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I completely agree. I use various flavors of Unix every day at work, and I can only identify half of the flags mentioned at the root comment.

This reminds me of the whole "replace" debacle [1] a couple weeks back, where the power nerds jumped all someone who wrote a bit of code to simplify common tasks. It's hard to understand how some people think flexing their arcane knowledge in everyone's face makes them look good. They trash efforts to make software more accessible and maintainable so they can pretend to be king of a tiny hill.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5106767
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Just curious, what stocks do you currently hold?
You are right. My bad, I should just looked it up. Thought I could wing it from memory.
Interesting idea... but I can just see the client asking "What are those lines for?"

Still, I think I might give it a go, I would like to be wrong.
Your post is confusing an unclear.
Based on how I read it initially, I am interpreting that post as you being are angry at site that look like yours, to which I have to say 'tough luck'. The internet is all about copy-evolve-retry. I'm sure 2/3 of your design ideas are based off someone else's innovation from months or years ago. Unless you invented the the whole CSS/HTML/JS stack yourself....

You believe that no one should build a similar design?
You believe that they are using exactly your css?
You believe that they are using exactly your images?
You believe that they are using exactly your javascript?

It's unclear what you are raging at. If it's just a look-alike design, that I think you are playing the fool, and pretty anti-innovation. If they are just loading your css/images/js that that is a bit of a different story.
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I have a user that keeps this pipe bomb looking device next to her desk. I am a little worried that this device might damage her computer. Any thoughts?

(device)
http://www.cutcat.com/item/Total_Shield/570
A trend that I just adore is letting people log in with either username or email on the same form, so it doesn't matter.
When it will support real databases ie. not MySQL?
a) The warehouses are in lower cost areas as compared to showrooms.

b) Warehouses allow amazon to serve the profitable long tail of products because they are not limited to shelf space.

c) If they start offering same day service, the advantage of immediate purchase from retail stores will me largely mitigated.

d) I largely dont want to shop in a store anymore because amazon has the discovery problem solved to a much better extent than stores do. I feel very helpless now when I am in a retail store and struggle to answer the question - 'which one of these products is any good'. Retailers could maybe counter that with shopping companion applications but I dont know of any good ones.
It originally said 1% of Wordpress sites.
The jailbreak community, who overall do very good things for users, are shooting themselves in the foot by not having the Cydia store work properly once you jailbreak --- the store is totally down, servers slammed. They had 6 months to prepare for this? why don't they correct it? people's first impressions (who have never jailbroken before) are that the process is terrible.

I am referring to the Cydia store by @saurik.
This is one of those cases where I find myself wanting the professor to first sit down and very precisely say what they think "non-discriminatory" would mean in this context. The devil is in the details. Just flinging around wild accusations of racism at Google, this company, and finally society as a whole, without giving any action items on how one would discharge the accusation of racism is just being mean, hitting people with a very big stick without giving them any chance to dodge.

(Perhaps she does somewhere, however, I will freely admit my Bayesian priors on that probability suggest it is not worth my time to try to find it.)

I'm not demanding this to the nth degree, obviously; I don't expect her to submit a working patch to Google's results engine. But what amounts to a vague wave in the direction that can't even be nailed beyond "society" is not helpful to anyone, just an incendiary attack.
Now is an excellent time to be reading The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey.
As a sidenote, I'm interested in hearing piracy numbers after this jailbreak. Is piracy still popular, or are people just jailbreaking solely for the mods?
In which case I'm surprised there wasn't a widespread epidemic of malware infected iOS devices.
> I want to know how to parse them in PHP.

Step one : Stop using PHP.
I would suggest that harassment of white men (and men in general) usually comes in the form of attacking one's mind, rather than body. George W. Bush stands out as a notable example. I don't know of anyone posting supposed pictures of him naked, but the jokes about his intelligence were seemingly never ending.
What's always very frustrating, some guy may hold a grudge or be sexist... but why does he always find so many supporters, like those who visited his web site and sent this woman emails? People who shouldn't have anything against this woman but just can't keep themselves from attacking her. Frat house? Too many people in this industry don't seem to ever graduate from it.
The problem is that states aren't seeing the sales tax revenue from out of state purchases and have become increasingly insistent that they receive said revenue. They've tried collecting it on income taxes (who really files that anyway?) but it doesn't work.

Facing increased budget pressure, the states aren't likely to give up. More than likely, any competitor who isn't at least Amazon-sized (and let's be serious, other than maybe Walmart, who is?) is going to get leaned on hard by the state's legal department if the competitor doesn't roll over on the Amazon tax.

