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Don't forget the balkans have been destroyed multiple times by nationalistic wars, most recently in the Former Yugoslavia, so nationalistic sentiments may be more prominent.
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Without knowing what went on before this it is very hard to judge the list.

On the other hand, the list is perfect to figure out what had happened before: their home was a mess, meals were spotty, there were frequent discussions that prevented him from work and she belittled him in front of their children.

That's not to say that the situation was her fault.
New Firefox beta is much better than old (esp gmail)
i always found firefox would be laggy when you tabbed to gmail

new beta firefox has no lag!
I'm not sure if I understand your answer. To quote from the article again:

During our tests, we saw that SQL databases weren’t a good fit due to the fact that our data where unstructured and we needed a lot of complex “joins” (and many indexes).

I guess that you say it's unstructured because the most important parts of bug reports are stack traces and debug messages? My naive assumption is that stack traces can be stored in a relational way, and it seems that you do:

For us, relations might seem to resemble these of an RDBMS at first sight, but we work with them in a different way.

From 'unstructured', 'complex "joins"' and 'work in a different way' I infer that you do a lot of string processing on the fly, and the real problem was about precomputing everything vs. staying flexible?
Yes, the third point was about charging more for clean vehicles, the second point about charging people for not leaving their vehicles behind clean.

But yeah, I do think we agree :)
Don't get me wrong. Companies are acting in a completely rational way. They will work with the levers that they have, and lobbying the government to increase immigration is one of those tools. If they can't employ people profitably, then they won't employ them.

But when a companies like Apple, Google and Microsoft, that are making billions in profit each year are claiming they can't find employees, and have been caught colluding to keep salaries down, it rings a little hollow to say that they can't increase salaries to increase demand.
He is right though in that there is no clear algorithm you can follow to test if your sample falls under Fair Use. And if you intend to release your music them it's probably safest to assume that you're not covered by fair use.
Mozilla has many paid employees, though.
Hm, anybody remember Dmitry Slyarov? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Sklyarov

As far as I recall the Adobe PDF encryption was also just some XOR with a simple passphrase. Got him into serious trouble.

And WTH is 'virtually uncrackable'?
My point here is: don't take your legal advise from a guy who says things that are "half-right".

Incidentally, no argument from me: if you intend to release your music, you probably aren't covered under fair use if you sample another song.
"Either way, you dont want to work with people who you cannot communicate with."

Don't agree with this at all. There will always be non-technicians who you have to communicate with. If you can't express what it is you need to communicate in non-technical language it is your problem, not theirs.

i would rightly fire someone who refused to at least try to make an effort to see it from my point of view, and continue.
Ah ... didn't see that.
I find your comment to be belittling. The amount of chores one does is inversely proportional to the amount of money brought home?

"If my girlfriend did not work" is a shorthand for something else. I think it's shorthand for "sit around being lazy all day", which is an emotional decision and not the overt economical one. If your girlfriend is going to school full-time, then that's not work. Would you expect her to put in up to 20 hours of chores and meals on top of her studies? I don't think so.

Ahh, but perhaps you also meant to include potentially income-generating work (like studies) along with income-generating work?

Which then means that if your girlfriend gets disability pay then she doesn't have to do as many chores, right? Since even if she watches the TV all day she's still bringing in some money, as a consequence of work she's already done. (This can be extended to living off of a trust fund, or off royalty income.)

If you had children then would she also need to spend 100% of her time raising the children, on top of the chores? At what point do you start helping? Can you assign a monetary value on that?

Or, if you were making $1 million per year, then would you still request that she do all of the chores and meals? Because then it feels petty, when you could easily hire others to do it instead, and she can pursue her life's dream of developing free online education courses.

In the modern context, the delegation of chores is based on a combination of factors, including available time, interest in doing so, and tolerance of what happens when it isn't done. If you don't like it and can't deal with it, then you break up. In the modern context, breaking up or even getting a divorce is a simple task with little social stigma. Hence you have very little power over your girlfriend. If you "ask her to take care of all the chores and meals" then she can say "no", and leave.

100 years ago there was a much higher power imbalance. The woman couldn't easily say "no" and leave, even if the demands of the man were unreasonable, because it was much harder for her to have a normal life post-separation than for him.

