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I don't mean to discredit Opera Mini, and I did give it credit for platform compatibility and maybe raw speed. There are numerous reasons the Chrome solution is better for modern, web apps. I can't say for sure about speed, but anecdotal evidence and an educated guess would have me believe talking through a more local proxy and with SPDY it outweighing Mini's "binary" protocol.

Of course, with the web moving towards HTTPS, technologies like SPDY are forward thinking and proxies get shelved.
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> In practice it happens rarely, and if it does the police officers tend to be pretty friendly and reasonable. Case in point, one of the two or three times this has happend to me in my life, my ID was invalid as it had expired several months before. They were basically like "Well you better get a new one soon, m'kay?" and then sent me on my way. YMMV of course.

Well remember, when we discuss government programs the only valid point of discussion is what could possibly go wrong in the hands of a despot, not how the program is applied in practice. ;)

> The big difference though between the ID card thing and privacy violations by spying is that the spying happens behind people's backs, and they may never know how broadly their rights are violated until one day the gathered information is used against them.

That has always been true in the U.S. though. Just look at the NFL tight end Aaron Hernandez, who was arrested on murder charges yesterday. During his arraignment the prosecution managed to produce a horrifying assortment of evidence against Hernandez, after only a week's worth of police work (all fully legal and with proper oversight).

The only effective difference was that in this case the government did not retain the records by themselves, but subpoena'd them from the companies as needed.

The government could still theoretically switch to doing this too. PRISM is a good example, but there's no technical reason why the NSA couldn't just require the phone and Internet companies to store all the data that the NSA would anyways, and access it on demand.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that the things "spying on us behind are backs" are the things we've built onto the Internet. The Internet Never Forgets and that works to the government's advantage as much as it does ours.
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Well, I can definitely understand why you would make your remarks anonymously. I still don't think I'm uninformed to suggest this is not a coincidence, despite you berating me.

I was chatting with my colleague at work today, who actually stood up our landsat servers and does all of our tiling work, and he thinks that the pixel-averaging technique to de-cloud the images was an innovation that was pretty unique to MapBox. According to this article, they noticed a guy doing it in February 2013, and hired him right away to do it for them: http://www.wired.com/design/2013/05/a-cloudless-atlas/.

MapBox got to market with it in just a few months, and it's a particularly absurd argument to say this was too hard for Google's hundreds of maps engineers to implement. I heard at the State of the Map conference that it was just a few guys working on it at MapBox. Given Google already has the imagery, and the processing pipeline, I think adopting this declouding technique was actually a piece of cake.

Also, while Google has been removing clouds from their images for a long time, I think their technique has been to pick the best of many images. Their imagery used to have many more clouds in it, until all of a sudden.
Another bit that is really important I find as a remote worker: feedback. While it's nice that you can get long, uninterrupted stretches of work it becomes a problem when you can't get a snappy answer to a simple question because everyone has their head down and is ignoring their email, IMs, etc.

You have to be more up-front with your availability and response times. One thing that irks me working on remote teams is the person who leaves their online status as "available," all of the time. It can be infuriating when you send someone a message and not get a reply for hours. I find you have to manage your statuses a little more carefully. However the payoff is nice because you can't always mediate conversations like that in a co-location setup.
Looks nice a few bugs when trying out with IE 10 though. Filters at the top don't work. Also a way to scope down to only a single RSS source would be nice.
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Don't apologize to just Matt, you're pseudo-apology and better-sent-as-an-email question pissed me off. Why would you take up three extra lines with a BS platitude and a signature? Please keep a personal request for assistance to better-suited channels.
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Learning floating points, googled it & Yahoo Answers gave a thoughtful series of responses as a good 1st try: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101023070912AAgwjXL

Rather than blur & obscure the content with a registration screen for which I'd make a fake email, the content was front and center. Imagine that.

Quora team, take note: even Yahoo Answers is less of a hassle than your product
Separation of power and democracy at work. This is why, at least within the context of the EU, you cannot say “Germany did this” or “Germany is in favour of that“. When it comes to data retention German politicians don’t have a uniform view. You can’t even say that they are clearly opposed. Most probably want some kind of data retention (but it’s a complex issue that is passionately fought, so this is taking time).

On the EU level “Germany” was very much pushing for data retention and a big reason why it passed in the first place (while some other parts of “Germany” were very much against data retention and worked against it on the EU level).

