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Umm, it only makes sense in the UK, where we have a very large plug standard.
If you want to try this you can go the cheap way and just stick black stickers on your existing keyboard.
Not the image itself, but the box that holds the image. Check out this quick tutorial: http://www.css3.info/preview/rounded-border/ .
People have been getting mortgages way over what's reasonable.
Local banks have been getting credits to provide these mortgages they knew were unreasonable.
Foreign financial institutions have been lending money and allowing debt levels to rise uncontrollably.
Industries everywhere have benefited from all this available money to sell more product (esp. houses).
Politicians, companies and markets have emphasized and focused on short-term benefits over any kind of long-term strategy.

Everyone, everywhere has stood by and let this happen, because everyone assumed that everyone else knew what they were doing. Voices of concern were quickly silenced. Nobody wanted to be the party pooper, nobody has done anything to prevent this, nobody wants to bear the responsibility for what has happened, and nobody knows how to fix it.
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I hadn't seen that, thanks - looks like a good complement then!
Mechanical keyboards are amazing. Typing on one is actually a pleasurable experience. I could go on about the benefits but other people have written guides that are much better than what I could post here.
Here is one great guide.
http://www.overclock.net/t/491752/mechanical-keyboard-guide

What I will say is that for anyone that has a job that involves massive amounts of typing I really recommend you invest in one.

I personally do not like Das because of the glossy finish which makes smudges and fingerprints very noticeable. I currently own a leopold tenkeyless with cherry brown switches, which I find to be great. The guide I posted goes into great detail over the different types of switches and the value of keyboards so you should read over it if you are interested.
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Also, each mirror is motorized. A computer monitors the temperature and will de-focus some mirrors if the temps get too high.
Interesting comment on the article:

Makes more sense for Google to buy them. They could do two things with them:

1: build the technology into their Google Glasses so peoples names pop up as they come into view
2: redirect face.com to Google.com.

That second option would be well worth the 100 million too. Consider this: after you visited face.com once every next time you want to go to facebook.com and type in 'face' your browser will auto-complete to face.com

1 and 2 are both interesting scenarios.
>> The fastest way to complete two projects using the same people is to do it one at a time, sequentially. Trying to run two projects in parallel using the same resources introduces a large amount of waste

Is that always the case? I have seen freelancers handle multiple projects at once using a weekly breakdown of 3 days for one project and 2 days for another.
I can support what Julian Assange was trying to do, while not liking Julian Assange himself particularly. Actually, I find it unfortunate that what I view as sich a good idea, is attached to such an apparently dodgy individual.
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I don't remember this detail. I'll probably have to reread it. Where were those used?
That's not entirely true, some of the factors and some of the profiles do have empirical backing. E.g. I think the INTP type has been found to underperform in school relative to IQ, and both introversion and extraversion have been validated as well.
I have no proof that he has a pet unicorn either. But since no one has claimed that he owns a unicorn, and he hasn't been charged with rape, I don't see a good reason to believe either claim.
It's not like myers-briggs is administered under anything resembling controlled conditions. It really is useless except for self-identifying that you like the myers-briggs categorization scheme and which of the 16 boxes you think that you are in.

Also, if you're going to cite scientific studies to rebut someone else's point, it goes much further to making your case when you actually dig up references or links to them.
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I'd argue that the really good thing about the UK plug is 1) the switches in the sockets and 2) that the devices are all well-grounded

There are quite a lot of safety features built in to UK plugs. Other ones I'm aware of are the holes being shuttered until a plug is inserted, and the internal design meaning that if you pull hard enough on the external wire, pulling it out, the internal wires will disconnect in a safe order.
Do we need 440ppi displays? At this level, does improving the PPI make any difference at all to human eyes?
I wonder at what point the removal of good and innovative apps will piss enough iOS developers off that no new good apps will get created...
It's worse than that. It's a summary of an article on Engadget that is just a rehashed press release.
I work in person with local businesses, but it's a tough market (and I agree with what everyone has said).

Right now, I'm looking to get away from web-focused work. That's why I'm working on my own stuff, but it all takes time.
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Any country with CCTV or public surveillance (perhaps satellite?) could use FB's pics and Face together to track who's where and when. It'd be a synergy for surveillance, I just wonder who's got the best technology to do it.
In my experience, the most toxic customers have been our biggest advocates and salesmen out in the world (yes, men, they're almost always men for some reason, not sure why), but you'd never know it based on the crazy abusive stuff we see in our email box.

The key is treating all customers, even the crazy & abusive ones, with respect and knowing when to cut bait. Staying above the fray and not letting it affect your tone when you respond can be really hard some days, 'cause we're all human, but it's worth it.
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If only the safety features went as far as making them less horrendous to stand on.
Charging a fine? No. Disallowing the entry of their goods into the US market entirely unless they obey US labor laws? Yes.

