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When we see a trait that has no obvious fitness benefit, then it makes sense to ask if it might just be a consequence of genes that encode for other, more useful traits. But when a trait such as lactose tolerance has clear benefits for the organism there's no need to complicate the hypothesis without other evidence pointing that way.
There are two issues with this:

1) The causal link described remains a matter of dispute, with evidence supporting both sides; a plausible argument can be made for the opposite case that wider access to child pornography, and making more 'efficient' use of existing images, could quell demand for the creation of new images, and thus reduce new abuse cases;

2) Legislation prohibiting child pornography often extends its reach beyond cases of serious abuse; in many countries it encompasses 'softcore' images, even semi-nude images if they are sexually suggestive. These kind of images (the kind that you would find on /r/jailbait over on reddit) are often created by the subjects themselves, and one could argue that their creation caused no harm to anyone.
You are correct. I am pretty much never involved in purchasing/acquisition details. I just tell managers I need some particular software and they go and do some voodoo and come back to say yes or no
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Good concept. But this design is insane. The shadow should be attached via a logging plugin to your trusted webserver or load balancer, so it doesn't destabilize your production system.
As a non-technical person with just a basic ability to program I would still agree with you - basic programming is only "hard" in the sense that the grammar of languages like French or German is "hard" - maybe the better word would be tedious?

Take a very basic task like "Apply this text replacement to all .txt files in this folder and all subfolders". If you are a beginner programmer for example in Python, you have to search for the module and get a basic understanding of how it works. While you never run into any conceptual difficulty, this can still take you a lot of time and you will make strange errors along the way.
> When asked about new Team Fortress 2 Hats, he said that some rumors have been circulating but he has no information about it.

Glad to see we've got our priorities in order!
> When asked about new Team Fortress 2 Hats, he said that some rumors have been circulating but he has no information about it.

Did people really ask about hats at the Ubuntu Developer Conference?
Clearly not with every git:

$ git commit --amend a98fd2e95dde78041132b6281f6c2127712507f5
error: pathspec 'a98fd2e95dde78041132b6281f6c2127712507f5' did not match any file(s) known to git.
$ git --version
git version 1.7.11.msysgit.1
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If you intend a full spend down (which I would recommend, if you want to give your kids money, do it while your alive) you don't need nearly as many assets.

With an 70 year old white female and a 66 year old white male, they have about the same life expectancy - around 13 years. With no growth / interest that's ~$936,000, with a reasonable return it's around $100,000 less.
Your process is something I'd like an ebook or screencast about. Perhaps others would find it interesting as well.
This is an old trick people use to hide affiliate links and redirects via tracking URLs, for example. It's not intrinsically evil as it's providing a way to keep things working even if JavaScript isn't on, or the site is visited by a bot, for example. It's really the basis of graceful degradation, unobtrusive JavaScript, and the foundation of libraries like jQuery.

One interesting lesson here is if you reverse the logic. What if you have an Ajax action triggered by JavaScript? My point is, you should generally trigger actions from linked content instead of random controls like buttons (you can of course place a button inside a link or style the link as a button). This way, bots and non-JS browsers will still be able to follow it.
Sounds like you were quite hypermaterialized and overstimulated a mid high schooler, if you had all those things to sell/discard.
One thing I can't stand is "recruiters" who invite you to come interview with them. Oh, great, you "invite" me to come torture myself for months on end just so I can have a snowball's chance in hell at getting a job? This is 2012. If you want to learn about me, go on my website and read my blog posts, look at my current projects, and download my resumé.

If you think I'm so great, make me an offer. Don't spam my inbox with "We're Hiring!" e-mails.
>> Eventually, it produces (give or take a few bits) a copy of an MP3 file of a copyrighted work.

...which you recognize by having a copy of that work and specifically matching for it. If I were a copyright lawyer, I'd argue that your algorithm for plucking this value out of the stream of randomness was the infringement.

>> I could quite easily create every possible variation of an MP3 file of a given length.

If you're prepared to pay $35 each to register the copyright on all of those, knock yourself out. I'll enjoy not paying taxes anymore.
As opposed to what alternatives (besides native)? The author doesn't mention working with Gecko (which I hear is much more complicated to use as a library), Presto or anything besides Webkit; seems a little unfair.

