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As with any country-specific domain you should ensure that your website complies with the TLD's terms and conditions.

On that basis it would probably be a bad idea to try and run an adult site with an .ly domain.
I was reading this like any other ordinary story. Then I got to this part:

Amazingly, he doesn't do transplants anymore.
Tracheas, he has decided, can be regenerated
from scratch, using stem cells.

It brought tears to my eyes. No amount of bad news can weaken the beauty contained in that little paragraph. This made my day, really.
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It seems to me you are comparing apples to oranges: Criminal charges are not the same as a civil suit (i.e. "being sued"). It is why I opted to not put in my two cents: I think my experience probably doesn't apply.
For real. I'm there.
Some discussion on this yesterday : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4148524
You just answered your own question. If your project made 25 million per year, would you change it? I know I wouldn't... Additionally, he is keeping the data locked up because that is his prerogative. Why should he go through the time and expense of developing some kind of API if he does not want to do that? If he is happy with how the website looks and works right now, why in the blue blazes should he change it?
when i changed password in google account -- all sessions, tokens and other must be reauthorized. i think this is a good practice.
My understanding is that Windows 8 Metro apps are DirectX only, thus there's almost no chance that WP8 would support OpenGL ES.

(Rationale: WP8 is based on W8 core, WP7 doesn't support OpenGL ES and if they'd do the work to support OpenGL I'd assume that they'd do it in W8 first, since W8 is where the big money is).
Safari for Windows is a terrible, terrible browser, and doesn't even mirror the Mac version in terms of rendering webpages. Completely useless.
Have you ever worked in retail? I suspect not given your condescending attitude towards the skills retails works need. Exceptional customer service (which is what Apple Stores used to have, I think it's dropped off in recent years) requirers exceptional interpersonal skills, and is not something that anyone can just turn on, it's a skill - sure not one you learn through the traditional education world, but a highly valuable one.
It's also impossible to charge recurring fees, and unlike Paypal etc, transactions take at least 10 minutes on average to clear (and around an hour if you want a decent amount of security).

For TorGuard that is probably acceptable, but in situations where you want to give your customers immediate access to your service, it's far from ideal.
This article starts out with a fallacy that immediately made me stop reading:

Jordan Golson sold about $750,000 worth of computers and gadgets at the Apple Store in Salem, N.H.

No. The ~$3M dollars that apple spends on advertising daily (http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Apple-products-guru-m...) are what put Jordan Golson in the position of seeing $750,000 worth of purchases be made in front of his cash register within 3 months of his working there.

Jordan Golson probably didn't have to "sell" a single customer who walked through that door.

All I see in the 'Apple vs. Tiffany' image on the left side of the NY Times page is a more efficient business model on the left.
Glossy displays do have better contrast and lower black levels.
is it still TFT IPS display, its so thin on photos.
> Memory allocation being a bottleneck in high-performance applications? I'm not sure what your "high-performance" means (HPC? Games?)

Games, 3D raytracers, particle systems, fluid simulations. That's my experience, and in every one, GC would be a complete no-no for at least the main core algorithms. Games often use Lua or Python as the gameplay language (scripting events), but the number of times I know of those parts being re-written in C++ due to issues with memory allocation in the language is significant.
It's true that we've changed our minds, but not that we haven't learned anything. We've learned things about homosexuality in animals. Also, many have learned that some of the people they know and like (and/or are related to) are gay. That's a big change.
They just upped the discount on Apple hardware, much to the delight of the employees I know: http://9to5mac.com/2012/06/20/apple-starts-500-off-macs-250-...
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It is absolutely feasible. Meego and Symbian devices habe about the same form factors, input methods and resource constraints and Qt works like a charm on those. It's just that few people have actually seen how well Symbian works these days.
I suspect that it is much worse than that.

The fact that the mobile app can still access LinkedIn means that there is an authentication back door that it uses. What does that back door look like? Clearly it does not care about your password.

If someone studies the mobile app and figures out how it does this authentication trick, then we'll know the damage. Is there a universal authentication where you just need to know the person's name to connect? Is there a table inside of LinkedIn that can simply grant access? (If the blackhats can get a dump of the user table, they probably can manage to insert things into other tables.) Whatever the mechanism turns out to be, it provides a way for the blackhats to bypass security and access your stuff even if they do not know your password. And the odds are depressingly high that they'll be able to do it even if they never knew your password.
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Your points are worth making, but your tone paints you clearly in the fanboi camp. This line is particularly goofy sounding:

"I think that the NY Times is just jealous -- after all, Instagram is worth more."