I don't foresee any competition taking over Amazon's market share over a 6.5% sales tax.
Is this something like PhoneGap to mix HTML/JS and native code?
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The flaws are numerous, but the easiest to explain is that they employ a post-hoc screening bias. Imagine that you gather a few dozen time-series together. They go back two thousand years. Then you regress them against the (very short) instrumental temperature record in the period where they overlap. You keep the ones that pass and throw the rest away. You form some sort of linear weighted average of the selected proxies (i.e. PCA for example).

The thing about this process is, if you feed in completely random red-noise time series you will get a hockey stick. The reason is simple, the selection period will mirror the instrumental temperature (mental check: it has to, after all we only selected the proxies that matched the instrumental temperature). You have your blade. But none of those red noise proxies actually reflect past temperature do they? They just happened to be selected by random chance. So in the time before the selection period, the noise cancels out and you have a flat line. There is your stick.

This is the core of how these "proxy reconstructions" work, and it is nonsense.

Outside of that, it gets even better. The stories are comical and numerous. Mann famously fed a contaminated Finnish lake sediment series into his algo, which happily regressed it against temperature and found that it passed significance if it was used upside down (in the opposite orientation to that suggested by the author in the original source paper). So in it went. GIGO.
Or how about the question of which temperature series to regress against? You'd think you'd regress against local temperature right? Or maybe at least the same continent? Oh ye optimistic fool, go and google "teleconnection" and "non-local statistical relationship". This is what passes as "climate science".
Have you published anything to the app store?

Edit: Honestly my current project shouldn't be all that challenging. The problem is the number of hours in the day. That, and there is not a big mobile development community where I live, so I don't particularly have access to developer mentors.
For what it's worth, there is existing work in progress to address "too big to fail": http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfina...
That's the most clearly I've heard this argument stated thus far. Kudos, and thank you.
I roll my eyes at some of the white-knighting that goes when a woman is slighted on the Internet

I don't give a rat's ass what the definition of "white knighting is. I'm calling you out now to be much more specific about what kind of slighting is involved and what you're rolling your eyes at. Give examples. Justify yourself.
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I see your point, but I simply disagree. The utility to the person is much different, but after that, money is money and 900m provides much more utility to starving kids, etc than 25k does, no matter how you slice it.
It's not just same-day service that's compelling, it's same-day service with delivery.

If I can order something from my desk at work in the AM and have it in-hand before I drive home, that blows away any brick-and-mortar store by a long shot.
When people tell you they are in need of help, doing nothing is the action of not giving help.

There's no bullying or anything like that going on, here, and you're being disingenuous by presenting it as such (and also, you're being an asshole by comparing me to dictators). You've stated your refusal to learn more about this subject, it's disingenuous to try and turn that around claiming you already know “plenty” when you clearly don't, because you're arguing that this isn't a massively systemic problem, when all evidence clearly points out that it is.

Just because you don't see a problem doesn't mean it isn't there.
"Move. No excuses"

You sound like a pompous jerk.

This advice is ridiculous.
Can you sell Java games on the Windows store?
Price-hacking a one-way flight
I don't agree with hnriot, but it's worth pointing out that if the topic of discussion is "what someone should devote their life to", then the order of importance of problems is crucial. Also, recognizing that some problems are orders of magnitude less important than others (so that spending time and energy on them is a net negative) is not the same thing as advocating that all problems be approached one at a time.
Well, if there is scarcity (i.e.: supply is somehow limited), then the market value is where supply and demand curves cross. In other words, I'd throw a bunch of CD's into the market and let the price stabilize. That has nothing to do with how much it cost me to make it (the same way that the salary a doctor makes has nothing to do with how expensive the education was), but everything to do with opportunity cost: would I rather buy this CD or another. At least for spherical songs in vacuum.

I cannot do the same thing with digital goods since the supply is unlimited. I don't see how the market can settle using the old supply/demand paradigm. I can try to get a stable price by offering a "pay what you think it's worth" model, but that' no fun either.
In Portugal we already have something like this, but I bet it's completely unintentional...

It's not uncommon for companies to split above a certain revenue level, in order to save on taxes. Now, this is a fake split as they mostly remain one single company but, after reading this, suddenly what looked like a bad thing starts looking like a potential good thing, if properly defined/implemented.

This is the first time in years that I've read something by Richard Stallman which I've not immediately considered just some utopian dream. The current crisis in the eurozone would never have happened if states didn't have to bail out banks (either directly or indirectly). For this, kudos to RMS.
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We had the same problem and our frontender came up with a nice solution. The label is inside the textfield but when focused, the label moves to the right of the textfield.
An example can be viewed here: http://www.rainpharma.com (the form in the center of the page)
I feel like most of the points can be summed up as "it's different from what I'm used to"
Great news and best of luck. Full support from San Francisco
Don't make me hunt for password requirements
Your critique sounds interesting but I don't know enough to evaluate it--I'm not a scientist myself.

