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>Additionally, the big breakthroughs in the past were largely discovered by the ~5% of the globe who had access to the best universities and labs. The democratization of knowledge to literally billions of people has given earth the potential to collaborate on big projects on a scale the never before seen.

Yeah... but the democratization of energy use has been similarly radical.

The problem I think that fission can solve is the near-term one; we are running out of easy to exploit fossil fuels (and bumping against the long-term consequences of burning said fuels) right at a time when, well, the rest of the world is reaching an economic level where they want to start consuming energy the way we have been for some time. It's hard to tell them "No, you can't burn fossil fuels" when they aren't any worse than we were when we were at that stage of development.

My point is just that we have good nuclear power technology that can be brought online to meet much of that need now, and that the resistance to that technology is largely political (and, I think, irrational and destructive to human life.) Sure, we will eventually come up with something better, but meanwhile, those on the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder are dying and the rest of us are somewhat uncomfortable because we are continuing to use the ancient solution rather than the merely old solution to the energy problem.

I see several other problems, especially speaking as an American, well, if China has cheap nuclear power while we are still stuck in a largely fossil-fuel based economy, well, that's going to do things to the balance of power that I, as an American, won't like one bit.

And even that problem? I think an ascendant China is better than a humanity plunged into a new dark age by irrational energy rationing.

So yeah, we have another problem here caused by our political resistance to nuclear power. Why would you start researching another energy source if all evidence points to the fact that it will be rejected, even if it's safer than what is currently being used?

That's the thing, large amounts of energy are inherently dangerous by themselves. Every new technology is going to have downsides. If "the people" don't like fission, why do you think they will accept fusion or whatever new technology you come up with?
>at the time they were used, Logic is less now, I believe but also the buggiest and most unstable.

Citation needed. Cubase has horrible bugs. And Logic 9 for example HAD 9 service releases, with bugfixes and new features IIRC.
Mobile Safari is only updated once a year.
SciRuby - Tools for Scientific Computing in Ruby
I used to happily contribute answers where I could, as a public service.

When Quora gated my pro-bono work for their short-sighted purposes, I turned elsewhere.
The Nazi Bunker sitting under a Paris Train Station
I don't really see America ranking dead last among developed countries. I see it average in almost every statistic. Perhaps average in everything actually makes for a great country?

Can you be more specific with your assertions? Linking to a huge dump of statistics and making claims about them is a bit disingenuous. What makes it not good for an 'average joe' compared to developed countries?
Ah, yes. M: the language of indirection, post-conditional goto's, period indented block levels, and strict left-to-right order of operations (2+8*10=100). It doesn't require writing code as unreadable as this, but it sure doesn't discourage it.
Contrast this to the brit tour guide who went to North Korea over 100 times: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/18g7z1/i_have_been_to_...
Order status issues for apps?

How about:

- the download failed, did I actually purchase it?

- has my refund been processed (note that the current setup lets developers have refund policies that are more generous than the Play Store's 15 minutes)?

- did transferring my purchase from another app store work (which often comes up if a developer leaves the other store)?

- why isn't my in-app upgrade working (could be a code bug, could be a processing bug on the in-app purchase, etc.)?

- ...
> Of course this is mainly semantics

Correct. If you went through the comments in that post and the linked previous post, other people also went ballistic [precisely] because of the usage of the terms rather than the abstraction he was trying to make.

So, in the end it boils down to "point of view" of looking at things, leading to the fatalistic "to each their own" response. :-)
So what? He's contributing reasonably decent comments, who cares if he posts a lot?

Comment sections are essentially infinite, and if the comments are good, I don't see any reason to tell him to stop. However, if the comments are not insightful/interesting, that's another story.
Who's Adam, and what is his role in all this?
Man, too late, did you give away all the domains already?
Unless you're Apple.
Nope, it's usually updated with every single minor and security release as well.
Without statistics it's hard to say what "potential" meant, doesn't it? The TSA reports that they find 4-5 guns each day. People forget that they have their gun one them or in their luggage.

These incidents are reported. Are these part of the "potential, but minor, scenarios"? It's hard to say without knowing the statistics. But it's safe to assume that "minor" means "not terrorism related."

I can't come up with any scenarios where the release of accurate statistics would cause a security problem, except to lower the security of the TSA's own existence. To take it up a notch, are all of the accurate statistics from 2010 still so sensitive that none of them can be revealed? I don't think so. But I don't think those have been released at all.
Worse than http://xkcd.com/979/ is when the only answer is the OP saying "never mind, I figured it out."
Obamna 2013 State of the Union Address
I would love fasterdev.com....
The answer to our problems is not more state, but less.

