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> I don't know, I mean, there's lots of smart people who think gold bugs are just nutty libertarian types, and then there are other smart people who aren't particularly bullish on gold (such as yourself).

1) It doesn't depend on how smart the person is. It only depends on whether or not they believe it.

2) It doesn't have to be everyone. It just has to be enough people.

> Which leads me to a more specific question: What kind of event would cause a major "correction" that would drive the gold price down (either over time, but a significant downward trend, or suddenly, like a bubble popping)? I can't really think of one. Can you?

This actually makes me wonder what it would take to synthetically manufacture gold. A glance at Wikipedia says that it's not feasible (possible only in "unmoderated reactors", and I don't know what that means), but we seem close enough that if we wanted to, we could probably do it.

I will be thoroughly entertained if Iran actually decides not only create a honest-to-God nuclear reactor, but uses it to synthesize gold and flood the market. It'll never happen, but it would be hilarious.
clickable: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGdVTTJ...
Reddit doesn't even separate them into 2 different sites.

Though there are a lot of niche and non-mainstream, and very user submitted porn subreddits.
That looks very cool. It would be interesting to see at what speeds it can survive collisions, and still remain upright.
I'd like to have a look at such office. That's strange that such an idea is not popular, I have yet to see a person that doesn't enjoy working in library.
77 pages for the Vet's Office :-) - http://cache.lego.com/bigdownloads/buildinginstructions/6006...

My daughter has a mix, though. So we will build the Lego Friends Riding Stables,and then build a car and trailer to drive the horses around.
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In general I think that Apple should be saying to developers, 'we want our 30%' because it's their store, their revenue stream and it's pretty transparent, but when this kicked off with Dropbox I said it then, it's really stupid. If it's a case that they're selling the subscription through the device then fine, take the 30% charge, however if it's a case that the subscription is setup outside of the iOS store, off the device then Apple needs to go "oh well".

EDIT: mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. It sounds like Microsoft has removed the subs options from their app and resubmitted it to Apple who have yet to approve it, not denied it. It sounds like Microsoft have leaked that they were waiting in some attempt to look like Apple is picking on them.
What will be the end result of outsourcing technical work?
In all honesty I don't get these arguments. Why does it matter when Apple is fucking Dropbox/Microsoft? Am I supposed to be angry at Apple?

I hate Apple for a lot of reasons, but the idea they should be lenient to other large corporations is hilarious. Why on earth should I extend my empathy like that?
Sure: just to clarify, I was only talking about my specific transaction there.

Clearly, Google can and will manage to make a craptacular mess of handling payments for other people in whatever ingenious ways they can come up with!
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Very nice! Though the API of Box2d is a little bit hairy, i really appreciate how stable it is. We built a DOM-based game/ad-thingee with Box2d this spring (http://embassy.de/game/) and using a game + physics engine (CAAT was the game engine) and relative measures was also a pretty good way to make it scale across window sizes!
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That's interesting: i never knew that one can host such presentation pages on app.net
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I am one. The thing with Metro is that it's just too much clutter on big screens and strange colour choices by Microsoft. Out of 15 or so options in Windows 8, there is exactly 1 that looks good!

And the jumping between Metro and Desktop environment is just too hectic!
FWIW, I learned this same thing working cashier at a dry cleaning shop in my teens.

TL;DR Hooking up with people you like and making something cool is way better than doing something annoying and stressful that sucks.
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Something like this you're looking for? https://code.google.com/p/gpg-mailgate/
Forgive me if I am wrong, but shouldn't a true physics engine not behave exactly the same way every time? I refreshed 5 times and every time the word Hey ended up vertical against the word GitHub. I would expect the interactions between colliding objects to vary every reload.
Tom Waits sounds awful close to John Phillip Sousa testament before the US Congress 1906 if you swap talking machines with songs in commercials.
> The harder we make it for them as a kid to express preferences the more repressed they will be

I am obviously a parenting newbie, but what I don't understand is, why can't we just teach children to ignore/combat the repression? Is that something that only works at age >1x? Wouldn't that be a much longer-lasting solution?

If humans were single-gendered, we would certainly find other ways to feel threatened about our identity. I just don't see how removing all stereotypes from everything is a battle that we can win.

(I have been "gender-weird" when I was young, otherwise I wouldn't even dare to post this :))
"its because they did something smart"
So intelligence == 'achievement'? That makes no sense.

