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I prefer the explanation that I developed back when I was a math student:

Imagine that all of mathematics is represented as a solid sphere (ball). At the core (origin) of this sphere are the most basic concepts in math, that we all learn in elementary and high school. On top of the core are many layers of knowledge that are all interconnected, but lead in different directions from the origin. These layers have names like algebra, calculus, and geometry. On top of those are other layers with names like topology, set theory, number theory, analysis, etc. These layers continue, like an onion, all the way to the surface of the sphere.

All mathematics students begin at the core and climb outward, towards the surface of the sphere. They choose different directions and set out to learn and practice everything that they encounter on their paths through the sphere. Eventually, after many years of study, the students who survive finally reach some point on the outside surface of the sphere. Which exact point on the surface each student reaches depends on the direction that he chose at the start. Once the students reach the surface of the sphere, they have understood everything that is known to mankind about some specific series of subjects within their speciality. Standing on the surface of the sphere, they must then must work to add a new layer to the sphere, to add something new and original to human knowledge.

As time goes by, new theories are developed and added as new layers onto the sphere. In ancient times, a great mathematician could learn everything in the whole of the sphere within a single lifetime. The sphere has grown exponentially, however, and in modern times no one person could ever visit every place in the sphere within a single lifetime. The sphere has become so vast as to defy comprehension, as generation after generation has expanded it with new layers.

When the mathematics students were starting out in the core of the sphere, they were all in the same place. They could easily see and speak to one another. However, when they reach the surface of the sphere, it is as if they are scattered across different points of the surface of a huge planet. A student might be lucky to find himself at a popular spot on the surface, where there are perhaps a handful or even a few dozen other students who he can talk to. Another student, less fortunate, may find himself stranded in a deserted place where there is no one that can hear him and there is no one for him to speak to. The surface is a lonely place, where few souls are encountered and if you do encounter some wandering traveller then you are unlikely to speak to the same language and must communicate by crude gestures like waving of hands.

As more and more matter is added to sphere, the dwellers on its surface drift further and further apart, as the surface area expands. Furthermore, the surface of the sphere grows farther and farther way from the core of the sphere. It takes longer and longer for the students to reach the surface of the sphere, as there is more and more volume to traverse.
Yes, RSS 2.0 has a bunch of problems. That is why this -- http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4287 -- was developed.

IETF standards have a history of longevity, and I suspect this format will be around a very long time.
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bo...

So it seems you can hit the top 5 on Amazon with 300 sales a day.
I am guessing they can't get good quality for generic alibaba manufacturers.
Windows 8 = UEFI Secure Boot. eg see https://lwn.net/Articles/503803/ it is going to be much more difficult to run Linux. Because of the dominance of Windows it may be harder to get motherboards without this, so there will be much less choice and you will need more technical knowledge to sell Linux stuff, eg maybe flash your own firmware.
This just drives home to me on why classic looking fonts are classic for a reason. Les Miserables added rolling gradients and shadows to Antique Roman and Django, of course, added a bit of grunge to Rockwell EB. Argo grunged up Akzidenz and added the silhouette backdrop, but aside from that, most of these fonts are pretty much as-is.
This is going to get standard in Europe.
Already happened in Hungary, has happened in the UK and will happen again. Even Germany is going to suffer for this. As they already do with their fucked up taxes.

Sweden has started to screw with pensions which are basically savings.

It's fucked up. I can't stand it. High tax countries not being able to handle it and tax even more from savings/pensions.

It's unsustainable. And recently there were many articles praising "the nordic model"... fuck it's a joke.

As far as I've seen the only countries managing their economy is Singapore. They got a sustainable model.

Don't spend peoples money. Low taxes means that whatever they spend it's not coming from the people.
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Plenty has come out already at people don't seem to care. Airliners filled with pallets of shrink-wrapped cash which is then handed out with no accounting? Go freedom fighters!
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Any idea what game he was playing? Was he playing against other players or the house?
Congratulations! In particular, I'm very impressed you got 9 backers at over $1000 for a book, you must have a very good following/dedicated fanbase.
Probably. Another interesting factoid is that the US is only one of four world countries that doesn't have compulsory maternity leave (some states do though).
You don't even know the half of it.

Some authors actually PAY MONEY to have their book put on the bestseller list. Basically the publishers have all these deals for shelf space with all those little airport and train station bookstores, endcaps in major bookstores, etc. These are guaranteed sales of whatever book the publisher decides to send these stores and the publishers then pass this cost on to authors who want the publicity.
Doesnt their interest include trade? It's aggravating how we got to this point, but I'm not sure yet whether this story is bad behavior or bad PR.
I'm writing my master thesis in computer science, so quite a bit (it's a lisp-like macro system for Java). But then it's not a real job.
Only that nntp is more mature than nnrss in Gnus, in my experience.

