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i think you miss the larger point... any half way decent developer would never have this issue - breaking changes happen on every platform - or you should assume they will. use encapsulation properly (i.e. actually encapsulate, not just use a keyword meaning 'class' in the OO sense) and problems like this require single line of code changes to fix.

even if you have them scattered across your code base what you then do is realise that you have failed to encapsulate a platform dependency, then encapsulate it, then fix. even on multi-million line code bases this will not take a month. inexperienced programmers are terrible at estimating tasks like this, which often take less time than you think, and less time than it feels has passed as you are doing them.

php is a fine language - the various arguments i've heard against it boil down to "i'm to shit of a programmer to do my job", either by choosing the wrong technology or not being able to just suck it up and get on with making stuff work.
Does anyone else find it rather insane that SVG allows bundling code? "Active" documents like PDF and Office have demonstrated the problems associated. Why does a vector graphic format need scripts?
I'd just like to add that this is why people from Wall Street end up working for regulators and government in the real world. Despite the populist narrative that has emerged post-financial crisis, the real reason for the "revolving door" is that you need market experience if you're trying to make effective regulatory and policy decisions.

In the case of EVE, you have players who have a better grasp of game mechanics outsmarting the developers.
You're likely talking about the general case, not the OP, but I'd just like to point out that the submitter of the bug report was jumping from 5.1.6 to 5.3.1 (not to mention changing from Solaris to Red Hat, which could have its own issues) when he found this "error". 5.x releases are de facto "major" versions, even if only the minor version number changes.

It's entirely possible that this fix was made in a point release - it didn't jump out at me in the changelog, and I didn't feel like digging - but that's a moot point in this case, since even if the change was made with a major release like 5.3 this guy would still be upset.
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A human baby learns in a very interesting way. By using an overcomplete basis to sparsely code data. This method has only recently started getting attention in ML.

A human baby learns from uncleaned raw data using far less energy with better generalization than a computer and fuses large amount of data without suffering from dimensionality curses.

I think it is safe to say that human babies are still ahead. for now.
A bug is when you have the correct design wrongly implemented.

This is the opposite.
> Corruption is everywhere

Of course there is corruption everywhere, but in most countries it's nowhere near as endemic or systematic as it is in Pakistan (and India and China). I can get by in my life here in the UK without needing to bribe anyone, but bribery is a daily fact of my parents' life in India (and similarly for parts of the family in Pakistan). Deflecting this issue does you no credit.

> Countries full of educated people are more difficult to manage. . For example France is badly in need of deep reforms but they will simply never happen because French would go on strike as a result of such reforms

So, how would you explain strikes in Pakistan against reforms to the blasphemy laws?

> in France you'd get a 90 Euros fine for speeding on a standard road.

So what?
Looks nice having CSS supporting non-visual presentation. Sounds like a job for @media queries too, so I looked up on the w3c website [0] and there are a bunch of non-visual targets along 'print' and 'screen', like 'aural' and 'braille'.

[0] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/
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Its a fine argument, but its fundamentally flawed - firstly you assume the person wanting the app actually bought the iPad and can afford one. The concept of a gift invalidates this assumption.

Personally I feel this sort of software would be best serving the people who would benefit from it if it was free and multi-platform. Targeting iPad and having a sale price is an obvious money making strategy, and does, absolutely, limit access to it.
the rest of Pakistan for the average citizen, much larger than the first and which is reasonably misunderstood and relatively safe;

I'm not an expert on the topic, but if Karachi[1] can be regarded as "relatively safe", the Pakistan has bigger problems that I imagined.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/30/karachi-ethnic-f...
You are right. The slides are very vague, I know -- and I'm working on that.

I do talk a lot about loading assets and logic and how hard it is to actually get stuff across in a nice way.

I never say go pure javascript. What I say is that you don't need mammoth frameworks on top of javascript. We ended up depending on PhoneGap quite a bit in the end.

Thank you for the great comment
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http://www.microsoft.com/vi-vn/download/details.aspx?id=1703...

Maybe not complete retail version, but still something.
Exactly. The only reason this bug got to production, is because the function accepted an empty string parameter in the first place.
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We did use offline caching aggressively when we launched with Facebook.

Most of that logic has been removed, though, when we went the PhoneGap route.

Also, https://speakerdeck.com/u/jaffathecake/p/application-cache-d...

