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Actually, you can. You can change the country of your iTunes account at will (), provided you have valid billing details for the 'new' country. This is one of the few good things I have to say about Apple's account management; the competition generally don't allow changing country at all (I'm looking at you, Microsoft).

I used to do this all the time, before I got completely fed up with Apple and decided to have nothing more to do with them. I purchased music from the US, UK and German iTunes stores, all on the same account. (I lead, perhaps, a somewhat more international life than many.) It works rather less well in the brave new iCloud world, as the (relatively) new 'redownload previously purchased content' functionality will only show you content from the country you're currently set to.

() Or rather you could, because there's now a honking great caveat: you cannot change country if you have an active iTunes Match subscription.
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Back pain can often be caused by having weak stomach muscles and having too much of a gut. The back ends up trying to support the weight at the front which the stomach muscles are unable to support by themselves.

Source: my GP when he told me I was basically fat. :)
I will make a professional logo for your startup.
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Every user enjoys? As an introvert, I don't enjoy being flooded with faces like on Facebook.
I think the US's decision in Iraq also had to do with keeping those resources away from her enemies.
> You want to look at as much code as possible

I'm a big-screen skeptic. An art in programming is abstraction, enabling you to grasp complexity in small pieces. Seeing more doesn't enable me to grasp more.
(There are non-code exceptions: rendered output, docs, etc)
I agree with her. I don't go to most sites to have some 'experience', rather I am there to find certain pieces of information or to use a service. Any technology that hinders me in the pursuit of that purpose, flash intro videos being the typical example, is frustrating and annoying.
If the technology is super cool I might play with it for a while, but in the end I am skipping through trying to find what I came for originally.

This particular example annoyed me - I found it glitchy and there was no compelling reason for me to want to look at it. I had no reason to visit the site in the first place, so perhaps my opinion is not that important.

On the other hand, the designers may have done lots of testing, and determined that this design is the one which results in the most sales (or whatever). In any case, technology should never be a substitute for good user experience, not even flashy html5.
If there is a landing on Mars in the next 30 years I'll be delighted as anyone (pinning my hopes on Elon Musk for this one).

Fusion - we're probably 40+ years from a commercial plant (ITER is being constructed, then there is probably going to be a DEMO plant and only after that would there be a commercial design). Assuming, of course, that someone doesn't do a SpaceX round the current Big Science projects.

Strong AI - very unlikely, unfortunately, as it would presumably help with everything else on the list.
And

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Why are you going back onto a diet that you clearly can't sustain? What makes you believe you won't, in time, gain back the weight you are losing now?

Crash diets work for a few people, sure: people who have the self-control and determination to adjust to a normal diet following the crash period. But the vast majority of people they simply do not work. I'd have given you the benefit of the doubt before, but your past experience clearly puts you in the latter category. So why continue?
Yes. Nicholas: this is what your site looks like in Android 4.0
http://twitpic.com/9q8c7c - in other words, unreadable.
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They are also extremely hard to do correctly, and any mistake in form can and will injure you, either over time or due to one bad lift. I personally can't understand why they are so often recommended to beginner lifters.
She's tweeted saying that was a mistake and she'll fix it.
It's never a problem with the technology, it's a problem of misuse of the technology and bad design.
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Your inability to write in proper english is not helping your argument.
Read http://www.mactech.com/articles/develop/issue_16/034-038_Qui..., especially the part that says:

"Square wave sounds. Unknown to most, the square wave synthesizer never produced
true square waves. It was more like a modified sine wave. This has been corrected.
As a result you'll notice that the Simple Beep sounds different. It can now be
heard as it was originally designed to sound."
If I may ask, what are you usually doing when you get those moments? I'd love to be able to spend time at the gym thinking, but usually when the blood flows out of my brain and down to my muscles, I'm lucky to be able to add two numbers together.
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No, but dismissing an app based on "bad design" (of a tiny icon, of all things) is just prejudicial, illogical silliness.
Agreed.

If a trackpoint was not available, I would prefer the following layout:

1) Keyboard with the number pad moved to the left and an integrated trackpad on the right side (centered slightly above home row).

