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>Now that Obama is in power conservatives are more opposed while liberals are less opposed. The switch would suggest that at least some of these individuals (on both sides) are motivated by politics and not principle.

But you're not talking about the same thing. The idea that you can support warrantless tapping of international calls when the other end of the line is a suspected terrorist and oppose the dragnet of all call records and emails doesn't indicate a lack of principle. We're talking about policies with a much different scope.
Sigh. Not that the factors he mentions don't contribute, but this still illustrates the bubble many of the Apple-focused bloggers live in (and, arguably, a bubble that Apple itself lives in to some degree, but that's a separate subject).

Most of the tablet usage surveys I've there focus on the US. Android tablets are most popular (by far I believe) in Asia. Here's a personal anecdote: When I went to Hong Kong Disneyland last fall I saw as many (maybe even more) people taking pictures with Samsung tablets as I did with iPads. That's just not the sort of tablet usage you'll see in the US. There's a big world out there and many people focused on the US have no idea how well Android (including Android tablets) is doing in the rest of it.
Has anyone worked anywhere that didn't have a bit of a server that was dedicated to piracy? I haven't. Even working for a large public healthcare provider. Slightly worse, there was even a torrent client using their fibre. The trick was to find an IT illiterate colleague or one who was leaving it best of all, both these things in one person. Their logins wouldn't e revoked for months or years.
Use their login to set up torrent clients. If you called IT support and just played dumb you always found someone who would let you install stuff (I need this program for my section on ankle casting). Keep calling back until they answer.
Once a torrent was running, stay well away from the computer until no one else is around as grumpy IT guys would hang round to try and catch you. This was long ago now, I pay for my media now, with the exception of a few shows from the UK which I can't pay for.
> Mono never succeeded on Linux because it always felt like a second-class citizen on the desktop

Err, I'm not sure where you were from 2005 to 2009...

There were apps like Tomboy that were included in GNOME releases that were 100% written in C# and run by Mono. GTK# was one of the most complete bindings ever written for GNOME/GTK.

If you've ever written a GObject or GTK based app you would know its not easy to do in C. With GTK#, you could build something very quick with a modern virtual machine, framework bindings for pretty much the entire free desktop stack (they automatically generated them and kept them up to date with every release), high level language and IDE with great syntax highlighting and autocomplete.

What did happen was a massive irrational backlash against C# by neckbeards that ended with it being kicked out of GNOME core and off the debian and ubuntu install CD's, all because they saw Microsoft name against the standard, didn't agree with the patents (a fact of life when you build software) and bricked themselves.
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> http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/02/opinion/la-oe-shah-2...

This is a revealing article. I somehow didn't think about, now rather obvious, cultural difference in perception of malaria. I also didn't know that "the overwhelming majority of cases go away on their own". I thought of malaria as a certain death without treatment.

The treated nets did, however, have technological issues, as pointed in the article: "Among other design flaws, their tight mesh blocks ventilation, a serious problem in the hot, humid places where malaria roosts".

Kite patch is simple enough to actually make it work. I just hope it is indeed effective.
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I agree that it's not exactly abandonment to all, but from the OPs perspective, who knows his wife best, it may have been as such. Not everyone takes to new and foreign places as well. I sincerely salute your ability to, but I get the impression that OP knew that if he'd left his wife to just take care of herself, he'd be in the doghouse later.

I'd know. I'm an expat, and while both my wife and I were eager to come to this assignment, we're not the same when it comes to unfamiliar surroundings. If it'd been me? Sure, I'll be at the nearest espresso bar I can find. Her? I would have done the same thing as OP.

This is all anecdotal, I know. But my point being, its wrong to assume that everyone is capable of just seamlessly taking care of things when you're newly arrived in a foreign country. I'd agree that its frustrating when someone can't, or just feels too nervous or intimidated, but that's something we accept and work around when we select the partners we do. OP was right in choosing his partner first. I'd have done the same.
We don't need solutions. We need big corporations to accrue patents and public approval so that they can steamroll the rest of the industry many years down the line. It's called charity™
Agreed. His bio[1] suggests that he knows what he's talking about, but without any in-depth explanations the reader just has to take his word for it. Doing something without knowing why you are doing it, based on what you read in book called Practical Typography, is not very practical.

[1]:http://practicaltypography.com/end-credits.html#bio
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Just curious. Where in India?
Hmm. The font used on this website, Equity Text B, was created by the author.

http://www.identifont.com/show?2SN1
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So chemical agriculture works for almost a century.
opps big typo, religional not regional :)
Anecdotal, but at least the Eiffel compiler (EiffelStudio, if I recall correctly) we used in university compiled to C.
A load of nice tricks, thanks.

