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How Google can save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year using energysaver?
Google Profits From Illegal Sponsored Ads in UK
It's why open source and in general community projects work. It's why you in school or even when you are doing home work it is "meh... 300 words", while you write thousands of words to you friends not even noticing it. It's also why you hate to read books for school, even if you spend days and nights reading books or Wikipedia.

In job you often do stuff because to have to (earn money) and in your free time you work on things that you are passionate about.
I like the ritual of a manual grinder:

http://www.amazon.com/Hario-MSS-1B-Mini-Coffee-Grinder/dp/B0...

It only takes 20 seconds or so for a single cup, and it gets your blood moving a little bit first.
The reason i assumed that is because the comments discuss money. Why are we talking about money if it's just a question of quality?

I'm sure you could build a stable and sufficient desk from raw materials for $40-$100. Way less than the value of what goes on it. What's money got to do with anything?
I'm pretty sure several of my gray hairs can be attributed to the facebook API.
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Noted. I've turned off Cloudflare. I've never heard of anyone having trouble like this before. I'm on a mac too, and have never seen this.
Motorola flip phones from the 90's had it right when the case back was the battery also and you could choose a nicely integrated slim or extended battery option based on your preference.

For peeps younger than me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_MicroTAC
It's even smoother than the iOS version in Chrome 16 for Mac. Amazing implementation.
I guess you're also unhappy about the "jailbreaking" metaphor then, or about "opiate for the masses".

I was just responding to this phrase from the article: "But I cannot respect their decision to continue to work on this platform that perpetuates our imprisonment"
I've found the tool Techcrunch used to draw their logo
You do know what the cost of the prevous round of tlds was > £1,000,000.

Btw I used to be one of the owners of .coop :-)
Research shows cells influence their own destiny
Gross. Health care included + bonuses.
I absolutely feel this authors pain. I laughed out loud the entire time reading this.

I'd love to see this article rewritten:Facebook API edition!
The fact that they keep their money with the manager? Sure there might be a few people who don't know what they are doing (lottery winners?) but if you have enough money to buy into a hedge fund, you more than likely are paying attention.
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Oh, it doesn't stand for Mini Gruber? :-)
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Seems to be more a direct promotion for IE9 http://i.imgur.com/pLMyF.jpg
I think by foolish he implies that all of us in this world were born naked. None of us are omniscient or above the other.

Here's a 1-minute interview which embodies the same message http://youtu.be/kYfNvmF0Bqw
I don't see why you think A applies B at all here. I have worked both in institutional investment and in a hedge fund, and it's pretty fucking hard to read a term sheet for anybody.
I'm no game dev, but wouldn't porting from OpenGL to WebGL be much simpler than porting to 2D Canvas? I know IE doesn't support WebGL, so I'm just wondering how much extra work they created for themselves.
have you tried

have you tried
http://www.michael-noll.com/tutorials/running-hadoop-on-ubun...

and then migrate to multi node

http://www.michael-noll.com/tutorials/running-hadoop-on-ubun...
It's a really good page in quora.
My 0p comment is silly math (take 240p, remove 240p worth of video, the remainder is 0p) to make a point that 240p is actually good enough to watch since what the author presented cannot be watched at all.

Yes there are many benefits to having a transcript, but those arguments apply just as much to 1080p as to 240p.
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It's not even through Amazon.co.uk available for me: http://i.imgur.com/tyB57.png. Ugh, I hate country restrictions!

Since it is free, would it be legal for anyone to send it to me?
I am glad Jonathan enjoys seeing and living in another place and it has always been a dream of mine to live/study/work in Asia but one question: is it not a HUGE trade-off to move to a place where the ONLY thing you can actually do is teach English and English culture? Because for all the other jobs, they will rather take a local and for any leading positions they will definitely not take you and unless you actually have money to invest, they could not care less about you.

Considering how I am European, it would also mean a HUGE trade-off in social security and insurance, health care and other things.
Ah, nevermind, it's also free on Amazon.de: http://www.amazon.de/Robin-Nixons-HTML5-Course-ebook/dp/B005... and http://www.amazon.de/Robin-Nixons-Crash-Course-ebook/dp/B006...
"AT&T bought cingular" is not really accurate.

Sequence of events:

2000 - SBC and BellSouth jointly create a company called "Cingular Wireless".

2002 - AT&T spins off a company called "AT&T Wireless".

2004 - Cingular buys out AT&T Wireless and merges it completely into Cingular.

2005 - SBC buys out AT&T, and rebrands themselves as "AT&T". So at this point Cingular is jointly owned by AT&T and BellSouth.

2006 - AT&T buys out BellSouth. Cingular is now wholly owned by AT&T.

