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Assange hasn't denied Sweden the right to question him, for example, over the phone - they have refused to do so. Why must he be on Swedish soil to answer some questions?

Everything about these allegations are clumsy. While we may never know what has transpired, it should be a wake up call to the legal system - you can't just push the regular processes aside and treat a case exceptionally because the suspect is somewhat of a celebrity. The Swedish legal system has also failed these women, if indeed, they are victims.
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You could name a hundred, it still doesn't dispute "most" as there are tens of millions of businessmen out there, the vast majority of which aren't serial successes. Regardless, when someone says "most" they are already conceding the point that there are likely many exceptions. Rebutting with examples to make an argument they've already conceded is simply pointless and shows you aren't really paying attention to what they're trying to say.
5 weeks is at least 5 times longer than all the time they reasonably needed to ask questions in person. They could still ask questions by phone or email or video.
RIM's smartphone market share is rapidly falling, they're doing mass layoffs, and they're slow to the market. The pressure from Android distribution and iPhone demand just creates a very difficult environment for RIM.
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Learning about algorithms is far more difficult and far more important than the mechanics of writing code, which is the focus of sites like Codecademy. I believe that there are certain people whom have minds that can naturally pick up algorithms and break down problems into the different steps needed to solve them. Codecademy will give these individuals most of what they need in order to develop proficiency in writing code.

However, these people are not the majority. When I TA'd for an introduction to Computer Science course, most of student's difficulty, especially on more difficult assignments, was not syntactic and getting a program to compile or run but rather conceptualizing and implementing the intermediate tasks that the program needed to accomplish in order to produce the final result. In my opinion, this is the most difficult part of writing anything beyond the most basic piece of software and the area which online programming courses are the least helpful.

That being said, I think that Codecademy and similar sites are very helpful of learning the syntax of a particular language which, of course, is the first step to being able to write code.
I had to do a little shimming of the shelf bracket, since the legs were not perfectly straight, but no wobbling here either.
I agree it won't run current applications (as in Eclipse, Word, Excel, Emacs) much better than current CPUs do. But I can, for instance, imagine a huge number of applications that cannot run well on current architectures that would benefit from having a huge number of relatively simple cores.

My notebook currently has two kinds of cores - 2 amd64 ones and I don't know how many really dumb GPU cores. It would be great if my Gmail experience were snappier when I'm not dragging windows between monitors.

The first multi-processor machine (a 4-processor Pentium Pro) I used didn't impress me by being fast (it was, but not that much). It impressed me by being much smoother under load than my previous computer. It doesn't matter how sure you are it won't happen, it eventually will.
Beyond the politics (which the Board of Visitors appears to have handled distressingly badly), there's an interesting analogy to software design lurking in the story.

It seems like the philosophical conflict that drove Sullivan't dismissal maps cleanly to the two styles of programming that pg described in "Programming Bottom-Up":

"It's worth emphasizing that bottom-up design doesn't mean just writing the same program in a different order. When you work bottom-up, you usually end up with a different program. Instead of a single, monolithic program, you will get a larger language with more abstract operators, and a smaller program written in it. Instead of a lintel, you'll get an arch."

My reading of Dragas's and Sullivan's statements to the Board of Visitors is that Dragas wants the University designed as a lintel, and Sullivan as an arch.

Dragas argues that "the Board is the one entity that has a unique vantage point that enables us to oversee the big picture of those interactions, and how the leadership shapes the strategic trajectory of the University." [1] The changes Dragas seems to support (though it's hard to find a clear statement of them anywhere?) would be akin to a major rewrite from scratch. University design by lintel.

Sullivan conversely argues that, "[c]orporate-style, top-down leadership does not work in a great university." She seems to be arguing for incremental changes more akin to aggressive refactoring.

[1] http://cvillenews.com/2012/06/18/dragas-sullivan-statements/
Of course, the problem with jQuery is that you're required to use an all-or-none approach. Feel free to send me an e-mail (check my profile) if you have DOM questions.
The author leaves no room for any concept of "skill" in entrepreneurship, and this is the big flaw in his article. He doesn't so much argue this view as assume it, except to say that person X succeeded only to fail later, and person Y thought they would succeed, but didn't.

VCs know more about start-ups than he thinks. They do "care" about whether the ventures they fund succeed (obviously, ha) and even so they fund founders who have failed in the past all the time. The pretty low stigma on failure in the Valley is part of what makes the culture so great and why we get so many successes and, dare I say it, skilled entrepreneurs.

