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To me it boils down to whether there is a propensity to find short-cuts that you can get away with versus a culture that somehow encourages doing the right thing by going the distance.

Countries where short-cuts are popular are often ones where individuals are willing to take from the commons. So in this sense there is clearly a relationship with trust and corruption. If everyone around you seems to be screwing over the common, you would be irrational not to do the same.

How to transition from short-cutting to going the distance, e.g. from hurting the group for your gain, to sacrificing for the group's gain... that is the question. But at least part of the answer has to be that when the group can gain together, everyone is better off.
You can find free compilers for (almost) everything on every OS. What do you mean with Linux/BSD land here?

And bringing bread home by making compilers; can you point out a commercial compiler that 'brings bread home' besides the Visual Studio compilers (which, actually, do not bring that bread; you can download the compilers for free)? I'm curious as I thought paid compilers currently are niche and don't make the companies selling them enough to actually pay more than maybe 1 person working on it full time, if that. Maybe Intel is making enough of pure compilers to actually call it a business?
See http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2012/06/11/you-cant... for some commentary on pretty much exactly your position, from a Christian who doesn't oppose same-sex marriage.

Basic point #1: If forbidding people to marry others of the same sex is unkind, unjust, or whatever, then it doesn't become any less so when the person doing it says "my religion told me to do it".

Basic point #2: If forbidding people to marry others of the same sex is unkind, unjust, or whatever, then those who campaign against the prohibition don't need to -- and generally don't -- do it on the basis that the people on the other side are homophobes and bigots. This isn't about the character of the opponents of same-sex marriage, it's about their actions, and if your actions are unkind, unjust, etc., then once again they really don't become any less so merely because you're a nice person underneath.
Find a supported notebook, intall ubuntu </problem>.
of course you could make the same claim that sleeping less is like a time machine backward, you get to spend more time younger ;)
I question the idea that homebrew CPUs on FPGAs are the future of desktop computing. Core IP availability aside, FPGAs are very expensive.

Also, FPGAs are typically configured with an HDL, which can be likened more to C than assembler.
"Professional always means power." Frank Herbert

Most specifically, the power to exclude competition, that is the sole real purpose of "professional licensing", whether medical, legal, engineering, or other. The "protecting the public" is fraudulent window dressing to impress the suckers.
I think the message he's communicating is that he knows he hasn't fully committed himself ever. He's shied away from it, danced along the edges of it. But never done it.

I'm of a similar age, and a similar childhood. I get where he's coming from, even though he's far more successful than me. He's comparing himself to what he knows his potential to be. Or what he believes it to be, anyway, which might as well be the same thing in its effect.

That gets to be a complicated thing. It's delusional in part, of course. But it's also not, in part. He likely really could have achieved a lot more if he'd put more of himself into it.

Maybe not all he imagines, but he's clearly saying he knows there was more to do than he's done.

I don't think that's a bad standard to hold yourself to. I think a lot of progress depends on that kind of standard.

My senior year of high school I had this long running fight with one of my teachers. I'd cruised through school to that point, putting in just enough effort to pass everyone else, but no more than that. This teacher started grading me lower, writing "You can do better than this" on my papers. I was furious with him. Furious. I'd stay after school and we'd literally yell at each other about it for hours. I said he had no right to expect more from me, I was giving him more than anyone else was as things were. He had to grade me on the same scale. He completely refused to do it. Being a very stubborn boy, I refused to do more.

I "won" that argument by just not giving him what he wanted from me. But he was right to demand it, and I was wrong not to work harder. I paid for that attitude in college and for many years after.

I think in the end it's about not cheating yourself. I think that's that McClure is on about, and I think he's right.
There are changes coming. Nobody can dispute that. However, in a lot of cases, desktop software is not going to go away, at least for some definition of desktop software. A standard keyboard and screen interface is just too efficient for a lot of things. You aren't going to select, review, and adjust, and approve payment of 5000 invoices on your iPhone, and really, that's pushing the limit of stateless web interfaces too. You could have something like node.js or the like, but state really has to be handled or else you end up with major performance limitations.

Data entry devices however will become more diverse. There is no question about that. It used to be you had store-and-upload portable data terminals and desktop computers. Now you have both of those, plus the possibility of higher-end PDT's with real-time connectivity running embedded Windows, or the like (there is a real market here I think for Android-based PDTs but I haven't seen any on the market yet). These days, a PDT is kind of like a PDA, but typically more robust/rugged and often with additional industrial I/O capabilities, such as an RS-232 port which connects to undecoded laser barcode scanners. Doing this sort of thing on your phone isn't there yet. With a laser scanner, one can scan barcodes and take inventory fast, with barcode software on an android phone, your light limitations and low speed of processing make this problematic.

