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I think that getting hurt or sick has enough pain or tragedy for itself and thats why people dont want to feel it.

If you hurt yourself and someone patchs you up, its not the same, my reconstructed knee will never feel the same as the other.

I think that you pose people that whant to benefit as much as they can from the state, and I think that I know noneone that does that, at least in health care, nobody wants to go the hospital
Route53 is _nice_. ELBs are _nice_. Cloudwatch is _nice_. Security groups are _nice_. You can get similar stuff with most providers, but AWS is a better holistic package for my money.
Raw fish is an integral part of Korean cuisine as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoe_(dish)
Flights would go through Beijing.
Couldn't stop reading! It reminds of "The Last King of Scotland" movie - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455590/ about Idi Amin's personal physician.
Previously :

http://gigaom.com/2013/02/16/obama-says-patent-trolls-hijack...

http://www.businessinsider.com/obamas-patent-comments-at-goo...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/02/obama-calls-patent-ref...

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2415469,00.asp

And for folks who are getting upset at the those who don't like paywalls, I'm quite happy to enable ads if your site has quality content.

If a paywall is how you get money, then keep your stories off Google. You can't be Quora and The Well at the same time.
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Have you ever given bad reference when a former coworker's potential employer called? How honest are you when giving reference?
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Those are all good points, but the number one cited phobia is "fear of public speaking". There's a lot going on under the hood there that's only partially addressed through solid preparation.
Because they're easy to cut to size: http://satwcomic.com/no-invitation
The WSJ is doing quite well with a leaky paywall and online and print paid subscriptions. Last I checked, WSJ print and digital circulation were up every year for the last half-decade and ad revenue is increasing by double-digit rates y/y.

Their "new business model" is quite successful and the envy of the industry.
Almost all video games are produced in Visual Studio, more or less. Even the one for Sony/Wii (plugins/extensions in Visual Studio, etc, although using different compilers).

That accounts for a lot of software out there.

And no, I don't like Visual Studio, but it's the best tool out there for the majority of the people I work with.
Author seems to be drinking the higher-ed koolaide. He clearly doesn't understand Coursera or their mission.
What about Google's Unladen Swallow project?
I'm aware their attempt to remove GIL was aborted. Did any enhancements from those projects find their way into the mainline CPython3k?
More like an antihero -- someone who blurs the lines between hero and villain. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antihero
Same with Qt5 and /LTCG - visual studio can't compile (I've tried out the 64-bit compiler targeting 64-bit since there is a 32-bit compiler targeting 64-bit too).
I've got an 8 core 3.0 Xeon with 32Gb RAM and Samsung 840. It's still slow.

It's more latency than long waits but it's enough to stop me using it.
Just out of curiosity but are all my posts dead or did the wiki link just trip the spam filter?
I am skeptical because of the story of Andrea Rossi, the inventor of the device:

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=it&tl=en&js...
Good plan! Never thought of that!
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Leaving your family is _nothing_ compared to providing emotional support for someone running concentration camps, abducting sex slaves, and all the other stuff.
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Discus.
"Those are among five executive actions and seven proposed legislative changes that Mr. Obama is expected to recommend"

Until these actions and changes are stated, it is really tough to have a good debate about the topic. The article is pretty general and can really be condensed into a tweet, maybe even less. There has to be more substance behind how they plan to determine the so-called trolls versus companies such as Arm.
If Steve Jobs applied at Apple today, there’s no chance in hell he’d get hired
The civil rights in Singapore and US/UK are not even close:
US:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_of_the_United_S...
UK:
https://www.gov.uk/protests-and-marches-letting-the-police-k...
(This is only when you are going to have a protest march and not when you are just going to speak.)

