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Pardon my skepticism.

Notice how Gabe is talking about how Apple is a threat not to consoles, but to PCs moving into the living room (i.e. his company's plans). To people who don't know the industry well, this might not be easily differentiable, but the reality is that the two come from fundamentally different lineages.

The thing that sells gaming platforms is not "natural progression into the living room", not an "upgrade cycle", not "development tools". It's the games.

If Apple takes a similar approach to living-room gaming as they took to the iPhone, with an open development platform, or an "Apple TV" that plays games, but is not primarily focused on games, you'll see roughly the same quality of games come out there as on the iPhone. And notice how no iPhone apps sell for more than 99¢ these days.

Apple has no history of game development. It's not a part of their DNA. And the gaming industry is a difficult business to succeed in. So to take any other approach would be monumentally difficult for them.

The biggest threat to console gaming is not Apple. It's the consoles themselves.

Consider the case of the iPhone vs. handheld consoles. The iPhone was released in the heyday of the Nintendo DS. The DS sold like hotcakes throughout its lifecycle, and didn't slow down at all even as the iPhone's app store exploded onto the scene.

It was only once the 3DS came out that handeld consoles started to have difficulties. Of course now everyone starts blaming smartphones for taking the market away from them, but look at the console: it has a lineup of games that's mediocre at best, it focused on 3D features that nobody cares about, it had hardware flaws like a terrible battery life, and it was very expensive at launch. No wonder it disappointed.

If consoles end up failing, they will fail on their own merits. It won't be because of an app store.
On June 11, 2012, Apple lowered the price of the base model Mac Pro, from $2899 to $2499. It increased the RAM from 3GB to 6Gb, but that was all.

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_pro/specs/mac-pro-...
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keep in mind that the author's words are... his words. Perhaps he's not putting out the full story? How can you know which side is "right" on an issue such as this?

All we know is that the author ran on the free plan, and probably should have upgraded from the free plan when he started seeing his site getting large amounts of traffic.

In the end all is well, he got another service that served his purposes.
WTF is a Data Scientist anyway?
Reminded me of a slider (I need to get out more I guess)
Download droidplot. It is a port of gnuplot for Android.
I would guess it's similar, but I know people back home in mid MO (not quite KC) that pay less in rent than long term parking I see advertised in Boston.
My personal and business banking is done at Chase. I've found them to be fantastic and managed to avoid pretty much any fees by following the guidance of very helpful employees. I know everyone loves to bag on big banks, but Chase has been great. Bank of America is another story - their website barely works.

That said, I highly recommend anyone with significant assets open a bank account in a foreign country where seizing assets is much more difficult. Keep a reasonable sum there and know how to transfer the rest quickly if you fear legal action.
> Mozilla has significantly less employees than Opera

Hu, really? Would have thought the opposite as Mozilla gets 100 million dollars a year from Google.
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opera is very strong on Mobile phones (incl. old Symbian Nokias). 300 million is a lot, but within the possible. this comment was written in opera.
Specifically, what I tell them is, "Would you give this person a $20 bill? Then don't give them anything more valuable, either." Note that I never once stated my opinion that there are or are not enough women|minorities|gays in technology. If you think that was my point, then my words flew past my meaning and landed in your begonias (this being my Greek tutor's euphemism for that thing that sometimes happens in translations). The original article is horribly polarizing and, I think, creates a hostile environment for the rest of us who aren't dressed for battle.

We have two children. The eldest is male, the youngest is female. It is either the case that the teachers complain more about my daughter's stubbornness than my son's or that I bridle more at it. Either way, it does appear to me that she is being made to feel more shame for her innate mettle than my son ever has. Not all of the bullies she deals with are peers; some of them are teachers, school staff and other adults. As we all well know, a certain amount of subtlety is required in handling bullies in positions of authority. Often in the very least subtle way of "sit down and shut up and obey" -- effecting the least dire consequence, given the circumstance. I, too, have read studies that show women become more "shy" as they advance through secondary school, as a consequence of social pressure. Less of that pressure comes from peers than from adults.

Reducing what I was trying to express to "ignore them and they will go away" has put the ball in the bleachers. Casting what I said into that ends the play. Nope. Very specifically, I'm trying to teach them the art of assessing the situation and deciding if there is any value at all in engaging versus walking away. But before I can do that, I have to teach them how to walk away, because their natural inclination seems to be to engage.

