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>Nope. It's a huge step forward. It means that I would have a tablet with full PC capabilities, including the option to runLinux through virtualization. Major woody.

You keep using this word "forward". I don't thing it means what you think it means.

For most of people, a subpar experience is worst than no experience at all. Ie. I'd rather not go to a restaurant than have a lousy meal. Or I'd rather not go to the movies, than see Water World.

Especially if paying for having that subpar experience means that I will be delayed a good experience (i.e by buying a tablet that also runs Windows app, companies don't rush on making apps suitable for the tablet form specifically).

You are basically watching "Water World" AND sending a strong message "Hey, Kevin, make more movies like this".
Regardless of how Bible affected homosexuality in Rome and later Europe, it does document that homophobia (i.e., automatic death penalty) existed in semitic cultures ~500 BC.

And we have evidence of exact contrary opinions at the same time on the other side of Mediterranean - so this attitude clearly was not something forced by the objective reality of that time, but simply a cultural/traditional choice.
A Regular Crossword: regexes as puzzle clues
Says an account called "nogo" created 5 minutes before posting?
Noting the generator was Frontpage, thought I'd check it out in IE9, where it works fine - even if you use dev tools to change the document mode to standards.
"Magister" is also a German academic title (that was not uncommon in Germany before the Bologna reform to graduate in especially in humane disciplines). But it's only common to adress someone as "Herr Magister" in Austria.
No it does exist in Germany too, my mum has one.
Monsanto makes money selling chemical pesticide (roundup, etc) that kills everything except their modified seed. So they can still make plenty of money selling the chemicals. Though this perpetuation of ever more toxic pesticides/herbicides in a war against evolution is eventually going to end badly.
If you think the government is efficient at contracting out for advanced technology products, I invite you to investigate the military procurement system.
Hmm... I don't think so... it was more like 2009.
If you'd take a look you'd find that most any word is used extremely loosely. That's why dictionaries contain vague circumscriptions of words, often listing as many as 20 overlapping and/or separate word senses. Which is not to deny that people operate with the idea that words have a definite, literal meaning (perhaps even neatly delineated with necessary and sufficient conditions), it's just not the reality.

So yes, when a particular use of a word is common, it's very hard to argue it's not right, because there are no facts to point at, only an idea in someone's head (but who's to say who is right?), or some historical data (but languages change, and prima facie that's neither good nor bad).
So since he's Arab and involved in activism we shouldn't use his software, interesting. Even more interesting is you seem to be getting upvotes. Congrats, ass.
>My code is basically free of NullPointerExceptions. This doesn't mean that certain errors can't still be triggered by null pointers, but those errors are better documented. What's better? A NullPointerException or a ConfigSettingMissing("db.url")?

Almost always it is a matter of 2 seconds to find the source of a nil pointer error. Given that I would almost never forward raw error messages to the user, I cannot really see a gain.

However having a language that combines this Scala feature with Go's exception-free error handling, would be awesome and a true solution that would make software run more reliable and with less crashes.
I would wait for some proof before throwing this kid money.
Debian Kit for Android
IANAL. What worries me about this is that by changing a line of DNA in a 1G seed, 2G seeds (and beyond) fall under their patent. ie, they own the entire seed, and more importantly they own all the offspring of the 1G seed.

Isn't this the same concept as saying you replace a part in your vehicle/phone/pc/whatever with something that is patented, and now the patent covers the entire vehicle/phone/pc/whatever?

Alternatively you patent a commodity (seed/raw material/synthetic material/etc), now everything that is made from that commodity is covered by the original patent? what happens when you use the commodity to make a tool, with which you build other end products? where does this end?

Maybe I am misunderstanding, or have the wrong end of the stick?
I'm not sure whether the analogy to Google applies here, as leaks are private information, not to be shared with third parties and Google search queries merely search what is already published.

I was alluding to Bill Maher's example of the Cold War stand-off between the US and Russia. I thought it was a proper example where leaking something out could've caused WW3. But you are right in a sense that this is a hypothetical and we're not really sure how things would really turn out.

Btw, here's an interesting leak that if it was not released, then Israel and US forces might've had some advantage over the Iranians (in case of a war), but now they probably don't: http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=259954
I'd say imaginary myself. I'm curious what the systems were that were obviously csis systems. He failed to include any logs or information beyond his claims.
Nice write-up of the trade-offs involved, although I'm sure the average visitor here is well aware of all of them.

One forgotten point in favour of native:
http://prog21.dadgum.com/61.html
Why would you want do to it anyway? There isonly a handful programs/libraries that do not exist in C.

