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Everything you said is correct, but it may helps others to know this is called optimistic synchronization, which is a nice, Googleable term. Pessimistic synchronization uses locks; if you need to synchronize, you assume that anyone else will access it in a way that conflicts with you, so you lock it, gain exclusive access, and make everyone else wait.

Optimistic synchronization makes the opposite assumption, which allows for higher concurrency in some situations. The cost is all of the overhead to do conflict resolution if it turns out two threads do want to access and change the same pieces of memory.
Word of mouth from your fellow franchise fans might have a bigger influence than Roger Ebert dissing the movie.

Also, there's such a thing as a review embargo. It would be interesting to see how review embargos correlate with box office success and after-the-fact ratings.
He wants control of the board. And at this point, he probably does not care much about the executive team or the stock price. The lower it goes, the more he can buy and thus put even more pressure to get his people on the board.
It's not quite as complete, and comes with other idioms as well so it's not as portable. I'm not really sure why they put so many different things in a single file to be honest.
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> On my Android phone I have 5 web browsers installed.

For what percentage of users is this likely to be a concern?
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Kevin knew how to code before he went to college. He just refreshed himself.
Before I will answer your question, please tell me what could be the moral problem related with this kind of service - as long as I'm designing the logos my self??
yes it is there for the restore operation but not for sync.
It will be available in the next version (to be released in 2 weeks)
There is also Lea Veriou's prefix free project.

http://leaverou.github.com/prefixfree/

I can see arguments for both leaning on JavaScript or doing it server side as this one does. One benefit of doing it on the client is that it only generates the relevant prefixes. There is no need to send down opera-specific prefixes to a webkit browser.
I've found that software written in C is often the best written and most stable software I've used. I believe it's due to the amount of care required in writing in the language and the fact you can't stream code out as fast as you can in other, 'safer' languages. Overall though, I think the most important thing is to have skilled developers who understand the tools, libraries and languages that they're using.
Sounds like your on a terrible team, you might be asking people who don't know what their doing for help.

However, I have found asking for specific advice is less useful than defining the problem, how your approaching it, and what's not working. Some times what might seem like a stupid idea is the best compromise available, but you need to get people past the ick factor before they will help solve the problem.
Also, what is "regular porn use"?
I find it odd that "get" is faster on a GapList than an ArrayList. Surely "get" on an ArrayList should be unbeatable.
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As I read your comment I felt a tinge of concern for you in your current situation.

It seems that you could be manipulated into working crazy hours because a "big payout" is "right around the corner", if only you do what they say and work your tail off.

Just be careful.
It's not only the intention, code is being written as we speak :)
This is great news. Any estimate on when these fixes might be released into a production version?
You can use the javascript shim for console in HTML5 boilerplate to make it safe for use in IE. It even logs output to a global array, so you can inspect the console output in IE.

https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/master/js/plu...
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Pretty unlikely, at least in the medium term. What's the business strategy which would motivate that?
Now at its core, handling file uploads is very simple and straightforward affair

I understand the concerns the author is raising and having a single responsibility for a library is definitely ideal. But as far as I have experienced, file uploads are never as trivial as author is pointing them out to be.

Most of the times you need some kind of post processing for the files, sometimes you need multiple file uploads, sometimes you want to do it asynchronously. It just never ends up trivial.
Spot on.

I think Color's pitch was to stealthily suck value out of Facebook by attacking what it perceived (and Instagram proved out) as its greatest weakness: a healthy amount of user engagement on FB is around photos. If one could create the "perfect" photo sharing mobile network, FB users would start sharing photos outside of FB. As soon as a critical mass of users and photos was achieved, FB would recognize the attack and defeat it via acquisition.

IMO the main difference is that Color (and their investors) had a well-defined strategy, but it was Instagram that had the perfect app.
I just sent this link to my co-founder. It's something I want him reading the moment he wakes up today!

Great read! I resonate with so many things said here.

I was buying into everything before I even knew what the business was, but after some clicking I like your idea behind Bislr.com even more.
What step is "Burning thousands of dollars on merchandise"?
"Or at the very least, it's be easy to criticise them if they failed to implement the meta tag."

Would it be? I imagine the standard response from those who did not would be something along the lines of "Screw that, I'm not British. Why should I change my site because they refuse to be parents?", or something along those lines.