And
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_defamation_law
this law is considered an impediment to free speech in most modern world and is not practiced much in the US (because it contradicts with the first amendment).
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You're right on target about the iPhone's unsuitability for photojournalism. There's the horrendous shutter lag, inability to control aperture/sensitivity/shutter speed to any meaningful degree--I can make all these adjustments using dedicated controls on my D3 without taking my eye out of the viewfinder. A big storage buffer, fast frame rate, and removable, redundant storage modules and replaceable batteries also remain essential. Oh, and interfacing with lighting systems, and of course proper lenses.

In a dynamic/dangerous situation, you need to get on the viewfinder and crank away on continuous-high shutter, and you'll take 200x the photos of even an ambitious iPhone user. Now think that out of 1,000 frames, maybe 2 will be head-and-shoulders above the rest... these are probably frames that the iPhone user had a vanishingly small opportunity to capture at all.
> I don't know if refusing to work for a company backed by one of them is a viable option.

people can get rich selling socks. you don't need to work for these companies.
"I will do my best" is a sure way to miss a project deadline
"18% of our Zynga brothers and sisters."

Who refers to family in statistics?
This guy is the anti-christ.
He wouldn't get hired at any company, thats why he built one!
That might not be so good for Silicon Valley, but I believe mankind would be richer overall if a huge chunk of the internet ceased to exist.
Wow the interactive book sounds like a fantastic idea.

I would still like to read text parts on my Nook. How would one go about converting this to epub?
It looks like most of those have been applied for but are not yet registered. I'd be very surprised and (shocked/dismayed/appalled) if Pinterest was able to register a trademark for the word "PIN".

That said, INAL (I'm not a lawyer), but I believe legally they could argue that because you are using a word that is Prefixed with "pin" and that your product also a service related to Pinterest that there could be confusion as to whether PinPigeon is a product of Pinterest's or not.
>It's a shame VC's are so quick to invest in the latest fad because of some temporary "traction" for online games lacking any sort f substance and basically being rips of Maxis titles from yesteryear.

You understand that the entire reason VCs exist is to make money, not do 'substantial things', right? That's not to say the two are mutually exclusive concepts. Just as you can have substantive products that make money, you can also have inane products that make money. The common denominator is money -- this is business. If the latest iteration of Instagram For Squirrels brings in $$$, businesspeople will take a cut.
Very true.

It took me 9 months and 45 calls to support to get a relatively simple regression in IE9/ClickOnce fixed and all we got was a fucking registry fix that we now have to ship to 2000 clients.

Basically they broke ClickOnce in IE9 for launching via scripts due to the new download prompting stuff.

Neither the framework team or IE team wanted to take responsibility leaving my poor support rep to reverse engineer both products.
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I'm building out a website with the following setup:

Client <--> mysite.com <--> Nginx <--> Flask (Python) Website <--> DB

Where Nginx (Machine #1) either serves a static resource (js, css, etc...), or reverse proxies the request to my Flask application (Machine #2) which does any necessary communications with the database (Machine #3), and returns whatever html content was requested. Reason for this is because Nginx is great for serving static resources so I wanted to put that in front of my Python code.

Question: How do I classify them?

Is it:
Nginx - Web Server, Flask - App Server, MySQL - DB Server

or:
Nginx - Web Server, Flask - Web Server, MySQL - DB Server

or:
Nginx - Proxy Server, Flask - Web Server, MySQL - DB Server
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I hold Atul and Kiran Jonnalagada as the key reasons why I eventually gave up on my Accountancy degree and took the plunge into learning about programming & technology. Reading their articles in PCQuest and CHIP about the "magic" of technology, about the joys (and challenges) of working with FOSS/Linux and other such topics was something so alien to the grinding frustration of being a Chartered Accountant that eventually I just had to find out for myself whether it was all true.
I'm now completing a decade working in Technology and I honestly cannot see myself doing anything else.
I was lucky enough to meet Kiran a few years back and thank him (maybe not strongly enough) for helping me find my calling. I had hoped to eventually meet Atul and thank him as well - that I will never get the chance to so I will regret for the rest of my life. R.I.P Atul - "I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done. It is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." ('A Tale of Two Cities')
oh please!! then what is this?

http://jekyllrb.com/docs/structure/
"This book has an unusual development design. The content is open-sourced, meaning anyone can be an author. Authors submit content or revisions using the GitHub interface."

