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Ohh this looks awesome, I wish it would work for windows thought.
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I have a TODO in omnifocus to fold those in. It's a shame I didn't do that earlier.
It's not that simple. Relevant reading in this context:

https://lwn.net/Articles/455013/
I think David Foster Wallace makes a few good points about choice and how markets are driven by a neurosis of consumer needs.

http://vimeo.com/25746984
May I present you the flexbox model!

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http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/flexbox/quick/

If you need IE8+ support, there is also display:table and family.
A screenshot would be good. Does not show a gradient on my Android 2.3.
I could see your first comment getting downvoted, since it was short, negative, and incorrect.

Your next comment (and this one), no. You're absolutely right that you shouldn't have been downvoted. You're still arguing against a whole lot of existence disproof, but you make your point well and offer some constructive commentary and alternative ideas.

Stick around. You're providing more value here than whoever it was that went off on you with the downvote button.
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I could see it being a lot like Palestine, with a one-state or two-state solution.

The two-state solution would simply have "China Facebook" and "Rest of the world Facebook" with all that implies.

The one-state solution would have a "Whole World Facebook" with each gov't (China) being given open season to sensor anything posted by one of their nationals.

I could see either approach having a lot of merit. Exposing the Chinese users to the rest of the world as much as possible has some benefit, but so does limiting the degree to which the situation in China is accepted.

By making a separate Chinese facebook, you're signaling to other authoritarian gov'ts that they're the exceptional/unpleasant case and would otherwise not be accommodated.
But you are confounding physical property with "intellectual property", which is infinitely reproducible once discovered.

The only reason patents exist is to "promote the science and the useful arts", and it seems to be theres a growing body of evidence that this goal is not being achieved (at least, in the field of software - may be its working great for the manufacturing/pharma industries).
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There's nothing non-standards compliant about what they've done, as far as I can tell. Disabling the animation seems like an attempt at ensuring graceful degradation.
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That's hardly a meme. Most businesses require initial capital expenditure on "infrastructure" - even your local window cleaner requires a ladder, bucket, soap, cloth and squeegee, and maybe a bike and a set of overalls.
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>But you wouldn't do that though, would you...?

Right, which is why I also refuse to hand over control of my logging, database persistence, etc to third parties without some give-and-take.
Still none of the pages on apple.com are made for small mobile screens. Only exception is the iPhone manual.
I find Fig. 13. (Rise and fall of major languages: the historical dimension) quite interesting.
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An other project in the same class is Shed-Skin[0], a Python to C++ compiler (only handles a subset of Python though)

[0] http://shed-skin.blogspot.be/
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What kind of issues are you experiencing?
Right. Now center it vertically. Also don't make any assumptions (like fixed height, or display: block) about container and the box to be centered.
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Nice to see they're getting bit by their own decisions.

They've gone out of their way to ensure that you can't ever play an Audio/Video clip automatically on page load in iOS Safari. Every new iOS release for the first few years included a patch to kill any new workarounds that let you do so. (Curse you iOS 4.3 for taking away our simulated clicks.)

But now they have a use case of their own that needs it, so they invent the mother of all workarounds. And now the rest of us will start using it. And it will become the "standard" way to run video on iOS Safari.

Then they'll kill it off for iOS 7. Then they'll have to come up with an even crazier workaround so that they can render their own website a few months later.

Fascinating to watch this play out.
undoubtedly. of course it came after visicalc, but by now it is not hyperbole to say that a large part of the world economy runs through excel spreadsheets.

and it is really hard to displace. the optimisations in that tool are amazing, you don't realize it's performance until you try the alternatives.

some argue it is the OS of finance. definitely shares its spot with SAP FI/CO. a controller will give up any tool before letting go of MS Excel.

it is the number one reason of companies being reluctant to using iPads. how will i edit my spreadsheets? what about macros? i need this to capture expenses, forecasts, etc.

if MS releases MS Office/Excel for iOS, Surface is dead.
I understand why the color mismatch exists. I just think that can be corrected for, even if it is done by hand frame by frame.

Since the information is on the film, I don't think this would be false restoration.

