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Considering Microsoft's actions with Windows 8 for ARM (Win RT), the classic desktop is probably going to be depreciated in the future. This kind of work needs to be performed at some point, and being allowed in the Windows Store is also a very nice payoff. I don't know how much work would be required for Windows 8 ARM support for VLC, but this work definitely gets it closer (knowing your UI will work is a good motivation to get the backend sorted).
People does not seem to like that kind of Wikipedia donation advertising, if I understood you correctly.

At least in the sense that there's endless parodies and nagging about those ads.

It does however seem to work, since they raise money that way - and continue doing so.

Internet Archive do have a top banner which is quite neutral on most of archive.org (It's the blue ribbon thingie). It's not on the Wayback Machine though.
Last year I was in a kindof similar situation, this stock, investment, trading always intrigued me.Started with random reads i.e. articles at marketplace, FT and looking for terminologies at investopedia. The first formal read was: Trading for dummies (sounds bit noobish) but it proved a top move, with zero distractions and aqcuired the basic fundamental and technical analysis concepts plus lot more. After it, definitley go for some detail read Intelligent Investor, Liar's Poker .
Just having the most fun playing a round of "thermonuclear war" (well, actually, it's mostly playing itself), better than any (AAA) title I have been playing lately.
This one is going to take forever. And I am glad that we moved from printed output to graphical displays, the amount of forests we would have had to cut down...
> What kind of event would cause a major "correction" that would drive the gold price down.

The value of gold has fallen a few times before. Mostly because people moved onto something else as an investment. When investing in industry is uncertain, like it has been when the solvency of countries are even in question, gold and other commodities is a good hedge. However, just like no one could perceive that house prices could collapse (since everyone needs somewhere to live and the population is growing), people struggle to understand that money put into gold now could be tempted to new investments tomorrow. Planetary Resources could also discover a golden asteroid.
So slow on my browser.

Back to native applications coding.
> A few years ago, a feminist political party proposed a law requiring men to sit while urinating

> In 2004, the leader of the Sweden's Left Party Feminist Council, Gudrun Schyman,proposed a "man tax"—a special tariff to be levied on men to pay for all the violence and mayhem wrought by their sex.

Ever since Orwell wrote 1984, people keep confusing it for operation manual for effective governance. I sincerely hope this craziness is a couple of attentions seekers and/or hate mongers, and the majority doesn't agree with them.

> One Swedish school got rid of its toy cars because boys "gender-coded" them and ascribed the cars higher status than other toys. Another preschool removed "free playtime" from its schedule because, as a pedagogue at the school put it, when children play freely 'stereotypical gender patterns are born and cemented. In free play there is hierarchy, exclusion, and the seed to bullying.'

What brilliant minds. Let's stop citizens from going outside. Because, you know, when people go outside, mugging, rapes and shit happens.
I went to download it (I work at a University so I have access) but it gave me this message:

"Java is required to run Document Download Manager and it is either not installed on your computer or out of date."

Java is installed and I'm not going to mess around trying to get their "Document Download Manager" working just to download a single PDF so screw them. Another reason to hate Elsevier.
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I've donated 50$ to the Internet Archive under this donation campaign. It's awesome that someone is tripling that - so that the Internet Archive gets 200$ from that.

Whoever is doing that, is awesome.

The Internet Archive does a lot of spiffy things - and it's in my opinion really worth it to support them.
Where is it supposed to lead? Ideally, to a world without intellectual property protection, but I'm not holding my breath. I'm just pointing out that even proponents of IP get nervous when they meet the logical consequences of IP law in a dark alley.
And with one fell blow, you ignore the entire existence of transgenders. Good job!

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Precisely. This is why I mentioned the 30-50 mems. A typical main memory fetch is somewhere in the 100-200ns range on modern hardware. I tend to measure the effectiveness of an algorithm based on, roughly, how it accesses memory.

Caches play a role as well, of course. L1 is around 1ns sometimes even less. if you hit L2 it is in the vicinity of 5-10ns. It easily translates to some 30-40 insns on modern hardware.

It also tells you that hunting for faster execution by compressing instructions down is not going to cut you that much extra speed nowadays. The key to fast programs is data representation. Good data representation.
I would prefer to fight the battle on both of those fronts. Certainly the loving support of an understanding family will go a long way towards strengthening a child's ability to be themselves in a culture that will ridicule them for it, but what of those children who have neither a supportive family nor an inclusive culture. Don't we owe it to them to support advancement towards inclusiveness?
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currently there is a performance overhead to animate deeply nested HTML elements. so we would basically need a sizzle selector that applies to every HTML page that only selects "not deeply nested" nodes. so ":not(:has())" filters will be needed.
If governments and by extension, courts gets pushed enough, laws about safe harbor means nothing. Laws in general means little in this case.

