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It seems you value more the problems that religious extremists cause than the current blatant disregard to free speech. In that light you'd be better off moving to China.

Going against religion won't do any good to protect free speech or any other human right. You'll only gather more enemies.
You do realize that there is always external stimulus around right?

Be it the noise of the ventilation system, or car horns outside, true silence rarely exists.

That said, when I am at home there is little else except for the sound of my computer fans as I read a book. But when I am at work, I most certainly choose to control what background noises I listen to. Music is most certainly a part of that.

As for stimulus shutting down self reflection, I find that quite the opposite is true. Different forms of stimulus encourage different forms of self reflection.
I'm surprised he likes photo passwords. What's the point of a password if you give it away to everyone around you every time you unlock? (Maybe Jeff has never had co-workers who like to play pranks...)
I know a lot of creative professionals who would abandon OSX and WIN in a heartbeat if Adobe would release their software for Linux.
I'm not sure that it's as tough as your analogy makes out. I'd say something like "Once the thief notices the safe door is open they can probably take your secrets out of it" :)

However, I agree that there are probably some cases where the secrets are in memory rather than on the disk where this approach would be very useful.

The typical case though is reboot to alternative media or single user mode.
HN is indeed a cult of personality. Perhaps you would be better served by chiming in with your anecdote that shows how you too are exceptional in the same way as pg.
You're right. We're an app dev company, and we're in the process of developing a medical app for a client. The FDA approval process makes it very time consuming.
Mozilla needs to disconnect itself from the Google umbilical
With win8 I thought for the first time about using a touchscreen for work or at home and my conclusion was:

Don't want to do it.

Maybe I'm to old or something but It just don't feel right fingering around on my monitor. Even if it would be flat and part of my desk (which would also be horrible because I eat, drink and smoke at my desk at home). I want to have my head up, look straight and don't have the screen right before my nose.

There are tabs and smartphones. I have those. Touching their screens feels right. It's the small thing you do on the road, in the plane, do small things or have fun. But I just don't feel like I could work with that at work or at home.
Countries that have a copyright collection agency (Like Australia). Needn't worry about these things, and can include full transcripts of copyrighted material in education material.

America's "Fair Use" (defence) is not the only model in which copyright is managed and upheld.
I really doubt a v1 of an app would have much if any "optimization", profiling, analytics, or documentation.
> Every browser has an option to disable loading of images, javascript, flash or java. At least Firefox and Opera have them for sure, I suspect others do too, because why not?

For me the crucial difference is that Opera could toggle between loading images/cached images with a single keypress: 'i'. These days you have to press Shift-i. Toggling CSS on/off is Shift-g. Having this so easily accessible makes a big difference. I don't know how to do this in Chrome. Looking quickly through the menu, I can't even find the options for this.
Aren't we talking about religion-influenced restriction to the freedom of expression here?

Why does religion go against us, but we should not go against it? They take pride in hurting whatever I consider worthy.
I'd love to put Firefox OS on my iPod Touch.

I feel a little dirty for owning this thing.
There are two things I am always wondering about... one is what all these people are actually talking about for hours on end. I am a very quiet person but I see and hear pretty much everything going on around me even if it appears I am dis-connected. I just don't open my mouth unless I really actually have something to say. So I just have no idea what I might be missing in my life that I don't have all these things to talk about for hours and hours.

And the second thing that baffles me even more: I basically have to apologize at work when I have my ear plugs in because my over-sensitive boss feels like "we are ignoring her" when actually we are just trying to get some work done and that takes focus and I need all the noise blocked out for that. But someone who has never done any software engineering work probably really cannot relate and understand why that matters.
You will probably get arrested soon :P
I've worked next to someone that was extremely harsh on their keyboard - full blown hammering the keys, with the whole desk shaking - and even in a medium-noise office it was infuriating to work next to.

After a few light-hearted suggestions that he be a bit lighter on the keys, I ended up having to point out how much it was putting me off my work. Thankfully he was good enough to change his habits while he remembered, but he would soon idly begin bashing again.

On a similar note personal space invaders are even worse, but I'll contain my vitriol on that subject for now.
It's a meaningless question. How would a world without religion come about? By flipping a switch, and everybody becomes well educated, peace loving, hyper-rational atheists? In that case, probably yeah, it'd be better. On the other hand, if you start lopping the heads of anyone found to be taking guidance from any teaching that isn't solidly grounded in hard science, then, no, it certainly won't be better.
Religion today serves no purpose, really. It did at one point, but it doesn't now. As societal animals we've moved beyond the need for religion. Additionally, religion by and large is a (huge) net negative on society. Couple that with the fact that, for instance, internet, business, love do orders of magnitude more good than the rather minor harm and you can't equate religion to the others (perhaps, alcohol and drugs, but even those have more positive benefits than religion).
That would explain the crash but why is it so horrible slow?

