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> Why does an appeal to labor-mixing confer ownership in one instance but not any part of it in the other?

You can't say that in general: I could hire on the hand for partial ownership in the farm. However, the actual answer is that the hand freely agreed to the deal and does not want partial ownership of a family farm.
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Confusion between px and dpi are common for people who haven't done work for both screen and print:

Screens are more accurately measured in PPI (pixels per inch) while the smallest elements a printer can produce (more akin to each of the 8 bit sub-pixels on a screen) are measured in DPI (dots per inch). Since ink is 1 bit more smaller elements (dots) are needed in some sort of dithered pattern to represent grays and colors.

Using halftone screening [1] the image elements are called lines and so a 600dpi printer is capable of producing 85–105 LPI (lines per inch)[2].

The lines per inch of print are more analogous to the pixels per inch of a screen than dots per inch are.

So, that 96ppi LCD and the 600dpi printer have around the same information density for practical purposes.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halftone
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halftone#Resolution_of_halftone...
Anyhow, the PayPal, Google, eBay, etc. problem is not likely to be solved by yelling and screaming on blogs and HN. I firmly believe that massive legal action, and, more than likely, in the US, Congressional action, is the only light at the end of the tunnel. They are too big and just can't be hurt or bothered with any other approach.

Be careful what you wish for. Congressional action forcing PayPal, Google, et. al to provide better customer service sounds great for consumers, but unless the legislation is very narrowly focused, it will just end up being another piece of regulation that protects incumbents and punishes newcomers (e.g. by imposing an untenable customer support burden on bootstrapping companies).
This never ending debate of which editor is better than the other has been going on and on over the years.

Every developer has their own preference. Many prefer TextMate over other text editors. Others just like e on windows.

I have been following the development of Sublime Text 2 and TextMate 2 closely for some time now, and it is for sure a better editor than many others. Sublime has come a long way from the initial version.

But from the terminal I just like the same old vim.
I don't know about the rest of the people here, but I'd be interested in hearing why you think Brooks is so contemptible.
If you consider piracy as a form of marketing then you see that "100 pirate copies == a sale that would not have happened otherwise"

So it is not clear (at least it is not ridiculously clear) whether money are lost because of piracy.

There is no moral obligation to support business practices based on obsolete technology.

Copyright infringement is not stealing.
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To be really frank for quality programming shops. Readability is hardly an issue. They have better issues to worry about like features, scalability etc.

And readability in itself, I mean alone in its own merit isn't a deciding factor for most projects today.

Far too many factors decide in choosing a language today, they rapidly change and will continue to change over time. Concurrency and JVM's feasibility is giving clojure great mileage in the mainstream.

The problem with python is, its brittle enough to break at any new syntax experiment. This doesn't do good for language evolution.

And evolution is what keeps you in the game. How else do you think Perl and Lisp have managed to survive and grow till today's date.

I don't sort of want to be making a negative point here. But hey Perl has been adding keywords and new syntax to Perl 5 without breaking backwards compatibility.

Some times flexibility is important.
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Obviously it's very subjective... but how can you not see why the type of person who isn't always reading up on "negging" and the like would think you a creep for that?
Yeah! Its existence everywhere is really good proof that it sucks.
What planet are we on again?
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> They are human beings with lives, friends, and families.

Which means they deserve a job that makes them feel good about themselves and nurtures them as humans beings.

A lot of people with homes don't have that.
Or they may find the technological holy grail to deal with it. I truly have my hopes on China deciding to spend their growing wealth on making the next decades better for all, rather than sinking it into non-renewable energy and consumables.
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This still doesn't solve the problem of users who wish to start a project in Python now.

Should they work with 2.x which is going to go away, or 3 whose ecosystem is not ready yet.
Note carefully: though being his usual brand of unfathomably blunt, Linus is talking about the code, not the person who wrote it. He's obviously bothered by the approach the code takes, but he probably doesn't think the person who wrote it is a 'dickhead' -- anyone can write truly awful code, even Linus.

