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Wrong answer - you mention presidents who were in trial not for unlawful attacks on other people (Chirac and Clinton) and others who were anyway losing the war they were involved in (Milosevic and Hussein) which is a totally different situation. I have yet to hear about presidents of "democracies" being charged of crimes of war, for example.

> hen you give power to an entity, you must keep in mind what it will cost to remove it

Agree with you, but why is it that in so many countries, elected officials are beyond the law in so many ways ? In France, for example, elected officials benefit of immunities and they cannot be sued during their mandate. How is that fair ?

> voting can work, even in America

Even in America ? A country when you only have a choice between 2 parties does not really qualify as "it's working" to me. It's like choosing between plague and cholera: you basically wonder every time which one is less harmful than the other.

We don't need more policies to protect the environment. If you gave actual ownership rights on the environment, people who own them would defend their ownership and sue polluters for damages and reparation. It's a well known problem called as "tragedy of the commons". When nobody owns anything, everyone will keep destroying the resource until it's gone. That's what's happening with Tuna fishing in the Mediterranean Sea currently. Ownership is the only answer to ensure there will be balance and retribution for unlawful acts.
Yeah, I thought it was competition for http://73primenumbers.com/ at first.
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Apparently I was only partly right. Each app is its own user, and certain permissions such as sockets and files are enforced using groups.

However, when the functionality that is being protected is implemented in a system service (which runs in a different process), it's the responsibility of the callee to check the permissions of the caller using Android's own 'permissions validation mechanism'.

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~afelt/android_permissions.pdf (Section 2.1)
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Now that, I like. I'm going to remember that one for future conversations.
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How about interesting, informative, illustrative, or perhaps enlightening?
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Depends why you are doing development. Ultimately it is going to be about potential market and profitability. (Yes there are some "hobbyists" doing it for fun but they are not particularly relevant.)

You don't have to write Android apps in Java - that is just the normal way of doing it. You can write them in anything that is executed by native code including C, C++, C# (Mono) and there are many engines available including ones for Adobe Flash, Unity (C#) and even apportable.com which lets you use Objective C as has reimplemented the iOS APIs on Android. Google also have a SL4A that lets you use Python, or you could compile Python yourself.

If you want real pain, try doing Blackberry development, where you had no choice but Java, crappy APIs, overzealous procedures and crummy dev environment.

The hardest part of Android development isn't the code writing but user support - Android Market plays up, various devices you have never heard have quirks/bugs, feature support varies etc.
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Well, that's a first! I'm really happy to see this change. MS has some excellent dev tools out there, and really the only thing holding back .NET development is the strong "if it ain't MS, it ain't good" culture among many of its users. Moves like this might help break that strong singular dependency.
I don't think it's the main reason either. The reason is customer loyalty. But I believe that media and app sales are more important than you think, because it's the entire integrated ecosystem that keeps people inside Apple's fold. Secondly, Apple is investing huge amounts into expanding their software/services/media offering, so current sales might not be telling you very much about their motivation.
This is interesting, but how does PouchDB replicate to an external server with the same origin policy implemented by most browsers?
You can create an alias for it:

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I have mine aliased to 'st'.
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Pretty shallow imo

There are plenty of people starving.

Also this magic resource that you all think is going to save the world will be used just as maliciously as every other commodity that the obsequious puppets of capitalism have gotten their hands on.
Myers made another post[1] discussing that. Stripping away the diplomacy, the answer looks like "probably mostly".

Considering the overall circumstances, any other outcome would seem unlikely. EGLIBC only existed because of Drepper's attitudes towards embedded systems.

[1] http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-03/msg01047.html
There's also the SE Xperia Pro, and there at least used to be the HTC Desire Z, but I don't know if they've discontinued that phone or not.
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That's a shame, I don't really see the need to rename it, but that's his choice. It's a clever name and naming a product after a hormone is not sexist (and if it were, why does testrogen get her vote? That's just as bad). In my opinion, complaints like these cheapen sexism, which genuinely is a big problem in IT.
(Repeated from my reply to something else)

The UN's definition of racial descrimination:

"the term "racial discrimination" shall mean any distinction, exclusion, restriction, or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin that has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life."

