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This argument is, at least, misleading. It seems to imply that the best course of action from the social-value point of view is to give money to DWB and then go ahead and buy an iPhone with a clear conscience.

The best course of action, of course, is to take the most socially-conscious option for every consumer choice. So, donate to DWB and buy a fairphone -- or, better, stick to your old phone.
Not everything needs citation in the form of a survey or scientific paper. I doubt the results of it would be honest as the people who they would be surveying have an interest in lying about the things they have purchased with it.

Some things are blatantly obvious if you peel your eyes occasionally and observe humanity.
People's sense of self-interest is a strange strange thing.
How come the article's publishing date is July 2013?
I am talking about the modern Turkey founded in 1923, not the Ottoman empire.

The main factor which distinguishes this event from every other internal conflict is the fact that groups with very different views aligned together. These include Kurds and TUrkish nationalists. Socces hooligans who would look for rival team fans to fight were shoulder to shoulder shouting. Even a significant amount of islamists were protesting along with seculars.

We experienced military coup in both 1960 and 1980, there were no protests this size though. There were more causalties, but this one has just started last week and it spread into more than 40 cities, with no central leadership.

It can be debated which one is greater, however everybody I talked to say they saw nothing like this, including 70 year olds who saw both the coups.
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I would like to know, why ARM is perceived as a patent troll?

And what about companies that sell IP's?
>America is a police state.

I thought this might be what you are getting at.

I suspect that, if you find somebody who has lived under the Stasi, or Ceaucescu in Romania, or in North Korea or Burma, or various other examples of actual police states, they'll fall all over themselves telling you how good you've got it.

>What is the point of looking at that list and saying "well we aren't that bad"?

Haha, people might be less inclined to visit me if they thought that the secret police might jail them for thought crime?

I dunno what to say other than "it's good to keep some sort of perspective". I certainly don't deny your criticisms are valid. I just think both societies have a whole lot more to go before they qualify as stasi-esque police states.
> contents of the box and all the associated materials such as the written guides on infant care

None of that did anything either, since other countries didn't have them and infant mortality went down there too.
Cite? Not doubting, honestly interested.
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Wouldn't you have a similar problem when porting to another systems where the OS vendor compiler is used?

I had my share of issues using xlc, aCC and sunpro cc.
That is a good thing to know. Maybe I should give it another look.
"What will happen if im an asshole" -- that's the first time I've seen a URL anchor like that!

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The article ends with "this sector needs innovation". Even though it does, what it really needs is better (and tighter) regulation. The situation in the US (costs through the roof, a lot of people that can't get medical care), health is something that can't totally be left to the private sector.
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Yet another app that can access all your contacts and potentially steal/spam your adressbook. I know this is standard practice on iOS, but it really isn't acceptable.
You've basically got a very mild variation on the Wernher Von Braun thing going on here.

Engineer of prolific impact and talent, working for the worst possible people, indirectly exploiting people in the worse possible way to do shit work that is related to his pure and commendable goals and interests. The engineer feels as though he is powerless to resist the the exploitation that is demanded by his employer. Eventually the bad guy employers go down in flames to everyone's delight, but the engineer still has the technical chops to make himself valued.

The question, does the previous employer reflect poorly on the engineer?

To be honest, Von Braun is one of those ambiguous figures in history for me. I don't really know how I feel about him. However, the fact that he is ambiguous at all means that I have to admit to myself that his affiliations during the war do tarnish what I think of him. I don't think it is possible for that not to be the case.

Ex-Zynga software engineer? Obviously the ambiguity is not going to be "is this guy a war criminal or not?" But would there be any ambiguity of any sort? Yeah, I think for me there would be.

I don't think an engineer of any caliber is evaluated in a vacuum, past employers shape how we view them, for better or worse. This (particularly how I feel about Von Braun) is something I have thought about hard in the past when considering what I want to do as an engineer.
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> But strongly biasing your hiring search toward people close in the social graph is a terrible idea.

I don't agree with that. I think for early employees, the following criteria matter most, in order:

1. Dedication and loyalty. Working in an early stage business takes dedication more than anything else. Aptitude and talent is nice, but the highly dedicated 70th percentile will be far better than the flighty 95th percentile guy.

