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The Debian Project welcomes and encourages participation by everyone.

No matter how you identify yourself or how others perceive you: we welcome you. We welcome contributions from everyone as long as they interact constructively with our community.

While much of the work for our project is technical in nature, we value and encourage contributions from those with expertise in other areas, and welcome them into our community.
>Mind you, string theory itself includes torsion

I'm not sure I understand. In Riemannian geometry it might be convenient to use a connection with non-vanishing torsion, but it is not required. What do you mean by 'includes'?
shows central security systems aren't automatically foolproof

That was never contested by anybody. What the flame worm showed was that there needs to be stronger security around private key portions of signing certificates.

any sort of local control or anti-virus by that same central security system

Funny how that works. Anti-viral software is a central security system that uses similar distribution and signing techniques as the app store! Not to mention, anti-viral software doesn't protect you from zero-day exploits, unpatched software, and brand new malware that tends to be the thing that causes the most problem. Not to mention metamorphic and polymorphic malware, which is getting more and more common and runs circles around modern AV software.
Do you think this is because the blob found in the middle is likely to have more perimeter squares than edge or corner selections?
ASUS apologizes over sexist butt tweet
Just 18KiB is not a big price for really comfortable replacement of poor standart library
http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ read "information we share" section. google takes advertisers money to match, "not sell", the ads on your data.

http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/ read "Your Content in our Services" about who owns the data.

Google does have a very good TOS, protecting itself and also the users. The problem is no one has ever read their TOS properly. If you want to understand the TOS you have to read it in whole, and not just selected statements. I didn't have to back it up because anyone can read google's TOS because it is obvious in the face when it read it. Does that answer why I wrote what i wrote.

The reason I wrote that is because I have read their TOS, esp. since 50% of my digital life is in google mail and I had to be careful when I made that choice. I make choice not based on who's using "plain language/easy to read", but who's covering the most bases.
While we may think of 5 miles as a quick trip, back then a 5 mile trip to the local market would have taken most of a day (and the trip itself could be a multi-day event, which is why we vote on Tuesdays). This is on top of any time the food has spent in storage between harvesting/butchering and the trip. Over that period of time, even cheese, salted meats, and jams will begin to spoil.
Why you need 'other side'?

Our Universe has disproportion between (visible) matter and antimatter. Black holes my contain missed anti-matter. So when black hole will consume all matter of our Universe, it will bang again, without help of any parent Universe.
Very interesting project indeed.

Does someone with an expertise in C++ but with a basic knowledge of OpenGL qualify for the "C++/OpenGL Developers" position? Plus a good knowledge of C# and LAMP development (but I'm looking for a C++ centric position).
That's a good point. And an interesting observation I'd never consciously taken into account.
thanks for the feedback guys, I'll let the team know we should add a better description or a video of the site. Plus, we'll make it clear that the site is still in private beta.

Also, we'll make email signups a priority and roll it out in the next release.

We're an extremely small team, and we're trying to work as fast as we can to meet all our users needs.

shoot us an email at hello [at] mixtaping.fm and we'll approve your beta access asap.
Well, you can do it on Android, but they make it hard enough that you really have to know that you want to. There have been isolated instances of this being a source of malicious problem for users, though.
Directory of Logical Fallacies
Wouldn't that kind of defeat the purpose of using a document database in the first place?

Yes. Use the right tool for the job.
Going Open Source – June 3rd Progress
This is incredible to me. I suppose we'll just have to disagree. I'm not saying to never take care of this. But you don't end up in a Facebook-like dispute overnight. If the very first thing your company (and I use the term loosely) does after thinking of an idea is have an equity contract written up, you're doing something wrong. How do you even determine who gets what? You'd be amending it every day.

>"If you sign an assignment of IP for your work to a company, you can't later sue for equity to avoid getting "screwed."

You most certainly can. But you will lose, because IP assignment is clearly defined. Equity in a business with no IP, no assets and no income, before any work is done, is not.

I've done government procurement in the construction industry. I understand the value and importance of contracts. You guys are talking like this is a multi-million dollar enterprise undergoing a complicated equity dispute. It's not. It was four young guys (sexist assumption!) in a dorm room with an idea. There was no business, and not a single dollar (as far as I can tell) was made based on that idea. They complicated the situation themselves.

You are cynical about the legal industry, yet you think that whatever these guys scribbled down on a piece of paper with regards to an equity split, even if notarized, will have the utmost legal standing? That if they had split the equity equally among four, and one had done all the work and decided to dispute it, that the court wouldn't look at the case objectively to determine fairness? That's simply not true.

