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Here are the actual numbers from Anandtech (knows displays well):

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5689/the-new-ipad-retina-displ...

Essentially it covers sRGB but "only" 65% of Adobe RGB colorspace. For reference, the Apple 27" Cinema Display covers 84% and the Dell 2408WFP covers 104%.

So it's the best mobile display by a margin, but hasn't caught even the consumer studio desktop monitors out there when it comes to Color Gamut.
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My setups are all multi-monitor so I guess that's the issue? Thanks for the info.
Clickers:

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> Succeed is on bumper stickers here.

Took me a minute to figure out what that bumper sticker was supposed to mean, but it's perfect.
Depends on the type of software you write.

Developers tend to have the biggest ego and opinion in the room yet from time to time, they are also the ones who are clueless about the users or real-world scenarios.
Yeah, and instead of Dodd-Frank we should just get a better finance industry, too!

Teacher tenure has problems and LIFO (way worse) has a ton of problems but I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for better small-town politics.
if you are trusting any one piece of infrastructure, you're doing it wrong. keep your stuff backed up and there's no need for your data security to be based on trust and hope.
But once that link is online, anyone can reach to it. Even the people who didn't pay for it. Correct me if I'm wrong. They need a link generator for every payment. Or have the video show up in my not yet developed "Paid Videos" section on my youtube profile.
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It's not a conspiracy. It's simply a bureaucracy. Don't be looking for conspiracy theories. Be looking for bureaucracy theories. I know this bureaucracy - my mother worked for it. (To be exact, she worked for Joe Romm at DOE.)

Your vision of what "science" is dates to the pre-World War II era, when "science" was actually a bazaar. You can't have a "conspiracy" in a bazaar, because there are no coordination mechanisms. So bazaars can err, but tend to converge on the truth. Why was science a bazaar? Distributed effort, distributed reputation systems, distributed funding sources. The last being the most important.

"Science" today is a government program. It's not a bazaar. It's a cathedral. You don't have to read a lot of the climate emails to see the coordination mechanisms. For instance, editors who accept dissenting papers are rapidly drummed out of their positions or even professions. The de Freitas case is a good example: http://di2.nu/foia/foia2011/mail/2683.txt.

Think about Soviet science for a minute. Soviet science was a branch of Western science. Soviet scientists would no doubt describe their work as "the corpus of knowledge accumulated by the scientific method over the history of knowledge since Francis Bacon." I would describe their work as: "a government program supervised by the Politburo." For Politburo read NSF, DOE, DOD, etc, etc.

And yet, there was good science in the Soviet Union. There's good science at Harvard. You're not advised to trust it unconditionally, however, just because it comes with the impressive logos "science" and "Harvard." They're just brands - they mean whatever they mean today, not whatever they may have meant in the past.
... no.
Odd. This was perhaps one of the earliest Sci-Fi books I read (along with many of the Doctor Who books.)

I'm fairly certain I first read it in middle school, which would have made me about 10, but may have been as late as the start of high school, making me about 13 (yes, I was young, graduating at 16). I followed the next couple of books in the series, but couldn't get into them to the same extent. I have Ender's Game on my shelf at home (along with Ender's Shadow, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Hegemon), and have actively encouraged my 11-year-old son to read them. He's not quite ready yet (by his own reckoning), but he will be soon.

As others have pointed out, the descriptions of violence don't compare at all to "Hunger Games" (or more particularly, the following two books in that series). The Harry Potter series, particularly the last three books, were violent as well (though not to the level of "Mockingjay") ... to the extent that we won't permit our children to watch them, yet, although even my 9-year-old has read all of them.

I read "Ender's Game" again in high school, and a third time in my early twenties. One of the fascinating things about good books is that the parts that stick with you change as your experience and outlook on life changes.

My recollection from the curriculum at my middle school included "Animal Farm", which also has messages on multiple levels; my younger sister was required to read "Tunnel In the Sky" (by Heinlein; she hated it, but I enjoyed it); my middle school coursework also included "Lord of the Flies", "Great Gatsby" and "Of Mice and Men", all of which also have violent sequences.

