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The reason you see innocent tags like #gay being blocked on certain platforms is that they are still frequently returning adult content which our entire app was close to being banned for.

I guess it's about Apple's no porn policy, but I thought results returned by search were OK with a 17+ years warning. Or is it for pure browsing clients only, and platform owners' official app don't get the same privilege ? Am I missing something ? (not that Apple's policies are consistent or evenly applied, but still...)
Clojure does not implement Lisp lists. Just plain and simple. It may partly look like Lisp lists. But they aren't. Functions are randomly either looking compatible or not at all. ATOM does something completely different. CAR does not exist. FIRST exists, but works on persistent lazy sequences (wonderful, but it is not using Lisp-style chained cons cells).

Btw., LispWorks, plain:

CL-USER 23 > CAR (QUOTE (1 2))
1

A more complex example:

http://www.informatimago.com/develop/lisp/com/informatimago/...
Cute 1.8″ LCDs for your Microcontroller Projects
It seems to say both that it is and it isn't at different points
Mac OS X: Automating a browser (Chrome), Terminal and graceful restarts
> The surface RT was targeted at Consumers

There's the problem - it's not actually targeted at anybody properly. It's a business tablet (office pre-installed, heavily marketed with its keyboard and flip stand, all the ads show chic business people in suits dancing around). But it can't join a domain, won't run the line-of-business apps people actually need, doesn't support VBA (so your excel sheet will load but if it is at all interesting, it won't work), and the built-in office is not actually licensed for commercial use, so businesses who care about the fine details of that sort of thing can't actually use it anyway.

Ok, so its a consumer tablet. But it's not got essential things like a good gmail app (didn't even have outlook when it shipped), youtube appp, it sucks for viewing photos you plug in on a USB drive, can't run Chrome, has (or had) few games worth running and has a confusing new UI that is hard to figure out, so playing with it in the store usually results in frustration.

It's half awesome for each of its audiences, but its got showstoppers for both of them. It's a true first generation product, and if there was time and room for the second generation it could be awesome. But Haswell is here and the OEMs have no patience for waiting around for RT to improve when they can be selling something that actually meets everyone's needs.
The problem is, the better ways to use formula is understand but not reference it during the initial writing, then use it AFTER if the story seems broken to try and figure out what is missing, not plug everything in as you start.
Nothing wrong with that so long the client knows, regardless of how it's phrased. I agree that a 'dream team' sounds much better, good point.
> Recent films have started focusing more on the roller coster ride of the visuals, and will do any distortion of the story necessary to motivate a visceral impact on the audience. Good storytelling takes a second seat to putting the audience into the most intense situations possible.

I thought that all of the movies listed (Star Trek Into Darkness, Battleship, The Dark Knight, The Avengers, Skyfall, Star Trek Into Darkness, Olympus Has Fallen, Oblivion, 21 Jump Street, Fast & Furious 6) had awful plots, but for some of those movies the visual spectacle made them tolerable.

None of the movies listed (well, I haven't seen 21 Jump Street) obeyed the rules of physics, which is a huge turn-off for me because it breaks the suspense. The best suspenseful movies they tease you into thinking that you can predict what is going to happen next, as if they were a puzzle.

I'm not saying that I don't enjoy every movie that can't be taken literally; I just don't like movies that are logically inconsistent. Star Wars doesn't follow the rules of physics, but at least it does so consistently; you understand the capabilities of the technologies that they use and can reason about how the characters might use them. I find movies that violate the rules of physics inconsistently to be intolerable; if you don't know what behavior characters are capable of, you lose your sense of immersion because you can't relate to the characters, and can't predict what they are going to do at all.

That's just my opinion, though, and obviously enough people don't agree with me because those movies (listed in article) made lots of money.
Very, very few things get my blood boiling....

It is people like you who I make it my mission to fight against every single day.

It is people like you who feel so insecure that you have to force your ill-conceived morality on everyone.

It is people like you who completely misunderstand psychology, sociology and biology and insist upon strict gender binary. Which you then think justifies your one man one women bullshit.

It is people like you who would prevent me from marrying my beautiful girlfriend - thankfully I like in a more developed, forward thinking country.

It is people like you who would prevent me and my girlfriend from adopting children, despite the fact our household income is 4 times the national average and both of use would be loving stable parents with plenty of time off to take care of our children. Thankfully we like in a more developed country.

It is people like you that are the reason that I and several other people refuse to accept promotions or jobs that would require relocation to backwater countries like the USA.

It is people like you who one day history will see as pathetic and backwards.

