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Indeed, biologists frown on whole group explanations, however I am not suggesting it as an explanation of reproductive usefulness (for the whole group), merely as a successful factor of having a good social standing among the tribe (i.e the chances of someone being more powerful are better if they are able to act as a leader/someone who can protect their tribe), which would quite possibly lead to better mate prospectives.
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Isn't that a bit patronizing? It doesn't matter if he sucks at his job, because being black and doing it is accomplishment enough? I know this is what some people actually believe, but it just sounds racist to me.
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Yes exactly, that's all we know. Lavabit got an NSL. Snowden had an email account there in July. We knew that for a while now so what is this post about?
No.

What about 1Gb fiber connection makes one a terrorist?

What about buying Uranium off Amazon[1] makes one a terrorist?

What about starting an organization that promotes technology in the Midwest, a typically rural and industrial location, in need of new sectors makes one a terrorist?

The point is that we need to be more nuanced in our approach and show restraint. There are a lot of people with crazy ideas, however, doing things differently or having eclectic hobbies or dreams isn't what makes someone a terrorist.

What do we prefer?

We prefer freedom, liberty, and privacy to live our lives according to our own desires. Our desire for real safety is there, but security theater is ineffective. We can not prevent all terrorism, we can not prevent all harm. It is the cost of the freedom, liberty and privacy and one that we should be willing to pay. These are not absolutes, and trade offs can certainly be made. But today, we have traded too much freedom, liberty, and privacy for a false sense of security.

This is what we prefer: real safety balanced with real freedom, liberty and privacy.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Images-SI-Inc-Uranium-Ore/dp/B000796XX...
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Why do you need this to center a box in css?
It can be done without this too.
I'm a huge fan of Tesla, but GM/Chrysler wasn't just about the vehicles. It was about the employees, the economies in that part of the country, and the ripple effect that killing off American auto-makers would have had to every industry they touched.

I truly hope what Tesla is doing becomes the future of the American auto-industry, but the nation was in no position, at that time, to facilitate that transformation in a way that was logistically, economically, or politically acceptable.
> webdesign

It's web development you're referring to.
My point was not that we should be overthrowing the major parties. My point was that we should be punishing the major parties when they do not do what we want them to do. The Democrats are supposedly a center-left party, supposedly the choice for liberals in this country. In reality the Democrats are a right wing party, with some centrist leanings on very specific issues.

That means we do not really have a choice. The only solution is to vote third party until the Democrats get their act together, especially in the swing states -- we need to hit them where it hurts until they get their act together.
We aren't planning on using lossy compression. We're sticklers for quality, too.
A person's skin color is not an accomplishment (unless you're the first person to add chloroplasts to his skin)
1. that was before he became president

2. Quite a nice example of the kind of justice the USA likes to export

3. Extremely limited reform, check on France, the UK and Canada for other options

4. Too big to fail, who else would have done so?

5. Gays & Lesbians, Transgenders and Transsexuals have a long long way to go in the US before parity is achieved. The fact that there was a don't ask don't tell policy in the first place was bad, repealing it is not a victory of any kind.

6. NSA -> that's Snowdens ball, Obama is mostly doing damage control. It's how this whole thread got started in the first place, by Obama claiming that this debate would have happened without Snowden.

History books tend to take the long view, 100 years from now the 'first non-white President of the United States' (which is something he achieved before becoming president) is the one thing that I think may just make it.

But given the opposition (Palin as VP was unthinkable to me, when they chose her as McCain's running mate they handed the presidency to Obama, and it is surprising how close it still was) it wasn't all that impressive to me.

Still, I'll concede that that is what makes his presidency noteworthy. If he'd only done something a bit more useful with the power that he wielded it would have been more impressive. Change we can believe in...
Thanks for the feedback danjessen. I'm struggling a little bit with fully internationalized shortcuts though. I don't have a great understanding about what non-chorded keys the keyboards of the world have available and it feels like just about any key combination won't be natively available for everyone. Hopefully the ability to remap via the config is easy and clear enough that it's not too much trouble.
If moving some data to disk helps performance by freeing up RAM, then putting the swap file back in RAM won't help because it's just taking up RAM again. Or, if you're just worried that Windows is putting things in the swap file that would perform better if they were kept in memory, it would be just as effective to disable the page file to force them to be in RAM. Either way, there's no improvement.
Holy fuck whata dumbass. Even if you are Shirley Temple clean you do not ever, ever talk to these people voluntarily. WHAT A FOOL. I am so sad to have read this. These people exist to put you in prison.
He could shut down external access, deploy changes to capture plain text passwords, then turn everything off. Technically he's complied...
When you signup we spend some time trying to understand you by exploring your Twitter profile (followers, links, retweets etc.). Once done, we either recommend you an article from a curate pool of articles which we've come across before, or by browsing sources we think will have interesting content which you might not be looking at already.

