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Does this mean I shouldn't go through with my idea for a social network to find people to add to your other social networks?
If- was written in 1895. I believe his son was born a couple years later. Maybe confusing it with "My Boy Jack"?
I actually agree with you. Microsoft, instead of working on mediocre hybrids, should work harder to innovate the desktop, while slowly pursuing the path of hybrids with WinPhone. The truth is the world is not ready for hybrids yet. And when the world will be ready, then I predict both iOS and Android will be there.

Instead they've chosen to handicap the most successful product they've ever had. I couldn't say I'm sorry as I haven't been a Windows user for years.
I was going to respond but I think I'll just flag it instead.
There was a book written a while back about orange juice production called "Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice"[1]. The author did the talk-show circuit back then and you can find some articles and interviews here and there.

[1]http://www.amazon.com/Squeezed-About-Orange-Agrarian-Studies...
I have built flask apps used in production. It works very well, though dealing with secure sessions requires a bit more work than Im used to.
The really unfortunate part of the situation is that they are generally required to defend their trademark or else it goes away. Even when they know something is "fair use" or whatever.

"Unlike patents and copyrights, which in theory are granted for one-off fixed terms, trademarks remain valid as long as the owner actively uses and defends them and maintains their registrations with the competent authorities. This often involves payment of a periodic renewal fee." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark#Comparison_with_paten...

Of course I still think that there is no effing way that they should have gotten a trademark on "Space Marine." Totally bogus. I want to start selling a product called "Legal" and trademark it and use that trademark to shut down every company that offers legal services.
Combining computer with art and design is what I think would be interesting.

User Interface design, writing an indy video game with Unity. Something along those lines
Serfs occupied a portion of land and owed a portion of their crops to the lord of the manor or their feudal lord. It was slavery in all but name.

The most important point making it like slavery was the fact that serfs couldn't leave their fiefdom.

That's where the analogy to a modern corporation breaks down - employees can quit whenever they want.
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Well it's pretty easy to defend the keyboard, and I certainly don't want to prevent her from being curious about what I am doing and computers in general - it's just that her tiny hands an fingers appear to be magically attracted to the little red X in the corner of the screen as that is typically where she grabs the screen to bend it toward her so she can see.

I just would like the ability to disable the touch functionality when I want.
From the Ars Review: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/02/microsoft-surface-wit...

"From a laptop perspective, Surface Pro falls down too. The traditional laptop has a stiff hinge to hold the screen at an angle of your choosing. It is hard to understate the importance of this hinge. I use laptops not just because they're small and I want something that won't take lots of space in my home, but because I actually need portable computing. I go to conferences, I stay in hotels, I ride trains, and take planes. My laptop's hinge means I can comfortably use my laptop with coffee tables, dining tables, the little desks you get in hotel rooms, and wherever else I happen to be.

The hinge also means I can comfortably use the laptop even without a desk at all, on my lap. As long as the laptop's center of gravity is over my knees, it will be solid and stable, which means I can keep it a comfortable distance away from me so my arms aren't all scrunched up just typing on the thing. In practice, this means I have the hinge hanging in free space.

The Surface kickstand offers me none of that. It puts the screen at the right angle when my desk is a particular height, but at any other height it's the wrong angle. And worse, when using it on my lap, unless the kickstand is supported the screen flops uselessly. The result? In practice, the Surface RT and Surface Pro have a bigger footprint on my lap even than my old 15-inch MacBook Pro. And if I move a little, whomp, the screen drops off the back of my knees and folds out of sight. The Surface Pro is smaller and more svelte than my MacBook Pro, yet it's far more demanding of space."
This is an excellent point. MS needs to make a lot of changes, but one of the biggest mistakes it could make is trying to copy Apple exactly, and losing out on what it already has while doing so.
If the GP was arrogant (debatable), this comment is more than a little naive. Yes, politics interferes with efficiency... But it's not the only thing.
KDE 5.0 would be a major release: I doubt they are looking into that now.
They were using this sort of legal bullying as a tactic when I was a kid. They've seen more than their share of "PR damage" in the past and it doesn't put them off.
Smart way to write more than 140 chars ! Even though it breaks the "Twitter concept", it should come handy once in a while.
There's some interesting discussion on Scalzi's blog, too. Here's a bit of information I found rather interesting and potentially useful (from the comments section):

The mark was registered for US Class 22 – games and such – and is most specifically not the class(es) for printed books or ebooks.

