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> It's a pity that America is so tied to the 4 year regimen for elections and that the president does not have a direct way to call for earlier elections (as far as I know).

Honestly, if Obama decided he could not or would not close the prison, I don't foresee the next president, regardless of party, doing so either. Not trying to find excuses for Obama not doing that, but from looking at presidents throughout history, they all seem to have a finite limit on how many battles they can choose to fight (and maybe get passed by a wishy-washy congress).

Issues like the National Healthcare Act just barely managed to get passed in Obama's first term when his party had control of congress still. Based on that and how long it took to get pushed through, something just as touchy as Gitmo would be just as tough and probably impossible with the extremely partisan state of congress right now.

The impotency of the US Government right now to accomplish even trivial things is also a mixed blessing. When one party controls everything, we get situations like the first decade of the 21st century where the majority party gets to basically rubber stamp every whim and desire. With two party deadlock, issues are not being solved, but the alternative of either party being in full control is not always desirable and becomes a "be careful what you wish for" scenario much of the time.

Though neither party is really that different from the other on most issues, when one has control of the presidency and the other does not, the opposing party will go out of their way to distinguish themselves for the sake of being contrary. A few months ago there was a discussion on NPR about the partisanship shown in congress being related to the gerrymandering done in redistricting last time. The lines being drawn up to make each district more polarized to one side or the other makes any representative that faces election every 2 years less likely to compromise (versus their counterparts in the senate every 6 years), for fear their constituents will end up nominating someone even more polarized than they are perceived to be.

I don't know if that is entirely true as gerrymandering is not new (or new to criticism), but it does explain some of the congressional silliness in the past 5-6 years as the house of representatives has been opposed to compromise more often than the senate. It would take more statistical research to decide if gerrymandering is causing congress to become gradually more polarized over time or if it varies with each time the congressional lines are being drawn up. Looking at the number of bipartisan bills proposed and passed over the last 100 years as well would be a starting point.
Added LESS and HAML support.
From what I heard the fingerprint reader is partially enterprise driven. Apple are doing everything to ensure maximum security on devices so they can replace BlackBerry and have a strong USP against Android in enterprise sales.
Sorry, someone else already had that idea and posted it. Apologies...
I have just the opposite problem - I come to work at noon, read livejournal, chat with colleagues, fix urgent problems and am only able to begin coding after five PM or even later. That's where I get my productive shift. But it feels like I'm wasting half a day.
More of a problem that most of them haven't a clue what they're talking about in the first place. Just know what "looks right"
So, does your desire to hurt people who do bad things mean that you will accept a 70% rate of re-offending, or would you trade your desire for revenge for a 15% rate of re-offending?

That is the question you really need to answer.

Is it better to stop future offending or feel good about inflicting suffering on others who are "bad" right now?

You might also want to throw into the mix the observation that a very large number of people in prison have untreated mental / behavioral issues and that a very large number of people who commit violent or sexual crimes have themselves been victims of such crimes in their formative years.

My argument is that whatever your ethics are, treating people like animals creates more animals. We all pay the cost of that.
Chart showing lines of code vs. time spent reading and editing
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It's a while since I checked http://caniuse.com/svg

and it's nice to see it green across the board. Even the mobile browsers.
The scatterplot is taken from this blog http://fagblogg.mesan.no/how-bad-is-smelly-code/
> [T]he cameras in the early iPhones were very deliberately below par specifically so that they could ramp up the camera quality with each new model as an incentive for owners to upgrade.

That’s quite an accusation you’re making. Do you have any sources to back that up? I read a lot of tech news and I’ve never come across anything like it.
I agree. I was really, really hoping for a MacBook Air-style 2x improvement in battery life (either through a physically larger battery and/or silicon improvements).

The problem with battery life:

1) It's already terrible. If I go out to a bar or whatever after work and I haven't charged it through the day to >75%, it will be dead most likely by the time I'm trying to get directions home/phone a taxi.

2) No VoLTE support, so you need to have both the 3G & 4G radios on when making a call and using data at the same time, which sucks.

3) iOS7 will likely allow much more aggressive multitasking by developers, which will reduce battery life further. This hasn't really been seen on these benchmarks but I think once developers start pushing through these things, battery life is going to take a nose dive.

4) iPhone batteries aren't user replacements and people use them very heavily. I imagine many people will easily do 500 cycles a year, which makes performance suck pretty quickly.
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> It sounds better, but is ARM actually handling the 64 bit ISA transition better than Intel's Itanium fiasco? (AMD's ISA won).