In this case, it looks (from a quick glance) like some Patch X seemed like a good idea, but ended up requiring Patch Y, which was really ugly, and suggested that Patch X maybe wasn't the best idea to begin with.

Of course, this takes getting used to -- part of Linus's style is to be very blunt, call his opinions straightforwardly, and happily insult anyone's code, even his own, when it isn't living up to standards. To work with Linus, you need to have zero ego about your own code -- the goal is to get the best code into the kernel (no matter who wrote it), not to get your code into the kernel.

It's not always perfect, but I generally think it's a good approach, and it seems to largely work.
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I realise that the OP is about a speech, but I think universally dismissing "um"s isn't justified. A speech is not the same thing as a dialogue. Conversational fillers are useful to hold the floor (not that there aren't better ways than "um" but that doesn't mean "um" isn't useful or ineffectual).
this violates us laws and international treaties on currency controls. It's conspiracy to commit counterfeitng and inciting others to commit wire fraud

Remember they used to hang people over this. Newton watched with glee as coin shavers he had caught were executed.

Mmmm move on. Not quite right.

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The laws of physics work differently in the electronic world than in the real world. In the world of computers, you can have a toilet bowl tranform into a shower head on-demand, without "spillage" across functions.

Thats what the Finder toolbar is, or the Ribbon, or the smartphone.

Seems to me that both Steve Jobs and Gates understood that, but maybe the difference was in their top lieutenants buy-in of the same thing.
So we should deny these people (and never forget they are people) a relatively safe way to make more money than they otherwise would simply because it makes you feel ooky inside?
I like the Lutz's book. I think if there is a version of
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and going back and forth (in the book) between Python 2 and Python 3 would be rather distracting.
> I guess the reason this quote bothers me so much is that increasing the population in a lot of countries would mean bringing new babies to a life of poverty and misery.

A lot of people would be surprised to learn that the impoverished peoples in a many those countries are a lot happier we expect. All-in-all they aren't much less happy than we are.

Not saying that wealth isn't a good thing, but it doesn't seem to be a major determining factor in happiness. Not unless you're too poor to get your 1,800 calories or you think you're entitled to wealth you don't have, anyway.
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You're right, but there's not much that can be done about it. It's just a fact of life that we have to deal with... and prepare for.

For instance, my blog is on Posterous, but with my own domain, so I can migrate to some other service with no visible disruption.
Canceling these two Mars research projects strikes me as short sighted and stupid. $300 million is the cost "savings", including screwing over our European partners!

That is equivalent to the cost of a small highway overpass project, like for instance, the Orange County (California) $277 million I-405/22/605 West County Connector project, which will provide zippier and dedicated carpool lanes between highways.

Which is the priority: carpool lane improvement or Life on another planet research?
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Yes. [1]

As do image editing softwares. [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
[2] http://www.petapixel.com/2011/08/09/heres-what-happens-when-...
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Aren't they more like games in handy book-a-like format?

Some, perhaps, but far from all of them. Most of them have the basic linear narrative structure of books and encourage the basic process of starting at page 1 and following the 'story' page by page to the end. The pop-ups and flaps assist in driving the story rather than replacing them.
No. Copyright is always fundamentally a legal discussion. Everyday copying doesn't have deep ethical ramifications, because the most everyday copying we do is called 'memory' and remembering something is almost never unethical. And ethics is the only branch of philosophy which really has a voice in the matter -- copyright is not epistemic or ontological, etc. I would go so far as to say that the utter absence of a moral intuition against copying is why the vast majority of people do it and don't have a problem with it.

The people who do seem to be responding to some sort of intuition of this form: "a free lunch is unfair." It's not, as we'd say, unfair to you, and not even to the copyright holders necessarily, but something about a free lunch just looks suspicious. So the first comment in this thread says that whether Joe Blow's actions are unfair "comes down to how much Joe Blow WOULD have paid for avatar.mp4." You saw that he would have paid for X but instead he got it for free, and you said "man, there's something unfair here."