You do know that newspaper articles are written by individuals, right? The CEO of the Times probably didn't even have any idea that such an article was being written.
We are starting to see glimpses of the hidden costs of airport security. Consider just that by discouraging flight, more people end up dead on the (vastly more) insecure roads.
It depends on your business, work out what the average revenue per visitor is and from that derive how much you'd be willing to pay for an extra visitor.

If that amount is greater than the cost of PPC advertising then using PPC is a no-brainer.
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Your comment relates to the risk of developing for a platform without an interesting market. That is true and time will say how much market can Microsoft win in the mobile space.

If Microsoft increases their market share significantly, then "everyone" could go to market very fast with Visual Studio. In my opinion they will achieve significant success in less than 2 years.
Or, if applications were engineered properly, only UI part will need to be updated.
For comparison, companies like Oracle and IBM don't offer "the chance to buy company stock" even to senior techies and consultants, nor do they offer any real discount on their own products anymore.
When I was a student in London I took a job at the Regent Street apple store, the pay was a few £s above minimum wage (similar to the ratios mentioned in the article), and I gladly accepted the offer as they were paying towards the top end of retail wages at the time.

I never really felt that I was underpaid in any way, and I stuck around for about 2 years through the end of my degree. It was a great place to work, and I still have a bunch of friends from those days, some of who still work there.

Sure, it's not a world changing job, and compensated equivalently, but it is a great job and there are 30000 or so americans (and many more worldwide) who's rents are being paid through there jobs.

Good for Apple!
> This is a very hard feature to live without for everyone.

I never ever uninstalled a package since I started using virtualenv. I always just trash the venv every once in a while and recreate it from a requirements.txt.
I've really tried to make a conscious effort to always assume that someone's opinion is valid, even if I disagree, and to extend this to all matters of taste and opinions. I understand that some developers like working in Windows, or enjoy developing native iOS apps. First, I can't assume that it's always because of cognitive dissonance or ignorance that people enjoy things I loathe deeply. Second, I need to make an effort to recognize the aspects of the thing that are desirable and assume that the things that bother me, don't bother everybody in the same way. It's an unpopular mode of thinking among software developers, which is normally ruled by tribalism and prejudice.
Yes, I read the first line and stopped reading, switching instead to these comments. I'm sure he sold a couple of people but the vats majority of those "sales" are going to happen either way. Apple has a huge "marketing force" in their rabid fans (for good or for ill) and they probably deserve a lot of the credit along side apples official marketing.
I think you mean Motion Graphics, and specifically Idents. http://www.google.com/search?q=ident%20motion%20graphics

I'd say its a some way off yet, but wouldn't bet against it.
Marco's projecting here. He's overestimating point #1. Developers have their preferences, but a total dedication to one company with which you have no (real) relationship is a huge mental blunder most of us do not share with him. The best app on the iPad (Paper) was created by former Microsofters. Marco is projecting.
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Considering the 13" Pro doesn't have room for a discrete GPU, I doubt we're going to see a retina Air until a few more revs of Intel's integrated GPUs.
More info on it, with animation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_glider
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Alan Kay once mentioned in passing (in Early History of Smalltalk I think) that newer processors tend to be optimized for languages like C. Of course it would be difficult to make a garbage collector perform well on such platforms.

Really, we have it backward. The question shouldn't be which languages run faster on current platforms, but which languages are easier to use (depends on the problem of course). Once you know which programming patterns humans best deal with, you can optimize the implementation stack all the way to the Nand gates. It's a pity, a shame, that we currently have to stop before touching the silicon.
Does they use oAuth/xAuth for the mobile client possibly? Seems like you could go in and deauth the mobile client, no?
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What is the difference between a bitcoin transaction and a theft? If you have total financial privacy then the law can't help, and a heck of a lot of people are going to want police/law intervention when they get robbed or any other injustices.
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Is this statement true or false: Engineers can do customer service, but customer service reps can't do engineering.

You don't have to point this out as an engineer unless dealing with someone who doesn't realize how relatively incapable they are, like Losse.
What he meant was: if Windows 8 sells like Windows 7, and it will, there will be a mind boggling number of users to target. Windows 8 market will quickly be bigger than Mac OS X market because Windows 8 will ship on every new PC being sold.

