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Gc pauses suck the "magic" out of interactive programs. The great thing about obj-c is that it I trivial to have a c array of vanilla c structs, so your performance sensitive code is still slim and hot. (size and cache locality.)

My iOS audio programming mixes c for audio processing and obj-c for ui and control quite effectively.
What if the people want the exile? Provided fabrication technology is advanced enough to provide for material comfort, what is the difference between living on a planetary surface or living on a very comfortable habitat? What if you don't like Earth laws?

That same fabrication technology would negate the traditional colonial model. There would be very little need to move physical goods between worlds.

Imagine having a million times more space and material resources than you currently have on Earth now. While the mass on the Oort cloud is a fraction of the mass of the Earth, it's still a lot of stuff.
Were you activating a Galaxy Nexus? So far as I know, pre-Ice Cream Sandwich Android releasesare also pre-Google+, so they don't prompt you for anything Google+-related during setup.
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Not quite. There's a difference between Google accounts that are "switched on" for Google+ and those that are not. These days also you need to do is sign into Google+ with your Google account to flip the switch, but there is still a distinction.
I use UK Dvorak, which is similar to Dvorak, except the @ and the " symbols are switched around. I haven't yet encountered an OS that offers this as a default layout, so whenever I'm away from home, I get those symbols wrong. The cost of typing comfort...
Are you looking at the graph in the post you replied to? I see it as weekday spikes (while people are at work, maybe recruiters?) and weekend slumps. Not quarterly spikes. Though I agree that the pattern is fascinating :).
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Regarding 'grossly overweight' - every fat person knows s/he is fat. You're not telling them anything they don't know. And you're not going to give them an incentive to lose weight by doing so.
I wish you were right but I really don't think Tor would stop the bill. I personally expect that SOPA will eventually pass and then portions of it will get struck down as unconstitutional.
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Thanks for the link, and to the others, for the recommendation. What a great talk!
You can do so, however, note that you still need acceptance for mainline.

Obvious things such as line numbers, are obviously accepted once implemented properly.

Note: the below comment is actually inaccurate, I though ruby tag was the language (as the author mentioned js as alternative).
Keeping it for the comments discussing it, but keep in mind I was actually wrong.

Things like a ruby tag might be more complicated than you'd think.

You see, the main difference between Firefox and Chrome (yeah, it's not the UI! ;P) is ideology.

Firefox folks believe in a standard and compatible web. Chrome folks believe in .. implement whatever we think is faster than what we have (or /flamebait hat on, whatever helps Google make money/adverts/lock-in users).

Supporting ruby might fall in the "but it's not standard" "it splits the web" category.

And that's be correct, in my opinion. So you might want to check on that before actually getting the code done, unless you plan to fork.
But doesn't that destroy some of the main good points about vim? Like keeping your fingers on the same spots on the keyboard? You could re-map hjkl to whatever the dvorak equivalents and then you'd probably have an easier time navigating around.
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QWERTY, but only because I haven't yet had the time to purchase stickers or a Dvorak keyboard so I can learn Dvorak.

It also doesn't help at all that the iPhone doesn't have a software Dvorak keyboard layout (jailbreaking is not an option).
Another big productivity helper is to be less hesitant to discard a piece of hardware that is not working well. Repairs often take more time than you expect. It takes discipline to do this because as a tech person you tend to like to troubleshoot things. Examples are things like a router that needs to be restarted a lot or a keyboard with a sticky key. Sometimes it's just acknowledging that you spent money on something that never really worked well enough and you should just throw it out and buy something better. I find that often times I hold onto something because I know I paid a lot for it, not because it's working well.
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Also:

Deaths due to overdose of opiates, for example, accounted for 9% of deaths in young Australian adults under the age of 50 in 1998 and for more than 10% in several European cities despite the fact that they were used by less than 1% of adults in any year.

572kg of methadone, which is not the only heroin substitute, is prescribed each year. The cost of the medical staff, the supervised consumption, security around it etc is enormous. That is for a population of 5 million people in the whole of Scotland.

No evidence exists of any sustained heroin shortage or reduction in the number of heroin users in the UK over the study period. In fact, all indices of the availability and use of heroin, including deaths due to heroin overdose, rose steadily during the study period,41 as did the number of heroin dependent people being treated by methadone maintenance.

http://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c4851.full
I have the same problem with your comment that I have with the article. What you're doing is a kind of kitschy psuedo-honesty that I think the author is engaging in to some extent. None of the author's admissions were that risky. They were refreshing to read and perhaps a little courageous, but it's stuff you might have guessed was there already. If, hypothetically, his wife left him because of a sexual fetish, that would be no more or less of a non-sequitur than anything else he admitted to, but much more potentially damaging to his reputation. (Again, the preceding was a hypothetical.)