2. Creativity. The way to solve problems early on, on a tight schedule is to be creative, repurpose what you have, and so forth. Creativity cannot be stressed enough.

3. Technical aptitude and talent. These are less important than being able to sit down, look at what you have, and shim a bunch of existing pieces together to get them to work right, or to put in long hours for deferred pay.

So with this in mind, there are two reasons to focus on people closer to you socially. First, it is far easier to inspire loyalty and dedication for those you have known for a long time or have mutual friends with than it is with people you just met during the hiring process. Secondly you can have a much better sense of the creativity involved.
Sounds like a horrible idea security wise.
It bears remembering that a million is small in comparison to the number of casualties the soviet union had already taken at that point.
Well thank god we aren't as bad as those other guys. Huzzah us.
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That's so true. In the Eastern philosophy, your work is one part of you, may be a big one, but just a part of you. Your inner being, inner peace is of greater importance. Your friends, family and love matters.
ARM is not a patent troll and the GP post is not inferring that, in fact precisely the opposite. ARM could not exist without IP protection.
This is why I didn't work in computer graphics and choose to be a lowly web developer instead :p
Those functions should be available in %systemroot%\system32\msvcrt.dll.
The legal situation in the UK makes it tricky to provide bad references. You have to be able to back up any claim you make with evidence[1] which is difficult if you don't have a paper trail showing bad conduct. It's far more common for an employer to just decline to provide a reference rather than risk being sued for giving a negative one.

This reluctance to provide any substantive reference often results in references just being "yes this person worked here from this date to this other date".

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3065319.stm
I was wondering about the same thing. Could it be a self protecting strategy? In the article, it mentioned that the Kims see him as an outsider, and by continuing speaking to them via a translator, it kept the sense of him being an outside for the 20+ years.
Please read up on the difference between anecdotes and data, and selective perception.
Very awesome.

I'm sure there's a legitimate reason, but I've always wondered why you can't just set master as your GitHub Pages branch if it made sense (rather than gh_pages).
Google already does this, evidently the user also managed to wait a while before realizing that the big red "Delete Account" button deleted their account.
The speed at which the Soviets defeated the Japanese in Manchuria is what motivated the USans to drop the atomic bomb, to end the war quickly and keep the Soviets out of a post war Japan.
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In fact, I believe modern versions of msvcrt.dll just call HeapAlloc(GetProcessHeap(), ...) in the usual case.
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Without overly optimistic estimates, I'm not sure anything would ever get done.
At some point the decrypted content has to be exposed outside of a secure environment in order for us to see it. Could you possibly intercept the signals sent to individual pixels, or would you have to actually film your screen?
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> it certainly could encourage companies to restrict video playback to devices that support the feature

So if I want to buy a legal download, I'll have all sorts of hassle along the lines of "will it work on my hardware?", but if I get a pirate Torrent, then I know it'll work? If that's the scenario, I won't even consider going the legal route.
Just wanted to add a reference and quote:

> Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts, and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945, and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.

>

> United States Strategic Bombing Survey, 1946 : http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/USSBS-PTO-Summary.html
Indeed. I would say much better advice is Make something useful.

It's easy to get people to want useful things. If you can focus on solving needs and headaches for people they will want what you offer.

I would add you could expand that to, "when evaluating a potential new product ask, 'Who will find this useful?' and 'Who needs this?'"
I'm not interested in:

* Defending this country's government.

* Being a salesperson for this country like you said I should be - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5818163

* Better at comforting you about the various ways this country is not so bad like you said I should be - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5817552

I'm simply refuting the bullshit that it's a police state.

If only it were actually that interesting here...
There is a difference. Windows is an operating system and Linux is an un-operating system. Therefore, Windows wins.
Lovely article. However, I must say that the box is only the tip of the iceberg. It's been almost four years since we went through the gauntlet so my memory may be a bit fuzzy but if I remember correctly the FREE tier of forming babby in Finland includes:

- Initially monthly (increaing to weekly) pre-natal checkups that include bloodwork, metabolism tests, ultrasounds and any treatments necessary to ensure the baby's and mother's health.

- About 12 hours of parental training which I found surprisingly useful (containing none of the Lamaze class stereotypes I had been expecting). Also, our group of people contained an absolutely adorable teenage couple, everybody else was in their late twenties to mid thirties.

