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MB is not magic. It does not produce new information out of thin air like horoscopes. You give it your psychological traits in pretty much clear text, and all it does is reduce these to a few categories. Strictly scientific? Probably not. But neither are a lot of useful things in psychology. Anecdotally accurate? Check. Has a reasonable model? Check. Works for me.

I know, there's probably a crazy cult about MB somewhere, but such things are around pretty much anything remotely interesting.
Take a look at the ring buffer data structure from the LMAX architecture (my talk on LMAX http://codemonkeyism.com/lmax-architecture-high-performance-... or http://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html from Martin Fowler).

They have incoming work, I/O for incoming and outgoing work is done multi threaded while work on events is single threaded.

The architecture is quite clever as more than one event processor can work on the data structure and event processors can have dependencies on each other. Independent processors can race past each other.

It was written for trading and might be portable to C++, but if you consider switching to JS it might also be ok for you to switch to Java. Their framework is called Disruptor and open source

http://code.google.com/p/disruptor/

"LMAX aims to be the fastest trading platform in the world. Clearly, in order to achieve this we needed to do something special to achieve very low-latency and high-throughput with our Java platform. Performance testing showed that using queues to pass data between stages of the system was introducing latency, so we focused on optimising this area."
You shouldn't /have/ to. But I still do, at least for the important tools.

I've also stopped buying music digitally. I have a Zune pass, but the music I really care about, I buy on CD and rip.

I've utterly stopped buying audio books from Audible. While you /can/ burn CDs and so on, I've basically had it with that nonsense. The last audio book I bought, I had to "turn pirate" in order to listen to (the CD write borked, and I didn't have any apparent recourse other than to rip the audio stream directly).
Its very interesting to see people in each region perceives the other regions. I'm a brazilian, and wouldn't imagine that US has so few good places to live.
That could actually be the best incentive yet to make me install python3 right now :)
I just meant that while big, it's still more or less one country. But, as other commenters have pointed out, the purpose of the product is to make the clumsy UK plug more managable, so perhaps there is no market in other regions for this product. :)
You might consider the Actor model. Event loop code can be a mess and threaded code while simpler because it appears linear eventually has such complicated runtime behaviours it also becomes a dangerous mess. And Actor model combines the best of both worlds. Messages are queued to an actor which combines a state machine plus its own thread or a slice of a thread. The state machine aspect and the centralization of the code around an actor object and the reliance only messages make it conceptually easy to understand and program. Actors can act as endpoints in protocols, services, publish/subscribe, timers etc so they offer a high level of abstraction away from lower level frameworks.
Its a beautiful keyboard... perfect for us dvorak users.
I unfortunately had to leave my das in rochester with my main desktop because it couldn't be fitted in to the car.

I am typing this on a scissor switch keyboard...
Why are people assuming PenTile is a bad thing? Is there something I'm missing? I assumed there was a method to their madness. Isn't Samsung still the same company that makes Apple's retina displays?

From what I've read so far, the PenTile technology is used to achieve a brighter screen at lower power consumption with a minuscule loss of precision.
I'm not certain I understand what you're trying to say here. Are you saying that you would prefer to work with a less 'serious' company that doesn't care about the $ in Micro$oft?
Agreed, marketing gimmick. All about the product differentiation.
Never.

The alternatives are nowhere near as lucrative.
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It is a (design-wise) shame that the UK plug design forces adapters to be so big.

Europlug USB adapters are much more slicker http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/339903558/_Euro_Plug_USB_T... .
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It's possible at the time of doing it I was platform religious and did a bad pun.

It's also possible I am still.

But you both make a valid point on it being perceived as immature, and so I will note it for the next time I use this.

Thanks for the suggestion.
Pentile RGBW seems to be the most implemented tech for this problem, but most of the other tech improvments also help like reducing the number of layers in the screen so things are generally improving.
It's not the cost of living nor the cost of technical support as one of the responses discussed, but the fact that EU law places so many additional constraints on businesses that the cost of doing business there is vastly higher than doing business in the US; accordingly, US companies make up for the difference by charging EU customers more for their products.
Thank you for the comments Nicholas. I found your suggestions very useful. I made the changes to show 1000 records and plan to add an advanced search to incorporate your other suggestions.

I have been unable to find the free guide you released in 2007. Could you please post a link here?
The UK is supposed to have the most CCTV coverage in the world. According to this article[1] there is one camera for every 34 people in the UK.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/mar/02/cctv-cameras-watchi...
That's not important, the important thing is that numbers have to be higher than Apple's, whatever it takes.
You are correct about the evidentiary standard being roughly equalised‡, and the Baker review confirmed this.

A legitimate concern though is about forum and jurisdiction. The treaty currently allows the US to request extradition for acts committed in the UK that are not a crime in the UK, but there is no corresponding entitlement for the UK to make such request to the US. Many people in the UK feel this is an encroachment on UK sovereignty, and not something that the US would itself offer to another country.