Kind of hard to fault that reasoning. There are a lot of different cultures with dramatically different views on what constitutes pornography and who is allowed to view it. Placing responsibility of keeping track of all of that on site owners is asking too much.
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My understanding is that this is already the case for mobile phone networks here in the UK. I remember having to phone up my mobile phone provider (T-Mobile, or maybe it was O2 at the time?) to ask them to remove the adult content lock because it was incorrectly blocking access to some tech news site I was trying to read. POS.

I don't know if this is government mandated or just interfering mobile networks.
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The technology is impressive, but humans drive okay without LIDAR, radar, or GPS. Maybe some day self-driving cars can drive using only two small visible-light sensors located above and behind the steering wheel. It might just be an AI challenge to operate that way, and commercial systems will always employ advanced sensors for better safety. But I don't think true parity has been reached until they can drive like we do.
Ubuntu =/= Debian. I have several servers that have been upgraded from Woody up to Squeeze (that's 5 consecutive dist-upgrades in 9 years) and it's less problematic with each release. The only serious difficulties were switching from xf86 to xorg, then apache to apache2. Switching kernels (2.4 -> 2.6) or libc was quite painless.

Since Etch (Etch to Lenny to Squeeze) except for a couple of minor glitches going with the defaults "just works".

From what I've seen Ubuntu often fails upgrades because of the GUI (at some point during upgrade one or other part of the GUI fails/restart and kills the upgrade process itself). Simple advice: dist-upgrade in a text console (not a gnome-terminal!), and it should work fine.
What they usually have is a business model that includes reduction of legal risk. If a minor change such as including specific tags or keywords can keep them out of court, that change will be made.
When I watched the interview with Kevin Systrom by Kevin Rose, Systrom's "Grand Vision" definitely reminded me of the goal of Color.

Here is a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
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Looks like a more complete alternative to http://lesselements.com/

Thanks!
That might make a good post. I can think of several folks I wish would read something like that.

Updating for security or real bug fixes is one thing. Running the treadmill of always trying to have the "latest and greatest" of everything wastes a lot of time.
This is great... wish I'd had it before I made my own.

I would suggest either minifying it or aligning the properties. Or both!
At this point I think you are either very biased or <forget it I will spare you the T word>. Here is what The Verge had to say about HTC One X with ICS -

"I can't lodge a single complaint about the One X's performance, though — this phone screams, and it has the benchmark scores to back it up. I used the phone as my primary device for a full week and can't recall a single incidence of lag or stutter anywhere in the user interface. That's saying something, because Android phones that initially appear to be fast have a tendency to "bog down" over time and during certain operations like app updates and account syncs, but not the One X — it was smooth sailing at all times."

I am sure you can find something laggy if you keep looking for it - you can buy the most lacking Android device and then complain about it all you want - but newer flagship Android devices have pretty much eliminated the lag issues with OS and Hardware assistance (Tegra3 has direct touch for e.g. and even Gruber found ICS much nicer!).
Vodafone do this too. I believe legally they must provide an opt-in filter; although I'm guessing for historical reasons they seem to always be opt-out.
I would need to see some evidence suggesting that pornographers don't before I was willing to make statements like that. I think adults caring about the welfare of children is a rather reasonable default assumption.
Very true.

But in some cases, you simply can't use something like C. A friend of mine is currently trying to write a microkernel and mathematically prove that it's 100% bug-free (similar works on the L4 microkernel: [1] and [2], though they might not be the best articles on this matter as I just found these links with a quick Google search). He uses Haskell and ML for this project (He'd use Ada, but he already knows some Haskell and ML and doesn't want to re-learn everything).

[1]: http://ertos.nicta.com.au/research/l4.verified/

[2]: http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/NICTA-sel4-OK-Labs-O...
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So would this mean that you can install packages with pacman?
I get that popup whenever a file can be handled by multiple apps (youtube links: browser or native app, images: browser or some editor/viewer, etc.).

It happens occasionally to me and I'm not a smartphone "power user".
I'm with o2, never been blocked viewing anything.

Is there a possibility you're talking about the open wifi spots? The ones near me are invariably slower than 3G so I've turned BTOpenZone off. Not that I regularly view porn out and about, but I'd assume that I'd hit the block at some point.

EDIT: There is one, bizarre, never knew that:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2134659/Phone-firms-...