We then send you an email with a link to the content and an explanation behind our reason. If the user replies or reads the link, we keep going. If they don't we stop! Ultimately to do this well, we want to have a conversation with the subscriber (almost like bibliotherapy).

For example, were someones Twitter data points indicative of an interest in Programming Languages and Education, we might send them http://worrydream.com/#!/LearnableProgramming, with a brief explanation on why. If they reply saying they don't like long form, old content, then we'd make sure to adjust the next article accordingly. Hope that helps!
Hmm, I quite caffeine for a bit more than a year. I didn't feel like I had more energy per se, but I definitely felt better overall. It did take a long time to get through withdrawal.

This overlapped a period of two springs where I had terrible, terrible allergies, which claritin/etc barely helped with. As a test I drank coffee for one week, and the allergies completely vanished. :(

I've firmly stuck with 1 cup a day, though, drinking decaf after that. I think only drinking coffee right after I wake up probably helps.
I imagine these folks are all proud of their work at Intellectual Ventures.

In the same way your dog might be proud of taking a crap on a neighbors lawn, it doesn't matter how these people feel; in fact, it only emphasizes the point that these people should be named and shamed and told exactly why their behavior is harmful to others.
One thing that I think could help out a bit would be to show key commands as they are pressed as well. I'd love to use this to show my students software development things (using vim or emacs for editor), but showing them the keypresses I make as well is critical for some text editors newbies.
You can't trust it. Seriously, TPB is constantly full of spam and exploits inside of spam and spammy exploits. Why would you ever run an executable from TPB? What a joke.
There's an infinite performance gain for browsers that have javascript turned off or use noscript.

Other than that, I'd say that doing this kind of stuff in CSS would by default be much faster in a web page context.
How interesting! I don't drink coffee but the few times I've tried it, I perform much worse than otherwise. The results are often like the stay-up-late-and-code results. I have to correct and redo loads of work when I come off the coffee.
I agree with both of you that the playback is too fast. I tried to get it slower a number of times, but the compression phase seems to take out some of the pauses...

I'll take another look to see if there's anything that I can do with the gif creation process I have.

If anyone has suggestions for gif recorders that give you control at this level, I'd love to know about it.
> The use of force abroad exists purely in the political, diplomatic, and military realms, not the legal realm.

Again, you are incorrect. International treaties are legally binding. What is the purpose of the Geneva Conventions, for instance, if the U.S. can, according to you, sign them, ignore them, and not have broken international law?
Two things:

1. A bit, maybe, for now. And I'd like them to succeed: when I search for something I want to know what the general populous says about a thing, not what some PR company says, so if the effect of PR can be minimised I should get better results for some searches.

2. Note the words "for now" above. the PR people will find other methods to give them the advantage. Google and their ilk can win as many battles as they like, but they'll never win the war.
I think the part that gets people is that someone in the comfort of some air conditioned shelter far away from the deed pushed a button and ended a human life without any risk to himself whatsoever. The asymmetry of the situation is what gets people ticked off. War is supposed to be costly to both sides, which is why it is a means of last resort. If one side can engage in war with 0 risk and hence 0 cost (other than monetary) war becomes too easy.
"Good design and good markup go hand-in-hand"

I don't think this is true any more than "good print design and good postscript go hand-in-hand".

I don't think tables are the right way either, but they're too often the pragmatic way until CSS gets dramatically more expressive.

The "restraint" you're talking about is not something designers should have to accept —- not least because CSS appears to be being developed with insufficient concern for what designers would actually like to be able to do. If it wasn't, vertical alignment would have arrived long ago.
Joel Spolsky (remember him :-) gave us a great example of how Bill Gates did product reviews in the early '90s: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html E.g.:

"He didn't meddle in software if he trusted the people who were working on it, but you couldn't bullshit him for a minute because he was a programmer. A real, actual, programmer."

And the article details how those two were intimately linked.
It confuses me that you have to specify things in terms of margins, I understand how that is technically correct but surely something like alignment: center should just align to the center of the parent element?

I've spent hours in the past the past getting correct centring behaviour in CSS, then tried by just putting the whole thing inside <center></center> and had it work immediately in all browsers. But apparently that's "cheating".
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Just in case anyone's unaware... it's entirely possible to vertically center elements of variable height too in pure CSS... it's just "unsemantic", because it relies on the fact that only table cells have "vertical-align:middle".