I'm a bit concerned about the public keys public url. Ok, it's just public keys, so it must be safe, but I wonder : is it safe like it's "safe" publishing a login without a password ? In other word, doesn't knowing public key make easier to break private one ?
wrong appcelerator doesnt use CSS/HTML , just javascript. The UI is native with appcelerator.
If you're running with AOF then redis is perfectly fine for storing eg: call logs where the transaction is naturally atomical to a single command.

In my experience problems have occur because AOF isn't the default persistence setting (Snapshotting is the default in Ubuntu apt at least). So if Redis get's upgraded in an apt-get upgrade then the sysadmin needs to take care not to override the AOF configuration.

This is not unlike postgres upgrading from 9.1 to 9.2, for example. Not catastrophic, but boy it'll make your heart pump!

I think the best solution at the moment it to not use apt to manage Redis updates so that you have full control over the configuration.
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Just curious: Why is Thailand bad? It seems that this guy still produces good work, so how is he pissing his life away?
Never forget that the buzz around thorium reactors is created by the people who want to sell thorium reactors.
I specifically mean desktop. I'd be surprised to learn that VNC clients and such can manage it but something like this wouldn't, but I've been known to be wrong before.
they dont compile JS natively. Your code is still in javascript but get executed in a native shell, instead of using a web view , but there is no js compilation into native code.
I remember installing Red Hat 4, going on IRC and getting rooted. Red Hat's approach comes from lots of learning, and I think it's smart. Thanks for the post.
Backed.

Super-interesting concept, and the people at HyperV Technologies Corp seem to know what they're talking about, so I am excited about this. For example, their other KS project—the Plasma Jet Electric Thrusters for Spacecraft[^1]—was successful both in funding and delivering what was promised.

Also, you gotta love their pretty low-key / somewhat amateur'ish videos. ;)

[^1]: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2027072188/plasma-jet-el...
Haskell is all about the lazy.
No, that's the whole point of public key cryptography; that the private key cannot feasibly be used to derive the public key, but the other way around is trivial.
Interesting sleuthing. Maybe it's just exceptionally well targeted self-advertising. I know I'll get creamed by playing the gender card, but if this were a guy, would we be so coy to call them out on the fact that 'this ain't your first time'.

I think if anything this kind of misinformation regarding 'the possible output for a beginner' is actually discouraging to beginning developers. I do think this experiment it self-serving.

I have been doing web for around 10 years and it would be no cakewalk (albeit not impossible, if I had the time) to come up with a new novel idea every day for 180 days, and certainly as a beginner this kind of output is the most improbable thing I have ever seen (I have taught a few smart people how to get started and it takes a long time).

So, do we play along and misinform all the other true beginners or do we call out this Red Herring?

If we want more women to be welcome in tech they have to be held to the same kind of standards (honesty and ability). We can't let one individual get away with this kind of dishonesty because of gender.

And if you don't think this kind of manipulation exists, you should go read Reddit sometime (it's full of stuff like this, you can turn a picture of a random puppy into massive attention by saying 'look at who I adopted from an abusive home! I will love him for ever!').

Think about it people!

EDIT: The projects Jen has done are cool and interesting, no doubt. And the 'just f'ing do it' idea is even better. But can't possibly be programming beginner.

EDIT 2: I probably shouldn't be such a bastard, but anyway. Good job. Just be honest where you are coming from and you'll get deeper respect, I think is my point.
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According to this link this is 6x more money than exists

http://money.howstuffworks.com/how-much-money-is-in-the-worl...
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This sort of knowledge is so so handy. When some bright spark shortcuts the normal process the havoc that occurs is baffling to everyone except the old hand who cares and understands. Just being around and observing events can make an employee pretty damn useful quite fast. I'm not sure if every business has as many moving parts as the one I'm in, but it can't be unusual. With dozens of bits of software that supposedly work together, the bugs are sometimes fascinating. Kodak, I'm looking at you. Why do you refuse to archive any information on patients who's first name starts with BRE?!
Fusion has the interest and research it does because solving it would solve our energy needs almost permanently. It has a far higher payoff than thorium. And it doesn't matter that thorium research was abandoned because we couldn't vaporize commies with it. It was abandoned, and is decades away from commercial use.
I tried to splode a bacon bit, but it would not splode.
Very disappointed.
But love the execution. Good job and keep going!
Why we often make irrational decisions
This is remarkable.

Concert tickets are also being bought this way by bots for scalpers.

Ebay sniper bots are commonly used.

High Frequency trading is the high end this.

Perhaps it is unavoidable, perhaps other means for selling things online should be sought out, text messages with semantic replies required or something?
Publishing a public key does not make cracking they private key easier. I guess if I got access to someone elses private key but I didn't know whose it was I could use the published keys to identify who the private key belongs to.
Let me correct myself. I came across Jim Grey's 1999 paper "Rules of Thumb in Data Engineering" where he states that this heuristic is from Gene Amdahl in about 1965: a balanced system has one bit of I/O per second for each instruction per second and one byte of memory for each instruction per second. So, 8 MIPS per MBpsIO, and one MB/MIPS.
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Satirical answer: move to San Francisco. Most nights this summer have been jacket or sweater weather. I made the escape from the southeast 6+ years ago.