So, yeah, I'll stick with my advice: if you're a fledgling startup, don't waste intellectual, physical, emotional and economic resources on your "stake". Earn it. Having a contract will not prevent disputes; I can speak from experience on that. Get to work and build a product. When there is something actually at stake, then worry about your share of it.
Persistence in Varnish
Backbone's philosophy is to keep things very loose, and let you decide how to couple Model<->View relationships; i.e., just setting a view's model doesn't explicitly update the view with new model data.

I've had what sounds like a similar situation: I want to display on the view that the model is being updated. In this case, I set a flag on the current view when starting an action, then I watch out for 'sync' events on the model; when the 'sync' message is raised, I perform an action based on the set flags.
Serialized is already denormalized, you're talking about a kind of double-denormalization where you introduce metadata as a guide for the serialized-data queries. Spaghetti.
It's interesting to think about how far advanced their equipment is now if this is their equivalent of "spare change" to throw at NASA
No matter how much I try, I can't understand what brunch is trying to do or why it's necessary enough to even create.
How I Ditched the Internet for a Day and Got Super Creative
Andrew mason was quoted as saying:

"We view self-service with the same skepticism that a company in California might view hiring a salesperson. And it's ended up working well for us."

So perhaps they also view automation (software replacing humans doing repetitive tasks) with the same skepticism?
Take Ember for example. Joosy is only 2-3kb more including Sugar. Compare the profit. One framework can not (and should never try to) address everything. Sugar beats Underscore without a hope (http://borisstaal.com/post/24270017179/please-use-sugar-js). And you just can't live without both, raw JS is too poor.
Plenty of iPhone apps do most of this with xbmc already.
The UK plugs are over engineered for their task though. It's occasionally useful that you can use the same outlet that you use for your 4.5W iPhone to use for 6000W welding torch but IMHO the Euro plugs that are a third the size and a third the price are a better use of resources.

When you imagine there are hundreds of millions of these plugs that bit of over-engineering really adds up. Really, when was the last time you plugged in anything above 2KW?
How old is your XBox 360? The modern ones don't really have any noise issues, and I've got an elite that's a few years old and isn't particularly noisy either. Are you sure yours doesn't have ventilation issues?
His point is essentially the one developed at length by Malcolm Gladwell in "Outliers." Namely, that great successes are almost always dependent on a uniquely fortunate set of events that the person is able to exploit well, rather than their success being the result of genius.
There're some gems on DataGenetics' blog. Highly recommended.
BitTorrent Downloading Hits iPhone, iPad With Installous 5
On a related note, I find it very intriguing that the three properties that distinguish black holes from one another (mass, charge and spin) are the same ones that distinguish quarks. That's a beautiful symmetry between some of the smallest and largest things in existence.
Haven't been a new parent, have you?

$5 for a suitable app is awfully cheap assurance. $50 for a dedicated device, ditto. We're not talking "taking advantage" here, we're talking something every parent in history wanted.
I don't see Nintendo fading after just this generation. They've got significant reserves of cash, the Wii's still selling strong, and even with the rise of phones and tablets, they still have a massive chunk of the portable market. It's always been their strategy to take risks, even if that causes the occasional Virtual Boy.

Sega also made a series of big hardware blunders before they bowed out - the Game Gear (not a disaster, but hardily the Game Boy-killing Holy Grail they needed), squeezing life out of the Mega Drive with the Mega CD and the 32X, the various design and marketing blunders that scuppered the Saturn, and then the failure of the Dreamcast (which wasn't actually a bad device, it just had the misfortune of going up against the PS2).
Apple removes PrinttoPDF from App Store and blocks existing users
On August 26th Apple removed ‘Print to PDF’ from the App Store. To worsen things, Apple decided to block virtual printers on devices running iOS5. As a result this made the app non functional after installing iOS5.
I agree with it detracting from the immersion in many cases, but I think your forgetting about casual games. Where this is really interesting is that it enables hidden information in local multiplayer games.

For example, you can't play poker locally because you could see everyone's hand. With this, the hands can be displayed on the player's phones. This goes for a lot of board games.
From Contact:

> "First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?" - Hadden

For once, art has under-imitated the hyperbole that is our life.
TOS and Privacy Policy are not the same thing. Terms of Service' state what rules the user must follow on the service. Privacy Policies state what rules the company will follow with regards to user data.
It would be interesting to see the two telescopes (or whatever device) that replaced these two.

There's probably a very limited number of groups that would be able to use this technology in a way that was agreeable to the military.
Asked whether anyone at NASA was popping champagne,
the agency’s head of science, John Grunsfeld, answered,
“We never pop champagne here; our budgets are too tight.”