2007 - Given that, Cingular rebrands itself as AT&T (legally "AT&T Mobility").
>If 30 billion is 2% of the assets, it means that they were managing 1500 billion dollars. The biggest hedge fund in the world, Bridgewater Associates, manages 125 billion dollars.

Uh? I'm not sure what you're talking about here. Man Investments had close to 100 billion under management at their peak and they're a public hedge (very rare). I thought Blackrock was the biggest. They have over 3 trillion under management, though that's everything. 1500 seems small to me given you only need 15 hedges with 100 billion to reach that number.
Is there any "HELP NEEDED" programming websites?
Just wondering: Is there any website where people could ask for help/contributions for some software project? In github for example you can send a pull request and contribute in that way but is there any place the request comes from the author him/herself?
That's about right for Greece as well, if I recall correctly.
I think the assumption in the article was that music industry means the intermediaries, not the artists. Artists seem to have many means to invent new business models (Louis C.K. being a recent example, albeit not from the area of music), but the traditional labels less so.
I think you should try many different things. It's too much pressure to think you need to have the perfect job right now. Your goal at this point is to learn as much as possible about yourself in order to have the most data about what you're good, what you like to do, and what you think you want to do. I wrote a blog post that touches on the subject.

http://dalethoughts.com/2012/01/should-you-diversify-or-shou...
Yet most people do, so it IS a valid concern.

I hope you don't find yourself in a bad spot. I made mistakes and now I can't quit my job - it'll be a learned lesson, I hope :)
I first saw this and was pretty impressed.

Then I saw this and was less so.

http://www.youmobile.org/blogs/entry/Huawei-Reveals-the-Worl...
Sky Broadband in UK first with 100 Gigabit optical network
>Does the fund manager cop 20% of the loss?

Of course not. This idea that the person who carries the most (financial!) risk gets the biggest pay off rarely actually exists in the real world.
Good to hear it is working out for you, if I had any inclination towards having a standing desk at home I'd certainly consider doing it that way.
If you don't have a secure machine to enter passwords in, it doesn't matter where you store them.
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They were back when they were regularly producing 12-20% returns. That hasn't been the case for years. I can't imagine why anyone is still in a 2/20 hedge.
Agree 100% with the sentiment, although what you are asking for is really up to the display and battery manufacturers. Alternatively if any smart hacker can come up with some power consumption reduction algorithms then they are more than welcome to do so and then proceed laughing all the way to the bank.
> Is it possible in other statically compiled strongly typed languages? I don't think so?

Sure it is :) see C# http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb383977.aspx
Joe sixpack, presumably. It might feel more logical to think things out verbally and explicitly, but in non-engineering problems Joe's "burkean conservative" approach of not messing with things he doesn't understand and blindly relying on his built-in social heuristics leads to better outcomes.
I helped handle PyCon Surveys in the past. One question that got over 300 responses (a good sample) was covering historically, "overall satisfaction with PyCon" 38.4% 118 said "Very High" and 32.6% said "High".

I do not know if cronyism created that or not; if it did, then let's keep doing that. It is an amazing level of satisfaction.
Nonetheless, the term "tail call" should apply to what he is talking about.

If "tail call recursion" means recursing as the last thing you do before returning, then he is saying to send a message as the last thing you do.

AKA send a message as a tail call instead of returning the value of that message.
Without the humanities, I'm not a big fan of the human experience.

And I say that as someone who quite enjoys STEM. There's a lifetime of wonderful experience to be had outside of STEM.
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@OlegYch's solution also represents a good trade off of complexity vs. convenience: his solution is simpler but doesn't get along so nicely with type inference; mine gets on just fine with type inference, but is more complex and depends (no pun intended) on dependent method types. As ever YMMV.
Chapuzas
I would like to introduce you to

http://www.cyanogenmod.com/

http://miuiandroid.com/

two efforts among many that demonstrate that it isn't "totally" controlled by the carriers.
Nudity detection with JavaScript and HTMLCanvas
Other hedges were invested in Maddof and you can bet pensions were in some of those.
School laptops scam has wide lessons
The claim that 25% of monitors are CRTs is at least five years old (read: at least five years out of date).
FBI chooses Accenture to modernise its HR systems
OT, I know but it's Tor, not TOR.
A question that bugs me about these kind of locked phones: What about emergency calls?

I don't have a smartphone so I don't know how it works, but it seems from what I've seen that modern cellphones prevent people from using them for emergency calls unless they know the swipe/unlock code. Is that correct?

edit: just googled, looks like android and iphone have an 'emergency call' button on the lock screen. Fair enough.
Setting a Custom Icon for your External Drives in Windows Explorer
No abysmal documentation is I am afraid endemic these days look at the mess that is googles API's

Just listing methods that some programtic tool created is not documenting an API.
Yeah, as with many of the commenters here, I'm not convinced about this article (I live in HK)

As for this masterpiece of bad science: "For my money, CCTV News English, a channel offered by China’s major state television broadcaster, is more fair and balanced than Fox News."