It's not that A.J. Jacobs should have to hold himself to that standard of the subject he's reporting on, but that he's purporting-to-do-so-but-not-really, which is irritating. For some reason his (and your) version of "radical honesty" becomes a game where you just craft a succession of start-and-stop sentences with cute, largely forgivable admissions of self-interest. I'm not against humor but I'm suspicious that for some it functions as a coping mechanism that substitutes for sincere engagement with an uncomfortable idea.

I did not discover this article by browsing Esquire. It was part of Luke Muelhauser's list of favorite articles.
Give them a break. It's been out for just 6 months.

I bet that in the early days of Facebook & Twitter, they were not releasing their number of active users either.

I remember when I signed up for Facebook in 2007. None of my friends were there. They were still on Friendster.

History should teach us a lesson that growing a social network takes time.
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Don't forget Stephen Elop. Although the full extent of the damage will only become obvious on 2012, it's fairly certain he doomed Nokia.
I started using Dvorak in November. At work we have shared computers, so I don't get to be exclusively QWERTY or Dvorak. In a way it's like becoming bilingual, what with all the mental code-switching.

It's extremely frustrating, but once the initial 3-day hump is past, the learning curve smooths out. I have no reason for learning Dvorak other than the sake of learning itself. If you aren't pushing yourself and destroying your comfort boundaries, what ARE you doing?
Considering the qualities of the republican candidates trying to meet him in the general elections, he could be the lesser of two evils. But frankly, I am so disillusioned with both parties, I don't even know how to feel anymore.
Chrome folks believe in .. implement whatever helps Google make money/adverts/lock-in users.

Citation needed.
Ha...an important nuance that gets overlooked in most hindsight evaluations.
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Pretty much exactly the same for me.

I still can't use Colemak on iOS devices, so regular QWERTY encounters still happen, but I didn't lose much of my QWERTY speed after I switched, something I feared might happen.

Before Colemak I tried Dvorak for about a month, but uncomfortable locations of common shortcuts seemed bit unfriendly - great for typing, not as great for computer use.
I switched to Dvorak two years ago, and though I'm a bit faster, it's not by much.

The benefit of Dvorak is comfort, rather than overall typing speed, and that's something that can't be easily measured. Most of the time, your hands stay on the home row, and I've noticed that the shorter travel distance for my fingers lets me type for longer periods of time without needing to take a break, instead of just typing faster.

I liken it to headphones - when you switch away from iPod headphones to an expensive audiophile pair, you don't notice a huge difference until you have to go back, and what you previously thought was fine now sounds horrible. I used to be fine with qwerty, but now whenever I use it I can't help but notice "wow, my hands are moving all over the place".
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QWERTY Canadian CSA ie with support for french and english and many other languages. Apple got it right. But PC sold in Quebec come with some awful mixup (multiple colors per key to support 2 optional layouts)

Is it just because doing what everybody does seems to the the thing to do in a PC construction business?

Can't be IPR because the work was done by parts of the goverment, and IIRC this still is the mandatory keyboard layouy for governmental sale
Signed up and registered a domain. Nice, quick and simple. Linked it to my hosting acct so didn't use Badger DNS. They do have a nice options page that allows you to install google apps mail,docs and calender so you don't have to enter any of the cname and mx records. Pretty slick so far.
I'm not sure if you mean WP7 or really Windows 7, but in the case of the former, C# and XAML, typically.
It's just like privacy related issues. People seem to be totally apathetic about it.
Agreed. I left Facebook a year ago after I realized I don't care about 99% of the stuff I read from my "friends". I'm much happier with Google+ thus far and very interested to see where it goes in the future. To me it has far more relevance and prospects than Facebook since it integrates with other google products like search.
I spent a year using dvorak and did notice a slight comfort increase. I've since reverted to qwerty due to device inertia. Currently the biggest interface ergonomics problem I am trying to get through is using the mouse less in windows
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Craigslist does have 'ads', of a sort: all postings in certain categories, in certain markets, require a posting fee.

I think Craiglist, while not a non-profit, is actually a very good model for the path Wikipedia chose not to take. That is, don't just accept the default ad-inserts, but figure out a unique way to charge for promotional inserts that is complementary to your main model. (The fees actually make Craigslist better, by filtering the volume/quality of posts in certain economically-valuable categories.)

Mozilla, a non-profit, is another example. The search-engine-default that they sell is now making them $300 million a year, but at negligible cost to their users (compared to the alternative of giving that placement away, via some hypothetical revenue-oblivious process of evaluation or install-time-choice).

Once upon a time, Wikipedia could have kicked off an effort to find a promotional-placement model that was unique to Wikipedia, and considerate of concerns about the influences of commerce and advertising budgets.

