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Fisker Hybrids Caught Fire And Exploded In New Jersey Port After Sandy
That's precisely the point. Non-programmers are largely uninterested in the technical abilities separating 90th percentile coders from 99th percentile coders. It's only when you simultaneously demonstrate worth on an orthogonal axis (e.g. management) that people start to assume you're a top-tier dev.
This is what I like about FPGAs and soft-cpus. Some "open-hardware" designs use ARM cpus, that are as closed and patented as they can be (I.E. Arduino, Raspberry PI, etc.)

You may argue that commercial FPGAs are also closed and while it's true, the principle of operation is so simple (lots of interconnected gates) that can be easily replicated, like this cool project shows.
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Cost Analysis: TripAdvisor's and Pinterest's costs on the AWS cloud
In many civilized and relatively non-corrupt jurisdictions, judges nonetheless tend to get... shall we say, petulant when they feel they've been wronged.

(and I say "relatively" because of things like libel tourism and superinjunctions, both of which enable corruption to various degrees)
List comprehensions read like what they are (except for the stupid backwards order if you have multiple 'for's).

Decorators are pretty opaque; idiomatic python makes minimal use of them, and uses them only for things that don't change the meaning of the method inside. I've never used @classmethod and hope to never have to. I don't think it's fair to compare to an STL iterator, which is something you're encouraged to use as much as possible.

I don't know what you're talking about for iterables; aren't they obvious?
That's true.

I guess the ridiculousness of this excuse is that the page already exists and would simply (I would think) be a matter of changing the page text. I wouldn't think this would require intensive site-wide testing, but I've been wrong on these thigns before.
Programming is both a craft and a pop culture but when you use programming as part of an engineering discipline that's called software engineering.

Whether software engineering is on par with its more respectable siblings mechanical and electrical is a different question.
To me, the core problem is that the UK court is compelling speech. Maybe that is okay in the UK, but I don't think a court would be able to get away with that in the US.

I think is okay to have Apple announce the court's judgement, but they should not be required to lead customers to believe that they agree with it.
Oh noes, another flamewar on "wooo, let's do crypto in JS, what could possibly go wrong?" coming up. See also: Javascript Cryptography Considered Harmful - http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/
Gone Fishin': LiveJournal Architecture
> It was sloppy to do all that and then not either properly parameterise what should be published or include a requirement that the copy be agreed or reviewed before publication.

The judgement included a proposed wording with the introduction "Subject to anything that may be submitted by either side I would propose the following". Apple might think that gives them carte blanche to write what they think, but I can guarantee you that no British lawyer would think a wording like that means anything than that they should thread _very_ carefully if deviating from it without consent from the court and/or private agreement with the other party.

> Can anyone parse that first paragraph in any other way?

No, but we can read the rest of the text where they tried to confuse the matter again by misrepresenting rulings from other courts. E.g. the German court did not find infringing copying. The US jury explicitly found the Galaxy Tab (which is what the UK court case and the notice is about) non-infringing.

It clearly and blatantly has a purpose that is at odds with the spirit of the judgement.
Slightly off topic, but I just want to point out that I think he was getting at in his analogy was that German courts were "the teacher".

That is to say, it'll be a hard time getting Apple to believe they were in the wrong because a different court has already said their accusations are correct.
First Offshore Turbine For U.S. Begins Feeding Power To Maine’s Grid
If Forstall can get the support of the second largest Microsoft shareholder, yes.

There are three methods by which he might do so.

1. Purchase a few billion dollars worth of Microsoft stock.

2. Convince someone to purchase a few billion dollars worth of Microsoft stock on his behalf.

3. Convince Steve Ballmer to support the move.
That and using their size to rip off the designs of smaller companies:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zynga#Intellectual_property_con...
This article does not seem to be objective and honest. Yes you can monetize an HTML5 app, but there is a difference between can monetize and can monetize and actually make money.

If you are going to criticize app stores, you might want to factor in the reality that Apple has paid out over 6 billion dollars to app developers. The article mentions phone gap, that's true, so that's fine, but I'm addressing the point about monetizing on the web.

This article also is cherry picking news articles. It picks the Financial Time's article but doesn't mention Facebook's switch to native.