However, now we are seeing phones be used for some things. A worker may show up to a construction site and start entering time and material cards on his/her phone.

So what we see here is that each development is bringing diversity. The older layers don't really go away as much as one might think--- you can still buy PDT's which only store data to upload over a serial port and have digital LCD monochrome displays.....

Anyway our approach is to loosely couple the parts which will change only slowly (accounting logic) with the user interface which will be web- and desktop- based. Providing web-services and discoverable db interfaces makes integrating other devices easy.

We made these decisions for reasons other than being future-proof but that they help there is a nice bonus.
Regarding your last paragraph, there was and possibly is still a risk that the spent rods stored in the cooling ponds at Fukushima could overheat and catch fire. They only just managed to pump enough seawater over them to prevent this happening.
My scenario was load testing, to generate 1M outgoing connections we need 17 IP aliases, aliasing doesn't work on EC2, so we had to spawn 17 instances just for this.

I didn't tried elastic IPs for this, not sure it will work for outgoing connections.
Reminds me of the "replacement therapy" with GMO bacteria I read about several years ago:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caries_vaccine#Attempts_using_R...

http://www.oragenics.com/?q=cavity-prevention
Read this article about people who made a bit of money in the first dotcom boom, lost it, and were seeking more again in 2005:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/05/magazine/05RATPACK.html?_r...

Interesting to note how many of them have become billionaires in just a few short years. Peter Thiel, Mark Pincus, Reid Hoffman, ...
I just heard about tarsnap via this post and I love the idea of picodollars; count me in.
Not sure what the problem is. Would they use AWS? On EC2 pricing page you see prices like "$0.080 per Hour". On Tarsnap home page you see "$0.30/GB". What's the "quality price" for backup service?
I'll never understand why people say outsiders cannot judge or critique other culture's practices. Of course we can.

If society A and society B, who have never come across each other before, were to meet, two-way judgement would be going on immediately (not to mention intrigue, wonder, learning, questioning etc etc). It is just one among many things that would happen.

And it should. It is how we advance as a world and humanity in general.

And today, we can form opinions and make judgments. Just today I saw this in my news feed: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48105731/ns/world_news-south_and...

Do you think there is an argument that can be made that justifies this (btw, if you say "yes", we have bigger issues so we can just stop now)? Of course not. We have an opinion, formed a judgement and deemed this action morally corrupt and no way justifiable, no matter the beliefs of the society.

Lastly, on the matter of right-wrong and opinions, I'll leave this quote from Richard Dawkins:

“...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.”
― Richard Dawkins
Using '\' as a namespace seperator? Just off the top of my head, there are probably loads more.
If you have top quality work, where are you going to publish it?
> Because gays suddenly want to take part in the antiquated, religious inspired ceremony of marriage?

How about gays/lesbians want a part in health insurance, inheritance, and non-harassment for them and their children?
Your post is so wrong that it is almost trolling. Just some counterexamples.

The Fukushima Mark-1 reactors are of very dangerous design, and that is well-known. (For example their containment is perforated at key positions, by design)

Ambient radioactivity is so high in central Japan that it should definitely be considered a hazard (just search on Youtube for Japanese people filming themselves walking around with Geiger counters and measuring the signal, e.g Youtube user "Chanbukimi"). Government ignores it or plays it down.

Exremely radioactive "radiotrophic funghus" (see Wikipedia) is everywhere in the Fukushima area and even in Tokyo.

Cancer risks by long-term low-dose radioactive exposure are even higher than estimated by the models promoted by governmental regulatory bodies. Risks are higher for children and women in particular, and simple back of the envelope calculations can show this convincingly (to me, that is).

The whole food chain in Japan is messed up for the foreseeable future, and this holds for Pacific seafood as well. Young Tuna fish catched in the San Diego area are slightly radioactive, although these fish are so young that they could not have stayed in radioactive seawater near Japan for more than a couple of months, and they are still contaminated.

There is much more contamination to come as the radioactivity spreads just by natural mass transfer processes (water cycle, carbon cycle).

I for one am very pessimistic.
Google should rather pay the therapy for this people. Being y is not normal. Gay people kissing on the strret should pay a fine because of indecent behaviour.
Ask HN: Startup events in the Bay Area?
I feel like I've been rather insular recently and need to participate more to the SV/SF community and get to know more folks out there, see what they're working on, and share what I'm doing as well.

How does one find out about all the good events in the area? I'm already on the StartupDigest list, but I'm wondering if I'm missing out on something really good.

Thank you!
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Thats what you say after 200K hollywood movies and romantic novels

Japanese cartoons and classic sci-fi, mostly. I don't really like hollywood, or romance novels.

