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This is bogus.

New Yorkers got a tough lesson about the reliability of "modern" communications infrastructure in the last flood. I remember a circa-1990's ad where an old lady using a pay phone said "This never happened with AT&T" and the answer was "You're not dealing with AT&T."

I live in a cell phone dead spot and I depend on a landline because it will work when the the power is out and I really need to call 911. Cell phones, cordless phones, skype, dsl, cable and "magic jack" all disappear when the power goes out.

Also with all kinds of communication infrastructure there's the economic problem of paying for it. I got a close look at a proposal to wire a rural area with optic fiber to offer multichannel television and DOCSIS 3 internet.

Most of the cost is in getting the fiber to your door. This cost is huge ($1000-$2000 per household) and is necessary to offer the simplest and cheapest services.

Triple play bundles are one way of getting more money out of the average customer and then there's the very tricky problem of offering better services to people who value them more, so you get usage caps and overusage fees that are 10-20 or more times than the bulk price (no, i wouldn't complain about spending $20 for an additional 200GB of usage)

The outside physical plant that these people were proposing to build could be easily upgraded to support service similar to Google Fiber, but that would be an empty promise unless they upgraded their "middle mile" which again would mean a considerable amount of capex.

Regulated telcos are greedy, that's true, but I've looked at the economics of a number of smaller broadband providers and it's definitely a challenging business to be in.
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This is a magazine article (quite well-written, IMHO), it's not a scientific paper. So in that respect of course it has to make some generalizations, which in this case I think they're mostly correct.
Versioning actually tends to work better in Pharo/Squeak because once you have a version system dedicated to one language you're free to go ahead and understand the syntax of that language. I'm not sure how much of that they take advantage of today but there was talk several years ago of doing things like this.
Additional anecdotal data: of the four or five pilots I know personally (ages 23 - 65), all had their pilot's license before turning 18. So, yeah, not all that uncommon.

Note: I'm not a pilot, these aren't coworkers, just natural friends.
The reason you are wrong has nothing to do with your gender.
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Biologically speaking, it's logical to not want to bring children into a harsh world incapable of nurturing them. It could be an evolutionary or rational feedback.

I think much of this has always been, and this is largely a case of "if you go looking for something, you'll find it." Also, they're pushing a book. Funny how that works.
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I like it, but the dropdown menus look strangely out of place.
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you might find SqueakNos interesting: http://squeaknos.blogspot.com

smalltalk was originally the entire stack, from the hardware all the way up, i agree that for a long time, it lived in a weird in between world where it was sort of an OS and sort of not. working out how to keep what makes 'smalltalk smalltalk' while ironing out those issues is something that both redline and pharo are trying to solve from different angles.

i'm interested in hearing more about the taking tips from erlang idea. i'd love to chat more via email:

sean@monkeysnatchbanana.com
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I've done some of the things in the list with good intentions, but it seems I might have sabotaged myself. It wasn't deliberate sabotage, but I'm told it looked that way. Is there a 'proper' way of proposing a counter-plan or making a suggestion?
Note that user-data are kickstart specific so do not forget to adapt them (actually change grub's kernel line) when preseeding.
That's a pretty unsubstantiated claim, considering the tens of millions of people murdered by governments in the 20th century.
But Kickstarters aren't startups. This is specifically an avenue for lower-capital, lower-risk businesses to get the money they need to deliver products.

If you're an angel or VC, the low success rate is countered by the large upside - a Kickstarter has no upside besides the cool t-shirt/game/gadget you were promised. The risk needs to be commensurate with that.
Anything that is missing can be re-phrased as a problem to fix.

e.g.
It's really hard to keep up with what's going on in all my friends' lives
It's hard to find stuff on the Internet if I don't know who hosts that information
Hotels are too expensive for medium-length stays
Don't let the naysayers discourage you. Having and raising kids is one of the most wonderful experiences you can have in your life. yes, it is incredibly difficult, painful at times. But it is all worth it.

I strongly believe that if kids turn out bad, their parents should be blamed for the most part if not all.
In a cursory glance it appears to be MIT licensed for anyone else who was curious:

https://github.com/redline-smalltalk/redline-smalltalk

I imagine I'm not the one who generally is unwilling to pay for development tools or languages that are closed source unless they are directly relevant to my job (of course, then my employer would be paying for them) or backed by a robust company (e.g. JetBrains).
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So you're suggesting that The New York Times, hardly a climate-change-denier, got the numbers on their already quite alarmist page wrong by an order of magnitude? I'm pretty sure none of the worst case IPCC scenarios consider the total melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.
The cost.

