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Based on the evidence we have, we can say with confidence that if evolution has a teleological purpose, then it is so bizarre and alien that to even describe it in terms meant for humans is to mischaracterize it.
Months here.
> Except for some very limited cases, I found that python performance is comparable to C++ performance for solving problems

I have a hard time buying this. What cases have you found where Python is comparable to C++?
The aerospace industry, traffic control, railways, industrial automation, banks and the military.

http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~mfeldman/ada-project-summary.html
SuperCollider is exactly like this, but for sound synthesis: http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/
There is so much wrong with this, that the usual EULA blunder is but the tip of the iceberg:

For a long time now, I'm using small fanless Linux boxes as routers for my home network, so clearly, I'm somewhat of a home router power user.

If there is one thing I have never ever in my life done with said routers, it must be changing their configuration while not at home.

This is incidentally the only reason why you would ever even want to consider using a cloud based home router management as an end-user.

IMHO a totally unneeded feature which also opens up a whole ton of other issues - privacy being one of them, security being a huge other part.

These linksys boxes are so far removed from even having having an acceptable security record... At least up until now, they would not respond to administrative commands from the outside. Now they clearly have to. Even if they got security significantly better than they did up to now, this is such a bad idea.

Oh, and I believe it's absolutely crazy to push an update like this as part of an automatically installed firmware update: when you alter functionality in such a broad way, the only thing you achieve is that people begin distrusting silent updates.

After years in which Chrome and Firefox finally managed to convince the public that silent updates might be a good thing (they certainly are for security - and web developers, I guess), stuff like this goes great lengths in destroying that trust again.
That's one of the paradoxes of Euclidean geometry, where a line/line segment is made up of an infinite number of points, but those points have no length or width, and infinity times 0 is still 0, so technically a line should have no length. Clearly, it does not.
So basically, cisco was going to collect their own behavioral targeting dataset for sale or to get into the adtech business. Better yet, they were going to backdoor this in via an automatic update most users wouldn't see onto a physical device the users paid for. Some dbag there saw NebuAd and Phorm and get jealous, I guess.

Whatever else you may think of cisco, they sure do have big ole brass balls.
Well use macbook pro's and develop open source software
How does a large web blog like Engadget work?
I specifically want to know how the editorial team is setup. What does each employee do and what are they responsible for?
Sure 100 engineers would come up with the idea "slide to unlock". After you see and use something it's always easier to find this said solution. BUT before Apple it seems that none of the 100 engineers you mentioned came up with the idea and it was never build and that means it was never obvious before Apple created it.

Saying things are obvious after someone already invented a dead simple and good solution for a problem we had for years is always easy.

EDIT: Grammer.
Patents are naive obsolete laws that had well intentioned principles behind them. The other elephant in the room is tech culture that readily accepts copycats or competitors that aim for a proven market to cash in on me-too success with no intention to improve the idea and move technology forward.

Patents are supposed to discourage this. Steve Jobs probably agreed with the principle that you should aim to innovate, not merely make money.

Of course the problem is the legal system is ill suited to perform what is really an economic incentive. All these trials about silly details like straight edges and slide to unlock comically miss the bigger picture, but they're the only current avenue.
Even taken with a large grain of salt as the TIOBE rankings must be, this is unfortunate since Obj-C is a pretty poor language, IMO.

After a year of working almost exclusively in Obj-C I still haven't come to enjoy its verbosity and awkward and incomplete collection classes. The lack of namespaces and inadvertent selector overloading are a regular nuisance. And the Cocoa frameworks are more dynamic than they need to be and heavy use of notifications and KVO make code a rat's nest of indirect jumps that are very hard to follow.

It's ok as a widget glue language, I suppose, but really a lot of other languages could serve that purpose just as well without standing over the flaming pit of C all the time.

The new collection literals and operator overloads for the collection classes will help, of course. And you have to give Cox some credit for a design that was, in its time, quite visionary. But language design has caught up to and passed Obj-C by in the meantime. If it weren't for my reservations about having one more software layer between me and the machine I would have moved to MonoTouch/C# a long time ago.
Evolutionary psychology is bullsh*t because it pretends to know how an incalculable array of factors interacted to cause certain people to successfully reproduce over generations. The thing is, the complexity of reality is far far more awesome than that and making simplistic sounding plausible evolutionary arguments for certain behaviours is just hubris. Yes, evolution is happening but we're really overestimating ourselves if we think we know just how it's happening in the absence of archaeological fossil evidence.
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Yes, it seems that many devices -- even phones -- have had a physical slider to lock/unlock. What I find strange about the lcd-touch-panel version is why everyone wants to use it? I thought skeuomorphic design was something that everyone but apple was actively avoiding.