Is what you say good for society in general? Is it even better for the persons involved? If you answer yes without hesitation, you should question how much of your thinking has been shaped by the prevalent ideology on your country.

Well, on balance, I think you'd have to ask the people in forced marriages and also look at the outcomes for different societies in comparison to each other. However my opinion already stands, so asking whether I would answer yes to things I have already said that I agree with and then trying to use the immediacy of any response to try and spread doubt seems to be a little bit of a false construct.

For one, that would be a fake culture (the one youll claim o belong to). Cultures are made by populations, not a random guy.

Fine. I'll go find some disciples. Twelve of them preferably, just to annoy people. We'll be up to culture status in no time.

Second, the workaround is bs. Here's another version: "projecting cultural preferences onto other groups is bad, period, even if its acceptable in your culture".

Please will you stop projecting your cultural preferences about not projecting cultural preferences. I don't want to have to send my disciples round again. You didn't like it last time when they refused to stop singing.
Can you afford to actually enforce a contract against a much larger company? Are you willing to waste all that time and resources?
> I know that you're probably thinking of holes and objections to the study already

Quite the contrary. Your description of the differences is clear and the outcomes from the study fit well with a similar meme in machine learning around ensemble methods.
> Some people oppose the redefinition of the word "marriage" to include unions other than a man and a woman. There's nothing homophobic about that.

How else would you categorise it? What other reason do you have to oppose the slight broadening of the definition of a word? "Loving union between a man and a women" into "Loving union between two people"?

> Think of what it'd be like if Women were pressing for the redefinition of "men" to include women :/

That's a non sequitur and I hope you know it. Redefining marriage in this way is more akin to the last century's redefinition of the word 'citizen' in the US and the UK to include black people - it erases a distinction that was incorrectly made in the first place. "Men" and "Women" are biologically separable.
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Just to clarify:
1. I did read the campaign but I didn't refer directly to this particular campaign but rather to the general situation in response to equating support for gay rights to support for other illegal activities (in this case incest, but sometimes it paedophilia or bestiality).
2. I am gay myself in a long-term relationship (10 years now) and I'm not interested in getting married myself, and neither do some of my gay friends who are also in long-term relationships. That's why I wrote "most homosexual couples" which I admit is not accurate either since I haven't taken a survey. Maybe it should have read "many" or maybe "in my experience, most", but the main point of my post remains the same and is that while for some (however many) gay couple the issue is also semantical, it's first and foremost an issue of equal rights.
3. I don't really want to comment about this campaign because I find it confusing. I don't understand why they don't start at home (USA, where Microsoft are already active promoting same-sex legalised partnerships) and in countries where the attitude towards homosexuality is generally positive, but which have not yet legalised same-sex partnerships (e.g. Israel).
This is not criticism for the campaign, just an explanation why I my comments weren't about it.
4. I do support your and your partner's right to be civilly-partnered as opposed to getting married. I hope that you will be able to do that very soon.
I was really excited until they mentioned a rewrite in favor of "Html5". It's really hard for me to understand why do sane people choose resource-hungry technology to work on resource-constrained hardware despite existence of much better alternatives (Qt) over and over again. This doesn't make any sense to me. There will be performance issues for sure. The same way as they were with WebOS which happily consumed 1GB of ram (Touchpad) when 256MB would be more than enough for a native solution and could have provided a much better end-used experience (Original iPad.)

WebOS heavily relies on Qt itself. Significant amount of internal infrastructure is written using it. I can't understand why didn't they officially provide Qt as a alternative way to write Apps for WebOS. It must have been a political decision ("we are WebOS, not QtOS".)

Blackberry people are the ones who actually understood how good Qt actually is for such kind of thing and they are pushing it now as the native toolkit.

Qt could have become a common denominator for mobile operating systems outside of the Android/iOS world. It would have helped with shortage of applications (as developers could have hypothetically wrote a very similar app for Blackberry, MeeGo and WebOS at the same time) and would ease porting of successful apps from iOS.
To the vocal minority who pop up on threads like this and argue that gay marriage is something that should be opposed, I offer the following: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/lz_granderson_the_myth_of_t...

If you find yourself thinking bad thoughts while watching this, stop yourself and try to empathise with those whom you so blithely speak against. It won't hurt and no-one has to know ;-)
Thats what you say after 200K hollywood movies and romantic novels, which is another form on imposition.

Interestingly the same industries which quite literally sell the idea of marriage as the way to personal fulfilment (particularly to young girls) also quite literally sell marriage as monogamous and heterosexual.
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Are you back in Manchester then?

