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The vast majority of cows exist only to feed humans. Saying that pollutants emitted from cows shouldn't be attributed to human behavior is like saying that pollutants emitted from cars shouldn't be attributed to human behavior: complete nonsense.
I created a jQuery plugin for just this: https://github.com/remybach/jQuery.superLabels. It takes things like the placeholder into account (which is way too often abused).
I agree that it's strategic, but I think Google's motive is to set a minimum standard, a catalyst to make the other service providers fall in line. Ie, don't collude to fatten your profits or Google Fibre is going to overtake you.

I think it's sustainable, if the service companies let their margins get too big then it would be a no-brainer profit making move for Google Fibre to expand and undercut them. If not, no skin off Google's back and the increased access to the internet serves their original goals too.
Back then it was the most normal thing in the world, and obviously true to any but the most unnaturally twisted minds that the proper role of a man was to earn a salary sufficient to support the whole family, and the proper role of a woman to be a housewife and mother.

Thus, a woman who worked while married was shirking her duties to her husband and children, and taking away some man's chance to build a family. And that man was probably a war veteran! Support the troops!!!

IBM's shareholder would probably have sold their shared in disgust and boycotted their products if they had openly undermined these norms.
So as far as I can tell, in the time I've been here, there are a bunch of cynical leaders of the religious right. They get their funding and push whatever agenda is asked of them from folks like that.

But also you have the desperate need by the institutions themselves to denigrate science in order to stop it clashing with fundamentalist interpretations of their religious texts. For example, more belief in science might lead to people accepting that Evolution is science and Creationism is nonsense.

Climate change allows both the cynical moneyed political interests whose wealth relies on resource extraction (which is a hugely politically corrupt industry), and the religiously inspired underminers (made up word alert) of science to have common cause. That's a powerful political force. If you could find a way to rope in the NRA you'd have the trifecta.

Maybe run a report saying "Climate Scientists want to take away your guns"?
Not saying Skype is perfect (it isn't), but WebRTC by itself doesn't come close to being a Skype substitute.

While stability for particular client-side bits (media, transport, etc) will now now fall on the browser vendor, you're still going to depend on another service for all the niceties (media and signaling relay, contacts, presence, history, etc), and they could screw it up just as badly as Skype, or worse.

Skype could just use WebRTC as another transport -- there's no technical reason they can't.
No. CPUs are useless for mining, and the only GPU instance AWS offers uses Nvidia GPUs, which are about 5x worse than the equivalent AMD/ATI GPUs. Even if AWS had AMD/ATI GPU instances, the costs would probably be too high.
Well.. didn't Apple got some money from Samsung recently over design rip off?

The same can be applied over web design.

If you don't believe me go ahead, make an exactly copy of Apple.com, put your logo on it, and advertise as your website.
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$(document).keypress won't pick up keystrokes from across tabs or windows. So unless the popup is the active window, you should be safe from something like this.
Yes, Outlook is great for time planning .. if all of your team uses it. However, most people that send me emails use GMail or other web mailers and thus Exchange is not really a benefit in that regard.

Before i started my work on this client, i used Outlook 2011 and i'm still paying for hosted Exchange so yes, i think they are both reasonably designed products.

It's just that Outlook doesn't suit my workflow of dealing with email. And it can be pretty slow at times. And it sometimes doesn't sync well after offline mode.
the "web" bit.

It's like how WebGL is very exciting, to people doing web stuff, even though it has nothing over other similarly named stacks.
I will muster every ounce of decorum I can manage in responding to some random person's rebuttal to a post written by someone who actually knew and lived with Aaron (seriously, what are you thinking?!), and simply retort:

"That program crashed because it halted. It was the proximate cause of its own crash so to speak. Are there other factors without which it wouldn't have crashed? Indeed, there are an infinite number of them. An infinite number of things could have happened to change the course of the program execution. Indeed, ultimately you can trace the blame all the way back to the program's previous versions (the bug is quite heritable)."

Your comment is not enlightening. It is not insightful. It falls flat on its face if you bother to do even two minutes' Googling to find that while somewhere between 1 in 10 and 1 in 20 Americans suffer from depression (http://www.cdc.gov/features/dsdepression/), "only" 38,000 die of suicide each year (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/suicide.htm).

Saying, "that person committed suicide because they were depressed" is ... I have no polite things to say about it. Saying that to the loved one of someone who just committed suicide is really, fucking, wrong. "Tracing the blame back to his parents" -- i.e., blaming his parents -- is simply, horribly, awfully, inhumane.