I think such an effort would have yielded interesting and beneficial results: if any organization had a chance to find a way to balance concerns and insulate editorial processes, Wikipedia had a chance. And today they might be a $billion-a-year budget nonprofit instead of a $40million-a-year budget nonprofit. (That would introduce plenty of other existential risks and opportunities different from their current focus.)

But, they went another way, based on some really strong preferences from a large and important segment of the stakeholders. And, that path has still worked very well for Wikipedia. The idea that "no advertising" is a necessary part of the recipe is now core doctrine, and can't easily be reevaluated. It would take a major crisis or external challenge to change; in the meantime these discussions are just interesting thought experiments.
Just signed up. If the service is as awesome as this looks, this will be my new default registrar. I take it since you're new, there's no API, is there? I've been looking into using name.com's for a new project.
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If you follow the history of Wikipedia, ads have been discussed many times. The consensus has always been "no, absolutely not."

If the WMF put even a single ad on Wikipedia as an experiment, there would be a community uproar and probably at least one fork (much as the Spanish Wikipedia forked years ago under threat of ads, and didn't rejoin for years, even though the ads themselves did not persist.)

Personally, I think that's as it should be.
The ruby tag is not related to the ruby language

http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-ruby-element

Seems to be part of the standard...
I tried Dvorak, and while I like the layout it's just not worth it. The number of exceptions that you have to make (certain apps, shortcut muscle memory, other devices, other peoples' systems, games, etc.) becomes a real problem very quickly.

If I only had to type on my own computer's keyboard and nothing else, I'd use Dvorak.
That's interesting. Were the people most offended the ones you lied to most frequently?

Also, certainly, committing to telling the truth doesn't mean having to utter every thought that comes to mind and answer every question put to you.
It depends. The lady in this article wants to avoid the army of lawyers on the other side, so a quick resolution for her small claims conflict makes sense.

I agree that public policy matters need the right to appeal.
With ARC, the only extra time is spent avoiding circular data structures, which is quite easy.
Read TFA, it argues pretty convincingly that there will not be pirates because A) you can't hide in space and B) Any ship is a WMD, so governments will do anything to keep them out of the hands of criminals, and protection rackets would be a far more profitable use for them than raiding commerce.
I wish they had an opt-in ad program so people who don't want to donate can still help.
Maybe they are spreading "propaganda" or have "weapons of planet destruction" and we can't let that unpredictable species have them!
I have a Google account I use for analytics, webmaster tools, etc... and Google is always prompting me to turn Google+ on as well. It wasn't automatic with my account. I had the account before Google+ existed though so maybe it is just automatic with new signups?
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as a Mass resident, none of that makes me happy.
This question is a litmus test. Anybody who is unable to correctly answer this question, and articulate the reasoning for the answer, is not equipped to operate successfully in the age of free culture.
Personally, I like it as it was. Had it been a guide, it probably would have been much longer.
> I've never been a fan of Facebook.

This is something that's puzzled me. Is it the privacy implications, or just a general dislike for the company? The way I see it, it's a publishing platform for posts shorter than blog entries and longer than tweets. I read things that my friends write, and I write things for them to read. While there are games and pages and things, you don't have to use them.

I've had friends switch (switch, not start to use both) from Facebook to Google+, and treat it in exactly the same way as they treated Facebook. So I'm not sure if Google+ is better by its own merit, or just that Facebook has a bad reputation.
>You say it when you think it.

Anyone who can't think faster than they can talk ought to go get a job washing dishes somewhere. So people are still needing to filter what they say, since no one can say everything they think.
Institutional arbitration often just mentions how the arbitrators will be appointed.

Ad hoc arbitration (i.e. not using institutional rules) often specify the arbitrator(s).
I think such ones are usually fixed if you make a public fuss about it.
Sad but true.
Give them a break. Facebook first started reporting the active user counts at least 5 years after launch. Let us give G+ at least a year.

A separate issue is how to accurately track "active users" given that G+ is getting so tightly integrated with almost all popular Google services.
Yes. You have to manually cancel the Google Profile and Google+ account for new signups.
Because you can just "go to line" and the current line is also displayed already.
having the line numbers in a side column is redundant, so its far from critical (that's why the bug didnt get fixed).

Personally i also prefer to have the line number in the status bar, because side bar adds visual clutter and isn't really useful.