I don't feel the speed difference between an Ubuntu/XP is as big as in between Ubuntu/win7 (talking about the old-desktop here).
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I read in the first post, she landed in India, why did she land if she knew, she would be arrested.
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Atwood's an American. Writers will write what they know… they're hardly obligated to use an unfamiliar measurement system for your convenience.
Its sad that the freedom of speech for a individual has been erased by misuing the laws which were actually meant to provide justice. The arrest and the eventual ransacking of the victim's uncles clinic by the supporters of Balasahab Thackeray, may have very less to justify the act.

I wonder if they would even reflect upon the fact that would the supremo himself support such expressions and outbursts by his partymen and followers. No wonder the signs of the party cracking up are showing and i hope this case becomes a eye opener given that internet has got a wide reach and educates the young to chose the law makers more sensibly.
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Can't see it working with a 15" laptop, which is my preferred size.

But if it gets to the point where all laptops have touch screens then I won't complain - it might work well with some UIs (like XBMC). I'm just not willing to pay extra for it.
As fun as it is to think everyone thinks like americans...
Does India have and promote the ideal of "Freedom of Expression"? Or is this just the US peanut gallery giving their 2 cents on other peoples' culture?
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There is a LOT of people that don't even understand ctrl-c ctrl-v and go to the menu each time to do it.
Unless you hire actual professionals, rather than some chancer who read a ruby book once.
There is nothing that religion provides that cannot be and is not already provided by secular society[1]. Religion is an antiquated notion that serves no purpose in modern society.
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I find it annoying when I have to move my hands from the keyboard to the mouse. I imagine it would be infinitely more irritating and far less comfortable moving my hands from the keyboard to touch a vertical screen in front of me.
No, you read that wrong. She was in India all the time, just a different city (Pune) and landed in Delhi.
I'd like to add "photo" pollution also to this. It is near impossible to go to a party, or a tourist spot and actually enjoy the place/occasion. Photos/flashes everywhere, all the time - even the most useless/mundane things being photographed, all the time.

If you are in new york city, you can't even walk peacefully on the road - you'll have to stop to be "considerate" to the people who are blocking the sidewalk taking pictures. I went to a speech - the room was quite dark, that still didn't stop people from taking pics. It seemed that most people there were interested in taking pics than the speech itself, which I find very disrespectful to the speaker.

All of it is just annoying.
I bought a new Asus laptop with Win8 specifically because it has a touchscreen. The touchscreen solves my long standing problem with using laptops - I find touchpads nearly unusable. It's soo much easier to scroll with the touchscreen, especially with the small laptop screens.

All non-touchscreen laptops are, to my mind, instantly and sadly obsolete.

Note that for a desktop, I see no advantage to a touchscreen, as the mouse is just fine.
Well, I have used it, and it works, but I only use it in very specific cases. First of all, it's a bit of a bother to run; for one, it's not integrated with the IDE. So for bugs in simple areas of the code, I just don't bother and use the integrated debugger.

Then, the really hard problems (for me) usually involve a concurrency bug that manifests itself after a while. When ODB runs out of memory, it will discard the earlier part of the recording (it uses a circular buffer), and so I've found that some vital information is lost.

So I've found that ODB is great for complex algorithm bugs that are easy to reproduce in a controlled fashion. For other use-cases, it's either lacking in power or too much of a hassle.
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I fear for you lot when this article is revealed as satire.
London Underground is a wonderful mixture of opposites in this respect.

During the very crowded morning rush, it is almost a capital offense to make a sound (except perhaps some noise escaping from headphones). You can forget about talking to another passenger, even a friend. Even looking happy while not obviously reading something that might be funny is met with embarrassed glances at feet at ceilings.

In the evening though, after about 9 or 10, the tube is full of groups on their ways home from the pubs - then there are people singing, often whole carriages will silently giggle at someone being an extrovert centre of attention.

Finally, there is the etiquette surrounding when one must offer a seat to someone else. the order of priority appears to be:

* pregnant and (obviously) disabled people, plus new mothers.
* old people (ladies first)
* children (especially medium sized ones who look like they might actually sit
down, and/or shut up if given a seat)
* the rest of us, in a reserved, passive aggressive scrum.

(also, obviously, talking to a complete stranger on the tube is a massive faux pas, no matter the time of day...)

