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Fragmentation is really variable depending on the kind of app being made. In terms of UI design, fragmentation is not much of an issue as there are a lot of techniques and libraries, official and unofficial, to allow UI patterns across 90%+ of devices.

The real issue for fragmentation comes from manufacturers and carriers changing the OS for their purposes in a way that breaks some API functionality in some or all cases. Apps that have to do tricky things with streaming data, multimedia playback, and hardware sensor interaction have this the worst, but just how bad it will be really depends on what you are doing. It should be noted that most devs will never have a major fragmentation problem and that the platform is improving with each major release to make these problems less apparent.
sigh... css reset, once again.
In general, if the OS pre-installed on your computer doesn't boot nothing else will either. No Linux distribution can fix your broken computer and blaming your problems on BIOS, UEFI or Secure Boot just to get attention won't fix things either.

Secure Boot, when enabled, will not let you boot anything that isn't signed, including removable media. Fedora 17 isn't signed so SB wasn't enabled.

Expecting GRUB2 to work when your Windows bootloader didn't work isn't logical.

Like it or not PC's are designed for Windows. If Windows doesn't work on it, take it back. Very likely the harddrive had problems, this would explain it not booting and the install running slow as it retried when getting errors from the drive.
Agreements between foreign countries are all about trust. You'll find that there's very little law covering this sort of thing (Vienna Convention being probably the strongest of them), and governments are pretty much free to do as they please. China promised not to touch Cheng Guangcheng once he left the US embassy in Beijing, and they kept their word, because doing otherwise would have been bad business.

If Swedish public opinion were horrified to discover Assange was a serial killer in Montana, they could ship him over pronto, agreement or no agreement, and Ecuador would understand why their agreement had to be broken. No loss of trust, no loss of face.

The fact that the Swedish government won't accept this sort of agreement has nothing to do with what they can or cannot do, and all about what they plan to do. Accepting such an agreement and then turning around to extradite him to the US on espionage charges would be taken as bad faith by the international community, so Swedish diplomats cannot do it. Is this why they refused? I guess we won't know until they get hold of him.
It's a very easy transition.
And seven times as many over the next 9 months. I hope that's already priced in...
The lesson is very old: "Typing is no substitute for thinking." from Kemeny and Kurtz in their book on Basic.
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These "super-producers" don't actually produce anything, they just own the means of production just as, in most (but not all) cases, their grandparents did. The actual producers of the goods are the working class, managed by a portion of the middle class not involved in professional services.

As Western countries have overvalued their currencies, lowered taxes on the wealthy, and weakened their labor standards, they thus ballooned their median costs of living - forcing labor to live on credit. As they then purchased lowered trade barriers for manufacturing from the elites of mostly ex-colonies (while carefully protecting intellectual capital and professional services), they have offloaded what their working class once did to poverty stricken countries, lowering median income, which is slightly offset by cheaper imported goods. This exacerbates income equality even more, creating a glut of the ex-working and management classes attempting to enter the professional middle class.

This, combined with lowered barriers to trade in professional services (and the radical progression in communications technology), will serve to lower the wages of the professional middle class, causing many of them to drop to the largely welfare supported lower class and to become entirely credit bound.

Bitcoins are seen as a way to avoid taxes, launder money, and perform illegal transactions:)
I suspect you've misunderstood the tweet; the embassy is near Harrods, they are turning away ''Harrods'' suppliers.

At least that is what I heard.
Nootropics. Great word to google. Given the importance of the brain in human endeavors, it's astounding that we're still flailing around trying to figure out how it works.

If we attacked issues with the brain like we attacked problems of getting to Mars, we could be much better prepared as a society to reach further heights.
Inequality and lack of social mobility within developed countries has gotten worse over the last decade, but over the whole world its decreased radically over the same time period. You should only "encourage local products and services in a big way" iff you don't believe the lives of people in developing countries have value.
If his motivations were purely based on freedom and the democratization of information, and not on his own physical yearnings, he wouldn't have compromised his mission.

Unfortunately, his sexual desires superseded his common sense and that of the greater good.
>In that regard I am just a lazy person and nobody cares about Python 3 YET.

You'd be surprised.
Just tested it with a 3G. I can shake the cord around a good bit without any loosening.
Not if you don't have an account.
Seriously? You just clicked on "Buy" without even confirming the price?
With any windowing system running so slow, how will porting all that to JavaScript improve matters?

However let's turn that the other way: One of the Pi's cooler features is its digital I/O's. Will this mean they'll add GPIO support to Firefox OS then? And maybe to Firefox, too?