I think I actually prefer the version where you draw a 2D pattern on a grid of numbers, or a picture... although this may also be covered by the patent. Hate patents.
He just linked to a video of someone else doing it before Apple. Also physical world has had slide to lock/unlock for a really long time:

http://m2.sourcingmap.com/smapimg/en/n/11b/hardware-door-loc...
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Python is comparable to C/C++ when the code you write spends most of its time in the many Python libraries which are written in C.

If your program spends most of its time actually executing code in Python then a comparable C++ implementation will probably be two or more orders of magnitude faster.
3 million people? i have a very hard time believing that Russia has locked up 2% of their population the last 10 years - oh, and those were only the enterpreneurs, so the total figure is even higher.
Yes, there are cases where the "insignificant" part is so significant it's actually more efficient to use asymptotically slower algorithm for everyday problem sizes. The Big O notation is not so much about running speed but about scaling.

While the "insignificant" part would usually have to be really large to influence the running time, it's often the case that one algorithm is faster than another due to the second one having a large constant multiplier, even though the Big O notation would suggest otherwise (e.g. O(10nlogn) would be faster than O(1000*n))

It's also common that even if one of the algorithms is slower in the worst case scenario, its average case performance is better than asymptotically better solutions. A popular example of such might be the quicksort algorithm, which has the worst-case running time O(n^2) but in practice is usually faster than most O(nlogn) sorting algorithms.
I feel very bad for someone who has to have an IDE to write Golang. I'm quite sure that there is no functionality provided by Goclipse that is not provided by GoSublime, and even then it's really not necessary. I like it mostly for auto gofmt.
The relevant question is, are the teachings of the patent likely to be necessary in order for a person of average skill in the art to implement the claimed technique(s)?

If the answer is not only "No," but "Are you joking?", then the patent should never have been issued.
There's a flag button right underneath the link.
Spider-Man uses Bing
Just came back from watching Spider-Man at the Metreon in SF and I must say I was quite disappointed... by the search engine Spider-Man uses, Bing :( , his SONY phone, his VIAO computer, and his SONY tablet. I didn't even know sony made tablets. I do however approve of the BOSE headphones the helicopter pilot was wearing.
When I'm bored at a movie I start noticing insignificant details like the very poor security at what is supposed to be a super secure laboratory. You just need a 4 digit pass code to start the emergency protocol (yes similar to your debit card...). To get in the room where they enslaved tiny poor spiders you need a simple gesture on a touch panel a 5 year old kid can easily replicate. There was no finger print, pass card or retina recognition required... They should get a crash course on Security from Mission Impossible.
When he uses NumPy that is implemented in C.
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>Is still not readable

Wha...? Have you spent any time with it at all?
"The Egyptians pride themselves on being the most ancient people in the world. In their authentic annals ... one may read that since they have been in existence, the course of the stars has changed direction four times, and that the sun has set twice in that part of the sky where it rises today."
I start a fresh brew in the morning, mixing green tea with jasmine-flavored green tea in a 16 ounce press. I usually brew twice, as the Jasmine is quite strong. Next (third) brewing I add a little black and some Lapsang Souchong for smokiness. I usually get another brewing from this (fourth). Final rounds of brewing a little more black and Lapsang Souchong, again twice, for a total of 6. This fills my mug 12 times.

One of the few ways I can follow my doctor's advice about drinking more liquids. But it also keeps me tethered to the restroom.
I completely agree here about QML. While Visual Studio allows to make drag-and-drop development what is very nice for beginners but you should support your apps as well and QML wins here.
Yes, but if all things are equal, it's still enough money to fund the development of a new phone. Now, the question is all things are equal.
If the correct URL is http://iki.fi/sol/imgui/ why does it redirect to http://sol.gfxile.net/imgui/? Should be the opposite.
It irks me that some people who don't know anything about the physics of touch screen technology and don't seem to understand that 'taps' are actually small changes of capacitance of an array of capacitors. [0]

At a a physics level, and strictly speaking, taps and swipes don't exist.

Patents are pragmatic and full of abstractions. You are not required to specify a patent at every level of abstraction all the way down to its mathematical or quantum properties.

(I have to read a number of mechanical patents each week as part of my job).

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitive_sensing
You're assuming at one time. Russia's overall incarceration rate is 0.522%.

You're right however, the 3 million figure seems very high.

Russia is a lost cause. Police/government can (and regularly do) take over any business, especially any small business.

