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My 3 year old nephew sometimes slips, falls down and cries. His parents wiggle a colorful toy sometimes and he forgets he fell down, forgets he is still hurting and runs behind the toy.

This ad reminds me of the toy. Fast food is bad. I am not interested in the question to start with, so I won't bother with the given answer. thank you very much.

That said, sadly this is a good ad campaign, because sadly most of us most of the time are attracted to colorful toys.
Need a Latin Legal Scholar
How GCC prevents stack-overflow attacks
I've heard a lot of conflicting info about this. How can you be sure? Could you link to your reference? Will apps for WP8 that use only WP7 API work on both? Or is the WP8 APi too different? What would a exactly dev need to do if he wants cross compatibility?
“You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance, as untanklike as you can be, sans cannon and machine guns and steel plating half a foot thick; you come at them unmenacingly on your own ten toes instead of tearing up the turf with your caterpillar treads, take them on with an open mind, as equals, man to man, as we used to say, and yet you never fail to get them wrong. You might as well have the brain of a tank. You get them wrong before you meet them, while you're anticipating meeting them; you get them wrong while you're with them; and then you go home to tell somebody else about the meeting and you get them all wrong again. Since the same generally goes for them with you, the whole thing is really a dazzling illusion. ... The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you.”
― Philip Roth, American Pastoral
The market took care of the problem only because the antitrust injunction prevented Microsoft from dominating the market in its customary manner. Without that injunction, Apple would be dead today. (Microsoft's investment in Apple during the antitrust proceedings is the only reason Apple survived long enough to push out the iPod.)

Indeed, a lot of what Apple is lauded for today (i.e., integration) is stuff that Microsoft was explicity prevented from doing under the terms of the antitrust injunction.
The area in which you can show the condiments/additions of the sandwich is (approximately) one dimensional. It is defined by the line between the patty and the bun, which is fairly thin. There is really only one degree of freedom in placing food there.
I think it's really important to point out that Inman never directed his attack toward Carreon personally, it was all directed toward the letter, which FunnyJunk is responsible for. The only point of the blog post that is directed personally towards Carreon is in the beginning.

>The owner of FunnyJunk hired Charles Carreon, a lawyer who became famous in the 90s after successfully litigating sex.com. Charles does a bit of modeling too, apparently.
In what way did the anti-trust case help other companies? Or how did the bundling of IE hinder other companies like Apple? I was too young and in a country without internet access at the time to remember what the deal exactly was. But it seems to me that having IE or not on my PC would in no way have affected other companies. I mean, with Firefox and later with Chrome, people switched to it mainly because they were better browsers, not because IE wasn't on their PCs already.
Can you show how I've misinterpreted the plain language of the conclusion section?

I'm under the (perhaps mistaken) assumption that in academic papers people tend to mean what they say and choose their language carefully, particularly in the conclusion section.

If the following are not in fact broad, strong claims about the nature of static and dynamic languages in general, then won't you please explain to me how I should interpret them?

Here are the quotes from the conclusion of the paper (emphasis mine):

"The translation of these four software projects from Python to Haskell proved to be an effective way of measuring the effects of applying static type checking to unit tested software."

"Based on these results, the conclusion can be reached that while unit testing can detect some type errors, in practice it is an inadequate replacement for static type checking."
That update is confusing in itself. I think it means that native C++ apps will not run, but others will. Still unclear, though.
For reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
I don't quite get the logic here: "Random people you have no control over acted like assholes (in a possibly illegal fashion), therefore you lose your lawsuit and are an asshole loser in the eyes of the law." How does that work?
This is the point; its a question based off of a faulty premise.
I'd like to know how you could have a full female perspective without being female. Let me know when that's possible! I'd love to be able to have a full male perspective about things!
If I am a boxing manager sitting at the corner of the ring to encourage my guy during the fight, I don't do him a good service by leaping into it and taking wild swings at the opposing fighter, or at the ref, or at any crazy person from the crowd who also happens to want to jump in spoiling for a brawl. The result in such a case is not likely to bode well for either me or my fighter and I stand a good chance of being made to look ridiculous in the process.

In a sense, like the manager above, Mr. Carreon has thrown himself personally into a fight that was not his fight but that of his client. He has made it personal and now finds himself suing in spray-gun fashion hoping to hit the nearest target connected with the events, whether the law supports him strongly, feebly, or perhaps not at all - all the while standing forth in a public spotlight that magnifies his every action whether good, bad, or indifferent. There is no winning for him in that situation, whatever the merits of his claims.