Here's the link to the comment in question:

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2013/02/06/space-marines-and-the-...
Out of curiosity, whats so atrocious about it? The slow translation step or language idiosyncrasies?
To scratch a quick interesting thought that came into my head I just had a look at Cardinal, which is a Ruby implementation running on the Parrot VM - https://github.com/parrot/cardinal

So downloaded & built Cardinal (which went seamlessly however I did have Parrot already installed) then I did same benchmarks alongside ruby1.8 here:

$ time ruby -e "puts 'hello world'"
hello world

real	0m0.130s
user	0m0.049s
sys	0m0.071s

$ time parrot-cardinal -e "puts 'hello world'"
hello world

real	0m0.057s
user	0m0.037s
sys	0m0.019s

Very interesting because I thought Cardinal was supposed to be slow!

I think more diverse benchmarks are required. And when time permitting I might add Topaz & ruby1.9 into the mix.
Like this http://cloudiff.com/demo :)
There is nothing in the article that has anything to do with the title. Article just states that the iPhone was an example of 'New-Market Disruption' - not exactly breakthrough information in 2013 - and that you need to use different performance measures for disruptions. Obviously. The difficulty is in deciding which new performance measures are actually valuable to consumers, and the article or this theory doesn't seem to help there.

ie. iPhone had great multimedia and web browsing performance, but those new rugged phones that came out around the same time had great resistance to knocks and battery performance.
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RPython is generally language-agnostic, although dynamic langauges are much better suited for this sort of transformations. So it makes sense for any kind of dynamic language (like prolog even), but makes less sense for say Java or C.
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For me, anything is a big improvement over the standard task manager, and I always use Process Explorer instead.
Indeed. Overusing this plugin will make Twitter a Facebook-like-landia :)
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Some kind of meditation practice might be helpful.
This suggests a certain amount of safety:

"According to FDA, at least 80% of adults in the U.S. consume caffeine every day."

That is a very large scale test. That a few dozen people get sick, out of almost 200 million daily drinkers, is not very surprising. The reality is, this is a drug that is safe for the overwhelming majority of its users.
It is an abject failing of software that perfectly reasonable characters are barred from filenames.
When you say technologies, what do you mean?
Was "space marine" in common usage in 1987, though? The fact that it exists in a long out-of-print pulp novel doesn't mean that everyone understood its meaning. Again, this isn't a patent. All that's required is that, when the trademark was registered, GW's usage of the term was unique and relevant to their business.
Does Topaz benefit at all from the work that's been done already on Rubinius? I seem to recall that Rubinius implements as much of Ruby in Ruby as possible. It seems like this would help Topaz as well in implementing the standard library. Or are the implementations different enough that this doesn't work?
Why hasn't this Facebook sharing bug been fixed?
Anyone that manages a Facebook brand page will know what I'm talking about here. On far too many occasions to ignore, sites with Facebook sharing or like buttons are completely broken when a user visits the site using Facebook as a page.

At first I thought it was just a small bug but after noticing more and more sites that suffer from this I can't understand why it hasn't been flagged up and fixed yet.

Here are some examples of sites.

http://mike-hostetler.com/blog/2013/02/06/5-reasons-a-ceo-should-champion-responsive-web-design/
http://politix.topix.com/homepage/4480-obama-to-name-ceo-of-outdoor-equipment-co-rei-as-interior-secretary
http://www.suntimes.com/18045729-761/postal-service-to-cut-saturday-mail-to-trim-costs.html

These are just a couple that I've noticed in the past few hours...

Any ideas on why this glaringly obvious error has not been rectified?
you're right! I referred to him with full name throughout the site later on (in the annotations), but the album cover was meant to be more playful, so I went with his nickname (http://rapgenius.com/Maboo). appreciate you looking out though :)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonogram

If you happen to have a Nintendo DS, Nintendo made some excellent nonogram games for it under the "Picross" label, including one that translates the gameplay into three dimensions! Be careful, though, it's horribly addictive...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picross_DS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picross_3D
I don't think "predicted" is the right word...

It may be more accurate to say that "DIT may help explain the iPhone's initial poor reviews and subsequent apparent success."
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Just by printing a full human heart we'd be able to work until age 80 without feeling tired all day ..?
See my other comment here.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5177366

Funnily, THAT story got flagged as well and is sitting on third page now.
It's not too confusing, is it? I'd say it's rather common. On the same front page is 'Scala 2.10' here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5175870
jPlayer and IM are certainly not dead. Furthermore, if it's half-dead or one-guy, how hard is it to say so? ImageMagick had enough time and effort available to disable their bug email address, after all.
Double digit minor version numbers are very common. Linux was 2.6.34 or something, GNOME was up to 2.32, current Blender is 2.65 etc etc.

