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Maybe you should get some first hand experience there first before making such grand statements. France is in fairly deep trouble in spite of nominally getting out of the current recession early (in part because of a massive increase of public debt), it's Southern neighbor Spain (and major trading partner) is doing (much) worse.

There are a lot of people working hard to try to solve this but to say that France is 'sprinting' where the USA, UK, China and India are 'exhausted' is showing a serious lack in knowledge about the state of affairs.
Oh, I know that about the EDSL nature of Forth, and it's entirely possible that if I really knew Forth, my experience would be different.

On the other hand, if you were right that Forth is many orders of magnitude faster to develop with than assembler, we'd see people writing HTML5-compliant web browsers in Forth in a few hours. (I'm figuring: 100 person-years for e.g. Chromium, multiplied by ten for assembly, divided by six orders of magnitude (because five isn't "many") gives you about 8 hours.) So I suspect you're living in some kind of a fantasy world.
I like the layout and the cleanness.

However, not sure if I understand the concept 100%. It seems to be similar to a timeline for your life. I created an event and noticed that I can add other participants to it. I assume that the event will be visible to them. I guess that is pretty nifty.

For example, suppose I attended a bbq 4 years ago with 5 other people. I can create an event for that, and those people will also have it recorded that they attended the bbq.

I also like the privacy settings - very useful!
I'm not disagreeing, but there's one thing I don't understand. China has more poor people, and their poor are poorer, and their drug laws are as bad as the US's, if not worse. If the problem is just poverty and drug laws, shouldn't we see more violence in China?
Yes, it's about as reassuring as the Treaty of Versailles.
I appreciate that by posting it here, it has almost no chance of standing up to the traffic... But it was too cool not to share.
>Hey, Daily Telegraph! I’d like to read the articles on your website. I don’t want your fucking app.

We understand that, we're not fucking dense.

But we still want to force our fucking app to the fucking cheapos and freeloaders reading our content, because we fucking make more fucking ad money out of it compared to the fucking website.
I doubt that it does in any EU country. In France it actually does not exceed 50% including VAT. (http://www.revolution-fiscale.fr/le-systeme-actuel/des-impot...)
Yea, it's a shame really, I actually still really like HTML 1.0 pages. The fact that it was all markup and not layout was great and left a lot more up to the browser.
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>Everything I like about FireFox (gestures, tabbed browsing, a reasonable bookmark manager), Opera did first.

So? Do you still use Mosaic because it did first most of the important things Opera does now? How about sticking with IE, because it brought as AJAX first?
Early brain scans could help at-risk individuals receive voluntary intervention (medication, therapy etc.) to help them avoid trouble later on. One would hope that the results of these brain scans would be confidential to avoid stigmatizing individuals.

Treating violent and sexual offenders as human beings who are mentally ill instead of writing them off as evil monsters would be a huge step in the right direction for the legal system and society in general.
> They're one of the biggest proponents of trying to get people to update their browsers.

Oh, so that's why they wanted my grandma to buy a new version of Windows (and a new computer to meet the system requirements) just to update Internet Explorer.
The US never had communism, nazism, tyrants governing the country. Try to pull off concentration camps against your own people like Hitler or Stalin did when they are heavily armed.

There is no way people wouldn't defend their families from going to concentration camps if they were armed. History shows that this holds true. The Government is afraid of armed people as it should be. That is a good thing. Not bad.
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So the public for Opera is bizarro outliers? (100 tabs! Love of mouse gestures!)
Other than the title might suggest this happened at the (second highest) administrative level, the federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Landesministerium), not at the Bundesministerium. Also reportedly some of the machines were brand new so no need for "radical" upgrade methods for all of them.

The only good thing about this that federal auditing by the Landesrechnungshof seems to work, since they complained about it in their yearly report in the first place and it got only picked up by the press after that.

http://www.lrh-mv.de/land-mv/LRH_prod/LRH/Veroeffentlichunge... (german pdf, page 152)
That's because they can't find jobs or they chose not to work. Either way, who's to blame for this? Surely not the hard working wealthy. Oh wait....
Yes, India is place to be, in longer run, thats why I'm planning to stay here. But France is a short term opportunity, as long as this government is taking stuff seriously.

As a student entrepreneur, I find India a lot harder than France.
Currently there's a big problem in GPGPU computing - high latency until the computation results are available. That can be tens of milliseconds. This significantly limits type of tasks you can efficiently offload to GPU. I understand AMD's hUMA/HSA is supposed to address this problem.

But there's another problem: currently CPU memory buses are connected to two or more DDR3 memory channels. And DDR3 doesn't simply have sufficient bandwidth for high performance graphics and GPGPU computing, especially when shared with CPU.