Serious: Close the blinds/curtains. This helps reflect light back out rather than staying inside and heating up the space. Stay low. Heat rises, cool air sinks. If possible, give the hot air somewhere to escape to up high and back outside.
Exactly. This one's a pretty easy experiment to duplicate. I always sleep with a fairly strong oscillating fan blowing across me, and whenever a mosquito gets in the house and I can't kill it before I need to go to bed, I wake up with mosquito bites.
> Why is Mono "basically useless for server-side apps"? I've been running production apps, server-side, with Mono ...

The whole ecosystem is Windows only and tightly coupled with Visual Studio. You do not have Maven for example and personally I could never get NuGet to run. Also, before the new generational garbage collector, which was just declared stable, ASP.NET was leaking memory because the old conservative garbage collector had problems with the allocation patterns of ASP.NET. Yes, you could run your fancy app on Linux, but for anything serious you had to restart your servers periodically.

Performance sucks too for ASP.NET apps. It's not acceptable for a compiled and statically typed language to have the same performance as Python, or sometimes even worse. Part of the reason for that is the heaviness of ASP.NET and the IIS coupling that is missing in Mono. But then again, why should that be your problem, when better alternatives for Unix are available?

Also, ever tried debugging / profiling an app in production? Seriously, you have to be slightly masochistic to use Mono on server-side.

Fun fact: .NET's debugging symbols are not a part of ECMA's standards, are not documented and for a long time Mono used its own incompatible format for debugging symbols.

> Microsoft did release an open source version of .NET (Rotor) that ran on Mac OS and FreeBSD

Rotor was never open-source. "Shared source" is not open-source. In fact people that contributed to Mono were warned to not look at Rotor's source-code.

> After all, Sun put money into Java, which didn't seem to help their revenues, right?

Blaming Java somehow for Sun's failure is a logical fallacy. There is no proof that .NET helped Microsoft's bottom line (my gut tells me that it did the opposite). Also, I'm pretty sure Java was a major reason for why Oracle bought Sun and for why Google was also thinking of buying Sun.

> when MS decided to adopt Java, Sun cut 'em off

Microsoft had an explicit agreement with Sun. They broke it by making Visual J++ both source and binary incompatible with Java. This isn't regular "adoption", but rather their usual embrace/extend strategy. Also .NET 1.0 was J++.

> The parts of .NET that are platform-specific are for good reason. Cross-platform UIs, for instance (like Java's), seem to universally suck

That's a poor example. When thinking of cross-platform, I think more about Qt than I think about Swing. Also, platform-specific behaviour has leaked much further than Windows Forms. For example, Mono's implementation of asynchronous sockets suffered for years because System.Net.Sockets was modelled after Windows' kernel and doesn't map cleanly with poll/epoll/kqueue.
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Thanks, i thought indiegogo had no "time limit" and no goal to be reached.
Soon - "Auction Sniper now supports urbanspoon! First 3 reservations are free!"

There's something frustrating about reading this. Perhaps its that a technological advancement that was supposed to make life easier is being capitalized on by a small group of technically competent people, shutting out the average user.

I was thinking of going to PAX next year a few hours ago and decided to do a bit of research. For this year, the 4 day tickets apparently sold out in 23 minutes, and the rest within 5 hours. I'm having a hard time imagining how its going to be possible for anyone to get some this coming year without a bot.
Perhaps the restaurant should raise its prices.
>I like C# and I'm impressed with Mono but there is just something not right. It might be irrational but knowing that Microsoft's DNA is everywhere makes me feel uncomfortable.
(...)
I'm also not happy that Linux is a second class citizen

The first kind of thinking is what got us into the second kind of situation.

Enjoy ...Vala.
Jesus, you didn't think working 16-18 hours per day could be the cause? I bet slaves live better then that.
Given their popularity, why doesn't this restaurant just get rid of the reservation system altogether? A lot of the popular/trendy/hipster magnet places here do this since it saves hassle and creates a certain allure when lines are out the door for a table.
On desktop Linux, Mono's direct competition is not C++, but rather Python.

Also, Mono apps were replaced in Ubuntu/Debian because of Mono's large footprint, both in memory and in disk usage (until recently, Ubuntu has been constrained for a long time to the size of one CD). Also development died and these distros are distributing by default apps that are actively developed and maintained.
Do restaurant's scale?

Find a bigger venue. Open another store.