"This web site wants to control your hand-soldered peripherals. [Allow] [Don't allow]" - Cool!
Why do people still insist on doing this? I prefer to remap all fonts to two (a serif and a sans) that are much easier for me to read. When people use these silly font+glyph combos I never use their software. The one rare exception is GitHub. I still wish people would just use SVG.

Edit: Why was this down-voted? Is this not a legitimate concern? It is worth mentioning that I remap my fonts to help my dyslexic brain keep track of the baseline.

Edit2: It is also worth noting that this font does degrade quite gracefully and my problem lies more with the paradigm than this particular font.
Deflation is just another word for long periods of decreasing prices (not VALUES). What's wrong with that? Because of their infinite divisibility (it's equally easy to spend 1 millionth of a Bitcoin as it is to spend 1 Bitcoin) they do not share is the problems deflation poses to traditional money.

Deflation does encourage saving over consumption, yes. But I love the fact that products in the electronics markets have had long term predictable price declines over many decades.
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I agree it's a hard problem. How do you rebalance without encroaching on individual liberty? The producers will need to eventually agree that this system is not sustainable in the long run and adapt. The initiative lies with them.
But of course, it's already proven it can do this on at least one scale. Whether or not it can do it on a larger scale is still to be seen.
Completely out of topic, sorry:

> ‘throw enough spaghetti against the wall, some of it will stick'

Well, buy Italian spaghetti, respect the cooking time printed on the box and none of them will stick :-)
Is it spicing it up or is it making science relevant for people who might not otherwise be interested? Someone who knows someone with Alzheimer's may take more interest - that's not a bad thing.
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I never heard of Tesla growing up, which is either a sign that my school gave a poor education or a sign that we've recently gone back and looked at this part of our history again. (Or a sign that I was a lazy kid who slept in science class.)
Right. A course I used to TA normally had about a thousand students per semester. We'd catch at least 10 of them cheating every time, and I have no reason to believe we caught them all. This was a gen ed CS course for non-majors. There were the eight sorority girls who turned in identical programs, then, when questioned, claimed that it was because there was "only one way to write a computer program". Then there was the guy who had his homework done by an online contract programming service and turned it in with "Written by (online service)" still in the comments. Then there was the guy... but you get the idea.

Cheaters cheat. It's what they do. Onlineness has little to do with it.
Ecuador: "We are not a colony from the UK".

EPIC.
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> I think the UK is working on a technicality

Sure, but so are the Ecuadors - Diplomatic Immunity wasn't set up to allow embassies to offer temporary asylum for non-national fugitives :-)

> They could do this, but should they do this? The UK risks it's ties with Ecuador to get Mr. Assange

And Ecuador risks its ties by not giving him up, not to mention millions of pounds of development aid the UK gives them. These things are historically quietly resolved outside of the limelight. Sending this letter is just putting pressure on the Ecuadors ... they'll eventually give him up, and magically the EU's development budget for Ecuador increases in the next year...

> The next move will be the British's move because Mr. Assange doesn't have to leave the embassy. He could stay there the rest of his life and do pretty well.

I think you're mistaken there. In six months time, if he's still there, he'll quietly become a bargaining chip, and one day the Ecuadors will announce that "new evidence has come to light", and he'll be handed over, and some Ecuador-originated bill at the UN will have British support a few months later...
> it isn't solving any real problem for the user. It is only creating nuisance.

That's the whole purpose of it - creating enough nuisance so that average Joe can't get out of Windows ecosystem. Each OEM will implement the disabling option in their own obscure way, and some of them will even fail to work properly. I remember when I needed one boot pendrive for each of my computers.
> Why is he the world's richest artist? His personal brand. A Marketing Genius (overused, by appropriate here).

The reason why Hirst is wealthy is because a bunch of rich people with bad taste think his pieces are the bees knees and will pay absurd sums of money at auction for them.
Someone further up said the UK could choose to no accept that. No clue why;)
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Wow, that's an impressively well-researched piece.
1812, 1912, or 2012, subjects of police investigation don't generally get to pick the interview venue.
"Insist"? Because it's fun, and useful. "When people use these silly font+glyph combos I never use their software." That's fine. Don't.
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Nice. Another nice board to run on is the Panda Board. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Boot_to_Gec...

It is a popular board at Mozilla to do development and testing on.
I think he gets a lot of "street cred" and hoopla among hackers and techies and the like, but you'll never learn about him in elementary school. Every single second grader in the country knows who Edison is. The rest of America has no idea who Tesla is.
Sweden has recently visited a different embassy to interview a suspected murderer.