The most valuable asset of a lawyer is his reputation. I won't presume to tell Mr. Carreon how best to defend his but, whatever else he does, he needs to be very careful not to exacerbate a situation that already is very difficult for him. Whatever wrong may have been done to him, the solution does not lie in a lawsuit of the type that has been filed here.
Only the apps that use native C/C++. The rest should still run fine.
This is absolutely the true reality. I have two types of open source projects:

1. My once full time employer paid me to work on an open source project.

2. An open source project I worked on between jobs.

#2 is embarrassingly small because fortunately I seem to be very popular with employers.
There's almost no comparison.

Open Directory is basically a ldap with MIT kerberos that can sort of integrate with AD. Most folks setup a hybrid (referred to as the "magic triangle") where you use AD for user auth and OD for computer policy stuff. It's not very robust, and Apple isn't exactly committed to the notion of server operating systems, so it doesn't get much love.

You really need to buy a client app like ADmit Mac, or a server-side solution like Centrify to really work with Active Directory.

AD itself is a really brilliant collection of software. Think of it as a fully integrated, smoothly operation bundle of LDAP, Kerberos and DNS -- it "just works".

Coming from a Unix background, AD was amazing to me as there isn't any Unix equivalent at all, except maybe for the ancient NIS and NFS integrations. You get single sign on. Robust Access Controls. The ability to trust the identities of external organizations. A policy engine to do all sorts of management activities at various levels. Oh, and it allows you to easily build fault-tolerant deployments without much forethought.
Tim Hortons used to bake and make their products in store. Now they outsource their work to Maidstone which they sold off. They just "finish" their products in store. It leads to a more consistent product and controllable costs. I don't think it's better quality (it's lifeless), but more consistent.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/investment-ide...

In the old days, I would simply just order what came out last from the oven. Because hot anything out of the oven is awesome. When it was a croissant, it is a jackpot.

Personally, I think people don't realize the extent of how "factory" like a lot of corporate chains are. Like how Montana's doesn't actually "cook" your vegetables, they just microwave a frozen pack and dump it on a plate. And this is a sit-down restaurant with waitresses and cooks.

My solution? I eat-in and plan out.
> What android phone has that commitment?

To the best of my knowledge, all pure Android phones have that, plus more in some cases (the Nexus line). Additionally, many of the higher-end ones from other manufacturers likely do as well.
I just deleted all of my music
It's joystiq's mobile site, not sure why there aren't ads there.
>I continually insist that such conclusions are out of the scope of the data given:

Yes, clearly you have some serious issues to work through.
I'd ignore that entirely as well - if it's a network they are biased instantly. How to pick a phone:

1. Write down what you NEED, not want.

2. Find a phone that does it on gsmarena.com which has LONG term reviews and doesn't try and sell phones to you.

3. Buy it off ebay second hand unlocked therefore saving on the instant purchase depreciation. If you're lucky like me, I bought a Nokia 3310 a couple of years ago new in box as a backup for 10GBP. I'm now using that as my full time phone. Buy 2 or 3 for that price TBH.

4. Get a cheap PAYG deal. In the UK, you can get a T-Mobile deal for 26GBP/month that gives you pretty much unlimited everything.

Anything else is just retarded if you ask me.
They also use plastic ice cubes so you have time to setup a shot and there is a whole market in plastic food, see this ad studio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKC6j7pW6T0

But there is a difference between just food in a photo-shoot where you can use anything and a shot of the actual product in an ad which must obey certain rules in most countries
Microsoft created the XMLHttpRequest standard; it was first featured in Internet Explorer. Microsoft was also one of the first backers of jQuery.

Mozilla owes much of its market share to the EU, which forced Microsoft to bundle competing browers with Windows, and to the collapse of Netscape in the first dotcom bubble.
Nope. They start with market share of all installed windows phone.

Plus they have all the windows desktop/tablet users who could use their app as well.
yup, this is my guess. it's all about understanding users more deeply. hypertargeted ads. what's in a photo these days? location + time. along with captions and photo titles, FB can infer what you were doing, where you were doing it, and when. but many photos go untagged because it's a pain to tag everyone. face.com solves this problem, connecting a person to all the valuable ad data in each photo.
Microsoft's failures extend way far beyond the Zune:
http://obamapacman.com/2012/06/microsoft-tablet-pc-mobile-de...
Bringing Like to Mobile
WP8 release is Fall 2012. OEMs won't begin to have WP8 hardware on carrier shelves until end of 2012* at the earliest. Microsoft just killed Windows Phone for at least the next 6 months.

I wish Microsoft would see the damage they do when they inappropriately pre-announcing products.

