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um.. I think it's popular because it essentially is like a stackexchange for CS interview questions..... it has a ton of questions, some of which _actually_ popped up during interviews. As for the ads, I had no trouble ignoring them.
It does guarantee that people like me can't comment on your pages, though, which would not be true if you had a normal self-hosted comment system.
I should have started with "Most programmers make horrible designers"; my apologies for that. The point is, even making a not-so-bad design, takes a lot of thought; more importantly, it takes courage to push a design concern that will make implementation harder and take longer to finish. I certainly believe that people are amazing, and they are capable of doing amazing things. But also there is the issue of possible vs probable. And, I don't take it lightly when I see a good programmer and designer in the same person.
I don't understand. What do you mean?

Here, if you go to court, either civil or criminal, you of course need a lawyer. I don't see how that is substantially different from the way it works in the US. And the UK, which also is a common law country, has a much lower amount of lawyers per capita than the US.

One explanation for the difference is of course that the US is a very litigious society, resulting in more legal proceedings than elsewhere, and that might be hard to change. But to me it appears the americans in general use lawyers for trivial matters like divorces or wills or entering into contracts or buying property or whatever, and if the cost of lawyers were to increase sharply, I think that americans would be able to discover ways to do those things without lawyers, just like the rest of the world is doing perfectly fine already.
Oh of course Google would want it's application to be the default. Who wouldn't? It is free users.

To my knowledge pure Google Android doesn't package any third-party apps that tap into third-party services which compete with Google. I'm happy that they don't block any apps from being added to the marketplace and for the most part I am happy with Apple for that same stance as well.

I have Chrome, Gmail and Google Maps alongside Safari, Mail and Maps now. Heck even Google Voice competes with Siri. This is only making my life as a iOS user better.
No: this has nothing to do with terms of service, this is "what do people use the service for". If your mental model of Twitter is "a place to have group discussions, in public" (a common use case), I think you are pretty crazy, but it obviously has nothing to do with the terms of service. The EFF gave me that hat: they seemed to consider it imperative that they did so; I did not for a second consider myself to be purchasing a hat.

I maintain that if Kickstarter is "pay money now for gifts later" then they are not in compliance with either Visa's terms of service (no delayed renumeration for payments, a policy explicitly there to avoid "I have money ten months ago, and am now angry"), as well as laws regarding collecting sales tax (which are quite clearly written in a way that keeps you from just claiming "oh yeah, this thing where people give me money and I give them products? trust me: that's not a purchase... don't tax me, bro").
What this article essentially says is one kind of math is better than the other.

No.
The title of this should be "Facebook is looking at ways to monetize its billion dollar investments, much like every other public company in world."

I'm not sure how this is even worthy of an article.
"Puis-je avoir le menu encore, s'il vous plaît?" does not sound 100% correct for a native speaker, although this is perfectly comprehensible. "Puis-je à nouveau avoir le menu, s'il vous plaît ?" would be better, especially coming from a professional application... (also note the typography is not 100% correct too; in French you have to put a space before double-strike punctuation).
I think it being harder is only the second most important thing to most people. Rather, the fact that these 3rd party services are free is the biggest factor; even $30 per year for a domain and hosting is more than most people are willing to pay.
I interviewed at transcriptic but ended up at twitter...so the next time my boss walks by & asks why I'm cranky, I'll say I was supposed to be flying cars instead of manning this giant 140 character machine :))
> There's also the fact that our demand for healthcare is enormous, because we all get sick, it's a fact of life that's not gonna change very soon.

> But the demand for lawyers is completely cultural.

I don't think this difference can be taken for granted at all. For example, the American cultural tendency to consume greasy and fattening food in high quantities while not exercising leads to higher rates of disease than in other developed nations. This in turn leads to a higher need for medical care that is purely cultural in origin.
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Sorry you got those issues with the notebook, this should not have happened. The notebook is certainly supported on windows in principle, the fact that it does not within EPD for you is a bug, I apologize for that.

With the latest EPD 7.3-2, ipython notebook --pylab inline works for me on windows 7 32 bits + chrome. Feel free to contact me privately (see my HN account) if you want more help on how to get this fixed.
Been stopped at the border and had your tech device searched or confiscated?
Yup. I think just about everyone here has at least seen GitHub, if not on it weekly. Tis relevant to our interests
"Germany was perhaps the most civilised nation in the world in the 1920s."

