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Combining algorithms, if done properly, isn't necessarily going to make things weaker. But doing it properly isn't trivial (which goes for crypto in general) and the more complex the construction, the more opportunities for screwing it up.

But at the end of the day it's still trying to solve the wrong problem. The chance of a well studied algorithm like AES having a significant weakness is much, MUCH lower than the chance that a particular program using it has a security flaw. Any effort spent layering Twofish and Salsa20 on top of AES would almost certainly be better spent making sure the usage of AES is totally secure.
There are plenty of options that don't look like the iOS loading bar. And it does serve a functional purpose. Manipulating the user's sense of time is an important part of improving UX.
To future investigative writers: Diagrams and acronym glossaries please. If a subject is hard to understand, unclear presentation is another barrier. (People have limited attention and thoughtspace.)
For some reason, can't see how to comment, am I missing something?
"Not available in your country."

This is absurd, considering what I imagine the content to be.
What was the point of this promotion in the first place? One random English and one random French word? What is wrong with you retards?
Isn't that assuming a static level of wealth/production? Wealth/Production output isn't a zero sum game, it's not some pie you keep cutting into smaller slices. It can grow over time and even if you increase the number of slices cut, each slice can retain the same relative mass. It's when these don't match up that you find yourself with an inflationary or deflationary currency.

Yes, you can and do cause inflation by printing more money, but it's not as simple as you assert it to be, and it certainly doesn't warrant the rudeness to the parent.
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old school? what about git?

> git pull

> git push

> git clone

or would you prefer a binary for each command:

> git_pull

> git_clone

> git_push

now, what really looks old school to you?
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I don't about that but one reasonable guess is that large firms that were contracted with RIM may have been hesitant to end their contract when the iPhone/Android initially came out and after it was a bit proved actually switched away causing massive drop-offs. This may especially be true since most RIM customers likely were businesses.
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haha! could've fooled me, thanks for clearing that up.
To be fair to tptacek, he was far from the only crypto person saying that...and for good reason. In the absolute best case the algorithm was known to at least be slow and complex to implement, two things that don't usually lead to widespread adoption. The news that RSA had it as the default is interesting regardless.
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> Even in eighth grade, American kids spend more than twice the time Korean kids spend playing sports, according to a 2010 study published in the Journal of Advanced Academics

Of course American kids spend more time on sports. They don't have super fast internet and live in a country where Starcraft players can get corporate sponsorship and make a living playing the game. Did the study take this into account?
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Ok, thanks for the follow up. It can be easier and less daunting than it looks, and I totally get your description on how you feel about it at this point. Having your background in webdev you are closer to being able to do it than you may think.
If you take a look at something like the Haxe language (hard ECMA influence so not that far away from javascript) with its OpenFL framework, there are these: https://github.com/dazKind/foo3D
https://github.com/wighawag/openfl-stage3d

The first produces html5 and abstracts a lot of the complexity of the low level that other approaches are based on. The second is more c++ oriented at this point. Hope it helps, or at least leads you to finding your own path to doing it. It also allows you to escape some of the js madness that happens when you interact with this stuff for browser output. It allowed me to get to a level of production that I could not imagine possible just by looking at the opengl stuff.
I can't believe it has almost been 20 years since I last dealt with F95.
Disingenuous means "not of noble character", and more generally means things along the lines of "deliberately dishonest". "Disingenuous" does not mean "misleading, maybe by accident". It's an attack on someone's character.

So, if you wanted to say "misleading, maybe accidentally", you used the wrong word.

Maybe over time, people are evolving toward using the four-syllable word as a one-to-one replacement for the three-syllable word, as a way of disingenuously suggesting they're better educated than they are? If so, eventually, that'll be the most common usage, and thus what the word "means". I don't think we're there yet.

I came for the pedantry, but I'll stay for an opinion: For myself, I agree with the wording you used in the first comment, that calling that list "everything you need to know about web development" is such a high degree of bullshit that no one of noble character would do that. I believe it to be deliberately deceptive self-promotion.