The build once, run everywhere point is flawed as we know that you actually do have to test and add various fixes here and there and worry about screen size, poor development environments on mobile and the like. You also do not have to write the vast majority of your app more than once for multiple platforms. I know a featured developer with a game that has more than 7 million users who wrote their game in C++ and were able to port it to both Android and iOS without writing two different games. And really there are only two mobile platforms that users have to worry about, iOS and Android.
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Discussion: The Horrible Future of Social
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New flight simulator website for begnners
Again, why should a company be required to only give the UK court's view of the facts?
In a similar DIY spirit, homemade vacuum tubes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzyXMEpq4qw

Here's another person making one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAMRHcbE3g0
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Bureaucratically it is easier to fight the most recently approved violation of privacy than an older one. The budgets are less entrenched, and the programs are under higher scrutiny for internal reasons. The EFF would strongly agree that there is no difference in loss of privacy from manned or unmanned surveillance. One is just easier to fight.
You're right. Mr Cook has good reason to P45 (British pink slip) the UK legal team for their poor advice, but a fish rots from the head.
Yeah, it was more of a joke. (There's always bit-serial designs or 1-bit architectures...).
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This is pretty neat. Though it seems a little odd that a query like:

INSERT INTO salary_grid VALUES (1, 'junior developper', '[20000, 30000]');

would produce a record like:

1 | junior developper | [20000,30001)

Is it just an error in the post that a query with an inclusive upper bound would result in a record with an exclusive upper bound?
BackBox Linux version 3.0 released
I would think that the focus is the differentiation.
Anyone tried to find themselves in the publicly available UAV surveillance data? https://www.sdms.afrl.af.mil/index.php?collection=csuav
We're all someone's "social taco space".

I don't know what you do exactly, but you work in programming and I'm sure there are people out there who would dismiss what you do as being pointless and say:

"Yes, what the world needs right now, as every day people are starving, cancer is killing thousands and children are forced to fight in wars, what we need is more virtual ones and zeros that make the upper middle class richer".

If there are people out there who like taking pictures of tacos, and that it brings them joy and delight in any way, then how is it more stupid than anything else in the entertainment business?

Being condescending is easy, but not very constructive.
Domains, what they are and how they work
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This case, especially in the context of Rowan Atkinson's very eloquent speech, illustrates clearly why it is the West that has to set the standards for free speech.

By contrast, given what the UK has done in the past around Internet speech, the Indian case does not look unreasonable!
Nope.

Those are the exact sort of scams I'm talking about. Lead gen to get a free PDF that then strings you along and tries to get you to buy "products" that are just fake empowerment nonesense. If you don't buy into it, they sell your info to boiler rooms. Every one of these sites look the same. Same layout, same language. It's all the same. Show me something different.

If any of these so-called products had any value, you'd be able to find them on torrent sites. That's the true test of value for a digital good at the end of the day. If it has value, people will try to steal it and share it. People look to pirate a $0.99 song, but no one looks to pirate an "info product", because the value is literally zero. Or negative.
Isn't that the whole purpose of a court system? If you insist on calling OJ Simpson a murderer who got away with it, he can sue you for libel. He is, as a point of fact, not legally a murderer, and you would be lying to defame him. Legal truth isn't some abstract concept. It is defined by the court's opinion. The factual statement in UK law is now "Samsung did not copy their design." End of story.

You don't get to flout a court ruling by continuing to behave the same way, only with a disclaimer that says, "Well, the judge said we're wrong, but screw him."
It is an elegant order. Rather that trying to collapse everything down to a dollar value (and thus have extended bickering between the parties) you have a simple "You accused them of copying. They did not copy. They say they are damaged by your claims. Retract your claims."

The problem with money is that Apple has a lot of it, and thus making them pay for realistic (as oppose to punitive) damages is not a disincentive to further poor behaviour. It just becomes a cost of doing business.
Path is coming to iPad
The 3D Building Byte Project
Pesticides and pests
Why people cannot avoid pesticides? Pesticides are used in farms, gardens, and households. Pests destroy about a half of food supplies in the world and without pesticides the food losses could be even more significant. Pesticides increase work productivity, profits, and export incomes.
I love talking to my 76 year old grandma about tech - i once explained my semiconductors energy harvesting phd topic to her and she sort of got it. She does the crossword, she uses the phone book but she also plays scrabble online a few times a week with people all over the world (apparently the Chinese are very good in her opinion). It's a nice balance for her to have a appreciation of the current technology and the older stuff (although she thinks facebook is evil and twitter pointless)
The same reason why putting SSDs in external enclosures is extremely inconsistent - power. An SSD needs significantly more power at certain times, depending on the controller. Most of the time, an optical bay does not provide the necessary amperage.
The "learn how" link is a call to action but you really haven't given enough info for me to want to click it.

