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So it is unethical to try to help save 100,000 people from a painful, struggling death each and every day? I've always found the mindset bizarre in which abstract ideas and concepts (like "future sustainment of humanity"), utterly disconnected from any form of rigorous examination or critique, are thought important enough to justify the sacrifice tens of millions of lives - every year - and perpetuate the unrelieved pain and madness suffered constantly by hundreds of millions more. You would drown the world in blood to make yourself feel just a little more comfortable in your own self-delusions.

You don't have to go far to see that rigorous examination of the world shows overpopulation, "sustainability" concerns on a global scale, and other outgrowths of Malthusianism to be myths and illusions, things that vanish as soon as you start looking into them.

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2009/11/overpopulation-to...

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2009/08/there-is-no-overp...

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2010/02/malthusian-vision...

Malthusian ideas were wrong when they first emerged, and have not stopped being wrong at any time since then. They are wrong now - and dangerous, as they lead people to support destructive acts of relinquishment and regulation.
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I'm going to assume the internet has already somehow collectively dealt with the fact that the Android name for a drop-down list control is a "Spinner."
In that era we're talking about people like Hejlsberg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg) -- architect of Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C# and .NET. Almost certainly worth $1,000,000 -- I hope his signing bonus was a lot more than that. Clearly not paid to sit on his thumbs. Nothing monopolistic about paying top $ to hire people away from the competition.
In my opinion, this is really the heart of the matter. It doesn't just give power to the executive branch. If you create and pass a law that potentially makes a significant percentage of the population into criminals, you have a bargaining chip of unprecedented power.

The greatest power that criminal prosecutors have is discretion - the power to charge or not charge any person with a crime. They can, and do on a daily basis, threaten charges that carry significant penalties and essentially force their target to enter into what they call a non-prosecution agreement. These are voluntary agreements, essentially saying that the government will not prosecute you if you follow the terms of the agreement. There are no rules for what the government can ask of the target in these agreements. They can quite literally require anything the government wants of the target - even things that a judge could not legally impose upon a guilty defendant to do as part of a criminal sentence.

They can't throw hundreds of millions of people in prison - there simply aren't enough prisons - but they can have hundreds of millions of people doing whatever they want them to do.
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Inconsolata patched for Powerline here if anyone is interested: http://cl.ly/3G2414080H1I0c2v3B27
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Here are the numbers for one of my sites, not related to IT in any way:

Google 94.3%
Yahoo 2.6%
Bing 1.8%
Yandex 0.63%
Ask 0.37%
AOL 0.23%

EDIT:

Here's another non-IT site with 13 million monthly visits:

Google 89.9%
Yahoo 6.4%
Bing 2.96%
Ask 0.37%
AOL 0.21%
Yandex 0.12%
Well, this piece of news certainly just killed my "Windows 8 App" project. Even though I really do like Microsoft's tech, I just cannot support this type of behavior in any way. Maybe with mono I'll at least be able to salvage the server side parts and target Android based devices instead.
As a parent who made the decision to pull my kids out of school and to home school them, it is a scary thing. Every parent that I've met has struggled with the question of "Is this the right choice? if I choose differently will my child have a 'better' life?"

Once my wife and I decided, we were 'all in' as it were and put the angst of 'what if' behind us. It turned out to be the right choice for our kids, they thrived, and while it certainly had an economic impact, its hard to say of the three choices, private school + two parents working, public school + two parents working, or homeschool + one parent working what the opportunity cost was or would turn out to be, the opportunity to engage kids in learning for learning's sake is priceless.
When I did an Etsy app, there was no affiliate program, which seemed to largely stem from the fact that Etsy charged to little to sellers that they were barely making a profit. The idea of giving a cut to ousters seemed like a bad idea. I'm not sure if it's changed. But when one considers the number of Etsy apps that have been made just for the joy of it, it would seem to be in Etsy's favor to incentivize developers once they can get the numbers to work out.
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How does this change the process for uploading a new torrent to TPB?
Totally agree with you. WP7 behaves the way you describe.
So what? That's not part of the standard search. Since when is Google not allowed to advertise its own services alongside standard search results? What's next, do you whine that Bing has links to MSN and Hotmail?

Twitter actually contaminates ordinary search results on its site with paid tweets, and you're mad Google puts some Google+ content off to one side? WTF?
So it's bad for Microsoft to force rules onto the manufacturers, but not for the manufacturers to force rules onto the consumers? How come?

In my opinion, both are bad. No, the manufacturers shouldn't have to make it easy (or make any effort at all) to help consumers install other OSs, but locking up the devices on purpose is no better than what MS is doing.
Those tabs are beautiful at the end.