It'd cause all manner of hell on implementation, because it would completely turn the world economy on its head. Right now we're really dependent on abusing the hell out of cheap labor and countries that don't have a solid regulatory structure. So while we sit here and claim to decent labor and environmental standards we're consuming a ton of goods produced with out them at a cheap cost. But the world is a single, closed system. At some point, this is going to catch up to us.

We could use our consumer power to force an equalization in the global labor market by making a simple declaration: obey our labor and environmental standards -- and let us confirm that you do -- or you don't get to sell your goods to our market. Period. Suddenly, outsourced labor looks a lot less attractive. If you can't abuse the cheap labor and lax environmental laws in other countries, then there's no reason not to put your production in the US.

Of course, this all depends on the fact that the US is one of the top consumer markets in the world, and that companies will do anything to avoid being cut out of it. The window of opportunity in which that's true is closing fast with the rise of China. And may, actually, already be closed. Of course, if you could get multiple high consumption countries together and agree on mutual labor standards to enforce and that any company not fulfilling them would be kept out of any of those countries then it'd have a lot more power.

And of course, there's always the fact that any companies that refused could always be replaced by start-ups.

The change over would be a little rough and chaotic, and it's hard (impossible?) to predict what would actually happen during it. But if we manage to make it through it, the resulting world would have a level playing field for labor and environmental practices. It's difficult to predict the effect it would have on living standards for those of us currently abusing everyone else. Our living standard might drop a bit as the price of goods goes up. But then, if this were linked with the previously mentioned law, a lot of the wealth that's caught up in the top of the economy right now would be forced down. That wealth would create a lot more consumers with money to spend, which means more demand, which means more jobs for everyone. So it could mean everyone's living standards go up -- despite a rise in the cost of labor and therefor goods.

I'd be really interested to see someone model it.
To quote:

"Yes – the Mu® USB Adapter has been tested by recognised certification organisations and has the full pre-requisite approvals for CE certification."

What approvals and organisations? Sounds like bullshit. That's the most evasive paragraph ever in the history of time.

Proper UK mains plugs are incredibly over-engineered for a good reason. Excellent mechanical stability, no arcing likely, touch-safety, earth pin, built in fuse and TBH you could beat an elephant to death with one. Add to that, the sockets don't like giving the plugs back which is a good thing!

That thing is flimsy, requires manual twiddling, has zero earth pin - it's plastic (what is the USB port grounded to?), will break in two minutes flat and fry someone.

I very much doubt it's been tested or approved or will be on the market for more than a few weeks.

Also, a small added rant: I can see design awards galore splurged all over it. The designers are positively orgasmic over the thing, yet us engineers are crying. Take the hint.
I just went on a journey through the remains of gopherspace. Thank you :)
Good point, you'd have to link it with some sort of law with respect to ownership stakes and control.
The word also has a strong association with devs who are immature or platform religious.

It's possible you would be ok working with others of this mindset, but I think you're better off w/out it.

No ad-homs intended, just wouldn't want you to miss opportunities with companies that frown upon being close-minded (but are still non-microsoft).
Do you have any resources for studying up on design concerns?

It's easy to find software examples and instructions online, but I really have no idea where to start with building my eye for design.

Thanks.
Just use text.
Wow you really didn't get the entire point I was making then. The test in it's current form, has significant issues.

But the test != the theory.
I don't know about dumb rules but (for a change) he should come and see some properties in my area with practically no space between buildings.

However, 30% of a lot seems small for a high density area.
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Output: DC 5V 1Amp

Isn't that going to mean that a lot of devices (iPad?) charge slow?

I mean, I think it's more expensive to get rated for higher amp-age but they could have gone for 3 amps, right?
They'd have to get fed up enough to move to a non-Apple ecosystem, and given how much the typical iOS/Mac dev loves Apple products, that seems unlikely unless a new player storms onto the market and finally delivers serious competition. Abuse like this will, at most, just make devs grumble more about how unkind Apple is; they're not going to stop making Apple rich anytime soon.
Only if you shove something into the Earth socket hole, which raises the (mandatory) cover on the live and neutral socket holes.
Thanks for your reply. Apologies for making it too personal. When I first had this conversation from the other side, I think my stance was "I say 'bitch,' and I'm not sexist, so it must be fine and I just have to figure out why." So I tend to assume other people are coming from the same place, which isn't always true.