Russia is so corrupt, only a full scale revolution will have a chance at fixing the country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...

This is ~0.5% at a given moment. 2% over 10 years doesn't sound too much.
If only all the problems of a company could be solved by changing its logo...
In this case Apple both copied, stole, and sued. There is plenty of prior art on multi-database search. That it is on a phone is not an innovation.
I would recommend the Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen. It covers not only the complexity analysis but also describes the most important algorithms, data structures and classical problems solutions.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0262033844
Patents can't be justified on the basis of consumer benefit. While it's true that some consumers benefit from patents, they're not the sole (or even primary) beneficiary: the patent holders are.

Patents are justified because an individual has the right to the product of his mind [and his body (labor); in reality, there is no difference, but I'm emphasizing the mind here because the context is IP]. This is because survival as a human being (whether alone or in a group) requires thought in order to make the things needed to sustain a flourishing life. This is damned hard work!

Copying the product of someone else's thought (not the same as emulating another person's method of thought, and applying it to a new situation) deprives the originator of what is rightfully theirs: the untrammeled market for their innovation, which would not exist were it not for their thoughts and action.

(And no, not every idea is patentable, and not every patent applied for should be granted. No, patents can't last forever. But those are comparatively minor details that are incomprehensible if the fundamental idea stated above is not understood.)
> If a certain set of tools are making you dumber by the day

How does "not comfortable with the command line" translate to "dumber by the day?" If people get their training using IDEs and go on to be productive using primarily IDEs, how does being uncomfortable with the command line reflect on their intelligence in any way?

> know it for sure that it will be automated or you will be replaced by lesser skilled cheap labor inevitably.

Yes, the mundane, confusing use of the git command line is here to stay and the dumb "actually design and engineer an application" world of IDEs is going to be replaced by robots. You are a fucking genius. Only on the internet can such backwards and completely worthless logic be said because if you tried to say this shit to anyone in real life you'd be laughed out of the room.
> so I also wonder when it will be "stable"

It should be out of technology preview later this year.

> JavaScript sucks if you don't know how it works

It's possible to understand JS and want better. I think the people behind V8 and Dart know how JS works.

> what's the point of writting this when Dart itself compiles to JavaScript

What's the point of writing anything in any language? The Dart VM will be included with Chrome and other browsers are free to include one, too; Dart->JS is for browsers that don't and the goal is that it'll perform similar to hand-written JS.

> who the fuck uses Dartium as their primary browser

Nobody. It's for development until the Dart VM is included with Chrome.
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for example binary search in array of strings woulde be overkill and performance hog, if the list on average has dozen elements (for example table with methods or commands)
Point #5 (Mac Succumbs To Trojan Flashback) at least, is rather badly written.

I didn't bother to read the others.
I was a bit disconcerted when my local hardware supply store thought I was a bit daft wanting to add a cut-off valve to my shower riser (home made for a claw foot tub).

I can't wait to see their responses when I go back to get flow meters to monitor with my Arduino...

Probably my being a geek on his own well has a bit to do with my mindset. Repairing the pump was one of my first home repair jobs upon moving here, so I am frequently listening to the pump, waiting for it to cycle back off again. A stuck, running toilet once ran it dry... Hence the desire for monitoring.
"more influence" isn't good enough in a democracy. These are supposed to be the people's representatives. Calling the treaty a "constitution" without it guaranteeing civil rights and true democracy was an insult to the people, and quite rightly buried by those that were allowed to vote on it.

The EP is a joke, a political instrument played by the same people that supported ACTA, and is now being used as a way to get out of it.

Which in all makes it more significant. In reality, it isn't so much that the EP stopped ACTA, but the people who first supported it (people with actual power) that have changed their minds, even though most of them can't admit so directly because of international (read "US") relations. In the long term, that (changing minds) is the bigger victory.
Because you're making a fallacious assumption with Computer Science in relation to programming/building webapps, just like many others here. You're assuming just because one is good at CS, he/she must be a good programmer.
This is a tough one, but I think that should be affecting.
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Is this patch going to be part of LLVM? Is one out of luck if they want to implement a precise collector in LLVM today?
And by "limited cases" I assume you mean "performance critical code"?
Idiocy. I don't want to read Reddit. Stop this.
> At least we're starting to see notable investors rally against them, like pg and Fred Wilson - the very people who should be benefiting the most from a non broken patent system.

John Carmack has been speaking out against patents for a long time, and you would think he should be the perfect example of the lone genius inventing amazing new technology that needs the patent system to make money from his inventions:

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/patents/carmack
I assume they meant two end points (which cannot be the same point) to which the line segment is bound.
hg is leaps and bounds simpler than git. I came from a long svn background and picked up hg in about a day.

hg to git took several weeks, and I'm still learning.