Google is building out a network in Kansas City because (i) they've got more money than they know what to do with and (ii) they want to intimidate the ISP industry and influence the government.

Any entrepreneur who wants to offer internet service will find they have the same economic interests as the phone company and the economic logic will lead them to behave the same way.

It may be true that you can offer somebody a service at $50 that offers 10^5 more bandwidth than a $50 phone line, but without paying for some physical plant that costs at least as much as a phone line, you can't offer phone service for 0.005 cent a month.
As OO languages go, Smalltalk is very functional. The way Clojure works would be at least as natural in a Smalltalk language.
What words would you use to describe your favorite programming language?
(The pay version is newer. I haven't read it, can't comment on the differences.)
nobody really wants to talk about that

I don't know whom you're listening to, but it seems to me that everybody is talking about it. To what extent you should 'pressure' kids to pursue an activity you believe will be beneficial vs letting them find their own way is one of the big parenting debates.

Perhaps it scares people to think that they might be responsible for not making their kids brilliant.

I think it's more that most parents aren't interested in making their children "brilliant" in the sense of being amazingly good at one very niche endeavor (although you don't have to look far to find plenty of parents who are). Most parents seem to prefer attempting to raise more rounded and well balanced children.
> a) the universe is extremely large"

After seeing this answer there is only two possibilities; you are either trolling or have a psycological condition that makes you take any statement way too literal.

When people talks about a "dent on the universe" they usually mean people in the same time and age in the planet earth.
> Content processors like YouTube have already been shown to have an obligation to support take-down requests from IP holders.

An obligation in-so-far as the DMCA is enforced. YouTube might be doing additional things as a company, but they aren't required by any law I know of. Maybe it's an agreement with IP holders, but it's not a law.

> Kickstarter got the equivalent of a polite take-down request from Arduino and they said,

That isn't the same thing as a DMCA take-down request.

> It will crumble like a house of cards when the first team of lawyers takes a whack at it for serious infringement.

The DMCA protects them. Their is no indication they received a DMCA request.
How is that possible when sea levels elsewhere didn't rise by 10s of feet? Even if you count tides it defies common sense; a lot of NYC is below 10 feet from sea level.

Anyway, Lomborg is a controversial figure with an anti-global-warming agenda. I tend to trust more objective sources for stuff like this.
The thing I fear even further is encouraging people who read articles in the NYT to not have children. Or, people who read hacker news, even.

I don't care what your views are, or if you want or don't want children, but I do consider it at least partly a responsibility of capable, intelligent people to reproduce. It's almost in-line with the article's generalizations, but I'd apply it to both sexes fairly.

It's a sad paradox: the people who have the rationality and conviction to consider not having children are—evolutionarily speaking—the ones we want to have children.
That syntax only works against `now'. The mixins are a convenience for a subset of date/time math cases.
Very nice! I've been waiting for something like this. There are other metro themes for bootstrap, but they're a bit over the top and try to replicate the metro GUI on the PC/tablet.
Sure. But the founders weren't fools, they didn't set up an efficient government; they set up a government with a ton of checks and balances -- exactly because an efficient government is a terrible thing.
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The OP discribes what is one of the more crucial skills needed in critical sicumstances: take yourself out of the quotation, take a step back and decide after having seen the whole picture and not just a smal aspect of it that fits your personal preferences best. And then doing it, especially if it's just one big shlep.

What is actually the most dangerous thing to happen, simply because it's so convenient, is that by doing what you can do best all the time keeps you busy, in your eyes and the eyes of others. So when you fail, it was not because you didn't do anything. You're creating your own bubble.

That's why it's better to have a co-founder who is not a carboncopy of yourself and to have a not-awfully-bad board, because both can help to pop that bubble before it is too late.

