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Agreed, my list was more of a general view of the whole process. Asset latency, blocking and requests all fit in Page Rendering in my mind. Actually, DOM processing and Page Rendering are very closely related.

Actually, using your logic, #4 is right. I worded it wrong, "Only done after all the "assets" are downloaded" should be "Only completed after all the "assets" are downloaded". More often that not, you'll see high (6 seconds+) Page Speed scores because Page Rendering isn't completed due to missing or slow assets.
I used to not wear a watch, then I started wearing one a year ago and it's such an improvement over using your phone.

The fact that you can instantly see what the time is means that you're always aware of the time. It's improved my timekeepings so much, and I'm rarely late to things any more.

It's really hard to explain but I think an analog clock is far more intuitive than digital.
My 2c, is stop trying to be one nation then. The EU zone is something of a fiasco and its really killing the entire zone with countries like Turkey and Greece. Don't blame us .. blame your governing body for making it difficult to operate in Europe.
"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."

-- Robert A. Heinlein

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/robertahe100989.h...
Because hackers use their wits and experience to deal with strange circumstances under less than ideal conditions. As do docs on planes.

It's a first-rate submission.
Insulin isn't something you need acutely. Insulin is used to treat _hyper_glycemia (blood sugar too high). This is a gradually developing condition, and someone couldn't go from 'normal' to 'critically ill' over the course of a flight. EDIT: reading your description below regarding the stolen meds, this seems reasonable. He likely _was_ experiencing some symptoms of hyperglycemia even as you were boarding.

The most common type of 'diabetic shock' is _hypo_glycemia (blood sugar too low). The treatment for this is simply sugar (if the patient is conscious, they can take it orally, if they're unconscious, then they need an IV with Dextrose).

I suspect most airline medkits carry dextrose (the one mentioned in the article did). I would imagine many of them carry glucagon as well (glucagon can be injected into the muscle, which is quicker and easier than establishing an IV, and it signals the liver to release its glycogen stores (by breaking it down into glucose (sugar))).

I imagine insulin is very rare. It doesn't keep for terribly long, most types need to be refrigerated, and the most common use cases are for things that don't come on 'suddenly' (generally someone experiencing severe hyperglycemia has had symptoms for hours or even days).
That guy is my web dev hero.
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There is a small town very near to where I grew up where everybody speaks Portuguese. The mayor and his councilmen speak Portuguese in their chambers. There are Festas and bullfights, of which I have attended many, and even played Baritone in an Azorian-tradition marching band. The local grocery stores have food with labels in Portuguese (occasionally Spanish as a second language). The most popular sports team in the entire city is Benfica, and the most popular TV channel is RTP.

This town is called Gustine, and it is located in California.

If you are going to throw a fit about generalizations of Europe, at least have the courtesy to do the same with your generalizations of the US. After having lived in multiple corners of this country, I can honestly tell you that our majority language and our TV stations are the lowest common denominators of our culture...not defining aspects of it.
In the US vacation time is in addition to public holidays. Most companies have 10 holiday days off per year. Salaried employees usually get a minimum of two weeks of vacation time on top of that, which often includes sick days. Extra weeks are earned by long-time employees. So you start at 20 days and get to 25 and 30 over some number of years with the same company. It's also often possible to negotiate the starting amount when you're hired, if it's not your first job.

Most good companies/managers, at least in the software industry, also recognize that developers often work overtime and/or odd hours, so when you're sick or can't work for some other reason you can usually "make it up" by working off-hours. That way you can save your vacation time for when you're actually on vacation.
I agree. After playing with one of the $500 Surfaces, I thought, "Man I would buy this in a heartbeat if I could wipe it and install Ubuntu".
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What worries me is that some American entrepreneurs may be deterred from starting businesses in Europe based on untrue generalizations, whether positive or negative. There are huge possibilities in Europe, but in order to plan your business strategy you need facts.
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"Elements of Statistical Learning" should definitely be on the list. It is one of (if not THE) leading intro graduate textbooks in machine learning.

http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/
or straight to the PDF at
http://www.stanford.edu/~hastie/local.ftp/Springer/ESLII_pri...
I like the idea of creating software that resemble patterns found in nature. I invented 2 directions (not very popular yet, but I like them anyway):
1. organic programming: grow the systems, not build them.
This idea lead me to creation of 2 frameworks (one is open source, but beta: https://github.com/salboaie/shape)
My original idea about organic programming was about a tight integration of the tools used for developing the program with the program itself. These tools can be used at runtime to customize or even to create new features. This approach have interesting implication on the framework, some good, some not so good but the organic paradigm changed the direction and reduced complexity and arbitrariness of some design decisions.
2. swarming and swarms as better metaphor for asynchronous messages. This idea has very nice implications and I believe that it is an approach that goes towards essential complexity regarding programming with asynchronous messages. For details, asm me or take a look here: https://github.com/salboaie/SwarmESB
Perhaps jennichen was suggesting that since the appeal has already been filed and the verdict might be overturned, the lawyers win either way. In the end CMU may get nothing out of it after having spent millions on the lawyers.