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In my opinion weak typing is an unusual quirk, but there's no way to get around that. I really wonder kind of reasons could be given to defend it; I don't think a strongly typed language like Python is any harder because of its types.
So why do people still buy myname.com when myname.wordpress.com is ok?
While PHP is full of inconsistencies, it's far fetched to make a claim like this. Take a look at Symfony2 and try saying that it's amateur code.
As much as I want this to be true, I don't see anything in terms of sources, I've never heard of this site before, and the style of writing doesn't exactly make it seem very credible.

I haven't tried very hard, but didn't immediately find any other sites with this news that weren't simply linking to or regurgitating this article. Losing or winning a contract this size is something you'd expect a lot of well known news sites to cover.
Yes, this quote from the reply jumped out at me: "What mattered was that I was removed from the environment I was in."

The author is saying the same thing, though perhaps more to do with mental models than physicality.
China is investing in Linux for one simple reason - they can have someone read the source code.

A (low-level?) war is going on right now between US and China - and the battlefield are the hardware and software that runs the world.

Can't read the code - then we don't trust that you aren't spying on us.

Unfortunately I doubt they will extend the same rights to their citizens.

On the Nvidia side, this is either the dumbest commercial move ever,(#) or they really do have quite a lot to hide in that code.

(#) Really I cannot imagine anyone turning down an order on 10 M PCs. Whats in that code base?

Edit: @virdah - thank you for pointing out the should-have-been obvious.
> Maybe your article should be titled "Writing games in HTML5 for Mobile Devices is not ready".

I strongly agree with that! I feel like it's not been made clear enough.

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Just one more apologist for the 1% telling them it's ok that you have so much and most other people have none. It's their choice. They choose to be poor. It is very simple. So go back to cheating on your taxes so you can afford shinyer rings. It's not your fault our infrastructure is crumbling, its all those poor people who refuse to choose to not be poor.
Shelve next to other right wing wacko screeds like Ayn Rand.
> If you will ship faster and better with language X, go ahead and use it.

Absolutely, by all means, go for it. Godspeed.

> Languages are meaningless penis measuring contests of the IT world.

No they're not, and this is just insulting. I'm only an amateur PL nerd but there are people who have devoted their lives and careers to studying languages and thinking about the differences between them and how to design something practical, consistent, logically sound, beautiful, etc. To brush aside that work as meaningless is pretty narrow-minded. After all, some of that work helped even lowly PHP to stand taller on the shoulders of giants, and make it even possible to be a reasonable tool.
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By the way, I just thought of a killer feature for your site. How about if users can link the amount/frequeny tipped to the developer's activity on a github project?

Maybe the user could set metrics to link the tips to like tests added, LOC removed (refactoring), issues resolved.

Well just a thought.
No, this is about _weak_ typing (as opposed to strong typing). Static vs. dynamic is another matter.
Thanks for posting the link!

EDIT: And I get downvoted for saying thanks... so thanks.
EDIT EDIT: And a upvote. Cheers!
you're not woman or gay or an atheist i guess.

istanbul is to turkey what new york is to the usa - an outlier, nothing in common with the rest of the country.

i have a friend who was a human rights lawyer in turkey, defending kurdish dissidents - he lives in austria now, cause after being in jail, being tortured, etc he had enough. real, nasty torture, not loud music.

turkey is on its way back into islam, atatürk's laicistic idea of countryhood is being dismantled.

so, all in all, you have no fucking clue what you're posting about.
The article mentions that some of the brightest minds of NVIDIA are now working in China on its future generations of CPUs/GPUs. I don't have the full context, but is it possible that we're seeing the first baby steps of a reverse brain drain?
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Please don't get me started on Android. :-)

And as mentioned in a previous comment, this is mostly about Mobile HTML5.

I am also keeping my fingers crossed for iOS6!

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Exactly. Regarding your remark about edge detectors: such self-organizing neural nets are organized into hierarchical layers, and early layers' units are going to learn to become detectors of statistically common components of the input image, in the same way as the initial layers of the visual system perform blob and edge detection (retina, lateral geniculate nucleus, V1). In mathematical terms, these early units learn the conditional principal components of the inputs. The layers that are built upon these detectors, if correctly organized, are going to build upon this initial abstraction and learn more complex features: for instance to find these these edges in relative positions (to each other). Eventually, up the abstraction chain, units detect such statistically frequent features as the shape of cat's ears (common in youtube videos, I imagine), etc...

(Sorry I wrote that fast, I hope it's understandable)
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There are definitely many important things about languages, but I think attempts to preserve traditional language communities have significant risks and downsides as well, if we're talking about maintaining communities of people speaking them living in the present day, as opposed to scholarly study/preservation (the latter of course has little downside besides time/effort). I'm one generation removed from a dying/nearly-dead language myself, and am vaguely regretful not to be speaking it, but also feel a bit lucky to have "escaped" from it into a larger, less-dying language community, and in particular to have (mostly) escaped the cultural aspects of being an aggrieved minority fighting to preserve some ancient spark of glory.