Very sound advice, and not only for start-ups / founders but for everybody who has a certain responsibility.
I ordered mine 8 months ago. It should be arriving sometime within the next 20 days. Longest wait to play Minecraft I've ever had.
Really? You think that tax policy is some verboten topic that is outside the scope of public debate and that anyone who dares to question the 'government' should 'leave' (or become a criminal)?
I can see how you would say this, but Jessica Valenti is a well known feminist author who was written several works on this very subject, so she takes this position based on her previous knowledge and study. She is most known for Full Frontal Feminism: http://www.amazon.com/Full-Frontal-Feminism-Womans-Matters/d...
Nah...Maybe in stealth tech, but the fastest jet is still the SR-71 from 1966.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR-71_Blackbird
Looks like you've included your /assets/application-<hash>.js on every page, not just the homepage. This makes ACE throw errors because you don't have an element with an ID of "editor" on every page as well.

Hope this helps! :)
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Kickstarter does have an upside: The option of actually receiving a project that was deemed commercially unviable by a VC or other investor/company. Something that no one wanted to produce since "there is no market for it". So by becoming a backer you might end up with a product that otherwise would not be available. Granted, it's a small upside, but the risk is also lower.
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Great! First one done and signed up, was looking for something like this to improve.
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Timeless sabotage-by-committee advise.
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Am I the only one who noticed this?
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With abuse apparently rampant in "crowd based" efforts, can we trust their trust? Especially if this enables them to scale beyond their "50 million downloads" to the point where they become a target of those looking to cause mischief? Imagine teams of users giving rival sites we can normally trust, a slew of negative ratings.
> I have a strong association of a desire to have children with good times. Plenty. Safety. Relief. An aversion to children is a sign of bad times. Turmoil. War.

This reminded me of the story of my ex-wife's grand-mother who around 1942 or so went very closed to the WW2 Easter front lines dressed up as a man (that's what the legend says, anyway) to meet her husband, my wife's grand-father, who was serving in the Romanian Army. Nine months later, July 1943, their first kid was born, my ex-father-in-law. ~60 years later my ex-wife was trying to explain to me that we shouldn't have kids because times "are to unstable, we don't have enough money etc". So there's that ...

A little OT, my ex-wife's grand-father was quite a man, he got wounded 3 times on the Eastern front, and even though he had been raised in a traditional, Romanian peasant family he said that he couldn't believe in God anymore after what he had seen in there. After the war he returned to Romania and because he used to be an elementary-school teacher before WW2 and had experience with kids he was in charge with running a foster-home where he took care of orphaned children for a while, until things around the country settled down a bit. Those kids still looked at him as a father-like figure well into them growing up as adults and becoming grand-parents themselves, a bunch of them were present at his funeral 65 years after he had taken care of them. So there's that again :)
In a theoretical sense, yes. But it would be very hard to avoid introducing nonportable elements in your code. There is no practical way to go from any existing language to LLVM and keep it portable, with any existing LLVM frontend that I am familiar with.
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I can't stop staring at the edge detection filter[0]. Very cool.

0: http://inspirit.github.com/jsfeat/sample_canny_edge.html
I must admit that this is actually a piece of information I just proxied through as a starting value (as stated, these are basically reworked notes from a training). I should make it clearer that this parameter is subject to tuning. What would be your suggestion here?
Your assertion doesn't make sense.

For better or worse, humans are driven primarily by emotion, not rational decision-making. Much of life requires marketing, and just because something is promoted in a way that works with human nature doesn't necessarily undermine its scientific nature.

I'd love to know how naming it something emotive in order to build consensus destroys the underlying science.
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That's because there is no online version of the documentation right now. It's only available in the editor, it's an Alpha after all.
Just because the compiler is written in Python it does not mean the Flua programs are executed in Python. In fact they can be executed in multiple environments and C++ is the one which is currently being developed, hence the programs _are_ fast.
How come the Windows download doesn't work for you? It works on vanilla Windows, that's really strange.

Just stay on a constructive level. It would have been nice if you submitted a bug report on GitHub about the error you got on your Windows machine.
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More likely it is the other way around -- the OSS choose to use these strategies because they were already prevalent in the organizations.

As for why they were prevalent? CYA. Surely you are not going to fire a manager who insist on inclusivity and following security protocols?
Move the port out past the seawall, move the hipsters in to the abandoned industrial flats.
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And there are significantly larger examples too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_Partnership
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Not the majority; wish is usually what is implied with the word "average."
Hmm I was aware that when you get a product in USA and sell in the UK the conversion is to change the $ sign to a £ sign. But I have not seen it go the other way!

Can you realy purchase a Pi for $25?
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Oh! ok, thanks! need to have a look at it.
Depressing that some people do this stuff and think they're good workers / managers.