I don't see what the big push towards writing everything in HTML/CSS is all about. Native apps give the user a much better experience, and isn't that what we should all be worrying about? Writing complex webapps is much more difficult than writing complex native apps in terms of performance, because sometimes a single thread just isn't enough.
Even better, why not set the price of an iPad to production cost + 1% of a person's yearly income? Resale under pain of death.
> those who are in the groups doing the oppression are often blind to what goes on

"Derailing for dummies" is an interesting analysis of this. It should be required reading for participants of discrimination-related discussions.
Originally the formula was: (points-1)/(hours+2)^1.4 , but pg changes it whenever he wants, so the "gravity coefficient" is now different from 1.4.

You can read detailed analysis of the (published) formula in 2009 in http://www.arcfn.com/2009/06/how-does-newsyc-ranking-work.ht...

And there are a lot of secret coefficient corrections, for example the number of flagging that the submission received and the number of comments (if it has too many comments, it is too polemic and it is pushed down.)

If we use the 2009 formula we get

Points(P) Time(H) (P-1)^.8/(H+2)^1.8
7 2 0.3457
141 15 0.3177

that gives the ordering you saw.
I suppose that's fair (though I disagree with it) -- I wasn't being critical of those who are transgendered in any way. I am also speaking from the lens of my own experience, which may clearly differ from those of others. I don't choose for my views to be narrow-minded, and am in fact very open to people of all sorts, I just can't relate, and attempted to proffer justification as to why I couldn't.

I of course wouldn't want to personally be in a situation where I were beaten bloody, nor would I want to be oppressed or invite harm upon myself just to experience the other side of things. Again, I don't discount the plight of the author; I am just thankful that I don't have to live through those experiences myself, and am not personally aware of anyone who has.

Does this narrow my world view? Perhaps. But just as I can't personally relate to the plight of the Jews in Nazi Germany, that doesn't mean that I would choose to be hunted / murdered / massacred for the sake of being able to. I acknowledge that what happened there was "Very Bad", and am also able to scope my understanding as to know that nobody that wasn't there will likely fully understand the hell they went through.

Thanks for the explanation of the downvote. I obviously disagree with it as I didn't intend any malice in my post (and was in fact just stating my opinion), but c'est la vie.
You are both right. The Internet is a tool like fire. Very powerful in both ways.
> If having an app store is the criterion for not being an open platform, not even Ubuntu qualifies.

It doesn't say "Because Windows 8 ships with its own app store, it is not an open platform anymore," so you misinterpreted that.

The difference between the Windows 8 app store and Ubuntu's Software Center is that you can easily add 3rd party repositories to the latter. Also keep in mind that on Windows RT (the ARM version of Windows 8), you can't install any apps from outside the app store, period.

> Windows will always be the premier gaming platform as long as it has the majority of the desktop base, and by extension the best driver support, and by extension the most games written for it.

Linux doesn't have to have the best driver support to be sufficient as a gaming platform. If it has enough driver support for games to run well, it has a chance. And the proprietary NVIDIA Linux drivers right now work quite well in my experience. There are a few bugs, but nothing that can't be ironed out with a little time.

Just because Windows has the "majority of the desktop base" doesn't mean it has to be the premiere gaming platform. Gamers are a very select group of people, and there's no reason Valve couldn't target them.

If I were Valve, I would start programs such as "if you spend X hours playing Steam games on Linux, you get a discount on your next game." That would have a huge impact on what gamers are using to play games, and could push other developers to port their games to Linux. As the middleman between millions of gamers and hundreds of game studios, Valve has enormous power here.
Thank you for your reply. I am still confused though. The tooltip clearly says frameless.org

http://i.imgur.com/9g56l.png
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That's fine for a programming position, but they apparently (from the article, not personal experience) ask these type of questions to more than just programmers.
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Yeah, except I'm not the guy saying that somebody should just be quiet and move on.
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Larry Ellison said a lot of interesting things about the cloud.

Steve Jobs said a few things about the tablet foam factor.

Even if the gentleman from Valve did say that, they're not just going to throw away their business. They're probably playing for the 25% or so Linux gaming market that the Humble Bundles have shown exists.
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I worked at Google for a short stint. I found the tech interview easy and I wasn't asked anything particularly ridiculous. I received a job offer shortly thereafter and accepted.

As someone who regularly interviews prospective engineers at my current gig, I see no problem with expecting candidates to arrive prepared to answer algorithm questions or questions about their strongest programming language. Ditto for someone who wishes to change assignment within their organization, however they arrived there. If you're unwilling to provide proof you're not a bozo, you're probably going to be just awful to work with as well.