But that's how I center every one of my "modal dialogs" on a site -- the whole modal dialog is inside a <table> with position:fixed and top/bottom/left/right:0. Then, just give the <td> a "vertical-align:middle", and then put your desired visible dialog <div> inside it.

It's annoying to have to wrap something inside of a <table><tr><td> just to vertically center something, but it sure beats using JavaScript to do it. (You might be able to do it just with the display:table-cell property too, but it's been a long time since I checked browser compatibility.)
Was that from "American Woman" or "These Eyes"?
So, when US gov bombs some country it's defense, but if someone plans bombing US then it's terrorism? And if you travel with that terrorists then you are dead? Lol :-)

Also, looks like you can't see that this scenario will only make more terrorists, because you seed hate between people. If you want someone to respect you and be your friend you don't really need to bomb, kill or bully him. And you know what, sorry to burst your bubble, but your GOV is doing all that shit on purpose, so they can defend you from terrorist -> by spying on everything you do.
For the post lunch blues, try eating a much smaller lunch. You might have tiredness resulting from your body's digestive system kicking in.
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Pop open your glovebox; there is a nice picture book in there that explains with nice line-drawing illustrations how to change your oil.

That hasn't been a given for many years. My 1998 Passat and 2006 Jetta manuals contained no information for DIY oil changes, other than change intervals and suggested weights.
Snail mail can be sent anonymously though. It can be dropped in a public mailbox with no return address on the envelope and it will be delivered. It's also much more physically difficult to track. Yes the post office does now optically scan mail for sorting and routing, but that doesn't happen until it gets to regional sorting centers, making the precise origin impossible to discern.
I start slowly, only with one espresso per day, and then gradually move back up until I hit the 5 cups a day again

Sometimes it's not the substance itself, but the amount; have you tried differing amounts, or limiting to only certain times of day? What you describe sounds like a roller coaster to me (albeit not as severe as some I've seen).

EDIT: My personal story: used to drink tons of coffee in hight school; had heart palpitations, quit; used to drink tons of Dr. Pepper through college; decided to quit due to sugar and phosphoric acid; used to drink tons of tea late in college and after; stopped when I stopped working from home. Nowadays, it's one cup (perhaps 16 floz at most) of coffee and one cup of tea per day, always before noon - it has to be fresh ground coffee and good loose tea, though. Has health benefits and doesn't make me jittery, can quit or take a hiatus any time I want, or double down on a slow day. Moderation, with the occasional variation.
Betteridge's law of headlines once again.

The article is a terrible piece of writing that doesn't make a cohesive case at all. I can see nothing terribly new in the linked Google page other than the usual mantra of "write content for human's and don't try and game the system".

Lot's of "google could do this" and "the rules could be interpreted like that" - the truth is that Google has no interest in penalizing honest content. Obviously there is the chance of collateral damage but nothing appears to have changed to warrant the hyperbole herein.
Without wishing to descend too much into semantics the accepted definitions (at least within the industry) seem to be that "design" is basically Graphics/Layout (so includes HTML/CSS) and development is programming (either client or server side).
It isn't Google's job to filter out searches for "cracked version of pcunite's app" any more than it is their job to filter searches for "tomato based masturbation", "the government's wrongdoing" or "google's wrong doing".

If people are searching for it, and it is there, a search engine should return the result. A good search engine should be completely content agnostic.

If Google and their ilk try to block that sort of search, people would find other ways to find the stuff and those publishing it will find new ways to make it findable (including via Google).

You'll never win that way. Unfortunately I can't offer much advice on how you might win by other means either though...
I'm also having decaf every couple of days out of the same reason. For what it's worth, the Nespresso from Nestle has really good decaf espressos. They taste very close to a normal espresso. Half the time I'm using my Nespresso only for decaf (my normal coffee is usually handpicked local-roasted that I prepare in a french press). Nespresso also has three different decaf variants.
True, but in addition CMU probably has one of the best information security programs (and I'm sure various other comp sci-related programs) in the country. US-CERT originated there, and their CTF team is pretty much the best in the world.

So for example, if I were a manager hiring for a security position, I would probably place more weight in a CMU graduate than a random Ivy graduate.

I would also say it's probably not coincidental that they churn out very competent individuals and also are very academically rigorous. Sometimes theory and practice do align.
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Great article. Reminds me of this awesome breakdown of the music from Super Mario Bros.: http://www.losdoggies.com/archives/1302
Does it seem a bit off to anyone else in chrome?

http://www.imgur.com/7JA69Ty.png

Or is the browser chrome considered usable real estate.
As someone who's done an insane amount of front-end programming, you're entirely right.