OR (w/out integrated trackpad)

2) [For right handed folks] Keyboard with number pad on left and mouse on right.

The goal being to minimize the distance moving your fingers to the 'mouse zone' while still remaining on home row. The number pad on the right (for right handers) takes up too much space.
And what if we take protein supplements and don't have these issues? It sounds like it only affects a small portion of the population - just like pretty much any other food. How many people are intolerance of gluten, or lactose? Would you suggest bread or milk are bad for your long term health?
Glyn Moody just makes up facts to fit his own agenda and then when you point them out to him he just says you're missing the overall point. He creates more FUD than the organisations he complains about.
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For experiment you need data. Maybe for that.
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There's really no debate that Cambridge has probably the top university hardware security analysis program in the world. They published attacks on the IBM 4758 Security Coprocessor, a bunch of attacks on specific smartcards, and are basically the standard bearer for (non classified) research into this kind of stuff. I think some of the chip companies (Intel, IBM) might have better resources for pure silicon debugging, but less security clue to go with it.
I am on unshared 12Mbps ADSL, not the fastest around but surely faster than 1997 connection speeds and my experience was similar. Around 20 seconds for the initial loading and 5-10 for each collection. I am glad I wasn't actually looking to buy shoes and just checking the times the content took to load so I wouldn't say this design example is a problem just for the outliers.
I don't know what you mean by "fast over 3G" but over here 3G is faster than any available ADSL plan you can get. I sometimes tether to my phone to download some contents when I'm in a hurry. I'm guessing the article is talking about sub-256kbps wifi.
That's been my view on things. Not that I know your neighbor, but... for a company that has that much marketshare, they concern themselves primarily with catering to getting large amounts of money from larger companies. They've optimized for the fewer use cases, and seem to not understand there's a larger audience who'd be willing to pay them money if the process was easier (even at current prices).
Every module will have a `module` variable available to it.

`module` defaults to {
id: ...
exports: {}
parent:...
filename:...
loaded:...
exited:...
children:...
paths:...
}

Whatever module.exports is at the end of the module is passed to the require statement.

Every file essentially has two lines at the top.

this = module.exports;
var exports = module.exports;

The first helps lazy developers by allowing exporting without explicitly saying so. Because of this, the following alone is a valid module that exports {foo:'bar'}

foo = 'bar'; // can also be written as this.foo = 'bar';

And the second matches the CommonJS standard. So the following CommonJS module will work:

exports.foo = 'bar';

If you assign module.exports at any time after using `this` or `exports`, module.exports will point to the new object, and anything on the original module.exports object wont be passed to the `require` call.
You call these 'professional'? Not sure whether to laugh or cry.
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How do you get in touch with potential customer's pains?

Talk to anyone. Preferably, the kind of person who a) has money and b) wouldn't think something like "Hmm, something sucks in life, I think I'll go announce this fact on a social news service in the hopes that someone will solve it for $9 a month."

It really is that easy.

Here's something which will work for anything you care to learn about: "Hiya. I'm interested in your industry. Would you let me buy you lunch so I can ask you about your experiences in it?" Best $25~40 you'll ever spend.
To avoid the pitfalls mentioned in the article, most places I know have stopped sending MS Word or ODFs but instead use PDFs.

Converting documents from Word to ODF or vice-versa is full of issues as no conversion here is 1-to-1 (same applies for conversions of e.g. old MS Word formats to newer ones - don't know for various ODF implementations).

If you don't collaborate on the document writing, IMHO pdf is the best representation for both of the formats and all those offices that require ODFs instead of MS Word do accept pdf files as well.

Creating a pdf from a MS Word / ODF file is a matter of seconds to 1-2 minutes for very large documents.
I have a good Internet connection into my home here in the United States (I telecommute from a home office) but I also have 4 kids. The older two have graduated to streaming video to their laptops, but the younger two still prefer choosing titles from Netflix.

When they're all streaming video, I find have the exact same problem on a desktop with plenty of resources. I think Stephanie's message should be applied several ways. We should degrade gently for underpowered devices like phones, but we should also be cognizant of the network capacity of the user.