- The whole "actual business". Now this bit we did have to pay for, about $80 per day that we stayed in one of the maternity ward's private rooms with full room service.

- First weekly and later monthly post natal checkups (also for the mom) including vaccinations. At two years the schedule switches to annual checkups and starts including dental chaeckups. At some point during the first months a doctor actually visits your home to check up on how you are dealing with the whole situation. If there are clear indicators of problems (e.g. alcoholism) the doc can point you in the direction for help.

- You start getting about $150/month from the state for the baby (until it is 18 years old), this is about half of the cost of municpal daycare. In addition to this you get financial support during (m|p)aternity leave (the amount is actually scaled based on your salary). Maternity leave is about 100 days, paternity leave is about 50 days and on top of that you are entitled to 160 days of parental leave (either mom or dad can take this). Your place of employment can get state compensation if they decide to pay you a full salaray during your leave. Then there is a general child care leave than can extend to three years, it gets nitty gritty with the bureaucracy of compensations but effectively it is possible to take care of your kid for the first three years and still have your old job back when you're done. In our circle of friends there are at least a couple of "career women" who have checked out for ~5 years to have two kids and successfully gotten back into the game.

So yeah, the box is nice but it is only the icing on the fabulous cake that is having a baby in Finland :-).
Packaging is starting to come together, but still has a ways to go. The Setuptools-Distribute merge was just announced a couple months ago, we still have 6 ways of doing things that are mostly incompatible. Packaging is mostly solved if you're on Linux, sort of solved if you're on OS X, and a horrible mess if you're on Windows. Perhaps if you can live in the world of pure Python it's good, but once you have C-based dependencies, it quickly becomes a mess. Compared to something like CRAN and the R community, it's clear Python could be improved in this area.
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It was just an example of tags I may include in the email subject, but I've developed a music learning game in the past [1], which I'm currently recoding from scratch for a music teacher who needs it for his students. I'm writing the remake as a web application, this time coded in Amber Smalltalk.

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/scorer/
What? You mean that solutions are more wanted than cool products?

The problem with the saying is it doesn't address that obvious misunderstanding, which is why I propose changing it to "Make something useful."
Well what do you call it? It's clearly not a complete clone, but what do you call something that is obviously based on or inspired by something else to a high degree?
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Patent trolls aren't the problem. We don't need patent-holding firms to be restricted: there's nothing strictly wrong with them, if the patents they're holding are worthwhile. All they do is create a wider market for intellectual property. All restricting them does is stop one angle of oppression - large companies will still be free to bully small ones as they wish.

The real problem is that currently it's profitable to have an idea, patent it, and then sit on it until someone accidentally re-invents your idea. If an idea is sufficiently obvious that there's a reasonably high likelihood of reinvention (as opposed to copying), it should never have been patentable in the first place.

If it makes sense for companies to tell employees not to look at the knowledge distributed by patents, you have too many obvious patents. Looking at the information disseminated by patents should be a universal good: you should be seeing ideas that you'd be unlikely to come up with yourself - that will mostly only add to your options for creating your product, not subtract.

You don't need complicated, nuanced legislation to make this happen - you need instead to do a hell of a lot of patent reevaluation.
It sounds like a perfect fit for the kind of fields that have grown so vast you need an expert for every sub-section. Like physiology and biology, basically.
I totally understand. Most major "evils" happen through a combination of very small steps towards the cliff. It takes a very vigilant stance, permeated through the company structure to prevent this fall into the abyss. In this light, constantly questioning the ethics of your employer company, as a whole, is healthy.
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"Would you pay $X for this useful little app?" doesn't work so well though because there is the judgement/action gap. External validation doesn't work as well as we might think.

Much better advice in my view is this: Identify a problem and build a solution to that problem.
This is really a hard call.
On one hand Java is easier to learn than Obj-C in my opinion, on the other hand XCode provides a better workflow than Eclipse, IntelliJ or the newly released Android Studio.

Some people suggested going with a multi-platform framework. I'm against that because you will not really learn how Android or iOS apps really work.

For me, a multi-platform framework is really good when you have limited resources and want to quickly build an app for more platforms.
For learning purposes, I recommend going native.
I know the differences, probably more than you realise.