The pirate bay case in Sweden is the best example of this. The by law required impartial police investigator was hired by one of the parties the day after he finished his work. A several order higher paying job. the exact day after he finished his report on the pirate bay. When the police was asked about it, they said it was "common" practice. Later during the trial, the lawyers requested the investigator as witness (to ask about all this), and the investigator refused to return to Sweden when the court agree to the request. This however had no impact whatsoever on the judgment.

The court judgment is also hilarious funny to read, as it include some golden nuggets of complete unknown laws, not written in the actually law books (reason being, work towards a law counts too in Europe, not just what is written). For example, if you produce a service, you might get hanged for it even if you produce it with perfect fine intentions. What counts is the primary usage of said service, so if you produce a tool, and the prosecutor claims that the primary usage of that tool is crime, you can go down for it as facilitator of crime (generic). Its facts like this, that really would have me worried if I created a program like nmap. Hopefully, prosecutors won't realize this law actually exist.
> why can't we just teach children to...

This is something I used to ask until very recently; why can't I just teach my kids not to care about brands, not to be racist, not to be sexist, etc etc.

This would work, if my kids only learned from me. As long as there are sexists, racists, brand-bunnies, violent kids, etc around, my kids will learn from them too.
The thing I found interesting in this article (the only substantive bit) was the empirical evidence based on hormone exposure behaviour differences.

I'd like to see the study, to check it's not some faked up nonsense, and if it's true it would perhaps alter my perception of the issue slightly.

Of course, I still think that the enormous societal pressure of gendered marketing (transmitted most effectively through peer pressure even in very small children, it seems) makes it almost impossible to actually measure anything in these systems ethically. I just think that if there is an underlying biological signal there as well (which I didn't really believe before) then insisting on absolute neutrality everywhere (as in the Swedes' school setup) seems like it won't work.

Quite why the article included all the wacky ideas of the crazy lefties who aren't in charge, like a "man tax," I don't know; makes the article seem less balanced for sure.
>* the only way we can ever change this is by starting young and eradicating gender bias where ever we see it* //

What's the motivation to change the world from reflecting the different sexes to one in which we pretend there are no differences between the sexes?

It's clearly a massive undertaking - instead of allowing children to follow they're natural leaning it's necessary to micromanage all their interactions. What's the benefit in that?

Ultimately you'd need to castrate all the men so no-one can have a gendered experience of sex. Remove women's wombs and force all children to be gestated ex utero so they don't have a gendered experience with a parent that will alter their behaviour. Even after these extreme measures you'd still have obvious physical and biological differences between men and women; such difference leading naturally to differences in behaviour and interaction.

My personally feeling is we need to accept that males and females differ biologically. Remove prejudice and unfounded preference as much as we're able from societal systems. Then get on and celebrate the differences and exploit the complementarities of our gendered existence.

>without biasing the media he sees so that he thinks only girls play with dolls //

I'm fortunate enough to be caring for two boys; it's mainly been girls that have provided rebukes based on gender. Not sure where 2 and 3 year old girls are getting it from but the most often gender-biased comments I've heard targeted at the boys has been "pink is only for girls" and "that's not for you it's for a girl". Strangely in my limited experience (though I work with young children every day) I've yet to hear any boys do the same sort of thing.

My rather long-winded second point being that it's not just commercial media you'd have to avoid to avoid any messages indicating [or exploiting/prejudicing] gender differences it's also other people.
> I'm just genuinely baffled that people are so hesitant about looking at code for a solution. No mater how good the dox I don't understand til I've read the code.

Let me help.

The code you look at to find the solution might be one 20 or 30 line chunk of Ruby that performs a service for a chunk of 10 year old VB or 20 year old Perl or 30 year old C, or some chain of several languages. A support guy, or apps-level documenter, or maintenance programmer adding a feature, or architect integrating with another system, or business integration consultant helping to decide where the business needs to invest, or some other decision maker really, really doesn't have time to read through 40,000 lines of code in several languages to find out how a feature works.

For example: one of my first jobs was with an established big brand with many years of legacy data and organic "enterprise" systems, integrating data produced by an AS400 green-screen application into VB (on a Windows box) by copying (via FTP on a SCO box) a fixed-width text file produced by a shell script on the AS400, and parsing it so we could put it into Oracle for processing by a C++ application with API hooks into a Nortel Meridian coms system. When an outbound call goes to the wrong number, where's the bug?