I see it as akin to projects that try to remove scratches and damage by merging in undamaged sections from previous and following frames.
> There's a piece on Obama in Vanity Fair this month where he mentions that he alternates between a blue and a grey suit each day, because he doesn't want to spend mental energy on unnecessary decision-making.

like he doesn't have people who work on his image and decide it for him.
Agreed. How is this any different than taking over a friends email account or cell phone and deleting data or sending malicious messages? There is nothing interesting or clever about this.
I had good luck with formatting things for my Kindle with LaTeX. I just set the page size to be proportionate to the Kindle screen and compiled a PDF. The result was far better looking than using the normal Kindle format and I didn't have the normal issues with PDFs because mine actually fit on the screen.

This wasn't the most space efficient system, but it was probably the best one aesthetically. Also, since I just created a custom .sty file to automate this, I can have my single source document output both normal-sized and Kindle-sized PDFs.
Do everyone a favor and get rid of this. There is nothing OK with making light of identity theft. And quite trying to absolve yourself of any responsibility
Nah I am saying move the air at the same speed as the trains.
"Our healthcare system actually is pretty great, if you do not believe me try getting a major surgery done in another country."

I'm amazed that on a website full of such thoughtful sensible people, an American would still have this world view of "there's America and there's the rest of the world, and ours is the best of possible countries".

To give a counter-example to your amazingly broad claim: in Belgium I can have surgery done, spend 4 days in hospital and have everything except 150 euros paid by our universal health-care.

Or were you implying that surgery elsewhere is of lesser quality? A lot of Americans don't seem to agree [1].

[1] 6 Million Americans Travel Abroad Each Year for Surgeries, Medical Treatments: http://news.health.com/2009/04/08/traveling-treatment/
You should add something like LoadImpact.com to the list ;-)
It can't be used appropriately.
How does changing the language absolve you from the implications of your malicious app.
+1 for pexpect. it is very handy to automate user inputs
Great job! really amazing what you could extract from that footage!. There is only one thing that I find could be improved a bit ( I am no expert by the way, just a video aficionado): at 1´50" when the jet from the rockets hits the floor, you can clearly see that in the original footage but you can not in your version till 4 or 5 seconds later, but the impressive first burst is lost(I imagine that is a trade off of the morphing).
Any way really impressive work! Nasa must hire you!
Personally I'd replace google alerts with https://mention.net Much more powerful IMHO. Disclaimer: I work for mention...
Except the view won't be quite as lovely as from those garden sheds.
Mandarin and Cantonese are different languages, not dialects of the same language.
That would be my ideal setup, unfortunately I am quite far away from being able to afford a house with a garden.
Anybody knows, why can't we use GIF instead?
for throwaway irb sessions, I often use stuff like

foo.map { |x| x.something rescue $! }
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Which xmpp client do you use?
That's basically what happens every time I have to replace a laptop or a piece of hardware.
Yeah, this is high on my list too. Often I fool myself by thinking that I need to eat to concentrate. Of course it ended up becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy (if I don't eat I can't concentrate).

I think a lot of times, what we do at our desk are some sort of "rituals" that we think help us to get into the zone. Most of the time they just get in our way of doing things.
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>> There will be a thousand things that in the back of your mind you always have thought you'd have time to do, but then you turn 30 and start to realize that you probably won't.

Absolutely! Start doing those things, pack them in. And when you're done with those, find some more and do those. This is the difference between living and waiting.
Instead of this, I believe we need a kosher computer mouse (like the light switch here: http://www.kosherswitch.com/live/). You click the button. In some random amount of time the mice might or might not produce a click event. So you hit the button on the mouse and walk away for a cup of tea :-)
Awesome! Thanks for the post. Sometimes I feel that RoR gets too much publicity vs django or other MVCs.

Of course having used Django for ~5 years now, I must be biased!
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same thing posted four times. perhaps you should start paying pg per click. :-)
For a similar library with a slightly different take, check out plumbum:

http://plumbum.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html

Here's the explanation on the differences:

"The project has been inspired by PBS of Andrew Moffat, and has borrowed some of his ideas (namely treating programs like functions and the nice trick for importing commands). However, I felt there was too much magic going on in PBS, and that the syntax wasn’t what I had in mind when I came to write shell-like programs. I contacted Andrew about these issues, but he wanted to keep PBS this way. Other than that, the two libraries go in different directions, where Plumbum attempts to provide a more wholesome approach."
Surely implementing the shell commands natively is the way to go?