Yes. There's only one ISA from ARM (ARMv8), and it looks like it'll be adopted; Apple has already made ARMv8 devices, and a number of other companies have said they will in late 2014/early 2015.
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Lately, my coding productivity has been related to the time of day as well. I find myself doing more work in the evening or at night. Mainly because there's less disruptions (people) around to distract me online and offline. I could force myself back to doing more during the day, but it I would have to retrain myself since my brain is still in the mode of wanting to do other things at that point. Since the days are getting shorter here, I don't mind it so much, since I rather enjoy the Sunlight while it lasts.
Could you come in a bit later? Say at 3? Eliminate some of the "waste" but leave enough time to fix problems etc before you start your real productive shift?
> At least it isn't the biggest shame anymore. The NSA is it now.

That's simply not true. At least, not in the eyes of many.
No, Gitmo is far worse.
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Original Formula 1 was ruined by restrictions on maximal engine performance, acceleration... even tyres are dictated. In result cars are practically identical and race is very boring.

By reading article Formula E is going to have similar limitations. It is very sad, we just lost technological race where victory would be won by innovation.

> During the race, the cars are forced into a power-saving mode of 133 kW (180 hp)

> The motor is good for a maximum output of 200 kW (270 horsepower), but that power is only allowed to be used continuously during practice and qualifying.

> Formula E racer can go from 0-60 MPH in three seconds, while the top speed is limited to a rather anemic 140 MPH
I think a lot of people were (a) fuelled by a desire to complain about Apple as much as possible and (b) were assuming that ARMv8 was an AMD64-type transition or even a SPARC64-type transition, rather than a totally new ISA.

That said, from Anandtech's article, it looks like most of the speed boost is from microarchitectural improvements, rather than use of the new ISA; ARMv7 code shows most of the speedup.
I think of it as "no shame fits everyone" -- if you live in rural Pakistan -- it's the constant threat of drone attack. If you're a radical "arab" -- it's indefinite detention without appeal. For the intellectuals of the west, it's NSA.

I know I'm glad I personally don't have to (rationally) fear being disappeared or caught in a the blast of an hell-fire missile. At the same time, it's sad that people in the west, in general, seem to not really care about these abuses that happen on a physical level, and gets riled up just because privacy is invaded and we're all voting a new global Stasi into existence.

We seem to get the government we deserver, all around. Lets hope something good comes out of the global #occupy movement over the next decades.
That next president would be free to make his own mistakes but Obama was elected on a platform that had as one of its cornerstones the closing of Guantanamo.

That a campaign promise of such magnitude is broken with a 'my hands are tied' is a clear indication that something is seriously borked.
The 16% is for Bastøy, not for everyone. Statistics Norway has a better article on the recidivism rate (from 2005), but not in English unfortunately[1]. Among released prisoners 20% went back to prison at least once because of a new crime (33% after 4 years).

The closest comparisons I could find between your link and mine were:

* Reconvictions of released prisoners after 3 years: 46.9% vs ~38% (fig 3, yellow line)

* Resentenced to prison after 3 years: 25.4% vs 30% (fig 3, red line)
(US numbers from 1994, Norwegian from 2005)

Translation for the figures from SSB:

* Fig 1: People who were charged with a crime

* Fig 2: People who were sentenced

* Fig 3: People released from jail

* Blue line: Charged with new crime

* Yellow: New sentence

* Red: New incarceration

[1] http://ssb.no/sosiale-forhold-og-kriminalitet/artikler-og-pu...
TOP 5 myths around why you should not build Android apps
From their overview page:

"20 Aug 2012: We're still here! While active development has been stopped for a while, we continue to operate CoralCDN as an open, free service. It's now been running continuously for more than 8 years (since March 2004), and continues to get a few million users per day at last check. Enjoy continuing to use the service!"
I think that is a great way of working, by working in your most productive hours (which of course vary from person to person) you will get more done, and enjoy it more. Makes sense to me.
Well, people have their entire lives in their computers as well. You also see the same with touchpads. It's only after Apple pushed multitouch that touchpads have gradually started improving on PCs (many early gestures actually made PC touchpads _worse_ to the point where I had to turn them off).
Truká - In the name of the Enchanteds
Truká, in the name of the Enchanteds, is a documentary about the Truká people. They live on islands on the São Francisco river in the north-east of Brazil. And their story is the same as for indigenous people all over the world: a story of colonization and oppression but also about resistance and courage.

Today, they are facing their biggest threat ever: a planned transposition project of the river that the Truká as well as other communities are dependent on. This will have a huge impact on the river that is already very low because of dams. Not only a ecological disaster but also a cultural disaster for people that are dependent on this river.