KDE major version numbers seem to follow Qt major version numbers, KDE3 was based on Qt3, KDE4 on Qt4, so I'd assume that KDE5 will eventually be based on Qt5.
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Fair point but it was an R&D environment with a lot of accumulated experience and slightly slow moving and in some ways I was ready for a change anyway wanting to work more directly on products that reach consumers hands. The way the change plan was announced/managed also led me to conclude the overall BBC organisation didn't value the R&D function in general and the lack of care from the top was a factor in me departing.
You have to be careful not to give too much weight to something that can have self fulfilling prophecy effects- i.e. "I'm going to have a shitty day" sets you up to have a shitty day. I'm not saying its bad to listen to your internal compass, but you have to make sure that you aren't just giving yourself excuses. In my experience, I found that sometimes I have done exactly that, like I have something difficult to do and all of a sudden "my mind is tired, now isn't a good time."
Metabolism is also a factor, which begins to slow in many people's late 20's.
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People don't buy computers anymore.

People, on the other hand, use computers all the time. And only buy computers when then break.

That's what market saturation means.
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Frankly, I don't buy the idea that a CEO should champion RWD or have any bias towards it. However, it is a good idea for the CEO to know what responsive web design is. Of a start-up or a small company, that is.

Agreed that it is nice to be aligned with the web as much as possible, but RWD can easily become an expensive undertaking for a company with fewer resources at hand. You don't want RWD to come in between when there is just too much to experiment with and throw away. Not recommended to start-ups, not at least to CEOs without hands-on on design.

In fact, if you look at how fragmented the support (actually miserable) for web standards is on the mobile, the best option would be to let the team take this decision, not CEO alone. And if a CEO with zero technical/web-design skills says 'Yay, RWD!' just because he/she read it somewhere then, I believe, it is more trouble for the company than any help.

Also RWD is not feasible in several scenarios. Many a times it is safer to premise the design for iPad and above for one part and iPad Mini and below for the other half. Or just stick to time tested fixed-column design.
For people who don't want to be productive ever again.

Sorry, I shouldn't be so negative, it looks like a great app. I just know that's the effect it would have on me.
I don't agree with my boss a lot of time. Recently he brought up the concern that "what if" something happened to me? He has a solid concern, I told him that it would be and is wise to have another developer on par with my knowledge and skill set. He said he doesn't want me to leave (sometimes I question that, because I'm not his deisred "yes" man). I've been on the fence for a long time about whether to leave or not, because of him. I enjoy most everyone else and the product we build/sell and company. After thinking about this more I realized if we do hire someone to cover me while on vacation or if I have an accident... the social norm/aspect/idea of duty and obligation to help and support my fellow co-workers would be lighted on my shoulders... making it easier for me to leave!
There are generic wargame rulesets out there that you can play with basically any minis. For instance:

http://15mm.co.uk/USE_ME_15mm_Sci-fi_wargame_rules.htm
As soon as I saw "Zuora" I knew this would be a disaster...
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Implementing other languages on top of the PyPy toolchain is an interesting concept, and I'd like to see it happen more often. But calling this "Ruby in Python" is sure to invite flamewars from all sides. The actual Topaz site seems to be careful not to do this, but if this thread is any indication, a fair number of people are already mistakenly calling it that.
Ah, sorry to hear that :)
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Thanks for your input! You can always turn off desktop notifications and just check when you want.
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I've actually experienced the same problem with some government funded open source projects. Months go by without so much as a peep about the problem.
I worked on Chrome for most of its life. The internal bug tracker was closed when the product went public (we manually migrated some bugs we were actively working on, and the rest got comments of the form "if you really want this fixed, we're sorry to say that you need to refile it on the public tracker"). The real truth is sadder: many bugs are lost, much like yours.

In the old days I (and a few friends) personally reviewed every bug marked "Linux" and we attempted to triage them, but at one point I realized bugs were filed faster than we could classify or fix them. That isn't saying new bugs were being introduced rapidly, but rather that there's a lot of random spam ("my site doesn't work" / "does it work in other browsers?" / "no") and not-yet-implemented feature requests that appear to users as bugs.

The latest bug on the public tracker is bug number 174163. Chrome was released in late 2008, so let's round up and say the tracker's been up for five years. That's averaging nearly 35k bugs a year, or 95 a day, and in reality the rate was slower in the early years so it's much faster than that now. Even just reading each bug and understanding whether it's reporting an actual issue takes hours.

I have come to believe that a publicly writable bug tracker is a bad idea. Something like what SQLite does (where once users must first establish via some other mechanism they know how to file useful bugs -- yours look good at a glance, but I'd recommend attaching the demo html to the tracker so the link doesn't eventually 404) likely makes a lot of people mad but at least they're not shouting into a vacuum.