(‡ shame it had to be rounded down, rather than up)
At an old workplace, we had a piece of equipment with a European plug that we regularly had to shoehorn into a UK socket. It was a case of shoving a screwdriver or a pencil into the earth hole on the socket to simulate that pin being inserted and unlock the others, then fumble the EU plug into the live and neutral holes. (All while the socket was powered down, of course.)

Not particularly safe, and the result of someone who found you could buy equipment cheaper from Germany!
For a phone in the premium segment they should not be using pentile display.
You have to create a new Apple ID for the store, using a different email address. Then you have to find yourself a credit card issued in that country or buy iTunes vouchers from that country online and have the codes sent to you.
First thing I thought of when I read about a reduced workweek - especially 21 hours - damn, that would give me time to finish those side projects I've been working on! I doubt most people have the same approach that I do, but you can imagine the entreprenurial boost this might have on our society where many of us are over educated for the type of work we end up doing.
It's not a self-driving car. Please change the title.
Any developer worth his weight should be able to adapt to any framework written in the language he knows.

If you know PHP/Ruby/Python/etc, you should be able to pickup a new framework within a day or two.
Is the colorful part of http://about.peterdevos.com/images/stack3.gif a stock image? I've seen this a few times, http://www.firebase.com/ comes to mind.
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I'm not sure about this, but I think it recognizes a face, not your face, so I don't see anything creepy about it.
Surely putting the Cambridge logo on your CV to represent an ESOL qualification awarded by the university is a bit misleading?
Judging from the Photoshop thread (1). People has a lot of tolerance to abuse, and will allow themselves to obvious mistreatment for many years before finally figuring they deserve better, and giving up.

(1) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4031595
Although you also "enjoy" inflation of over 6% pa. In both the US and SA returns are lagging behind inflation by around 1% pa.
Doesn't Face.com have an API? I think the active users of that would be upset if all the documentation/etc. for it just disappeared and started redirecting to Google.
> I wish developers would put back some of the processing (another example: speech analysis) on to the devices themselves, now that they've got CPUs that put my netbook's to shame. I guess there's still the issue of draining your battery by actually tapping into those vast computing resources.

I really think battery capacity is the reason this isn't happening. Battery capacity is really lagging behind everything else. Seems like every new phone that comes out is faster than ever, and runs out of power faster than ever.
Which port number does SQL Server run on?
The original idea was fused, I presume this is too.
I wish they made tenkeyless. I'm trying to buy a Leopold but stuck in that "Paypal can't ship to a country that isn't the one you live" problem (I want to use a forwarding service).
The model isn't different Most development service providers are probably one man shops just like you and they can only handle one full time client at a time (or multiple part time clients.) Making the sale is basically the same for each client. You aren't selling something which can be mass produced. Just saying, you already have a business presence that you have already put some work into, why not dust that off and put it to work? Once you get that one client you are looking for, then put up the "all booked up" sign until you need to raise more cash.
Facebook censoring posts?
On memorial day I've been trying to tell my friends about the work Anonymous has been doing to continue the fight for freedom. I was just trying raise awareness among my non-geek friends who Anonymous are and what they're fighting for.

Anyway I pasted a link to this YouTube video in my post.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26PLBeABDZ0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

FB refuses to make the post. It just disappears. I've made subsequent posts that go through. I even tried running the link through bitly and tried to post the shortened link. Same thing. All my other posts are working fine.

So is FB censoring posts?
It's what happens when you let MBAs and lawyers make the decisions engineers should be making.
The FAQ, is hilarious.
US on the way it seems. http://www.infowars.com/talking-surveillance-cameras-coming-...
How noisy is it? Can you type at midnight with someone sleeping near you?
Someone trying to build something new rather than just aping the iPhone. More please.
All was working out great, and in the first month I had 100 downloads and the reception was phenomenal. Only five star reviews on App Store.

Is that a typo? Really only 100 downloads? If that's true then the app store is even more of a crapshoot than I thought.
Didn't Sub7 do all of that back in the 90s?
Would be nice if they gave you an Internet facing IPv6 address by default, but default firewall rules that blocked incoming connections, and the ability to modify those rules for your connection only.

But I guess that would only be valuable if they also gave you a static IP. And static IPs for client devices like phones aren't exactly a good thing from a privacy perspective. Ideally you'd have both a dynamic and a static IP, and new outgoing connections would originate from the dynamic one.
That plus, even though it is valid work experience, I have had enough of setting IIS, Exchange, Microsoft CRM, bad .NET accounting apps that use mdb as a DBMS, that I would prefer not to be on the position where I have to deal with that again.
It's much less of an issue for the average developer than the fact that it's getting to be very, very hard to make any real money in the app store.