It’s wrong and misleading to talk about the EU abstractly – as is frequently done, especially in the media. If decisions are made on the national level all different opposing views are shown in detail and points of contention are discussed at length – but the EU apparently hands down laws like god on Mount Sinai. But that’s very clearly not what happens.

The EU has many faults and is far from perfect, but one easy fix for many issues would be better and more thorough media coverage. To me this is also very much a failure of journalism. If no one portrays the conflicts and discussions in the decision making process then that’s very bad. The decision making process has to be scrutinised and the people have to be given a chance to protest. But if the media is unable to do it that just won’t happen.

Because the decision making process is on the EU level very much is long-winded and complicated, with dozens of different views on any given topic and many people who have a say. There would be lots to cover.
If you're a techie, knowing that every bit of data you collect from customers will eventually end up in Utah-- you have a duty to either collect the minimum data possible or encrypt both transmission and storage and demand a warrant for access.
Love the simplicity, this is the perfect reader for me.

However, it seems down right now. Just getting "loading..." Anyone else?
> Guantanamo is still open. The US is military active in Syria, Pakistan, ... Everyday.

Eh, have to pin Guantanamo on Congress, not Obama. Contrary to what might be popular opinion in the EU, but he is our President, not our King, and therefore doesn't get to unilaterally do whatever he wants on all things.

Oh, and the military is active in Jordan, not Syria. The rebels are active in Syria. Of course the U.S. is screwed either way here. If we get involved then we're warmongers, if we don't get involved then we're just letting 100,000 people and counting kill themselves and stoke up sectarian violence amongst the world's most populous faith, which is apparently obviously the far more ethical alternative.
Yeah that's not a general solution, that's just exploiting problems in particular NAT implementations.
On the other hand, India has a huge population and its inevitable that it will have more than a few geniuses/great persons. Did IIT help make these people, or did IIT just select them via rigid examination and admission standards? If the latter, more worryingly, how many great people were condemned to mediocrity because they weren't selected?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias
"Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution." -- Clay Shirky

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2010/04/the_shirky_pr...
So you're saying that you use the word "sweet" the way she uses "awesome." And let's not go down the road of saying that "awesome" has to be used as if it was "awe some," as people clearly don't use it that way.
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Does it work similar to PIN/PayPal where you hold the money then deposit the money into a bank account or do you require a merchant account?
It's funny, when I think of track lighting the first thing that comes to mind would be art galleries or renovated high-end loft spaces. I guess it must be whatever type of track lighting you're most used to seeing.

I didn't know what the heck the OP was trying to indicate about track lighting either. Given the context I figured it was some type of insult about him being cheesy though, I didn't really understand it.
I'm kind of the opposite. I really have no need for a physical branch. If anything, it might imply that the bank has less focus on serving customers without access to a bank branch. I prefer doing my banking online. I think USAA has physical branches someplace, but I have no idea where they are off the top of my head.

I'm really not sure why I would normally need access to a physical branch. I once had to get paperwork notarized at another bank, but that only cost me $5 and USAA probably would have sent a notary out if that paperwork had anything to do with them.
It seems to work fine for me in IE10... I'm not sure what's going on there.

Also, it is possible to view the feed for a single source: clicking on a feed label in the subscriptions list shows just the items from that feed. If you have folders (like there are on the "try" page), clicking on the folder label shows items from all feeds inside the folder, but clicking on the folder icon expands the folder.
it's a feature not a bug.
Fair, but this change will be lost on the vast majority of the users that got them to said market share.
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I have the same question. Maybe because Founder of the Internet Archive, Brewster Kahle, is on the management team?

It seems like a interesting option (they have some decent ideas in place) but I agree it also seem sketchy/fly by night. It is only a small credit union for people in a specific part of NJ, USA.
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Good money huh?

Let's do this. 10btc. Name your terms.
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The Hurd authors might find your part-time projects just as sad and pathetic as you find theirs. There's not much I can say beyond that, since you've based your judgement on vague and wishy-washy concepts like going somewhere, being "vaguely competitive", and keeping up. It's no business of yours to criticize the direction of a project you have no involvement or stake in, especially when you can't articulate what direction you'd prefer.
I should have been more specific with my comment. It should have read "When I see track lighting in a residence...". Track lighting and art galleries go hand in hand for me as well.