What a wonderful thing -- this book looks fantastic, but the approach to making it really takes the cake. I really hope interactive notebooks (iPython based or otherwise) and multiple authors collaborating on Github will become widespread.
I didn't play the race card. I pointed it out.

He could have used the terms "propaganda" or "astro turfing" instead he used the very ethnically charged (and derogatory) term "wu mao". Which is specifically Chinese, which is specifically NOT Singapore.

You are saying I'm rude for calling a spade a spade. Sorry, but making generalisations about "Asians" (which grouping Singaporeans and Chinese) is racism.

But you are right, it is a side track, and the more interesting discussion does centre around the "Is a good dictatorship better than a bad democracy?" or something of the like.
I also have this gripe - why every version of Visual Studio has to change so much drastically the CRT version, thus requiring new DLL and breaking all plugins that happen to be linking to some other version.

This basically means, if you are using (say) Autodesk products, you have to compile all your plugins with exactly the same version the main product (exe) was compiled.

This is absolute mess. Talk about 7 different MSVCRxx.DLL and MSVCPxx.DLL in one process.

Why can't you think of scheme where backward compatibility works for the CRT/C++RT too?

Oh, and on naming things - please stick with VS2012 -> CRT2012 if possible.

Also why ShortName / PlatformName in VisualStudio is named so crazy - one amd64/x64 vs Win32/x86 - and then SDK's coming from Microsoft would place in the lib/ folder things sometimes with lib/$(ShortName) and sometimes with lib/$(PlatformName).

I know why - because these things are not important. Just hard-code it in your .vcxproj and live a happier life :) Automation begone!
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Yes to all of this.

In the Lean sense, estimates are necessary waste if you use them to make productive decisions. That is, if by wasting time on estimates you can avoid an even larger waste, you win.

But otherwise, they're pure waste. And that's something I've seen quite a bit of. E.g., when estimates are used to give managers a sense of control. Which, in this case, means an opportunity to yell at people who fail to meet the estimates. Curiously, they almost always conclude the problem is a failure of execution, rather than over-optimistic estimates. And by "curiously", I mean "predictably."
What? Since when was the last time C++ ever produced external symbols readable by anyone else?

If mangling/decoration of symbols was standardized, and how to structure vtables, and how to handle exceptions, and etc. etc. etc. - then I can say "C is officially deprecated". Until then - C is still the lingua franca for native development.

Write in C++ all you want, but expose "C" interface - you would be accessible much easier from anywhere else.
I've had a rather spotty experience with DigitalOcean unfortunately. Some times you can't create instances, it just hangs there waiting forever. You can't replicate snapshots between regions. I click the button but nothing happens... I've also had an order of magnitude worse network bandwidth sending backups to S3, both in Amsterdam and NY.

It's ok for a dev box or playing around, and it's definitely cheap, but I wouldn't trust any production servers on it. _Yet_. I do see they improve at a very impressive pace, with new features becoming available regularly, so things hopefully change for the better... It's still nowhere near being a match to AWS, or even Linode.
There is a cost in not getting your ACL repaired. I waited 4 years (due to the fact that the buffoon physios / doctors I saw didn't diagnose it correctly) and put on 20kg in the interim because I stopped playing sport.
After checking again with my logs, it was failing while building QtWebkit (ahem - other posts explain it too).