I only had nnrss working well when I used an external script to fetch the feeds via cron (there is an example in the documentation).

When Lars created Gwene, I switched to use that instead.
Johnson started the Vietnam War through a massive escalation. Nixon ended it.
I am bringing up historical context because you keep using the word "unprecedented."

We did attempt to justify the Iraq war: WMD's. No less justifiable than many of our other interventions in Latin America, Asia, etc. Spanish American war anyone? Also: since when is justification required to go to war? The test has never been more or less than "protecting our interests."

I don't think its a stretch to compare an American citizen going to Yemen to fight against America with Arab terrorists with Americans going to fight with Nazis. Indeed, the former is worse. American nazis weren't fighting against the US necessarily. They were fighting for Germany (Germany had no beef with us). People like Al Awalki are actively fighting against us and refuse to submit themselves to the criminal justice system. What due process rights should they have? "due process" has always been very flexible, not hard and fast.
> What has this to do with Windows 8 at all?

I think he really meant Windows RT.

My guess is that, to either increase their margins on sales or to appeal to the "budget PC" consumer, they were attempting to get one or more of the various flavors of new ARM-based Windows RT offerings, which tend to come with UEFI secure boot and are more difficult (but not impossible) to get Linux on.
If you don't have a news feed, how would a reader know to check for new posts?

If you expect readers to check your site daily, that doesn't scale very well. I follow 200+ blogs; I would never be able to remember/bookmark all of them to visit regularly.
I think you know that nothing is easier than diagnosing the world's ills, and nothing harder than inventing a realistic remedy.

Also, I don't think philosophers understand the world -- they only understand other philosophers.
I think the key is that was an Amazon bestseller. Not that Amazon is anything to sneeze at, but, regardless of the alogorithm used, it's already limited as an Amazon bestseller.
More likely they'll take the hit now, then if the crisis passes, launch lawsuits against the government to claim it back. Or a political party will adopt a manifesto pledge to return the stolen money upon election victory.
Including the stuff that took place in Iraq during the 8 year reign of Clinton. Oh, his wife was on the legal team that blew Watergate out of proportion forcing a fine and honorable president to leave office on his own accord. Bill, her husband didn't leave even after getting caught undermining the US justice system. He just rode it out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism_and_conservatism_in_...

"In 1974 she was a member of the impeachment inquiry staff in Washington, D.C., advising the House Committee on the Judiciary during the Watergate scandal.[52] Under the guidance of Chief Counsel John Doar and senior member Bernard Nussbaum,[35] Rodham helped research procedures of impeachment and the historical grounds and standards for impeachment.[52] The committee's work culminated in the resignation of President Richard Nixon in August 1974."
In 25 years of coding i needed to sort something about three times (not counting sql) in total. So when somebody asks me to write some sorter as like in job interview, i'll probably fail...
I'm sympathetic to any small company that finds tough sailing due to competition. It sucks.

That said, this really isn't surprising. The major hardware manufacturers are geared to sell Windows computers, not just computers. Make no mistake, the every-computer-has-Windows-8 structure is a decision by the manufacturers to gain discounts toward the cost of the OS. They do the same thing with video cards, hard drives, memory, etc. It's enough so that it makes a huge economic difference to do so.

In terms of a business problem, this is a supplier issue relative to the cost of doing business. If the existing set of suppliers have a cost factor that doesn't work in your model, you find another supplier. And if no suppliers meet that criteria, then the market is making decisions for you.

From the sounds of it, the major manufacturers don't find the desktop Linux market to be worth it for them to service. However, I've ordered a few systems from ASUS with no OS on it, so I would think there are still suppliers available that could do business.
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Just about every project I've worked on contained one "chunk" of the project that was an algorithm, while the remaining 95% of the functionality was achieved by implemented by Postgres, Apache, Django, etc. This is why I (and other people that work this way) am able to get things done so fast. As I've gotten better at launching projects, my algorithm writing skills have not gotten much better, but my "open source understanding and researching" skills have multiplied hundred-fold.
And he didn't even change the cover after the C&D: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1621050203

Maybe they should have sent something else than a strongly worded letter.
It's too soon to say whether or not the power of the trendsetters was illusory. The nature of trendsetting is that the setters have to figure out what it means for them before they can communicate it. Any change will take time to distribute itself.
He tried to close guantanamo and try detainees in EDVa. People in Virginia freaked. Gitmo detainees are getting habeas hearings.
Sage (Firefox plug-in) works with Firefox Sync, so you can have your RSS feeds synced across devices.
You could run newsbeuter in a screen session.