I put it to you. Can you think of any major news channel less fair and balanced than Fox News?

It's a non-starter for a comparison, unless he's trying to make the (mostly valid) point that American news is a complete joke.
Safari doesn't support WebGL either because of security issues (AFAIK only Firefox does) so while it might be easier it wouldn't work.
"Hiroshima was destroyed in a flash by a bomb dropped from a propeller-driven B-29 of the U.S. Army Air Force, on the warm morning of Monday, August 6, 1945."

Nice use of subtle patriotism here. Wouldn't it have been a little more impartial to write it as below?

"Hiroshima was destroyed in a flash by the U.S. Army with a bomb which was dropped from a propeller-driven B-29, on the warm morning of Monday, August 6, 1945."
Yep, I'd imagine most TV manuals now include the GPL somewhere.
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I also know of at least a couple of large investment banks that have significant Haskell projects in house for doing things like options modelling.
The domain seems to be back up now. I still use e quite a bit, but your right they haven't updated nearly enough.
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There is no denying that the economic recession in the United Kingdom system, the United States of America, and many parts of the world recently. The majority of the people were due to unemployment and redundancy in the face of the global financial crisis. Now they have to strive for their great work.
I like news:yc on iOS. I've only used it on an iPhone, so I can't speak as to how it works on an iPad. Even if it was just scaled up, though, I think it's still a great app.
chrome supports it too, which is higher than safari in use. firefox + chrome covers more together than any other 2 browsers in combination doesn't it?

but I see what you mean about compatibility, with canvas they get ie9 + firefox + chrome + safari, almost everything for desktops.
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How to get a cosmos from nothing
Which is annoying as all hell to write directly. I know it's a cliche to bitch about how 'ugh, language X doesn't have feature Y' but many callback-spaghettisms of Node would go away with call/cc.
Meh. Have these people actually worked on a farm before? Hoeing the ground or driving a tractor is just as boring as working in a factory.

I understand (and even agree!) with some of their points about education - but those videos are just horrifically ignorant in places.
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Mobile phone signal booster
Mobile phone signal booster is very essential tool that is straightforward on installing and not tough to accomplish which is great idea that also supports different kinds of data protocols.
Aging kills something of the order of 100,000 people every day, about twice as many people as all other causes put together: hunger, violence, accidents, etc.

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2002/12/death-is-an-outra...

The majority of those deaths are amongst the poor. Aging also causes great suffering for hundreds of millions of people on a daily basis. The majority of those people are also poor - the poor suffer far more greatly than the wealthy because of degenerative aging due to their comparative lack of access to what palliative treatments do exist.

If not for aging, the poor might have a far better chance of bettering their lot in life - they'd have no imposed time limit on working their way out of poverty, no need for large families to support them in their old age, and so forth.

So your hair shirt view of the world is completely wrong. Aging is the greatest problem, and like all universal problems falls most heavily on the poor.
> Ask them what they need. Build it.

In my experience it is:

Ask them what they do. Ask them what they want. Distill that down to what they need. Build it.

People regularly don't know what they need but if you ask the right questions you can figure out what is actually important to them and what is stuff they think the need but actually don't.
In my opinion blocking sites like TPB and making it such a big deal makes people who do not know the site even more curious of what is going on and will most likely boost the usage of this kind of sites.

And just a note on the EU court of justice decision to case back from 2004: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15871961
I've actually run into this problem. Before I knew to use IO.Path.Combine I would manually append paths together using "\", and one of the bug reports was that paths should use the yen sign.
Memory card adapter
Memory card adapter is a great device that works with flash memory card and allows user to store large amount of data capacities where they can store their personal or important data.
excellent video!
I don't agree that the difference between the two phrasings changes the partiality of the sentence.
I remember when I got to university (Nantes, France). On my very first day, another guy said to me: "By the way if you are shopping around an internet connection, go with Free, they rock!". No other user has ever said that to me about a telecoms company. Not once.

And they did rock. It cost 29.99€ per month for 2MB/s at the time (2003), which was 4 to 20 times the competition (my brother had a 128kb/s connection, I seem to recall - it took ages to download songs from napster. It kept on getting better, too. Within 6 months I had 8Mb/s, and a year after that 18, then 24.

The modem was huge, but it told the time in letters of green, and had its own IP adress. I lived in a tiny flat in the same building as my other brother, so we trailed a network cable across the corridor - enough bandwidth for both of us. We moved to a new flat, and they upgraded the modem, or Freebox (every modem in France is now called *box)

That was one of the most successful market disruptions I have had the opportunity to witness. I think M. Niel just did it again. He's turned the leaders of a market into followers, desperately copying his every move. Watch and you'll see. They already started, trying to undercut what they thought was Free's offer with Sosh (Orange) and Red (SFR). Too little, too late. I think the market will vote with it's wallet. Things should get interesting.
God is just.