Back on the pedantry, I find it hard to believe that you actually meant "foster" where you wrote that. I mean, who cares how many people foster the opinion that "critique" has a strictly negative connotation... isn't the real issue how many people hold that opinion?
School sports helps people do better in school and in life. Isn't that what people who are against sports want?

That only helps the athletes, while (at least in my high school) creating a stratified society where everyone else was treated as inferior.
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Figure 1 second CPU execution time; 12 cores (2x 6core CPU). You can handle 12x60 = 720 images per minute, or, more than 40,000 images per hour.
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I also prefer TUI over Ajax GUI but here I think we don't have the tools and environment that define a real TUI. For example, can I pipe the genre list to grep or sort or awk? Can I script a player in a cronjob? I doubt it (cannot check because on a phone)
If that's the case, he just sounds sour ಠ_ಠ
I didn't realize that Windows Mobile had such large market share at one point.
I'm sure this has been researched intensively by the media giants. A lot of pop music and rehashes of classic movies are a product of this I think.
Yes, very few people I know of would buy a Blackberry for their personal device. Also, back then people that needed to be in business contact carried a business-provided device -- very seldom would they use a personal device (and many cases wouldn't even have a personal device). Now it has become almost universal that everyone has family plans, and has their own device -- and not wanting to carry two devices, they use their personal (non-Blackberry) device for work (and get reimbursed). This was almost unthinkable in at least the jobs I used to work at (large fortune 50 companies, financial, etc).
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I don't quite get it.

After looking at the linked to papers, I'm assuming this is not a joke, and he is not putting down (making fun) of the Amplituhedron, nor making up the Unitarihedron (just abstracting his work with a media-friendly name to itit).

What he is joking about is simply that mathematicians should named their work as a (insert-something-here)-hedron, as that would cause the media to pick it up and report on it.

Is this correct?
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Youngest kid, smartest kid?
Also Greenspun's 10th rule of programming: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GreenspunsTenthRuleOfProgramming
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To get an idea of the impact and importance of touch latency, see this intriguing demo by the Microsoft Applied Sciences Group: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4.

Drawing is one of those things that has felt awful on iOS devices to me.
What is QM? Quantum Mechanics?
I have the Lumia 920 and when I have to develop on my iPhone 4 or use a friends iPhone 5/4s/4, this is my main problem. Lumia screen is so responsive that even iPhones 5 feels sluggish to me. Typing is especially challenging so it's nice to see that $AAPL addressed the screen response. Next upgrade to the screen needs to be to fix the size.
Templates do help with performance. Look up the performance characteristics of qsort (C) vs std::sort (templatized C++ sort).
sort of the 'internet cafe' model with refreshments. If you wanted to go for the 'uber' crowd, you could adjust your prices based on demand.

I don't know about the adjusting price on demand (there is a lot of advantage to fixed and predictable prices) but I do think it is a model that could possibly work.

Without demand pricing, you would also need some hook to 'bootstrap' I mean, you aren't going to pay money to go hang out in an empty building - maybe good free coffee? that would be a cheap hook that would work, at least for me.

This would also likely work in a place where there aren't good regular coffee houses. I imagine a 'pay by the hour' place would have a hard time existing next to, say, red rock in mountain view.

The other problem I see is actually collecting the money; if you charge people per-drink, they pay you when they get another drink. If you charge per hour, you've gotta have someone monitoring, or hand out hardware that tracks the customer.