To quote from the article:

I really believe that the App Store is become more and more like an Android market – meaning 99% crap!
I have been using the Das ultimate for a couple of years now. Typing IS much faster, although using the windows version on a Mac can be frustrating at times, especially if you've used it on Windows first.

I also noticed some wrist fatigue at first, although I put this down to the lack of wrist support (I'd been used to working with a high support integral to my keyboard before this, and laptops where the keys are the same height as the wrist rest). A £7 wrist gel thingy has served me fine from a week after the Das arrived, although it does now look a bit dirty.

I've used it in two offices, for years, noone has complained about the noise ever.

And finally, I really like the number pad, especially when the numbers across the top have no markings - I still mash the wrong symbol keys at the top fairly frequently.
Kaspersky blog has more info:
http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193522/The_Flame_Questi...
Here is another:

Neuroanatomical Correlates of Extraversion and Neuroticism
Christopher I. Wright, Danielle Williams1 et al, Oxford JournalsLife Sciences & Medicine Cerebral Cortex (2006)
http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/12/1809.full

If you're interested, perhaps a good place to start is Carl Jung's Psychological Types (1921), here it's in my dropbox. I had it digitized into electronic form
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hrf6whb66fbmaux/Psychological%20Ty...

Many very intelligent, rational people believe introverts and extroverts exists in the population.

Here is a great talk by Susan Cain on introverts
http://www.ted.com/talks/susan_cain_the_power_of_introverts....

Look forward to further discussion...
Scaling the Manhattan Project
More to the point, a free API. I can't see Facebook or Google keeping the API around if they acquired Face.com, which would be very sad. Of course, it would be a technology rather than a user acquisition, so I don't suppose whoever was buying would care that much.
> Isn't Samsung still the same company that makes Apple's retina displays?

LG makes displays for the iPhone and older iPads. The "retina" display for the new iPad is produced by Samsung.
Is anyone else disappointed that companies are now trying to outnumber their competition instead of 'out-innovate' ?
So that's what you do with a wacom!
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Man, I love hearing the nitty-gritty security details. More like this, please!
You must be crazy. You can lick the sidewalks in Zurich, although you'd probably be arrested. It's certainly the cleanest major city I've seen. And the tram come every minute.
Actually, they are "dumb" rules designed to create suburban sprawl. There is a new movement to create pedestrian friendly neighborhoods with higher density at transit nodes: SmartCode. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartCode
This should not apply to such heavy weight companies, but if you're little application suddenly becomes an overnight success you will have trouble scaling it.

The easiest step would be to store your static data on a commercial CDN. There isn't much logic running. If you would set up one yourself you would use a webserver that is extremely fast at serving static content. The only "thinking" part of the chain would probably be a load balancer.

You're server is now somewhat outside of the boundaries your application server "creates" and deleting old data requires new functionality (although storing too). Functionality that might not readily exist in the framework you use.

If the whole thing is growing too fast for you to keep up you might say to yourself "This and that is now far more important, have the data lying around for a while, it's too much work for now".
Check this website out. It has a lot of information:

http://www.lucidipedia.com/
I think that depends on the angle you approach the issue from. Having spent the last three years in Japan after growing up in the UK, I find the general lack of respect towards electricity as a deadly force that is encapsulated in the flimsy plug design quite startling.

While the UK plug design is unwieldy in comparison, it also features a huge number of cleverly designed elements intended to provide the utmost protection to the everyday user.

Put another way, no. of shocks in Japan: 3 in 3 years. No. of shocks in the UK: 0 in 27 years (16 of which were as a child).
no, the mechanical part is important as well! far more important.
Some would argue that the smear campaign has worked on you in exactly the way it was intended.
In the UK one of the first things most people with any sort of interest in DIY or technology learn is how to 'wire a plug'.

Is this a UK specific thing, or is it common in other countries as well?
QUOTE : >"In 2005, in a personal quest to improve his own typing speed and accuracy, Metadot Corporation founder and self-proclaimed “Uber Geek” Daniel Guermeur asked to have a totally blank keyboard created. To his surprise, his typing speed doubled after just a few weeks of use."

When reading the history of Das Keyboard I get the feeling that the founder (Daniel Guermeur) felt an increase in typing speed due to the "blank" keys?

As hackers tend not to look at the keyboard when typing, is there any reason to have blank keys other then the badass feeling of it?
Or a simple JQuery Plugin I developed: https://github.com/dreur/JQuery-Showfavicons-Plugin

It adds the possibility to say which hostnames are internal and external.
Only for a certain distance, I suppose. Also, it was true for the iPhone at 329 PPI. Is it still true for the iPad 3 at 264 PPI? Apple keeps calling it retina for marketing purposes, but there's quite a gap between 329 and 264. And if 264 is "good enough", does that mean 250 PPI is good enough, too? What about 220?
It's firmly in the Uncanny Valley.
My local supermarket has just got one of these. They've experimented with the location, and now that it's in a corner with the projector hidden behind a curtain with a circle cut out for the lens, it's not as obviously rubbish and the effect almost works if you look out of the corner of your eye.