The only scenario I can think of is risk-minimizing managers. They allow a project to be done in Go but in case things don't work as expected, they don't want to be trapped in Go and be able to reuse that code from their favorite language.
The OP.
Yes, at least a lower proportion than Reddit. But maybe I'm wrong.
I really, really fail to understand how this is not a super-expensive laptop, essentially? Is it considerably smaller/faster than an ultrabook?

I'll grant that this is an interesting attempt at converging two devices, but such attempts ultimately succeed or fail based on how well they can replace either device. Would this thing replace your laptop? Your tablet?
So basically read "Professional JavaScript for Web Developers" and "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide" or is it instrumental to follow those exact steps in that order?
Remote-ownage exploits do happen, and there is no reasonable defence against them until they are patched. And given the frequency of exploits being found in common user components such as browsers and content (flash/pdf) plugins, an usual well secured computer still is vulnerable to multiple exploits any day of the week.

Of course, he doesn't seem 'valuable' enough to spend a fresh 0-day on him alone as the government backdoors (Flame and friends) did with multiple 0-days included; but I'd guess that every large gov't has a standard rootkit and knows a few vulnerabilities not yet disclosed/patched - it's really not that hard/expensive to do, you can just spend a million and buy that stuff from private researchers.
my prediction about you: You have only ever been to south germany
Isn't the professional title on german ID cards?
"Local businesses recirculate dollars in their communities. An analysis of bookstores in Austin showed that, of every $100 spent in a locally-owned store (Book People), $45 were circulated back into the community, whereas only $13 made its way back into the community when $100 was spent at the nearby corporate chain store (Borders)."

It's interesting they used book people as an example since they were a major force behind the "keep Austin weird" local business campaign.
There are actually quite a few driverless trains already[1] and Google's demonstrations of their driverless car are getting increasingly[2] impressive[3].

The question is really only when the transition to driverless cars will happen - we're long past the if.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_driverless_trains

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRIOE1IZrq4

[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdgQpa1pUUE
97% percent of us used to be farmers. Did the machines and processes that replaced us render us irrelevant and without other pursuits? No, it unlocked massive amounts of intelectual capacity that led to unprecedented scientific and economic growth.

I don't understand why people don't understand this basic economic principle. When you free up peoples time from monotonous tasks, we all benefit. These calls for a universal minimum wages are odd.
Doesn't every young person find the idea of work to be cold? I have lived in Germany and found the people and the society vibrant, friendly, and very warm. They are aggressively pursuing new areas of technological expansion, for me the most exciting being solar and wind power, and they have a very important role as the economic center of the EU. The fact that people there are thoughtful and careful and seek to match their life to their plans and stated goals does not make them cold.
What he was trying to say is that you shouldn't "design for fast compilation". You should design the language to allow modularity and fast compilation will naturally follow.
Nope, lived in Hamburg for 3 years and lived in Berlin for 3 months. In fact, southern Germany is the part of the country that I know the least! ;-)
Democracy, Hacked
There are a number of startup idea here, the most apparent of which is just a market (or portal) for your local market. If you've built your market you can then take the same approach and software a couple hundred miles down the road and start all over again in a new market.

This is intensely interesting to me. The source mentions http://missionmarkets.com/ which seems like it has a bit too much business speak to be approachable by smaller investors, but has a number of good ideas to help address risk.

I think... I need to start doing more research in this area.
Science can tell you the way things are, but not how they should be. There might be biological sex differences related to intellectual capacities, sure. But what we are certain of is that humans in general operate with irrational biases and prejudices, such that even in the absence of such differences, people will be treated unfairly.
It exists in Georgia as well, and it is equivalent of Masters degree.

Although, it is not used as title - maybe because it would sound much cooler than Dr. :)
Can anyone say what is a good JavaScript learning resource for people with programming experience? I'm interested in tips on writing idiomatic code and the pitfalls that should be avoided.
Allan B Beaton Stop Harassment, You Are A Fake Expert
Ok, a hypothetical. Valentine's Day coming up and my wife who is very non-technical has (1) mentioned a surface in the last few months and she never mentions things like that, (2) has developed a strong dislike for Apple (the company) and has no desire for an iPad or iPhone, (3) was raised on PC's and Windows and does not adjust to change in that regard. Let's say that she already has a laptop that is relatively new, but she spends a lot of time on the couch and doesn't take the laptop off the dock, and might enjoy having a tablet next to her on the couch.

Now the question. Should I get her one, and if so, which one?
\usepackage{xspace}
\def\Linux{GNU/Linux\xspace}
\def\Hurd{GNU/Hurd\xspace}
"here's an interesting leak that if it was not released, then Israel and US forces might've had some advantage over the Iranians (in case of a war), but now they probably don't:"

We don't have a military advantage of Iran? Really? I am not sure if you've noticed, but the US and Israel have some of the most advanced militaries in the world. If the US were at war with Iran, the Iranians would need the help of some other powerful nation to have anything that even resembles a chance of winning.