* Mango had a similar release scheme last year.
Business Cliches
ha, you're right, thanks. I'll leave as-is so your comment doesn't look garfield-minus-garfield.
I love when sites tell Safari to not let me zoom and then overflow their content past the bounds of the viewport. Saves me time because I can leave the site and never come back.
Not sure about in the US, but in the UK you often see store mannequins "dressed" the same way.
There is a great book called "Management by Baseball." The author of the book points out that baseball managers are typically former players, and they usually believe that the most important position on the team is whatever position they used to play. I doubt PMs regularly make more than engineers across all levels at all companies, but in general the outcry you are seeing about this isn't limited to engineers. In my experience, almost everybody at almost every company thinks the thing that they do is the most important.

I can tell you that I have worked in 4 major roles:
- engineer
- sales engineer
- business development
- CEO

In my experience, the pay is directly tied to the need of the position to manage uncertainty and ambiguity, and evaluate difficult risk/reward tradeoffs. As you move up the hierarchy, you do more of this.
(Author here.)

I totally agree that conferences are important, and lack some of the "bugs" I identified. However, that wasn't the point I was trying to argue.

Nowhere did I argue that "everyone can say something about everything". That's a strawman. In fact, in the last paragraph I said the opposite: "All forums need some sort of moderation to avoid degenerating."

I do think that being readable by a larger audience is an advantage, all else being equal, to being readable by a smaller audience. Especially since, as explained in http://lesswrong.com/lw/kh/explainers_shoot_high_aim_low/, we tend to vastly overestimate the size of the audience who can understand us. However, there's a huge difference between "can read" and "can contribute equally to the author".

In an experimental paper, sure, the abstract is written last. However, as one of the other comments noted, my post is (by virtue of being originally written for Less Wrong) targeted more at philosophy papers, like in point #4. In experimental and mathematical papers, you're right that this is less of a concern.

For the record, I have already graduated college (with a major in math and economics).
Those ridiculously too-good-to-be-true hosting deals are awesome if you've got a blog that nobody ever reads. The instant one of your posts goes viral, expect your page to be unceremoniously shut down with no call or email to you. Which is of course the worst possible time for it to be shut down-- while it's on front pages of social aggregators and such.

Source: personal experience (Bluehost, not GoDaddy)
> which ultimately resulted in the only nuclear holocaust that ever occurred in the history of humanity

... which, in turn, prevented us from blockading Japan to starve them out a bit in preparation for a massive beach-head assault on the Home Islands, which would likely have been the most massive loss of life in conventional warfare in the history of the human race, and could well have ended the Japanese as a distinct culture and ethnicity.

If you're going to make a point, by all means make it; don't imply the opposite of what you intend.
The reason that AD is so needed is the ease of implementation with EVERYTHING, as long as its MS(ish) based. One AD account can auth a user to any service running on the company systems. For example, I work for a university as an applications dev; My local box login is the same for every VPN and additional university service that we use.

Now, you can do this with OD, but it's not as easy as "built into all windows installations, set it once and forget it".
> I am going to trust in the cloud, where my library now lives.

Relevant: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4138624
As an employee working at a consulting firm, I understand the difference in a contract environment. Me, as a programmer, charge a client for my time. The most money I can possibly make is my charge rate times however many hours. But, I have a manager, they are in charge of several, perhaps 20 programmers, working on various tasks for various clients. In reality, my salary is only about 50% of what my company charges for my time. In this scheme, money goes towards overhead, and the rest to management, whom I do agree, do a good job keeping us programmers employed, and winning contracts to work on. could I do this all myself and charge more money, sure. But in a bigger consultancy, there is a great network effect, and more jobs to be done, thus I will less likely be out of work. Is it a pyramid scheme? yes. Do I hope to be on top at some point? yes.
So your response to an egomaniac who says "look how awesome my stuff is you guys suck", an admittedly egocentric way of handling things, would be to say "im taking my toys and playing elsewhere since you didn't stroke my ego and protect my super important sensitivities from your ego"? How is that not a flaming pile of hypocrisy?
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In your static example, "Bad Programmer" would be fine, because the Query constructor does escaping. You could do this in a dynamically typed language too, but notice that you don't, you just use strings. The difference between static and dynamic is that with static typing, you can't compile your incorrect program. With dynamic typing, you find out at run time that you forgot to escape the string (turning it into a Query), when that code actually runs.
At some point it can become harassment, which is a crime.
MS isn't going after Apple.

Microsoft is absolutely going after Apple. Apple is making inroads into business -- and with that influence and control over enterprise choices -- and Microsoft rightly sees the threat. On the Venn diagram of needs that a device satisfies, WP7 and now 8 overlaps the iPhone far more than it overlaps Android.