Quoting from the article shared:

"As Brian Love, a professor of patent law at Santa Clara University, pointed out, most universities end up net losers (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2019190) in the game of "patent roulette," with their patents costing them more money than they make."
This post feels awfully pedantic. While it may not be clear to non-Americans, when Americans talk about "Europe", they're generally talking about Western Europe, not Eastern, and are excluding the UK too. They almost certainly aren't including Russia.

(Just like when Americans talk about Asia, they aren't usually thinking of India.)

Of course, that's geographically inaccurate -- but it's what we usually mean. The Europe that Americans refer to does mostly use the Euro, have better-distributed wealth, plenty of consumers, and ambivalent feelings toward entrepreneurs in most of its parts.

Just because Europe is made up of lots of countries, and there are lots of different ways to define it, doesn't mean you can't make statements about it. Perhaps the main point of the post was, be aware that Eastern Europe exists?
Do you have access to an on-call physician? Would a provider at some level less then 'physician' (e.g. nurse practitioner or paramedic) be able to use the kit if they're in contact with a physician?

It would be extremely frustrating to watch someone die (or at least get sicker), knowing there was equipment on board that could help them...
Vim, Haxe and livecoding.
I've found that's generally a program bug. When the programs try to find the root window, and create an OVERRIDE_REDIRECT window that covers the entire screen, they behave poorly.

They should be setting the EWMH fullscreen hint. To be honest, I haven't seen a program in ages that gets this wrong. Do you have any examples?
There are a lot of issues with using Google Analytics for collecting performance data. As mentioned, their use of averages leads to a lot of problems and issues from outliers. GA heavily samples (1% by default) & only collects timing data from browsers that support Nav Timing. If you're looking for a way to collect more accurate timing data, Torbit Insight (http://torbit.com) is free and offers 100% sampling, histograms, medians, percentiles, and lots of breakdowns by browser, geography, etc.
Tax data is protected by Federal law and regulation. It's pretty secure.

DMV data, on the other hand, is for sale in most states, and is exchanged with other states and in some cases Canadian provincial entities as well. Telemarketers, marketing firms, etc all buy your personal information and registration data from the DMV, often getting it in near real time.
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There is a new discussion over Berlin vs London from a new Varsavsky's post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4973904
Its not really a question of what you'd prefer to code in (you'll always prefer something familiar) but what delivers the best result for what you're trying to do. In essence we created two real, not test, apps, one using HTML and one using Objective-C. The clear winner was Objective-C in our experience, at this time. Creating a great mobile interface using HTML5 is certainly worth doing and can be done - but I dont think it should be made to look and feel like an app (either in safari or wrapped) since the "not-quite-right" issues just keep piling up, and if you want the look and feel of iOS you should just go native in the first place.
I saw this coming from a mile away as soon as I saw the map go up yesterday. I think the real debate is mental health and deeper checks on those who are at higher risk of violence in the mental health community. The stigma also needs to be removed from our culture of such diseases so we as a culture can move beyond the gun debate and concentrate on those who lash out with violence. As a gun owner, I am both for stricter controls but its obvious that gun control only affects those who are legally looking to buy guns .. not the violent offenders in our culture.
I didn't say all Americans are that way, I just said some (rather loud, rather constant) Americans generalize themselves; while I don't quite get that vibe from Europe. Movies, presidential speeches, whatnot... it's really not just some nationalists, you export that a lot. That doesn't say anything about those who have no use for that stuff and see through it, I'm just claiming you have a lot of people who don't. I cannot think of any country that is so developed and so into nationalism, at least appearing so from the outside.
1) Guilds could form more through the power of evolved authority and authentication. The assumption is the role of the University is reduced and education becomes more specialized and short term results driven. In that world how do you know who has real skills?

With Cisco training, for example, your Cisco certifications are your credentials. We haven't seen this model of certification move to programming in general. We probably will as these new training hubs form and begin to monetize through being a body shop rather than through fees. A few Guilds will become popular and their certs will have more value. Via small networks potential programmers will flock to these services and the phenomena becomes self-reinforcing. Guilds may specialize around certain subjects, as guilds did in the past. These Guilds will recognize their power and monetization opportunities and take a greater and greater role across the entire value chain.