As for nonsense, ok I'll retract that, it is an interesting but highly implausible topic that gets a large amount of discussion relative to it's likelihood. It's actually just another way of phrasing "Does God exist?" If there was a computer (God) simulating this universe and controlling it, then it'd require a host universe for itself to exist, and it's complexity has to be greater than what it is simulating. Therefore it is less likely, and not by an insignificant amount.
At a guess, the "working to move it" sentence probably implies that they are trying to get those agreements retrospectively, or re-writing any code that was contributed where they can't. As I understand it, the majority of code was written by themselves, so it shouldn't be too much of a task. Openstreetmap similarly moved licenses recently, they gained agreements where they could and dumped or re-mapped data where they couldn't.

If they aren't planning to do this, then I don't know what the "working to move it" means as it would simply be a 5 minute job to changing the license text.
26.7 MB is because it's scanned book with text layer on top. If it was retyped in, let's say, LaTeX, and outputted to PDF it wouldn't take more than one tenth of the current size. Remember that scanning the book has also archival purpose.
Not only that, but by buying from Apple you are subsidizing the practice anyway, so that next time they can develop an even harder to crack version. Aside from that it's a boondoggle, an economic waste to build protections just to crack them. Better to buy hardware from vendors that allow (or tolerates, such as Samsung) rooting and installing custom firmwares.
Right - the line between "Advertising" and "Purchasing" is pretty gray, particularly with in situ web browsing - what would happen if I clicked on a link and it brought me to an in-app web-kit interface?

Apple just makes it clear that if you want to purchase, advertise purchasing, or in any way try and extra hard $$$ from users through a native-client, then Apple gets 30%.

This is the only way their store will continue to work - any other approach will result in people gaming the system, and, instead of selling a $50 copy of Omnifocus, Omni will sell it for $5, but then have a "link" to Omnifocus's sync service for $45 for a three-year membership.

I agree with the OP up top - I can think of no way Apple can continue to run a store without toeing a hard-line on this.
I am too lazy too look but I remember reading a story where an $80 or so solar panel system (with some sort of battery, no doubt) from China enabled villagers in Africa to turn a light on at night and maybe recharge a phone. Simple but life changing.

When you have very few things, people get creative. In USA for example for the most part mechanics change a car part with a new one, in the third world they open it up, fix and get another decade out of it.
i am still, despite everything, holding out hopes for a maemo/meego resurrection, simply because i have never before or since found another mobile platform as pleasurable to develop for. i kept feeling that meego was (like linux-on-the-desktop, perhaps) perpetually on the brink of a tipping point that would suddenly surprise everyone with an accelerating cascade of apps gushing forth.

sadly, the experience of using it (on my n900) was plagued by the same problems that linux had in the early days, where the hardware and software randomly decided not to get on with each other (specifically, in my case, phone calls that would drop before the phone app swapped in, and a gps that took anywhere from 20 minutes to never to get a lock). i cannot help but think that if only nokia had thrown their full weight behind it, the second or third generation phone would have been truly stunning.
And that's all ignoring the negative security implications of having every developer reimplementing secure credit card payments.
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Yes, it is. I agree with everything you say.

My opinion is: there is and there will never be a way to clearly distinguish between 'gender neutral' and 'gender biased' actions when those actions are not clearly violent or degrading or insulting. So please do not use a word which has no meaning as though it had one and a clear-cut one.

I gather I had made myself clear in my last post: there is no such thing as 'gender bias' in 90% of what the OP claims.

Trying to force language on others (like 'gender biased behavior') is worse than what you call 'nitpicking'.

Edit: You may be confusing 'nitpicking' with 'irony'.
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It's not just a JS Spacewar - it's a JS PDP-1 running spacewar.
I lost an entire hard-drive to btrfs' nascent repair-tools; I've since switch to the less sexy (but possibly more dependable) ext4.
Twilio? :-)
Manwin, the company behind YouPorn, also owns Porn production companies such as Brazzers.
I think one takeaway from the article is that people misunderstand what market movements are good for them when they own a home exactly because they see it as a long investment, while they are actually often still short some proportion of their dream home...

If you want to one day trade down, like in your example, then increasing prices is good.

If you want, instead, to maximize the size of the the house you live in, within a similarly prized area, you should instead hope for a steadily deflating house market - the faster the better, down to a level where you have only just enough equity left to put down a deposit on a larger house.

People often see their house as an investment that will give them a lot of money, while forgetting that they likely dream of trading up, and forgetting that if their house appreciates, the price gap from their house to the their dream house is increasing too.