This way you then have to parse the output of ifconfig, say.

eg I have been doing this for Lua [1] you can do

> i = nl.interfaces()

> print(i.lo)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
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inet6 addr: ::1/128
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING LOWER_UP MTU: 16436
RX packets:261454 errors:0 dropped:0
TX packets:261454 errors:0 dropped:0

> print(i.eth0.macaddr)

f0:da:f0:38:36:39

The functionality is now reasonably comprehensive, so you can rename interfaces, add addresses, although it is still a work in progress, as there is a fair amount of work involved as there is a lot of shell to implement, but it can be incrementally useful.

[1] https://github.com/justincormack/ljsyscall
Maybe they should have used flash instead. That would have given them a higher percentage of successful deliveries than this solution.
Just gave this a try and it looks very nice, you have a new customer. Question, how do I remove my own tweets from the mentions inbox? Would entering my twitter URL as a blocked URL work?

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Well, here in Germany I pay 400 eur for health insurance. And if I quit, I'll pay even more if I ever want to go back to it.

In Spain, the public health system is free and works surprisingly well (believe it or not). If you want private coverage, I think the montly payments all hoover around 60 eur.

Why Germany is x10 as expensive, I'd like to know.
What you want is unreasonable, and is counter to the actual research. Quoting from Allegretto, Sylvia A., Sean P. Corcoran, Lawrence Mishel (2008) The Teaching Penalty: Teacher Pay Losing Ground. Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute.

"...we found that the average weekly pay of teachers in 2003 was nearly 14% below that of workers with similar education and work experience (p. 13), a gap only minimally offset by higher non-wage benefits in teaching. Though teacher earnings have fallen below that of the average college graduate in recent decades, we showed that teachers lost considerable ground during the late 1990s, as earnings of college graduates grew 11% relative to 0.8% growth in teaching."

Okay, so you don't want any teacher making 60K plus. Of course, a teacher is often required to have a bachelor's degree and many have graduate degrees. (I see that 60+% of Chicago teachers have at least a master's degree.)

The market says (from a 2011 CNN report) "Students who will graduate this spring are receiving job offers with starting salaries averaging $50,034 per year, up 3.5% from last year, according to a survey from the National Association of Colleges and Employers." On the low end of the listed salaries, "Offers for business administration/management graduates slipped slightly to $44,171."

So someone with no work experience but with a college degree can make $44K/year, and you want the upper limit, even after 25 years and for teachers living in an expensive city, to be $60K/year. This is not reasonable.

Ahh, but you say that teachers "spend time talking about interesting things", while you don't, and those joys in life should be sufficient compensation for not pulling in the big bucks. The average salary for 'Programmer V', with 8-10 years of experience is $104K. Do you think that being able to talk about Hemingway is worth $40K/year in lost wages? Don't you think that grading papers, and preparing curriculum around standardized tests, and dealing with misbehaving students is the actual comparable to 'Out of Memory' errors?

And as for complaining about unstable job security in your field - if you're that jealous of what the teachers have managed, why don't you unionize and advocate for more job security in your own field?

Also, you only do programming for the money? Strange. I started programming because it was fun, and only later did I find out that people would pay me a lot of money to do things I found fun. Like tracking down bizarre segmentation errors. I guess I should take a pay cut because I find my work to be interesting.
They are a file system vendor, they probably added some mount options for their file system to mount.
To be fair, he's mentioned it as an idea and I believe in the interview, he said he wanted to check with his engineers to make sure it could be possible.

He's not hyping up the next product as much as he's musing about the notes & ideas written down in his journal when people ask him bluntly "what else are you working on?"

And to be fair, Musk's track record on creating things that are going to CHANGE THE FREAKIN' WORLD, MAN is pretty dang good (paypal, tesla, spacex as if I have to even name them).
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This has given me a sad.

Strange though that there aren't any attempts mentioned to actually get close and have a look at such an unusual specimen.
> I think Musk's coyness about this is pretty annoying... if he really has a great idea, and intends to make it public, why not just say it instead of making flirty glances and beating around the bush?