It's the same with VIM btw. Default setup doesn't have line numbers but you see them in the status bar. Some people like to have line numbers on the side tho.
QWERTY with American keymap on my MacBook with support for dead keys and QWERTY with ABNT2 brazilian layout like this: http://oui.com.br/n/e107_files/images/teclado-abnt2.png
I read a lot this year. Catch-22 was hilarious, insightful, and my personal favorite.
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I wonder if Facebook is becoming the new Myspace in terms of quality of content shared. With Google you have the sense that some people are using it to replace their blogs and possibly connecting on a more professional level whereas Facebook is more about catching up with others and sharing random thoughts/opinions via short messages and likes/dislikes. The first one to have a tighter integration with Twitter and has the most adoption among Twitter users will win. Linkedin --> Google + <--- Facebook
Also another thing, Google App users are already opted in by default and with more and more companies using Google Apps, that only reinforces the more professional connections.
Alright, I did not actually know that.

i'd say go right ahead.

I'll note also that it's a draft - something that annoys me with HTML5. New drafts are sent every next day or so, so it's not actually very standard. It's a different story though.
OK, after some effort I got the first of the MPQS programs to compile. Unfortunately it fails with a runtime error so I can't evaluate it.

The program itself requires two files to exist before it can operate. Then it asks for the input number in base 10000 as a set of digits separated by spaces or returns. This is pretty bizarre by today's standards.

It does succeed in factoring very tiny numbers, but it seems to have bugs which prevent it from working for large numbers.

The double large prime variant of the MPQS seems to allow numbers up to a pretty small bound. This strongly indicates that it is not competitive.

I'll see if I can get anywhere with the double large prime variant version (edit: I tried the second program and it fails with the same runtime error), but given the extremely poor state of the code (no comments, full of gotos, no indication of structure, no documentation, no test suite, buggy, very poor interface, etc.) I would say this code is not going to be particularly interesting to modern day researchers.

At the same time, it is a tremendously amazing accomplishment that one man essentially toiled away in secret and created a massive number theory library like this! When I google his name I find nothing. Was he associated with an institution? Did he publish any papers? I know he didn't use the web, so that explains why he doesn't have a web presence, but it is odd not to find him referred to anywhere. Or am I just looking in the wrong place?
Imagine Google made a live read-only Wikipedia mirror, with AdSense advertisements. Then, donated all resulting revenues to the Wikimedia Foundation.

Would that action be lawful evil or chaotic good?

What if it multiplied the WMF budget by 20X or more while reducing server expenses?

What if Bing did it? Blekko? DuckDuckGo?

Does it help at all that by the CC-SA license, the preferences of the Foundation or community really shouldn't matter: this is a completely legal tactic? (Could that help solve the potential financial-motivation-crowding issues: the fact that such a bonanza occurred "against the community's wishes"?)
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I don't think this is so much a question of liability as it is one of customer perception. If 'GoDaddy Secured' sites aren't really secure and start getting hacked, then 'secured by GoDaddy' signs will mean no more than "hackable in 10 minutes or it's free". We'll see how GoDaddy squirms when that happens.
You might find Sissela Bok's books, Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life and Secrets, interesting. Boiled down, her arguments amount to 1) there is rarely adequate justification for lying, and 2) the problem of secrets is far more complex. The arguments are very good and well-supported.
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G+ spam would probably be closer to blog spam than email spam. It'd be hard to get any noticeable volume of direct spam going from a single account given the asymmetric circle relations. But spam postings would still be useful for e.g. black hat SEO, or for making a Google account look more valid for the purposes of abusing other Google services.
You used to be able to easily scrape through CL RSS -> Yahoo! Pipes. Dunno if you're able to these days though.
While I can't provide a citation, I believe that the contrapositive is true: if it doesn't help Google, it's not going to be implemented. Right now, Google's interests are aligned with a standardised, compatible web, and when Google gets big enough, or greedy enough, it's going to take Chrome in its own direction. Opera still fares badly at Google's services, but they consider IE worth supporting.
Oh, it returned appropriate-looking TTLs even at the time; we didn't watch them go down to zero and wrap to their original value, but I suspect that's what they did.

Also, if you're not on RCN, you aren't getting the same NS1 as someone who is. (Again, I assume anycast or load balancing, but I'm handwaving; I haven't understood routing since gated.conf changed.)

My boss was on RCN at home, and I was a few miles away on Comcast. We both pointed dig at 207.172.3.8 and hammered on our domain name; he saw stale results, I saw fresh ones.

Would've loved to have the expertise and tools set up to figure out what went wrong, but we just went to bed and by lunch it sorted itself out.
I had the hat on.

But for the sake of discussion, please keep entire quotes, instead of rewriting what I wrote initially.

Chrome folks believe in .. implement whatever we think is faster than what we have

For example SPDY is faster. NaCl is faster. That's not bad. It's just not the same focus.

Now, NaCl also helps making money and helps with lock-in for example.

There are several other examples in the -webkit functions and some things which are not part of the actual webkit (only Chrome's version) such as Dart and the like.