I do like the model, though. You can emphasize the social, you know, like a nightclub, only with the more intellectual connotations of the cafe.
Not really sure the point of the contest. But I can imagine some interesting possibilities forming, such as "You Douche".
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>Of course, those increased fees by the hospital is often covered by medical insurance,

Insurance carriers have a lot of pull to decide how much they are willing to pay. They don't just blindly accept whatever numbers a hospital gives them. Those settlements come straight from the bottom line and are not simple to recoup.
I didn't read the GP as sarcasm, and if it was your answer is still constructive, congrats.
The CPU. Apple licenses ARM's reference designs, then creates an SoC around that.
And by the symmetry of that clause in the constitution, I assume you believe copyright was included to get writers to divulge their writing.
No, but there is evidence suggesting that they are about to partner with GlobalFoundaries, who is building another new fab in NY, supposedly for Apple demand.
That video was a great. Thanks for sharing it.
OMG I LOVE THIS. The Dream Pop playlist is awesome, thanks OP. I love discovering new music!
Yes, much better to punch your users into submission so they don't even think of using their hands.
It would be nice to know what their testing methodology was - specifically, was the measured times from touch to screen response, or from touch to OS response?
I like this fix. People don't realize that loitering in restaurants (particularly by teenagers and retirees) is a huge problem and reduces business. Restaurants frequently lobby together to get loitering laws passed to deal with it.

I used to live in a neighborhood with an abundance of retirement homes and a dearth of restaurants. The two that were open and had decent hours were _always_ filled with old people sitting for hours talking and reading the paper. Often they were borderline-homeless/smelly and they would get into fights. It was incredibly frustrating to want to get food and not have a place to sit. Because this restaurant was part of a chain and had policies to follow, there wasn't really anything they could do to alleviate the situation.

My only option to eat was basically to take the subway out of the neighborhood or walk significantly out of my way.

I don't think any business should be forced to serve customers that are a drain on their revenue. Other options like selectively serving coffee could trigger a costly discrimination suit.

tl;dr: old, table-bogarting assholes are ruining delicious Turkish coffee for everyone and there isn't really anything that can be done about it.
Better link to Agawi's TouchMarks I benchmarking setup:

http://appglimpse.com/blog/touchmarks-i-smart-phone-touch-sc...
Performance is important in another way (I'm referencing the C++ vs go performance discussions here, more than the OP). The more performant you are, the fewer watts you burn. This means phone batteries last longer, and google data centers require fewer power substations. It's a nontrivial concern at any scale. I find blithe 'throw more cores at it' statements rather questionable ecologically.
Yep. There's a decent homebrew paint app on the Nintendo DS that runs circles around the smartphone counterparts... The Ds has a joke of a processor, terrible resolution, and no memory worth mentioning. But it has a resistive pressure-sensitive touchscreen and a stylus. That's enough to make a huge difference. Resistive touchscreens are fast and pressure sensitive, allowing far better conditions for art.
Sounds like a bubble tea store with tables, chairs, board games and maybe a few sofas. (they exist)
I was about to post the same. Maybe $25.
This kind of responsiveness is actually the kind of thing that Apple is sort of famous for by designing both the hardware and the software, but it is surprising that Samsung is still behind.

I think the other thing that is not very often taken into consideration is how resolution impacts responsiveness. The more pixels the graphics card has to push, the slower the screen to redraw.

Pairing bigger devices with big resolution means that achieving consistently high performance is harder without equal advances in graphics processing.
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Also interesting: MessagePack. It's more concise than BSON. http://msgpack.org
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Is this also Objective-C vs Java?
This is a brilliant submarine ad by Agawi. Reading it, I got the impressions that TouchMarks was some standard industry test (it doesn't seem to be).
It seems like an important thing that benchmarks didn't even really exist for until now but I think the topline number is off? 55 ms to 114 ms how do they get 2.5 times faster?

2 times faster is already very impressive, no need to exaggerate further (although I guess thats how you get the clicks).
This sounds like a different version of smart kids being lazy because they learned that they can get away with it, while those who were taught to work hard as kids become successful.
I wonder if any espionage/sabotage was the cause of this. I've been around the block enough to see through articles like this that overlook things LIKE HOW A B52 JUST "BROKE UP" WHILE CARRYING NUCLEAR WEAPONS. That shit really doesn't just happen at random, and the article is suspiciously void of information on how/why one of the most proven aircraft of the time just fell out of the sky... I find THAT the more interesting/terrifying object of the story here.
The graph seems to point to Android, not iOS eating RIM's pie. I wonder how much Google search results played in that demise.
It's one of my favourite technology videos/demos of all time.