I don't know what the US legal definition is (though I'm guessing it's the similar) but in the UK discrimination based on country of origin would count as racism.
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I dunno. We are figuring it out as we go along.

I always thought people search was for searching by name?

I want to do reputation search with people built in.
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Actual technology that will bring about "tricorder-like" sensing: http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsN...

Hyperspectral imaging also introduces the possibility of identifying all the objects in a scene. Terahertz waves can even "look through walls" of most material. Heck, we can do that with simple radio waves and enough computing power.[1] The only thing keeping that bench-top from being miniaturized into a handheld device are further electronic miniaturization and a phased array software antenna.

[1] http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/ll-seeing-through-walls-1...
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I'm assuming this is a (weak) joke, but in case you're genuinely wondering:

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Is there any data to back this up?
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Hmmm ... Romanticism at work?

As far as I can remember open source always has been a sponsored or subsidized undertaking as far as it concerns meaningful or central projects.

Without it, the linux kernel would be only teaching material on Finnish universities, MySQL would not exist, Erlang would be a Danish mathematician and a waiting cue formula. The basis for the ASF is the web server which was developed at the NCSA. So you're on the right track with the "Can you imagine..." question.

Whats wrong with someone who want to make a meaningful addition to OS and asks money to be able to give full attention to the project? Isn't that more realistic than to hope for loosely coordinated efforts of spare time developers?

[note: I use this term not to criticize the persons in question but to point at the focus of the contribution. Also scratching-own-itch projects can easily err on the wrong side of the pareto ratio]
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This is just the same for me in Norway. The Norwegian layout has open curly brace on AltGr + 7, which is very painful when programming. US with AltGr is so nice, but it just makes me more of a weirdo up here..
"world proven oil reserves are at an all time high"...etc.

Unfortunately - even if this is correct, and opinions do vary - this does not counter the fact that oil is a diminishing resource. Furthermore, the quality of current reserves, in terms of oil grade and ease of extraction, is increasingly poor.
As mentioned in other recent discussions here, one component of workplace sexism is treating women as instantiations of a stereotype present only to fulfill male desires. Rather than, say, as competent professionals.

The classic example is having the woman get coffee. Others recently discussed include having the woman take notes or organize a potluck. Related is calling attention to a woman's body in a way that treats her as a sex object.

The "that's what she said" joke could be seen as an example of that women-are-for-sexy-times error. Note that in The Office (the American version at least), the person who makes that joke is Michael, the clueless and offensive boss. That's not an accident.
I got this from a Dreamit Venture graduate, so I'm assuming they have a general idea just based on keeping in contact with other founders.

Also, this number (90%) seems to be the general consensus online.
I'm more inclined to believe that by the time articles like this are getting published, it signifies something closer to the peak of incubator mania.

Y Combinator will continue to succeed, but the herd chasing them will be trimmed down. Not many can replicate what Y Combinator has worked so hard to perfect. The other incubators are far more likely to vaporize lots of capital, show poor returns, and be shuttered.
"If someone like me who is an astute observer of the industry has to do such intense research on which Android device to buy based on the potential for ongoing support and then ends up getting burned in the process, what is the average consumer to do?"

In a nutshell, the reason I haven't seriously considered an Android device. I was burned by my last Nokia/Symbian phone not getting any OS updates or bug fixes, and quickly decided that I wouldn't be able to predict which of the numerous Android devices would turn out to be the lucky ones that would be supported and maintained.
That's because sexism is about special rights towards women, and not equal rights.

If women cannot find legitimate complaints (which do exist a plenty in computing), they manufacture complaints. Hence 'Testosterone' vs 'Testrogen'; which one did the woman say was correct, and which one did she say was incorrect?