Your point about cultural differences is interesting. You said "the times I do hear 'bitch' it's used with a male... and certainly not in the way you suggest, except for the last one." Maybe the point is, if you're talking to American men or women, they will have heard all of the uses of "bitch" I quoted, many times (hopefully more on TV than in real life). So in a general web publication, it comes with that whole baggage. And since all the ways it's used are closely related, you can't really avoid the more sexist connotations.
Facebook Camera app is a small step in the right direction
> I saw some nice shoes today at the mall and want to know if they’re available back home (because i’ve learned from experience that region-blocking also applies to shoes).

Region blocking applies to shoes?
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The UX experience/monitor size argument has been discussed many times, and the general consensus seems to be that Apple picked a 3.5" screen because it presents the most comfortable layout.

I believe Dustin Curtis was the first person to start that discussion: http://dcurt.is/2011/10/03/3-point-5-inches
One year ago, I wrote an implementation of a concept I had. This implementation is a system daemon, which manages a lot of I/O work. The prototype was in bash, the actual system daemon was in C.

I am extremely proud of my recent decision to rewrite it in JavaScript and use Node.js. In the C implementation, I used standard FS functions (e.g. unlink, fwrite, fread) and of course, they are synchronous. In order to optimize the I/O, the entire daemon needed to be rewritten to use threads for the basic worker units, which were at least 5-6, each doing a very simple job. The alternative was to use async FS library in C, but I had to name every single callback.

So I scratched the C code and rewrote the daemon in Node.js. It is much faster because it manages to utilize the system resource much more efficiently, and the code is 3-4 times smaller.

The point is. If you have to do a lot of computation, DO NOT switch to Node or DO switch to Haskell. If you simply have to manage I/O operations, writing in Node might actually decrease complexity.
Ask HN: Who wholesales sugar by the metric tonne?
My Pops came up to me and said he needs to find 12-15 thousand metric tonnes of sugar each month for a charity he runs... he asked me to look on the internets... I looked back and thought there is no way the internets know who can move that much sugar.

And he wants similar quantities of condensed milk.

Does anybody have any idea where I start to find the right person to supply such quantities of sugar and condensed milk on a monthly contract? (makes deciding on a mobile monthly contract seem relatively easy...)

Thanks,

Rayhan
Events can either mean single-thread/event queue (like the LMAX architecture), or async/sleeping with wake up on event trigger. Or both.

Poll usually is run with threads on incoming connections/work, while epoll is keeping conections sleeping and wake up on incoming work. So in which way does this have "nothing to do with threads vs events at all"?

For sure the ratio of sleeping vs. active connections is important in the discussion on node.js model vs. a thread pool with a thread-per-connection setup. If you have very few active connections, poll and a thread-per-connection setup is more efficient (which does say nothing about the ratio of threads per CPU, context switches etc.), if you have a high number of inactive connections, say server-push or chat scenarios, event based connections are more efficient. The OP asked for efficiency.

I don't think the node.js is in any way relevant or efficient for event queues / single thread setups in high throughput scenarios like LMAX where poll/epoll is not relevant. But for node.js, poll vs. epoll setups are highly relevant as they show e.g. node.js vs. standard thread based behaviour.
Welcome to 2010, LG!
I've managed a high volume call center for 15 years and I agree with this very much. In my experience, it can be easy to view customers with cynicism. But answering an extreme principle with another extreme principle isn't useful, either.

I think it could be reworded and be more useful (see my comment further down).
Thanks for this link.

I was seriously considering purchasing this phone until I saw the comparison shots.

My first "Smartphone" was the LG Incite, running Windows 5.5 (I think?). It was absolutely unusable outdoors, at all. I can't overstate how awful trying to do anything outdoors with that phone was. Since then I've sworn I would not purchase another phone that was anywhere as bad in this regard.

Unfortunately it's pretty obvious the SIII is even worse than the SII, which I had.

I'm really glad now that I've jumped to the iPhone 4S after being a devoted Android fan for 3 years.
Is it about death or rather sacrifice? What about someone that would have died from their wounds in WW2 or vietnam but from the useless Iraq or Afgan wars they lost limbs but survived?

What about someone who was told by recruiters they would not have to kill anyone and went in as a photographer but their airport was overrun and got severe mental trauma because they had to kill people at point-blank range? Do they deserve to be included?

The dead don't suffer, it's the living scarifies that do.

Let's stop war by making draft mandatory. They we can all have a real memorial day instead of BBQ.