For most people other than the old, we tend to be perpetually in the situation where we would like to trade up. And so we should cheer on price drops, to a certain extent, rather than cheer on rises in equity.
nope, a true physics engine behaves the same time, always - if there are no outside forces. if you kick stuff around (use your mouse of fingers on touch devices) == outside force -> different outcome

this 2d world has no intrinsic random/chaotic forces (i.e. no wind) so everything behaves the same, always, forever. if you want your world to be more random you could write something like this (during the world initiation phase a.k.a. the first box2d-jquery call)

$("h1, code, .box2d").box2d({'y-velocity':5, 'x-velocity':Math.random()}
Given identical initial conditions on every reload, I would expect the same thing to happen every time.
It sure seems like the first comment in every story is some simple criticism or nitpick. It is starting to make this community look petty.

This is really great news, these are devices that we can develop for, and provide some incredibly useful utilities. Look for some interesting startups to come out of Africa taking advantage of this, and producing utilities for people in that part of the world.
There is a set of rules that Apple is applying to all developers. Why they don't apply to MS ?
Even for a $20 item 30% cut is not acceptable either, considering what Apple actually did is simply app hosting + payment processing. App Store did a really bad job on app discovery and promotion, so I don't think they deserve anything on marketing. However, they can charge developers for being featured on the front page.
That's the way it works though - I have a subscription to DropBox that I setup outside the iOS store, and I'm pretty certain that Apple didn't get 30% of that subscription fee.
>the idea they should be lenient to other large corporations is hilarious.

The rules apply to developers of all sizes--not just Microsoft. This is Apple being greedy--which is fine in principle. But as a heavily-invested Apple customer, I "cheer" for the Apple ecosystem (and the company's fair dealings with developers) because I'd like continued priority and investment given to this platform. That's my angle, and Apple seems to be working against it. I find it offensive (as I'm sure many developers do) that Apple claims the right to revenue made from outside of its App ecosystem.
Want to see. I would pony some money up to help get it finished, whoever is behind it should put it up on Kickstarter.
However, different binaries may generally yield slightly different results due to compilers ordering floating-point operations differently, for example.
This isn't representative of the "Swedish people". The political party they mention is tiny fringe party that's never gotten even close to 1% of the vote. The pre-schools they mention are a tiny handful of privately run institution. Calling it state-sponsored is highly misleading since basically all pre-schools are technically state-sponsored since they get some financial compensation based on the number of children under their care. Tanja Bergkvist isn't just some average Swedish mother they found, but an active gender issues writer campaigning on these issues. Basically nothing they write about is normal in Sweden and I don't know why they tried to pass it off as such
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I donated some money to the Internet Archive last year and was pleasantly surprised when I received two IA-branded caps in the mail some time later (I live in Germany). Very nice gesture.
This post is not about the price for an app, but the price for a service (SkyDrive) provided through an app. The market for services is huge. If you deliver a service paid through an iOS device, Apple wants a 30% cut.
Something seriously stinks about this article. I agree that boys should be allowed to act like boys and girls like girls, but I don't see how that's a position that needs to be defended with such a lengthy article. This feels more like some kind of propaganda. I have a really hard time believing the swedes are going batshit crazy trying to repress masculinity wherever they see it, as this article seems to describe. The advertisement of the little boy with the doll was refreshing in my opinion. It seems more likely that sweden is trying to create a more inclusive culture and that's commendable.

Gender is something that occurs on a spectrum, but most of the world is still trying to pretend there should only be two boxes to divide us all into. I'm a pretty masculine guy and my daughter loves dolls, but I'm also saving for college so she can be a scientist or engineer some day and if I had a son that liked dresses I'd beat the crap out of anyone that made him feel bad about it. The idea that the gender equality pendulum has swung too far the other way is insane to me. We're still a lot closer to 1950's America than any kind of star trek utopia where gender issues have been solved. That's just talking about the western nations. Not even counting all the parts of the world where gender equality is stuck in the mother fucking stone ages. Seriously.
Ah, yes. I'm aware of that. I actually read this rather famous book on the subject, "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" by Steven Levy. I thoroughly enjoyed it. All the stories, machines, code and people. If anyone wants to get the feel of those times I highly recommend it.
>Using the music verbatim but changing only the video content to make a parody would probably not hold up as "fair use".

Weird Al rerecords the music, but the notes are the same and that is considered fair use. I know that Weird Al ask for permission from artist before releasing any songs, but it's not something he is required to do.
like schrödingers cat for physics engines? but with the difference as long as it is the same box, the outcome is always the same?
While I agree that Esplora is a true departure from previous designs, I don't think "fragmentation" is really an obstacle here. As always, users just need to choose the board model under Tools -> Board menu. As the underlying library and code, I believe are still the same.
Was this for content that can live outside of the app? As can the storage or perhaps the books mentioned elsewhere in the discussion. If it was something tied with app I can see why apple doesn't want you to sell it anywhere else.
Allow users to run unsigned code if they so desire. What is the problem. if you want curated store - use it. If you don't want this obtain your software however you desire.
that's exactly the first thought that strike my mind.
Why would you have that as a requirement? Output shouldn't vary unless input does. Real world physics only vary because input conditions are never the same.