Hmmm... define civilised. In the 1920s Germany was devastated after losing WWI, on the hook for gazillions of war repayments under the Versailles treaty, and experiencing some of the worst inflation ever seen in a developed country. It took something like a wheelbarrow full of Deutschemarks back then to buy a loaf of bread.
Curiously, even the translation proposed by Google translate is better than the one proposed by this application; "Puis-je avoir le menu à nouveau, s'il vous plaît?" sounds as fine as "Puis-je à nouveau avoir le menu, s'il vous plaît ?", although Google get the punctuation false too.
Holy cow, it's gone! I will miss this. Forking seems faster now, at least.
I like this design, it's clean, minimal and yet still professional. It's a reflection of the way the web has been (thankfully) moving the last few years.
Now I'm angry. You're not the least bit sorry for his personal difficulties (as telegraphed by your telltale use of the word "but"). If you were, you wouldn't respond to them with pointless pedestrian claptrap. All you've done is show your own incapacity for empathy.

Colin, please accept my apology on this guy's behalf.
It's well written. Such few words used. Rollercoaster of emotions.
The plan is to continue to contribute to MonoMac and it will remain free/open source.
First off, what did Kim Jong Un have to do with that? I mean, other then having his father die while the military was working on this.

Secondly, I assume you mean 'hit the western US' in the same way a blind hog finds an acorn. That rocket couldn't put a satellite into a stable orbit for the same reason NK's rocket program is described as a long list of failures - they can't reliably put anything anywhere after lighting the fuse.

http://gizmodo.com/5968007/north-korea-satellite-out-of-cont...

So even after this, they're still not any more or less a danger then they were.
Jailbreaking will never go mainstream. It has never been easy and/or safe enough for that. Just like how a small percentage of Android users root their phones.

However "remote controllers" in iOS 6 are definitely the precursor to the Android intents. It will be interesting to see if they make it into iOS 7 as a public API.
I maintain that if Kickstarter is "pay money now for gifts later" then they are not in compliance with either Visa's terms of service (no delayed renumeration for payments, a policy explicitly there to avoid "I have money ten months ago, and am now angry"), as well as laws regarding collecting sales tax (which are quite clearly written in a way that keeps you from just claiming "oh yeah, this thing where people give me money and I give them products? trust me: that's not a purchase... don't tax me, bro").
> unintended consequence of well-intentioned legislation

I'd question both of your adjectives there. This seems like an intended consequence of heavily lobbied legislation, as evidenced by the reactions to any attempts to change this system.
Just because the text of cases and legislation is easy to digitize does not mean the profession is. Your statement could perhaps be flipped on its head: "coding is easy to analyze with computers especially given the wealth of open source materials to work with, and now has greatly reduced the number of programmers needed." I'm sure you can see the fallacy of that argument.

It is true that the _costs_ of legal research has decreased, since it is now easier and faster to find cases, but that generally does not extend to lawyers, but rather to legal assistants, librarians, paralegals, and whatnot. Law is still an extremely contextual field, and computers are very bad at dealing with realities of multiple complex interacting systems (as laws generally are). I would love to one day see computers spit out answers to legal questions, but as for today, I don't think that a computer could argue a case for me in court.
It has always been an option. If you get your phone activated in store it is working the moment you walk out with no input on the customers part.
I agree. It's sort of sad that we're in the state we're at because it's "harder" to build and "harder" to monetize. But given that; I don't see it changing anytime soon.
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You're not exactly the only sick person, though I generally use my Kindle Fire
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Garmin and TomTom must be shitting themselves. I can't imagine how many people are just going to be using their smartphones in the next few years. Even built in nav consoles for the latest BMWs can't hold a candle to these apps.
They didn't exactly forget, though: they actually went out of their way to paint a huge sign reading something like, "GREAT NEW CAR ... GET IT TODAY ... TOTALLY FREE ... COMPATIBLE WITH ALL GARAGES!" Of course, they didn't promise the car wouldn't play ad jingles through the stereo system, either.
I wrote a long piece in reply, but I certainly don't write as well as Notch, and it's pretty clear it won't make my point as well as it should be made.

I'm going away for a while now. I'll be back, just not sure when. Need some time on my own.
I was once in your exact same situation. If you want to talk privately let me know. The extent of the possibilities of your actions are merely going to be within the confines of guidance, nothing you do will be a magic bullet. It'll take time, it'll take effort, but it's possible to recover. Your father has to be the one to take actions to fix the situation.
That assumes that Google's search ad revenue, and perhaps their growing application service provider revenue, are going to be tiny relative to this hypothetical acquiring company's revenue.