Intel Haswell will have CPU and GPU on-package together with shared 128MB of eDRAM 64 GBps "L4 cache". I believe that should enable low latency high performance memory sharing.

I don't understand AMD's bandwidth story. Does the GPU share one memory controller with CPU and have another private one, for example connected to GDDR5? I don't see how hUMA could work efficiently over PCIe bus either, so I guess hUMA is about APU + CPU only.

How does AMD provide the bandwidth?
The 75% proposed tax is for earned salary not sales of shares. Thus it will only be relevant to you if you get your company to a point where you are taking out over 1 million euros a year in salary, not if you simply sell your company for over 1 million.
In theory if you have arbitrary addition and arbitrary multiplication (i.e. a ring structure) you can perform any transform on the cyphertext that you could on the (finite) plaintext.

As a practical matter conplext transforms tend to produce enormous cyphertexts that can't be evaluated in any reasonable time. Which is why a lot of the cutting edge work is in renormalizing, even at the cost of restricting operations (thus somewhat rather than fully homomorphic).
I read yesterday that more people in India have access to a cell phone than to a toilet or running water. I assume they are very poor since they have to poop outside on the street, but they do have cell phones.
Not anymore, it isn't!
During depression, opportunities exist.
Here is one solution they could use: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/automated-linking/
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I'd also say that by the time I've waited 20 minutes, I'm a bit of an asshole

The flip side of the coin is that the busiest call centres are generally for the cheapest services - and you get what you pay for. Running a support service is extremely expensive. For most services, there's usually an option where if you open your wallet wider, you get better service (often at another company), but the general public don't like that option.

This type of incompetence seems to be fairly widespread these days

Not just these days. I worked for the telco 9 years ago, and we had a main product and a rebadged rural-friendly product. We could access the main product webpage to help talk people through how to log in (very useful), but the side product was banned for us. I emailed management: please unlock our own product page, it will help us help the customer and shorten our queue times. Management's response? "That's an IT decision". So I emailed IT the same thing. IT's response? "That's a management decision". Come on guys, I'm taking calls 100% of the time and I have the political power of a newt.

At this same job I would work 15 minutes unpaid overtime just to finish off the paperwork for the day and leave good notes that I didn't have time for. The other calltakers thought I was deranged for working when not paid. After the above story, it's not hard to see why. Management really didn't care, and that filtered down. It's not like my colleagues were motivated achievers in the first place, but there was also no high bar set at any point, no leading by example. Next time you're angry that no notes were left in your account, realise that more likely it's a management issue. Curiously as a counterpoint, in my next job it was expected that 30% of a field technician's time was put aside for paperwork. Didn't quite work out that way, but that was the nominal benchmark (as opposed to 0% at the call centre).

Clusterfucks in billing were the usual error on our side. It was interesting - the call logs off the exchange were almost always rock solid (in those cases where investigations were launched), but billing had mistakes six ways from Sunday.
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If you read it right, I'm going there for studies, not job. France, is working hard on its higher studies, if any government is serious, I as a investor, would leverage on that.
Arduino or Raspberry Pi are kind of overkill for this ...

USB breakout board -> MSP430 -> LEDs/Buzzers/Whatever

You're talking somewhere around $14.

Yes, you'll need to know C or assembly for the MSP430 and likely a scripting language for the PC, but it makes a lot more sense than bringing in all of that horsepower to essentially get an I/O and light an LED.
It's not bisectable. http://darwinweb.net/articles/the-case-for-git-rebase
I would say the absolute worst thing he could have done was write this article. I'm sure his attorney will agree.
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If everyone saw that side window opening at the same time, the term 'pioneer' would not have been coined.
Taking into account that FirefoxOS is exactly targeting cheap smartphones which could completely kill feature phones, then yes, it's too late.
Pretty fascinating...

Jesus: http://imgessence.com/browse/view/437
Never forget the MSP430, which is either $5 or $10 depending on when you hit it.
Yes, its not a walk in the park. If you seek opportunity, even in desert, you would find riches. Its not a hunch, I have carefully compared, what I want, and what I would be getting there, at a particular university.
For those trying to compile it, you'll need to install the last version (6.0.0) of NTL (the Ubuntu package from 13.04 does not provide this version).
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It's poverty + drug laws + guns, that is the killer cocktail. You can't hardly come up with a worse combination.

China has violence, but they don't have much gun violence because 1) guns are often beyond the financial capabilities of their poor, and 2) there aren't very many guns per capita.

In the US it isn't difficult to come up with $150 if you're poor and want a black market gun. The US poverty line for a household of 1 starts at $11,500 (it goes without saying how much higher that is than most incomes in China, so the availability of cash to buy a gun for even someone that's poor is radically higher in the US).

A good example of this in action is Brazil. Their gun homicide rate is twice that of the US. They have some intense poverty and guns, and thus have a very high gun homicide rate (eg compared to China, that just has poverty but limited guns).