In any case, simply saying "if my girlfriend did not work" is belittling because it assumes that work is the only thing that's important in a relationship, and it's secondarily gender biased because men tend to have higher incomes than women.
Tip: :% is equivalent to :1,$. It's shorter, too.
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1 tap (or 2) purchasing and lots of accounts with credit cards attached
Or maybe you could stop using windows since its a substandard OS with an embarrassing new release.
Obviously it's not representative of all users, but Steam breaks down its hardware survey by OS version. The 60% using Windows 7 64bit is a convincing majority.

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
My point of view is this:

Companies are certainly willing to take advantage when there is an oversupply of labour and decrease wages. When there is an undersupply of labour it is hypocritical for companies to complain that there is an not enough workers without first increasing salaries to entice workers into that area.
This acquisition turned out terrible so far; all users were forced to migrate despite a significant functionality gap, money that had been Escrowed was returned to employers, the reputation was ruined due to a different (and unclear) scoring model...

A bunch of ex-vWorker hackers is working on a new platform - http://freelancers.io - the existing sites are becoming bigger and worse in quality. We'll try to bring the quality back.
Thank for enlightening us on the matter.
Well, maybe that would be worth a blog post ?
What about a quarterly "state of the union" to let people see the big picture instead of apparently unrelated and confusing press release ? Not that it's a due but it would certainly help your communication ;-)
I was looking at the version of your first listed book, and noticed what appears to be a more recent revision, 2004 versus 2011:

http://www.amazon.com/Operating-System-Concepts-Abraham-Silb...

Do you still recommend the Seventh Edition over the newer release?
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It is you who does not understand what he (the author of TFA) is talking about (admittedly he's not being very clear). He's using "sampling" as it's used in the DJ and electronic music scene, to mean "include part of one commercial piece of music in another commercial piece of music".

And he's absolutely right: that's not "for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching [..], scholarship, or research", so it does not fall under fair use, and the length and nature of the sample is completely irrelevant.
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Yes, he (the author) is absolutely wrong on fair use, at the same time; in the context of making commercial media I can't fault the "get clearance" advice. The legal penalties if the court doesn't like your fair use argument are steep. The real reason for the forward would be my cynical evaluation that handling the issue honestly (eg: Actually explaining fair use and that the metrics he cites aren't rules at all.) would just end up with him writing off 3 second samples as fair use per his convenient reading of the law and repeating the same advice unfettered.

It's easier to get people to do the right thing for the wrong reason.[0][1]

[0]: Though it's a lot harder to divert course later once you've employed this method. (http://lesswrong.com/lw/uz/protected_from_myself/)

[1]: That's not something I do often, either.
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MFC, Windows Forms, WPF, Silverlight ... all of them still around, but all of them being obsolete by whatever Microsoft's du-jour UI framework happens to be.

Gnome 3 is not the same thing, as Gnome 3 is just a window manager, based on the same X, the same APIs and the same GTK, just as Unity and Gnome 2.
Have a read of Daniel Bernstein's travails at UIC.

http://cr.yp.to/uic.html

It's excruciatingly entertaining.
Then you buy two books and put one in a safe at a bank and, once in a while, you keep it in sync with the one you keep at home / on the road.

If a burglar steals it, you can run at the bank to take your 'backup list of passwords' and start changing your passwords.

If you lose it, same thing.

Then you re-create another book so that there's always one in a safe at the bank ; )

I've got a list of all my passwords, without any encryption, in a safe at the bank. They serve two purposes: in case I forget my passwords (I do write them down at home in some 'encrypted' form that is not meant to resist the NSA but that would stop 99.99999% of all the burglars on earth) or in case I die (my family would then be able to access my various online accounts).
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People are consuming more content on mobile year on year, and using offline storage and capabilities have been around for the past year or two; how this is only just bubbling at the surface at conferences is beyond me.

Take THE white elephant example; Facebook mobile. The shift is evident, my girlfriend doesn't use a traditional desktop/laptop anymore she consumes all her Facebook glutton through her mobile. If it takes more than 5 seconds to load she gives up.

There is a grey gap in knowledge of accepted and logical practice with what stays online or offline but for example the whole of Facebook's UI could be cached on a mobile and just reload the updated news/feeds.
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I'm planning on queuing up updates when offline for my app. On the technical side of things, it's incredibly easy when done from the ground up. In fact I think it's made the entire thing much cleaner and far easier to develop.

The harder part seems to be communicating with the user. If/how to let them know they've gone offline, and what that means for their experience, and if they're allowed to create/update content, what will happen when they reconnect.

