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No, it's a bad idea to use the latest features. GCC still has to be able to bootstrap. This is why it was still using C90 in the first place.
For those wondering, and without comment, this is a release announcement for a orange to-do app with a unique font.
But you are not anonymous in public, at least not to the authorities. You never have been.
But if I need an abstraction to talk to my database, why not choose a database that requires no abstraction?

I've used ORMs and I've had to write my own once or twice, I really don't like them.
Thanks for the clarification.

Shouldn't the concept of who a person wants to date change from person to person? There are suggested behaviors, but solid "rules" are generally dictated by people trying to sell a book of questionable value, not people legitimately trying to help you succeed in your dating life :)
Great service! One of the easiest to signup and start. I started using it just today. Be careful with keywords and locations, or else your entire $10 campaign will take only a few minutes to exhaust.
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I'm suspicious of this gadget myself, for just this reason. When fitting a bike helmet one must take pains to adjust it so that it won't slip backwards off the forehead when pushed.
See e.g. http://www.consumersearch.com/bicycle-helmet-reviews/how-to-...

In most crashes, the forehead and top front of the head strike first. Experts recommend buying a helmet that sits low on the forehead, about one finger-width above the brow.
This may not answer your question, but it's somewhat related as it kind of did lead to war against Iran (at least that's what wikipedia tells me).

>The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States where 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days from November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981, after a group of Islamist students and militants took over the American Embassy in Tehran in support of the Iranian Revolution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis
"I'm waiting for one of these legal actions to cause a company like Facebook to just shut down their service in the local area, and leave a landing page with the email addresses of all the politicians who provoked the outage."

Hahaha. You are thinking like an American, not as an European.

If facebook is shut down in Europe you will be surprised at the outcome. People here trust the government and distrust companies. In USA it is the opposite.

email addresses of the politicians? :-DDDDDDDDDDDDD

No, seriously, you need to live some time in Europe to understand the culture here.
Hopefully Google Maps will be the best provide for this data in any given location, once they make their own iOS app.
clean and nice design, I like idea and realization! good work!
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Possibly just the VS team without any .NET and language teams.
It would take a smart undergrad a bit of hand-holding to write a C complier in say, less than a year. (If you can write a C compiler, you should probably be in the Masters' program.)
Hopefully this read will clear some stuff up. You need to lose the victim complex.

LOL... based on that alone, I don't think I'm going to waste any of my time on the link you posted. Pointing out that both sexes have their own set of challenges, and refusing to toe the "women are good, men are bad" line is hardly having a "victim complex."
I made sure to qualify the context of my comment to make my points as clear as possible. These strawman arguments that inevitably get trotted out get incredibly tired. You're not going to find too many people around here to fall for that argumentation tactic.

Hitting on != groping people and you damn well know it.
So why can't they show the routes for bus lines???

Clicking on a metro station in lots of cities will draw colored lines of all the metro stations that pass through it. E.g., Times Square:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=type:transit_station:%22Times...

But this doesn't work for bus routes, which would be 1000x more useful.

Because, with a metro, you can look at a metro map and easily figure out which lines pass through the station -- there are usually only 1, 2, or maybe 3.

But in a lot of cities across the world, there might be 30 bus lines that stop at an intersection, and printed maps don't even exist of the bus lines because there are just too many to draw.

But Google could show the 30 bus lines instantly, so you could actually see how they fan out the further away you get, and you can easily figure out which of the 30 buses, if any, go to your desired neighborhood.

I've been waiting for this feature for YEARS... and it still doesn't exist. :(
Most people will not find you creepy because they are not attracted to you. Most people will not find it creepy if you flirt and they are not attracted. They will find it creepy if they don't respond to the flirting and you continue to do so. They will also find it creepy if you start from a position that doesn't leave them an option to politely disengage from flirtation (e.g. starting with "want to fuck?" is creepy because it gives no chance to the other person to participate in what should be a mutual escalation of attraction - that you have already decided their level of comfort with the notion is a personal boundary violation).
It could always be both. Assange is probably persona non grata to the British authorities, but even if you wanted to manufacture some cause to imprison him, you wouldn't go for fabricating a rape charge in Sweden. At most, the British authorities are reacting opportunistically to an otherwise valid, legitimate charge.
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The comic is amusing but it's narrative doesn't match history on some points:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/05/18/nikola-tesl...

Also there's a Tesla museum in Serbia. But I like the idea of turning his NY lab into a museum.
Oh bloody hell, yet another PostgreSQL vs MySQL battle ensues.
Thinkpad T61, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, SSD. Trim down the services you don't need. Cold boot and hibernate restore take about the same time.