That being said high-end lofts are just as susceptible to crappy renovations or going over budget and forgetting to light a room. The way I see it lighting should either be a flourish of design (pendant lights in a kitchen / chandelier-esque hanging thing in a dining room) or not seen at all.
based on the amount of effort they've put into their API, pretty sure they're targeting corps/companies that will build extensive api bindings for their infrastructure.
Googlebot doesn't respect the crawl-delay setting in robots.txt.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/Google_Webmaster_Hel...

As I understand it, the best way to lower the crawl rate is to log into Google Webmaster Tools and manually lower your crawl rate. The crawl rate delays expire every 90 days, so I set a calendar reminder to renew the crawl delay every 3 months.
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/48620?hl=en
> more about the fact that a huge amount of human potential is being wasted in India.

I think your text would make more sense by using "the world" instead of restricting to "India".

I have thought multiple times about the quantity of great people that could be having a great impact in our lives and are "missing". We have examples all over our history (islamic mathematics, old greeks,...) of different civilizations that accomplished huge achievements with smaller populations.

Obviously, I don't think that there is a genetic factor for certain ethnics to be more intelligent, but we still see how jews (13-14 million?) are on top of the Nobel Prizes on science, while arabic contribution is symbolic. The same prizes a few centuries ago would have a completely different destination.

The current distribution of Nobel Prizes surely shocks me more than seeing some Indian IT people on top of great companies (1 billion). Not to remove merit from the individuals, but from the system; I have always thought that there is something more in a person than the results of a "simple" exam.
I don't get why this is getting so many points. It consists of a single graph and a bunch of hand-waving. Python doesn't have to be like the ruby community; it doesn't have to have a one-size-fits-all solution.

We're happily using tornado in production. Between the heroku router and tornado's built-in support for multi-processing and asynchronous processing, I don't have to worry about nginx + uwsgi + whatever framework. I just run tornado. And we're immune from the heroku random routing debacle [1], something that neither rails nor uwsgi can say.

1: http://news.rapgenius.com/James-somers-herokus-ugly-secret-l...
Well a beam splitter as described in the Wikipedia page is moving past my own ability to describe, but the net effect from the double-prism description seems to resemble the effect of precisely curving the cable: Some light is able to internally reflect out the splitter while the rest proceeds as normal.

But in this case the prism is 'just' a convenient way of getting the desired diagonal shape with materials of different refractiveness, you're not actually breaking light into its component wavelengths as you'd see in NSA's PRISM logo.
Feels like for any phenomenon in life you can find one, even if the link is occasionally tenuous.
Could it be explained in terms of Voyager 1 moving through a double layer[1] with respect to the stellar and interstellar plasma environments?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_layer_(plasma)
Parker was in the right place at the right time to join Facebook. I had the pleasure to meet him on a personal level. He is very good at talking and manipulation. My first impression was what is wrong with this guy? And how is he worth billions and billions? Again, right place right time. I do enjoy watching him and Fanning coming up with ideas and being able to afford to implement them to see what happens. What an inspiration it is. I find a common theme with brilliant people. They get bored easily and they are addicts. On a side note, money is not everything and can't make you happy; but it can definitely ease the pain.
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Here's the thing about many 'successful' people:

You see Kevin Rose's list of accomplishments and it seems overwhelming and insurmountable by a regular pleb such as yourself.

But Kevin Rose is just a regular pleb – and he certainly wasn't any different than you or I before he got "famous". You know what happened? He had one break-out success, and was then able to leverage that into a wide variety of other opportunities.

So focus on creating that one break-out success for yourself, the rest will come in due course.
I shall not say they didn't work hard. But admission to an IIT and the status that you get after that is more about rot, luck, parents who can afford it and the fact that overall quality of education in India is so dismal and whatever good there is the quantity is so sparse.

So , what happens is when you are not in one of the IITs or few top colleges - you are stuck with the stereotype of second grade, third grade and over the years you fall into the line without even knowing you could have been sth else, sth bigger or better.

It's IIT or nothing. Govt and public alike are trying hard keep it that way.

When new IITs were announced - most of the alumni and pundits were not even giving it a thought that more students shall have access to relatively better education and facilities ; they were worried that brand value of IITs shall be diluted. Uhh.. once you get in and get out getting the tag, you are the elite and don't want many around you to dilute your elitism. Fair enough.
Pretty cool. The arm does look like an erect penis though.
UWSGI has absolutely nothing to do with the link you posted, nor does tornado.
FWIW, my "it may even be arguable" objection was to the specific "on order to obstruct justice" part of this claim: "In this case, kidnapping in order to obstruct justice may even be arguable."