Hmm..
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Interesting. Any studies on the total loading times with/without gzip, similar to this one?: http://ejohn.org/blog/library-loading-speed/
exactly how good is TechCrunch at predicting a company’s success?

TC's job isn't to predict a startup's success anymore than the NYTimes' job is to predict who our next President will be. It's a news outlet whose aim is to publish facts and report the pertinent tech startup news of the day.

Now if you want to argue about whether what TC writes about is pertinent or not, that's a different discussion entirely.
Isn't that "90%" figure pretty commonly bandied around about startups in general?

Seems to me this is pretty much saying TechCrunch just covers a random sampling of startups, and provides zero benefit to the ones it covers. (A more cynical view might be that if it's true that TechCrunch provides some benefit for some of the companies it covers, it must provide _negative_ benefit for the rest to maintain it's same-as-random-sample average…)
I see where you're coming from, and agree wholly, when I put a feminist hat on. The thing is, when I then put an 'indiffeminist' (thanks zem) hat on, I feel like you're throwing insults, saying "Oh, you're not a feminist activist? Then you're a misogynist pig."

I think it boils down to the technical meaning in feminist theory of 'anti-feminist' (anything that holds back feminism) not really matching up with what the layperson seeing the word for the first time would take it to mean -- 'anti-feminist' intuitively sounds like it only applies to active, concious opposition to the ideals of feminism; misogyny, denial of female autonomy, Rush Limbaugh, that kinda thing. Laypeople may not think to also consider apathy that unwittingly enables the sexist status quo as part of anti-feminism.

I'm definitely not saying you're wrong, I'm just saying you risk alienating your target audience by... well, to be flippant, by using big fancy words they may not understand ;)
As another Android user looking for other options, I'd love to hear your opinion of WP7. Especially on how you're finding the selection and quality of the available apps.
Yea, I agree, blog needs to be written.

I would love to see one, since we're in the same boat (deciding between Hadoop or a bit of homegrown stuff for our simple needs).

And I'm really curious about Go in general. The vibe seems really positive, kind of Java-vibe like back in the 90ies.
You can get burnt out all by your lonesome self just fine without resenting anybody or anything at all.
> As for women in IT, well, ever considered they just don't like it that much?

Did you miss all the recent posts from women in IT who say they love their jobs but have been forced out because of sexism etc?
I noticed that too but then I kind of felt like that's the point. Simple. Kind of like having a box of 9 crayons instead of a box if 200.

The more options they give you the more time spent use them instead of drawing?

At the same time though, I do wonder if the sketchbook UI is really the main point. Going through images 1 at a time or with a grid of thumbnails in Art Rage or Sketchbook is much more cumbersome than this one pinch to fold, flip to next page, tap, draw.

It doesn't ask you to load or save, it just acts like paper which is quicker.

I wonder of those other apps added that type of feature if the limited options would still be a positive or a negative.
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That's not obviously true to me.

Any professional has some process, explicit or implicit: it's the observable regularities in the way they work.

Any team is going to have some explicit process, because there's no way people will converge on the maximally effective way of working together without some discussion.

So as far as I can tell, what you're saying is that it's impossible to take any process ideas from an external source, because every team is already maximally efficient. That doesn't make much sense to me.

In our case, the process we've converged on is the most efficient one we can find. But we're always looking for ways to make it more efficient.
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> The capacitive screen (even on "new" iPad) only has about a 6mm capacitive resolution