Honestly, I think the SSD has the most to do with it.
The article would be vastly improved without creating any offense to the game developers by simply adding context. 200,000 downloads is a meaningless number, presented as though it's a huge success. Is it really? Over what time period? How does that compare to other apps? How does it compare to developer expectations for the time period? Same with the conversion rate: The 0.67% rate is presented as a huge disappointment. But is it really? How does this rate compare to other free-to-download, pay-once-to-unlock apps? Some of this information will require some actual research, but it's necessary if you're actually trying to write something worth reading.

I like a good information article that lacks editorial slant. I also like a good editorial as long as the facts are there to support the angle. This article has is labeled an editorial but the only slant seems to come from the subject of the article and isn't supported by anything more than comments by the article subject. Most of the important information can be found somewhere in the article, but that's no excuse its confused and poor presentation.

Beyond the time it took to conduct the interview, I'd be surprised if the author of the article spent much more time writing it than it took to type the words and hit submit. Because that's how it reads, and that's what makes me unhappy.

The article doesn't live up to the promise: "Our focus will be on longer form journalism with in-depth research, interviews and data, highlighting aspects of the gaming lifestyle that many would miss at first glance. Reviews and previews of games and hardware will certainly be a part of the content, but the discussion will be less on specs and more on experience. We want people to not only see new aspects of the industry, but think about games in a different way."
The problem isn't entitlement, but ignorance. Everyone should know by now that when you post content on a web service, you're saying "Take this, it's yours. No really, take it, do what you want with it. If you want to delete it without explanation because you're afraid of a threatening email, that's your prerogative. I voluntarily give up all recourse."

If you don't realize that's what you're doing when you post content on a web site you don't own, you should. The web was designed specifically so that crap like this wouldn't be a problem. But people want to give up ownership for convenience every single time.

It's easier to be an audience or a user than to take 20 dollars and 20 minutes to learn HTML, buy a domain and become a peer with equal standing on the internet. Take your website, email links to your friends, set up RSS, and you've replaced Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumbler, Youtube and Flicker with something you actually own and control. And it really isn't that hard.

Case in point, the OP loses her videos for no reason, but the Pirate Bay is still online. Guess who owns their house and who is still renting?
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"Politicians grandstand about the evils of companies, but the actual killing and torturing people is done by semi-popular govts."

Well, that's true, and is the reason you can't trust facebook, as the patriot act gives the US government all the data that private American companies have, without you being notified.
This is an awesome bit of writing. Thanks (sincerely) for posting this here.
Some great points in the comments about how helmets are less expensive, but I'm surprised how quickly a revolutionary new tech is being dismissed because of its high initial price point. If this can find scale, the price will fall and they could become even more compact. And if any of this can mean more people actually wearing helmets, this company might save lives. A pretty awesome innovation.
I would use the same terms to describe any fugitive on the run from rape charges. What on earth does Sweden have to gain or lose from this? This is just conspiracy theory.
Devil's advocate: Prove a grope occurred. It's a light, soft-tissue touch. A slap is a violent strike with an open palm, and a punch is a violent strike with a closed fist.
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it brings me a lot, stable sex life means clear focus on work...so it's benefit!
It's pretty clear that the issue at hand is harassment, not merely being hit on.
I would regard attempts to more aggressively refactor a 30-year-old codebase as a sign of health, rather than the opposite. A sick project gets only hacks to overcome the fire du jour.
The Oatmeal wants to make a Tesla Museum
fyi alex knapp is full of shit: http://theoatmeal.com/blog/tesla_response
Compared to being a woman, it is not difficult to be a guy.

I don't know about you, but I'm not trying to make any such comparison. Nor do I find it to be relevant. This isn't about "is it harder to be a guy or a girl," it's about the fact that it's tough to be a guy OR a girl. IOW, women aren't the only ones who have challenges when it comes to dealing with the opposite sex. And I don't believe it makes sense to look at the challenges that either sex has, in a vacuum. We're all in this together. We need more shared understanding that goes in both directions, not more antagonism.
"the point of business is to make money" - YES YES YES. Couldn't agree more on this. In the midst of all the noise about how focusing on revenues and profits is besides the point because you need to get tons of user adoption, it's nice use the word BUSINESS over and over and over. We're independent BUSINESS owners, creating BUSINESSES in order to remain independent, to work on what we love and believe in with people we respect and adore. Ignoring that we have to make money, that the math needs to work out favorably and that we owe it to our teammates and employees is not going to end well. Take responsibility for building a BUSINESS not a feel-good hobby.
But OTOH it powers gigantic websites a la Facebook. Can it really be that bad fundamentally?
Fortunately this skill can be learned by most of us for whom this is unintuitive. I have had to actively learn about body language cues for all sorts of situations. I can now do it reasonably well, but I have to pay attention a bit and do it consciously. Some people can't learn this, but they are pretty rare, and it is pretty obvious that they have problems with it, and as such, a wider leeway is given by most people out of compassion.
Timely article - I'm just about to send off a couple of W9 forms, need to sign them.
As someone who lives in Europe, I would like to point out that the above most definitely doesnt speak for the entire continent.
Both. They are not really competitors. They ship robust and modern approach to concurrency, which is insanely demanded these days, and is probably the only reason why they are constantly mentioned together. But they are quite different otherwise.