My grandfather's first language was Pontic, a sibling of modern Greek (both descended from ancient Greek, but not mutually intelligible), and it could be fairly called the language of his community even once almost all of them were, erm, "displaced" to Greece (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_genocide). But he was actually pretty against transmitting it to future generations, because of the strong cultural conservatism that he found among a large proportion of those trying to keep it alive. As you say, it's not just a language, but everything it's tied up in isn't good, either: it was often tied up in things like a strong purist/anti-outsiders/anti-ethnic-mixing mindset, a general anti-West, anti-modern-world outlook, and irredentist nationalism (recapture the old homeland from the colonialist Turks, etc.). He'd just as rather his kids grew up as modern Greeks and lose some of that baggage, in part because he was politically left-ish, and in part because spending your whole life looking for ways to preserve/avenge the 1910s, instead of moving on to a focus on being a Greek citizen in the late 20th century, seemed unproductive. That definitely loses something, I'll admit, but I'm not sure the alternative is better; to some extent you run the risk of having people live their lives as some kind of frozen-in-time living museum, a box I'm glad not to be living in.
A fraction of what AppStore revenue is -- even though they have more market share. :-(
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We Net approx. $700-900 per month from advertising, merch and memberships each month. Selling limited edition mini pocket sketchbooks works the best ( http://bit.ly/NGajo8 ).

I do have an idea for a mobile app, but I never heard of a tumblelog having a mobile app. It would be super simple, just a feed of the site and you could log in via your tumblr account submit via camera.
There's only two great accelerators- YC and Techstars. The falloff after that is ENORMOUS, even just going to #3, #4, and #5.

If you go out of the top 5 accelerators, you're dealing with everyone who wasn't good enough to get into a respected accelerator. Doing an accelerator that isn't in the top 5 is a mark of incompetence- it filter for the desperate who couldn't

a) Get into YC/TechStars

or

b) Build the business on their own
> even if you have them scattered across your code base what you then do is realise that you have failed to encapsulate a platform dependency

Take this line of reasoning far enough, and you're saying wrap every PHP function in your own function, so your programmers program in your synonym language instead of PHP, something like CoffeeScript vs JavaScript, perhaps.

I don't think using PHP (or any language) directly means you're a "shit programmer".

I think the care Python has taken between 2.x and 3.x is a better example of the type of care and concern and community awareness building around this exact sort of change that a language's benevolent dictators (Larry, Rasmus, Guido) should take when altering the philosophy of how the language should behave.
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Why would Pakistanis want to be able to write their name in a Mojahir language? They could write it in English, Punjabi, Sindhi or Pushtun instead.

And you exaggerate as to how shit education is.

*
According to the latest Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement (PSLM) Survey 2008‐09, the
overall literacy rate (age 10 years and above) is 57% (69% for male and 45% for female) compared to
56% (69% for male and 44% for female) for 2007‐08. The data shows that literacy remains higher in
urban areas (74%) than in rural areas (48%), and is more prevalent for men (69%) compared to women
(45%). However, it is evident from the data that overall female literacy is rising over time, but progress is
uneven across the provinces. When analyzed provincially, literacy rate in Punjab stood at (59 %), Sindh
(59%), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (50%) and Balochistan at (45%). The literacy rate of Sind and Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa has improved considerably during 2007‐08 to 2008‐09 (Table 10.2)
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The richer are some, the poorer are others.

There is a limited amount of money/wealth in the world. If some people take/earn/inherit more than average, then less wealth will remain available to others. The only way to fight poverty is to prevent exaggerated accumulation of wealth (the rich must be incited to spend his money, if not through creating jobs, then through taxes).
If you are trying to make game AI then neural networks are a bad idea. But if you are just trying to have some fun learning then do whatever you want. That said, MLPs are hard to use properly, not a good place to start.

A good way to start "AI". Write a decision tree they will serve you well and with boosting do even better. Basic but useful stuff: logistic regression, armed bandits, weighted experts, kNearest, k means , Kernel Density estimation and Naive Bayes. That covers online, ensemble, super and unsuper vised algorithms. Goodluck!
When I was in this situation I used noise canceling headphones playing lyric-free music, and a pair of sunglasses on my desk so I could notice movement directly behind me.
How many clicks do you need to debug ajax request?
It accepts strings because PHP does not support type hinting for scalars.
The problem with poverty in the US is not 'no money' the problem is not knowing how to live without it. If you have math and problem solving skills you can avoid a lot of huge money sinks everywhere from the grocery store to transportation etc. You can decide to keep your apartment cold enough that your neighbors help heat it. But, when your desperate the idea that you will suffer now to get ahead becomes unacceptable, anything to feel better now because the future is not something you want to think about.