And since there are no apps, there are lots of opportunities just writing the same kind of apps that people have written in the past, except for Metro. It'll be a new gold rush and you can trust me, developers will rush for that new gold.
Everyone else is mostly using Java or Flash or
something specific to iOS or Android.

That's not true, there's a large ecosystem of game developers writing in managed C#, in the form of the Xbox Live Indie Game market. It shouldn't be difficult to port those to Metro, assuming Microsoft doesn't shoot themselves in the foot somehow.

The quality is debatable, but there are over 2,500 indie games according to http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Games/XboxIndieGames. I've heard some success stories.
Any object can inspire wars of belief in those who use them quite frequently or the amateur observer. Get in with golfers and hear the rage or praise over different brands of clubs. We just don't see this behavior in its totality because most of us are not involved in every niche under the sun. It seems amplified where the item is personal / customizable or expensive.
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"A man of his type" probably just meant "a mad scientist". The stereotype was as strong as ever at the time (thanks to Einstein and the nuclear-science culture of secrecy), and Turing fit it to a T: he dealt with concepts the average coroner couldn't even start to comprehend (advanced crypto, information theory, Frankenstein-style machinery full of valves and levers, experimental chemistry), he was a loner, socially awkward geek, who somehow didn't really like to hide his homosexual side like a proper Englishman would do (homosexual experiences were much more common at the type for the ruling class, due to boarding schools).
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For me there is nothing quite like doing research in my engineering job. Only two companies I've worked at (one of them being Google) have embraced this concept whole heartedly. I hope more companies learn from this article.
There's a time on the mountain for me when I'm tired and maybe want to turn around. The same often happens in difficult projects (2/3 of the way in when the fun is over and it's just the shitty part of execution left). In hindsight, the time when I should have turned around (if it existed) is almost always later than when I started to want to. I've pushed myself farther than was healthy out of stubbornness and also given up when I should have gone on. But for me, when I wanted to stop was always before I should have.

So I agree with his prescription somewhat. If it's not fun for you, that's a problem. But have those misgivings early and discard them. Once you're two thirds up the mountain, dig deep and use your reserves to finish. I agree with that philosophy because when I've wanted to give up and dug down and finished the thing (without hurting myself) I've always appreciated the achievement. I generally regret it when I don't finish.

I do agree that if your pack is 20 pounds too heavy and you're exhausted yet hoping to do 1500m elevation that day, you really screwed up planning. At some point executing a shitty plan out of stubbornness is a shitty idea.
From the 4 page paper:

By closely connecting research and development Google is able to conduct experiments on an unprecedented scale, often resulting in new capabilities for the company.

The goal of research at Google is to bring significant, practical benefits to our users, and to do so rapidly, within a few years at most.

Because of the time frame and effort involved, Google’s approach to research is iterative and usually involves writing production, or near-production, code from day one.

Typically, a single team iteratively explores fundamental research ideas, develops and maintains the software, and helps operate the resulting Google services—all driven by real-world experience
and concrete data. This long-term engagement serves to eliminate most risk to technology transfer from research to engineering. This

[...] we blur the line between research and engineering activities and encourage teams to pursue the right balance of each, knowing that this balance varies greatly.

Overall, we undertake research work when we feel its substantially higher risk is warranted by a chance of more significant potential impact.

we just try to “factorize” [long-term research] into shorter-term, measurable components.

Even if we cannot fully factorize work, we have sometimes undertaken longer-term efforts. For example, we have started multiyear, large systems efforts (including Google Translate, Chrome, Google Health) that have important research components.

If the discrete steps required large leaps in vastly different directions, we admit that our primarily hillclimbing-based approach might fail. Thus, we have structured the Google environment as one where new ideas can be rapidly verified by small teams through large-scale experiments on real data, rather than just debated.

Organizationally, research is done in situ by the product team to achieve its goals. The most successful high-profile examples of this pattern are systems infrastructure projects such as MapReduce,
Google File System, and BigTable.

In our opinion, a research project is successful if it has academic or commercial impact, or ideally, both.

Another potential pitfall of the hybrid research model is that it is probably more conducive to incremental research. We therefore do support paradigmatic changes as well, as exemplified by our autonomous vehicles project, Google Chauffeur, among others.

Our hybrid approach to research enables us to conduct experiments at a scale that is generally unprecedented for research projects, generating stronger research results that can have a wider academic and commercial impact.

While our hybrid research model exploits a number of things particular to Google, we hypothesize that it may also serve as an interesting model for other technology companies.
There seems to be an underlying assumption here and in the rest of this thread that insurance companies (or others) are somehow getting access to your transaction history.