Go puts programmer productivity on top, thus fast compilation, "zero-thinking" memory management (thus global GC). They want the best from both fast but hard C++ and elegant but slow Python.

Rust aims at low level, close to hardware, as fast as possible programs, thus fine tuning for memory management (arenas, isolated GCs, choice between GC and non-gc allocation), thus disallowance of implicit copying even at cost of making language a bit harder etc. They want to fix memory unsafety and bad concurrency problems of C and C++ while keeping all the perks which are the reasons why those languages are still used for new software.

I imagine the choice will be like between C++11 and Java today: one's a bit faster and less memory greedy, the other's a bit easier, and each will have niches where the other is strongly unwanted.
Oh sure, all sexes have their challenges. However, the particular case you bring up has been thoroughly debunked time and time again. It is annoyingly pervasive.
I want to say that each month also has a unique color. So the two color combo can easily be translated to the month/year your tag expires. A friend of mine drove for a long time using stickers he had peeled off of other cars. As long as he kept is driving legal, he would pass the "color checks". However, once he did something that gave a LEO cause to run his plate... clearly he was busted for it. Kind of interesting when you think that these cameras would have caught him straight away.

Another scenario, when people have paid for their registration but for one reason or another have forgotten to place the sticker on their plate. Those people would not get hit with these camera since their plate would not come back as expired. They would still fail the "color check" which usually can be explained to the LEO. If not, it is usually just a fix-it ticket.
How would you handle the case of longer videos, eg musicians who want to promote a new track?
I can't remember another time when a country used the diplomatic immunity of their embassy to harbor a fugitive from rape charges. We're in fairly uncharted territory.
Apple lawyers will sue them
Do you honestly believe Ecuador will initiate hostilities against NATO in order to protect a foreign citizen from due legal process in that persons home country?

It would surely be less effort and risk to lift him from the roof by helicopter and whisk him to a waiting jet James Bond style.

The second option seems far more likely to me.
I am not sure. I agree that while copyright is governed by international agreements, this case probably falls outside of what is agreed. I don't think safe harbor provisions are harmonized across jurisdictions.
I am not sure they are happy. They have the C++ compiler written in C that they want, but:

- they have to maintain their own gcc version (the last GPL2 one)

- the licensing for clang and LLVM fits the BSDs better than the licensing for gcc.

If they want to keep the ability to bootstrap from a C compiler, they should consider creating a good C backend (configurable with such things as the size of a long) for LLVM. That way, they could convert any C++ code (including clang and LLVM) to C, and thus bootstrap a C++ compiler on a system that only has a C compiler.

Does anybody see problems with that approach?
Asking the world to change/ boiling the ocean... Plenty of people get drunk without sticking their hands up women's skirts. The "logical conclusion" is not to remove the women from the equation.
>This is just conspiracy theory.

Somewhat, which is why I never weighed in on it before. But if the UK is threatening something as unusual as invading an embassy, that is evidence that there is likely to be something more to the issue.
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This is the same kind of person who discovers that people, and rooms, are "available" from 12-1pm, and 6pm-

After too many days of back-to-back meetings from 10am to 3pm I've taken to creating a repeating lunchtime meeting with myself. Then I discovered the people who don't care if you're available or not...they consider themselves important enough that you'll drop everything for their meeting.
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VS 2010 was a big turd of an IDE. I wonder how this version compares to VS.net 2008.
that oatmeal guy sure does love attention
Talking 'bout my generation
Hey. What do you think about this?

https://github.com/popee/libjason/blob/master/jason.rl

It is implemented in ragel state machine compiler, with
no other dependencies. It is modified version of libejson but simplified to use only standard JSON. Also small. Btw ragel is great utility ;-)
charges

I think you've been listening to the MSM too much. Mr. Assange has not been charged with any crime in Sweden and is only wanted for questioning.
They must really want to know if Assange used a condom.
Fair point. It just struck me that this seems a bit unprecedented.
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The problem with the Swedish police and legal system is seldom that they do bad things. The problem is rather that the employees doesn't get much done except drink coffee and administrate.