Maybe they should just deploy to Heroku or Appengine and have them scale to meet their table needs.
Or open a second location.
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Sorry, this was too terse. I'm inclined not to use Knockout because I find the branding unappealing and a bit too visually intense. I think backbone.js[1] has been so successful in no small part because the website is excellent. Very simple, easy on the eyes, explains itself, and gets right to the point: documentation. Angular's too[2].

[1] http://backbonejs.org/
[2] http://angularjs.org/
No, I didn't. Interesting. Thanks. Carson's book spurred the environmentalist movement, I'll give her that. I used to think poorly of DDT and GMOs, but then I did some research and changed my opinions. Should we be cautious about spraying chemicals like DDT? Absolutely. But the chemical has saved millions from dying. We don't have anything better yet. Are you from Canada? Because my experience here in the U.S. has been wildly different for the most part. Our textbooks originate from Texas mostly which is very conservative and evangelical. There's an interesting documentary called The Revisionaries which outlines essentially the battle behind textbooks. [1] [2] The chair of the Texas Board of Education believes that dinosaurs and humans coexisted and doesn't believe in evolution. Hell, I don't even remember learning about the Pentagon Papers in high school.

[1] http://www.npr.org/2012/06/20/155440679/revisionaries-tells-...

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAeKXdLZhOg
Being a south Texas native, I live by cold showers several times per day in the summer, even if just for a few minutes, and especially before I go to sleep.
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I believe it's a native app for Mac OS, not a web app.
Ability to make RDB snapshots additionally.
>That's a wild generalization which I don't think it's true. The "Linux community" you speak of is a loud minority of mentally deranged folks.

Ironic, because then you go to state:

>Mono never succeeded on Linux because it always felt like a second-class citizen on the desktop

Mono had full GTK support. Tons of popular Gnome apps were written in Mono, music apps, photo viewers, desktop search etc. There was nothing "second-class citizen" about it.

It was all about the MS situation and FUD.

>and it's basically useless for server-side apps, an area where the Linux ecosystem shines.

For one, it's based on .NET, has a port of the MVC web framework and everything -- and tons of open source stuff for it. "Basically useless"? The same tech powers 99% of server-side apps on Windows.
Clearly, they needed to specify something catchier than CEC in the HDMI spec!
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery ;)
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Thank you. I had not read that before and its great.
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iCasefinder is a little search engine for iphone and ipad cases. Where all the iphone and ipad cases are indexed and searchable

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Launching a self-funded challenging hardware + software startup is not for the weak hearted. I am not saying it is smart. Sometimes you have no choice.
> I think many analytic-type of people (I am part of this group) live in a fantasy land in which the smarter you are, the better game you'll make.

These days this should be called "essential math for game engine programmers". You're not going to write a good 3d game engine without knowing how to interpolate quaternions, for example (needed e.g. in skeletal animation).

If you just want to write a game, you should pick up an existing engine and go with that. No extensive math or 3d skills required.

If, however, you want to learn how computer games work underneath the surface, you will have to learn the math.
>The whole ecosystem is Windows only and tightly coupled with Visual Studio.

Wrong.

>You do not have Maven for example and personally I could never get NuGet to run.

Besides the fact that there are alternatives (and that you don't even need it in the first place), personal competence ---not getting it to run-- is not a valid reason to discard it.
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As posted elsewhere here:

Republicans: 94 yea, 134 nay (41% in favor)
Democrats: 111 yea, 83 nay (57% in favor)

It's not as party-line as many high-profile votes, but it's a significant difference.
Yeah, this is the thing I could never get my head around. I know that the iPad mini is superior in many ways, but I just can't see how people can justify spending the extra money! The iPad mini is £110 - £190 more expensive, depending on which size you get. That's just too much IMHO.
But, but, your name sound so Norwegian..??
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Mono is HUGE thanks to Unity3D.[1]

I suspect that C#/Mono has become the de-facto second development language/environment for iOS thanks to Unity3D (an irony that doesn't escape me). It's certainly what all the iOS games programmers I know personally use (and I know a lot).

Wikipedia have Unity down as having over 1 million developers developing for iOS, Android, Windows, Blackberry 10, OS X, Linux, web browsers, Flash, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Windows Phone 8, and Wii U.[2]

Unity themselves claim[3]:

* 2M REGISTERED DEVELOPERS

* 400K MONTHLY ACTIVE DEVELOPERS

* 225M TOTAL WEB PLAYER INSTALLS

* 6.6M EDITOR SESSIONS JUN

[1]http://unity3d.com

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_(game_engine)

[3] http://unity3d.com/company/public-relations/
It's funny that I often have the exact opposite problem: I'll know a word because I've seen it used in print many times, but I'll have no idea of how to pronounce it.

The first time I tried to pronounce 'subpoena' while leafing through a series of Nixon-era political cartoons made my mom howl with laughter. Thanks, mom.
I'd suggest you go there and see with your own eyes? I'm not sure what your point is. Feasibility isn't really something the USSR ever factored in.