It seems absurd now, but on those timelines you could be right. If nothing else, a lot can change in 10-50 years.
It isn't responsibility of people reading your comment to research why you're correct. If you make a claim, you need to be prepared to back it up if you want it to carry weight.
How about a 4* star hotel or an SPG property ? is your conception of a hotel an off-the-ramp motel 6 in the Ghetto. You do realize that some of the wealthiest people in the country abandon homeownership for a care-free hotel life (Marissa Mayer, Harry Reid...others.)
To me, you sound like a poor schmuck with a Mustang lecturing a Porsche owner about luxury.
You make a valid point given the current system, but the government mandated system of limited medallions seems like an unnecessary barrier to entry and prevents small (and perhaps more innovative) companies from competing in the market. (which seems unfair). What benefit, if any, do the consumers get from limiting the number of medallions?
"Weird Al" Yankovic's parents died while he was on tour. He continued with the tour, stating that if his music made millions of others laugh, it might just cheer him up too.

Sometimes doing what you love is just the right sort of pain reliever.
> To my knowledge pure Google Android doesn't package any third-party apps that tap into third-party services which compete with Google.

"Pure" Google Android doesn't package anything, to get the Google applications you need to make a deal with Google. If you were able to convince Apple to make an iTunes Android app you could certainly ship it by default on a phone. Real life example: some devices from AT&T ship with "AT&T Navigation" which competes with Google's kit.

Even better would be if Apple ported its maps app to Android and offered it to anyone who wants to ship it by default. I predict a grand total of 0 devices from a large brand would ship with it.
Yeah, when the 2000 Web was flourishing, all you heard about from the neckbeards was how the same people had killed Usenet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

To a certain degree every generation thinks the Net it grew up with is the Real Net, and the Net that came afterwards is a wasteland.
> As far as I am aware, children living with both parents do much better in life in a variety of metrics (income, criminality, academics, child poverty, and etc.). While easier divorce may have led to an increase in equality for women, it has also had an immense negative impact on children.

This isn't the result of divorce being more accessible, this is the result of how difficult it is to be a single parent and how little support you have on a single income while providing all primary care for your kids. The fix for that is to address systemic issues regarding class, gender discrimination, reduced access to family planning, health care access. Even by the chart you provided, single father households have not grown dramatically since the 1960s/1970s since women end up being primary care given for children in a majority of cases, whether by desire or by cultural default.

I agree with you 100% about awareness of cost, but easier access to divorce and a lessening of the cultural expectation that women be married has simply made existing problems more apparent to society at large, which is a good thing in terms of identifying where we need to fix social inequalities.
Yeah, my experiences on the late-90s, early-2000s internet don't support the idea that some level of technical aptitude correlates to a desire to share anything other than drivel.

Timecube, dancing babies, blink/marquee tags, MIDI music backgrounds on yet another "hey look at these pictures of the new muffler I put on my car!" site... ah, the good ol' days.

I honestly haven't noticed any increase in drivel, as a proportion of overall content, on the web now compared to when I first got on in 1998.
"In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period.

Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough.

Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way."
the lul is that they can do it.
Enduring Life Because Of My Dad’s Example and Leadership
The anticipation of snow has always triggered fond memories of my dad. The snow never got in his way. He always worked his way through any obstacle. His perseverance, work ethic, and positive example are what have carried me through life.
Thanks for sharing. I read it and forwarded it to people whom it was relevant for.
None of this comment rebuts any point I made in my comment.
adding barriers to make a room into a maze is trivial. So if you were forking my scala code, you see 4 filters -

val res = Seq(x-1,x,x+1).map( a => Seq(y-1,y,y+1).map( b=> (a,b))).flatten
.filterNot( ab => ab._1 == x && ab._2 == y) // don't include me
.filterNot( ab=> ab._1 < leftTop._1 || ab._1 > rightBottom._1) // don't include points outside the maze
.filterNot( ab=> ab._2 < leftTop._2 || ab._2 > rightBottom._2)
.filterNot( ab=> path.contains(ab)) // don't revisit points along your path

Now if you add 1 more filter, literally 1 more line of code, to eliminate paths that are prohibited because they intersect with a barrier, you are good to go.
a room is simply a maze with zero barriers.
The new AOL.
> that matters less for people not driven mostly be finances and the compensation for some of those graduating ahead of me is not unlivable

And the precipitous drop in applicants is due to the people driven more by finances not applying because the financial advantage is no longer there. Which is fine - this is standard supply/demand behavior.
Wow. Microsoft Passport. I haven't thought about that in years, and recalling how the tech world recoiled in horror then for things we have eagerly embraced now is illuminating.
But if the decreased state funding had not been accompanied by increased loan availability, the result would have been lower enrolment. right?

Or did I misunderstand what you meant by "in real terms". "in real terms" means TCOE = tuition + state contribution
Forgive me if I am misunderstanding your position, but it sounds like you think bar associations in the US should be more restrictive, in order to drive up prices and reduce the consumption of legal goods in the US. I guess I just don't know why this is a desired outcome - presumably, if people use lawyers more in the US, it's because the environment in the US makes it efficient to do so. It seems like we'd be tinkering with market forces for the sake of conforming the US to "the rest of the world".
"The lack of innovation was exclusively Apple's fault. They neglected to update its Google Maps powered app and decided to enter into war with Google at the detriment to Apple customers. If Steve Jobs hadn't gone nuclear on Google, the Maps debacle would never have happened."