PS: Mental illness runs in my family so I have plenty of poor relatives, and a few rich ones. It's not hard to find two people that make about the same amount of money living vastly different lives. Just compare grad students with other people living on what they make.
When reading such things, we should try to imagine what Pakistan is facing in its remote areas. The coalition forces messed things up in the area.

Why was Bin Laden was in Pakistan?

Several Pakistanis regions bordering Afghanistan live in a legally or de-facto quasi-autonomy. They are tribal by nature (be it their name or not) and since the war in Afghanistan started, they are facing deep changes in their power structure due to waves of migrants and militants. Such areas have also been steeply radicalising (remember the Swat war?).

So, if Pakistanis officials are trying to keep a sense of unity, and perhaps reinforce Pakistani feeling, by collaborating with what the West sees as terror networks, so be it.

They must ensure that these areas don't radicalise more and that it doesn't spread.

Now, the US is totally biased in the situation. It's literally been trying to dictate decisions to the Pakistani officials (military or political) for years.

> At least the western countries don't build and finance terror networks to attack neighbours. And so on.

I'm unsure whether this is a joke or not. It has to be a joke, right?

Regarding the freedom of speech, I'll ask you if you think it matters. Because if you think it matters there are a couple of things you might consider:

You could stop buying Japanese cars and hard-drives as Thai people end up in jail for expressing opinions that go against the monarchy (google lèse-majesté law in Thailand).

You could stop buying French cars and wine as migrants are put in "jails" and drugged against their will to keep them quiet and sometimes denied lawyers and assistance.

You could stop buying IT equipment because of the situation in China.

etc...

What I do know about Pakistan is that the government was deeply criticized for their handling of the floods in 2009. I also do know for reading from there that freedom of speech in the press is not a vain thing (being French, living in Thailand, I've actually found their critics very open).

I'm not very hopeful regarding the freedom of speech in general. In France nobody talks about those migrant centres that I called "jails" above. Nobody cares. In Thailand people think it's fine to have such a law (of course, except those who have something to say). I think there's a threshold under which a problem isn't a problem for enough people to reach a critical mass that could lead to a change.
The only way i could get 'HTML5 audio' to work on Android 3.0 was by using Flash. Which is...pretty ironic.
"Would it come as some surprise to you to know that in the early 20th century Irish women would wear headscarves to protect their modesty? Oh those poor oppressed Irish women, whatever became of them?"

They quit wearing them, it would seem. This puts them a century ahead.
The emergent middle class of Pakistan won’t settle for a corrupt system with constant terrorism and will push for reforms in a burgeoning democracy. Here’s to the new civil society of Pakistan, who will use connectivity, information and the Internet, to drive a peaceful revolution that brings Pakistan up to its true potential.

Gosh, I sure hope so. Maybe Eric should talk to some of the Green Revolution folks.

I don't mean to be cynical, but the desires of the emerging middle class are going to have to compete -- perhaps with great violence -- with the desires of the established interests. That's what happens when political systems aren't able to auto-correct and run for many decades.

The question I would have like Schmidt to answer is this: is Pakistan a country? That is, does it control its borders, is the government the sole user of force against the population, is there a place where international partners can go and ask for and receive redress when wronged by citizens of Pakistan?

I don't think it is. Or if it is, it's a close call.

Having said all of that negative stuff, I wish the people living in Pakistan the best. An emerging middle class, along with a decent education and unfettered internet access, is their best shot at a happier tomorrow.
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Everyone seems to ignore the hundreds of articles that are written by women. Their technical articles get maybe 10 comments, while gender related articles get hundreds. I know personally my one gender related post has 50% more viewers than my top non-gender related post, and that one is one that people often find via google to help solve a specific problem.

The problem with "we should focus on women's technical achievements!" is that it rapidly becomes "but we shouldn't focus on women's technical achievements because they are women! We should focus on technical achievements!" which even more quickly magically morphs into "We should focus on men's technical achievements!" Wired represented Grace Hopper with a picture of a dude in glasses last week. The NYT thinks men invented the internet. How many men even know that Liskov of the Liskov substitution principle is a woman? Or that Alan Turing is gay?

As long as we don't address benevolent sexism and erasure, the best intentions for meritocracy will continue to fail.
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