The ambition of this film is to raise awareness on this subject and hopefully inspire people to take action to prevent this disaster from happening. Also to make people think about what it means to be indigenous, what effect a rampant development have on their culture and nature itself - that we all are dependent on for our survival.

This project is a part of a larger picture, an unpreceded destruction of the natural world that has taken apocalyptical measures. This greed for power and money stands in direct contrast to the indigenous mindset that is based on balance. Because all indigenous cultures are based on the notion that if you destroy your own landbase you have nothing. Except but death.
I bought my iPad 3 for reading, coding, and drawing (Procreate and Paper). It's perfect for it and I am yet to see how the hardware has suffered for the retina display.
Perfect chance for a new browser extension. When ever it finds a pay wall it looks for a similar article when you click the link.
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If he had the option he could use that to strong-arm congress into doing the right thing. After all it would be their jobs on the line as well and those voting against would be on the record as having done so. Memories are short and if it is 4 years between elections such issues will have faded from the public consciousness. But if they're the direct cause of an election round then they will carry much more weight.
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Same headline on cnn: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/18/business/tesla-self-drive-...
I somehow got the feeling that my boss won't appreciate me just packing up my shit and strolling out on a work day…
Doing nothing is the most draining task there is. Not only it is really boring and mind numbing, but you pretty much have to pretend like you are doing something, which is way harder than actually doing it.

But since corporations pay by the hours you sit at your desk, and require you to sit at your desk, there arent too many options.

I've done 80% work weeks for about 6 years now, so I actually can afford to leave right after lunch if I feel like it since I don't have to pull some crazy 14 hour day next day.
No, it’s not the ‘jackasses’ making ’claim chowder’.

When a tech writer posts a prediction that’s bearish on Apple or bullish on one of its competitors, Gruber might quote him and ‘file it for future claim chowder’. That means that Gruber will revisit the claim later and make chowder out of it.
Or try this: http://www.airforce.com/contact-us/recruiter-locator/ (or equivalent in your local country)
I'm cool with the fact that he obviously likes Apple products and gives them unsurprisingly positive reviews.

It's annoying however how he dismisses as "Apple bashers" whoever does not agree with his opinion (and I speak as an iPhone/iPad/Macbook owner).
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>> "In result cars are practically identical and race is very boring."

Not true at all. If the cars were practically identical Red Bull wouldn't be running away with the championship every year. As important as the drivers are in F1 the car is much more important.

>> "Formula 1 was ruined by restrictions on maximal engine performance, acceleration... even tyres are dictated"

Without some of those restrictions most of the smaller teams couldn't afford to go racing. We would lose probably half the teams. And tyres are what has made F1 so exciting these last few years. Tyres could easily be made to last an entire race taking away the strategy aspect from F1 that makes it so interesting.
Wow. That's got to be the first LJ mention that I come across in a long long time.
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This is SO true. It is incredibly boring to do nothing, and like you say, it can be harder work to do nothing!!
I wish corporations would wise up to it, and allow their employees more responsibility and flexibility but I doubt it will happen any time soon.
Or, accidentally click too many times, skipping a slide?
The Snapdragon 800 tested is a relatively power-hungry tablet part. I _think_ the phone ones will have fewer execution units. If history is a guide, the iPad 5 A7 (A7X?) will have twice the execution units.
There's always the potential to abuse the system but the alternative is worse.

The X years means a chance to be free (hope) if you remove that what is their motivation to be peaceful?
I also loved Diablo 1 and 2, but did not like the gameplay of Diablo 3 at all as it felt too simplistic. The thing I was worried about, however, was seeing the auction house being successful and this kind of nonsense becoming mainstream. It is bad enough we have day 1 DLC, special preorder offers which give overpowered items, and special currencies which buy the best items. But being able to simply throw money at a game to be good at it? What is the point in playing the game? Players should have to play the game and be good at it to earn/unlock items and achievements and this experiment shows that players don't want to be able to rush themselves through it because it is the experience that counts, not the end goal.
Have you looked at Zevo? It's at Zpool 28 on OS X.