However, the blind allocation policy at Google sucks, and it continues to suck. I came in as an expert in field D and therefore according to Google's magic sorting hat I ended up a natural for assignment in field Q. I tried my hand at it for several months, but as someone else has already said, bored employees quit: http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2011/07/12/bored_peopl...

In order to avoid that fate, I futilely attempted to get reassigned to something close to field D (really, B, C, E, or F would have been just peachy) and that seemingly got me flagged as trouble internally. Shortly thereafter, I got a higher offer to go somewhere else and left.

However, unlike the author of this post, while Google recruiters regularly stalk my linkedin profile, none of them ever contact me, which is good.
Could you please post all that info in a reply to this message then please?
There's no amount of understanding how short sighted and insight-less posts like these are, they still make me really dispirited when I read them.
> I was also the highest person in the class during the test.

Perhaps it was your substance use or general elevation that lead to your increased performance, not your dedicated effort to memorize the material beforehand?

Though if the test was conducted under a deadline, it stands to reason that you could do better with memorization. As some else noted, the latency is much lower with memorization, but tests do not really mimic the real-world so it is not exactly clear how the lower latency will impact your use of the information outside of a test-like setting.
Except that writing code using JDO/JPA is a nightmare, at least on Datastore. So that's almost certainly not the smart way. I'd rather rewrite my app three times - go with Objectify (simple, easy, maps well to Datastore concepts) and just deal with the rewrite if it happens.
The one risk is whether today's distractions prevent you from enjoying future ones. That is, do they interfere with your ability to obtain sustenance, shelter, sex, and social status. This is why drug addictions are frowned upon, but recreational use less so..
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Agreed. The ability to do something other than what the href implies is a small part of JavaScript's bigger purpose: To extend the capabilities of web pages beyond the basic functionality of a browser. It's what makes the browser more than just a dumb document reader, and it's a big part of what makes the web attractive as a platform for app development. We shouldn't chip away at it.

Rather than crippling JavaScript, we should focus on implementing a different security principle: Merely visiting a web page should never be dangerous or harmful. This has always been a goal of browser developers. Browsers run in a sandbox for this reason. Although they will execute arbitrary, untrusted code (i.e. JavaScript), by design that code has no access to your hard drive, other web pages you visit, etc..

Were this principle implemented perfectly, the OP's concerns would mostly be alleviated. Sure, some people will still download and run malware EXEs, or enter their private data on a phishing site. But those who do will probably not benefit much from hovering over a URL anyway. If you don't know better than to hand the keys to the castle to random web pages, you probably don't know how to spot a suspicious URL.
Assumptions:

- we have balloons with no rings (just a knot ;-))

- we can't add any rings (cheating!)

- we can make rings out of strings

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Solution: 1 string that makes a ring under the balloon, 1 that goes through that ring and has two rings at each end. 1 string through 1 ring for kid #1 and #2, 1 string through the other ring for kid #3 and #4. 4 strings in total ( general function f(N,M) => f(4,1) = 4 )

For 1 balloon an three kids you need 3 strings (1 as a ring under the balloon, 1 string through the ring. One end is held by kid #1, other end is a ring. 1 string through that ring and the ends are hold by kid #2 and #3) f(3,1) = 3.
Likewise:
f(2,1) = 2
f(1,1) = 1 <= trivial

Now for M balloons with M > 0. For 1 balloon you can have 1 string that makes a ring, for 2 balloons 1 string as well (interconnected). For 3 balloons you need 2 strings from 1 to 2 and from 2 to 3. Ergo: for M balloons you need M-1 strings.

Consider the fact that having 2 balloons or 100 balloons, you only need to attach a string to one of these interconnecting strings to float all the balloons if you release this string.

Hence: M balloons and 2 kids needs the same amount of strings for for example 1 balloon and 2 kids plus the interconnecting strings.

From here it follows that for M > 1 (and N>0) the general function is:
f(N,M) = (N-1) + (M-1)
(in words: you need M-1 interconnecting strings and one string less than the number of kids)

3D plot: http://www.wolframalpha.com/share/clip?f=d41d8cd98f00b204e98...
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So was being bullied - my point was that using group projects as a method to prevent cheating is much less trivial than I think you were implying. Encouraging collaboration and communication is a good thing, but in my experience, there is still plenty of cheating.
Exactly. Zynga should have been punished back when they did the clawbacks and the CEO made that idiotic statement about the "Google Chef". Not now that they're behaving pretty nicely (3 month severance? In the US?).
My wife's (3yo?) Kindle Keyboard burnt out a couple weeks ago. The Kindle Paperwhite had a 6 week wait on it, so we waited an extra week for the Mini announcement.

