selections are there, you won't even notice them.
The state of the art in JITs is LuaJIT2, despite almost no fanfare (and lots of fanfare by other JIT projects). I haven't had a look at hhvm yet, but if anyone wants a cool project, make hiphop emit Lua instead of C++, and run it under LuaJIT2.

LuaJIT2 really is magic, and Mike Pall is a humble but talented magician.
Yes,

Once you accept the framework of software patents and all its implication, you have embarked on the project of dividing up the "digital commons".

And to do that, you just need an "alliance of the willing" - ie, you first gather together the muscle power needed to control the turf and then divide the spoils. There's no idealism and no distinction between patent troll and "real company" once the company is playing the intellectual property game.
To come back to my point - after '94 illegal immigration significantly increased. There are several reasons for this, e.g. The military was no longer responsible for enforcing the border (which fell to the police), liberal policies wrt immigration, Mugabe's experiments in Zimbabe, etc...

Post '94 there were two patterns of migration - skilled people left the country (e.g. to Usa, Canada, aus and new zealand), and unskilled people immigrated to South africa (mostly from other African countries). The size of the illegal immigrant population is difficult to estimate, but probably 10% of the population.

What was the result of this 'free' immigration?

Higher unemployment for the poorest of South Africans, increase in crime (with a large part of crime done by unemployed illegal immigrants) and then of course the fairly recent xenophobic killings(which saw a return of the brutal necklacing killings). I think it would be justified to say that illegal immigration is the biggest threat to stability in SA today.

TL;DR: South Africa should be used as an example of why immigration control is absolutely necessary. illegal immigration threatens the poorest of the poor (those struggling to find employment), leads to higher crime and threatens societal stability.

Ps: typed on iPhone, please forgive typos.

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So, the namespacing is completely consistent, but the number of arguments between method definition and method calling is not? That breaks consistency both internally (because regular functions do have the same number of arguments) and with just about every other language I've used. Something tells me adding one little keyword that pokes into the namespace would not be the end of the world. It would, however, save me (and anyone else that has to juggle multiple languages) from several groaner bugs per day.

Guido can repeat as many times as he likes that calling an instance method is morally equivalent to passing the instance as an additional argument. It may even be implemented that way. The reality is that nobody except compiler devs actually think like that--to everyone else it's an implementation detail. It also doesn't naturally explain why it would be shoved in as the first argument as opposed to appended as the last.

And the fact that self is an idiom, and not a keyword, just feels wrong to me. If nobody would actually ever use any other word in sane code, there is no point in preserving the flexibility of doing so by defining the same word over and over again.
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The strawman is that I'm not building a legal defense for UMG, whereas that seems to be what you've pegged me as doing.

My message can be summed up as:

Don't get carried away with conspiracy theories that UMG saw this successful viral campaign and felt that they needed to do something illegal to stop it. This video just ran afowl of UMG's "shotgun approach" to take-down notices, which just happens to be an illegal activity of theirs. I also find it highly probable that this was a targeted effort to get the video into the sights of whatever process it is that UMG uses to issue notices.

UMG's 'shotgun approach' to take-downs is not limited to just UMG, and it is also nothing new. This has been going on for a long time. If you're only getting outraged about it now you're years late to the party.
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It's not a bug. The problem is that most people don't know that MMS messages can be one-to-many AND that iOS 5 turned Group Messaging on by default (which causes group messages to be MMS instead of SMS).

The Group Messaging setting only affects messages you send out. If a third party wants to (or unwittingly) 'reply all' to an MMS message that included you, your individual Group Messaging setting won't stop that and you will get that message regardless of your setting.

If you don't think it should work this way, then you are asking Apple to not deliver messages that technically are addressed to you.

I do agree that Apple should have done a better job educating users on how it works.
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He wasn't advocating iterative methods in the agile sense, in fact he calls for "complete program design" before any analisys or coding, along with intensive documentation, planning, controlling and monitoring. An iterative approach to development drops nearly all of those.

The graphic where he shows cycles going back stages is used to exemplify failure, which he proposes to fix via the strict practices above.
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This is not the time to debate the healthcare issues

This was a great story about a caring family and their son Lucas getting treatment and the tech family helped…that’s all that matters here.
I don't get why they didn't mention a very obvious reason why Apple would sell a patent to a patent troll:

They want the troll to sue someone with whom they have a reciprocal patent portfolio license.

Most big companies are members of lots of these agreements, where any patent owned by one company is licensed to the other, and vice versa.

If Apple is simply a licensee of the patent now, and doesn't own it, then presumably it wouldn't be part of their reciprocal licenses with other companies any more, and the troll would be able to sue?

Please correct me if I'm wrong, here. (The most likely way I could be wrong is that the standard reciprocal agreements cover all patents owned during the term of the license, in perpetuity -- i.e., selling a patent doesn't invalidate the reciprocal license. Even then, they may be planning to sign a new reciprocal patent license with, say, Samsung, who just won the ability to block shipments of iOS devices that support HPSA, but they still want someone else to be able to sue Samsung...?)
Same. I just webmarked it along with hundreds of other articles and youtube videos to check out later.
If you, like me, are wondering where he got a name like "Kim Dotcom", he apparently just calls himself that, according to this [1] reference on the Wikipedia page.

[1] http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&obj...
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Megavideo would, they hold the rights to the song and have agreements with the artists in question. UMG would be held responsible since their name is on the infringement notice.
That was 1996. There was no de facto plugin API. You can't really consider 1996, when there was one browser, the same as today, where there are five.

Besides, I didn't say Netscape was right.
My rule is to only use Facebook on my iPad. I typically do all my work on my laptop so when I'm on my iPad I can be sure it's leisure time. I would probably put HN in the same category but I can't stop commenting on everything that's remotely relevant to me and I hate typing on the iPad.
It's a little frustrating that all of the responses to my post are "THAT WOULD NEVER HOLD UP IN AS A DEFENSE IN A COURT OF LAW! BLARG!"

It's been long-suspected that these DMCA take-down notices are just being rubber-stamped, yet not one penalty has been handed out. Color me disillusioned with the legal process.
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Unfortunately, the app ecosystem has not caught up to the system UX yet. A lot of the apps are slower and have fewer features than their iOS/Android counterparts. That seems to be the case with webOS as well. Hopefully, these platforms catch on a little bit to provide a refreshing counterbalance to the app grid UX of iOS/Android.
You contradict yourself.

> Every single person in this country should be paying the same monthly fee for coverage.

> Unfortunately in this country, we have people that will yell out "let them die" at a presidential debate about what to do with the uninsured, and why we shouldn't force people to pay for healthcare.

But what if I don't want to pay that monthly fee? What if I, as a person who isn't you, decide I want to spend my $1000/year on something that isn't health care, and I want to die if I get into an accident that requires expensive surgery? Why is that not an acceptable outcome, given that I know about it a priori?

The real argument about health care cannot and should not be separated from taxation or any other economic issue - it's simply a question about how we, as a society, should subsidize poor people to enable them to pay their premiums. If they elect to do so is another issue entirely.