I would just point out that scientific debate occurs through published papers and conference presentations, not programming message boards. I hope that you are publishing in those channels if you feel you have substantive contributions to this kind of research.
By the time a patch is publicly released like this, I'm sure Apple will have it decompiled and know what the exploit is within weeks if not days since the actual exploit code won't be much code to analyze (as opposed to digging through all of iOS like the jailbreakers have to do find an exploitable location).

Plus, Apple I'm sure has plenty of software/hardware debuggers they can attach to their own hardware that'd let them know what is happening even if they didn't have the closed/open binary.
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"they wanted to hire people who had fought in the war, who were then coming back from World War II and wanted jobs. I think you could understand that, and people did understand that at the time."

So, it was really affirmative action (for veterans)!
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Yeah. To contextualize that a little...

The i7-740QM was introduced almost 3 years ago, June 2010, at release time costing $378 (if you bought in lots of 1000).

I didn't find historical pricing data for the 445M video card, but here's a relevant data point: I bought my GeForce 470 at almost exactly that time, for $420 retail (so the bulk price would be around $400, I think?). Measured in raw FLOPS, the GF470 is over three times as fast as the 445M (the video card tested).

So dollar for dollar, TFA undervalues the GPU by about a factor of three?

Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Intel_processors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehalem_%28microarchitecture%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Nvidia_graphics_p...
The thing increasingly forcing me away from Microsoft isn't the adoption of new frameworks -- I'm spry and can roll with the changes. What kills them for me is the constant change in frameworks plus little to no support for forward compatibility on existing systems (they used to be much better at this part of it, but have totally dropped the ball on it more recently).

Typical modern Microsoft:

"Okay guys, now we're doing everything in API-Y which is quite different than API-X. And API-Y apps don't run on Windows version I which 90% of the market is running, they only run on Windows version J and higher, which 4% of the market is running."

Yeah, that's not cool, especially if you're doing this just about every time a new Windows version comes out.
Thank you. I think the biggest red flag I have with the people who question the science behind anthropogenic global warming theory isn't that they are questioning it, but they are doing so in a clearly non-scientific, selctively biased way.

I've seen bad science debunked before (we all have), like ulcers being caused by stress(actually caused by bacteria), cold fusion, etc. The folks cruasading against antrhopogenic global warming have all to often picked a position based on opposition to the most commonly proposed solution to antrho global warming(reducing consumption of fossil fuels), and then sought out science to support their position.

The problems are obvious:

1) Let's say there is a legitimate argument about reduction of fossil fuel use vs. a geo-engineering scheme to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. This argument never gets to happen because people who are against fossil fuel usage reduction as a solution never admit the problem even exists. (I have to admit, I think reduction of carbon emissions is unrealistic, because the countries which benefit the most from carbon rich fuel consumption in the short term are the poorest countries with the most people. I don't realistically see India decide to keep its people poor and without electricity/transport when they don't have to. People don't give a shit about saving the planet until they have food in their own and children's bellies, and aren't dying of diseases easily prevented by fossil fuel powered infrastructure)

2) The group of people who are currently arguing that the warming is not caused by human activity heavily, HEAVILY overlap with the group of people who were denying that warming was even happening 8 years ago. This is a huge red flag. Do I discredit scientists if they are proven wrong one time? No. But if a "doctor" says vaccines are bad because they cause autism, and when proven wrong, invents another argument against vaccines, I write him off as a quack who doesn't follow the scientific method. And I'm right. These guys are basically saying "Don't cut carbon! The planet isn't getting warmer." Now they have changed their answer to "Don't cut carbon. It's not the reason the planet is getting warmer. "

And frankly, I'm getting sick of people who don't even have a single scientific degree attacking scientists. It all reeks of the same attitude I was innundated with as a kid by my classmates because I believed in evolution and dinosaurs.
But taxing on gross means that you penalize low-margin companies.

Take two basically identical companies. They sell, say, computers.

One company has a "luxury" brand and they sell 1 million units at $2,000 a piece with a $500 profit on each. They have gross sales of $2 billion and profit of $500 million.

The other company has an "economy" brand and they sell 5 million units at $1,000 a piece with a $50 profit on each. They have gross sales of $5 billion, and a profit of $250 million.

The luxury company is taxed at 1%, and the economy company is taxed at 5%. The economy company's entire profit is eaten by the tax, so they must raise their prices to $1,050. The luxury company may or may not raise their prices at all -- if they do, they raise them to $2,020, maintaining their profit level.