What do you mean? I can definitely draw smaller features than 6 mm.
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There's no way this is true. I agree with the point the OP is trying to make, but inventing stats isn't a good way to make a point (although it's probably a great way to get people to click through to the article).
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Given that webOS has some fantastic tablet apps, why on Earth remove it from the Touchpad and install ICS which has a lot less tablet apps? I see people doing this all of the time, and frankly it confuses me because they just by-pass the best feature of the Touchpad: webOS.
Thanks for sharing. I was really excited by the website, but there's nothing like seeing the device in action.
Most of my friends' kids all have iPod Touches. I expect that trend to continue to increase so something for the more generic handheld devices seem like they'd get into the hands of a lot more children.
While in one sense I agree (testrogen is an awful name), would you want to use a test framework named "Estrogen - The girly testing framework"? Maybe it wouldn't matter to you (I don't think I'd care really), but imagine being one of the only male developers in a group of overly feminist "chickgrammers" (excuse the play on words) who all claimed that "Estrogen" made them feel super-girly, and let you know at every chance they got just how girly it made them feel.

Even without the hypothetical situation, branding a framework as the "framework for [gender]" is going to implicitly exclude anyone who isn't of that gender. Not to mention those for whom gender isn't quite as binary.
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The app looks really, really cool, but I think this input lag demonstration by Microsoft has really spoilt me in the same way that I can no longer look at mobile devices without Retina and not cringe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4
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"Apple, on the other hand, actually has a significant revenue stream from existing hardware … "

FWIW, Apple don't exactly have an unblemished record in treating owners of existing iPhones properly, as anyone who suffered through the first few iOS upgrades on iPhone3G's after the 3GS came out. For a while even Apple native apps like Messages (the SMS app) were all but unusable on a fully updated 3G…

Having said that, I'm still overall much happier with the OS upgrade path my original iPhone -> iPhone 3G -> iPhone 4S has had, compared to the long delays in getting _any_ OS upgrades for my Galaxy S II (largely due to the carriers here in .au rather than Google's fault, but that doesn't make the feeling of lack of support any easier to stomach…)
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Why not just bite the bullet and add optional {}:s to Python instead, so you don't have to learn a tool just to get normal command line (/oneliner) usability?

The total sum of complexity to learn/use would be about the same (and Python would get multi instruction anon funs.)
Well, do YOU have stats to prove they are inventing stats ? ;)
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In the meantime, just ponder this: we are, in a trivial sense, machines. Machines capable of reasoning about themselves. In principle, there is nothing stopping us from making actual machines that beat us in every domain. Yesterday, Chess. Today, Jeopardy. Tomorrow, driving. And maybe someday, machine building itself.

If we ever reach that point, you know enough about recursion to know how this will goes: recursive self-improvements leading to something way more capable than your average Einstein. Now let's hope that our little Skynet is programmed to do good (whatever "good" is), instead of, say, using us as raw material to fill the solar system with paper clips. Because unlike with the fictional Skynet, we won't even stand a fighting chance.
You're right, it's not. It's just something I'm curious about considering how much PR TC companies get.
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Am I Investable?

I have been wondering lately "Am I Investable". Should I be focusing my attention on getting funding for my ideas or helping someone else. Finance or Wage?

There is a lot of advice on the net about startup this, and seed round that, and all sorts of blah blah blah about products and pivoting and something to do with hockey sticks. Most of it is plain common sense. But there is one recurring theme that cuts through all of it.

It doesn't matter what your idea is or how skilled your team is, when someone hands over a few hundred thousand dollars, they are investing in you, not your product. Sure, your idea is great, but can you "make it happen". In essence "You" are the product, not your idea.

So, my question is, would you invest in me as a product? I do have some prototypes. Should I just say screw it and blatantly ask rich people for money?

Am I investable?

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= Product features =
Focused: Like a shark with a laser.

Pliable: Able to take direction and constructive criticism well. Feed me...

Tested: 20+ years making stuff work for users. From GrandMa to CEO.

Smart: Like, you know, like, really smart.

= Background =
20+ years making anything work for everyone. I worked mainly in the x86 PC and server world, making machines, fixing them, connecting them, training people and generally just making sure the alignment of the bones were in matched to the current moon phases. There isn't a problem I can't find the cause of or a workaround for.

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Lol. There is no concrete stat, one can only make educated guesses, and 90% is mine.
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