A little off topic, but at the end where it says browser compatibility is "everything but IE" got me wondering. Does Microsoft's IE team care about their product at all?

I thought with IE9 being so standard-compliant and 6 finally dead, tiresome browser-compatibility fixes were a thing of the past. I'm sure Microsoft's IE team reads about how much their browser sucks, right? Why does IE continue to suck?
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The original article had a link to this (http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrents-future-dht-pex-and-magne...) which I found a bit more helpful explaining the concepts.
I never said ARM. ARM != mobile, a point you make yourself but apparently didn't follow through to its logical conclusion. I also did say the future. Only prototypes exist now (though they do exist), but I don't expect widespread adoption for at least another three years. In three years, a cell phone with at least as much power as a netbook of today will be perfectly feasible.

I don't much care what's in them. I'm much more interested in whether they are open computers with a cell phone attached, or closed cell phones with vaguely computery locked down capabilities.
5am. Slowly, I woke up. There was an idea in my head. The room was dark, even though the shutters were open. Dawn wouldn't break for another hour. I crept out of bed, out of the warmth of Her presence, and tentatively stepped away. My idea needed to be made manifest quickly, lest it be forgotten. Treading lightly on the cold wooden floor, I made my way to the living room, sat on a couch by the window and picked up the laptop.

As dawn came, the preliminary work was done. It was nothing but a sketch made of computer code, but it was enough. My idea had taken root. As I went back to the bedroom, my thoughts traveled a year into the past. In that same house my grandmother still dwelt. In another city, one of my dearest friends still lived. How could we possibly have known.

Less than a week has passed since that chilly Saturday morning. Work has progressed swiftly. I just uploaded a little website, in fact, and created an account for myself in it. Every once in a while, a program will run on its server and send me an email. I'll click a link in it and nothing will happen. One day, though, I won't click on that link. I don't know when or why. Surely it'll be in the distant future. But it will come. And when it does, another little program will take the letters I've stored in its database and send them one by one.

And hopefully the people I love will find some comfort in them.
What are your rates for something like the Re/Max or the Lose Belly Fat sites?
Your argument seems to assume that I think it is okay for Apple to do what they do... Let me put it this way:

1) Two wrongs do not make a right.

2) Both are worthy of criticism.

3) What Apple does is off topic anyway. This discussion is about Microsoft.
It's weird, I've been seeing it for years but I never understood what it is. I still don't really.

But when I click on the magnets things seem to download immediately. So looks like you built something pretty amazing. Congrats!
It's a straw man -- overpopulation is not the only reason to be against anti-aging remedies. The so called "sacrifice" of death is necessary for progress -- death is a prime mover of dogma, nepotism, wealth, and many more. Humanity benefits immensely from the periodic refreshing of the old guard.

It's a question of whether you want a better life for yourself or for your children.
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> Microsoft in the 90s did some really abusive and messed up things, for example luring away Borland's key compiler engineers with ridiculous salaries

Read the stories from last summer about bonuses being paid to employees coming and going from Google, Facebook, Twitter?
Agreed. Very frustrating for "building blocks" to show things like "scrollable tabs" that I'd quite like to use, where in fact no such standard implementation seems to exist! It's all well and good to display UI best practices, but give us the actual widgets you're talking about, otherwise the whole thing is pointless.
Ask HN: I just finished a whole book on HTML/CSS. Now what?
The book was a bit dated (it only went up to XHTML 1.0 and adamantly stated numerous times there will never be an HTML5) but nonetheless I feel as if I learned a good deal about HTML and CSS.

Tips on where to go to learn more? Or how to get better from here? Important things the book might have missed?
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Well,can not understand those open-source things that is not written by programming language,lol
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This doesn't prevent the OEMs from doing anything, it only prevents the end users from doing things. The OEM can have two versions of every tablet/phone they make, one that's Windows-certified with UEFI and another identical one that's not Windows-certified that they can offer with Android, Linux, or whatever. All this agreement says is that you can't sell Windows on a device that can be flashed with a different OS afterwards.

So this creates devices sold with Microsoft software that can only run Microsoft software. It does not stop anyone from selling devices with other operating systems, even the same manufacturers with identical hardware. Should Microsoft not be allowed to offer these computers? If consumers don't like it they can vote with their dollars and buy the Android/Ubuntu/WebOS tablet -- they just can't buy the Windows one then delete Windows and install Ubuntu.
> That's why I don't use them for my own client work. I respect their decision not to take on that responsibility

I respect that viewpoint immensely, and I wish more people would think like that.