Recently (like in the last few months) I heard they've allocated more resources to looking at the tracker, so maybe things will improve. It's honestly just a hard problem.
But...how? Tablet is becoming a buzz word that makes consumers forget themselves so they buy a trendy thing. Here's why:

Hackers won't want to buy the Surface. It's got a touch screen. What do they want with a touch screen? They want a full powered, no proprietary Linux installation; a Mac OS X Unix with a lot of freedoms and some great proprietary software; or, if they love ASP or Visual Basic, maybe Windows. But not Windows developed for a touch screen tablet. Actual Windows, on a computer screen.

And users who think critically probably won't want the Surface because, after the glitzy touch screen and processor speed holds no more euphoria, they realize that they're not holding Windows Vista or Windows 7. They're holding Windows 8, which is not really a full operating system on a tablet. Microsoft advertises it this way, but in fact, Windows 8 looks better on a tablet than it does on a laptop. So really, Microsoft just switched the discrepancy such that it could claim the tablet had a "full operating system" - a full operating system would be a hackable Windows 7 implementation, and all the processing demands that would carry with it.

Windows 8 doesn't seem to be progress to me. It seems to be part of the trend to slowly fuse tablets and laptops into this strange combination that will universalize every computing need.

And that's crap. That's something like saying an iPad can replace your laptop (it just can't, most of the time).

People are confusing trending with progress. It's not progress to try to universalize your devices. You can't forget that hardware still has software needs. What's the point of calling it a tablet if you're just going to make it a less powerful laptop? Microsoft gets away with this because of terminology. Let's change tablet with "less powerful laptop":

If I have the choice of a less powerful laptop with a touch screen, and a laptop with a superior processor, more hard drive space, more RAM and a larger screen, I'm going to buy the second, especially if it's proportionately priced to its advantaged.

This is a dumb trend, don't buy into it.

EDIT: I venture a theory that Microsoft is trying to defeat Apple's iPad with the Surface by redefining tablet (no, literally, not in a marketing campaign kind of way). A tablet is useful under certain circumstances, the same way a computer is. It's SUPPOSED to be streamlined. So if you completely un-streamline a tablet, what do you have? A computer that is bloated and less powerful. It manages to be less able to satisfy the demands of either.

A tablet is specialization. So when the specialization is removed, it's no longer worth it.
I will be the first to ask: why did Alex / the pypy devs start this project? I thought the three community funded ideas were great (STM, Python 3, and Numpy). What prompted this new project? Is it meant to attract new developers to pypy as platform for implementing languages? Is it a side project? Is it a long term project meant to become the premium implementation of ruby as pypy is becoming for python? Etc.

Not criticizing at all by the way, just curious about the motivation / background / context for the project, which is missing from the docs.
People have been hospitalised (and perhaps died, not sure) from too much coffee, however it does tend to be in quite extreme circumstances. I recall a teenage girl in the UK who drank 18 espressos about a year ago who ended up in hospital, for example. I completely agree with you, however.
OTOH, SDL2 is developed by Sam Lantinga, currently an employee at Valve (IIRC), so this is probably the most promising library of the three you mentioned.

For one, it [SDL2] uses XInput2 for relative mouse input on X11 (and Raw Input on Win32), which is soooo much better than the classic WarpPointer mess.

Another thing, it is really preferable to put libSDL shared library next to your executable, not compile it statically, at least for Linux builds. Quite a number of problems with old games running improperly on erm...modern Linux desktops are solved by swapping the bundled libSDL for distro-provided version.

I'm speaking specifically about windowing/input part of SDL, have zero experience with other parts.
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My own dream is something like Google glasses combined with some gloves that let me type like I was using a keyboard, while walking in the street with my hands naturally on my sides.
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Absolutely right on the money, very well put. To me, mental practice (where you are really growing) feels just like going to the gym. You work out, and your body becomes exhausted. At that point, its counter productive to continue to work out. You rest for a while, and you come back stronger.
Any advice on how to make these 3 tools work together? I scanned the web and experimented today for approx 1 hour but didn't succeed. My general efforts were: (i) injecting clink into the Console2 process (ii) hosting the injected cmd process in Console2.
That's where the analogy to a modern corporation breaks down - employees can quit whenever they want.

If they like starving, yes. Being subject to Morton's fork doesn't make for a great day.

Software developers are currently in a pretty great place in this economy. Not everyone is. It's pretty important to remember that.
Alien came out in 1979.
Aliens in 1986.

I would say it was in common usage.
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