For example, the next question for me is what to do with conflicting updates, ie when a user updates a document offline and reconnects, and the document has been updated by a different client while they were offline. Discarding or merging isn't a problem from a technical stand point, the problem is presenting it to the user, and striking a balance between doing what the user wants/expects, and not bothering the user with a ton of questions about which of their changes they want to keep/merge.
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Good point. But I would argue that receiving payment in BTC makes it easier to illegally not declare the income. Now that you can pay for all kinds of products and services using BTC there's no need to convert it to another currency first. The only way to trace it would be if the employer filed a 1099, which they're still incentivized to do in order to write the payment off as a cost instead of profit.
Yeah, go tell Jammie Thomas-Rasset that copyright is dead.
It isn't perfect. It's a list of complaints, and it could be entirely false. The home could have been spotless, but Einstein, besotted with dreams of how much better life would be with his cousin (and future second wife), complained anyway.

I had a relationship once where (and this is my perhaps incorrect, post hoc attempt at understanding what happened) my girlfriend didn't want to be the one who broke up, so she made more and more demands on me until finally I had enough. The demands in the list could be indicative of that sort of behavior, and not a true description of the situation.
I don't disagree that the problems are generally harder than one thinks at first blush. However, often many of the odd intricacies and rules people have around existing processes aren't necessary, and are there because they've always been there. The act of rebuilding a modern system can help root out some inefficiencies and streamline things.

Secondly, most places with computer programs should have enough competent people to choose from to collaborate on internal projects like this to avoid the need for everything to be an outside consultant or purchase. If a small team of graduate students can't handle some of these problems, I would consider that an indication that the programs aren't doing a good enough job. I understand not every "computer science" person is a naturally good programmer - there's a distinction, etc. But there still seems to be a waste of available talent on-campus that could be tapped for some problems.
Since I seem to be the target of this comment I'll respond.

Einstein was human. The purpose of using the phrases "womanizer" and "demanding jerk" was emotional -- we think of our heroes in pure terms. To associate them with negative judgmental phrases (such that we might easily use with anybody else in the world we meet) causes us distress.

And from what I understand, Einstein chased women all his life, even during his second marriage. How he and his second wife got along with this is anybody's guess.

But to focus on Einstein or his faults (or my easy judgement of him) is to miss the point. We read this list and we feel disjointed -- cognitive dissonance. How can such a great man speak like this to one who loves him? The reaction shouldn't be to start naval-gazing at our on judgment of others. The reaction should be to realize that we have only a very simple and cartoonish view of the world. People who did a lot of good in the world had some really big flaws. People who did a lot of evil in the world had redeeming qualities. If we really want to understand these folks, we need to see them in their own terms, not how mass media portrays them.

Perhaps some folks want to canonize some and demonize others. I much prefer to live in a world full of folks just like me -- human. The more I start glossing over faults? The more I'm missing out on all the good parts of history.

Look. Einstein was a womanizer. Galileo was a bit of a jerk. Newton was unhealthily obsesses with numbers. Martin Luther King Jr also chased women. Hell Nash was officially certifiable. If the only thing you get out of all my statements is that I'm judgmental, you're missing the point. Worse yet your'e missing all the good stuff, the parts of history people don't talk about. I'm not saying these men are bad; I'm saying they're just like the rest of us.
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Private universities have found that there are other metrics they can compete in other than cost: ease of admissions, prestige, specialization, etc.
There's also the common misconception on YouTube and similar sites: "No copyright intended!"

http://waxy.org/2011/12/no_copyright_intended/
I get the feeling you're reading between the lines and that the original comment was made to be reversible (if his girlfriend worked full-time and he stayed at home, he would expect himself to have 20h of housework as well).
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As long as Mozilla is 95% or so dependent on funding by Google, there's a conflict of interest present that will very likely not lead to Mozilla's Firefox being a competitive browser. If you think otherwise, you're a hopeless romantic...

As a conclusion, it is not surprising at all that Mozilla is focusing on developing products that do not compete with Google's browsers and other software.
You're right in that your second sentence was unnecesarily harsh.

However, the third one didn't strike me as so brutal, but I also agree that the beginning could have been worded better.

This reminds me of several discussions on how many people with some characteristics of aspergers/autism are bad communicators because they're worried about being right and not about the other people's feelings - and believe that saying what they consider to be the truth doesn't offend.

(I'm searching for some interesting articles on the subject, but I didn't save the links and now can't find them).