It may sometimes be useful to regulate things which our ethical intuitions don't speak very strongly about. Our ethical intuitions don't speak very strongly about living in a messy room; a boarding school might nonetheless demand that its students keep their rooms clean. (I have heard a cute theory that we lack this intuition because our primate ancestors lived in trees and therefore literally did not have to handle their own crap.) Seatbelt laws, licensing drivers, and regulating CO2 emissions would also fit into the same category. So "who has the right to copy this book?" can still be a valid question, even when that book is a .pdf and our relevant moral intuitions instead say, "hey, I'm just giving the book I bought to a friend -- that's within my rights as a person who bought the book." That moral intuition, even if you have it, doesn't necessarily obviate the potential social value of that law.
Surely not, the "watermark" is more easily added using methods suitable to mass production. Possibly it could be used to produce counterfeit watermarks though...!
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Troll bait for Pythonistas. At least I hope that's what that is, because this needs some serious zen-ification otherwise.

To summarize, while switching religions:
"The Tao that can be expressed is not the eternal Tao".

But if you're going to try to express the Zen of Python, you can do a hell of a lot better than this.
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Not necessarily.

What if you could make inmates on the outside somehow useful? That would reduce prison population, &c

Take a look http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3696940
Sure python2 can do Unicode, but it's a pain and it's far too easy to introduce bug if you're not paying attention. Unicode everywhere is probably the only python3 feature I miss with any regularity when using python2.
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Let me inject my own anecdotal evidence for a second: before the internet, I remember renting a lot more movies than I do now. The internet has cut down on the amount of money I give to these organizations, fact.

But you didn't say whether you're now downloading infringing copies of those movies, or the Internet just showed you how obsolete the concept of physically driving to a store to obtain a physical object containing digital media is when the technology exists to convey that digital media at virtually no cost. Maybe you stopped renting movies because you have better things to do with your time than wait in your car, search the shelves, wait in line, and wait in your car again.
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It's not so much a database as a pattern: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
I hope you meet the guy, but I just wanted to chime in with my experience.

When you're a university student you feel frugal but the reality is that you're poor. Your success at not spending money you don't have isn't really to be celebrated.

Once you've graduated and earned a little money, the worst case scenario of a trip from Atlanta to San Fran. is that you meet no one special, and get to have a little vacation time.

I just don't want you to think that this guy is burning is capital unwisely.
Use python 2.x, but write it in such a way that the code will run on python3 is the semi-official answer.
I am not refuting your point ("money does not happiness make") but AFAIK, it is a known fact that people tend to a state of average happiness no matter what their condition is (e.g. if they lack the ability to walk or if they own private jets).

But there is a correlation between the youth/child death rate and the number of kids, and it can be generally agreed death impairs the pursuit of happiness.

(Though, quite likely child death implies many kids, not the other way around)
I do a lot of scientific computing in Python and have had awful experiences with Python 3. We encourage everyone who comes into our lab to work with 2.7 because the libraries are all there. It's true that Numpy and Scipy now build for Python 3, but another key library, PIL, is lost in limbo with no clear timeline for porting last I checked.

The only reason I've used Python 3 at all was because of project involving blender. I needed to do in-memory JPEG compression for quickly streaming images from the game engine. In Python 2, this is a couple lines of code using PIL. Instead, I ended up having to write my own pyjpeg module that provided a ctypes interface to a custom libjpeg-based compression library. I'm proud of the result, but the aggravation and frustration that entailed has removed any desire I have to move to Python 3.
I do agree, I think the wording was a little unclear. By and large these are better practices than we’re used to, but the title (and README) did say these were best practices compiled for me and Sky; not everyone will agree with them but they suit Sky down to the ground.
> The site itself is a demo of how a Bootstrap site should look.

That's not necessarily the case. Check out the section "Built with Bootstrap" in the page you've linked for some examples of this.

The Bootstrap site is a good start if you want to get off the ground quickly, but you're much better off in the long run putting in the required time to actually create a design of your own.
"The mirrors are continuously in motion during the printing process. The acceleration and deceleration-periods have to be tuned very precisely to achieve high-resolution results at a record-breaking speed."

