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You know what happens to the programmers who aren't 10X ninjas? They get paid a good salary. Unless they are totally incompetent, and even then they don't all do too badly.
Yes, it seems to have exactly the same problems as back testing trading algorithms.
Is your point that we shouldn't be supportive of corporations doing charity?

There are corporations which have rationally (long-term profit-wise, or whatever) decided to do charity work. There are corporations which have decided not to. I support the former.
I think I have read somewhere that the cartridges being buried in the desert is just a hoax.
Indeed, it's unfortunate that he's insisting on "boys" and using the masculine pronouns in this piece. This is, however, an excerpt from a book, focusing specifically on one case study. I would hope and expect -- though I cannot confirm -- that the book looks at children of both genders.

"Making light of issues like this, or narrowing them to "boys will be boys", is a sad misinterpretation of a real issue."

I didn't read either of those things in the article. Agree completely that his focus on "boys" in this excerpt is limiting and probably misguided, but I don't see him "making light" of any of these subjects. Nor did I see him categorically tying these behaviors to masculine behaviors ("boys will be boys"). Again, keep in mind that he uses one case study to illustrate the points made in a much longer book. And the headline, while certainly gender-limited, may not have been written by the author (Salon's editors, like the editors of many other publications, probably wrote it).
Sure, send me an email (james@letscodejavascript.com) and we can discuss it.
You can also utilise the microSD slot (which sits behind the kickstand[1]). A few of my coworkers who have the Surface Pro brought a 64gb microSD card and store media (music/videos/photos) on the microSD. The speed of the card isn't too bad when used for that purpose.

So in this sense, while you may lose space for the OS, at least you can still expand it with a microSD card.

[1] - http://tablets.wonderhowto.com/how-to/add-extra-storage-spac...
>Well, there you go, you've said it yourself. What you are talking about is not universal healthcare. Debate over, closed; we aren't even talking about the same thing. You are in no way, shape or form talking about universal healthcare, don't even delude yourself that you are - in trying to define it you are explicitly defining against it.

Well, then any case I give you you will define away as no true scotsman, so yes, our debate is over. I think you have an idealistic and privileged view of what universal healthcare is that is completely closed-minded to the reality of it and the inherent flaws of it, and for that reason you will never understand my argument.

> but it does seem inherently more just.

Yeah of course, the US system is terrible, but if you're comparing the universal healthcare to the US system, I'm going to let you know, the bar is pretty damn low.
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> You're cherry-picking data.

No, I'm just remembering one piece of data off the top of my head.

> 1950 wasn't a utopia.

Definitely. Whether you could get access to reasonable (or even any) medical care depended on whether you were white. But one doctor has made a questionable decision about your father's care (by the way, you do know you can get second, even third opinions, even within a fully socialized system, right?), so you want to go back to segregated medicine.

> If you "voted for the other guy", in what way are you responsible?

"We" is society, not the individual. Society is responsible, and society is what you want to rely on, just without the "government" label attached. It's the most ridiculous idea I've ever heard.
It's the equivalent of going to a Chinese restaurant and asking for the "Chinese menu" rather than the "American menu" even if you can't read Chinese.
Because you don't run just a kernel. It's fairly obvious a lot more things go into an operating system. Calling Android and Ubuntu under the same "Linux" umbrella is like calling bread and pasta as "Wheat" since they use the same raw material.
I wish google would change their motto from "don't be evil" to "don't be assholes". I bet they would get a lot more mileage out of the second one.

Really, when has google ever cared about customer service? Heck, the BORG have better customer service than google. And no, I'm not still mad about google getting rid of my beloved Reader... Why do you ask?
That's a pretty flippant statement, just like the one in the main article. When did having fewer people make it junk/worthless?
To recap, there are a few different types of requests.

There are warrants/court orders, which everyone is familiar with.

Then there are NSLs. Those usually come from the FBI, and with a gag order. These can be included in transparency reports in aggregate, which is what the numbers provided by Google etc (and presumably dropbox) show.

"By law, NSLs can request only non-content information, such as transactional records, phone numbers dialled or sender or recipient email addresses. They also contain a gag order, preventing the recipient of the letter from disclosing that the letter was ever issued."

Worse than the NSL is the FISA order. These are not included in any "transparency reports", and they do not have to target specific users. They allow surveillance without a warrant. They don't even have to be for seeking evidence related to a crime, and can be issued just for "intelligence gathering".

"And it's even worse for FISA subpoenas, which can be used to force anyone to hand over anything in complete secrecy, and which were greatly strengthened by Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act. The government doesn't have to show probable cause that the target is a foreign power or agent — only that they are seeking the requested records "for" an intelligence or terrorism investigation. Once the government makes this assertion, the court must issue the subpoena."