I obviously need to start viewing more porn sites out and about or something to express my freedoms!
Thats true, but often times a complicated library that makes these choices for you gets in your way, rather than helping the case.
Correct, but these autonomous vehicles can (should) also forward updates to the maps server. It's the same as with MAC address/WiFi positioning. When you enable that positioning on your smartphone, it sends a list of MAC/WiFi entities with reception quality to the central server. The server looks up where you are based on that data, but at the same time updates its lists: some routers have disappeared (people moved) and some were added. Crowdsourcing at its best.
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The problem is not the AI (driving is relatively simple), but the sensors. Cameras are bad vs. our eyes.
Don't. Let your kid have his own childhood, they don't have to relive yours.
That was back in the days when mobile internet meant WAP with services provided by your own network, i.e. the blocks were for adult content that O2 (and other networks) were themselves providing/selling.

So yes, it was caused by the same law that prevents children from buying adult magazines or subscribing to porn websites - though likely the networks could have got away with less had they wanted to (such as the "If you are under 18, leave now" messages most porn sites now offer).
Interesting, especially because it gives a pointer to the excellent idea of Machete Order: http://static.nomachetejuggling.com/machete_order.html
So you don't need iOS hardware, just Apple hardware... so much better!
I used LESS Elements for a while -- its shortcomings caused me to build this. I can't fault LESS Elements too much since I think the problems it has are caused by choosing a syntax before CSS3 was stabilized.

The main issue it has is that it often puts parameters in a different order than the CSS3 spec making it a huge pain to remember.
I didn't read the piece as arguing that design is irrelevant, or that good design doesn't add to things like conversion, usability, or usage.
USPS is testing this in trial markets right now:

https://tools.usps.com/go/EPLAction!input?WT_z.redirect=www....
Exactly.

Is there anything more likely to make a kid want to browse porn that finding out not only is it taboo, it's a technical challenge too.
Why not just let them discover it for themselves like they would any other movie?

It's a famous movie about spaceships , aliens and lasers; I had parents with no interest in Sci Fi and I still saw it by the time I was 9, as well as playing all the old school SW video games (XWing, Rebel Assault , Tie Fighter).

What always surprised me is that the star wars films have a "U" rating here in the UK (which means suitable for everyone) rather than at least a PG (meaning suitable for older children with parental discretion) considering the amount of violence.
What do you think a bunch of people in self driving cars with smartphones or personal wifi hotspots are going to do? Surf the internet, and therefore use more of Google's products. It's similar to Chrome or Android in that it enables more people to use Google's core services which they make money off of.
I like also the "append only" design. It means you store events, not state. You would not check a "is_read" boolean on a comment, you would insert a "who read what when" event in a long but narrow table, whose indexing is much faster.

I often want to promote this way to coworker, any reference on this topic to help me convince them?
I believe the data structure you're referring to is called a rope. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-ropes/index...
I'd have to disagree on this one.

Clearly there are tons of people excited about the idea of Adioso. The problem is that the technology doesn't deliver. No matter how ridiculous of a schedule I'm willing to put up with, I still can't get from NYC to Cambodia and back for $300 or whatever. And it's not even clear that that will ever be possible no matter how much time they put into developing it.

Now if they were able to figure out a way to charter planes that would otherwise be flying empty and get them filled to capacity so that I actually could go to some random country in SouthEast asia for a few hundred bucks then that would be awesome. But that simply hasn't happened yet.
What to expect from a country that charges a TV license for blind people...

Edit: do you think I'm kidding? http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/easy-read/EA15/

"If you are registered blind or severely sight impaired you can get a TV Licence for half of the usual cost."
No. A Kinect uses structured light projection to create a discernible pattern. A Velodyne uses Time-of-Flight lasers.
and rightly he should. as ceo, he really needs to be able to express the complexity of functions in big-o notation. for shame.
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> BTW, History / Recently Closed Tabs is one of my favorite FF (only) features.

Chrome also has the "Recently Closed" list.
In PL/SQL a "function" in the FP sense would be called "deterministic".
Our kid had us read to him every part of the Star Wars story multiple times before we just let him watch #4 a week ago. It accomplished the main objective laid out in this nice article: Timing it so they're able to "discuss and analyze the themes appropriately."

I too feel movie #1 is one to skip, but for a different, simpler reason: It's about political maneuvering, which is very difficult to explain to kids. My 7 year old son still doesn't fully get it after reading the book several times and me attempting to explain in several different ways why Palpatine's strategy was so effective (cause wars in order to steadily increase his power). He needs a foundation of more basic political concepts before he can get these subtleties. My wife even had trouble understanding the movie when she first saw it. Without understanding what the story is about, it has the feel of random mayhem.