Let me be absolutely clear on this. I hate you. I will never forgive you for what you have said and done. And I will do everything in my power to ensure you and people like you can never force your bullshit beliefs on me or anybody else. There have been too many murders, assaults, suicides and lost childhoods because of people like you.

The human race doesn't want you or need you. Have a nice day.
Not sure what you mean? I'm saying the buyer has a project, and either the buyer or freelancer chops it up into milestones (in my case, I'm an engineer as well as a buyer so I can do this). Each milestone has a set price paid after completion. If the freelancer completes 3 milestones, he gets paid for each. If he completes 4, he gets paid for each. etc.

Not sure what you're saying?
Which is just fairly typical legal maneuvering in any case - the complaintant files an injunction, the defendant writes that the injunction should not proceed and that instead they file a motion to dismiss summarily.

If we have a process story about every single motion filed in these cases, we're in for a long, tedious hall.

Regardless, these motions will of course, be heard in court and the title remains awful.
Court order will prohibit the sales. The decision will be delivered to whatever representatives the company has on US soil, as well as to customs, payment processors and whatnot.
I'm hoping that once the 25ish-year-olds run for Congress we'll see a shift.

Don't hold your breath. I don't think it's an age thing. I felt like you do when I was in high-school, and/or in college... now "my generation" is well into the range where people my are are serving in Congress and other government positions, and it's still business as usual.

There just seem to be certain types of people, regardless of age, who are drawn to becoming part of the State and who are good at getting elected. And every generation churns out its measure of assholes.
That's what I meant.

I wasn't clear: the second SD card is to play with more than one OS or to be able to quickly swap a working distro in case the first one goes wrong (dd to a file is of course the mandatory way to go but having the second SD card plug-and-play is more convenient IMO:no fdisk involved).
Abuse of the legal process by lawyers is the same in many cases that are not patent related. Any time a lawyer and its made dummy client occupy same address this is a red flag. Legal Reform.
Curious to know how you tackled it ;-)
I fail to understand how this is the fault of the technology. It's no different than blaming a hammer for hitting some careless person's thumb.

The person "throwing giants shit fits" is the one at fault, and the one that needs to reset their expectations at how communication works.
Yes, it's time, but it's not happening.

Every country hasn't had a military coup... until it's had a military coup.
The fact that the state secrets argument was overruled a couple of times in the mists of history before most of us were born doesn't mean any court would overrule it today.
Thanks that's awesome. Is what you where working on still live ? I would love to see how you tackled the problem. Please feel free to email me with any further feedback you have while using it. ash [ at ] getlatis . com
I think it's a good benchmark of their real intentions whether they interfere with those at all. At the moment, because any user can bail out to an IMAP or POP client, including 3rd party web services that behave as those, there is a natural limit to how obnoxious Google can be. If they degrade their native web inbox sufficiently, people will switch to alternatives in droves (I already have long ago).
I think it's a good time to buy -- the re-org underway will be intriguing, and I'm very bullish on Windows (especially after 8.1)

I think they don't get enough credit for what they do really well (Windows Phone is phenomenal; Office is still the gold standard; Skydrive works just as well as Dropbox; SQL Server is key in many orgs; the offerings with the new Xbox to be the media centerpiece of the home will be very interesting)

Have they missed the mark for being so late with tablets and underestimating how much people would have shock at the new Windows 8 change? Sure -- but they have too many smart people to let the stock drop and for them to 'fail'...keep in mind that Apple was not far from here just a decade or so ago =)
I guess my point is that while we need language to specify what a 3-act structure is, the underlying behavior from which the pattern is an abstraction does not need language.

I agree it's not the only way to look at things.
Google, Twitter, Yahoo and Facebook all hold patents which will make you go "wat. that is patentable?". They aren't nice guys. And all of them (except for yahoo) are holding de-facto monopolies.
We are no way near the stage of implementing that yet, right now we are just trying to find out if people find it useful. In terms of the future we are looking to be able to provide you with hints of useful content on a per stack basis, based on other users who have created stacks similar to yours. Kind of like an extension of search powered by people. We don't envisage this being a social feature as in people will not be able to see your stacks and content we recommend will not display any information relating to the users who added it. We are purely recommending the content to help people.

But this is all theoretical, right now it's not something we are working on and we might end up going in a different direction. Either way we fully intend to inform our users of the changes we make as we make them.
What budget deficit? And the crime that's multi-decade lows?
Forums were down since yesterday for at least 24 hours as well.
> Either you believe it's permissible for them to conduct this surveillance, or you don't. If you don't, then the solution is to stop the programs. If you do, then it helps that the programs remain secret.

This is a very good point.