Sweden was invited to interview Assange in the embassy in London. They declined.
At least the dollar has a government with a big military behind it

Then all you are doing is pegging your wealth to the stability of a nation, which statistically speaking is not that good a bet.
This is 2012. Can't they hold a videocon / telecon with Assange if they have questions?
Why does he have to be on the ground in Sweden to be asked questions?
How are the rape victims' human rights being violated in this process?

They have not charged him with a crime (rape victims should be furious about this). They want him for 'questioning' but refuse to question him in London (again, furious).
You are exactly right that bitcoins are exactly like fiat money, and have no intrinsic value.
You actually unintentionally explained what you don't understand.
Fiat currency is a problem because it can be so easily manipulated by the governments behind it. Just like the dollar, bitcoins have value only because people believe they have value. Your statement that at least the dollar has a government with big military behind it is exactly what the problem is that bitcoin solves. Bitcoin does NOT have a big government or organization controlling it, so unlike the dollar, no single party can inflate the currency. Central banks are able to create money out of nothing, therefore creating something with perceived value without offering anything of value in exchange (i.e. inflation). That leads to all kinds of problems, as we're seeing with the global economic crisis right now.
While Bitcoin does not have any intrinsic value, it also does not have a way to be inflated. The system by design creates DEFLATION instead, so the currency becomes more valuable(infinite divisibility handles issues with deflation).
Since there is a finite number of bitcoins that can ever be mined, it acts much more like gold than like the dollar. Gold cannot be inflated by any government. If bitcoins gain mass adoption, then they will begin to look very similar to gold. The main difference being that they are purely digital and have no intrinsic value(thus making gold still a better currency).
This is really weak. Nelson Mandela gratefully accepted support from Libya and Cuba in the ANC's struggles against apartheid... Does that make him a hypocrite? Amnesty would never say that in an official blog post...
I don't think anyone is suggesting what you are insinuating that they are suggesting.
Your entire comment is based on the false premise that he's "gone through the entire legal system". My comment proved that he has only skimmed the surface of extradition law, so he cannot have "gone through the entire legal system". If that were the case, a convicted murderer would have gone through the legal system and... something more?

But who cares, he's just a man. The problem here is the sanctity of the asylum principle, which is not worth losing over such a petty dispute.
That sounds incredibly affordable. Any idea why?
You are aware it breaks accessibility, right?
> his bank account (which is basically what wikileaks functions as)

Proof? Evidence?
How is it worse than SVG?
It would be highly unusual for any Ecuadoreans to be living in the embassy, given that the UK is a stable, safe, and nominally friendly country. Perhaps it's one of the few non-US ones where that's true, but I doubt it.

"Blocking supplies" is a weird concept for a building where and of the non-Assange residents can simply exit the building, walk 20m to the nearest Tesco, and return with 4 bags of vegetables and microwave dinners...
Most do web app development (full stack) but once a while have built desktop (Ubuntu) and mobile (Android) apps as well.

Technologies I work with: Node.js, Scala, Java, Python, Android

OS:
Ubuntu (Xubuntu) 12.04, Windows 7

IDE:
IntelliJ IDEA - Consistent across various technologies and perfect for large code bases

Text Editor:
Sublime Text 2 - Pretty damn awesome, even with large files

Terminal:
Terminator
First of all government does some shady stuff to manipulate the value of its own currency, second of all "real" money is more easy to trace (so there are privacy concerns).
Haha, well played!
One should not forget to mention what one measures the price in. That is, the price of Bitcoin in some products will become more stable over time, but USD and EUR prices may still grow just because USD and EUR will be valued less by producers and consumers. However, today Bitcoin price grows in relation to almost everything because demand for it outgrows the supply.
From the article, with ellipsis as shown:

"Facebook, worth $51.2 billion, has lost about $40 billion in market value since the IPO, making it the worst performer among all large IPOs on record, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

. . . .

"'It certainly wouldn’t behoove and wouldn’t be in the shareholders’ best interest to dump the shares on the market all at once,' [Harding] said. 'I would assume that all of the investors that hold the 270 million-odd shares are probably rational, and probably realize that flooding the market with that kind of supply over such a short amount of time wouldn’t help their position.'"