Actually, Eric Schmidt left the Apple Board and soured the relationship as soon as Android approached a real priority for Google, and Google's choice to revoke free Maps API access destroyed the iOS Maps user experience (I often was advertised restaurants when trying to find the location of a job interview, for instance).

Apple could not have launched a new iOS and phone with the existing Maps experience. They didn't shaft anyone.

FWIW, I still think Apple's Maps are better, it took me a couple weeks to decide to take the dive, but I've been happy with it, and neither Apple Maps or Google Maps offer cycling directions, which IMO is the only major advantage of Google's data set in my life.
I have to think that as the generations that were brought up on the open web become older and take over the high positions in government and justice, we will eventually see patent trolling become harder and harder to pull off. I can clearly see the economic dangers of certain software patents whereas older folks like my mom and dad god bless em probably wouldn't.

I can't see anyone born after 1980 ever agreeing to award or honour a patent on "the interactive web" or "transferring data over a network". I mean -- really? It defies logic.
I'm not so sure that he is entirely a good person or worth this level of praise. He spends a lot of time apologizing for Twitter drama that he invents, and it seems like he has the tendency to shoot first and ask questions later.

The Yogscast debacle comes to mind. For those that are unaware, Yogscast, one of the biggest promotional engines sending traffic to Minecraft, went to Minecon on their own dime and did an autograph panel. Notch responded by eviscerating them on Twitter for, among other things, wishing to be helped out financially for their appearance (which cost them quite a bit, and, let's be honest, Mojang is not broke; Mojang also sold the rights to broadcast Yogscast's own show without asking). This was all based upon drama invented in Notch's head, and he had to profusely apologize later.

It seems like Notch goes out of his way to find drama. However good of a person he is tends to be undone by his occasionally childish behavior.
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If you aren't technical, it kind of doesn't matter if you know up front or not (about potential risks). If you don't have the skill, you accept the risk or loss and hope that because it isn't relevant now, that it won't ever matter. Or you say "I will cross that bridge when I come to it."

I know a little html and css. I learned them to manage my own sites. I have some tech training (Certificate in GIS from a decade ago, never really used). I wish I were more technically savvy. I migrated my sites to Wordpress and found that frustrating and I am still trying to work out how to complete the migration. But it means that when I want to put up new content, I can at least do that much in a fairly brief span of time.

So, agreeing with you that the web we lost was harder and that was a showstopper for many people. Not agreeing that it is terribly relevant if those people know the risks or not up front, because if they want to participate (and this is increasingly not something you can really opt out of) and you can't do the technical piece yourself, well, you suck it up. Too bad, so sad.
> The lack of innovation was exclusively Apple's fault. They neglected to update its Google Maps powered app and decided to enter into war with Google at the detriment to Apple customers. If Steve Jobs hadn't gone nuclear on Google, the Maps debacle would never have happened.

From what body cavity have you pulled this?

At this point the calculus is pretty well understood. Apple's license covered bitmap tiles, traffic and transit routing.

Apple wanted turn-by-turn and vector maps.

Google wanted ads, prominent Google branding and way more user data.

Neither side would give ground. So they hit an impasse. That's it.
I reiterate that you should do promotional brazil nut hot sauce. :) (It's high in Selenium...)
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That's not up to standard then. I can't make an app have bad scroll performance on my Galaxy Nexus. It scrolls through my feed very speedily, as fast as my eyes can perceive certainly.
It is about lawyers, guns and money. I would flag it malicious as well!
I have this on an old HTC phone. The UI is totally different, I think they have different layout controls for the "newness" of the phone. Having said that, it's possible the vector data is still being used, but renders to bitmap when zooming for some reason. I can't recall this happening on my S2 though (dead now, can't test)
As a recent law graduate: Finally. I had no idea what people who started in law school in 2011+ were thinking. They went to law school at a time when almost every month a major publication wrote an article about terrible job prospects and rising tuition. Law school is by and large a scam.
There's a good reason for this: law school is a terrible deal for the vast majority of applicants and potential applicants. Paul Campos's book Don't Go To Law School (Unless) (which I wrote about here: https://jseliger.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/dont-go-to-law-sch...) is one of the more comprehensive examples I've seen, although I'm sure the book mentioned is good too.

The really bizarre thing is that 60K people are still deluded enough to apply.
Rockets are a lot like skyscrapers: they burn slowly and sedately for several minutes until the structural members overheat and collapse. (Assuming kerosene fuel like the Apollo rockets used.)