Yes I know we have Veterans Day but it seems kinda stupid to have just one day if we supposedly value such sacrifice.
This is to be expected. Even for isp bandwidth 5% of the customers use 95% of the bandwidth. But like internet bandwidths, the 5% that use the most are also the most vocal. People communicate and the bigger pain they are, the more they communicate with others.
Thank you, great suggestions. Point by point:
1) Why is this better?
2) Started out using CSS3, but found this easier to accommodate older browsers. Maybe I should do both?
3) Tried to make it look like the Google Map bubble, that's why it's different.
4) OK, will test.
5) Second paragraph is somewhat of a subtext to come to the conclusion in the third paragraph, but you're right in that it screws up rhythm.
6) Yep, that's a non-designer trying design for ya.
7) It has the same left-margin as the other headers and most paragraphs, but the leading dots give a somewhat false illusion, I think.
8) Thanks, good suggestion, will do.
Why there is no search function in desktop apps?
For a smartphone product, their website is remarkably mobile-hostile. Can anyone figure out a way to get their "click and drag" photo navigation to work on an iPhone?
I'm not suggesting anything, I'm just saying that extrapolating publicly available information about the performance of Google AI cars, does not give me any clue about how they would do in real traffic.

I don't think 'just as bad as some human drivers' will be good enough for driverless cars to ever become reality by the way. I'm amazed how so many people adhere to this strange way of reasoning: because some people are bad drivers and have accidents, it's ok for AI cars to do better than the average driver, but still worse than the responsible, safe driver? I'd say we'd better spend the time and energy trying to reduce the number of bad drivers, or limit the damage they can do when they screw up (for example by AI assistance as opposed to AI drivers). It's exactly arguments like this that put me off in the driverless-cars debate, just like the eternal 'but we have driverless planes for years and they work' argument I see a lot of people make. It only goes to show how love for technology clouds some peoples judgement (I hope I don't have to explain why comparing AI cars to planes doesn't make any sense on about any level imaginable?)

Anyway, judging from the votes I get, it was a bad idea to post my thoughts about driverless cars here, as I already feared. Just like the discussions I sometimes have with my colleagues who all also love technology, it goes nowhere. It's almost as if driverless cars have become a religion for some, anytime I try to put things into perspective I only get back a lot of negativity and non-sequitur arguments. I guess some people really want to believe in driverless cars.
The people that made change tracking probably wanted the feature to work and be usable, rather than create another crypto product and have no one figure it out.

Also, if you don't trust the other parties, you can use the compare feature an get a diff of the documents. Keeping your own copy is a easy, simple, way to get a correct view of changes to a document.
I don't know what exactly you are referring to with high concurrency, but if you mean "high number of tasks to work on in parallel" then a ThreadPool will eliminate the problems you are describing.
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Here is one of the references:

Cerebral Blood Flow and Personality: A Positron Emission Tomography Study

Debra L. Johnson, Ph.D.; John S. Wiebe,et al (1990), The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 156, No. 2

http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/156/2/252

I'll try dig up the other.
It must not be that silly because 10gen hired the author of Mongoose ;-)
So I'm curious because I don't have these issues...what happens if you "Change Store" in iTunes? Does it not work?
A tip for typing one handed, shift your hand from it's correct position to its mirror opposite i.e. from jkl; to asdf or vice versa it's easier than you would think to translate key memory if you do it like that, though it's still not exactly ergonomic.

I believe you can get footswitches and/or software that flips the keyboard for you so you don't have to move the hand back and forth if it's a more permanant situation.
Apple develops a technology called Airplay that it licenses to 3rd parties. Developers reverse-engineer the technology and sell apps that circumvent Apple's licensing model. Apple removes those apps from their store.

I am not the least bit surprised.
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I have a blank Das keyboard and after a lot of typing I find the extra pressure very noticeable and even fatiguing. I eventually switched back to my mac keyboard because of this.
Great advice, I live by this stuff, so it's neat to see it codified. ;)

One thing I would add - always strive to respond within 24 hours, but do NOT respond in seconds/minutes.

Five minutes after sending, users are often still frustrated and a good number won't read your response before firing back as their adrenaline is still up (also, they think you're a robot because you're too fast and robots can't possibly have the right answer!)--it'll take twice as many emails to solve the problem.
Well every ally's entry to the war was botched. France was overwhelmed in a couple of weeks. U.S. lost much of it's Pacific fleet in matter of hours. Britain had its Dunkirk moment.

Unlike the Brits and Americans though, USSR didn't have have an advantage of natural geographic isolation. It's a bit unfair to pretend Russian case was somehow fundamentally different than the others.
Literally: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
> Disallowing the entry of their goods into the US market entirely unless they obey US labor laws? Yes.

I'd be interested to see how Americans react when their products are disallowed into Europe for failing to meet EU labour and environmental regulations.
I've just checked 2 phone chargers and a tablet charger. All of them have plastic earth pins.

Earth != Ground...
It would be unbelievable if you approached me from the center of the earth, if you want to keep the same analogy :)

There was a moment when the Dragon had a speed of 0 in that frame of reference, what's unbelievable is the complexity of catching up to the ISS!