If that is really the worst leak you can find, I think we are pretty safe in a world with Wikileaks.
It's trivial to put a keylogger+rootkit on an unattended desktop than on a laptop in your bag. Stealing hardware can't be prevented, but the risk is mitigated by good full disk encryption.
> Frege being similar to Haskell, but using Java APIs

Surely the whole point of being on the JVM is that you can use the vast amount of software written for java.
Another alternative is not to sell CA=YES certificates at all.
They are academic royalty, however, God did not give them royal divinity, Universities did.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_right_of_kings
Government watchdog: Warrantless laptop searches at border are A-OK
Weird. I've lived in Hamburg all my life and I've yet to see anybody be scorned for jaywalking. The same basically goes for family models, I've been to more homes where everyone just sort of does their own thing than I've been to homes where the family gathers round at a table and eats together, although that one definitely is also not a rarity. Is it elsewhere?
The commitment to equality should not be based on any assumption about 'mental capabilities'. Supposing (against the general scientific consensus) for the sake of argument, that you could show that women had on average less 'mental capabilities' why should that lessen our commitment to fair evaluations in employment or an equal consideration of interests?

We think people should be treated equally not because they are the same, but because they deserve equal consideration. Women are people and they deserve to be treated as such. Frankly the way I see it the cost of dehumanising half the population is far higher than potentially employing people who belong to a group that has on average less 'mental capabilities' than another.

Further unless your study shows that all men have stronger 'mental capabilities' than all women* it still makes sense to evaluate on a case by case bases and not generalisations, even if we only think about hiring the 'best' person for the job. To pass over someone who is talented because they happen to be the same gender as people who had a lower average score in some intelligence test doesn't make sense even thinking only about getting the best person for the job.
That's a mistake alright, but it's made by naive atheist commenters on the intertubes (and/or poorly researched books).

The New Testament is quite clear on the matter of virginity, and no, it's not based on the misinterpretation of a single word.

(I'm not saying that the incident of the virgin birth is true, of course. Just that the "mistake" is false).
It would help if the upvote button stayed on the left, but with the downvote button moved to the right (after "link").
I'm just surprised you guys even exist - I thought "Canadian Agents" were something they'd just made up for Quantum of Solace.
Really?

Living as pet slaves for extra-terrestrial overlords would have little "long-term effect on most people's daily lives"?
Yes, this review was obviously written with very little research. On the one hand this, pen input works very nice since XP tablet edition. Even in windows phone 6, pen input was very advanced. On the other hand, the reviewer asks about how apps are closed. You can either swipe from top and drop it down, or on the left swipe you get open apps and can right-click/tap continuously to get contextual menu and close.
I don't know whether the examiner's eyes glaze over, but mine certainly do.
Not sure why this particular activity is noteworthy. The 'dirty world' described here is much, much larger. 'Affiliate Marketing' is a very broad activity that involves doing the least possible work to generate a lead or sale for an affiliate for which you will get paid, and this is just an example of that.
This is what all US media looks like, from the outside I can't tell what's news and what isn't. Usually I have to wait for a shot with a studio audience in it.
>it's effectively impossible to prove a negative.

Really? "There is no cat in this box".

Opens box. No cat inside. Proved.
Your face, made of chocolate
Chocolate face sculptures created using 3D printing
It's a shame people still value and use IPv4 addresses when IPv6 has been around for 15+ years....
We don't have a military advantage of Iran? Really? I am not sure if you've noticed, but the US and Israel have some of the most advanced militaries in the world. If the US were at war with Iran, the Iranians would need the help of some other powerful nation to have anything that even resembles a chance of winning.

Hate to break it to you, but technology isn't everything. Just ask the Taliban.
So, someone has taken a bad translation of a mis-quoted paradox, and said they don't understand it. The right statement is then given, and explained.

I don't understand why you're submitting this here.
Thank you for that. My god, how can anyone think that animation is necessary?
Also know as The Ship of Theseus. This problem has been around for thousands of years a d no one's sure what the answer is.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
there are some examples on the wikipedia page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frege_(programming_language)
Bitbucket still does not support ECDSA keys
that is heavily influenced by politicians looking to bring jobs to their districts/states.
Diagramming Space Crews for Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo
OK, that certainly doesn't fit my experience of Denmark - or the United Nations' "Happiest Countries" index: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/04/06/where-are-the-worlds-hap... , which rated Denmark as the happiest country in the world last year.