By contrast with Mark Harding, the analyst at JMP Securities LLC quoted in the article, I would keep in mind the old saying "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent," and be very concerned about other investors looking out for Number One and thus depressing the price of Facebook stock for all other holders of Facebook stock. Over the next several weeks or months, those of us who are looking on (I don't own any Facebook stock) will see what the various investors decide. Thus far, all the trading activity seems to agree in general that Facebook shares will not recover their IPO price any time soon.
Not to be a conspiracy theorist, but if The Street knows that large blocks are going on sale, this would be an optimal price to run down the price.
Deflation, by most mainstream accounts, isn't exactly a good thing in your money supply, either, though.
It isn't just an idealogical itch against central banks. Controlling someone's money is a very powerful way to control them. Bitcoin is about empowering digital transactions without a controlling third party in the middle. Having ways to move money to anyone anywhere instantly is not something to shrug away lightly. Sure, maybe you have no use for them, but I can assure you that there are plenty of people, businesses, and entire sectors that benefit from their properties.
What he probably meant was if Bitcoin catches on in any meaningful way the price must rise. If it never catches on it's likely the price will go close to 0 due to lack of mining security.

The dollar isn't necessarily Bitcoin's competitor. So maybe the dollar is good because it has such a power behind it. But what about all the other currencies of the world? Can you say they are all better than Bitcoin also? Try thinking about it in a less US-centric way.
> I am convinced that this kind of component-based development is the future of the software industry.

Building software using reusable components is good. However, there is a real danger that this approach discourages people from blindly throwing in components with no real idea of how they work. I have had the misfortune of having to rescue companies from poorly written iOS apps from iOS 'engineers' with no real idea of how to actually code who threw together a bunch of libraries like iCarousel.

Sites like Binpress (not to single them out here: there are several others trying basically the same thing) don't encourage good development. They encourage developers without the skills to implement features to pay money for a quick fix.

The cars analogy used here is an interesting one. Sure, some car manufacturers don't make their own engines - but they do spend a lot of time and effort to tune those engines to suit their needs. A company like Binpress doesn't encourage that: something like GitHub, on the other hand, does.
The ramp-up to Windows 8 has shown more FUD from the community than Microsoft would ever be capable of even with an unlimited marketing budget. This argument gets thrown around in every W8 conversation, "you won't be able to turn off secure boot!" The more it gets repeated, the more it might as well be true because people are going to believe it.

I just ranted about this happening in the Apple community; don't think it doesn't happen everywhere [1]. It's toxic, and I really wish there was more critical thinking going on.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4377064
Services have existed with margin/option trading, but some of them have shut down because they were hacked. New ones that come out every day are too insecure to be trusted.

In fact, just today a margin trading website was exposed as having tons of SQL injections and storing user passwords with unsalted MD5 hashes. Until somebody can step up to the plate stability will be an issue.

Which reminds me, I have a rather nice domain name and experience with bitcoins and security, if only I had the financial/regulatory know-how...
Not how, where: international waters. London, IIRC, is not very distant from those. (Of course, London being a helicopter no-flight zone - for decades now - complicates things somewhat)

Edit: Helicopters specifically; but with the ground-to-air missile sites installed around the Greater London area (ostensibly for protecting the Sporting-Event-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named; a WTF in and of itself), I'd be very careful in mucking around the British airspace: http://everything2.com/title/crashing+a+helicopter+in+Centra...
Here's the transcript of the High Court decision that declined his appeal.

http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/Resources/JCO/Documents/Judgment...

"Rape - On 17 August 2010, in the home of the injured party [SW] in Enköping, Assange deliberately consummated sexual intercourse with her by improperly exploiting that she, due to sleep, was in a helpless state. It is an aggravating circumstance that Assange, who was aware that it was the expressed wish of the injured party and a prerequisite of sexual intercourse that a condom be used, still consummated unprotected sexual intercourse with her. The sexual act was designed to violate the injured party’s sexual integrity."

I would consider that to be rape, but I have no idea whether the US in general or legally would agree.
> What if Ecuador make him an Ecuadorian diplomat?

England would refuse to grant credentials.

> Somehow I feel that when this is over, he'll return to Australia and make a quick political career and become very influential.

Given Australia's close ties to the US, that's pretty unlikely.
I imagine this is primarily meant for creating static content such as print posters.

(I see that they are working on a web version, and regarding that I have to say I agree.)
The British didn't seem quite so committed to extraditing Augusto Pinochet. This despite the fact that he had been indicted for crimes against humanity, not simply wanted for questioning as is the case for Mr. Assange.

In the case of Pinochet, there were four extradition requests: Spain, Belgium, Switzerland and France.

However, the British government took Mr. Pinochet's frail health into account and ultimately released him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indictment_and_arrest_of_August...
>The day some government decides bitcoins are becoming a real alternative or even a threat to government-controlled money, they will shut the whole gig down-

Which will work just as well as stopping global piracy, i.e. not at all.