My kids are growing up in a bubble that I did not grow up in. There's something about this bubble that slaps erroneous labels on problems. Some of the problems aren't even problems. This is where emily37's observation resonates: it's sabotage. We can't go through life saying, "I'm not welcome here because of attributes that are beyond my control."
>It was "Women get interviewed no matter what."

Which is precisely what we do, and precisely what I said we do.

>Even if the intent means well, these types of threads are cluttered with resentment of these practices

Why shouldn't they be?

>I'd feel weird about it.

I don't blame you, I would too. The companies making these decisions aren't concerned about how you feel about it though, they are concerned about appearing to be "the good guys" in the eyes of the people who are making an issue out of gender balance.
It will be on Ruby as well. System backend is currently MongoDB
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It's really about whether the email is commercial or relationship content. This is a subjective point for mixed emails, and the ACM TechNews email does in fact mix the two by containing banner ads and links to the ACM's social media sites. If you are sending "relationship" email, you are exempt from some of the act's restrictions. It does seem that if you are classifying it as a relationship email then you only need to obey the truthful routing information. However, being unable to unsubscribe I believe is also a violation regardless of the status of the email, but I'm less clear on this.
Under US Federal law, anything that can be subject to copyright is subject to copyright at the moment it is set in fixed form. It is not an option.

So, insofar as the CCR is copyrightable subject matter under federal law, it automatically is subject to copyright, and the only real question is licensing terms (public domain dedications, have something of a hazy legal effect, which makes them a less viable option for a legal requirement.)
Not suggesting this isn't true, but consider this:

Most people on this site consider themselves skeptics;

Most people on this site will read something that comes from a source and, if they are not experts in the field being discussed, will tend to accept it;

This is more likely should the argument be well put together;

This will happen despite us considering ourselves skeptics;

Because it is easier to accept a well written article on an issue we know little about rather than research it ourselves;

Many of us will subsequently argue a position based upon the information contained in said article or discussion, especially against other non-experts

It doesn't matter how skeptical you consider yourself it's simply too mentally expensive to look for backup on everything you read, and we are really bad at guessing what things are outright lies when those lies are presented in an intelligent and intelligible form
Their move is understandable, but it'll be something of a pity if this affects Opera's performance. From personal experience I can say that Opera is pretty much the only current browser that can deliver a combination of acceptable speed and rendering quality on really outdated x86 hardware.

I have tested it on a ThinkPad T23 with a Pentium III-M CPU and 1024 MB RAM running Ubuntu 10.04, as well as an early Pentium 4-M Windows XP-equipped laptop we needed to set up as a kind of an info kiosk at work. Opera felt way more responsive than Firefox, Chromium or even Midori on both. If Opera switching to WebKit makes it no longer reasonably usable on this hardware it would mean replacing those machines sooner rather than later. It's not that big of a deal, but the costs can build up with volume and I'm sure we aren't going to be the only ones affected.

Edit: rephrased for clarity.
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My point is that the order was not "on file" anymore as it was being cancelled/refunded.

I agree it is inconvenient to ask a customer to cancel and replace an order (the support rep could be doing that transparently for the customer), but it seems it was a very unusual case (theft or loss of the package) so it is reasonable to expect a somewhat unusual process to resolve the situation.
I wouldn't say my position "is in no way different", though I can see how making my statement more dogmatic is convenient for you.

"How many students have left your class for another class or another school because parents felt your teaching was in some way inadequate?"

Almost none, but it's because I'm the "good" teacher. I do however have a couple of students per year that transfer from other high schools in my district to my school in order to have me as their computer science teacher instead of one of the other five CS teachers in our district.

I very occasionally lose a kid (one every few years) for my video game programming course because there's another CS teacher in my district that's clearly better at teaching that course than I am.

Were you not aware that students can sometimes transfer within high schools in a school district?

Edit: Oh! Also I teach computer science full time. The teachers at the other high schools have fewer students in their programs than I do (even though our schools have approximately the same number of students overall), so they have to pick up extra courses to fill out their schedules (like babysitting the in-school suspension kids) whereas I get to only teach CS.
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We certainly considered that path, with both Gecko and WebKit.

In theory, that's possible, but in practice it would likely take just as long, and at the end you would have a rendering engine that was years behind the competition. Not least because intermediate stages wouldn't be upliftable back to the main codebase because partially parallelizing things leaves you with worse performance than either parallelizing nothing or everything, in many cases.
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A similar thing happened to me about 4 years ago in California. At the time I was running a small business and we had several thousand dollars withdrawn from our Wells Fargo Checking account along with a $200 Well Fargo legal fee. After some investigation we discovered that California had sent a notice to Wells Fargo to seize our assets for unpaid taxes. The Wells Fargo legal team was fairly helpful and they told us that 'this happens all the time', meaning the state doesn't really care who they take the money from as long as they get money from somebody. It took us nearly 2 years to prove to the state that they had the wrong business and we we able to recover the money from California. They paid us something like 0.25% interest. We never did get the $200 back from Well Fargo. All of this happened without a single notice or letter from either California or Wells Fargo.
> Error establishing a database connection

Anyone have a mirror?
I've never read any of his writing, so I have no opinion about its quality.