As we all know, team and execution are just as important as idea or more so. Once we acknowledge the importance of ability, and the existence of many great successes, successful serial entrepreneurs, and, of course, failures and failed entrepreneurs, it seems like he's just trying to take everyone down a peg.

Surprisingly, his first three takeaways are pretty agreeable, basically just be grateful for your successes and acknowledge there was probably a healthy dose of luck in there. I'm pretty sure his fourth point about investing in people despite past failures is already incorporated into Valley thinking.
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What apple did wrong is that thy judged a person’s Intentions and residency by a spoken language.
Iranian people are proud people just like Irish, Italians, and Cuban’s. I have many friends that were born in U.S but if you ask them what language you are speaking they will tell you “oh it’s Spanish, I am Cuban” because they are proud of their nationality.
Same thing with the girl, the man asked what language she was speaking and she said Farsi (but most people do not know what language Farsi is) so she added I am from Iran. This girl could have even been born in the U.S.
The Correct way to approach this would have ben to ask more questions. Like how long have you lived in the U.S.? are you Planning on going back anytime in the future?
As a matter of fact they should ask everyone this question. Are they planning to Travel to any of the restricted countries in the near future? Because anyone can be shipping this highly sensitive material overseas to anyone of the restricted countries.
I spent $1,100 on a GeekDesk max (including shipping). An investment in my health was long overdue, especially since I've spent $4-5,000 on my computer setup.

The huge benefit is not having to move all your stuff whenever you're done sitting or standing. I press a button and in 10 seconds it's changed height. MAGIC!

I highly suggest them to anyone, just watch out for the long backorder. Mine took 3 months to get here.
There were personal accounts of the buildings being uninhabitable. In fact, they're starting to show up in the comments here!
A comparable commercial offering, made for this purpose and also mounting atop an existing desk, would be the Ergotron Workfit-S, costing about $370:

http://www.ergotron.com/tabid/640/Default.aspx

For the extra $350 you get easier/finer adjustments and perhaps, more stability.

For someone who just wants to get a little standing time in with a laptop, an adjustable 'over-bed' table for about $50 is almost a good solution:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000QA0EHI/ref=oh_details_o...

I say almost because it doesn't quite have the rigidity that would be best, or ability to handle any leaning/weight other than just light hand placement.
Hrrm, that's a start. Any way to get this in the SO theme? I like that lot more than the SE layout.
You seem determined to not look for similarities, so, to spell it out, the "is Bill Gates" translates as "is willing to work for less than market rate" (presumably in the expectation of upside). If your work isn't so exciting that you can get people at less than market rate, wonderful, but I imagine most isn't.
Thanks! https://github.com/perka/backbone-ui/issues/9
I'm not knowledgeable about OpenGL at all, but how hard would it be to write a compatibility layer so older apps continue to work? It could be released as a third party shim.
Is there any study of the cumulative effects of stationary standing vs. sitting?
Isn't that precisely what he did here? (note, I know nothing about nothing when it comes to graphics/OpenGL stuff)
I'm not against the concept of "investing in your health". That said, while there have of course been studies that show sitting isn't so hot for your health, have there been studies that actually show standing desks are good? Varicose veins are not high on my list of to-dos, you know.
You sure I'm reading that number wrong? EROI=6.5, expected panel lifetime 30 years => 30/6.5=4.6 years to earn back the energy required to create the panel. Expected panel lifetime of 20 years gives a payback time of 3 years.

For instance, panel lifetime of 20 years and EROI of 1 would give your number, 20 years, to pay back the energy required to produce one panel. Regardless, your original claim of 20 years to get back the original energy investment is greatly exaggerated.
I'm not sure that what I said justifies a downvote. Please explain.
I own a geekdesk at home. I love it, but it didn't seem like I could bring it into my coworking space. I set an alert for geekdesks on Craigslist using IFTTT.com and got the small size geekdesk for $550. However, to get the monitor at the right height, I still put it on something on the geekdesk to raise it to the right height relative to my keyboard.
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Any news cycle tends to repetition of stuff.

There's the annual calendar of "news" stories pertaining to major holidays, sports events, and political cycles.

If you've lived a few years (or decades) in any particular area, you'll find a recycled set of "places to go, things to do, sights to see" articles.

If you've lived through a few economic cycles, there's a very predictable trend through boom, cusp, bust, downturn, recovery cycles (NB: still in the downturn).

News is cyclic. Not everyone knows everything. Reiterating the basics every so often is necessary.