For my custom Qt5 build, I've disabled /LTCG only for QtWebkit (32/64bit debug/release) and was able to deal with this limitation (at some other cost I guess)
Was anyone else surprised by the quality of food that the elites were/are eating? It doesn't surprise me that they had tons of expensive possessions and services, but I would've thought the perishable nature of food would make getting the ingredients for gourmet cuisine nearly impossible!
Nooope, it's not even close--the iPhone is slow, inflexible, and poor-performing compared to a pro DSLR hooked to a 24-70 f/2.8 or 70-200 f/2.8 zoom. Consumer DSLRs are kind of pokey, but the pro models go from "off" to "shoot" in a fraction of a second, with no perceptible delay between hitting the shutter button and an exposure. There is no faffing about with P mode or the like (only someone who doesn't know how to use his camera would be caught out doing this).

The iPhone does have an advantage in network connectivity, but it's comparatively unlikely to capture the couple of moments worth saving.
Well I think my point was exactly that: if you're building a fairly standard site / service / app, you absolutely do not have any practical reason to use AWS, particularly if you have a modest budget.

The radical majority (99.999%?) of all sites on the web can easily be run by a cheap dedicated server. And I'm not talking Softlayer, which itself is expensive in the world of dedicated hosts; there are several better priced providers that are nearly as good as Softlayer.

EC2 is never going to appeal to the bottom 99% of the web, until their prices come way down (and Amazon may never care about that). Dedicated hosts will keep offering more and more ooomph per dollar. The demands on a typical site in the US market (prime AWS customers currently) are not going up much per year at this point, as web usage is no longer growing much for the first world. Meanwhile hardware and bandwidth for an average dedicated server just keep getting better.

Services that used to cost me $300 to $500 / month to run four or five years ago, I can now operate for 1/3 that price on even more powerful dedicated servers.
and most of all extern "C", possibly no exceptions, no RTTI, no global new/delete, etc. - e.g. "embedded"-C++ like (only guessing).
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I'd like to see the actual negotiated rate the insurance company paid for those items. I'd be surprised if it was more than 40%, and perhaps it might be less?

It's quite bad that those who can afford it the least pay the highest(sticker) prices, though. If Obamacare fixes that one thing, it's done the US health care world good!
__proto__ isn't even part of the standard at all. It's available in chrome as a convenience but it's not in every browser and it definitely shouldn't ever be used in a JavaScript program.

I see no reason an expert node engineer, for example, should be expected to know about it.
I'm sorry but how the hell is this guy a hero in any way? Undeterred by sex slavery, assassination, execution, and forced labor he neglects his first batch of children and allows the second to be interned, and he says he can't wait to get back to the DPRK. He only informed the Japanese because they were holding him.
Nginx is the web server which is reverse proxying to some other server that is running your Flask app. Flask is the web framework. MySQL is the database which may or may not run on a separate database server. Somebody might have a correction or two though.
Also, why should inventive ideas in software be any less valuable and worthy of protection as inventive ideas for physical objects?

Why don't you go further with your logic. Why inventive math theories can't be patentable? Or may be abstract information theory itself? You can make it absurd by pushing the border in that direction. I draw the line at the point which excludes software and algorithms from patentability.

Besides the theoretical aspect of what should be patentable, there is a very pragmatic one, which was already brought many times, and all software patent proponents pretend that it doesn't exist - patent thickets. In case of hardware they aren't a major risk, but in case of software they are completely unavoidable and tend to be horrifically tense. It's a good enough of a reason to render software unpatentable, since in the case of software the patents don't serve their purpose, instead of promoting innovation, they stifle it. Whether you like it or not, that's how it works. Europe had enough common sense to forbid software patentability, but US didn't.
A few things I'd add that aren't directly related to the presentation itself, though the things could give you more confidence. It also keeps the audience from sitting there while you try to work around a single point of failure.

1. If you need slides, code or other digital assets, have them on your laptop, on a USB key, and a DVD. One or more of those will break, and you'll just fire up the alternate and go on your way. It's one less thing to worry about, and therefore: more confidence.