But it is still just a projector putting a flat image on a piece of smokey perspex.

(My supermarket doesn't have the audio turned up loud enough, so I have no idea what it's trying to sell me.)
Class II appliances do not require a metal earth pin, it's there so that you can't electrocute yourself by touching the case.

You should also have an RCD or something on your circuits at home anyway which will cut the power very fast if anything bad happens.
BBC won't provide the technical details that we hackers would require to differentiate the two. If it shares the likes of Stuxnet then it would have some pretty clever 0-days inside to help with infection and spreading.
You can make arrows as well in CSS: http://cssarrowplease.com/

wouldn't recommend it too much though, doesn't work on Aurora.
Are you sure you/he mean/s "thousand metric tonnes" and not "thousand metric kilos" ?? A thousand metric tonnes of sugar is quite a lot ...

And how does he want it delivered? 12 thousand metric tonnes of sugar is 12 million 1kg bags. Does he want it in bags? Or loose by the trailer load?

A quick search suggests that in the UK, Pheonix (sic) Business Ltd will deliver a minimum order of 12500 metric tonnes for you. Briz Trading Company will allegedly deliver as little as 125 metric tonnes. http://briztrading.com/en/sugar

There are more, hope that helps.
There is an argument that you hold the larger screen further from your face. Thus the pixel density your eyes see is different. This would imply that a 5" screen needs less PPI than the 3.5" iPhone.
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I assume we are going to see a complicated and interesting dissection a la Stuxnet? The Stuxnet TED talk [0] was really interesting, I ended up giving a talk to my department at work afterwards.

[0] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS01Hmjv1pQ
Class II (double insulated) appliances don't require an conducting earth pin. It's only needed at all to open the shutters that cover the live/neutral holes in the socket.

>>> That thing is flimsy, requires manual twiddling

Have you tried the product yet?

>>> I very much doubt it's been tested or approved

They've stated that it's been independently tested, which is sufficient for self-certification for the CE mark. What makes you think they're lying?

>>> us engineers are crying

<strike>I doubt you are an electrical engineer.</strike> Edit: apologies.
> Can you type at midnight with someone sleeping near you?

No, you can't. Not even with the "silent" model.
There are some parts of MS that work, some that don't. It's a roll of the dice every time.

Like my BizSpark ran out a few months ago and I only just realised. But I've not heard a peep from them about it. As I was clicking around the MSDN site the whole thing seem to be in two minds about whether I was an existing customer or not.

Or when my credit card was cancelled and they locked my XBox account from adding a new credit card and after two weeks they still couldn't figure out how to unlock it so I effectively lost that account because I couldn't buy gold membership for it. Good thing I care little for achievements.

Add to that the fact that all their sites are built on the very broken ASP.Net membership that means you should never attempt to change your username or your email address as you're likely to lose control of your account.
The fear on the English level of an spaniard to foreign companies is such a big deal that I decided to play that card.

I would prefer not to put that there, as FCE is not that much of an achievement.
Also the base of the pins is often insulated so that you can't even wrap a finger around the plug and touch a pin while shoving it clumsily into a socket.
That's true, Memorial Day is about remembering those who gave their lives serving our country in the armed forces. So I suppose we'll have to wait until next year to commemorate Bradley Manning's life on Memorial Day.
Airfoil, at least, was developed long before Apple had any sort of third party licensing model. Reverse engineering for interoperability is completely legal and ethical.
Recent versions of Links support Javascript, so that was helping. However, I've been on Stackoverflow with javascript turned off (noscript) and it is one of the few sites that still renders usable.
The only reason I can think of is to confuse your coworkers. Maybe it's to force people to learn to touchtype by going cold turkey on the visual aid?

As far I as I can tell it's just an overpriced gimmick.
"Never attribute to stupidity or malice that which is adequately explained by greed."
Or just stop looking at it. I've never understood this. Why does it need to be blank?
And I disagree with that. I find 4.3" comfortable to use with the thumb. Also if 3.5" was the perfect size, Apple wouldn't make it any bigger. And yet there is a very real possiblity that they will increase the size. You get so many more benefits from a larger screen. From the beginning I've been of the belief that as long as it fits in your pocket, you will get a better experience the bigger the screen size of the smartphone is. Also you should start looking at them as mini-tablets rather than just "phones" that got "too big".

http://www.paulgraham.com/tablets.html
I'm fed up by these technically lacking stories that don't give you the details but tell you that its "complex". While I realise that the BBC website is aimed towards the general public I think that it would be beneficial to include at least some technical details.
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