If Taren is saying that she doesn't think Aaron would've committed suicide at this time if it weren't for the way that the case was progressing, we have no damn business telling her otherwise, and your completely vacuous comment certainly shouldn't be at the top of the thread about it.

Is it possible maybe that your background as an attorney is coloring your judgement of this case? That you find it uncomfortable that someone else in the legal profession is being faulted for the way that they handled a case that resulted in someone else's completely preventable death?
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Fair enough, I just think your cause would be much better served without actively disparaging the people you're trying to win over. It sure is a big deal, agreed, but there's a way to point that out that doesn't minimize everything else someone cares about in the process. More effective, too.
Cocos2D is Objective-C. Cocos2DX is C++, but I'm a little skeptical of it. I would not be worried about C++, honestly - I'm finding it really much less heinous than I was expecting. I mentioned memory management fears before--to my surprise, I am really comforted knowing when my dtors are going to fire.

I have a blog (http://edcanhack.com) but I am very bad about it. This seems like it'd be a good post, though - I'll come up with something tonight.
"is it established that porn is sexist?"

It is, yes. The vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast majority of porn panders to a specifically, typically male fantasy (and bravado) of sexual interaction.
I believe gchat would do that, google hangouts might integrate with the ios/android app as well (I have not tried this).

The excitement here is that this is a non-flash solution, so technically it will work on any device that can run Chrome, regardless of whether or not it can / wants to run Flash. So in the near future this may make it into Chrome for Android and iOS.

WebRTC is a very necessary step in removing Flash's hooks into the modern internet; after this, there will be very few reasons to support it at all anymore. And that is a very good thing for speed, compatibility, and security.
Quote from the page:

> I obviously can't afford to give my work away for free, but for you to get maximum benefit out of it, it needs to be open source.

Meet others who can afford to give away their work for free:

http://squirrelmail.org/
http://roundcube.net/
http://www.xuheki.com/
http://www.horde.org/apps/imp

And there is more — google: webmail client open source
Just FYI, the "try it now" feature jumps you to the top of the page every time you click on the next/previous buttons. (You might not be handling the click event correctly.) Otherwise, I like it!
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no worries. Not at home right now where I use Firefox/Chrome. IE8 is a forced requirement :) for another 2-3 hours. will check it out later today.
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It's stupid crap like "Beards of Experience" though that fall out of the ephemeral "boys club" in our industry which in turn re-enforce it. This ultimately allows morons like that mentioned by the OP to have the balls to stay something overtly sexist. It's all part of the same problem. It's a giant embarrassment and it wasn't always like this. And it's not a "technology" thing or a "software" thing, it's a "startuppy web/mobile application development" thing so it has nothing to do with the actual discipline but more to do with a rotten aspect of the culture that's grown out of control.

The solution, in my view, has less to do with going out of our way to bring women into the fold and more to do with not putting stupid shit like "Beards of Experience" on your homepage.
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Check out Roundcube if you are looking for an awesome webmail client.
Real problem of electric cars in america. Coming from a person who REALLY wants an electric car:

I live in an apartment. The end. I cannot charge my car like I can with a gas car. I must plug it in overnight, which is impossible since I have no permanent driveway. And even if I did I would not have access to electricity for charging. I also live in New York. Here getting an electric car makes 100% sense, short driving distances, slow speeds, lots of stopping, the ideal environment for electric cars, and yet most new yorkers live in apartments/driveway-less houses not houses with driveways.

And I REALLY want an electric car. The savings would be great, and it would really help with the pollution in the city. But alas, it is not possible.

And of course driving cross-country. I have no way of filling up. It would make sense if I could pay some fee to gas stations to leech their juice while I stop there for say 15 minutes. That would turn any gas station into an electric charging staging, of course that requires the car to charge quickly.

And so the heart of it all: We need a REALLY - REALLY fast charging battery that can go about 100-200 miles. Once you have that, people charging weekly for ~ 15 minutes won't be such a terrible thing. And it's now practical as a car for anyone.

And FFS, we need low-end electric cars. Because super high-end cars like tesla will never get the adoption needed. A flood of low-end electrics would solve the problem of charge stations everywhere.
What matters most to me is video chatting that doesn't suck. If WebRTC is that and only that, I would be more than willing to use another chat app as a buddy list and for chat history.
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2) ... indirect skills ...