On quiet coaches specifically, I have to say that on British "mainline" trains there is a big problem, which is reservations. For example, on virgin trains there is always a quiet coach (both a standard and first class one), and a coach with no reserved seats. If you want a seat at a busy time of day, you must be one of the first to arrive at (on Virgin it's coach E) and take one (it is even possible to get the prized window-side-facing-forwards-at-a-table seats this way.) However, these coaches never coincide. Thus, if you want to be in the quiet coach you must book a seat in advance, which is cheaper but restricts you to a particular train - if you're late you must pay twice, and if you're early you have to wait. This is important when you're on the tube (which frequently has delays) and the trains from Euston to Manchester are every 20 minutes (and absolutely packed in the evenings, especially Fridays, in spite of this.) Given the convenience factor, I usually plump for coach E, and risk the screaming babies/mobile chatterers - as another commenter pointed out, this is why I paid £80 for a pair of headphones.
Try being British, you basically have to understand both intuitively.
> Time alone in the nature or meditation is quite the opposite and something I would wish those stimuli seeker would experience more often.

Why? That assumes that being alone with your own thoughts is somehow good for everyone. I've done it--it's not all it's cracked up to be, IMHO. I believe there's enough variation in the way people's brains are wired up that it's not really possible to say "this specific thing that works for me is also good for your own mood/well-being/thoughts".

I don't feel mentally stimulated by sitting around in nature or by meditating. It doesn't "clear my head" or make me look at my life in a new interesting perspective. It doesn't calm me in any meaningful way or anything like that. I mostly just feel annoyed that I'm not getting something accomplished, whether that "something" is actively creative or passively consumptive (as much as something passively consumptive can be "accomplished").

If that kind of thing works for you, that's great! I'm sure I take great mental pleasure from things you consider meaningless :-).
This is pretty cool.

For general purpose components, this would be nice for only a few of them. As parts get smaller, markings are less common, and if you have a few parts spill out and mix, testing them may be the only way to figure out what is what.

Resistors >= 1206 have identifying resistance markers. Most resistors on boards are smaller, 0806, 0402, 0201, and do not have markings. You would have to manually test the resistors to see what their values are. They don't have power ratings anywhere, only resistance ratings.

Capacitors don't have markings. Transistors don't have markings, and about the only thing you could do would be to test the pin configuration and check if it's an NPN or a PNP.

ICs generally do have markings, unless they are smaller and have either an impossible to read laser inscription (even under a microscope, you have to have the light hit it just right to read what the part is) or no markings at all. ICs are also the big ticket items on a board, and it's almost impossible to get a 32 pin IC off with a soldering iron. If I could splash some water on and grab it, that would be cool.

If you made all your own boards, knew the parts that went onto them, thought it was worth the ~80 cents of resistors, capacitors, transistors, and selectively removed components, you could be in for a treat.

But, this is still awesome. As a hobbyist, I would rather just buy some new components so I have them all in a strip in a bag that has the part numbers, and the values. As a recycler though, this is amazing. Instead of having to reflow everything and liberate all the parts, I can grab all the ICs and transistors, melt them down and regain the metals used.

It might not be worth it to do it yet, but saving hundreds of circuit boards would take up a bit of space. The board itself is likely >90% of the space. I want the 10% that has the parts on it. I can stash these for later when a more economical way of getting the metals out comes around.
As a long time webdev, I too took a fews years back in around 05,06 to figure out how misleading w3school's content is, but since then, I've compiled a list of resource to help myself relearn the webdev process. But be warned, there's no shortcut if you want to be good, if you just aim to be quick and dirty. Go read w3schools.com and be yet another w3fool.

_Webdev Begins_

Sitepoint

Slightly outdated, but perfectly succinct and accurate reference to HTML, CSS with EXCELLENT notes on common pitfalls. All new webdevs should start here.

* http://reference.sitepoint.com/

Things that you must learn about CSS

* box model
* floats
* positioning
* margin collapsing

Eloquent Javascript

An easier to read book on JS.

* http://eloquentjavascript.net/contents.html

MDN

Their resource on Javascript is a must read basic reference for all new JS developers.

* https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript

_Webdev Returns_

How that you have a basic, but solid understanding of HTML, CSS and JS, you should start learning the more advanced stuff:

More practice on CSS positioning

Google css positioning, read anything besides the w3schools results, such as this:

* http://www.alistapart.com/articles/css-positioning-101/

Vertical Alignment

* http://css-tricks.com/what-is-vertical-align/

Stickyfooter

* http://lazylegs.info/articles/sticky-footer.html

Shrink-wrapping floats

* http://haslayout.net/css-tuts/CSS-Shrink-Wrap

How to deal with IE

* http://haslayout.net

_Webdev Rises_

HTML/CSS/JS design patterns

* http://www.alistapart.com
* http://css-tricks.com
* http://addyosmani.com/resources/essentialjsdesignpatterns/book/
* http://ui-patterns.com

Browser inconsistencies reference

* http://www.quirksmode.org
* http://caniuse.com

HTML5

* http://diveintohtml5.info
* http://html5doctor.com

CSS3

* http://css-tricks.com
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That's right because all religious people are poorly educated war loving and irrational.