In short, none of these transparency reports are worth anything, because they don't acknowledge FISA requests.
I wonder if this would at all be even considered in a US airport. I have also an unusual condition that falls under ADA protection, and have gotten into the position of having to ask for (what I thought was very reasonable, but unusual in so far as accommodation requests go) accommodation and was basically red-taped for 6 months before someone finally told me nothing could be done, short of me bringing in someone to sue them. I wonder if the UK is better about disability accommodation in general or if I was just incredibly unlucky?
I suppose, if you completely discount fortifications.
I think you didn't read the announcement correctly. Sure the box can do streaming but it is also expected to run "native games". So, for streaming maybe a cheap box is OK, but for actual gaming on the box, you'll need something way more powerful than what you can get for 99 dollars.
> A launch title like Half-life 3 (seems unlikely with the circle + circle logo implying you need multiple SteamOS instances).

I think Left 4 Dead 3 (long rumored) is more likely.
This is part of why SpaceX is so focused on enabling recovery and reuse of their launch vehicles - the rocket costs an enormous amount relative to the propellant/launch site.

As for the turbo pump only running for 30 minutes - if the launch vehicle it's attached to is going to destroy itself, why bother designing the pump to last longer, likely adding several pounds? "Oh, this new pump will last 100x longer than that old model - but you're just going to crash it into the ground at several hundred miles an hour, because recovering it would cost far more than just buying one more of the old model. Sound good?"
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We've been using Huboard recently, but I'm definitely in terested in seeing how Zenhub compares to it. How are you guys going to monetize this?
I found most of them there...any particular ones you're looking for?
There is a Safari (Mac) extension for this called JSBlacklist as well.

https://code.google.com/p/jsblacklist/downloads/list

Just enter in the domain to block it. Up to you to find the domain though, if it's not in the default list.
> what Apple did with FreeBSD

Please tell us what Apple did with FreeBSD.
Yes. A lot, but it's still extremely cheap and there are literally hundreds of miles of amazing coastline to retire cheaply to, many of which are within 1-4 hours of a major metropolitan city. São Luis (Maranhão), Fortaleza (Ceara), Recife & Olinda (Pernambuco), Salvador (Bahia) and Aracaju (Sergipe) all have amazing and cheap places nearby.

The major cities in the northeast leave a lot to be desired because they are often very poorly run because socialist political parties are in power[0]

A lot of the growth in the Northeast has been due to the Bolsa Família[1] conditional cash transfer program that redistributed wealth to poor across the country, but especially the northeast because many of Brazil's poor live there. It works in a way that doesn't undermine local economics but instead infuses cash at the lowest levels of society, generating economic activity in local communities and providing opportunities for individuals to scale to small businesses and small businesses to scale into larger ones. One of the biggest takeaways for me was that except for major capital expenditures like power plants, ~12 million people spending ~$13 will better allocate ~$156 million dollars than one fund manager investing $156 million dollars. On top of that, a $10 million investment in Brazil is likely to be half of that after graft and palm greasing.

Read up on the Bolsa Familia. IMHO it's really a model of how you institute a social program in a capitalistic way and the northeast is proof.

[0] nothing wrong with many ideas of socialism per se, but if you want socialism within your city/state/country, then you need to ruthlessly pursue capitalism with respect to other cities/states/countries that aren't yours so you can fund your social programs.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolsa_Fam%C3%ADlia
Edit: I do not think it is right for them...
Super cool! Changing my password to this number everywhere. :)
I'm afraid to install this. Does it actually work or is it another common fake app found on the Play store?
It's working for me. Sending and receiving messages and pictures. Receiving them faster then Messages for Mac is even!
Opening and running a bed and breakfast is also a great option since it provides a steady stream of travelers, which mitigates the isolation you might feel from being in a foreign land.
It's a matter of trade-offs of convenience vs "better safe than sorry". It's not a binary either-or decision. Just like with lithium batteries, which can still cause nasty fires. Yet they aren't banned because if they were, it would be a huge inconvenience.
And so the backlash against autism spectrum begins...

There are many things wrong with the article, but my main gripe is how the author totally ignores the Asperger's end of the spectrum. Calling it a spectrum provides great insight (there are a large number of behaviors, and individuals have various combinations of each to a varying degree), but the author uses it to blur the line between what I would call functioning and non-functioning individuals (and seemingly on purpose). "Full" autism causes people to be unable to cope with the regualar world and all its stresses (see article about how autistics can take an airplane[1]). The author is exploiting the fear of parents whose children are found to be on the "autistic spectrum" (but more likely on the more functioning Asperger's end) and justifying a refusal of the diagnosis.