The challenge isn't not doing it, but getting the balance right.
I thought that part was interesting as well, and it's a seriously hard problem. I am aware of one institution making that hard choice, though: the College of William and Mary. Sometime before I arrived there in 2003 for grad school, they had eliminated graduate departments that the school felt could not become top-ranked in their area.
How the series was ported from the UK to the USA:
http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/in-depth/behind-the-scenes/ame...
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I have a fredrik [1], indeed it is a bit wobbly -- it's not bad enough to be a problem, it's a great setup, but definitely not the most stable.

[1] https://secure.flickr.com/photos/kuno/5053375629/in/photostr...
Actually, the majority of Gondor users are individuals, just individuals who want to spend more time developing and less time configuring and running servers. Heroku has a free tier which makes them cheaper for starting out but for various setups, Gondor can be cheaper.
Just try using a Blackberry. That's why.
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It sounds like it. He could just package it up a bit better, release it and render this whole discussion moot.
People that don't study history are doomed to repeat it, or something like that. There's pretty much no reason to drop the old API calls, if you don't want it clogging stuff up, fine, make a separate library you have to throw a flag for or something.

Favorite quote:
"If there are old features that you would like to discourage the use of, then you mark them as obsolete -- but you do not remove them because thou shalt not break working code.

If you don't agree with that, then please, get out of the software industry right now. Find another line of work. Please. "
Nobody's doing ++x > y, but they do something that looks reasonable like foo(x) > bar(x), where foo() and bar() return chars.

I might write something like "++x > y"; preincrement followed by comparison is a common operation.
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Does anyone actually use a standing desk daily? I get antsy and uncomfortable standing after just a few minutes. How people manage to get real work done with a setup like this is a complete mystery to me.
Exactly, people keep on talking about "rape", simply because the accusation is not a crime in any other country. So, I may be wrong, but I tend to think that this is a product of mass media: A- using this term to destroy his reputation, or B- using this term, because it's much more difficult to construct public opinion, trying to explain the real "crime" in other countries.
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I believe the authors original point is why not provide the shim support as part of OpenGL ES in the first place? Stick a big red sticker on it saying here be dragons, but it's obviously not an impossible task.

The funny thing is, his shim is actually useful for speeding up code (in theory, this may already be done) on normal OpenGL. (For anything using these interfaces)
Not ~5%GDP.

"the country will spend somewhere between $125 billion and "$250 billion on infrastructure expansion and subsidies in the next eight years—between 3.5 and 7 percent of Germany's 2011 GDP"

The sentence is a bit confusing but I think they mean this:

~5% of 2011 GDP / 8 years = ~0.6% 2011GDP per year.
#1: Yes, yes I am going to modify my speech. Or use the reply to weave in an anecdote, or do something with that info. Otherwise, you would be right, and it would be an exercise in futility.

#2: Absolutely. It's better if you can do without, but it's also a matter of how much time you have to prepare, and how dense the material is. If I'm giving a hard-core technical talk for 45 minutes, I'll sure as heck have a few notes handy. I prefer to go without, but that requires a lot of rehearsals. (45 minutes without notes is probably ~8-10 days of solid work. With notes, 4-5 days)

#3 That just means you've got to get better at reading your audience :) Seriously, if you feel a disconnect, shake things up. Do something unexpected. Have a joke ready. You do not want to lose your audience, ever. It's very hard to get them back.
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Nothing is untrue about it. Obviously, there was a miscommunication, and the woman decided to go scream "Racism!" to the presses instead of clearing it up.

Edit:
Oh, I see, you thought I was asserting that she was of Iranian citizenship. I understood the parent of my original post to be referring to her being of Iranian race, because she appears to be trying to make it out as a race issue, when in truth it is a citizenship issue.
I'm biased but I loved this post, and glad to see some traction here. There's been some discussion of HTML5/relevancy giving way to an appified website experience, but I really appreciate considering how that changes the most basic job-profile of the digital marketer.

Social media marketing seems like the only thing that even resembles this job, where your audience is differentiated and requires a real-time, context-driven approach, though the tools that surround it are still quite young (and in the long-tail mostly relate to group collaboration).