As much as I fiercely despise these programs and the men that designed and enacted them, if one thinks that they're permissible, then keeping them as secret as possible makes logical sense.
That's a fairly strong shoehorning going on there.
I do agency work in Australia and pretty much every app I've ever made cracks a top 10 list in Australia briefly. It's really not that many downloads to get there.

Getting any traction in the US though seems to be much more difficult (and the scale difference is enormous).
At least it wasn't as bad as the MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco:
http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2012/12/about-ms-os2-20-fiasco-... (notice my reference to the PX00307 anti-trust exhibit which shows some of the decision making back in 1990)
Apple review policies and reviewers are really inconsistent. Their process isn't transparent in any way and who reviews your app has a lot of leeway for rejecting your submission, even if its the reviewers mistake.
No, you have to keep in mind that the first iPhone was really just US only. It took off when it went global with the iPhone 3G.
I saw The Dark Knight and I would not have lost anything if I didn't. What's so good about it? Yes it has one or two nice jokes; the whole Joker character is nice; but not enough to agonize thru a 3 hour movie.

(Inception was even more boring, they have one good joke and no Joker)

While Avatar, for example, is a movie that does deliver something you would not have if you didn't watch it.
That sounds like a terrible option for the average person.
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> I came to say this. Ideally, my computer would do what I want and only what I want. This doesn't always work out, such as in the cases of multiple users or malware [...]

Or Javascript. Or non-free software.
I honestly think the Xbox is their gamble on "the next big thing". I don't think it's about the games. I think it's about the living room presence. And in my mind that is Apple's next big battle, and Microsoft has a huge head start. Cable boxes are going to die/morph into the game consoles. If I had to make a prediction, I could see Apple and Nintendo working together on a competitor...

But Xbox is just their entry into the next battlefield: the living room and tv.
The author mentions that removed files stick around on disk after being removed, and that this can increase the size of a compressed bit-for-bit copy.

They then suggest you can mitigate this by writing zeros to a file before rm'ing it. However, this is slow in the general case, and doesn't help if you've already rm'd the file.

As an alternative, the 'sfree' utility, available in the debian package 'secure-delete', can be used to fill the unallocated portions of a disk with zeroes (or random data).

sfree -llz <disk device>

will write zeroes to the free areas of a disk. -ll limits it to only one pass over the disk, and -z makes that pass write zeroes, instead of random data.

man page: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man1/sfill.1.html
Searching for NSFW tags is working fine now on the web app. It wasn't this morning. That was the bug they fixed.
Depends whether your milestones are measured in time, features, business outcomes. First would still be t&m - just be a larger unit than days; second would be classic fixed price billing (which incentivises low quality hackily bolted together solutions which will be a pain to maintain and extend); third would be value-based consultancy.
The ultimate Joker card really.

I don't get why that is not used more often. There are some cases where it allows itself to be sued. Tort cases and I think patent infringement. But there aren't that many.

Democratic Governments are "punished" and fixed by voting for the right people. Un-democratic governments are "punished" and "fixed" by revolutions.
The rise of neuro startups: "Can You Read My Mind Now?"
'regarded by many as' is pretty much the living, breathing definition of 'authority as implied by popularity'.
You are right about that. On the other hand, what is the ideal technical solution for a social problem? Should all applications support some sort of option panel just to define who-can-see-if-I-read-the-message-or-not? Should we throw more technology at the problem?

It seems like we are ever less capable establishing effective communication with other people, which leads to people trusting more and more for the machines to do all the interfacing for us. Instead of asking for more and more technology to hide our flaws, shouldn't we strive for this to be fixed at the social level?
If the author made that allegation with actual data to back it up, I'd have found the article much more interesting.

If he showed, for example, 5 recent movies all hitting exactly the same beats at the same time (or at least at the same relative times adjusted for their total run times), that would give some meat to his argument that this is more than just the usual 3 act structure broken down a bit more.

Alas, he did not do this.
Haha, okay. I misinterpreted the Wikipedia quote as a correction of my original comment. Sorry!
This reminds me of a company I worked for that had a compulsory MSN Messenger log-in policy. Nobody was using it for messaging, but we were required to log in so that management could tell when we were idle/not idle. During my 2 week notice period, the head IT guy started chatting with me and mentioned that the only thing they weren't monitoring was in fact the chat messages sent via MSN Messenger. It was a beautiful two-edged sword and we had lots of fun conversations before I left.
one thing about the western world, and America especially: we have no cultural memory of what it feels like to have another culture impose their value system upon you.

it's therefore easy to see other cultural views as falling into these categories: odd/silly, needlessly restrictive (possibly also immoral), or downright immoral [1].

that's a mental trap, though, much like believing yourself to live at the center of the universe.

once you remove the "superior culture" argument, it becomes quite hard to formulating a reason to touch this island.

for instance: we have medicine! but we only value it because we fear death, etc.