I just installed Tiny Tiny RSS -- www.tt-rss.org -- which is entirely web based and multiclient. Like GR, you can access it from where ever you have a browser and get a synchronized view.
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You still live in the 70s regarding your knowledge about these drugs. SARMs, siRNA and RNAi will be very popular in future - See stock valuations and research it's history.

I recommend informing about these, but advise everyone to avoid them. Peptid research is in the beginnings, don't make yourself a Guinea Pig.

Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators (SARM), Small interfering RNA (siRNA) and RNA interference (RNAi) are way ahead of what you may know about this topic.

The reason I know about it, is because some idiots in the Gym always kept asking me about Steroids and I didn't know anything about it. Which was frustrating and led me to inform me bottom up about everything that's necessary to know. Including talks with regular Steroid consumers.

My Conclusion, taking these drugs is irresponsible and not worth it. Everything comes with it's side-effects. SARMs, siRNA and RNAi are making babysteps and there can be severe side-effects that you won't be able to lookup on a google search.
This wasn't about card counting (which is an integral part of blackjack strategy and certainly should be legal in any jurisdiction that allows casinos to operate). Counting takes place in your mind. Breaking into the casino's surveillance feed to learn extra information is outright cheating (and therefore, theft). I'm curious to know what information the player obtained. I can't imagine there are cameras low enough to glimpse the dealer's hole card before it is set down. Perhaps multiple accomplices each watched a table, keeping count and waiting for the count to be high (meaning the chance of drawing a ten-value card or an ace was very high), and then told the player to move to that table?
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Abe Lincoln was a republican therefore conservatives freed the slaves, right?
System76 is clearly buying laptops from OEMs and outfitting them appropriately; I imagine ZaReason is doing the same. You get devices of about the same quality as Dell or Compaq, with all the drivers you need already in place.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that LeChat's logo is a cat, even though it looks a little bit funny.

I am curious, are you planning to add integration with external protocols, such as XMPP or IRC? It doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere on the FAQ page.
The roulette is unbalanced and tilted one way?
Agreed, but as a slight counterpoint, some research is about stripping away unnecessary middle layers, to find abstractions, a quicker way to the surface in other words.

If we didn't do this, research would inevitably stop, unless eternal life lies inside a 100 year radius of the sphere (and we can keep learning and getting smarter forever, which I doubt)
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"The World Trade Center bombing occurred on February 26, 1993, when a truck bomb was detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York, NY."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_bombing

"On June 26, 1993, Clinton ordered a cruise missile attack on the Iraqi Intelligence Service's (IIS) principal command and control complex in Baghdad, publicly announced as retaliation for the assassination attempt by the IIS on former President George H. W. Bush while he was visiting Kuwait in April of that year to commemorate a coalition victory over Iraq in the Persian Gulf War. "

"In Clinton's 1998 State of the Union Address, he warned Congress of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's possible pursuit of nuclear weapons:
Together we must also confront the new hazards of chemical and biological weapons, and the outlaw states, terrorists and organized criminals seeking to acquire them. Saddam Hussein has spent the better part of this decade, and much of his nation's wealth, not on providing for the Iraqi people, but on developing nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them. "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_the_Bill_Clin...
The cost of switching may be low but familiarity is a powerful motivator to stay. We saw this with Office 2007 drawing so much ire despite the ribbon interface being quite good. We're seeing it again to an extent because of the don't-call-it-Metro interface in Windows 8.
The Papyrus typeface seems to have been coopted to reflect religious sentiment, to some extent. In other words, I've mostly seen it on some texts with some kind of religious tones --a book, a flyer, etc. Not sure how that happened.
This is like saying "I got featured on TechCrunch and Hacker News and my business STILL failed!" 4000 books => $12K seems about right.

A good way to apply this to life: Vanity metrics mean nothing. Recognition is largely irrelevant to fiscal well-being. It's the same in the fashion industry -- most "famous" brand-name folks work for other big companies to pay the bills. I don't know who designs the jeans for Gap, but I'm sure he/she gets paid a ton of money.
The same holds for the software industry if you are a freelancer you make much more an hour than an employee.

On the other hand if a freelancer has only have one source of contracts/income and said freelancer doesn't make significantly more an hour than an employee would, then the employee is getting the short end of the stick.