I presented a hypothesis, which you can turn into a theory by sitting outside ASDA for a bit with a clipboard and a copy of SPSS. My suggestion was that you should try it.
or even better connect with me here:
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Maybe I'm just an entitled jerk, but I get slightly annoyed when a popular app decides to limit itself to a single platform, and then release later. I subconsciously didn't bother with Instagram because it took so long to get onto Android, and to be honest even though I like Vine it's been out for a while now and to be honest I doubt I'll bother downloading it unless I feel a real urge to use it.
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Dating the smartphone revolution at anytime before the first iPhone is disingenuous and you know it. Even then, the bulk of Internet-using smartphone users were tech heads.
> why they have to make updating the system so painful with Windows

I've actually thought about this and I've come up with a pretty decent explanation.

Most UNIX filesystems have inodes, which essentially represent a filesystem object's content, and directory entries, which are how user code specifies which file it wants to access. A directory entry is basically just a name and a pointer to an inode.

An inode is deleted when it isn't referenced by any directory entries and isn't being used by any programs. One important practical effect of all this architecture is that deleting files on UNIX-like systems (for example, to replace them with a newer version) generally doesn't disturb any programs that are using those files.

Another handy feature of many UNIX filesystems from the perspective of software updates is that mv'ing one file onto another will result in an atomic replacement operation if source and destination are on the same filesystem.

Windows filesystems don't have any of this infrastructure, so Windows has to do updates when nothing but the kernel and updater are running, i.e. during startup or shutdown.
You must be seriously brain damaged to ask such a question. I am from Austria and I can assure you that there are no diplomatic privileges to hold slaves in my country.
It is worth noting that all this is not free, but paid for by the tax payer. Many European countries have similar arrangements.

Personally, I think all this is money well spent by the governments as it gives nice financial boost to young parents and a sense that someone/something cares about them and their baby.
Please, WebGL demo creators, support additional key bindings. On an azerty keyboard it's unplayable.
My thoughts exactly since I've began working, I have now decided that whoever tries to put labels on me such as "Back End developer" is being problematic.
I wasn't aware that US carpet bombed 66 major cities full of civilians. That's kinda hard to spin as life saving solution. A-bomb was most wonderful political invention. Much better than technical one.
Here's the thing, Google already does this (https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32046?hl=en). Also, I think it would be fair to say that the user shouldn't have accidentally deleted their account. Maybe the UI for multiple sign on isn't that great but account deletion is spot on. The page details exactly what account deletion will do and you even have to click a checkbox that says "Required: I understand that deleting this service can't be undone and the data I delete can't be restored." before continuing.

It baffles me to think that there are people out there that manage to do this "by accident" and then manage to wait long enough to be unable to restore their account "by accident".
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I would say that NSA was less disturbing. They didn't want you to prevent you from doing anything, just wanted to know they could take a peek.
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It's a pity that in neither ar nor new york does babby get a box. I haven't heard of it happening this mroing or on any other day. You will not get a box, even if you have three kids ; i am truley sorry for your lots

In all seriousness, though, even though the United States' infant mortality rate is declining[1], it's still very upsetting to me that we're aren't far lower than we are, given how wealthy we are as a country.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/18/health/infant-mortality-ra...
True, true, I didn't want to go into that because that way lies a never ending comment chain on fiscal policy ;-).
Exactly, it's like saying you'll be bad at calculus if you learn linear algebra.
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I would hire anyone regardless of the source of their training as long as they are capable of demonstrating proficiency, a firm grasp on the core concepts and a willingness and determination to learn.
Single- transferred-ownership pointers are not going away.

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wow - I've been doing this for years without knowing it!
I am sure MPAA/RIAA have done their due share of influencing. In copyright matters you can safely assume they are the main actors.

And nobody but them have interest of that.
"American Media" is only a label for the most prominent examples, I.E. the "Mainstream" we all keep hearing about. Elsewhere, many of these stories were picked up early, however these days, The Media has an "over-the-shoulder" syndrome in which they keep looking at what others are doing and try to beat them at the ratings.

There's also a prevailing trend to crowdsource journalism E.G. CNN's iReport. And we can see the results of the unfiltered variety with that Reddit misidentified bomber debacle. Lesser controversies easily slip through without much backlash.

This is nothing new, of course. The soapboxes are now digital and the speaking trumpets are in geosynchronous orbit.
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