My perception is that Asperger's individuals (and the William in the article seems to fit--though I am not a doctor) have quirks and are difficult to raise. They have emotional issues and are socially maladapted. But they can lead fully independent lives and often contribute greatly to society. My issue with the author is that I believe Asperger's children can benefit greatly from psychological help, to teach them emotional and social skills in a way that parents can't. I believe that in certain cases, this help is critical to making the difference between the Asperger's person leading an almost normal life (including getting married and having kids), and leading a miserable life as a social outcast (bullied, unable to be in a relationship, unable to deal with child-raising).

So I think more nuance is in order, more distinction between autism and Asperger's (even though they are on the same spectrum), and more help for Asperger's children and adults, not less.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23989422
Source?

Talk to Judy at Epic and you get a different opinion. Actually, talk to almost anybody I've ever met in my 10 years in healthcare and you'd get a different opinion.
Yes, this is something I notice a lot on frequent flyer forums: people being mad because today they didn't get an exception they usually get. Once you let the rules slide once, people are outraged that you don't let it happen every time.
> Worse than the NSL is the FISA order.

This right here is the contentious "Section 215", which is colloquially summarized as get everything, sort it later.

Its broad-sweeping and baseless nature is what's ruffling lots of feathers, and NSA's General Alexander praised it frequently in the much-reported congressional hearings from ~3 months ago.

The FISC has recently declassified their court opinion on it (they love it):

http://www.uscourts.gov/uscourts/courts/fisc/br13-09-primary...
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I do, since I am unaware of ancient fortifications as old as the earliest farming communities.

Perhaps they did exist, but it seems to me that a farm is a prerequisite for fortifications since fortifications require you to stay in one place for an extended period of time. (Staying in one place requires you to stop following around the herd of whatever you eat. Farms however are much easier to bootstrap. You can plant a field then abandon it, only to come back later).

Basically, my understanding is that city walls tended to be built after cities.
Do these words look familar?

> GPL only prevents added restrictions from being added to the GPL code itself, or the combined work. If users downstream remove said code, then it would not be a combined work anymore.

Perhaps you should read your own work before replying.

> You said it was impossible, yet they did it.

O'rly? Where was that?
You didn't see either of those things? His main argument seemed to be "we can mistake traditional masculine behavior for high-functioning autism." The overwhelming presence of quotes like "Is he high-functioning autistic or really a more masculine-identified boy?" "Brainy, introverted boys beware", "... these behaviors might be characteristic of both willful male toddlers and autistic children", "....it is tough to distinguish between early signs of autism spectrum disorder and indications that we have on our hands a young boy who is a budding intellectual" combine to make it pretty unlikely that we just happen to be reading the single part of the book where he overwhelmingly focuses on the association of autism and 'normal masculine behaviour'.
That's why I used the word 'tiers' if you read more carefully. The bottom tier may be an inexpensive streaming box, the highest tier may be a high performance dedicated gaming PC running SteamOS.
> I would hope and expect -- though I cannot confirm -- that the book looks at children of both genders.

I haven't read the book either, but the article doesn't give me much hope.

All of the following are direct quotes from the article:

"That’s not autism: It’s simply a brainy, introverted boy" <--This is the title.

"How boys communicate and socialize" <--This is one of the subheadings.

> Nor did I see him categorically tying these behaviors to masculine behaviors ("boys will be boys").

FTA:
"As educated people, we don’t want to believe in overarching differences in communication styles between the sexes. When I was in college in the 1980s and ’90s, “essentialism” was a dirty word. To believe that males and females might be different in essential ways was akin to admitting that you were unenlightened. There’s still a pervasive sense in our culture that to be educated is to be gender-blind, and there is something of a taboo against voicing aloud explanations for a child’s behavior in terms of his or her gender. If you don’t believe me, try uttering some version of the following statements at your son’s next parent-teacher conference: Jamal is so logical and brusque when he talks. I know he needs all our help to ease up. But these are traditional masculine behaviors, after all, and we might need to accept him more for who he is. Or, Billy overtalks and really needs an audience, especially when he has a new favorite hobby or interest. He needs to be a better listener. But he’s not unlike a lot of boys I know.

It’s this public discomfort with discussing children’s gendered behavior that gets many traditionally masculine boys inappropriately labeled as high-functioning autistic. Poor eye contact, long-winded monologues about one’s new favorite topic, being overly serious and businesslike, appearing uninterested in other’s facial expressions, and restricting friendships to those who share one’s interests, may all be signs of Asperger’s syndrome or high-functioning autism. However, these same traits typify boys who are traditionally masculine in their behavior. Parents somehow have to ask the uncomfortable question in the doctor’s office: Is he high-functioning autistic or really a more masculine-identified boy?"

Or...you know...a girl. Who just so happens to have strange interests, be introverted, and struggle socially.
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Your personal experience is meaningless. Autism and Aspergers are not the same for everyone. The fact that you are typing this is proof enough. But when you suggest that autistics who stim by slamming their head into a wall don't need special treatment, it's clear you don't understand the full ramifications of what you are suggesting.