If that's true, I wonder if the role of "social media manager" looks a lot like the future of all digital marketing?
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I find that engaging the audience into a back-and-forth has been very successful for me, and I get more positive feedback on the talks afterwards, too.
Ruthless dropping of backward compatibility is a good thing in certain circumstances. I'm not saying this blog post is one of those cases, but for example Microsoft Windows pays a huge price in complexity, cruft, bloat and performance to obsessively maintain backward compatibility. Python 3 has dropped backward compatibility and experiencing significant pain for the decision but after getting to Python 3 it looks arguably like a better, cleaner, more consistent language.
I'm starting to wonder what there devs have been doing as that seems to me like a tablet operating based windowing system on a phone. This being born out by the indication of non full screen windowed app's with desktop like icons in the background. Though they could be fat wigets.

But as they said - it is early days and it is just to say app switching and the keyboard and the camera app aspects are final. Though I would of expected alot more to be finalised at this stage if they are to have a stable/full release product.

I hope they pull something off, but they realy still need to cater for the actual keyboard devotee's.

Also a phone with a good battery life is a big factor in business usage and in that alot of people like the older blackberry's and nokia's, they did well and still do.

I hope they manage to keep going and pull a little out of the bag.

So will wait until it is released and then see how it goes. QNX is a good platform and alas have been poor at marketing themself and pandering to the wrong markets with half products for a few years now.

So it is to the moon or bust, I hope they reach the moon, I hope.
"The author leaves no room for any concept of "skill" in entrepreneurship, and this is the big flaw in his article."

From the article:

"And you certainly can’t go through life as an entrepreneur without becoming smarter. You learn from your mistakes, you make great contacts within an industry, you understand better what other competitors are doing."

If that isn't a round about way of talking about entrepreneurship skill building, I'm not sure what is.

The skill you reference has to be developed somewhere – even if that's just watching others and learning from the litany of mistakes out there... otherwise it's an innate ability and that's exactly what the author is arguing against in this piece.

If anything, I feel as though the author still falls into the trap of believing in the mythical "great idea". There are plenty of really good ideas out there – they just need to match up with the right environmental factors (time, money, competitors, etc. etc.) and the right people at the right point in their lives. Good ideas don't execute (and thus succeed or fail) in a vacuum – and so, just like the fundamental attribution error the author mentions early on, as it applies to people, the same thing goes for ideas.
Even better, keep in mind that ideally, your presentation has a story arc that ties things together. It should flow naturally. If you have a death valley, ask yourself if you really have a coherent and interesting story.
> In summary: classless HTML might work well on small, mostly trivial sites, but long term, it’s not scalable or modular

> > To wit: browsing the article's source code and searching for "class=" yields 1158 results

I wasn't suggesting the author was responsible for Smashing Magazine's source; I was demonstrating that sufficiently complex websites have good cause for using classes. Styling all of that markup without those classes would be an absolute nightmare.
yes if you speak Farsi and you are from Iran it is safe to say that you are an Iranian. I must also add that this girl probably speaks better English than Farsi. However to conclude that this person is buying this item to go to Iran is not a good assumption. that is like saying every Spanish speaking person that is from Cuba is going to go to Cuba in the next year or two.
Here's my data point to counter your data point.

I've been running Tomato and Tomato USB with QoS enabled for 4+ years. Routers were usually WRT54G or compatible Asus models installed into multiple homes or SOHO businesses. Tomato has been rock solid for me over that time period. Uptime was months or years depending on how often the router was moved or power went out.

However I have had a few issues with Tomato USB, which is a 3rd party fork. Switching back to original Tomato fixed my problems.
An incremental only approach to design is non-design in my view.

Nearly all design is incremental. That's how design works. That's partly why chairs are still recognizably chairs, and other useful stuff like that.
:) Back in 2008 I helped JWZ port daliclock to the iPhone and once that was working I proposed a port of xscreensaver. He couldn't imagine ever wanting screensavers on an iPhone at the time. Guess he changed his mind.

I also was the one that opened his eyes to the differences between OpenGL and OpenGL ES it seems. I apologize.
Much discussion from 2 days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4124028
I came for the current law, but stayed for the crypto.
Well, it is a disaster that has been waiting for a while now. Several large production apps on that stack, and not really any problems.
Certainly much less than 10 meters
> And if some things that [were] previously done covertly but [are] now done overtly, it doesn't sound so far fetched that other things that were earlier not done at all are now done in secret.

Citations?
Because fame and ego. Assange is a weird-looking socially awkward epsilon-male, but make him the figurehead of anti-Americanism and apparently a bunch of Swedish leftist chicks want to bang him. At least once. As long as he puts on a condom.

In all seriousness, if you find yourself asking "Why did this man choose fame, glory and groupies over the good of the cause he claims to espouse" then you don't know much about human psychology.