Stuff has unintended weird incentives, and that can quickly lead to destructive working practices.

One quick example: Factory workers have to clock in. You want people to be on time (8.00 am), so you say that if they clock in after 08:04 they lose 15 minutes wage.

But what (obviously happens) is the people who arrive at 08:04 don't start work until 08:15 (which is, after all, when they're getting paid from). But the people coming in on time mill around a bit before they start work - they clock in at 07:55 and get to the bench at 08:01; or the clock in at 08:00 and get to the bench at 08:03. So there's a bunch of people milling around, not starting work and distracting other workers and etc etc, just because someone invented a broken disincentive late arrivals instead of just being a better manager and telling people to get to work.

I have countless examples of inadvertent and deliberate sabotage in factory work. (One more quick example. A guy turns up for interview. He has a friend with him. The friend waits in reception, falls asleep; he's really scruffy. The interviewee smells of alcohol. His hobby on his CV is "Enjoying Homebrew". Employing that one semi-functional alcoholic destroyed hundreds of person-hours of work, because people were less restrained when they went to the pub at lunch time. (Also, some other alcoholics stopped being sober.))

I should start a blog, I guess.
The interesting thing about Polgar is that he announced he would raise gifted kids before he even had them - he didn't even have a wife then, instead he looked for a wife willing to do the experiment. He wasn't obsessed about chess, he just picked it because it was easy to measure success. He then studied it himself so that he could teach his kids.

Sure, it is still an anecdote, but he repeated it three times with his children. It seems incredibly lucky if all of his children just happened to be super-gifted and would have become prodigies in any discipline just because of their genes, and him knowing they would be like that before they were born.
"I live in a cell phone dead spot and I depend on a landline because it will work when the the power is out and I really need to call 911. Cell phones, cordless phones, skype, dsl, cable and "magic jack" all disappear when the power goes out."

Yes, mostly, WRT cell vs land line. But a cell handset will work as long as it's charged, unless the towers in your area have themselves lost power, which is fairly likely in a disaster like Sandy.

Land lines work in power outages because the lines are powered from the central office, so they are subject to the same natural disasters as cell towers. The central offices likely have diesel backups. I suppose towers have battery backups?

Not disagreeing with you, I've always had landline comms during my power outages, but it's not black and white, especially as you rise up the disaster scale.
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The article is specifically talking about constructed normality for women in regards to motherhood. Certainly it is totally OK to want or not want children, but mass media messaging and cultural assumptions about women and how they interact with children (their own and others) are a factor in how people make decisions for having children, hence the section in the article about rates of unplanned pregnancy and attitudes of mothers in an unplanned pregnancy.
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Yeah, but 100 years is also plenty of time for wars to brew and erupt, for instance. I, ah, wouldn't blindly put a dollar in your local bank and act like you just paid for your great-great-grandchild's college education. On second thought, that might not be a bad idea, as a conversation piece.
So basically, a lemon market.
When I see for example a kickstarter game that has a $20 price tag for a pre-order "donation" that seems like reasonable value.

If however the delivery rate is only 1/10 then that game actually costs me $200 (since I probably need to fund 10 games in order to get one I can play).

Therefor if I only want to pay $20 for a game, I shouldn't pay more than $2 for a pre-order.

The result of this is that genuine projects who stand a good chance of delivering have to grossly undercharge for pre-orders which starves them of the level of funding that they actually need.
I agree. Also, I imagine homeless people aren't short of jackets - cheap clothes are very cheap these days, relatively speaking. (I don't know about the States, but in the UK a cheap jacket in a bargain shop might be <£10. (Then again America is a lot colder than the UK in parts))

And there's plenty of jumble sales, charity donations of old clothes, etc. This reminds me of that guy who did the (failed) million-tshirts-to-Africa project. Good intentions, bad idea.
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The article clearly shows that some people don't want to have children or have found having children to not be as satisfying as you did. We can't make decisions for others, and perpetuating messages and depictions of child raising as fulfilling is really misleading.
Wi-Fi based infrastructure is (1) dirt cheap, and (2) offers order-of-magnitude better performance than 3G/4G so this is definitely a place where it's cost effective to provide a better services than other providers and thus promote their brand image.
Late for what?
I'm not sure why this is about security rather than any other aspect of the devices and software services we use. I agree though that power is accumulating into too few hands.

This is also the case in other industries and none of the solutions are very attractive.
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