Even if I'm reading _my own_ code 6 or 36 months later, I'm much happier if I've logged the checkins correctly so that it narrows it down to which dozen or so of many thousands of commits touched a feature. Whenever I've had to track down someone else's bug, or tried to justify the technical justification for some business decision the system makes, or tried to write high level progress documentation (think changelog for senior managers), the commit messages make the difference between it taking two weeks and taking two years (i.e. never happening).

It's easy to think, in the post-codial glow when you're fresh from the zone, that there's no way this code isn't absolutely obvious. I've been that guy. I've also been the guy that cursed that guy for making it hard to find the needle in the haystack. I've even been both guys separated by 18 months. Commit messages can make the difference between getting it done in 20 minutes, and "looking at code for a solution" for two days.

I hope you're less baffled now :)
I've also donated $50. So - thanks to you and me, IA now has $400!

Also, please keep in mind that the Internet Archive isn't plastering this donation campaign everywhere - and that this is completely user submitted.

They have a blue banner on http://archive.org asking for donations on some pages.
But they do not for example;

* mail every user that is registered

* add the banner on all wayback machine pages

In other words, they're pretty subtile.
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Those $8.1 million did not come from Youtube advertisement: according to the original AP article, only $870,000 did.

https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jlcpd0qGl...

This estimate seems to be based on views for all of PSY's channel, i.e. 1.3 billion views. That works out as a $0.7 eCPM, which seems more credible than the $8 floated below in this thread.
> I don't get all this C++ hate from people that has never even used it.

wrong. I use it every day, on a fairly large code base.

obviously, for portability reasons, nobody working on the project is allowed to even think about C++11, as well as other headache-inducing features - and that includes a fair chunk of the standard library.
Perhaps a similar situation would be online payment gateways for dealing with credit card transactions.

There are strict guidelines about what you need to do in order to be considered secure [0]. As a result, we don't end up with every man and his dog doing it, but there is sufficient competition compared with the single-player in-store app purchase situation.

[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_DSS
What is wrong with stereotypes is that they are stereotypes. They are fine as theoretical constructs in an educated debate, but they reek havoc on those who are still developing their sense of identity.

Gender stereotypes are the reason kids get called fag or dyke at school, irrespective of their sexual orientation. This is real, and these kids are suffering terribly because of it. The number of student suicides because of homophobic bullying is on the rise, and it is something we can fight against.

I'm not saying there are no differences (although there are virtually no professions that need be gender specific - men and women can be equally proficient at almost everything), but that we should foster an environment where we minimize those differences because the outcomes of not doing that quite literally destroys lives.

All the evidence you need can be found by checking out the "It Gets Better" campaign started by Dan Savage.
I'm not sure that the App Store is still revenue neutral, the source you cited was over a year old so things may have changed.

I agree on your point about billing having to be simple for the customer. I wonder about the reverse. If Apple were to release an iCloud app on android, would Google's Rules for Android Store mean that they have to take a cut on all iCloud purchases?
Has anyone ever had any success with a "Don't interrupt me if I have a red hat on/raise a flag/etc as I need to concentrate"?
2 years ago I made this comment:

"Interestingly, outside the "1st world" mobile phones are quite common. The speed at which this technology trickled down is amazing, about ten years from yuppies in major cities to subsistence farmers in failed states. Even more amazing is penetration. Most things just don't go that far down the economic ladder at all. Basic, fundamental things like vaccination, artificial fertilizers, electricity or regular phone lines which our grandparents took for granted have been outpaced by mobile phones in many places.

Tablets may be similar enough to mobile phones for us to hope that the same economics apply and we might see the <$3-a-day majority benefiting by 2020. Hopefully."

So, where are we now? It really looks like smartphones might have the momentum to make it all the way down to the bottom. Lets hope it keeps going.
This post, as well as others, just again highlights the 'to each his own' truth; some people prefer silence, some prefer noise. As an employer, if they care about noise when it comes to a working environment, this must be a very hard thing to balance / get right.
If the recruiter was aware of your visa situation then I would argue that they've been unnecessarily harsh. If they weren't aware then I agree with their stance 100%.

If they were aware then I would suggest contacting them directly (preferably over the phone) to explain your eagerness and highlight the fact that you were completely oblivious to the legalities around starting and taking unpaid leave immediately.

To be honest, if I was in the recruiters shoes, your persistance would have concerned me and raised doubts over your motivation for accepting the job. Are you accepting because you just need a job for your visa process or are you accepting because you legitimately want to work here?
>Here in Australia I'm quite bullish about commercial property. The residential market is garbage because people buy emotionally, and the market is therefore full of irrational actors. But the commercial market is boring and therefore full of investors who logically value any potential assets and don't pay too much for them (meaning you can still find decent returns).