I prefer git's handling of branches; hg never deletes a branch, just "closes" it, so you're left with a lot of mess if you do a great deal of branching. Other than that, I prefer hg.
I think you are right. Was just browsing the app store and seeing a number of apps getting 1-star reviews because of recent updates.
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ClickBoard extension for Chrome does almost that:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bnahceedpdkaiojgdp...

I have not looked into that too much but I guess it is possible to find extension that does exactly what you need. Maybe even this extension could do that with some custom settings.
i can't see the cyphered message, it says "[deleted]"
If there's no limit, you can do trivial DDOS to block ANY decision of EU by corrupting one unelected person, that can only be fired by firing the whole European Commision.

That's begging for decision paralysis. The same problem liberum veto had ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberum_veto ).

I think it's safe to assume when we voted againist sth once, we can ignore it for next 5 or 10 years.
> Show me your data?

Bitter personal experience? I'm a Python dev, but figured PHP and Python would be good to add to my resume. I picked them up pretty quickly, but after working for a couple of PHP places and interviewing at many others, I swore off them and went back to Python.

Also, sounds like your startup was one of the 5%, rather than the 95%.
There is no freedom of speech, and a pervading censorship of all media, including more and more of the internet. Speak out, go to jail.

"Just today (june 29) a Court ruled the feminist punk rockers must remain in jail while police slowly investigate them for the crime of allegedly chanting a 'punk prayer' against Putin from a church pulpit." http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20120627165225580
It's a natural progression of corrupt regimes where

1) An entrepreneur pays off someone in the position of power (police, local government, tax collector) to facilitate quick problem resolution.

2) The aforementioned person in the position of power realizes that instead of the paltry fee they could lay claim on a large share of the business or entire 100% stake.
You've misunderstood me completely.
The Java Virtual Machine is a virtual machine.
b) glosses over what I've found to be one of the biggest brain-twisters in git - working with remotes.
The slide to unlock feature is a skeuomorphic design. The sliding lock is a very common lock on doors. I would consider it obvious for that reason alone.
3 million per in 10 years is 300,000 per year, or 820(!) per day. I doubt they lock up 820 entrepreneurs per day.
Right, but the reason Samsung is making money is the customer wants the Samsung Android phone and the carriers are selling them, same as they did with Motorola before them. And of course, the customer wants the Samsung phone because Samsung and the carrier are advertising it so much. When is the last time you saw a Nokia phone advertised by a carrier in the US. (The issue with Qualcomm is really what killed Nokia, Elop was the response to falling or nonexistent really US marketshare.)
Not only is it not 3 million at one time, there's also no definition provided of what it means for them to have been locked up. It could presumably be a whole load of one week sentences, or maybe even a night or two in jail?
Really?

> Rants about PHP are everywhere, and they even come from smart guys. When Jeff Atwood wrote yet another rant about PHP…

That's not how it reads to me.
"The worst thing they could do would be to rip-off the worlds most profitable brand."

There's a oxymoron if I've ever seen one...
Buy bicycle. It will solve second problem and will benefit for solving first one. While you might need psychological help on first one (I don't know you so it is hard to recommend properly).
Well, there's 28 Poles in EPP, and none of them voted pro-ACTA :) I guess they were scared by the protests in january-february this year.
Come on, I clearly meant before Apple first used it. Today, 100 out of 100 engineers would consider it.

You are right that obviousness changes over time, and it's important to consider it from the perspective of the time of the invention.

But some things genuinely were obvious at the time of their 'invention'.
Infinity times zero isn't zero, it's undefined.
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A substitution cipher wasn't secure even in 1846 [1]. This is probably part of an ARG [2] or just the original poster trolling for attention.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gold-Bug

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_reality_game
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It's certainly true that differentiation matters, but I'm not sure how it benefits Verizon when training sales people on platforms is so important and they barely succeed on getting people who can answer questions about iPhone and Android.
Interesting quote from the Motorola person, I'm guessing the reason to favor Samsung is more subtle. (Such as, the Galaxy is a sexier phone and easier to push, or the Droid name got old and is closely associated with Motorola, or Motorola moved too slowly on 4GLTE devices.)
There was a Castlevania game for the DS where you had to swipe patterns to unlock some doors (among other things), does that count? I forget which one, but definitely pre-iPhone.
Sorry about that then.
Console emulators are virtual machines. I'm not sure what the GP is concerned about.