Regarding OpenZFS, I thought it was quite surprising that the FreeBSD version wasn't used as a basis for a port, I imagined they had more in common.
Same here. CoralCDN has been around for ages, I've used it to auto-mirror images and other static content from sites to reduce bandwidth consumption. Works really well.
Hydrolic flight simulator platforms start at about $1600 and go to about $14k (for something which can spin and roll 360°), and probably a lot less if you make them yourself.
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A widescreen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone and a breakthrough internet communications device. An iPod … a phone … and an internet communicator. An iPod, a phone … are you getting it?
From the data presented, it looks like most of the performance gains are actually from improvements in Apple's micro architecture (they show up even using ARMv7 code).
"The modern smartphone market has also evolved. When Apple introduced the original iPhone with its 3.5" display, Steve called it "giant" on stage. Today even HTC's One mini ships with a 4.3" display."

http://anandtech.com/show/7335/the-iphone-5s-review
And it's at Zpool 28 already.
I've had both jobs where I could mostly work when I wanted to and also where I had to be in the office basically the entire day. I found that at the job where I had flexibility, I produced better output, and I didn't have a lot of time where I would surf the net to overcome boredom.

In the inflexible environment, surfing net locations that were somewhat work related was the only thing I could do to pass by time when I knew I wasn't going to write quality code or when I was too mentally tired to accomplish the task that was at hand. I had many times where going home and returning in the morning was the best thing for trying to solve a difficult problem.

Unfortunately, many employers don't care and want to fit development staff into the typical 9-5 mold even if it means reduced productivity.
>> "The schedule is set to include London, Berlin, Rome, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Beijing, Bangkok, and Purtrajaya, as well as stateside races in Los Angeles and Miami. "

The fact that this is run completely on street circuits will hurt it. Over taking is incredibly difficult on street circuits and that will turn most people away from it.
Modifiable snapshots are called clones in ZFS. Everything you said about snapshots is possible with ZFS with clones+snapshots. Clones are just as instant as snapshots.

Runnin ZFS in linux is not good idea. That's why I'm currently using OpenSolars and maybe switching to FreeBSD in the future for file and db servers.

The problem with btrfs time estimate is that it takes long time for filesystems to become reliable enough that you can put important data on them. ZFS has crossed that threshold, it takes years and years for btrfs.
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"safe" like nullifying pointers and dummy-initialization for objects. This kind of initialization has a small footprint on performance, but it was made optional nevertheless, due to language's performance aims (you can skip them if you don't need that). You can make a little bit more complex operations in constructors that involve data validation, but it should only default to blank initialization if something doesn't pass the checks. The initialization that can fail (and the failure must be taken in account) should be done outside constructors. If an object is or isn't considered valid after a dummy initialization is a design decision, and likewise an adjustment in design can avoid excessive "if (object.is_valid())" kind of checks.
Hanging a light on potential bias builds trust with the reader. He may have linked to the best parts, but how do I know that he didn't pick the parts that make him the most in referrals? You have to trust the author or usefulness of the information is compromised.

BTW, I'm not saying the author is taking advantage of his readers nor am I saying he has an obligation to disclose his referral links. I'm just pointing out the difference that it would make and suggesting that all bloggers consider it.
Unfortunately, I don't think they would either, however I believe that corporations are really missing a trick in terms of getting the most out of their employees.
This requires Javascript though, and its operation is way more complicated. It depends on peer-to-peer delivery, which is pretty hard when most users are behind NAT'ed routers and proxies. Furthermore, you need quite a few concurrent users requesting the same resources before it will even start using this CDN.

Finally, it's "currently in private beta", which means it's relatively untested in the real world, and not open like Coral at all.

I think there's just no comparing the two.
Only if you don't have a very compact phone, like the iPhone. Motorola has been making 4.3" phones the size of a 4" iPhone for a while, for example. Even the 4.7" Moto X isn't much bigger.
I'm personally using it on my set of freebsd jailed boxes to provide quota-ing in a useful way, de-duplication of shared files in those quotaed trees, compression of things like the ports tree, etc. Subvolumes are sexy as hell in how you can have one filesystem, but give lots of different attributes to various bits and pieces.
In other words, you made a comment four months ago that simple, geometric models are likely to be important?
This is very cool. Rather obviates my own site. (http://fabfabbers.com) Ho hum ;)
I agree. Maybe the only real limitation should be how much a team can spend per year, a 'team cap'.
I believe the new Mac Pro is post-Jobs Apple’s first big thing. It’s not a consumer device and it won’t sell tens of millions, but it is a completely new computer with a radically different philosophy than how Apple built workstations before.
Like driving an old Mercedes as opposed to a new Corolla.
Thanks, that cleared it up. Over here in Germany, there are only prisons, operated by the state, and labelled Justizvollzugsanstalt (JVA, ‘judicial execution facility’?), and facilities for underage/young offenders called Jugendarrestanstalten (JAA, ‘youth detention facility’, maybe).

The idea of prisons (or even proper police forces) operated by individual counties in the US still strikes me as odd, but then, those counties are likely more comparable to German states.