2. Prepare for anything to go wrong. If at all possible, know your presentation well enough, and practice it enough, that you could do it without any computing hardware and still make it at least somewhat compelling. It's unlikely that all of the equipment will die, but something might. Your laptop won't boot, borrow a computer and use what's on the USB key. The projector won't work? Just read it off your laptop and make do. Etc. I give hardware about 30 seconds to co-operate and then just say "screw it" and go on. No reason for the audience to sit there while I try to figure out which key combination switches video to go to the projector. Unfortunately, being able to just go on when a piece of HW goes awry comes from practice, I think, unless you're just a really confident speaker who can't be flustered.

3. Don't change your user account password the morning of a presentation. Your machine will lock and under the heat of the stage lighting you'll be rendered unable to remember your new password. Or so I've been told. But see #2. You're such a presentation boss that you didn't need to login to your machine anyway.
I recently read "The Naked Ape" and a theory discussed there, is that public speaking is actually an acutely unnatural scenario which we are not well evolved to cope with.

To stare at someone is generally a threatening gesture, certainly there are many social cues about when it is appropriate to maintain a fixed gaze, and if a stare is held to long or without reciprocal give-and-take then it is usually interpreted as threatening/aggressive.

Now think about public speaking - 100's or 1000's of people all staring at you, the speaker, at the same time. It's no wonder this triggers a fear (or fight/flight) response in most people.

It's also worth considering, in our distant primate past, we are used to communicating with only a handful of other people at a time, outside of the context of tribal warfare.

I'd be interested if anyone has any more recent research / theories on this.
Sometimes it's harded than that. For example in Windows XP, if you have __declspec(thread) variable then it won't work if it's in DLL (this has been fixed since Vista).

Not really a compiler, but more like linker/loader problem. If the __declspec(thread) is in the main .exe it works.

Things like this affect for example ANGLE (WebGL) when compiling for XP, as such one would have to resort to TlsAlloc/TlsFree.

It's just an example, where an OSS might've used the gcc/clang primitive for thread-safe var, and later someone does it for Visual Studio, only to understand later that it won't work when in DLL for XP.

Now I know XP is no longer supported, but a lot of OSS projects still target it. (and probably lots of others).

Then again, it's not such biggie, for example Elmindreda, the GLFW developer was really kind to re-implement the feature once I reported the problem.
View each chapter in the browser and save as web page - complete. Then use Calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/) to convert the html to your ebook format of choice. It's kind of a pain, but I've done this for my Kindle with a bunch of web material.
In a much more complex sense, yes. Go's build process starts from various cruft found in Linux, OSX, or Windows, and makes a beeline for its own (more uniform) cruft, where things are uniform enough to build Go's toolchain.

It is interesting to me, primarily, because as a Go user, I never have to see it. The toolchain's abstractions are good enough that, as long as I don't meddle with the syscall package or keep my CGO interactions shallow and confined, I really don't worry about crossing between developing on OS X and testing and deploying on Linux. (Or even crossing between amd64 and ARM, now that Go 1.1 is out.)

Even cross-compilation is very straightforwards, once again, assuming you stay the hell away from CGO.
Hey, its your reputation if you want to drag out the racist whip.

Asia is definitely a place, not a race; many of us who live here are even Caucasians believe it or not. You could start calling me racist if I said "Han people like to argue this way" or "Malay people like to argue this way", but I merely stated that "Criticism in Asian countries is generally handled this way." I didn't specify the race or color of anyone's skin, and (white or otherwise) expat apologists are not uncommon where I live.
The BBC seems to have taken the story down.

You can see a list of what goes in the box here: http://www.kela.fi/web/en/maternitypackage
Yes, that's true. The late rise of sushi in America is briefly mentioned in the movie Jiro Dreams of Sushi.
If your employer is developing PLUGINS for a specific certain other product, then it has to stick to the COMPILER the product was released for (CRT/C++ runtime compatibility).

So here is one reason. Another one - is money - why spend every (or two) years money on product that is not bringing that much to the table (for a lot of projects at least I've been)
How much of ARMH's IP licensing is based on patents, versus other forms of IP?