My experience of Denmark has been that it's a vibrant, diverse, interesting society with some tremendously smart government policies, a lot of tolerance, and some really cool stuff going on, from great filmmaking to a massive Live-Action Roleplaying scene.
Go talk to your MP as well.
It would seem to me that Monsanto's best play might be to forget about the patent lawsuits and just increase the price of their Roundup herbicide to compensate. Get complete market dominance with the seeds, letting them be freely copied, knowing that the herbicide will be difficult to manufacture. Razor and blade model.
During most of the existence of the US of America its competitors(Spain, Portugal...) failed to recognize property rights of ordinary citizens.This is destroying the foundation for your success.
I once got shouted at by a man on Osdorfer Weg for crossing against the red man. I've also had that near U-Bahn Schlump and in Berlin, despite there having been no traffic in sight. Never anywhere else though.

I've found more strong family and friendship units in Germany than in the UK, Australia or the US. I've also found that people are less mobile within Germany than other places, perhaps in part due to the cost of changing accommodation - although that may be a European thing, as opposed to just a German thing.

Of course, these are all simple anecdotes and worth what you paid for them. My feelings about Germany are that it's a great country, and one I like very much. But it does have a very distinct character (similar to southern England in some senses!) and from that, the outrage about politicians faking academic titles is not a surprise.
It's common in finance too. You can walk into some banks where everyone is a Vice President, even the receptionists and secretaries. In the tech world, I've lost count of the number of 22-year-old "Senior Software Engineer" types I've met. I feel like shaking these guys and asking them, what job title do you expect in 10 years, if you stay in engineering? 20 years?
Ah, I see. I was confused by Haskell not doing that by default... at least the last time I wrote code on it.

Is there actual data that says that null pointers are actually causing bugs in production software? I always thought they are just a symptom of lazy programmers, and no language can fully protect against that.

Witness my awesome Haskell snippet of code:

foo (Just x) = x+2
foo Nothing = undefined

Ok, so it's somewhat better since the lazyness is now explicit and cannot happen so accidentally.
Relax. You'll be more productive
You are inappropriately harsh. Students go to a CC for several reasons. Some go to a CC because it's cheaper and closer to home. These people plan to transfer to a 4 year college after getting an associate's degree. Others didn't do so well in high school and want additional remedial courses before going to a 4 year college. In many states, it's easy to transfer from a CC to a 4 year state college, because the additional work needed for an AA degree is more meaningful than the work to graduate from high school.

For example, "The regents of the University of California report that 30 percent of UC graduates attended a community college before transferring to the UC."

Yes, as you say, CC is also for career education. It's also for non-credit/continuing education. I took several CC classes in the latter category.

And the comparison of OKCCC to your alma mater is almost useless. Better would be to compare to Oklahoma State where it's $147.50/credit hour. (There's another roughly $110/credit hour in "fees". For an arts&sciences degree, the overall cost is about $275/credit hour. For OKCCC it's $99/credit hour, including fees.)

The "corner cutting" doesn't need to be in the education. The mandatory fees for OSU include "student union renovation", "campus recreation", "Academic Excellence", "Library Automation & Technology", "Life Safety & Security", and others. Since many people go to a CC because it's local, they are less likely to spend time in the student union or in on-campus recreation so the corresponding fees are smaller. The library at a CC is likely smaller, and less in need of automation.

Also, the lab equipment for a two year program doesn't need to be as advanced. My 4 year college upper-level physics lab had microwave generators, an x-ray crystallography machine, and a radiation source. Why should a CC also have them?

These aren't cutting corners, these are inappropriate expenses for the goal of the students and the school.

That said, a CC program isn't going to have tenured research professors in a field teaching an introduction course, and won't have the fellowship/intern programs in place, or foreign exchange programs. These can (indirectly) affect the quality of education.

But to say that these are all cut corners is to idealize what an education must be.
Asus Transformer running Ubuntu? :) Admittedly, you cannot get that off the shelf...
Dodging the question of "should he" ... I finished up a few high school credits by correspondence course (pre web) while working and still graduated from my actual high school. I could go as far as I wanted. There have to be online options available that he could work on at his own pace.
I remember them from Super Mario 64. They used sprites do give the impression of high-poly spheres: http://i.imgur.com/59T0Kqj.jpg
Is writing torture?
At Dell, a Gamble on a Legacy
Why should we even have to? What is this, MySpace?
If you buy the book from the above links, the coupon code WTR12 should give you 20% off.
You sure she'd like something that heavy? Why not a low-weight Android tablet that can mirror her PC so she can do Windows without Windows on the tablet?
Your points suffer from the is-ought problem. Your last sentence about "might makes right" even reveals you are aware of this, without any attempt to address it. This takes away the foundation of your whole post.
There's lots of critics of the current US healthcare system who think so. Jerry on $30k a year (without insurance) currently posts pictures of his spots to 4chan, and get's told "it's cancer, you're gonna die", "cut it off", "no prob, it's nothing", and even less useful suggestions.