I was thinking about this too. I studied an irrelevant[1] subject at a top tier university. In a sense the only benefits were indirect skills (a world famous university does look good on a resume, but not if they ask for transcripts (which only the INS/CIS has ever done)

I think that in the moment, once you have flipped the bit on college, you are no longer getting any benefits, certainly not any net benefits at which point pulling the rip-cord seems smart.

[1] History and Philosophy of Science - more relevant to software development than I normally admit.
My gut feeling is that Durango will be able to play Windows Store games, possibly with a recompile to a slightly different platform target. So I expect there will still be a pathway.

There's still the expectation that people use C++/CX, which is terrible, but I think the "indie" path will be pretty well-formed.
Not only do they have to upgrade their system, but they're going to have to replace most of the course material for "Week 3: Architecture, or Just Use Google Docs".
Technology for technology's sake.
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Off-topic, but if Mitsubishi has been making any effort to copy Mercedes-Benz, then they have been doing a shockingly poor job of it. Certainly I cannot find any trace of an E-class in the unloved Galant, no SLK in the Eclipse... in fact it would not be that surprising to see Mitsubishi start pulling out of some foreign markets.
> However, do the engineering world a favor and never call yourself an engineer or pretend to be one.

Can you elaborate a bit? Should CS grads consider themselves engineers, or only *E majors?
"You want my free help" that makes me wonder. I thought of it more like this: I'm selling the basic software once-off so that afterwards anyone can customize it as he/she pleases. For my taste, it's good enough so that i can use it :) so i'm not really asking for free help. I'm asking for money so that i can share my toys with everyone ;)

But you both make a very valid point for making it open source as soon as possible. And it seems as if you have a good overview of the ways to monetize open source. Do you know how companies any of those Open Source companies ensure that none of their competitors just downloads all the source code and sells their exact same product?
You can't, but you can on Steam. I would not worry about the Windows Store until it starts showing a market base.
Many top and higher mid range universities make the majority of their money from things that aren't tuition. My university was making more money from real estate than it was making from domestic tuition fees.
Also, a preemptive apology for the fact that the site currently requires Javascript - it's being worked on at this very moment.
Agree for the current US, which is likely a large part of why they have food stamps, but no "living wage for doing whatever suits your fancy".

An argument could be made that much of the government funded research done at Bell Labs is worthless. An argument could be made that of the worthwhile things that have come out of this government research, transistors, lasers, and CCDs are the most far reaching (since transistors begat miniaturized electronics begat cell phones and computers begat the internet).

These government researchers were largely doing "whatever suited their fancy" and most of it was wasted effort and tax money. An argument could be made that the money and effort wasted was worth the amazing results.
Delay-based UI is shitty UI. Do you have so little regard for your users that you think their time is free?

Not to mention that hovering over text fields is not the norm, because they are fields and fields have labels. Hovering over buttons with cryptic icons? Maybe.
You fail to get my point, why do you think that that the US has has little issue with allowing encryption to be used these days?

How strong is your 'locked' box? It's only a bunch of 1s and 0s.
I'm a biologist and I use viruses (adenovirus to be specific) to insert genes into mammalian cells in vitro. I do this to study the function of said genes. To make a usable stock of virus, I infect a small number of viruses into particular cell line, wherein the viruses replicate and give me an 'amplified' stock.

When I harvest the amplified viruses, I use a centrifuge to separate them from the rest of the cellular crud. The viruses separate into a distinct, narrow, blue-white band in the centrifuge tube. It seems that concentrated virus has a distinct color, despite being made up of colorless viral particles.

How can this be so?
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Romcoms are fiction. There are loads of "romantic" movies where, if acted out IRL, the hero would be rightly arrested on felony charges. They're not meant to be taken as instructional.
You're correct that you'll depend on another service for all the niceties, but I for one am super excited about decoupling all of those services from the connection itself. Hopefully it'll lead to a lot more competition and innovation in the space.
If the article reflects the truth in any way, it sounds to me like the instructors were in over their heads.
This is so tendentious a thing to say as to just be weird. Do Northrop Frye, Harold Bloom, M. H. Abrams, and pretty much every other scholar who has written about it, not know what literature is?
I hope everyone remembers this when they have kids! Give them the option of not going, rather than setting the expectation that it is expected. I plan to encourage mine to take at least a gap year when applying, rather than jumping in. (unless they are 100% certain of the field/direction, which is unlikely)
Unix was developed on a system with a 110 baud teletype. On such a system, brevity was the path to sanity (seriously, imagine programming on a manual typewriter that only supported 10 characters per second).