Also it's fair to say, to top it off, that the US has a far more violent culture in general than China, that amplifies the problem. I'm not speaking of state sponsored violence mind you.
I just got rid of 50 old pc's for one company I worked for, within seconds of placing an ad on marktplaats we had a taker, a couple of guys from Amsterdam came to pick them up an hour later.

I oversaw the hard drive removal, if you can't be trusted to be sure that you have removed the drives from those pc's before sending them to the recycler how can you be sure that you've done a proper job before sending them in to be scrapped? It's the exact same problem after all.
Quality, friendly support scales

vs

or on a smaller scale, 37 Signals for proof

These statements don't match. Similarly, Rackspace is still a niche product - it's not providing services to the greater public.
Yeah. I like that and the approach is outlined in this short guide I found:

http://williamdurand.fr/2012/01/17/my-git-branching-model/

i.e. before merging a feature branch, always rebase it on the tip of the integration branch, then merge it in with --no-ff to record an explicit merge commit on the integration branch, even though a fast-forward is possible. This gets you the temporal straightforwardness of rebase while preserving the fact that there WERE feature branches and their commits are partitioned in history.
That's a good point. I was thinking about this in terms of the traditional x86 fight between Intel and AMD. I could see Nvidia going beyond mobile with it though. Consider this playbook for Nvidia:

1)Build an ARM 64bit chip with the latest GPU tech (not the generations behind stuff they've been using on mobile), and unified addressing with the memory controller on die.

2)Stick a bunch of fast ram, some fast flash for storage and a gigabit chip to build a blade server.

3)Start selling these to people that today have GPGPU type loads. This should easily be cheaper and more power efficient than the equivalent Intel solution.

4)As 64bit ARM becomes more performance competitive with x86 (is that happening?) and people get used to developing for ARM, move to take over more traditional CPU workloads.

It would make sense for them as they've already tried to enter the x86 market with their motherboard/chipset business before and been mildly successful. Back then they were just trying to build a better x86 and got squeezed by Intel, here they'd be using the classic Innovator Dilemma strategy of coming from a lesser product (ARM) to dominate the market.

One of the most interesting points in Ars previous articles about AMD was that before they decided to buy ATI they were actually considering Nvidia but the sticking point was that Nvidia's CEO wanted to be CEO of the joint company. It makes you wonder what could have come out of AMD+Nvidia with Jen-Hsun Huang at the helm.
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Not sure, there appears to be a reasonable amount of hooey here too, but then it's a subject that we're only really just gaining the tools to handle.

I quite like John Searle take on the philosophy of mind, his book "Mind: A Brief Introduction" is pretty well written, and I like the Chinese room thought experiment which I think kind of highlights what a lot of people find problematic about the mind-body problem.
There is a reason for which there have been no big French or European company founded after WW2 (1945). The reason is called socialism. Think about it. BMW, Mercedes, Siemens, Loreal, Peugot, you name it! No Google from Europe, no Microsoft, no Oracle, or Tesla, or whatever. Not a single big company from the EU after 1945. Especially overregulated places like France.

I met a French clothes designer in New York recently. He told me he escaped Paris and France because he couldn't afford to open fashion house in Paris. He told me that just to open a fashion design shop in France he would need to pay 15,000 euros (about 20,000 USD) in fees in taxes to the Government. Just to obtain a few pieces of paper from the Government to be able to start the business. Just to open. No profit yet, doesn't know if it will work out or not, has no customers. Using his life savings or going into debt to start his own business and contribute to the society. Penalized to the point he said good bye. He escaped to the USA. Good job Hollande!
OK well fair enough but this is another thing I don't understand, maybe its cause I live in central europe but why the heck would you pay someone to recycle something? I gathered all my old hardware (~10 desktops) and sold it for scrap, theres actually lots of rare earth metals in there. All you have to do is take them apart and drive to your local metal recycling point, they give great prices by the kilo. You won't get rich but at least you know its not gonna pollute some dumpyard somewhere.

Its just weird for me because if you pay someone to recycle computers they do exactly that which means they get money from you and the scrap people for essentially just taking things apart (which is kinda fun right?).
Ironically, this link is now dead. It's now at: http://minglis.id.au/blog/2013/04/26/a-platform-to-call-my-o...
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Or to Ireland, Estonia, Malta etc.
Sorry, I should have been clearer. I'm a aspiring entrepreneur, and yes, I want higher education if possible from select people in france, but I don't want to stay in France, or any western country right now.