God says...
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of that which is ever present? Who shall hold the heart of man, that
it may stand still, and see how eternity ever still-standing,
neither past nor to come, uttereth the times past and to come? Can
my hand do this, or the hand of my mouth by speech bring about a thing
so great?

See, I answer him that asketh, "What did God before He made heaven
and earth?" I answer not as one is said to have done merrily
(eluding the pressure of the question), "He was preparing hell
(saith he) for pryers int
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I just wanted to say that I really liked that sentence:

"Adults are just kids with money."

It's funny, yet true.

I also think my intellectual prime was around that age, even if I never read young adult fiction. Well, in school maybe.
To be honest (and this isn't aimed at you), I'm just bored of tediously overstated metaphor across the board when it comes to the Googe / Apple discussions. I think it does nothing for useful debate and just flames the tribalism and I think that there are genuinely interesting things to discuss that are being obscured.

That and wanting to make the soap in the showers gag.

But as I say, not specifically aimed at you, I'm just getting increasingly anti-metaphor in what should be factual discussions between technical people.
> This deal is great in France, then go five minutes across any of its borders and you'll be paying a multiple of Euros per megabyte.

No you don't:

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/roaming/r...

"As of July 2011:

Prices for mobile roaming calls are reduced further with a maximum tariff of €0.35 per minute for calls made and €0.11 per minute for calls received.

The maximum wholesale prices for data roaming fall from €0.80 to €0.50 per MB."

Still not cheap, but certainly not multiples of Euros per MB.
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The two don't compare at all. The Audio Data API simply allows you to write custom sample data to audio buffers. The Web Audio API is a complete audio routing/processing graph complete with all the features you'd expect of a good audio engine. The Audio Data API is pretty useless for games compared to the Web Audio API.
It should be mentioned that this creates problems of its own. Toronto Police recently released their numbers, and 18% of the calls to 911 were pocket dials created by those "emergency call" buttons. We're talking hundreds of thousands of calls clogging 911 each year, each requiring the operator listen to the whole pocket dial, attempt to make contact, call back, and if no contact is possible, send a squad car to investigate.

What we've got isn't working.
Do not forget that France Telecom had at the time of opening the market the best network in Europe with a totally homogeneous DSLAM setup and incredibly good backbone. With the rules to force FT to open its systems to the other players, it was possible for them to piggy back on the best network, offer an incredibly good quality of service for very cheap while at the same time build their own network.

So, you can thanks the ARCEP and FT.

In Germany this was not the case and the quality over the country varies a lot. If you are lucky you have as good or better than in France, if not you have a 1 Mbps connection.
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Ouch. Over here, if you don't want the phone subsidy (maybe you like your current phone), a certain amount is deducted from your monthly payments (so you still get the money back).
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I've always wondered why +MG Siegler disliked Android so much. After reading this article, I find his arguments to be less than compelling. He equates Android's failed dream of turning carriers into dumb data pipes, with the worst sort of insidious backstabbing. I'll admit that I was angry when Google sided with Verizon on axing Wireless Net Neutrality, but it wasn't going to happen any other way. Does he honestly think that Google was the deciding factor for the FCC? Does he think that the FCC was going to say no to Verizon, but since Google said that it was OK, they decided to skip on Wireless Net Neutrality? I'm not defending Google's decision, but I'm confident that Apple and Microsoft would have done the same thing if they were in the same position. To pretend otherwise is disingenuous.

Also, what does Android being open source have anything to do with his argument? He sneers at Android calling itself open. Why? Sure, Google made a bad decision by supporting Verizon's take on Net Neutrality, but how does that make their source code less open for modification? It may mean that we can't treat carriers as dumb data pipes, but that fact makes Android less open?
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The other problem with increasingly slim phones is they actually become harder to hold for some people. The 4G iPod Touch suffers from this. Incredibly thin, and easy to drop. I usually find a case to bulk it up.
That look doesn't work any better than would Mitt Romney in a hoodie.

You don't look comfortable in your own clothes.
After spending some time exploring different functional languages, if FP does make it at all - my money would be on Haskell. There is something to be said for focused languages that does one thing but does it really well, and the feeling of security when a certain style is enforced over a codebase.

I probably wouldn't use it for anything today, but in another couple years maybe. The ecosystem seems like it's reaching critical mass.
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They could have supported WebGL for better performance on browsers which support it with a fallback to Canvas 2D for IE9. But I'm sure Microsoft didn't want them to have it running faster on other browsers :)