Part of what makes these books classics (although even having read them a couple of time, I still don't like the last three on that list) is that they capture the human existence—and like it or not, the nature of humanity includes violence, overcoming violence, and the occasional necessity of violence.
From what I've read [1], Valve employs the desk-on-wheels configuration to great success. The higher-order function to this is that teams can be fluid and the process for reconfiguring for new projects is as easy as wheeling your desk around.

[1] http://www.penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/where-t...
"I still have most of my vacation quota unused"

I'm not a doc, and so if someone here thinks this is horrible advice please let it be known.

I think several members here have suggested taking a vacation. Take one, a long one, go see fam, spend it traveling with your GF, or both or neither...whatever you want. Take one as long as you can 4wks, even if a week is unpaid, if you have the option.

Start with that, it doesn't rewrite your life, and let your mind calm down and then start evaluating what you think might work. Talk to people who care, talk to your parents, girlfriend, a buddy, me if you need an ear. Get it out first, then look for a ideas to make your life happier.

Maybe you need better hours and need to tell your employer, maybe a new 9-5 job, and hack away on some side project, or just maybe that bus driver job and to hell with this all, but being hunger-over, crying, stressed, you are in reactionary mode. I've been there for one reason or another, don't make an extreme change in this state.
(Just going off memory, it's been a while)

- Not thirty seconds into the games, Katniss is struggling with an unnamed boy when he drops dead with a knife through his back.

- Katniss drops a nest of mutated wasps directly onto a number of sleeping children, two of whom die from the stings.

- Katniss witnesses Cato kill an unnamed boy with his bare hands.

- Rue gets speared through the torso right in front of Katniss.

- Thresh crushes the skull of Clove with a rock, (not enough to kill her, but enough to disfigure her) then does it again and finishes her off. (This one happens no more than a couple of meters in front of Katniss, as Clove had been in the process of choking her before being yanked off by Thresh.)

- Katniss shoots a helpless dying Cato in the face with her final arrow.

That's just in the first book. All but one of those deaths occur right in front of Katniss, along with several others.

The only fight that stuck with me in Ender's Game was with Bonzo - the fight with Stilson was over too quick (and the ending was technically a mystery until they talk about it after Bonzo's death). Bonzo's death was also technically very quick - there was a lot of lead up to it, but the fight itself probably only took about 20 seconds and about half a page (also from memory).

Note also that the boys who Ender fights are bullying him mercilessly. Both Stilson and Bonzo bring groups to witness and prevent interference from others. He is forced to fight for his life, in situations which could quickly turn against him, and only an unbelievably swift and alarmingly brutal victory will prevent a future recurrence.
It seems like the right thing to do would be to spend the time composing the email to tech@o.o and then write the blog post.
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I'd rather go to the moon. The view is better.
This makes more sense. Thanks for the explanation. I like "fastness" and "deepness". I've definitely noticed a difference between people who are best at getting things done under time constraints but procrastinate anything longer (myself) and people who will do a great job if given enough time but which choke under pressure (my wife). I never really tried to name the two though.

Your system almost sounds like the two sides of two different things. On the one hand you have the ability to get things done: the ability to get a lot done quickly and on-the-spot and the ability to get things done meticulously and precisely if given the time. On the other hand you have the ability to learn things quickly and precisely remember them.

I might call it velocity vs. precision in the two areas of production and learning.
>>>Tony Robbins is known, but apparently not enough to float a primetime television show.

Which actually surprised me, given his infomercials made his fame.
Brillant, simply.
There are around 13,000 school districts in the US, most with many constituent schools, each supporting many hundreds of families. Even if everything about this story is credible (remember, their job is to sell page views, not to inform you), all we've got is one school district in which there was simultaneously a crazy parent and an incompetent school board.

Ender's Game is also not a "tiny bit" violent, and although its characters are all young, it was not written specifically for young readers.

(In my house, the boy read Ender's Game when he was 10; the girl heard an audio version of it at 9, and "Ender's Shadow", which is more explicit, was on the bookshelf in the boy's 6th grade class room).
I can see the first 50% of the reviews having a prodigious failure rate.
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8th grade for me, making most students about 13/14.
Any chance you have screenshots for Gobuzz, or a more thorough explanation of product, or feature list?
Looks good.Thanks for sharing this tweak..
Yep, that's cool, I mainly made it for personal use so I'm not too bothered if others don't use it!