India's Purchasing power is 3rd highest in the world, yet its actual GDP is only 7-8th largest. India, is where I would be, but not right now. Not for post graduation, quality education is something hard to find, due to such intense competition in India, your chances of getting into a IIM, is lower, compared to getting struck by a truck.
Is there an HTTP response code for RAM pack wobble?
I doubt it. A quick look at the papers referenced shows a huge cost factor.
I am soooooooo happy - where is the source code !
:-)
hojoki.com ?
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"tl;dr" should do this until some human writes a summary :) (and then A/B test against the human version...)

Another idea would be to help humans write the summary by picking important phrases.
FYI, after what happened in Cyprus (and may be repeated in malta), dozens of online businesses which were based there are moving to Dubai. Not sure how the schizoid behavior of Europeans authorities with regards to business is helping at all.
The flipside of that in anecdotally I've heard that companies that really /should/ die limp along from a long time and get more funding in the US. Is this true or just a myth?
yes, with a loose definition of "served".
:-)
For some reason I can't edit my post, but after some "Internet sleuthing" (basically just WHOIS and some googling) I think "Long Xinming" is an alias.
UX is not just a fancy word for common sense.
I wonder if this was done in, say Poland, would it be titled "European Bus Routes Redrawn Using Cell-Phone Data"?

Why is it no-one narrows down descriptions of Africa to below continent-level?
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If the Chinese do human rights violations...

I'm not even sure how to respond to that.
OP here,

I do prefer feature branches (especially git flow: https://coderwall.com/p/d1pkgg ), but for day to day 'agile' development in a small team we don't use them often. YMMV.

But for pulling changes working on local branch git pull --rebase (or autorebased branch) is many times more readable (and avoid ugly merge bubbles in history).

Branch when you need branches, merge when you mean merging, rebase when you're just updating your codebase from shared repository. Keep your local (not pushed/pull-requested yet) branches dirty (commit often!), rebase them into a clean, obvious history before you share them.

Remember - commit history is for other people to READ.
I'm no expert on these things, but my understanding is that simply doing `dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda1` is not enough to guarantee that the data isn't recoverable. In fact there seems to be some debate if any amount or combination of writes is enough to guarantee that the data is unrecoverable.
Doesn't sharing a virtual memory context with the GPU increase the cost of context switching? Also, which CPU core shares context with the GPU? Or are we talking about a fixed mapping (like the kernel)?
"the only reason it's not fixed is because it's not used very often."

What is your view on the word 'children'?
At 7 billion people on this planet, there well may be enough ‘bizarro outliers’ who don’t want a Mac OS X-like browsing experience to justify a special browser.
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Related: Here is the source code to the first web browser: http://browsers.evolt.org/?dir=archive/worldwideweb/NeXT

Really interesting to read, particularly if you understand Obj-C.
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Well, Its the actual changes in law, like this particular article here today, 10 steps announced by the French Govt. Over last 1-2 years, France has been working pretty hard... on this, lot of opportunities to capitalise on. This year itself, I attended a tour-de-India, by cultural groups from France, it was a really big thing, a clear intent.

Its more like, you might know something is cool, before its cool. The same way, people would laugh at the overpriced education in US/UK, 20 years back in India..

we will see how it goes.. I know clearer than a day, that at the first opportunity, I'm going to France.
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You're likely a pie or a perhaps an '87 Datsun.
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I wish they had showed the feed instead of the unlogged landing page of Facebook. It explodes pretty hilariously on my VM IE 6 at least.
intentionally misleading title. just a random app someone's trying to whore out.
I love minimal web server projects.

Here are a few more.

(http://d116.com/ace/)

(http://www.edcheung.com/awards/pic2k/code.htm)

(http://www.kyllikki.org/hardware/wwwpic2/)

Sadly, a bunch of my links are dead now.
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Not only that, but aren't the kind of things he's accused of stealing those that would be covered by fairly weak software patents? I don't think we're talking about him really using his insider knowledge of when they're planning to release a feature to beat them to market or scupper their PR.

I mean if it was just someone else copying their browser would they even be confident enough to take them to court?
Tell that to the unfortunate Americans of Japanese descent who where thrown into "internment" camps after Pearl Harbour.
I doubt any guns would've helped them change government's mind.
To extend that: according to my understanding of a discussion I had with my cousin (a police officer in Australia), threats of a violent crime are recorded as a violent crime, as far as statistics are concerned there.

That is to say, "I have a knife... give me the money" is the same as stabbing someone, even if there was no knife.
For a prestigious company to use a Whois hiding shell company service would be suspicious, though.
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But as noselasd said git pull = Fetch + merge

Setting up the rebase in config of a specific branch stay explicit because Git will

If the rebase is not straight forward then you can still abort it.

I would love that git has a config feature to force ff-only on pull but base on what I know you need to create an alias to have `pull --ff-only` replacing `pull`
Yep, quite possible. I guess they may also forget to reissue share options to non-execs in the process. ;)