No, the answer is better state. In practice, that's seemed to correlate somewhat positively with less state, but it's by no means axiomatically so. Any assertion to the contrary is ideology.

For existence proofs, plural, consider the Nordic states. They're more state than many, if not most, yet they're widely regarded as among the "best", even by objective measurements. Contrariwise, consider Somalia. That's about as least-state as you can get, and yet it's somehow not the very model of civilization...
>Giving developers the option of contacting users regarding issues is alright ... giving every developer of every app I installed my private phone number is NOT (in my personal opinion).

That's... that's not what it is. It's every app you've PAID for. I would argue that giving people you've given money to direct access to be able to fix issues for you if they come up is a benefit.
Research: Web Browser War, Security Battle in 2011
Which is a very different thing to say than "UIWebView is an older implementation". Especially when you're talking about removing something from jQuery that was meant for older versions of WebKit only to have to put it back when you discover that, shockingly, there exist browsers out there that aren't on the bleeding edge of WebKit!

Not everybody runs Chrome.
I first read this book early in my first USMC enlistment in the late 90s. It was (is?) on the Commandant's Reading List, even, as recommended reading for mid-grade NCOs and junior officers because of the strong representation of maneuver warfare, the importance of individual initiative, etc. In the intervening years I've read it a good 10-15 times. If you've not read it you're missing out.
I was really shocked when one of the main features of the latest version of Adobe Illustrator was "we went in and rewrote a bunch of old messy core programming and made it lots faster under heavy loads".

Of course, they also rebuilt the whole UI from scratch and introduced some new bugs in that...
You had it right; I'm referring to the linked post.

But you seem to be looking for proofreaders who can apply the particular set of proofing standards expected of print writers, as opposed to suggested edits an informal writer can incorporate into blog posts.

I'm not sure that's what Draft claims to do -- or why it's so interesting!
Could it be that the people 'let go' are actually leaving to form their own studio, so more like they jumped rather than being pushed. Or a combination thereof.
I've had my Pebble for 10 days. I charged it once when I got it and once since then, it died on me for the first time while I was wearing it today. I would say the battery life on is great especially compared to the inPulse and definitely usable.

I've noticed the battery usage varies a lot. depending on watchfaces, how your notifications are set / how many notifications you get on a daily basis. But my sparse charging since I got it has proven that the battery should easily stand up to 3 or 4 days of use between charges. This was more than enough to satisfy me after the crummy battery life I experience with inPulse.
For android webkit versions I'm using:
http://jimbergman.net/webkit-version-in-android-version/

and iOS and the rest:
http://www.quirksmode.org/webkit_mobile.html

and good luck actually finding a sold version history of webkit on iOS, 30 minutes of googling have led me nowhere.
The debugger is a whole different story.

https://github.com/unknownworlds/decoda/blob/master/src/LuaI...

https://github.com/unknownworlds/decoda/blob/master/src/LuaI...

https://github.com/unknownworlds/decoda/blob/master/src/LuaI...
>This isn't about knowledge. We simply cannot indefinitely grow our economy/energy usage. And no, we're not going to find a workaround for the laws of thermodynamics. They are the most certain knowledge we have.

Well, in the long term, sure, you are right. (in the long term, we are all dead.) But that's a long way off. In the short term? it is about knowledge, partly, but more about what technologies we use.

Do we power our cities with hydrocarbons? or with nuclear power?

Realistically, that's the choice.

The thing is? we already are involved in resource wars over oil. We are already suffering due to not having as much energy as we'd like, and apparently we're altering the composition of our atmosphere with our waste gases. This is a problem right now, not a billion years from now.

Fission isn't perfect; it has problems, it kills people sometimes, yeah, but it kills fewer people, it has fewer problems than coal, which is the only realistic medium-term alternative.

I do think, in the medium term, it is reasonable to expect that science can bring us plenty to the point where we don't have resource wars.
When viewing a site's content that shows up high on google's search requires me to break out the inspector and hide divisions, or to spoof being a different user agent, something is wrong... very wrong.
Right, the difference is Mobile Safari and home screen web apps use the Nitro engine while UIWebView still uses JavaScriptCore IIRC.
Fundamentally we're talking about a load balancer. Even the most basic load-balancers can use a least-connections algorithm. Even a round-robin algorithm would be better since that would give each dyno (number-of-dynos * msec per request) to finish a long-running request. Random routing is a viable option where the number of concurrent requests a node can handle is large or unknown, but when the limit is known and in the single-digits, random routing is a recipe for disaster.
Does anybody else think we've come full circle now?