Austerity notwithstanding, that's really a sad sign of the times (and state of science funding in the US).
SSDs and distributed data systems
If I knew what I know today about Objective-C and OpenStep back when I was fighting with COM and Win32 in the 90s, I would have been a very enthusiastic Yellow Box/WinNT supporter.
Hackathon in Melbourne on 06/05/12  FIT
The iOS/mac app store is a bit of a crapshoot from what I hear these days with developers either making very significant sums of money or not very much at all. I'd expect the Windows store to be similar when it comes out. If you manage to get promoted on the front page or something similar, you'll get a huge amount of exposure which should translate into a huge number of sales.

Microsoft's more or less going all in with it, and when they do that, within a couple of years they tend to get things right [or at least force them into tons of places] (xbox, azure, SharePoint, etc). The store's going to be on hundreds of millions of desktops and other devices, so while it may be a case of needing to convince people to sign up for the store, I think that it'll gain traction pretty quickly.

WP7 apps supposedly do better on average, and though that's probably largely marketing hype, it's also likely related to the fact that there arent x hundred thousand apps on WP7. When Windows 8 hits, there won't be x hundred thousand apps in the store either, so there's a window where if you're ready to go, you'll have a decent advantage (though this will get slimmer with every day) even if only a small number of people (comparatively) sign up for the store.

All in all, if you're quick to market, there's a bundle of cash to be made. If you take longer, the money's still there but it'll be riskier (and related to how promoted / lucky / app-store-SEOd you are). These are true whether or not the windows store is a flop - but considering the money that's in it for Microsoft, they'll be pushing it as hard as they can.

If you really want to hedge your bets and your ideas are compatible, make it mostly web-based with a Metro front-end. If Metro does get pulled or locked down too much, then the real alternative will be a larger shift to the browser for applications imo. You can also more easily double dip at some point in the future and appeal to a broader audience while still getting the app store cash.
and in other news: varnish 3.0.3rc1 has been released.

https://www.varnish-cache.org/lists/pipermail/varnish-misc/2...
I think this is just as much a response to the wii u as an all out assault on roku, google tv, apple tv and of course cable companies. They kind of waved their hands at it but they plan on offering the ability to start a video on any device and finish it on the xbox. The number of partnerships announced along with ability to use IE on the xbox and your tablet as a remote for the browser (along with your voice which is still the killer feature of kinect) they have developed a tv box that makes competitors step up their game not just playing catch up to others.
Maybe this is why people believe in religion rather than things happening with no rhyme or reason.
This kind of trading is called growth investing[1] and is very common and is still popular within the financial world, despite the occasional setback.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_investing
I am one of the authors of our new policy. Please read that part of their policy carefully:

"We do not share personal information with companies, organizations and individuals outside of Google unless one of the following circumstances apply:"

"We will share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of Google when we have your consent to do so. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information."

Sensitive personal information: "This is a particular category of personal information relating to confidential medical facts, racial or ethnic origins, political or religious beliefs or sexuality."

All other personal data can be shared on an opt-out basis if they would like - it doesn't say anything to the contrary about this.

You could read Facebook's policy and make the same comment:
"We do not share any of your information with advertisers (unless, of course, you give us permission)."

And, of course, one of the ways you can give them permission may be by using the site. It doesn't explicitly say how you give them permission anywhere on the policy.

On our new Policy, we state the facts simply. We don't sell your data in any case, and the only time we ever give it up is when we are being forced to by law. Big companies use legalese to hide and otherwise obscure facts from you and to grant themselves rights to your data that they shouldn't have.

Anyway, I'm not a lawyer and if you don't like our policy, don't use our site (as with any site). Whether or not I'm right or not about Google or Facebook's policy and what they intend, I still don't really understand how mentioning whether Google has a similar policy is relevant to the discussion at hand. We decided to write our own policy because we thought it was doing right by our users, and we encourage others to do the same. Our policy was not written to attack Google or any other company specifically and there's nothing in there that should lead you to interpret it that way.
Would they be any use as ground-based telescopes?
What about the other 500, 5,000, or 20,000 people in the town that didn't care enough to have instant notification, but still want the information even if it's a day later?

How many events in that class tend to happen? Anybody who cares about a high school track meet is either there, or connected via Twitter/FB/whatever with the people who are. Larger scale events are bipolar: they're either not of immediate interest (new highway construction announced), ignored entirely by most people (the President is in town), or people want to know what's happening now (chemical spill, bomb threat, school shooting...)