Also, it suffers from a bit of a design-color challenge. The shade of blue you've picked doesn't provide enough contrast against the background image. I'd suggest playing with all of your text and image there to increase the contrast between the two.

After clicking the "learn how" link you have the same contrast problem. It also doesn't offer enough details for me to understand what it really does or why I'd want to use it.

Your content seems to fall into a common marketing problem. You're highlighting features, not benefits. All I care about is benefits, not features.
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To give you an idea of what we do, these are some of the projects that involved me at Altera:

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I've never heard of manpacks until an hour ago, but thanks to this article, I'm now a customer.

I'm curious what their churn rate was before it was reduced to 2%.
creator here... let me know if you have any questions or suggestions here or on twitter @eibrahim

Thanks.
It is visibly worse than python. '|' - I thought that was bitwise or? - rather than an (admittedly technical) English word like 'map' or 'filter' (and '<<' has the same problem). 'transformed([](pv){...})' may be necessary for compatibility, but the brackets are harder to follow than 'transformed(lambda pv: ...)'. And the type declaration as "propMap::value_type" is just noise - it doesn't tell the reader anything about what the actual type is, and it isn't necessary for static typechecking either (it would be optional in a modern statically typed language e.g. Scala).
Load test like a developer, think like a user
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You're right, I just re-read the judgment with the proposed wording. Apple should have gone with that verbatim and otherwise shut up so as to not drag it out.

They made what could have been a publicly boring notice buried in the page footer a spectacle.
Nobody is requiring that. They are free to publish pages upon pages of opposing views if they please.

They are required to comply with a court order with a very clear intent: To rectify the false impression Apple had created that the Samsung Galaxy Tab infringed on UK law and might get banned from sale.

All the court is requiring is that Apple is not diluting that message by including other paragraphs that are at best irrelevant and at most directly misleading.
In the six months since I got a tablet, it's my laptop which has become superfluous. I also have a nice desktop setup, and there is now no reason for me to use the laptop. When I'm out and about, I can count on one hand the number of times I thought it would be a good idea to bring the laptop since I got the tablet, and I never actually used it. A good ergonomic desktop setup for productivity and a tablet and smartphone for mobile use is all I really need. If I regularly had to be productive in multiple locations without a desktop handy I might feel differently, but I don't.
Yeah, there's a world of difference between "we would like 14 days to update it" and "we need 14 days to update it".
You see, the thing with this kind of advice that your uncle kindly gave to you is that this only settles into the mind of people who have the mentality that they can only really enjoy life at school/college before being locked in a confined work cell.

I dropped out of college a few months ago & I'm focusing on self educating myself on subjects that I'm particularly interested in, investment, accounting, web design, I'm working on a few great ideas & I have no intentions of working five days a week with minor breaks for vacations in the future because I am currently working 7 days a week with no vacations in order to not only live a life that most people only dream of, but also to make a real impact in the world within a few years (I'm 19).

I guess it's all opinion, but assuming that the process of enjoying life at school then going into work for the rest of your life to suffer is the standard among 'the vast majority of people' is just non-existent to me. I consider myself to be a normal person who is just damn willing to work hard for what he believes in, and fortunately at this time in my life, I have a concrete vision of what I believe in.

If you love what you do, then your work days are just as fun and fulfilling as your vacation days, and believe me, I intend to do what I love.

(Btw I hope I don't come across as arrogant or rude, I respect your comment and I'm just offering my opinion.)
Ugh the site blows on mobile. It loaded an article about a Greek journalist instead. Why can't people be happy with a regular website.
How, specifically, was the ruling too broad?

Re: secret funding of campaigns, it seems to me the real problem isn't that people can freely run political ads. The real problem is $1bn+ corporations. People should be lobbying to get rid of corporate limited liability, which would make it impossible for corporations to get so large and powerful in the first place.
Would love to see the source code for this situation, where payment is disrupted due to the change jar needing to emptied. I bet the programmers put in some amusing comments.
Unfortunately I don't live in a country where this kind of low wage underclass exists. But still, I'm definitely thinking of getting a cleaner. I was just thinking that a proper laundry with a clothes press could do a better job.
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