Seriously... Do you forget what was responsible for spreading education so rapidly around the world (give you a hint, it wasn't atheists).

There are a number of religions that are founded in rationality, and large components of others that are pure rationality. Just because you don't believe in (a) G/god doesn't mean you aren't religious. Just because you believe in a G/god doesn't mean you are irrational.
I shared this story on my fb account and got a veiled threat in 30 minutes. This is what I posted: "21 old year girl arrested for opposing Mumbai bandh on her Facebook status! 2000 Shiv Sainiks vandalize her Uncle's clinic. Another girl was arrested for liking the status! This is horrible. I blame all the people on facebook and in real world who patronize such violent and undemocratic forces. So much for free speech! The youth of this country are pushed down from all directions every day. Are we supposed to just sit and take it? Today it was Shiv Sena who did this, a fringe party. A few days ago it was Congress cabinet minister's son. What happens if every Political Party starts doing this? How long are we going to sleep? I never say this : Share !!". Note that this person was a well educated guy from my convent school. The extremism in my country is appalling.
The point is that "app" means application. "What does an application cost?" - well, is it a CLI that prints the current time in the terminal? Or is it Microsoft Word?

You can get a fully functional well polished fart button app for both iOS and Android made for less than $4k, but I doubt you could make something like the Facebook app on even one platform for $400k.
Out of curiosity, why are the complainers in this case not being called out for their own racism/discrimination? The fact that a panel consists of white males, straight males, or purple elephants is not in itself evidence of discrimination. It is entirely possible that these were the most qualified of all applicants to have submitted to this conference. Without knowing the details of the applicant pool, anyone screaming "racism! sexism! rape culture! etc!" is not fighting for a worthy cause, but being destructive and hysterical. I hope that historically status quo groups get over the guilt and act in the right going forward.

The goal of a technical presentation should not be to filter speakers via quota into race and sexuality; it should be to discuss technical things.
Well, it depends. If Atwood's aiming at an international audience, then he should use both measurement systems. If he's happy with an American audience then there's no reason for him to bother.

I note that the date of his blog post is the international-friendly “November 19, 2012” rather than the American numeric “11/19/2012”. But internationalising dates like this is easier than providing measurements in dual units.
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As silly as it may sound, it never occurred to my that Reddit is open. (But then, I guess, I need to remove/fix graphics :).)
Jeff Atwood writes, The screen bounces when you touch it and for me this just brings up all the reasons I don't want a touchscreen except on a tablet. There is gorilla arms, screen bounces, and screen smudges. Jeez, I hate when people touch my screens.

But I am wondering if a reasonable or even better solution is an appropriate touchpad or even Android or iPad touchpad app.

Right now there are two (maybe three) touchpads quasi made for Windows 8 that I would like to try.

* The Logitech Wireless Rechargeable Touchpad T650 -- a huge touchpad with Windows 8 gesture support

* Splashtop Win8 Metro Testbed for Android and iPad

* Unified Remote for Android and Windows Phones

I haven't used Windows 8 more than three minutes, and I haven't used these alternatives to a touchscreen monitor, but I like the idea of having a 4" to 7" phone or tablet screen that mirrors the Windows 8 screen but lets me keep my finger flat on the table, pointing to a smaller screen now in remote touchscreen mode and able to get feedback to where my finger is either by seeing a "mouse pointer" move on the screen, or just by looking at the phone or tablet my finger is on and seeing the screen there.
People from the US use US measurements, surprisingly.
I run OpenBSD with a desktop on an iMac G4, mainly as a hobby machine to continuously loop through and display photo slideshows. But I take your point about its real role.

Oddly enough, I switched from NetBSD as when its iMac support for X was broken for several months, and I haven't switched back. (For the uninitiated, it's NetBSD that is supposed to be the one that runs on anything.)

I really like having it around to do things like experiment with pf, and test C development in a non-Linux environment. Especially for C for one who is used to Linux, it's a bit of fresh air on OpenBSD.

I also have a few VPSs around, including one with FreeBSD. I wish more of them offered the BSDs.
> boarding rows 1 - 5 now

I think you greatly under-estimate people's economic or opportunistic sense of a good chance to get guaranteed luggage space and enough space around them to take off jackets, sweaters and whatever else they might need to feel comfortable sitting down on a plane.
I've noticed that. Travelling on suburban trains in Melbourne was a constant din, especially if there were groups of school kids on the train.
I try not to be too confrontational here, but in this case I'm probably going to have to. I would dearly love for Microsoft to release a killer OS, but so far as of yet I can't see any real compelling feature that I would be particularly interested in.

Let's be honest here... if I have to do development work, then I'm not going to use Windows 8. I'll be using Windows 7.