The scalability of online training means vast numbers of potential programmers can be filtered out and stratified into various skill levels and specialties, much like a MMORPG across a vast virtual world. Programmers will gain experience points by being apprenticed on projects that have been bid out. Each project can be thought of as a quest. As new skills are required the Guild can bring on new training and integrate it into the game, quickly creating pools of new subject matter experts. This will be cheap labor and will be highly profitable. Masters will evolve that can access large pools of labor. Specialized tiger teams can form to solve difficult problems, all mediated by these new training Guilds as the Game Master controlling their Game World.

Virtual economies can evolve around code and skills. Each Guild may evolve their own infrastructure, code banks, tools, styles, networks and processes that will make bootstrapping new projects even more profitable. Instead of GitHub we'll see Guild Hubs. Instead of the Amazon Cloud we'll see Guild Clouds. Instead of Frameworks we'll see Guild Frameworks. These will not be open as they will be used as a competitive advantage as the open source community is compelled by game mechanics to become part of a Guild.

Will guilds, like in the Renaissance, be formal parts of the government having government enforced powers and benefits? It's not hard to imagine, especially if privatization becomes more popular. But even without the government picking winners, through market forces very powerful actors can emerge by controlling the supply of a necessary good.

Will this happen? Who knows. That's why it is a prediction :-)

2) Agreed.

3) Sorry you feel that way. I think the emphasis on building things rather than people is a central subject of our times.

4) Lots of people are more qualified than I to speak on those subjects. And have. What are your thoughts?
I addressed all that in my post. I never claimed that Americans were one homogenous group (and by the way, I've lived in California, too). I claimed that US, despite being a melting pot, is an actual nation (which is not the case with the EU) and that there are a least some common denominators - one of them being the language which is spoken natively by more than 80% of the population.
Just like "America" is a synecdoche for "The United States". :)

It depends on how the words are used; "Africa" to describe an area larger than a lot of continents combined, when you only mean a few countries - or just one! - is borderline offensive, though.
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As they should. This is a sector that has truly suffered for innovation. I've tried to use two or three between a Sony watch to a palm connector watch. Nike has done a pretty cool thing with their sport bracelet, but it fails on Android horribly. At least make an device/app that does a crap load more than track forward motion and time. PLEASE do so.
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Are you implying that the emergency call was for a horse/dog in cardiac arrest, or just that the racecourse vet was the 'doctor' performing on the human?
Well, that's the point. We're talking about rails 4 here. It's a mature framework at this point, and yet apparently here is the DFL saying that people who historically have had no problems running Rails are now - without warning - deemed to have made a mistake.

Thats why Im always wary of programmers who join into a framework too quickly.

How long should a framework be given, then? Or is your point that anyone who picked Rails made a mistake precisely because it's an opinionated framework, and they aren't a DHH/37S clone?
I found this to be a good reference when I was looking for something a bit more in-depth than the typical Todo examples.
"Home invasion defense" sounds like the basest from of scaremongering I can imagine. What is the actual incidence of "home invasion"? Does it even exceed the incidence of firearms accidents and domestic assault with firearms? There are hundreds (maybe thousands) of better things waste your time and money worrying about, and most of the "solutions" to those don't put your family at risk.
People still use IMAP?
The tubes to the interwebs is broke.
I've found this site extremely useful for fitness:

http://www.exrx.net/Lists/Directory.html
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I agree. What I was trying to say is that it doesn't worth to be upset with any misunderstanding about the place you born, wherever it is. Instead, you can correct people, so they have a more realistic view of your country.

But I also believe that any entrepreneur considering to start a company in Europe must research deeply, in a way that he find facts, and not only opinions from people from Internet.
So how exactly is it imprudent or offensive for Americans to point out some of the common denominators of Europe?
That's a pet peeve of mine, also. There's usually a date, but often not near the top and/or not in a standard format. Then there are these sites that use relative times, e.g., 0 minutes ago, or 865 days ago ...

In the current case, there is a timestamp of sorts at the bottom of the page: "Updated December 27, 2012 Copyright 2012 Cockeyed.com".

Here is blog owner's About page, last updated January 27, 2012: http://www.cockeyed.com/personal/about.html.
The problem I have with desktop email clients now is the lack of rapportive and boomerang.
I'd have to get home and boot up Linux to try them out, but the ones coming to mind are Darwinia, Trine, and World of Goo. Is there a way that I, as a user, could manually set that fullscreen hint?
It's more of a polling service that gives you a kind of instant focus group. You ask a question, we'll give you the answers.
> I have to buy clothes made for fat people and just deal with the extra room in the midsection.