I would also say that a lot of great ideas when not executed carefully, frankly suck.

With Musk's precision about his products (checking every car himself), I doubt he's going to just say "here's my idea, have at it" without a built in way to implement it, make it happen while maintaining some semblance of control.
This is not going to be effective unless Red Hat really pushes for damages. Shutting down Twin Peaks products is not a big deal, they will just release the source of their mount.mfs and/or rewrite the mount, and then push out a new version that doesn't violate mount's license.
But does the document say the URL is meant to be read as instruction or agreement?
Gosh, what a hipster.
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I think the mathematical definition of 'the hotel is full' would be 'there is a one-to-one correspondence, also called an isomorphism, between the hotel rooms and occupants'.

So, if the hotel has empty rooms, even if there are an infinite number of occupied rooms it is not 'full'.

On a side note: no matter how many occupants there are in the hotel one might argue that it was also 'empty' given that it can always accommodate a countably infinite number of new arrivals.
The market for smartphones you see now? Teens, kids, moms and everyone else? Yes, they created that. And they created the package, granted out of existing technologies but the package does matter.
The feeling I get, and it's just a feeling, is that it's an idea where the hype is sort of getting away from him.

I wonder if he even took it all that seriously at first, he may not have realized he's made the transition to Man Whose Words Are Given Great Attention.

He seems like he's starting to realize that, but only now...
I'm not sure if Google Translate is cutting edge but I would imagine it's pretty close to that. For Finnish atleast it's not really any better than BabelFish was 10 years ago. You can get the gist of things most of the time but there are still huge errors and misunderstandings in anything that's not super-basic.
I wasn't speaking practically. The GP said "native will always be faster" and that's true. Relevance of that truth is a separate issue.
Well, Cantor's big thing was partly that he extended cardinality to infinite sets (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_number). The first infinite cardinal \aleph_0 is the cardinality of the natural numbers.
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The movies about Dick Proenneke are amazing. He filmed himself building his "house" and then proceeded to film and document his surroundings. When watching him build the house in "Alone in the wilderness" I thought that was what "flow" must be like. He has excellent woodworking skills, seeing the house rise from the ground was amazing.

Also, thanks for the other examples!

I think Paul Lutus is on HN, he wrote Apple Writer in a cottage somewhere in Oregon during the 80s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lutus
Regarding the retina loupe effect demo this has been done a while back - using css and an image for the loupe edge. Picks up mouse and touch events. Even works on older browsers.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/infinnerty/differences/attic/at...
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I call BS. Nobody has a desk that looks like that.
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That, and Word. Still light years ahead of the competition.
There have been lots of attempts to reform English. There is also Simple English Wikipedia which just simplifies structure not pronounciation https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
How do you know they feel they're getting 'bit'? Maybe they think this is the optimal solution for what they are trying to accomplish? Maybe they have an internal tool for generating the images they need to accomplish these things? Maybe it's "smooth as butter", as they would say, on their side?
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Brought Ray Bradbury's "The Foghorn" to mind - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fog_Horn
Interestingly, Facebook sponsored a project to build a prototype PHP interpreter using the PyPy[0] toolchain for JIT compilation, which turned out to be even faster than HipHop[1]. I have to wonder whether statically compiled Ruby would actually be any faster than a JIT interpreter like Rubinius, cold start JIT penalty aside.

Edit: looks like JRuby can/does do JIT compilation, but it is also capable of doing AOT compilation[2]. If JRuby can do AOT, then what is the point of FastRuby?

[0]: http://pypy.org/

[1]: http://morepypy.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/hello-everyone.html

[2]: https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/JRubyCompiler
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Let's be clear. This guy operates at 52Hz, but he probably has more spatial resolution than cobra dane.
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Thanks for this, just looking at Django for the first time right now so the timing is perfect.
Maybe someone should build him a translator.
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In that case you'll have to hurry.
Whenever I think of Facebook's monetization strategies all I can think of is payment service, payment service, payment service, payment service.

Having payment details and a verified identity would massively increase the value of Facebook's user profiles and the low-friction payment they could offer would be an invaluable asset.