Coming from the embedded systems world, I know what it is to count every clock cycle and every byte of RAM. I need to remember those techniques when I'm designing and implementing web applications. Thanks Stephanie!
If your product is a web app then I'd say you need a .com as soon as you're out of beta; I'd class delicious an an anomaly. If it's a desktop or smartphone app, you can wait a lot longer (like instagram).
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You didn't check out General Fusion or Polywell, I take it. There are others, too. One of these dark horses might come in.

Here are a couple of links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Fusion
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Great suggestion. I just saw a tweet that's inspiring an app idea. Someone said, I hate long distance relationships, I bet you can make a app that makes LDRs feel a lot closer. Dunno how it would fare against pair.
A thousand times this! Stop attempting to fragment a working standard for no benefit!
We sell software online using PayPal. Occasionally PayPal will hold up the sale for mysterious reasons for up to 5 days. Then we have to tell the user that sorry, we know we just need to send them an email with a license key but PayPal are holding it up. I guess payment systems are just slow, probably for security/fraud prevention reasons.
That wasn't my experience. It would be interesting to arrive at the bottom of the problem. I take it I'm being served a different page than you are, maybe due to location (I'm not on the US, but then, neither was the article author)
Can someone explain to me why cookies are something that laws need to be written up about? What's wrong with cookies? What's wrong with paranoid people disabling cookies on their browser and then just granting access to the sites if they need to?
Sadly, the only way my most recent website (http://websocket.us/) was able to get IPv6 support was via CloudFlare.

And my personal website, not being on CloudFlare, has no IPv6 support. I hope my provider gives me IPv6 someday...
The UK has misunderstood the word "directive" for a considerable amount of time. Maybe it was a translation problem, and it should be reworded to "guidance", since the UK has a very bad habit of applying directives without due consideration. The rest of Europe leaves such directives where they should be, in a box marked, "Good but unworkable ideas. Please archive".
Instead of using your parser in the app that consumes the file, use your app in the preprocessor and have it enmity standard JSON. (You'll have to start using a preprocessor.) Don't maintain both formats, only the original (that's how preprocessors should always be handled).

JSON's strength and it's very reason for existing is its simplicity and unambiguity.
Really, what we need to adopt en-mass is Tex.
A piece about the future being from the future? Sounds pretty sensible to me :)
A very interesting read.

I found that Harris' argument was more immediately graspable and intuitive (There's a higher risk of an Arabic-looking passenger being a terrorist [though that's _higher_, not _high_], so check them more than others) but Bruce's analysis was far more convincing in the end due to the way he laid out his cost-benefit analysis.

Bruce did a good job at mostly avoiding emotional appeals to a sense of fairness and focused on the efficacy of the system in practical terms. The argument from simplicity is a strong one. However, he does seem to miss some points he should've addressed, especially right at the end where Harris challenges him on why randomness isn't more generally applicable, if Bruce thinks it's the best approach here. While I don't think it's a devastating point, I think it needed a reply, and I think Bruce did a bit of the 'repeating yourself without listening' approach.

Harris is mostly rational and objective about the risk of Muslim passenger. However, he occasionally strays into making what I feel are unfair generalisations. At one point he gestulates about 'what other religion does X Y Z now'. I immediately thought of the Christian extremist groups in America. It seems his view of the number of Muslims who are in favour of or are not against terrorist is a bit skewed.
OK, we could all settle at a lower per capita productivity level, but then companies that have resources would be able to increase their workforce, effectively obtaining an even more significant advantage over less wealthy competitors (who can't afford increasing their staff). This probably means that many small companies would go out of business.
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As soon as more small, smart companies begin taking a holistic approach to recruiting, this is going to become more and more of an issue.

People who work hard and play hard and can live anywhere will choose the places that maximize fun/convenience to cost. It's not a one-dimensional continuum, either - places like Berlin have cheap cost of living _and_ a fantastic nightlife, but government bureaucracy makes it more inconvenient for small businesses here.

It's funny how these pockets of win always seem to work out by chance and circumstance.