There is another possibility: Theoretically, both the women might be paid by CIA when Assange is extradited for questioning. But that is just another stupid conspiracy theory.

Edit: Clarity.

Edit 2: It is hard to take the arguments seriously, since Assange originally went to Sweden voluntarily without fearing extradition to USA. Wikileaks should just get a saner guy as front figure.
Granting someone asylum is a politically motivated act, wanting to arrest someone who's in breach of their bail conditions - not so much.
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It's much much bigger - the blurb suggests that this is just the "release team", which I am guessing means they manage the release process.
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As I assume you're referring to the 3rd Reich, let me add that you don't even have to go back to the 30s for this - the DDR had a surveillance state courtesy of the Stasi until the wall came down.
The GCC folks are feeling the pressure from Clang/LLVM, which is a good thing. Under the guidance of the FSF, GCC has intentionally tangled the front end with the back end. The purpose of this was to make it hard to modularize GCC, because if GCC were modular, then you could write a proprietary component for it (like you can write proprietary Linux modules).

Their goal here is to make it easier for new developers to write their own passes or front ends or whatever. GCC may be more mature, but Clang/LLVM are way easier to dive into.
It bothers me that the concern is consequences of marriage on startup... Not startup on marriage.
Or he is someone who flees from serious charges and the British authorities don’t want to look like idiots in front of the whole world because they can’t do something simple like extradite him.

Why is there this willingness to believe everything this idiot says? He’s a pompous ass, pure and simple. No conspiracy required.

Meanwhile the idea of an anonymous leaks platform dies because everyone focuses on his stupid antics.
A bit sad that I got downvoted for this without elaboration. Not sure what in my comment was offensive?
Bizarre. The usual script for these kinds of things is a standoff where the host country denies passage out of the embassy, so the person being harbored in the embassy is stuck there until either that person gives up, the embassy gives them up, or some kind of deal for passage or exchange is struck. Threatening to the invade the embassy isn't usually on the table, at least in peacetime.
Awesome, awesome idea. I find it sad that if you want to visit a Tesla museum you'd have to book a ticket to Serbia, even though the majority of his work was done here in the U.S., and he spent the majority of his life here.

"Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla" was a fascinating read.
This case continues to amaze me.

It is like a movie not real life.
There's what you say and what you do. I wouldn't be surprised if they called it an act of war. However, a violent response is highly unlikely.
>that is more evidence that the Swedish charges are politically motivated //

Can you explain this? In what way is it evidence in regards to the Swedish charges.

Based on recent cases of extradition to the USA examination of the charges is not made locally?
That, and that Self (which javascript pretty much is a version of) -- is a step up from Smalltalk. Add to that the fact that it is actually available every where (unlike, python, lisp, smalltalk...) -- and I think it makes perfect sense.

If you're going to ask people to download something, I still think Smalltalk is a nice alternative -- and it has been for a while:

http://www.atariarchives.org/bcc1/showpage.php?page=61
The VS team is many orders of magnitude than what you see there. I suspect that those are just the release PMs.
The UK has a legal obligation to hand him over to Sweden per treaty. If they are to follow the law, rather than just make stuff up as they go along like a banana republic, then the legal apparatus in the UK has no discretion under which they can allow Assange to leave.
Do you really exist in such a vacuum that you haven't seen the problems geek culture has with women?

No, I can see it. Off the top of my head I can paint with broad strokes that many are stuck in their shell and terrified of them, or have no social tact and act wildly inappropriate in conversation. They can't stop staring at ladies' chests either.

But "rape-culture and patriarchy [...] find a special welcoming home within geek culture"? OK, I'll read your links, but I'm expecting to see comparative analysis between society-at-large and geek culture.

The first one does not inspire confidence, "the problem with geek culture" just got me to an opinion piece full of image macros that got passed around. So far all I've discovered is that you can cherry-pick images of ladies to make misleading insinuation about the way they are portrayed in geek-pop-culture in either direction. I hope your other links have something more to say than point out that the purposefully-off-color id of 4chan is off-color, and don't make the casual amalgamation between 4chan macros and "geek culture" at large, if that is even a thing.
"In next-generation iMacs, I suspect and hope that Apple will offer an SSD option" Apple DO offer a BTO SSD option in the current generation iMacs and also did in the 2010 models. There's even a specific place inside of them that you can retrofit one in (not an easy job, but I did it on my 2011 27").
The American government plan to fly Assange to the US at some point.

That makes it an issue of foreign relations for the Swedish government.
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If the embassy is doing something as unusual as harboring an accused rapist, isn't that enough?