I think there are irrational folks in both camps; Here in silicon valley, in 2007? clearly residential housing was overpriced. I really haven't been paying attention to the commercial market until quite recently, but I do know that recently, residential rents have been going up pretty dramatically, and sale prices of houses have been falling dramatically; There was a point a few years back where buying was a ridiculously better deal than renting (prices are coming back up, especially towards mountain view.) But yeah; as they say, real-estate is intensely local.

I mean, I wasn't paying attention to commercial real-estate at the time, but certainly businesspeople can be irrational too. I kind of get the feeling that most people here were still in school or something during the first dot-com, but I remember it well.

Really, I think it has to do with the ratio of rent to purchase price (and the cost of capital)

>And by the same token, your business customers no doubt pay you for a service and at the end of each month have nothing tangible to keep, which is kind of the same deal.

Yeah. And that's the thing to think about. I mean, a whole lot of what I'm selling is that I sell you servers in smaller chunks, and nobody has yet figured out a reasonable 'server condo' business model, (I've thought a lot about this, and I think it's mostly because the condo model doesn't cope well with rapid depreciation, and nothing depreciates like servers.)

But the other thing customers are paying for is me maintaining the equipment, which is significant. I mean, don't get me wrong, if the customer was using a whole server to themselves (I mean, a real whole server, you know, 128G ram on up) it'd probably be cheaper in the long term for them to own even if they have to buy hardware help at $100/hr (you can usually get hardware help for rather less) But, that requires, you know, knowing someone who is good, and evaluating people outside of your skillset is difficult.

Those same problems also apply to real-estate (well, except the condo model seems to be workable in real-estate. Not perfect, but it seems to work.) If I owned the building, especially if I owned the datacenter, I'd have to learn a whole lot (which I'm cool with; considering that I pour more money into this that I pay myself, it's worth the effort... but there will be a significant cost, measured in years.)

Of course, with plain old warehouse space, the landlord seems to do almost no work at all, so next time one of the industrial condos down the road goes up for sale, I'm probably gonna go for it.
Obviously, the plural of anecdote is data. All hail.
Once you have an Apple TV you're locked into the Apple ecosystem for as long as you have it. You'll buy lots of tablets and phones during that time that act as interfaces to it.

Also: http://i-want-a-pony.com/

Edit: Apple are probably the only company that could make an 8k TV and have content ready to watch on it, or at least they are in a position to have have a product ready before anyone else. They could manufacture them at scale to make a decent margin selling them at a premium whilst locking consumers into their ecosystem for years to come.
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Do we think there is a class difference in the amount of noise people make?
It seems like those are extreme fringe examples not endorsed by even the minority parties in government there. No doubt they have done their job though. Which was to prove to you that those damn gender equality activists have taken us too damn far. React reactionaries of the world. React.
Isn't banks lending part of the reason why prices are so high? If no one could get a loan, no one would be able to pay current prices for housing.
Haha, touché - I'm impressed and will reconsider the Lego Girl "thing". :)
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That's actually how app.net originally started off as...
More hours does not equal higher productivity. Working for six hours on a single commit (as the poster indicates) means the commit is far, far too large. Unless he means 'feature', then it's okay.
Not to sound like an ass, but it's going to last them longer than no extra drives from the campaign. So it'll certainly help them along :-)
And there's no chance that gyros (abruptly) stop, because... ?

(edit) OK, let's make "abruptly" optional. So what's the contingency plan for when gyros spin down and stop?
The thing is that even true stereotypes can be harmful. If 90% of group A like thing 1 and dislike thing 2, and you form a stereotype on this basis (a true, accurate stereotype) - you offer As 1s when they come round, you market your job that involves a lot of 2s to Bs rather than to As - then you can exclude and harm the 10% of As who like thing 2 and dislike thing 1. It's not being false that makes a stereotype bad.
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not sure if these are accessible outside the uk:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9774380.s...

"But when the screens are even larger you get a sense of being there - it's like looking through a window." - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19370582
I saw this vehicle at the eg conference (www.the-eg.com) in April. I recognize the marketing pitch - that it takes "a baby elephant to knock it over" - good message!

I think it will take a lot for regulators approve this vehicle, because it really is something quite new, and untested in the field. It does appear to be fantastically safer than "normal" motorcycles, and I would love to try one out.

What was never mentioned was how it performs on extremely slippery surfaces. This is where two-wheeled vehicles have a lot of trouble.

Also, one complaint about the BBC article itself - it uses "technology from the Space Station and Hubble Telescope: gyroscopes" - Really, BBC? :-)
And yet, with clear indication that certain areas are quiet zones, people and organizations should be able to rely on the common decency of people. People will in 99% of cases respect any 'no smoking' signs without enforcement from a 'shusher', so why not the 'be quiet' signs?