I personally wouldn't call it "a provincial city" (it's very sparse, but overall Greater Manchester is home to 3 million people, on par with Birmingham and Glasgow for the title of "most populous urban conglomerate in the UK" just behind London); of course it's nothing like the capital, but it does provide a fairly good lifestyle at a fraction of London prices. There is usually at least one good restaurant for almost any cuisine you'd care about (except maybe my beloved Erithrean), and any movie worth watching will be at the Cornerhouse at some point. Granada/ITV also attracts quite a few glamorous models, if that's your thing. The only real problem in Manchester is the depressing weather, but it's not like London is so much better in that regard.

My point is that London is on a scale shared with very few cities around the world, but that doesn't make all other British cities "provincial" -- some of them are, some of them are not.
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> I've gone months without brushing my teeth

Why?
I never said we can't critique.

However such a critique needs to take into account the totality of the other culture. It's not enough to say "everyone must recognize same-sex marriage." The critique needs to be bounded to the other culture and look specifically at it.

My comment was against global campaigns. If we want to talk about a specific culture we can do that.

There are huge dangers that come with the view that we can just remake the world in our cultural image. That's the view I am arguing against. If we are going to critique other cultures, we might at least make sure we are informed about them and understand exactly what we are critiquing first.

As to your Dawkins quote, I would respond with "and more often, they both are."

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Edit: Additionally... I would suggest that if we build our own society to be the most just one we can manage, then other cultures will adopt whatever they like from our society. If you look at Malaysia for example, despite the fact that it is a constitutional Islamic monarchy, the clear influence of the US constitution and structure in its founding is evident. It is in this way that the world is made better, not in remaking the world in our own image.
pretty sure it's the same thing every time: coming from working on really big systems that need that much depth of abstraction to something simple that can be done in 20 lines and forgetting, or not understanding how to scale down. most common with c# or java coders doing client libs for php for their application.
Sales is sales. They were not doing this any more than than they would for any other product, and no financial investment is safe.

Blaming the banks who sold these seems totally crazy to me. The prospectus is available, and the contents are pretty well known in the industry anyway - it's in the name. Note that other banks were quite often counterparty, not the man on the street who feels overburdened by small print.

More likely the fraud & negligence for this specific part of the problem is committed by ratings agencies.
I live in Italy and the idea I've come up with is that staying little helps you dodging the bizantine bureaucracy.

When you grow big the bureaucracy will entangle your business to the point you'll need direct help from local politicians to move on. The very tragic downside of this is that this political link is two way and you'll need to return the favors by, for example, hiring endorsed (and unqualified) people and so on. This is one of the roots of our clientilistic society.

No wonders that a common expression here is "to have a saint in paradise".
Does anyone actually care about WinRT?
"10 000 years in the future" is propaganda to some extent.

There are two types of radioactive material: A, stuff that radiates very little but lasts very long. And B, stuff that radiates very much, but lasts only some months.

If you are concerned about stuff A, like uranium. There's plenty in nature. It is dangerous already because it emits Radon gas. People still live with that. But you really need large quantities for it to be dangerous.

Nuclear power plants need surprisingly small quantities of fuel. And that doesn't turn into large quantities of waste.

"In contrast, the amount of natural uranium required to provide the
same amount of energy as 16 kg of fossil fuels, in a standard fission reactor,
is 2 grams; and the resulting waste weighs one quarter of a gram."

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/withouthotair/c24/page_16...
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Another possibility is http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/false_modesty
Silicon Valley is a funny place, a lot like Wall Street where the big winners are viewed to have the absolute qualities of success. In reality, even once you reach a threshold of competency and capability, its still a big gamble and the big winners are the lucky benefactors of Black Swan events. Of course, I'm referring to Nassim Nicholas Taleb's reflection of uncertainty and randomness as it applies to success in investing.

On the other hand, Silicon Valley creates a dynamic where things change rapidly and some of the smartest people in the world are constantly pushing the limits. This creates an opportunity where if you are honest with yourself you have to say "I need to get better" - and this self-perception is a gift to be cherished over and over again. No losers when you look at the game this way.. just people who will grow and grow and others who won't.
I'd much rather they campaigned to ban marriage for everyone. This is awful, it's bad enough as a government/legal institution without corporations weighing in.
W3School for reference? But, How? Also, for the WYSIWYG editor, are all mentioned editor support the HTML5 or at least CSS3 specification? If yes, it would beat Dreamweaver so much (though i might only stay at Aptana/Eclipse)
anyone that can. e.g. a smallish company basing their business on top of an api from a bigger one like twitter or google could feel safe knowing that they couldn't legally remove access later. and if they did that small company could recoup their potential earnings through litigation.

it works just the same way as gpl does to code.