I'm willing to argue that this kind of outsourcing jobs you should employ people for, should be discouraged by law, either by making it more costly for the employer or by actively forcing employers to hire these not-so-free-lancers.
Our immediate plan is to provide great native apps for mobile and desktop that will use our proprietary protocol. We like to think of LeChat as "Dropbox of chats", you never leave your conversation as you move between desktop, web and mobile devices. Gateways for XMPP and IRC are further down our list and are more on API/integrations side.
The flaw in your logic is that if you want to reach your full potential you have to constantly set the bar higher by taking on tasks that are progressively harder for you to achieve. Of course you probably wont get paid more for all that extra productivity, but the reward is being able to be proud of yourself when you go to sleep at night.
I just read the letter from JD and there are many fascinating things about the way it was written including the offer to pay a reasonable amount to re-do the cover.

This is definitely a letter that, prior to the Internet, would never have been written. It goes out of it's way to not appear to be a "dick" and appeal almost in a friend like way to make the person receiving want to do "the right thing" by not making a threat. I've never seen a letter written like this in this situation (having received them and seen many over the years.)

I wouldn't have let an opportunity like this pass. I would have seen what JD would pay to redo the cover, let them do it, and garnered even more publicity. And maybe pocketed some money by subcontracting the labor. The cover design isn't that critical and the extra press mention would most likely drive more sales. As only one example they could have said "it will cost me $5000 to redo" found someone to do it for much much less and pocketed the difference AND gotten more publicity. And I've done things like this is the past with large corporations they will write a check to dispose of a problem they won't say "um we want to have our artist do it". If the price is reasonable they would just pay. (The only question is how much I would have started much higher than $5k that is arbitrary..)
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That makes even less sense. Why blame a platform that is barely selling? You might as well blame the iPad for not making it easy to install Linux. Or just grab a Nexus Tab 10 or Asus Transformer or even a ARM Chromebook, slap their version of Linux or whatever on it and sell it. How is that different from trying to get Linux on a Windows RT machine?
His name was Abraham Lincoln.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln

To your question, are you suggesting that you think that slavery fell clearly along the lines of liberalism and conservatism?
That's not a default, it's a new loan. Answer this question: What percentage of Cyprus debt has been defaulted? That is, what percentage isn't going to be paid at all?
This is one of my concerns as well. I use blogger for clients as well.

They've shut down or are shutting down a few things I've used a decent amount, iGoogle, Reader, occasionally Code Search, and now their XMPP usage is in doubt (https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/google-backslides-on-fede...) which I use for OTR instant messaging. I really liked being able to go explore Google Labs as well.

While losing any of the above isn't crippling, I certainly didn't expect to lose them, and it will make me have additional questions about using other Google products.

I guess it magnifies the difference between web and desktop apps.
> Fortunately, math has an incredibly powerful tool that helps bridge the gap. Namely, when we come up with concepts, we also come up with very explicit symbols and notation, along with logical rules for manipulating them. It's a bit like being handed the technical specifications and diagrams for building a vacuum cleaner out of parts.

Just to play the devil's advocate ... math has wonderful symbols and methods, but they don't really assist in comprehension unless everyone agrees on their meaning, and then only if everyone already understands the underlying concepts, the axioms. For example, starting in 1910, Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead published "Principia Mathematica" (a borrowed title):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Mathematica

But, notwithstanding their high intellectual level and the ambitions behind the project, and notwithstanding the system of symbols used, Russell and Whitehead missed a crucial, central point -- their plan to systematize mathematics, place it on a solid logical foundation, make it immune from uncertainty and doubt, was doomed from the start. Kurt Gödel demonstrated this a few years later:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6dels_incompleteness_theo...

So much for the power of symbols. The consequences of the Incompleteness theorems are often overstated, but they do falsify the idea that mathematics is logically consistent, or that a set of symbols, however clear and unambiguous, will prevent basic misunderstandings in even the most fertile minds.
And the additional 22,000 dead don't count for anything?
0%, these are solved problems that you can easily use a library for.
Sigh!

For those interested in the nuts and bolts of the issue with UEFI/dual-boot, etc....

http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/11/05/dual-boot-windows-8-and...
All Windows 8 certified machines need the Secure Boot to be able to be turned off.

I seriously doubt turning off an option in the BIOS/UEFI setup screen is going to hobble them.

http://www.top-password.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/...

> you will need more technical knowledge to sell Linux stuff,

I would really really hope that a company installing and configuring Linux would have the technical chops to turn off a bios setting.
Actually shouldn't they only have the fully qualified domain name in the cert?

If I get a cert for example.com nobody expects it to also be valid for example.com.apple.com which means that the dot is implied...

The fact that browsers give cert errors for the dotted name seems like a bug to me.