The iPad Mini has a bigger screen, and is lighter than the Nexus 7 or Fire HD by a fair margin.

The press seems to be all about resolution and techie specs, but I just sold my iPad2 (to upgrade to a 4th gen), and a shrunk down iPad2, at half the weight, lighter than the competition by a decent margin seems like a slam dunk to me.

I guess time will tell, but if the primary use is as a reader, then the device with the biggest screen and the lightest weight seems like the obvious winner unless there's something horribly wrong with it. And there's certainly nothing horribly wrong with an iPad2.
One aspect of the "real names" policy you left out was the difference some people have between "name I am known by" and "legal name." The author is one such person. That's a separate issue from wanting to remain anonymous.
Thank you. I think those are very good and important first steps.

Keep in mind:

1. We are not scientist. We do not use the scientific method to discover what is already out there. Our creations didn't exist before we write them

2. We are not engineers. Our creations are not bound by what science discovers. In some rare cases they might be a requirement, but never a bind. This is a curse and a blessing

3. We are closer to a mathematician painter. Not because we use math (this is irrelevant for this definition), but because we think in symbolic terms which is the essence of mathematics (btw. this makes arguable that ip over algorithms is like ip over colors)

4. Society is being build on top of it... and "they" are not very aware of it yet
People like you scare me, because you are so ignorant of history. While we might be heading towards a uber-PC socialist nightmare, one could argue just as easily that we'll end up in a hell like fascist Italy, where leftists were rounded up and shot for their opinions. You also scare me because you are so sure that you're right, and those that disagree with you are not just wrong, but evil. I disagree with you, but I don't think you should go to jail for it.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

-- William Butler Yeats
Well, mainly because you can only "touch/click". You can replicate a hover though, saying the hover goes on when you touch, and goes off when you release.

For example:

if((navigator.userAgent.match(/iPhone/i)) || (navigator.userAgent.match(/iPod/i)) || (navigator.userAgent.match(/iPad/i)) || (navigator.userAgent.match(/Android/i))) {

$("a").bind('touchstart', function(){

$(this).addClass('hover');

});

$("a").bind('touchend', function(){

$(this).removeClass('hover');

});

}

This should work in theory.
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I spend more time at my desk at work than anywhere at home. My work desk should be clean and peaceful!
This is only true if we don't use technology to improve our mind. Some people like to believe that the computer will become oracle, but some human beings takes advantage of the computer in the opposite direction to improve their ability to recall information.

For example, human memory follows the law spaced repetition and forgetting curve(our ability to retrieve information exponentially decay). We can take advantage of this by remembering or exercising our memory at the last possible to keep our knowledge. That mean we can efficiently review information as needed. Moreover, as we constantly review information, we only have to repeat them later and later in the future. In pyschology, spaced repetition is one of the least taken advantage discovery. Only in the past two decade or so, did we start using computers to speed up the process of remembering and learning.

That's only by taking advantage of human biology. it's possible in the future that we will enhance the speed and computational ability through bioengineering and neuroprosthetics. More over, the propagation of information is limited by the speed of light. So it's likely those with memory at close at hand will have an advantage over people's whose memory is far away, hence longer latency.
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Heck Adam and Eve got bored and wandered into trouble with the snake when they had more important things to do.
I would argue that your hopes would be better served by Unity Engine[1] and Mono[2] than by Steam. While high-budget releases have almost completely ignored the Mac and Linux platforms despite Valve's effort, the popularity of those tools has brought a very large number of mid-tier and indipendent developers to publish on them. While they are not as popular, they still help to make them look a little bit less like a desolated wasteland of work and productivity. :)

Let's also not forget that those same high-budget productions rely heavily on the current set of graphics (and audio) drivers, and there is hardly any effort to bring the Mac and linux up to par on that front.

[1]http://unity3d.com/

[2]http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page
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I don't follow why being an "expert" in D would make you "bored" of Q. If Q is simply a boring field to you, that's one thing (and the appropriate response is to quit and find something better). But it's not your employer's job to give you your dream assignment. If they need Q geeks and you're available, then that's what you're stuck with. That's what being an employee is all about.