Oh, and they will because they'll feel comfortable with Windows, especially if they are told "Oh btw, you can have Windows on your phone and tablet as well as Office now, why bother with whatever Android is or that Apple stuff."

That was what led to the Windows CE disaster. Of course this time around they're trying it in the opposite direction, trying to force a smartphone UI on desktops. We'll see how that works out.

Mind you I wholly disagree with the GP, and I think it too was drawn from the well of delusion: Microsoft saw that the separation of enterprise and consumer has blurred. Trying to out-RIM the Blackberry -- as it fails -- would be a hilariously dumb move at this point. People want to carry one device and it needs to competently cover both sides of the equation.
I recall that Microsoft became very cautious about executing embrace and extend tactics to decrease their profile for potential anti-trust cases.

My guess after working at organisations under enhanced regulatory scrutiny, the distraction was probably felt most seriously in the upper cadres of the company as they would have had to critically evaluate acquisitions, new products as well as coordinate the legal and PR.

The decrease in ravenous embrace and extend activities left large numbers of smaller businesses with viable business models, and ensured that the Internet remained fairly neutral for non-Microsoft software (although I still struggle to this day with intranets coded with VBScript for basic things like timewriting: if this had happened on the free Internet, it would have been significantly harder for the Firefox and Web 2.0 people to get any kind of traction...)
People differ greatly in their appetite for social interactions vs. solitude.

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for
the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our
chambers.

—Henry David Thoreau

Do you agree with Thoreau? Probably not. But some people do, and there's nothing wrong with that.
We redirected it to our main site while we resized our blog server. Resize completed and the blog server (and post) is now up! :-)
My examples were all meant to show areas where a slow web would not be effective. Who are the people and what are the use cases for a slow web, and why doesn't it exist now on top of the existing postal system?

The newspaper delivery service would not work. Period. Delivery service only covers the local service area, where there is a high enough density of subscribers to make a special delivery service worthwhile. These people can get broadband and/or cell service. Otherwise newspapers use the postal service, and charge a premium to those customers who want that service.

Now you say that "upload" is important. Yes, when my wife was deployed in Iraq, we mailed USB sticks back and forth, containing music and video files. So that service exists now for point-to-point, and scales decently well to several people. Who are the people who want one-to-many data broadcasting via the slow web? What do they want to accomplish?

And I return again to mechanics. How does one "signal for the data they're interested in via what they upload?" If I send videos of our baby to family, do I get baby videos in return? Or do I get ads for baby products? I can't think of any mechanism which would handle what you are describing, other than having a human concierge service - and that's expensive.

If there are no adapters to make the slow data resources which are available on the fast web available to the slow web, then why would people use the slow web?
That's only due to the age of the question. If a similar one were asked today it would be shut down before it got 2 answers.
Found them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PirMZGL-0mQ

Leonard Rossiter is a famous British actor but had a reputation for being difficult to work with and a real perfectionist.

Joan Collins said in an interview that he kept messing up the take after each drink and she wasn't sure if he was doing it deliberately - but they ended up very drunk at the end.
While this is correct, I think his complaint is about the privileges that high-reputation users get. Most moderation is done by ordinary users, not by elected moderators.
The UI of the application in the demo video looks like it was designed by Java engineers.

Design is still probably not a big selling point in enterprise.

Other than that, I love the business concept.
Yeah, to be fair, I am getting a bit better than I was 10 years ago about this stuff. I'm now far more likely to call someone out on bs than I was back then. But it's taken a long time and a lot of skin-thickening to get that courage up.
There may also be an adverse selection problem. As a founder, would you rather have $170K from YC or $200K from AngelKicker? Will all crowdfunded startups be the ones who couldn't get in to an accelerator program? If so, good luck raising a second round.
Google apparently has a library (used in Chrome) that implements "most" of OpenGL ES 2.0 over DirectX. I wonder how much help it might provide in this context.

http://blog.chromium.org/2010/03/introducing-angle-project.h...
The idea is simply that Carreon's current complaints are almost utterly meritless, but if he's hacked or unlawfully slandered, his claims actually do have merit; even if they won't in the end be held against Matthew Inman, it'll still be a drag on everyone to sort them out.
Gorgeous, but painfully slow to render. The price we pay!
I'm not a lawyer, but I have been consulted by law firms employed by major activist investors litigating fortune 500 companies.

The short of it is, if your worried about actually controlling a company this is the control you need and I would suggest talking to me. If you are going to court, I would suggest talking to a lawyer (who may well want to talk to me :P).