But this was as thorough an apology as I can recall seeing from anyone about anything. I will be very surprised if he turns out not to have meant it.

It actually predisposes me to take a look at whatever he writes next. The process of confronting one's character flaws and addressing them deepens a person. I expect that whatever he has to say next will be edifying -- as indeed this piece was.

EDITED to add: it's certainly possible I'm being naive and accepting his apology too easily.
That wasn't the point. Is the network really "slower by orders of magnitude" than disk? Why is using the network such a silly idea, considering network speeds are more than keeping up. Was the reference just referring to protocols. I was hoping for some accuracy: something to back up the statement.
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Yup, it's still fast.
Understood. Good luck :)
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I use a credit union, and I have been the victim of a similar problem as the author, and the credit union folded in exactly the same way. Notably, the credit union is local to a state different from the one that tried to shake me down. I don't especially blame the credit union, though: they were upfront and communicative with me, and told me that their hands were tied.

The advice I was given (not by the CU): either withdraw all my money from the account and put it in a safe deposit box, or wire it to a (very) close relative ASAP -- before the lien is officially issued.
This really bothered me when I found out. I was in a coffee ship working and was forced to pack up my back every time I needed to use the bathroom. The two solutions out there, one from kensington and the macbracket, are poor substitutes for having a kensington slot.
Yeah, the thing is, its not a settled legal question. The bill specifying license terms is obviously moot if copyright protection does not apply, but as long as copyright protection does apply, or as long as there is a legal question that it might apply, having the most open licensing terms reduces the risk that use might land you in a copyright trap.
Bruce Lawson pledging to fight against the WebKit monoculture
Yes, 4 MB was really a lot in 1990, so I guess his eighties were near to the end of them:

http://www.jasondunn.com/remember-computers-from-the-1990s-3...

I'd still like to know how much he paid for 4 MB then, he must remember that, it wasn't a little.
TL;DR Someone trying to sell you on another crazy diet.

A complete enteral diet (when you're in the hospital and they feed it to you in a tube) is both extremely hard to achieve and expensive, not to mention the collateral effects. Then there's this guy claiming that he can not only live on a carb/protein/fat shake he made on his kitchen, but that it gave him superpowers and it's cheap to boot. He even gave it a market name already.

Not flying with me.
Actually, the monetary stakes discussed ($200 million a year for a couple of years) are peanuts to Apple, not even a blip. The real battle is over their freedom to engage in these sorts of business dealings to enter new markets and beat down incumbents.
> Your Python program is incomprehensible to me, probably due to the lack of meaningful variable names

I agree with this criticism, so I replaced the program:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7m8hq9yzcu5nztx/prime_reproduction...

> I am just setting the starting offset (not the starting year!) between the cicada and the predators to something other than zero.

But if you change the offset of the predator's cycle, you've changed nothing unless the total years of test is a very small number. This is an easy claim to verify using my Python program -- you can arbitrarily change the starting point for the predator reproductive cycle, or the year, or any number of combinations -- but it doesn't change the outcome. The reason is that what's being measured is the number of collisions between a particular predator reproductive cycle over time, and a valid result merits a long time (I usually use 1000 years). This fact prevents the starting point from influencing the outcome.

Also, since the basic test is to count how often the predators hatch out in synchrony with the cicadas for a given cicada cycle number, and since that requires using modulo arithmetic, it's not obvious how you could change the result by adding an offset to either the chosen predator reproductive cycle or the year (or both) -- especially since I test the survival value of each cicada cycle against a large range of predator cycles.

The basic idea is that the cicadas evolve toward prime-numbered reproductive cycles by being tested in an environment filled with predators that use any number of other cycles, so a fair test requires me to compare a given cicada cycle with all plausible predator cycles and sum the results. Because I'm summing results for all predator cycles, adding a bias value to the predator cycle doesn't really change anything. That was why I was so sure this idea wouldn't hold up, but I tested it anyway.

> No, I even think the problem is more widespread than psychology alone (though in psychology it is particularly severe), having seen first hand how science is conducted in other areas.