I think the main issue here is that the words "privacy" and "security" are so vague as to be meaningless. Consequently, people have mapped their own personal definitions on to them. For example, different people may care about different subsets of the following:

- Do you use SSL when I transfer sensitive data to your servers?
- How secure is your database? What do you use to protect stored data from hackers?
- Do you share user data with third-parties? If so, do you anonymize it?
- Do you prevent your own employees from accessing my data?
- Do you have an SLA that guarantees I will be able to access my data the vast majority of the time?
- Do you have measures in place to ensure my data is never accidentally deleted?

Etc. The list could go on and on. If the customer is worried about any of the above (and sadly, most aren't), then she's in luck, because privacy policies and company email addresses are usually a click away on the web. I doubt I know anyone familiar with all the privacy and security processes employed by banks, doctors, financial aid offices, etc. Which is why it's confusing to see so many technically-savvy people up in arms about the name of a jpg file.
Same in my city (Toronto). I recognized maybe 4 people that I knew were good and 5 that I knew were junior.
They don't expect manufacturers to lock down the devices.
Their flagship devices, which are supposed to set the bar for other Android phones, are deliberately not locked down to set an example.
It looks just fine in IE9, rounded corners and everything. The only thing that's missing are the gradients the author adds at the end - and that's only because he picked and chose what vendor-specific CSS to use there.

EDIT: On the subject of vendor-specific extensions, it seems to me that a lot of new features of "the open web" such as WebGL, Native Client, and advanced CSS trickery all basically work best in Chrome, or maybe Firefox six months later (remember how long it took firefox to get text-overflow:elipsis?). These are all features that basically exist in a single browser at the moment. Here's some food for thought; we've had all of these in a single browser before, and that browser was IE6. ActiveX and a certificate system replaces Native Client and sandboxing, and it had it's own css filters for an awful lot of things just arriving in CSS3, as well as DirectX-accelerated transforms.

We've transitioned from having only one browser support the common features of the internet (IE6), though a brief period of openness, but it seems like we're heading down the single-browser path again. Just because Webkit is open source and the W3C publish a standard doesn't mean that everything is better this time - nobody thought IE would stagnate in its heyday.
Wow,hard to understand the FreeBSD installing menu, so ...hope I can become smarter.Should try some modified distribution
Brilliant point. Pirate Bay's best approach is to laugh at SOPA and make clear it will do nothing to stop them.
Do the developers of btrfs recommend using it in production yet? last I heard they didn't feel it wasn't complete or stable enough yet.
People have hacked iPads and iPhones to run Android. And nobody actually uses it because there is no hardware back button, etc.

When hardware and software are a cohesive unit it's hard to run something generic on the hardware, or run the software on some other hardware. That is not the case for Windows, Linux, and Android, which is why people feel differently about that ecosystem.
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I actually kind of hate that one, ha. It's a little too...on the nose, we'll say, with the code in the background and the tabs at the bottom. I like my icons a bit more subtle, personally.

Another great one (imo!) is here, by Adam Kiss: http://dribbble.com/shots/378184-Unofficial-Sublime-Text-2-I.... A different take than the rectangular look, reminds me of Ommwriter a bit.
This is definitely a step in the right direction. Not saying this is a good step to increase piracy, but there really is no need for trackers when we have magnets, and this will lead to a healthier bittorent community.
Many Microsofties don't even use Bing.
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Yes, you're missing something, but it's a common thing to miss. What's illegal and immoral isn't the mere possession of a monopoly. What's illegal and immoral is the abuse of a monopoly position to shut out competition, corner the market, then raise prices above what a free market would bear.

Microsoft was a monopoly because they sold 95+% of the operating systems on computers. Microsoft was convicted not of being a monopoly, but of abusing the monopoly.

It is also interesting to observe that while Microsoft may have done some immoral things to obtain that monopoly (depending on how you look at it), that doesn't make the things they did before they had a monopoly illegal, or at least not for reasons of having a monopoly. Special scrutiny and rules are put in place for monopolists. Thus, it became illegal to bundle IE with Windows in some places, but that was a special ruling for MS only as a consequence of their monopoly status, it was not a general legal restriction against bundling.

The claim that Google is a monopoly on search is simply an observation that they are servicing the vast, vast majority of searches. It does not logically follow that they are doing anything wrong; that is something that must be established separately. I for one don't see much evidence for Google abusing their monopoly in illegal or immoral ways. (Most of my complaints would center more around resting on their laurels, such as with their notoriously bad customer service, but there's nothing particularly illegal or immoral about that....) It is also valid to be personally concerned about the presence of a monopoly, even if it is not doing anything particularly wrong.

The common category collapse of "monopoly" and "illegal monopoly" makes it hard to understand what's really going on.
I've been using this for a few weeks, and really love it. It is definitely worth patching your vim font (although not very well documented).