Back to the main point: There's indeed a lot of violence and our family was one of the last holdouts among peers. We knew many kids who had seen Star Wars before the age of 5, and we also know a lot of kids who think of killing and violence as trivial everyday things. Like the author of this post, we didn't want our kid to be brought up like that so we went through he effort of reading and thoroughly discussing the books.

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A developers laptop without a trackpoint, crappy keyboard and a screen that does not provide much vertical space? Other than this, I welcome Laptops designed for developers with Linux.
My advice is to use "apt-get dist-upgrade" in the text console (Ctrl+Alt+F1, not a gnome-terminal!) and it should go fine. I've upgraded 4 machines from 10.04 to 12.04. Only one failed to auto-upgrade and needed to fall back to the console to complete installation.

The most problematic part IMO is Evolution. This program almost always causes trouble during upgrades, not only on Ubuntu (I had problems upgrading Slackware GSB at home too). Use Thunderbird or Claws or whatever other mailer if you can...
Nice idea. It's sad that this type of feature doesn't come in the base product. Dropbox itself is extremely good at what it does, but it essentially only does one thing. Even things as obvious and simple to implement as "files remaining to sync" don't exist. Despite being a paying customer and impressed by its one feature, I have a strong dislike for Dropbox unless they start to add common sense feautures.
Doubtful. Most of these companies want to own the tech. I'm actually concerned they won't be able to sell it if they tried - Chrysler is actively developing a self-driving system that they hope to deploy in 2 years.
Codemarks is awesome. I use it frequently to get away from the ubiquitous bookmark closet.
Ditto - and it's not just a developer thing, it's an "anything except video watching" thing.

I hate the shift towards widescreen in laptops for pretty much any activity, and it's only bearable in desktop monitors because there's no real size limit on them, so it can be adding width rather than just reducing height.
> If a reader is aware of a study that quantifies the influence of “good” design (however that is defined) on startup success, I would be interested in having a read.

This is not exactly what you're looking for, but here are two studies concerned with the aesthetic-usability effect. The summary is that aesthetically-pleasing interfaces are judged by users to be easier to use, regardless of their actual usability.

"Apparent Usability vs. Inherent Usability Experimental analysis on the determinants of the apparent usability" - CHI '95 Proceedings - http://www.sigchi.org/chi95/proceedings/shortppr/mk_bdy.htm

"Aesthetics and Apparent Usability: Empirically Assessing Cultural and Methodological Issues" - CHI '97 Proceedings - http://www.sigchi.org/chi97/proceedings/paper/nt.htm

You could also test this yourself on your own software with an A/B test. Use two designs with the same feature set. Use a plain interface for one and a nice interface on the other. Whichever one brings better results according to your business needs is the one you should use.

Personally, I believe context is just as important as beauty in design. If an interface is plain but helps me get the job done faster because my brain is able to concentrate better, I would consider that better design.

But in general, given two designs of equal features, I prefer the one that looks better, however that is defined. I'm not a social psychologist, but one would probably tell you most people have the same preference.

In the second study listed above, the reference section lists this 1980 study: "Defendant's Attractiveness as a Factor in the Outcome of Criminal Trials". Search the web for an abstract. As you might guess from the title, the study found "the more attractive the defendant, the less severe the sentence imposed."
You might have been able to deflect more of this if you had made up a new type of security that broke the rules (something nobody could have expected), however I thought your example illustrated the issue very well. For me it is especially common to run into the field that could never be null but now is scenario.

I liked your article a lot, very nice write up. I tend to lean towards the idea that there may not be much of a solution for this. But it's better to look for one than to just give up!
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Slightly misleading headline. The UK government is considering all residential internet connections to, by default, have an porn filter, and people can opt out of it. They have been talking about this for months. Remember there was some recent local elections in the UK which the current party didn't do well in, so this is realpolitik.

Saying "licence" implies that a cop can come along and demand to see your "porn licence", or that there'll be tests to get your "porn licence", or that there'll be a governmental "porn licencing authority". All of these things are ridiculous and not what anyone is considering.
Interestingly enough, there was an AskReddit thread yesterday that consisted of people bragging. Many people in the thread described it as extremely therapeutic.

The link is here : http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/taiqo/can_we_all_...
...if they receive live TV in their homes.

The blind can still listen to radio or use iplayer for non-live broadcasts.
Well, the car itself becomes a device, right?

- Active internal displays that push ads based on detailed mapping information.
- Delivering you to a particular location after you look it up on Google. What's the Price per Delivery (PPD) on AdWords?
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