I have very bad communication skills myself, that's why I found Carnegie's points about other people's feelings so important (others might find it obvious).

Edit: I also think that most people in Hacker News are more inured to criticism, or able to take it better, and so might be harsher themselves - or not think it wrong when someone else is harsh like in your case.
Blah, blah, blah ...

Better advice would be: Try, make mistakes, learn from them, continue.

Way, way, way less discouraging, pessimistic and above all pedantic.
It's still quite tricky to to detect a reliable 'offline' state with HTML5. Using navigator.onLine tells you that you 'might have' internet access but even then you may actually be offline. Bu I agree that the most important issue is how to communicate the degradation to the end user.
The problem isn't a judgment per se, it is judging based on evidence ripped completely out of time and place. Context is missing here and without that context you really can't say at all whether this was either a jerk making demands or someone exhibiting the patience of a saint. Even with a biography as a guide you still can't make a call like that.

The private affairs between two people are best left alone unless you get an active invitation from both participants to state what you think, and even then you're going to have to work really hard to figure out what an objective viewpoint would be. Judging is easy, deciding when explicitly not to judge is a lot harder.

And I wasn't judging you either ;)
Any plan on android version?
> I would imagine the Firefox developers spend their time optimizing the parts of their browser that users would most likely use. I suspect that they are not terribly worried about an action that users would take (at most) once every six months.

I stopped using Firefox years ago. Reading an apology on a tech site explaining why, in 2012, it's acceptable that deleting 6 months of history can take one hour (!) gives me confidence that I'll never ever go back to Firefox.
You need to give us more to go on. You can program C/C++ on a Raspberry Pi without issue.

So clearly you aren't buying either machine to learn to program C/C++ on. Any PC or computer made in the last thirty years would be equally good for that.

So tell us your real requirements (e.g. gaming, DVDs, digital video, etc) and what you really do day to day (e.g. mobile users, "workstation replacement," etc)?
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Note that this message is almost a year old now. The issue has been addressed by the node and V8 teams.
More to the point, once you take the label off it's just a black bound book. How many burglars are taking boxes of books out of houses? Unless you're the owner of a rare book collection, probably very few.
This is what economists call the Princial-Agent problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_problem

"Consider a dental patient (the principal) wondering whether his dentist (the agent) is recommending expensive treatment because it is truly necessary for the patient's dental health, or because it will generate income for the dentist. The two parties have different interests and asymmetric information (the agent having more information), such that the principal cannot directly ensure that the agents are always acting in its (the principals') best interests."
I assume this is referring to Javascript speed, because the new JS engine (IonMonkey) is integrated into FF18.
Yes. What i'm saying is that it would feel less error prone if the character object was actually a codepoint. It's a leaky abstraction, you shouldn't need to handle something that is tied to the internal representation of strings in the jvm. Can one "character" span multiple codepoints? Do you have an example of this?
Yeah, that is in plan, but it will take some time. Development not started yet.
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I so agree with you. I love daring people who set out to make the impossible despite the odds and prevalent "common sense". They do not ponder in doubts and expectations - they live their dream.

When Musk decided to build his own rocket, people thought he's a nut. Now he's an icon of innovation. A qualitative leap in any area requires a bold outlook, which is bound to be unpopular with the establishment. As PG once noted, if you experience a lot of opposition, it may be a sign that you're on the right track :)

I think the guy could use our support. HN is not very different from him in spirit.
Alright. Let's take a personal inventory.

Chance of burglary: ???%
Chance that one of the 1000 sites you signed up for gets hacked because they're bad at security: ???% + 1

I'd much rather buy this for my grandparents and have them use 1000 complex passwords than have them use one password for everything and have them be screwed when X Service gets hacked.

But let's be serious, this isn't going to get stolen.
I think we are talking past each other. If I knew Einstein, if he were alive today, then certainly what you say is true. Additionally, if I were trying to impeach him or his works, such as the attacks that Thomas Jefferson gets when we talk about slavery, then you would also have a point.

But I'm not trying to slander the man, I'm trying to understand him.

When I was a kid I used to be interested in General Patton of WWII. After a long spell of hero worship, I came to know more and more about the man. Finally I had an epiphany: he was really an asshole. Men who were under his command would have shot him. Many times. The people he reported to could barely manage him. He was an arrogant, self-centered, SOB.

But that didn't make Patton bad. That made Patton interesting. Yes, he was a son of a bitch, but damnit, he was our son of a bitch. :)