I don't see how this is at all useful. Just upload a .md file.
Depends on where you're living I suppose. In Chicago, a base of $100k/yr for a systems architect seems fair. In the Bay area and other areas that are more expensive, it will probably be more expensive, but I'm not as familiar with those markets. It certainly depends on the complexity of your product too.
Makes sense. Thanks for the reply.
Non-swiped: http://www.blackbookmag.com/art/george-w-bush-s-paintings-re...
Maybe this is a stupid question, but with unicorn it forks the request and can process multiple requests at the same time. Previously it seems that only one request could be handled by the dyno so requests had to queue on the dynamic routing layer but with multiple request support with unicorn or whatever, wouldn't it be more efficient to dump all the requests to dynos? Followup question, also how would intelligent routing work if it just previously checked to see if which dyno had no requests? That seems like an easy thing to do, now you would have to check CPU/IO whatever and route based on load. Not specifically targeted at you but to everyone reading the thread.
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My takeaway was, if you're going to buy non-paying users and then hunt up VC money to keep the engines firing, you'd better count on being able to go viral, because that's what the VC want to see.

If they had simply charged a reasonable fee, maybe they could have grown the business the old-fashioned way. It would have meant smaller sums of money all along, but maybe they wouldn't have experienced this explosion.
Nitro is Apple's marketing name for JavaScriptCore, so UIWebView and Safari both make use of Nitro. The difference you're thinking of is whether a JIT compiler is used. That difference has nothing to do with the age of the version of WebKit used in UIWebView vs Safari.
I don't understand why people are so outraged by this... Webkit has proven itself as a worthy browser engine, as a web developer Webkit is responsible for bringing back the fun into web development (for me at least) and lets face it how many developers even test their sites in Opera any more with exception of a few? This is great news because lets face it, Webkit is one of the best engines out there, period.

That's not to say that Opera is a bad browser, it was ahead of its time in many aspects. Optimised for lower hardware specs, optimised for limited bandwidth, mouse gestures and a really nice & clean user interface. But you have to know when to cut your loses and, "if you can't beat them, join them".
Weren't Quora the ones who tried to tell other users which pages you read also?

Yup, it was them: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/08/09/creepy-quora-erod...

This more than cluelessness, it's the same sort of low-grade sociopathy that underlies Facebook's shifting non-privacy policies.
Only receives new features once a year. Safari (mobile or desktop) isn't exactly a model for rapid releases. It's missing a lot of stuff that Chrome has had for months, sometimes years.
No, it's not quite apparent at all, and no, a few Google searches did not yield any useful information. (I do however like the high horse you're on, very nice breed indeed.)

I call on your "no need to rehash it here." Without even one good example, I'd say you're just trying to be elitist.
ha. I was actually thinking of people I know in Chicago who charge huge amounts to admin trading systems.
If you go visit the catacombs under Paris (which I highly recommend), you'll get to go into a smaller, but similar bunker.
This is a great step forward for usability. However, I think it'd be better to integrate at the browser level. (have chrome do it, and adjust my user agent stylesheet.

I don't want to give webcam permissions to 1,000 different web sites.
Being an intern at Google: The Movie
It's not too bad in my experience. Though in my case, the Federal agency granted the money to a local agency and they were pretty much hand-off since then. I work with the local agency to build the product and they have been great. We set requirements, feature, and schedule together, and they left it to me to manage the entire development process. I convinced them to do a XP-like iterative process to get involved and give feedback. It had work well.

If they actually get involved actively with the teams for this competition, I think they will get good result.
And while they give you the burden of being the merchant of record, they also give you capabilities Apple doesn't (e.g. carrier billing, control of refunds, ability to reply to reviews, etc.). It's a different bundle, with different trade-offs.
It's funny that you say all of this, because I think it's completely true. I've never tried mushrooms, LSD, or any sort of hallucinogen beyond MDMA. MDMA alone changed my life, but what followed was how I utilized that moment of awareness that I experienced. I started meditating, read The Power of Now by Tolle, and having had enough of a philosophical and meditative foundation for understanding what Tolle was saying, I can occasionally enter a realm of understanding far beyond the shallow experiences I had lived in my life up to that point. It's so true when you say that reality is so much bigger than you think, because once you realize the ridiculous amount of depth that goes into every single thing around you (even the room your in contains materials built by dozens of people from across the world - think of how long it takes you to cook breakfast in the morning) then everything in your life begins to take on a sense of perspective.