In _my_ opinion, anybody who argues they've been "kidnapped" if being told they can't leave an event which advertised itself saying "once the event starts you won't be able to leave for two hours" is most likely being unspeakably self centered and disrespectful of everybody else's time and rights. Sure, there are exceptions - and if event staff _really_ tried to enforce the agreed-upon no-exit policy in the face of medical emergency or obvious external need, perhaps "kidnapping" would be the right (or one of the useable) legal remedies, but going down that path for claustrophobia or panic attacks will result in me judging you in a _very_ unfavourable light - in much the same way as I'd be extremely unhappy to have my flight diverted for a panic attack.

In your professional/ambulance case, there's at least one big difference - people don't specifically get asked to agree up front that once they get in the ambulance the deal is they agree not to get out until the end of the ride. And I've got a question - where does practical reality come into conflict with your risk of getting charged? If I demanded to get out of your ambulance immediately, whould you stop and let me out in the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge or the Lincoln Tunnel?
i'd rather see it on a w7/w8 taskbar and an osx task switch to get a "real feel"
Javascript frameworks are really making a lot of headway right now. Javascript, HTML 5 and CSS3 are really important right now. Keep up with Google's Web Components work, shadow DOM, etc because it will be revolutionary. Angular is a great Javascript framework to start getting comfortable with since so people are loving it right now. Good Luck!
"Then again, another designer will come by in 2 years and re-design it into something else."

yep. it must be hard to hear for designers but sometimes i wonder if they're "necessary because we need to change because people like change" or if they're utterly useless and trying to justify their existence by changing everything every year, no matter what the change is ;-)
The pagerank has fallen from a 6 to a 3 as well.
i actually prefer the older logo, but my windows taskbar has square tasks. i think the simplified logo might look nicer in the square tasks ;-)
Hey there!

Thanks for the kind words. We actually recently (yesterday? 2 days ago?) landed a change that uses a data-reactid attribute instead of taking over ID. So problem solved! It will be in our next public release in early July.

Wanted to acknowledge a few other things too:

Changing the specificity sucks so YMMV with switching to classes. I prefer to use only classes because it's a bit easier to reason about specificity IMO. Also, we like to think of all components as reusable, so IDs don't make sense.

But I totally hear you about integrating with a legacy codebase, so I'm really glad that we're now using data-reactid instead of id.

As far as polluting the window namespace, we actually prefaced our IDs with "." so you can't accidentally reference them and we're unlikely to clobber anything you'd reference.

But again none of this matters anymore since we stopped using IDs, but wanted to vindicate your concerns :)
Should post this on WebHostingTalk.com to get their attention.

Also, you may not be completely SOL... IIRC they take a snapshot before they destroy it. Not sure if that applies to this situation, but I could see it happening.

Fingers crossed.
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DO's policy aside... to be fair, having a single server (virtual, no less) be the only copy of anything is pretty much asking for it.
So restore from backup...right? You did have backups didn't you?
Why was your first impression, what is wrong with this guy?
Can anyone answer me why specifically should I use F#?
SW judges are not part of the organization, what kind of advantage would the team get by being members?
I think the time the account was past due is important here. I know Linode gives 10 days (IIRC) but I'm not sure about DO. I did have a DO account go past due over a holiday weekend where I wasn't paying much attention to email notifications (I have a dedicated card that I only put small amounts of money on for online use) but luckily I didn't suffer this fate. I don't think it's unusual to have something as low as 3 business days until an account gets axed in hosting though.
Tornado certainly does. We convert our most I/O intensive bits to asynchronous code, and the server is no longer blocked. Random routing doesn't affect us because there's no long pauses in, e.g. making a third-party API request.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding uwsgi though?
Just reload. The datastore sometimes errors out and there's no retry logic on the client. It's also possible your feeds have triggered some new bug.
hmmm odd didn't for me. works on IE 11 though. Nice work. Love the layout. I might switch to newsblur just because of this :)
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Surprised there wasn't greater discussion of the reservation quota, which it is widely agreed could single handedly fell the prestige/quality of the IITs.