Sometimes I wish I could get back all the brain cells that I've wasted on the hundreds of "little tricks" you need to know to get things working -- and then working cross-browser.

Short answer: CSS is just a horribly, horribly, terribly badly designed language. It's the absolute worst. Don't let anybody tell you otherwise. It's that, it's what we've got, and it is awfully powerful in many ways. But it's complete rubbish in others, which include a lot of incredibly basic layout things.
> A few drone strikes?

Surely it is possible to imagine more of them.

> An optional war in Libya.

With a UN mandate, almost completely fought by the Europeans.

> Continuing a failed war in Afghanistan. However what he is doing is quite different from starting a war in Afghanistan.

Here you might have a point.

> Continuing to operate Gitmo.

Congress did that.

> Continuing and expanding the spying on US citizens and others.

This is terrible.

> If anything, Obama has expanded warfare to anyplace in the world that can't stop drones. Peaceful isn't an adjective that should be used in conjunction with this President.

Relatively peaceful compared to W. That is what I said, and I think it is accurate.
> I suspect Obama would have declined the prize if it were possible to do so

It's possible to decline the Nobel Peace Prize. For instance, when the prize was jointly awarded to Henri Kissinger (Kissinger) and Le Duc Tho, Le Duc Tho declined to claim his prize and the associated rewards, because he didn't want to share a prize with Kissinger.
Product CEOs are intimately familiar with their products including design decisions, code quality etc. This creates an attachment to get a little too involved in implementation details even as the company is growing beyond say 100 people. One way to get a bit detached is to be deeply involved in hiring people and coaching technical leadership. By thinking at a meta-level it is not hard to arrive at some process that can be documented that teams can self-manage well enough for product CEO to let go.
At least in every browser I've tested, display:table-cell works, as long as that is inside another element with display:table. This allows one to retain pedantic purism of all divs.
I have actually managed to find some remote contracts - it's hard and I have not got a pipeline yet. But it is possible - don't think that jobs that are advertised on jobsites are the only thing. Try this: set up canadiancreed.com, put that you make Canadian xxx software for Canadian businesses.

Attack chambers of commerce, other digital agencies. The work is out there.

(In not sure what xxx is for your line of work or experience - pick something you like:-)
Ditto – (also commenting to temper the confirmation bias). I give up caffeine now and then, usually have a day or two of headaches but after that my life becomes no different without caffeine compared to how it was with caffeine. Except I enjoy the taste of both coffee and tea, so I resume drinking it.

I will say I avoid having any caffeine after about mid-afternoon; perhaps this would help other commenters who find it affects their sleep patterns.
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War crimes are a subset of crimes, not all crimes are domestic and internal (see: Interpol).

No one in Yemen is waging war on the US, that's a construct of the creative imaginations of a bunch of people that stand to profit from having a bogeyman so they can sell their toys.

The people in the tribal lands of Yemen can't wage war on the US since:

(1) they don't have air strike capabilities able to reach the continental US

(2) they don't have a shared border where a land war could be waged

(3) they don't stand a chance of getting a boat in US coastal waters
Yemeni people or people residing there are not waging war on the USA.
Cool thanks for the explanation!
He was only granted that much good will because he was
1) Anyone But Bush
2) A very good orator with a brilliant 2008 campaign staff
3) Black

That none of the above contribute to satisfying governance should come as no surprise. I am (naively?) surprised that his administration turned out to so enthusiastically continue and expand the Bush era policies. It gives some credence to the idea that the administrations themselves are not primary drivers of policy. Or that power enjoys power and will forevermore.

FWIW a prominent member of Northern California's ACLU told me she believes that prioritization of healthcare is what has sidelined civil rights in this administration. I do not find her explanation entirely satisfying.
Advice for you: post a cracked version of your software that includes a notice telling pirates that they're leaching off your hard work and giving them a link where they can donate. Nothing works better than reverse psychology :)
Because tables were not made for layout. They were made to present data in tabular form, and it's still perfectly acceptable to use table tags to show data. But using tables for layout is like chaining a bunch of cars to make a makeshift train, both can be used to travel, but a train was made to move a large number of people, and cars can only move small number of people. There are better tools available. That and tables result in some very ugly code structures. And see the upcoming flexbox model. I have tried it and it really feels more apt, a lot better than using floats and a hell of a lot better than tables when it comes to satisfying, good and perfectly predictable symmetric code.
Great story. Now can we please, seven years into the existence of the iPhone, please can we get some new ringtones into the default library?

"Digital" gives me post-traumatic seizures now. Swear to god every other iPhone I hear is using it.
Maybe this is just full of backdoors for the Russian Mafia to turn your rig into another node of their botnet?