That said, I really want to try mushrooms/acid because I feel like I'm at this midway point, bobbing back and forth between the awareness of meditation and the power of the present and slipping back into old thought habits and anxieties. I feel like a pokemon evolving, flashing between my old form and my new form and my ego keeps wanting to hit B to stop the evolution. :P
Computers for Cynics 1 - The Nightmare of Files and Directories
Frankly, standard best practices for software development are far beyond what is common for healthcare software. The sentence that you quoted sounds more like ass covering than anything else.
Session Games People Play: A Manual for the Use of LSD [1967]
Perspective is a hell of a thing....The way this comment reads, I thought this was going to get racist real quick - but was relieved when I finished reading and did agree with you :)
I'm on 24.0.1312.57 and it is working fine, but it says I'm up to date, is that a dev build or something?
Its interesting to note that the email address wasn't always included, they used to be [random]@checkout.google.com before they made the switch to Google Wallet
Books would be great - could you notify me too? srmorrisonjit at google's email
Crowdsourcing In Cairo: HarassMap And An End To Sexual Violence
I've read this book a good 3 or 4 times and it never ceases to amaze me. Ender's Game is without a doubt Orson Scott Card's magnum opus and a must read for anyone remotely interested in science fiction. I always had an interest in the combat tactics employed in the book, and admired Ender's seemingly unlimited ability to innovate, but never realized it had such a concrete grounding in legitimate military tactical theory.
Night and day different. Phone gap wraps html inside a web view in an app -- you write your app logic as you would any dynamic web page. Rubymotion buils a true native app. You write your app logic like you would in objective-c, using cocoa and foundation classes.
Can you provide any advice for getting started or learning more about vipassana?
Are you trolling?

There was no need to smuggle knives in. They were allowed under the security rules then in place. I carried my knife on the plane in 2001. I took it out, put it in the basket with my keys, coins, and other metal objects, let it go through X-ray, and put it back in my pocket.

Why make up the need for an insider support network when no such need exists?

Quoting from the 9/11 Commission Hearing:

> Our best working hypothesis is that a number of the hijackers were carrying -- permissible under the regulations in place at the time -- permissible utility knives or pocket knives. One example of such a utility knife is displayed by Mr. Brinkley here, this so-called Leatherman item. We know that at least two knives like this were actually purchased by the hijackers and have not been found in the belongings the hijackers left behind.

> The checkpoint operations guide provided no further guidance on how to distinguish between box cutters and pocket utility knives. One of the checkpoint supervisors working at Logan International Airport on September 11th, 2001 recalled that it was her understanding as of that day that while box cutters were not permitted to pass through the checkpoint without the removal of the blade, any knife with a blade of less than four inches was permitted to pass through security.
You say 300 million like it is actually a big number in this context. Its not, use a percentage.

I'd also love to know where 300 million is coming from, as it seems extremely high.
My implication was that if you're going to share source code, share it in a useful way.

This particular source code is from an extremely old version of Photoshop, there would be no potential commercial harm whatsoever from allowing people to reuse this source code however they want.

I could have lived with the "no commercial use" restriction that's typically used, but to not have a right to redistribute at all severely restricts its utility.

Given that the commercial value of this particular source code drop is effectively zero, I fail to see what Adobe being a billion dollar company has to do with anything. Nor do I see what this has to do with the "OSS" movement of "Free Software" in general, neither of which were mentioned in my original post.
Thanks for this codewright. I've consistently found that learning things others are afraid of is a good business decision - and I reckon this is a big one.
Thanks for the write-up on this as I am currently reviewing heroku as an option for a proper PAAS for my app.
I can confirm this. We experimented with Unicorn as a way to get some of the benefits of availability-based routing despite Heroku's random routing. Our medium-sized app (occupying ~230 MB on boot) would quickly exceed Heroku's 512 MB memory limit when forking just 2 unicorn workers, so we had to revert to thin and a greater number of dynos.
How does the review begin with:

"Despite this aggregation of martial thought, the best book on maneuver warfare is in fact a 30 year old science fiction novel. Although incomplete in addressing all aspects of theory, Ender’s Game is one of the best books on maneuver warfare ever written."

And then conclude with:

"Not all precepts of maneuver warfare are explored in the book...Nevertheless, there are enough examples in the book to make a credible case for the book as a primer on maneuver theory."

It is worth noting that for Lind maneuver warfare was third generation warfare and not fourth generation warfare.
twitter, google & facebook might disagree
I recommend Noscript browser plugin. I've added Quora and a whole slew of news sites to my block list. The trick is to globally trust all sites in your prefs and then access the blacklist through about:config or manually add each one through the context menu.
Have you read Lind or Leonard's book?
>you need to know the address to correctly compute sales tax.

OK, so that explains why they provide the city you're in, which is the least objectionable of the information -- the developer can probably get that from GeoIP in any event.

But why do they provide your real name? Why do they provide your email address rather than an anonymized forwarder like Craigslist does? Walmart doesn't need to know any of that when I buy a toaster, neither should the app developer.