It's my impression that it's always easier to add randomness to such an engine. So if you have a deterministic engine you can always sprinkle on some randomness afterwards if you want it more interesting.

But I'm not very experienced in physics engines so I might be on thin ground.
Recording your own performance from the same sheet music and "using the music verbatim" (in which context I meant using the "audio" verbatim, while changing only the "video") are fundamentally different situations.
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Self-service indicates that staff income is high; it's either self-service, or increase prices to the customers, which in turn lowers availability of the service and overall lowers income. etc.
I've mentioned before how birdsong/dawn chorus is my white noise of choice, and I was pleased to hear on the BBC Radio 4 program "All in the Mind" (about mind/psychology-related issues) about research linking birdsong with a sense of well-being:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p011vdc0
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Well, I'm easily disturbed... If people start discussing something and laughing, I always end up too curious not to take my headphones off and participate...
Open plan is fine, even for large offices, so long as everyone knows that quiet is the rule. I've worked in huge rooms with 70+ engineers and it was next to silent. Those that wanted noise put headphones on.

I'm not sure what's up with the anxiety - are you constantly trying to hide that you're on the web all the time and getting nervous as a result?
Depends on a number of factors. I would wait a full week in business days - but do follow up past that. And stay on their radar until they respond.

It's happened to me in numerous cases - and can often be used as a litmus test (albeit a small one) on your determination/interest in the position.

A quick message like "Hey X - just wanted to keep this on your radar. I'm available ABC time to chat. Looking forward to discussing the role further" should suffice.

It's surprising how so few actually end up following up.
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I tried 4 times, but on my machine (Firefox on Linux) I get the exact same result every time, up to the last pixel.

In theory you would expect a physics engine to always behave exactly the same every time (as long as there are no random forces in the simulation, obviously). In practice, I can think of some ways that would influence the result. For example, x86 can use extended (80-bit) precision for intermediate floating point calculations internally, but will always store them as 64 bit in registers or memory. Depending on the timing of thread context switches, you can imagine subtle roundoff errors caused by going from extended precision to double precision. When using SSE math you get similar effects but even more pronounced, because SSE is not always fully IEEE compliant.

Usually the introduced error is infinitely small and most algorithms are robust enough to cancel it out. Stuff like non-linear regression or a physics simulation are notable exceptions, because the calculations they do are iterative and progressive, meaning any introduced error can propagate and get amplified along the way. I've seen deterministic non-linear fit algorithms go in completely different directions for unstable problems on different machines, just because of CPU differences (64-bit vs 32-bit, x86 vs. sparc, etc).
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>> I was even writing good old roff a few days ago

Just curious, what was it for? :)

PS: I had a groff based CV (2006-ish). Now it is a LaTeX based CV.
Teaching kids to ignore / combat that is just one part of what we need to do. Sadly not all parents are as forward thinking as this, and are quite happy to subconsciously nudge their children into gendered roles.

If we combat this at the systemic level we stand a much better chance of bringing up successive generations in a less biased way, and maybe one day society will look back and think of our time as barbaric in the field of gender equality.

I don't think this is fight we can totally win now, or even in 20 years, but that doesn't mean we should give up. If we help just a single child become comfortable with their own identity, without fear of crossing gender stereotype lines I think we might get there.
What is wrong with gender stereotypes?

The problem with any stereotype is that it limits choice ("I'm a boy so I -must- play with guns instead of dolls"), which leads to inefficient use of the potential of the next generation. To miss out on a math genius just because she happened to be a girl and was taught that she's too stupid to handle advanced math is detrimental to the advancement of the human race.

Boys and girls -are- physically different, but physical differences are enormous even within each gender (or race, if we're going to get into that kind of stereotype) and pretty much the only thing that's physically hardwired to be possible for only girls or boys are their respective functions in reproduction (almost, tech is making advances…).

So limit an individual's choices based on gender is as dumb as limiting them based on race. And yes, by only ever showing "boys using boys' toys" and "girls using girls' toys" we are in effect limiting the available choices for kids; we're a social species after all.
I really liked that talk, I had not seen the constraint logic programming befor. David mentions that the zebra example would be better solved with constraints. Is there a example of solving the zebro puzzle with constrains?

Also about the predicate dispatch work, is there allready some code somewhere one could look at (other then core.match)?