[1] examples come to mind: some cultures believe using birth control is like murder (silly). some cultures believe a woman should not exposition her shoulders in public (no rights). some cultures believe infanticide is acceptable, others find it natural for men to have romantic relationships with boys (immoral). these are all examples from a western perspective, of course.
What I would suggest though is to bill by the day and find a way to measure what you have delivered against changes to a business goal

This is the next step after bill-by-day/week - linking your work to something they care about - using evidence collected by software.

To be fair this works even as an employee, a permie / contractor or a actual, gone next week contractor.
In this chain of forbidden places is also Gardiner's Island in New York at the end of Long Island. Apparently gifted to the Gardiner family by the Queen before the US existed. Signs surround it warning the public that they're not welcome. I guess it's not forbidden so much as privately owned.
A Free Market - Ever Asked Yourself What it is?
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Life's good when you're at the top of the totem poll.

However, if the greener grass turns out to be a Mumbai slum or an e-waste site in China, or one of many other terrible but more realistic fates, maybe you'd pass on that opportunity... because, you know, a lot of people die there too.
From the point of view of the sender, I find read receipts psychologically calming, oddly enough. I noticed I used to attach a lot more emotion to some facebook messages and compulsively check facebook before read receipts. With read receipts, my mind seems to be satisfied with knowing my message was read and now it's up to the other person to answer when they get a chance, or not; emotionally, I seem to be fine with either outcome.

I realize that most other people have a different feeling about it so I thought I'd mention it as an interesting data point.
instagram blocks certain hashtags. will just silently return zero results.
"(1/1000th of 1 MHz, much as 1 MHz is 1/1000 of 1 GHz)"

Half of 1 MHz is 500 KHz not 500 Hz ... it may sound slow but the PIC uCs we were using in the '90s were clocked at 20 MHz maximum and executed about 4 MIPS. For the 1960s, that computer really was rocket science!
To be honest the iPhone 3G was released only one year after the original iPhone.
It's a monopoly game with a power-law distribution. If you're not playing for first place, eventually Amazon's Zero margin business will subsume all of the smaller players.

I articulated this point in a blog post for our site[0] in which I describe a phenomenon I call Bezos' Law. Essentially, the cost of cloud computing in general (currently driven by AWS) is cut in half roughly every 18 months. This is like Moore's law, except it's driven by market conditions instead of technical innovation. The endgame of Bezos' Law is 0, but everyone else will get out well before then (once it ceases being a profitable business). Since AWS will be the largest player in cloud infrastructure, it will eventually shift from being a profit center for other organizations and will become a cost center. After that it becomes a matter of time.

IMHO, this is also the plan for Amazon's Commerce business long-term and is why the market provides them with such a ridiculous P/E ratio.

So does Azure provide competition? Maybe. I think most of the people on Azure are on there because Microsoft is comping the time (pure conjecture based on the kinds of numbers they put forward). The endgame, from my perspective, is that everyone gets choked out by Amazon with time unless someone upends them, and that's why I think the position of "providing competition" isn't going to materially move the needle for a company like Microsoft. Not now and not long term. They've called Azure a billion dollar business, but only when counting comped hours.

Lots of conjecture, I definitely put myself out there for some flaming, but that's how you learn whether your positions can stand on their own merits. Let me know what your thoughts are :).

To be clear, in spite of everything I've said today, I am long-term bullish on Microsoft. I just think Ballmer isn't making smart decisions right now.

[0]http://blog.2600hz.com/post/55614383443/bezos-law
That's a good cover.

Would hate to have to admit it's actually Luciferian.

An apple with bite a out of it. Doesn't anyone pay attention anymore.

There is a funny story about two people, an apple, and a snake. You guys should read it sometime.
Alright, so consider animals hunting each other then. Act 1: predator and prey alone; transition 1: predator initiates chase; Act 2: predator chases prey; transition 2: predator catches up to prey; Act 3: predator and prey fight.
My plumber estimates and doubles for fixed price work. This is to cover the cost of e.g. discovering rotten floorboards under the bath halfway through replacing it. Paying a fixed price is on average a worse deal for the buyer, but most buyers think that paying by time incentivises low productivity.
Hey Krapp, suggestions might be opt-out, or not there at all. The graph is there, but we might go down different avenues. We're still in a very early stage and have a few possibilities, so if you use it right now, it will just be your own content.
Thank you for your reaction and feel free to drop an email to ale@getlatis.com with any further concern you might have (or discuss it here, if you prefer).