We have effectively propped up the luxury company's business model. They have reduced the price differential between themselves and their competitor, and the people paying the difference are the tax-payer. Why did we do this? Do we like corporations having very high profits? I'm not aware of that as being a national goal.
Usually the problem that the newspaper experts are refering is the size of the bomb.

Making a nuclear bomb that is cumbersome and big is very easy, just put some plutonium there, and craploads of explosives (ie: "Fat Man" design).

The problem is making a bomb that works, and is small and light enough to fit a long range missile warhead.

shorter range missiles can be bigger (thus why you can put it more easily on them).
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Haha! Business!
What was their background?
Fantastic news. I feel like the basic videochat model we see in WebRTC demos is only the beginning of the possibilities here.

When all browsers support WebGL and WebRTC I'll be fascinated to see what people more creative than myself can create.
Passive cooling is difficult because of the latent heat produced by human occupants. Our breath and sweat are moist and air-conditioning systems remove that moisture as well as lowering the air temperature. Lower the air temperature without removing the humidity and condensation can become a problem.
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Assuming retail stores that have to pay for more expensive real estate and employees can compete on price, I think there's actually more to price for reasons to shop at Amazon.

First, a retail store is not really immediate gratification -- I have got get to the retail store. Often times I would rather wait a day or two (and soon it may not even be that much with Amazon), than spend an hour of my time trying to get to and from the store. I also often want to read reviews of what I buy, and Amazon often has the most reviews for any particular product. Trying to lookup reviews, or comparison shop while in a retail store is difficult at best (sometimes not even possible if there is no reception). At least with Amazon if something seems like it may be highly priced, I can quickly search around for an alternative.

With Amazon, I also know the return process will be easy if I need to make a return, and I won't have the go back to the store and argue with a manager.

In other words, there's more to just price that gives Amazon an advantage.
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But that's the same as Starbucks in Switzerland buying the whole coffee crop and selling back to each country at inflated prices so Starbucks only pays profit in Switzerland (keeps things simple)

It's just a game - but nations will have to get better at playing it. That is simple - however taxing Dell on income at the same rate as taxing a law firm is unfair on a basic level.

Isn't it?
Yeah I think it is pretty neat too. I had a couple of design ideas. This way I can persist some other structures (from Python for ex):

For set():

(#set v1 v2 ...)

For circular object graphs, I can encode an object reference to avoid serializing the same object twice:

(#ref oid)

Then of course there are custom class names I can pass in to serializer and deserializer:

(#MyClass (attr1 val1) (attr2 val2) ...)

This might not map to all languages but it worked for me.
Oh, I would say "none of his f*cking business". As a woman, you don't need to even be a developer to get this kind of "attention" on a regular basis.
Why is it still unavailable today Feb. 4th??
> I could teach myself more in an afternoon than I would learn in a 10-week class.

Yeah, no. This is the problem with so many of these anti-college diatribes: legitimate criticisms such as increasingly abysmal professor-to-administrative ratios are drowned out in complete hyperbole.

Or, taken another way: treat this article as an anecdote rather than a prescription.
Confirming this as well... If you see this error, NetDB, Failed to fetch, etc., it is not any problem with your iDevice, Cydia, the jailbreak, or really anything at all. In fact, if you are seeing this right now on 2/4/2013, it most likely means everything is working properly!

The servers that provide the apps, the 'sources', are overloaded with people trying to download. Waiting until the servers are less loaded is the only solution, right now.
I could see them downplaying it early on - wasn't it the case that they only reluctantly introduced it in the first place? i.e. Rhapsody was originally envisioned with just the NeXT stuff, and it wasn't until they heard from developers that they decided to make some subset portable to the new environment.

I also seem to recall (though I'm not an expert and I certainly don't have inside knowledge) that in those first few releases both Cocoa and Carbon were evolving, sometimes at different rates in different areas. Then I remember when Core Foundation and similar C-only APIs became a thing that people talked about, which as an onlooker of the platform kind of confused me at the time - was it an admission of some inadequacy of objc?
Most are already leaving.

I was in the industry and left, and I know many that people I worked with have left as well after about 10 years.

In the UK, I might be mistaken as I read the article a while ago, but it is the (or top 5) industry where people spend less time compared to other creative/professional careers.
You think the government would have put the document under the URL "oops-we-did-it-again.html?"

C'mon, at least RTFA before falling over yourself to support the anti-government position.
This claim is useless without any data backing it up.

It should be OK for a person to express an opinion or preference without being immediately dismissed as being useless because there's no data backing it up.