I need to start writing tests and docs really, but as I said, it was something I hacked up in an evening :)
In some human societies, violent assault and murder are common.
In others, they are not because we have they agreed to work to stop them.
I know where I would rather live.

Also, there is a difference between acknowledging that unpleasant things happen sometimes, and making it look standard, routine or even glorifying it, and arguably many TV and Movie productions cross that line.

(& Don't assume I want it banned - I never said that.)
that was an awesome time :D
Ads are definitely not worth the $2 you save for an app that you like and use regularly. This is just another reason why...
Bootstrapping profitable companies also have more leverage when ready for funding.

My use of the term startup lottery was meant to describe the communual celebration and veneration of quite often earning some runway.

The businesses that need it are ones that have to find a product-market fit and a repeatable business model. I just think you're better equipped to find validated scalable business models once you've done it without money.

There's nothing quite like having to find and build what people are willing to pay for out of the gate instead of putting it off. From where I see it, I don't see enough technologically complex startups that need a runway, and in hindsight could have been built without funding.

The startups that would, tremendously benefit from the coaching, introductions, and business model development are rare, and special, and maybe that reflects in the small number of startups accepted to Y!. The rest shouldn't consider themselves a failure either... this startup certainly fit the mantra build something people want (and will pay for)
> "People will, if it comes bundled with their computer."

But what will a computer look like in 10 years?

What I've been noting, from the whole mobile explosion, is that people really don't care if their computer only has 64GB of storage. Of all the complaints that people have about tablets and phones replacing 'real' computing, disk space rarely enters the discussion.

So even if tablets and smartphones don't notably replace traditional PCs, their effect on consumer perception of the necessity of large disks can't be ignored.

Sure, it's easy to market 'more gigabytes than your old machine' to a regular person. But so is "faster boot" and "less waiting".

That's why laptop makers can't seem to ditch spinning disks fast enough.

And what motivation does a PC builder have, to continue bundling increasingly-capacious hard drives with little markup? Why not bundle increasingly-faster and increasingly-cheaper SSDs and save the spinning drives for higher-margin positions as add-ons and external storage?

I'd be incredibly surprised if the market for spinning disks doesn't shrink over the next 10 years. They'll certainly remain, even for consumers. But there's no good argument that they'll still be standard.
>>>There's no requirement for a writer to submit content to Apple (iTunes store) or Amazon (Kindle store).

Maybe I wasn't clear. Sure, any writer can set up a site, but then you cannot give buyers the convenience they expect with automagic downloads to a Kindle, Nook, or Kobo device. (I exclude iPad. Apple made competing eBook apps download via browser. Which is not something eInk devices can do.)
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Thanks for mentioning DroidWall - I can't believe I didn't stumble onto it myself!
Great point, I'll bring it up at the next (probably pointless) meeting we have :)
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they put the "fun" in fundamentalism?

:)
What about the damage done by poor teachers protected by tenure?
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A better title would be: Make Any Webpage Look Like It Was Made In 1996
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Since you guys are at it, may be I can ask.

Is there a little something extracted from jQueryMobile, which lets me use only 'form-styling' of their otherwise huge piece of work? I want only the relevant css and javascript out of the entire thing.

Any help would get a huge hug from me. And thanks, in advance.

BTW nice work with Codiqa, I am in. [Edited for grammar]
Very few "regular use" apps are advertising-only. All of them come in a "pro" edition for $2 or whatever for the people who care enough to purchase. I like the subtle platform flame, but it's poorly informed and frankly needless. Which is just another reason why...
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Probably because the majority of us cannot work remotely due to the need of humans to interact socially.

I also find that face-to-face conversation and in-office team building are important aspects to build a solid company for a long time.

EDIT: Lack of sleep yields poor brain, eye, and hand coordination.
While I'm normally one to frown on something like this, there are upsides to this for software engineers. This type of article increases the cachet of software developers and puts upward pressure on the salary and other compensation that software developers receive.

While there will likely be adverse affects from highlighting individuals instead of their work, articles like this help put software developers on par with rainmaker lawyers and doctors who are the best in their area of specialization. Respect for the profession, means more interest from parents in having their kids pursuing computer science at a young age. And more interest from parents means more school resources available to children for pursuing computer science.