You should honestly consider learning some basic tailoring. I'm starting it myself - I buy 'vintage' clothes from charity shops and most wouldn't fit.

Buy a decent antique sewing machine if you want a cheap one.

Its a sufficiently rare but useful skill to make good conversation too. And you can vastly increase the perceived value of your clothes by claiming they are hand tailored! ;)

Here is a good forum to pick up knowledge: http://www.cutterandtailor.com/forum/index.php?showforum=26
Since we're quite fond of 'ship early, ship often' mantra, we decided to put this landing page online, despite the fact that some things are still missing; Social sharing and application form (for those who want to become contractors) will be added in the following days.

Oh and yes, we're planning to launch January 7th.
One of the points I was trying to get through, and perhaps didn't do a great job of, was that I keep seeing people/apps trying to use HTML and various wrapping frameworks / toolkits to create the look and feel of an iOS app. Even worse, many of these "apps" don't even need to be apps (end of the article).

We went this route too and hoped we could re-use lots of code we already had but, as you say, the right tool for an iOS app is Objective-C. Un-JITed JS inside a wrapped app with a zillion Objective-C stubs using the DOM in a view-like manner its not meant to represent just doesn't do it.
They've been struggling to become a part of the EU, though. Could be what he meant.
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Before offices or open concept, an ability to work distraction free is necessary.

I had a dedicated office for about a decade starting at 18, and an open office for about half a decade since. Before that I've also worked out of my bedroom and basement for a few years.

Interruption and distraction are the enemy of productivity. Managing these two monsters is essential, whether it's the people in the room or what you let distract you on your screen.

I noticed noise canceling earphones did more for me than anything else. same goes for earplugs. Having a clear list of what to do is essential to get you started. Turning of all notifications including email and im was really helpful as no walls protect against that. I keep my phone on silent and no vibrate. think some of this stuff stands out once you've worked for a while and noticed the ultra productive times vs. not.
Very little is so important it can't wait. If it is, someone will interrupt you. Making this clearly known is important to anyone who might assault your space, and physically or electronically.

Finding your formula of how to become deeply focused and productive is important, but realize it may not be one formula for everyone. Some people benefit from being in the same room to keep them focused (this is especially true when younger), and and others do better in a cave like an office. Whatever it is, understand it's about going to that inner cave in a way and managing the distractions and interruptions.
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no. the future is cloud gaming, like Gaikai.
There are tons of studies showing that IP law hampers innovation and not a single one showing it aids it.

What about pharmaceuticals? 'Tech' (as we use the term) isn't the only industry in existence.
I recently started reading "Think Like a Programmer" (http://www.amazon.com/dp/1593274246) and I find it quite helpful.
Universities should teach, research, and publish.
What the heck are they doing in patent litigation?!

Also, is CMU partially tax funded? If so, do they really own these patents to begin with? Should they?
This article is a great promotion for Cloudflare, but it does not really explain WHY page speed matters. Of course we all want our websites to load fast. I'd be more curious to see how the speed correlates with your conversion rates.
My dad, an electrical engineer, was once on his way back from a conference with a Concorde flight full of other EEs. In the air, the stewardess asked, "Is there an engineer on board?" Everyone responded enthusiastically. She was forced to clarify, "Is there an aeronautical engineer on board," to disappointment all around.

I must admit, some secret part of me always hopes I'll be in a situation on an airplane where they need an emergency perl script written . . .
Sounds like you're using the proprietary Nvidia driver?

Set all your screens to 'separate X screen' and then check the 'Use Xinerama' box. You may have to set the correct screen offsets in the Nvidia control panel (or xorg.conf) after restarting X.

I have this setup at work, and it works very nicely apart from the fact that only one of the two GPUs seems to be capable of displaying OpenGL content when connected in this way.
The main point of the post was: Even if applied to western Europe or the European Union the original post he's responding to is grossly overgeneralizing and wrong.

Otherwise you're right: When talking about europe, most western europeans don't include russia or respectively those part of russia that geographically belong to europe and most probably ukraine and other eastern european countries are not included as well.
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Right, so that's 2 languages (English & Spanish). There are currently 23 offical working languages in the EU.

And I'm sure if you live in Watsonville, California, you can get your tax forms in English, right? This is definitly not the case within the whole of the EU and the EU offical languages. (e.g. someone in Ireland could not get their tax forms in Swedish).
Who would you consider 'master chefs'?