I find this concept bewildering.

By what mechanism are you suggesting this occurs? I can't believe that your bank would simply sell it to whoever asks.
As an Atari 400, I too feel a bit differently.

He forgets the great Commodore / Atari rage wars and the great switch with the ST / Amiga.
Everyone in the startup crowd's on MacOS? Dog droppings. I know plenty on Ubuntu.
> Online, especially for non-physical items are tending to have fluctuating prices, trying to find the ideal price to maximise profits.

Unfortunately, yep.

Like you, if I ever buy anything online such as a flight, I will check every possible site and pick the lowest, clearing my cookies all along the way to ensure that they aren't messing around with it.

I really wish they didn't do that! I'd love to see a study on this behaviour's effect on sales though.
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They're not the same, but it appears that evidence rules apply to both. In particular, the Federal Rules of Evidence that I cited applies to both, according to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Rules_of_Evidence
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That depends on what happens with those dollars. I guess you can best sum it up like this:

Printing money is not inflationary, but spending money can be.

Those 14 trillion USD in government debt is held in bonds precisely because those wealthy enough to own them do not want to spend them. So if, all of a sudden, the Fed prints a lot of dollar bills to pay the US debt, what this really means at an operational level is that they print those dollar bills to buy treasuries on the open market and/or buy directly from the government.

This simply means that the demand for treasuries increases, which drives up the price of treasuries, which is equivalent to driving down the interest rate on treasuries.

To sum it up: if the Fed does what you say, the interest rates will drop further closer to zero, but that's pretty much all that will happen.

Now if you think that decreasing interest rates can have secondary effects, then we can talk about those. But given that the interest rate is almost 0% already anyway, it seems unlikely that a small downward change would have a big economic impact.

Perhaps you're confusing paying back the debt with actual spending. Paying back the debt is simply an asset/liability swap that doesn't change anybody's wealth, and therefore cannot have inflationary effects. Actual spending is something else, and can be inflationary - though in the current economic climate, you could probably increase government spending significantly (by a trillion or so per year) without creating inflationary trouble.
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If you want your real email address to be shown instead, this procedure seems to work:

On your Timeline page go to Update Info, then click Contact Info. Set the fake address to "Hidden from Timeline" and your real address to "Shown on Timeline" (assuming you do want your real address visible, of course).

I hope this saves some time for others; it took a little while for me to figure it out. Other things I tried:
Deleting the fake address (you can't).
Setting the fake address as visible to only me (had no apparent effect, though perhaps it made the fake address invisible to others).
And a 25% pay increase. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-21/apple-retail-store-...
"It’s safe to say that drones are the first technology in history where the toy industry and hobbyists are beating the military-industrial complex at its own game."

Oh, really? Mr Limdbergh begs to differ:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh

He got some training in the military but he then beats them later.

Technology has been historically been pushed as much by civilian industry as the military, or more. If only you let civilians spend their money and you don't steal all their money in taxes like you do in war times.

Internet and other tech are widely attributed to the military by their supporters but that is not entirely correct. Ethernet and laser all those amazing tech was created by private companies and computer networks were created by enthusiast before DARPA.
Also note that Lululemon is a fairly special case - most people who work there have significant athletic skills in addition to normal sales ability. Sales staff often do stunts like yoga performances in the store window, etc.

(My sister, also a crossfit instructor, was a fairly typical Lululemon employee.)

The idea to convince upper class soccer moms that the only thing preventing her from doing this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loszrEZvS_k is the lack of $85 yoga pants.
> That's true, but it doesn't seem to me that a large percentage of programmers I know got interested in programming that way. I haven't conducted a formal survey, but that's the impression I have. It's very possible that my impression is wrong or that I'd get different results talking to a high school CS class than programmers in their 20s and 30s.

I don't know any programmers who didn't get in to programming that way.

That said, I do work at a game company, so I meet more game programmers that not, but even in my university days, all the serious students had started programming before they entered, and the initial motivation for that was games.
It's now accepted that he didn't. In truth, such hypothesis was clearly ludicrous from the start, to anyone with half a brain; it was kept dangling just to distract the public, trying to paint it as "just another homo killed by his own weird fetish".

Either this was a cold-war style assassination, or the guy brought home a stranger too many; we'll likely never know the truth about it anyway.
Yes, sha2 is more than sufficient for protecting auth tokens. If it's not, the problem is your auth tokens are too simple.
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