If anything, articles like this are merely symptoms of the direction in which software engineering as a profession is headed.
Since when is Microsoft so interested in doing Android-related research?
Amazon "real world" scaling is about shipping performances
You have not paid attention to what Amazon has done. There was one furious weekend a year or so ago involving books with homosexuality in them. And Amazon recently delisted a bunch of books for content it didn't like in the Romance genre. Amazon does have a mention of "content guidelines" in their submission TOS. But good luck getting anything specific about what those "guidelines" are.
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Should I give up everything to be a bus driver, a photographer, and move to a quiet town, leave the city and all of my skills and knowledge?

Nah, just take a really long vacation. Like a year or two.
I just bought it and was redirected to an error page even though the paypal went through, though a few minutes later I received an email with watching/streaming details. Just an FYI for anyone else this may happen to.
I have experienced all the same situations as you and I strongly disagree with the 3-5 person team room idea. I'm currently in a 3 person room right now and it's the worst of all I've had!
You're constantly distracted by the other 2 guys and communication between the rest of the team is made difficult. Plus you can rarely shut the door, turn lights on/off, set the air conditioning how you like without upsetting one of the others in your office.

I'd take an open plan office with sales people and managers screaming on the phone any day over my current situation!

Of course, the best choice would be my own office... we can all dream I guess.
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I was also 13 in 1996 and am now a front-end web developer.

This brings back fond memories.
Parental censorship is widely accepted, and not even worth comparing to state-sanctioned censorship, which I would argue is "censorship in its worst form".

Every parent has a right and a responsibility to teach their children in a way that they see fit, and though the state can be called in for cases where their teachings are far outside the norm, to take away or limit these rights is to remove the parent from their role.

Of course you can disagree with how someone else raises their kids - aunts, uncles, and grandparents have been doing that since the dawn of time.

But, just off the top of my head:

- Very young children: Owen and Beru's bodies after the stormtroopers find them?

- Slightly older children: Torture of prisoners on the Death Star?

- Near-teens: A greedy scoundrel as a "hero" through much of the film?

I see plenty of reason to prevent children from seeing them until you feel they're "ready". I don't have children yet, so I don't know when that would be for mine.
One of the biggest things stopping kids from developing a lifelong love of reading is the "let's not offend anyone" drivel they are forced to read in the lower grades. It took until about 8th grade to actually come across required-for-school reading that I enjoyed - 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'Flowers for Algernon' - and that was in a suburban, progressive school district. When reading is "the thing that teachers make you do," and with the material that is typically chosen, the thought that picking up a book could be done willingly is a foreign concept.
The day came for me back in about 1998. Ever since then, the smallest drive money could buy has been much, much larger than the sum total of all the data I owned.

I may be conservative, though. I mean, I also still instinctively gauge program size by how many floppies it would take up . . .
I really liked this. I liked how easy it was to see all the data, even if it wasn't the most relevant data, and if it wasn't very relevant I would have liked to be able to fish into sources. I just wish there was an easy way to for me to delve into those sources, or find related news from other sites. Like a "these articles give opinion on this issue".

Great stuff.
This is just a guess as to the reasoning:

You could just put "Plans", which because you're selling something implies it has a price.

"Pricing" sounds like you're raising the issue of cost too quickly (on the landing page). Give them the value proposition of the plans, then tell them how much it will cost.

For other options, there's always "Products" but that makes me think you have multiple products (Product Suite, Standalone 1, Standalone 2...)

I always happen to look for "Plans & Pricing" these days; it's one of the things I scan for.
Self-documenting or not, I think the point stands, the standard stuff is very well documented via many means (a nice tutorial, a very comprehensive manual, an emacs lisp tutorial and an emacs lisp reference all ship with Emacs in addition to things like describe-function, describe-key, describe-variable etc.), so the role of the Wiki is to supplement those and not replace them.
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Poorly written post on several fronts. The English is poor (forgivable), but the points made about the structure and security of wikis are not well taken, and reflect of misunderstanding of WikiNature (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiNature).

On a more practical level, the post points out some flaws in EmacsWiki, asserts that some arbitrary alternatives would be better (MediaWiki vs. OddMuse), but does not propose a path to get there from here or explain how the switch would be worth the work.

Personally, I think it would be kind of neat to convert the EmacsWiki into OrgMode, push it to a Git repo and publish it the way Worg is published.
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