The one thing that can be said about local print newspapers is that they aren't the best vehicle for disseminating any of the above news topics except possibly the big-but-not-of-immediate-interest kind.

Finally, the ultimate fate of the newspaper cannot possibly be understood by anyone who, as in Buffett's case, admits he doesn't understand tech.
Cool seeing the link to Rob Frohne, he was one of my outstanding professors.
No. it's not opt out. it's "how do you want to share it?". Tell me where exactly this "opt-out" is, i would like to know.

No, I don't give permission by using the site. That's blatanly dishonest to say that. They already mention that already.

I understand you wrote the new TOS, but I'm not sure how you are understanding Goog's TOS. It's always opt-in. probably the only opt out i know of is from their search crawler for websites.
I worked on the Hubble (my dad was systems manager for Perkin-Elmer's bid), on the ball bearings. They are literally the ones that were rejected from the spy sats.

The spy sats bought a bunch of ball bearings (these might be a foot in diameter and are speced to be extremely low noise at low turn rates). They tested them all (using a phono needle resting on the outside of the bearing while it was slowly turned). The ones that made the least noise went in the sat while the others were sealed in a plastic bag and put on a shelf in the clean room.

I was told that when Hubble came along, the US no longer had the capability to make those (I'm not sure if that was true). In any event the ones that went in Hubble were the least noisy of the ones that had sat on the shelf. My summer job was (largely) testing to see which was the best. A cool job.
My success and failures in life have had nothing to do with luck. I've been both lucky and unlucky at various times, but none of them have determined my level of success over the short or long term to any significant degree.

At the same time I've had periods where I worked hard and was focused and passionate about what I was doing, and periods where I was not passionate, unmotivated by a crushingly poorly run organization and did not work very hard.

The periods where I was focused, passionate and working hard were the more successful ones, and successful enough to carry me thru the down times as well.

Luck may have put Michael Lewis at Goldman Sachs, but luck didn't determine his level of success. After all, his success comes from writing books, not being a goldman boy. Sure he wrote his first book about that period, but that book took a large amount of focus, passion and effort to create.

That said, I certainly find myself occasionally jealous of people who seemingly lucked into great success. If I'd never applied myself, and thus never had success myself, I'd probably think that luck was the actual determinant of success.

Edit to add:
In this post I deliberately talked about my personal experiences. I didn't make a broad sweeping statement that luck doesn't determine success or failure for everybody. However, clearly people object to the political incorrectness of not supporting the ideology that argues "luck determines success, therefore the rich should be taxed to pay us! we just weren't lucky!" Note that I did not address that argument, I just talked about my experience. But because my experience is inconsistent with the distorted view of the world, it is "politically incorrect" and thus should be kept from the eyes of others, lest they be influenced, my post has been made visually unreadable. I find this anti-intellectualism distasteful.
Self Motivating Mondays
That's what you now know about. They are probably quite primitive devices if they let you find out about them.

From real experience, the commercial and public space programmes are positively infantile compared to the black project space programmes.
my love for the 0.99-4.99 games on the iPad

This right here is Nintendo's #1 competition right now, even Nintendo admits it. That may be a driving factor in the tablet controller. If parents can give their kid a basically kid-proof tablet to game on, they won't get their sticky, clumsy hands all over the expensive iPad. Combine that with games for a tailor-made gaming device (iPad is not) and buttons, and you've got a pretty nice family-friendly gaming system.

With the iPad/Android/W8 Tablet market Microsoft is adding on to the 360, you could liken it to further reinforcing the division between the systems. Nintendo for families, Microsoft for college aged through adult gamers.

Not a week goes by where I don't hear someone my age (adult) say "I'm never buying Nintendo again!" In the same timeframe, there are thousands of kids coming to the age where they really want to get into gaming. I'm 20-something, and my generation is really growing out of Nintendo. But we're having kids who are just growing into Nintendo.
I don't. I happen to waste google's cycles. Good point though, I'd forgotten what it was like to use a desktop email client.
[Addendum] A common use case where this crops up is with animations. If the user directly interacts with my view and causes the model to change, I may want the view to play an animation or otherwise respond in a context-sensitive manner. However, I usually don't want to do this if some other view has changed the model (because it wouldn't make sense or because it's off-screen).
Well it depends on execution though. Just 'having' a feature isn't the whole story. For some reason I've the feeling Nintendo is gonna come up with some fun, innovative concepts for their system, that make it appear novel and interesting, while Microsoft's implementation looks forced on and unnecessary. At least that's how it seemed with the Wii vs. Kinect.
Read-It-Later came out in 2007, the mobile application came later.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_(application)