You can use `:set guifont` in gvim to determine your font. Then, just run the included fontpatcher python script on the correct font to add the new symbols. Note that this script requires installing the fontforge python package (python-fontforge on ubuntu). Then tell gvim to use the patched font with `:set guifont=<fontname>`.
I thought most of the discussion last time was about x86; I've never heard of UEFI for ARM and I suspect most haven't either.
In what way? She applied, is very intelligent and has shown her project, which the mentors must have liked. Why shouldn't she get in? It was likely nothing to do with her parents contacts or upbringing. Rather how much she had achieved and what she wanted to achieve.

If you speak to all of the fellows you'll see that a lot are just startup guys and girls working all kinds of projects. No correlation in previous experiences or contacts. Anyone that can show why they deserve to be there has an equal chance of getting in.
I didn't downvote you but I personally never worry about users with JavaScript disabled, and the companies I have worked for don't care either. The number of people without JavaScript is most likely way to low to spend time on an HTML fallback.

http://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-Internet-users-use-J...
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Is there an API that takes a phone number and will give me the business name?
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Don't worry, I'm sure there are enough people like you where it wouldn't take very long. Leahy's staffers, for instance.
Bitcoin is mainly continuing at this point only because of the large community behind it, as there wasn't much credibility to begin with. Doing things like this does nothing but take that community further from where it wants to be. It was an interesting concept, and still is, but that is all it will ever amount to if this continues.
This. Completely lame requiring a Facebook account.
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>And that's how Microsoft killed ARM based netbooks, ultrabooks, tablets, etc that could potentially run Linux because most OEMs will want to have them licensed for use with Windows 8.

Why is it Microsoft's responsibility to make Linux run on the hardware that runs their software? What is your stance on Nook Tablet, Kindle Fire etc.? Why shouldn't they be able to secure their OS against jailbreaking and malware just like Apple does?

If they're forced to not have restriction by the government, I propose that the government force Apple and other vendors to open up their hardware, so that Windows 8 and Linux can run on them.

>Can we rehash all the dozen posts about this from months ago when people swore up on down that Microsoft wasn't going to do... well, what the rest of us expect at this point?

I believe they were referring to x86 machines, not ARM.
An adequate "fallback" is <noscript><p class='something_nice'>This site requires Javascript to function</p></noscript>. It's not exactly hard, and it's better than a blank white page.

It can also occur due to network problems on occasion or other technical issues; if you have JS beyond just progressive enhancement on your site you really ought to have a <noscript> tag in there somewhere.
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Very cool concept, and I would play, but seeing as a huge chunk of my friends that code don't use Facebook, it just doesn't seem worth bothering with right now.
Academics are partly to blame for supporting closed/expensive publishing
I still have huge cognitive dissonance regarding this.
Start building stuff. I never learn tools for the sake of the tool; I learn them for the sake of the project I want to use them on. (I exaggerate slightly. Fun is also a big motivator, and some tools are inherently fun. But my main point stands.)
This doesn't work for me, "Uncaught ReferenceError: go_foreign is not defined"
She answered that question already, in paragraph #3:

"I idolized Archimedes, Galileo, da Vinci, Faraday, Newton, Maxwell, Tesla, Pasteur, and Darwin. I couldn’t believe they were all dead, and that I would never get to meet them and hear them talk."
Just so everyone is clear, she was unschooled, which is pretty different from conventional homeschooling. There's no curriculum at all, kids drive their own learning. If they want to play video games all day they are welcome to. If they want to sleep till noon that is fine.

As unlikely as it seems to someone who has been through conventional schooling, what actually happens in these cases is the child's natural curiosity is not squashed by rote work. As a result they drive their own learning, motivated by the natural curiosity of all humans. It is hypothesized that punishment and boring tasks are needed to squash this natural state, and some like educational reformer John Galt [edit: sorry, I meant John Gatto; freudian slip there] even claim that doing so is the purpose of conventional modern classroom schooling which was established in the late 19th century to create an underclass of unquestioning factory workers who can obey directions from authority figures.

Regardless of how this all happens, unschoolers tend to be the most interesting and well educated people around. This idea is very threatening to most people, so reactions are often hostile when they are encountered and it is frequently claimed that each achieving unschooler is an aberration.
Such saucer-eyed bullshit. Many employers have moonlighting clauses that prevent employees from contributing to OSS projects. All of the companies I've worked for have. If you only go by Github commits, you'll probably be getting only a certain type of applicant and excluding most others.

Github commits might be good supplemental data to have, but if I am to do a fair apples to apples comparison between candidates who might be encumbered by moonlighting clauses, then I'll let the whiteboard coding do the talking.