Of course I agree. My focusing on psychology is not because their "science" is better or worse than, say, sociology, only that psychologists have clinics and patients -- people who deserve treatment driven by science, not anecdote.

I apologize for my tone earlier. I've been receiving a lot of rather emotional defenses of psychology lately, including a valiant effort by psychologists and fans of psychology to delete my Wikipedia page (an effort that will eventually probably succeed).
Many manufacturers claim to have licensed the relevant patents from Broadcom, in which case their customers are not infringing by "exhaustion". Presumably there are some manufacturers that didn't license, so parties who purchased equipment from those would not have that defense. Does the troll in this case have any reason to think that the hotels it's targeting have unlicensed and thus infringing equipment? Or is this just an RIAA-style dragnet, in which you're guilty until you prove all your equipment is licensed? Is there really no means by which courts can rein in this type of abuse?
Yes, it means that the actual entity doing the releasing has to pick one. The reason not to specify the particular license in statute is so that the particular license (within the parameters set in the legislation) selected can be changed in the future without requiring new legislation.
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https://www.evernote.com/shard/s2/sh/aa569b56-0cc3-410f-a775...
> We got the Canvas and AJAX DESPITE the standard (one from Apple, the other from MS) not because of it. Those were only standardised after the fact.

In the case of canvas, not really. Apple created canvas for Dashboard widgets. Were it not standardized, canvas would never have been a web technology.
I'd pay $5 a pop for a custom favicon - I give you an image, you pixelart it. Not the crappy png-to-ico converters, but an actual person that knows what they are doing. Maybe even $9 if you let me pick from 3 options.

My current approach is to scale down a png in Pixelmator and hope there aren't that many jaggies. In the end, they usually look like crap and not as sharp as the ones in this post. I would follow this tutorial, but there is a Miracle Function that involves knowing how to do shadows based on a light source - which I don't know how to do.
And Australia is cheaper than New Zealand for Apple stuff (by a couple of hundred NZD last time I calculated on a 13 MBA with 8 gigs of ram).
There's the thunderbolt-GigE adapter. Or alternatively, you can carry one of these for all your peripheral needs:

http://www.belkin.com/us/thunderbolt
My new hobby: Inspecting the source of blog posts that act like prefixed CSS styles are healthy standards that must be conformed to, and finding -o and -webkit prefixes without -dylans-browser equivalents.

Less sarcastic version: This is only a problem if the developer neglects to include an unprefixed version, and even that is perfectly excusable if the syntax remains up in the air (like box-shadow was for a while). As soon as the style is in a standard, it works in the version of Opera that supports that standard.

There is absolutely no reason a web developer should be expected to implement nonstandard code for a specific browser, and when it happens one must keep in mind: the standard isn't finished, it could break some day, and it needs to be closely watched and regularly tested. If you are using prefixed styles without testing each of them, you're considerably worse than the person who isn't using them at all.
Yes, I would like to trust all my documents, photos, etc. to a random software development company (and a product with no published business plan to fund its own existence) located on the other side of the world in a country where the government has an active interest in using technology to accumulate information it would not otherwise be able to obtain from citizens of my country... where do I sign up?
> and managed to avoid pretty much any fees by following the guidance of very helpful employees

shouldn't they not have useless fees to begin with?
It’s meant as an interesting CSS hack to make markup look like markdown, but still function as regular HTML (including having things like links still work). There are thousands of things that compile markdown to HTML, that's not at all what this does. Try clicking on the different tabs to show the different states or the demo link to the left of them—maybe that'll make more sense?
Reminded me of this: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmohwflNZU1qkfxqfo1_500.jp...

Kidding aside, it's pretty interesting. I'll probably use this technique for a small game I'm doing in my spare time.
> Error establishing a database connection

Seems like the author's blog is starving too.
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He said; she said. A Layer 7 attack is not necessarily something one might "notice." The very nature of such an attack is "normal" looking. I think it's impossible for us to say who is right -- OP or CloudFlare -- without substantial hard-data. Ultimately, it's not the basis of the article, and the OP is looking for a different service -- unmanaged, limited-downlink bandwidth -- than what CloudFlare is looking to provide -- managed, edge network.
More than 10,000 people, mostly students, on Android alone. The number of downloads is much higher, but this is based on the number of active users. Growing quickly.
IIRC, I saw :before used to great effect in print stylesheets for turning links into plain-text URLs.
He mentions that his bowel movements have stopped on the "Soylent." I'd watch out for gall bladder disease if I were him.
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