VMS was written later, with a faster interface. Also, you didn't need to specify the entire long option, you only needed to type enough to disambiguate between "/all" and "/almostall" (for instance).
If the series don't really correlate to temperature (and the red noise doesn't) even though they appear to during the calibration period, then how it moves before the calibration period will be random. So when you take your weighted average of this randomness they will tend to cancel out (or at least tend to be flatter than the reconstruction during the calibration period). The greater the number of series, the more pronounced the effect. The point being that a hockey stick shape is an artefact of the method used, whether or not the proxies actually are good indicators of past temperature. I am trying to keep this somewhat simplified.

Of course you don't have to take my word for all this, thanks to Climategate we have all the behind-the-scenes dirty laundry:

http://foia2011.org/index.php?id=4191

Here Rob Wilson does just the test I'm describing and seems a little concerned about the results.
At 1m50s a huge piece of ancient blue ice rises, reminiscent of a blue whale breaching from the ocean depths. Beautiful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC3VTgIPoGU&t=1m50s
Yeah, your thought indirectly reminded of The Big Year, in which in a bunch of unlikely friends/competitors try to get the record of number of bird species spotted (or heard) within a year.
What is the best book to master (not learn) C++?
Good idea. I often have questions where I'd like to canvas the views of other developers. Given the popularity of a lot of closed questions on SO, I'm guessing I'm not the only one.

Don't much like the drill-down aspect. When you click on a question (/topics/blahblah), I'd rather see one long single-column page with everything on it. The Select Viewpoint nav bar could stay with you, as you scroll, for convenience.
Comical statement, but CAPTCHA's were indeed created because of need (bots exist, and aren't make believe!).
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There's a few more hints here: http://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/17vp13/evasi0n_ma...
"Could have" is reaching out into the hypotheticals… as other commenters have said, "let's focus on what has happened." I'm not trying to mob on you, but this branch of hypothetical thinking is always brought up in response to this kind of story, usually by men. It is problematic because it distracts attention from the main issue: systematic harassment of women in our community.

Bringing up this hypothetical is a distraction/derailment tactic used by what I will call 'agents of the patriarchy,' un-wittingly or no. So when you say it, just understand why feminists get annoyed…
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Fantastic book, both from a writing perspective and wanting to understand why people react to certain things they do. I need to reread my copy but it gave me a ton to chew on.
> imperfect neural abstraction hoping that it will automatically become concious.

Consciousness is not the goal. What if your idea of consciousness is wrong? Even Wikipedia admits that nobody knows what consciousness is.
can we keep the tip active on hover of the tip?
lets say the text was long and I wanted to traverse the text with my mouse pointer, can I have that?

just the tip!
> Are we now to charge prosecutors with being sensitive to the details of the personal lives of the people which they prosecute?

Yes.

A justice system that does not behave as though it is dealing with human lives is one which will corrupt itself into encouraging prosecutors to win cases, instead of seek justice.
> pessimistic arrogance

[...]

> Self-esteem, needless to say, was definitely not Aaron’s problem.

Probably the first comments I've seen about Aaron since his death that rang true to me as someone who'd interacted with him. :P :(

But sometimes the arrogance and self-importance is just a shield that hides something more fragile on the inside. After hearing about his suicide, I'd just taken that to be the case.
Official OpenVPN client for iOS hits the AppStore
I've no idea why this isn't all over the tech headlines. The missing OpenVPN support and the lack of a client for un-jailbroken devices has been …unpleasant, so I'm surprised this app has been flying under the radar for two weeks by now.
Do you want to be righteous or do you want to be persuasive?

If you want to be persuasive, you appeal to people's better nature. You don't tell them that their cherished ideals of rationalism and no-bullshit, all-about-the-code ethos are a crock of shit, you tell them that you believe in this too, and you want it to be this way for everyone. The people who are undermining this are the misogynist minority, who are putting their irrational hatred of women ahead of all other things. The reason we keep having to have this tedious discussion is because these people are consistently attacking and undermining our fellow female hackers, and it's about time we told them where to go with that kind of behaviour.

The problem is, you've become convinced that the community at large is full of sexism, when it really isn't. It's just that nobody has figured out how to talk about this in a way that makes sense, and unfortunately arguments like yours are counter-productive (which is why people are arguing with you, which has the depressing effect of making you think that the community must be full of sexism, and the cycle goes on).
I don't think it was only the last 24 hours either. It's kind of hard to ignore signs of it in his blog.

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/verysick

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/dying
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