Autism is a spectrum. It's not one thing.

> And with things like ADD the `treatment' was almost always much worse than the condition itself.

As someone who was recently diagnosed with ADHD, and is currently taking medication, I can assure you, that's not the case.
Meh, this is cool and all but is just a coincidence of base-10 notation, not some fundamental theorem about the integers.
I am not aware of any pharmaceutical treatments for autism. (Nor is Google.)

If autism is indeed being over-diagnosed, this is not due to pressure from Big Pharma.

Careful of your generalizations.
That is exactly what got my attention. I think the problem with USA's insurance is not that it is private, but that it is really expensive.

I've been taking son analysis myself: ultrasound, x-ray, endoscopy, and had a surgery some time ago. All this amounted to $2000. And that's because I chose to go the private route in my country (Mexico). I have no idea how much would I have to pay in the USA for all that... it scares me.
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nope - that's right on. you only missed the 40 minute bus rides between terminals.
Is this actually running on Apple's iMessage protocol or is it just duplicating/imitating it? That is to say, if you 'iMessage' to an Apple device, does it come up as an iMessage on that device?
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It did when I tried with my roommate. He even sent me a picture.
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Aspies are not systematically medicated. Few are ever medicated. Sometimes, medications not specifically indicated for Asperger's, such as antipsychotics and antidepressants, are used to treat extreme symptoms. These would be given whether the symptom came with a diagnosis of Asperger's or not, and usually are not consistently maintained at a high dosage long-term.

There is no "Asperger's pill". I only wish someone could come up with one.
The GP says in another comment that trying to treat autism is bullshit.

> I think there is good reason to be skeptical of psychiatry.

I think there is good reason to be skeptical when not presented with proof. I'm sorry, but the GP is asserting things purely based on his uninformed opinion.
It really, really, depends on the FAs and flight. Sometimes I'll openly have my tablet running, watching a movie or whatever, other times I've had an FA insist I actually power off a Kindle (hold down the switch).
in fact, microsoft should be scared of this move - because the gaming scene is basically what keeps a whole bunch of machines installed with windows.
The scrutinization is first and foremost for the protection of Dropbox, and user privacy is secondary. Always gotta look out for #1.
Now, if Halflife 3 becomes a SteamOS exclusive, then we might have a shot of a linux gaming environment.
Honestly can't tell if trolling or serious. Good job if it's intentional trolling.
After you get past a certain age, you may also want
some help for yourself from your children.

The cost of a maid or other household help in many developing countries is low enough that you can get much much much better help there than you could possibly get from your adult kids with their own lives in the US. A really good live-in maid will run you $500 a month (a great salary for many people). They will cook all your meals three times a day, keep the house spotless, do all your laundry, run errands like buying groceries, etc. You can't find service like you can in Brazil without paying a pretty penny. The average cost of a retirement community in the US is $2750 a month, many times more expensive for probably far worse service, with one employee shared among many retired individuals.
My in-ear monitors are much more difficult to remove (not to mention get in) than headphones.
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I feel like the second paragraph wasn't there when I first replied to this, but if it was I just didn't notice it. I'd like to address it specifically either way.

I'm not at all saying "you can't compare anything to blackface." There are absolutely modern power structures that resemble it, and it is absolutely right to point them out and deal with them. I would never ever say that you shouldn't.

What I'm saying is that this is not a matter of scope but structure. Structurally, whatever you're seeing in Big Bang Theory does not resemble in any way what exists in traditional minstrelry. The people who are the butt of the joke in Big Bang Theory do not suffer systemic disadvantages in the way that Black people in the Jim Crowe era did, and they actually enjoy quite a lot of systemic advantages.

If merely caricaturing people for an audience to laugh at is sufficient justification for a comparison to minstrelry, then the entire comedy industry is and has always been guilty of it. As for unpopular, I'd also argue that there's a vast difference between unpopular and being treated as subhuman by law, to the point that they are not even close to the same thing. Black people being 'unpopular' is not why minstrelry was wrong.
For those interested, the event stream can be viewed here:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/presskits/surface/surfac...
I'm glad they are working on this for this kid because otherwise its the worst airport ever:

- 20 minute bus rides between TERMINALS
- Then its time for the queues from hell.

- Also, a landing card is required for transit to Ireland. (But no where else.)

- Time for another queue. Just cause.

- You must take a subway to get anywhere in Terminal 5.

- Making a connection? Be prepared for total confusion on where to go, which terminal your flight is in, and which gate its at.

- Terminal 5 is nice looking, the rest are claustrophobic ghettos.

- Watch the movie Brasil.
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