In another decade, governments will be playing this game with tax laws for information workers, too. Naturally, the ratio of gross/net income is just as important to the final value of this "happiness equation" as the cost of living, or gross salary.
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Hello,
At my work place we have a lot of legacy C++ code that uses threads to parallelize things. We are considering to switch to Node.js and searching for sources comparing the Event loop model vs. a threads based one from perspectives such as the following: efficiency, ease of maintenance, etc. Would be thankful for any references to good constructive material.

EDIT: more details about the application - it is a trading app that communicates with multiple sources at high rates to gather information and send commands, but it also does quite alot of number crunching.
What I always find interesting was the differences between "the charts" and the results of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Like this time, we saw the "charty" songs somewhere in the middle while really strange stuff came up.

How does this happen? Do only people call there who do not like the chart stuff coming from the US or sounding like the usual mainstream? Or do maybe really less people like the music that is played on the radio?

For me, I don't call for any shows on TV. In this case I would have propably called for the russian babuszkas because they were funny. I don't like the stuff that german mainstream radios play here and most of the songs on the usual chartlists are crap in my eyes (or ears). So I can't really make up a solution by myself.
There are better ways to achieve those goals without writing these laws
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>Just put a Bold 9900 beside a Galaxy Nexus or an iPhone. It really holds its own, and I'd say it's better

It doesn't hold up. I suppose if you like a keyboard with a small screen it may be superior, but the 9900 runs a deprecated, dated OS with no app support.

>RIM's problem has always been a) software (which they're fixing b) marketing.

Their problem is lack of vision.

Regardless, they may or not have bad marketing, but every phone they released in the last 2-3 years has been subpar - no amount of marketing would have fixed that.

>But Apple's momentum HAS been broken.

I said it was a two horse race. Apple is the biggest individual manufacturer and Android has a bigger market-share. At the same time, MS is trying to wedge themselves. Actually, MS is a good example of how incredibly tough it is to break into the market. Windows phones are actually pretty darn good devices, with good hardware and really nice software, backed by millions of marketing dollars, and they are still struggling. What does that say about Rim and BB10?

>You need to understand that QNX was purpose built to run on embedded platforms...re-purposing it into a mobile platform for the 2010s and 2020s is not an easy move

Oh I get it, and that's my point. It was hard. It was hard enough that it's taking them until Q4 2012 to release QNX phones. Which means they don't have a current-gen phone to compete with the latest offerings of Apple, Samsung, and Microsoft. Which means their current, dated OS is a dead platform that doesn't stand up to competition - predictably they are losing users and developers in droves.

Given all that, don't you think that maybe buying QNX wasn't a "masterful stroke"? Do you think consumers care about QNX the embedded OS or the fact that RIM is working really really hard to get QNX on mobile phones?

>BlackBerry is still the only platform lauded by the US government for its secure mobile needs. RIM would like to maintain that.

Who cares. They can't live only off of government contracts, they need the consumer market.

>jumping on the Android bandwagon is the stupidest fucking choice any company can make right now, and I'm not even going to detail why

Samsung is making money. Amazon is making money. Using Android doesn't guarantee success but it would have given RIM a battle-tested modern OS to release their next generation of phones and tablets last year or two years ago. Don't get me wrong, I don't fault them for trying to build their own OS, because it wasn't clear 2 years ago that this was a bad decision, but with the benefit of hindsight QNX has been a total and utter disaster for the company. The one device it launched with has been a financial failure.
All of the good places to live in the USA are balls-expensive, because there aren't very many of them.

The Upper Midwest (Chicago, Madison, Minneapolis, Ann Arbor) is great if you can get an interesting job there. The weather isn't as bad as it sounds and the cities themselves are beautiful (although I wouldn't recommend most of the suburbs).
Cookies, are small programs which malicious websites download onto your computer without your knowledge. They can contain viruses and other malware.

They also follow you over the internet, logging every website you visit, and collecting your personal information.

I expect many people believe the above to be true, considering the massive amount of FUD that has been spread about on Cookies.
don't forget NYC which also has a huge tech scene.
What is it you're producing so much of so efficiently that somehow nobody is willing to pay you for?
> The ideals of a crazy person like me would be "hike up the minimum wage insanely high, pry money from the pockets of the wealthy" but I doubt much of this crowd would be with me there.

Don't let the status quo put you off of a good thing.
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