Isn't this a solved problem in laserprinters by using polygonal mirrors?
> Why is this true?

Because of something called the "Dependency Ratio": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_ratio

The basic concept is that in order for there to be a high quality of life for most people in a society, the majority of them need to be capable of doing economically productive work. Otherwise you have a large number of dependents (juveniles and/or retirees) whose sustenance must somehow be garnered from a relatively small number of workers.

In China, for example, demographers talk about the "4:2:1 generation", which is the long-term effect of improving longevity combined with the one-child policy. This means that there could be four retired grandparents and two retired parents to every one working individual. Somehow, the social services for six people would have to be supported off the tax revenue from one. That's just not possible, and could very easily lead to a bad outcome for society as a whole.

(This isn't to discount the problems that come from overpopulation -- I'm just pointing out that it cuts both ways).

Too-rapid population growth can also lead to high dependency ratios -- in the form of children rather than the elderly -- and this also makes it difficult/impossible to support adequate social programmes. Historically, the best-performing economies tend to be those with very low dependency ratios, which is typically the result of a baby boom that is quickly followed by a baby bust. That produces a bulge of economically productive workers, the revenue from which can be spent on things like infrastructure and investment rather than social-support programmes which have less of an impact on GDP.

(Incidentally, this is a large part of the reason why China is going so bonkers with infrastructure development, building high-speed rail and ghost cities for which there is arguably no market. They're doing this because now is the only time they can. In 15 years, China as a whole will be substantially wealthier -- with enough people who are genuinely able to afford high-end condominiums and high-speed rail -- but at that point their youth bulge will be gone, scarcity of labour will drive up wages, most government revenue will have to go to healthcare and social services, and they'll have no ability build that kind of infrastructure. So they're building it while they can, well in advance of their actual need for it, which is actually pretty damn clever.)
You are completely right. The problem is certainly not "fraud monitoring", and it's not a problem specific to Paypal either.

The problem is in the attitude. Being French, I'm well-trained in dealing with soulless bureaucracies; but with the French administration (or probably any public administration in most countries) there is always a way to escalate the issue; and if you were right, you very usually win.

But these companies are judge, jury, police and executioner. This can't go on forever.
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Even cubic splines are not smooth. "Smooth" has very well defined meaning in math -- it means precisely "infinitely many times differentiable". Cubic splines are differentiable only finitely many times (only twice, actually).
If you change any code it will show up in a diff, whether that be vendor prefixed or not. A vendor prefix changing is just the same as a padding value changing; if code needs to change then change it and you will fully expect to see it show up in a diff.

Single line CSS’ problem is that a diff of it can be a little misleading.
exactly. clarence is not a 4G hotspot. he's a human being who has a 4G hotspot. therein lies the rub.

i have no doubt that this was done with the best intentions and that the whole idea is a win/win for everyone involved. but the wording IS literally dehumanizing.
s/fashion/fear/ with a small pinch of missing libraries, as you said (btw i hear numpy is getting there.)
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Thanks for the categorising link too. That's something which I've often wondered/changed my mind about - and the OP doesn't offer much in the way of insight on it.
The most stupid thing they ever did was remove the "Start" button.

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>> Current best practise is to put all the packages you need in your init.el file, then when you start Emacs, it'll download and install any packages you're missing.

I wasn't aware of that, how does that work? Obviously just `require`'ing the packages is not sufficient.
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This is useless without a link to the actual study.

PS: The LA Times article is more informative:

http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-red-meat-20120313,0,5654...

and contains a link to the study:

http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/archinternmed....
Link to non-mobile site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17345934

I'm a bit surprised this hasn't been done before.

Can this chip be solar powered (I mean, obviously, with a small solar cell)?
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Indeed. Half of it seems to be bashing popular libraries the author doesn’t like, and the other half is a mixture of extremely contrived examples, and examples that miss the point of whatever particular part of the Zen they’re supposed to illustrate.