Every time someone criticizes Microsoft, I remember this video, knowing Microsoft's failures aren't for lack of talent.
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This has been around since February.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2013/01/29Apple-Increases-iP...

>The new 128GB versions of the fourth generation iPad will be available starting Tuesday, February 5, in black or white, for a suggested retail price of $799 (US) for the iPad with Wi-Fi model and $929 (US) for the iPad with Wi-Fi + Cellular model.
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How do you know? I always thought journalists had some basic level principles about their jobs, until I heard from a first hand witness that you can actually buy some of them with good money...
Yeah, I really worry about Waterloo. The city is basically a company town. If Rim folds, all the geeks could roll up their tracks and head for Toronto or the USA, leaving the city broken. I mean, they'd still have the university...but that's not enough.
One thing missing from this is to run surveys. Someone posted on here before about how they used Google Consumer Surveys [1] to check the pulse of their idea. It's something I highly recommend that can be done for relatively cheap before you even get started.

[1] - http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/
Are there any arguments against a "Mandatory Reasonable Patent License Fee" law that requires patent holders to license their patent? Maybe have it kick in one year after the company offers it to the public or other companies.

If anyone had a dispute then they could set up a special court or process for determining a reasonable fee (not difficult) for the patent license.

The same could be done with some services and utilities.

This would result in a win-win for all parties involved; the patent holder would receive incentive for the invention, the patent licensee would receive revenue from offering a superior product/service or at lower cost, and especially the consumer who receives a better product and would have more choice of higher quality products.

This would also result in companies doing less "favors" and "ass-kissing" to each other in order to keep license deals.

It seems like this would be the best of both worlds because the patent holder would receive incentive for the invention and t
I imagine the size of the overall market grew.
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I'm so glad to see actual numbers for this. Time and time again I've been called delusional for saying that Android devices have more observable lag than iPhones. It is a very, very small component of the overall device and OS that has an enormous affect on the overall user experience, at least to me. It doesn't seem to be that big a deal to many as evident by phone sales, but it drives me absolutely nuts and is the main reason why I won't make the switch to Android.
I am probably reading the chart a little wrong, but I am curious about that slump in between January 2005 and January 2006 for all mobile OSes (or maybe all but Symbian).
Is the Lumia 920's touch digitizer significantly different from the Lumia 928's? (which according to the graph has an average latency of 117ms)
Funny, you can tell by which generation/culture a player was made based on the listed genres. In this case I see acid jazz, trip-hop, and moombahton but no dubstep or glitch hop.
The article never talked about "a big conspiracy to bring down Bitcoin"--those are entirely your words. Instead, the article talked about a journalist compromising accuracy to gain more pageviews: much more plausible.

If anything, you're the one twisting facts to discredit the BitCoin community and trying to recast an article about somewhat shoddy journalism as a cultish conspiracy theory.

The fact that the criticized article is pro-BitCoin just further shows how unreasonable your claims are: the community is willing to critically examine press that's in its favor, not just anti-BitCoin articles.
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Now you need to upgrade your eyes to notice it. Same thing with ridiculous ppi.
Long ago, there was music, call it pop. Much time passes and the same music is still played, but it has been renamed folk. Edison, got involved and the guy on the Martin discovered Fender so now they call it folk rock. Just to be clear, folk didn't go away, it is still around and thriving---fix your genres please :)
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Why has it been flagged off the front page?
I see that Microsoft can get their software translated. Yet that is very different from actually supporting a country.

Some examples of this:

I want podcast support in my Windows Phone. Because I live outside the US, I don't have it. I simply cannot understand why.

I want support for DVB-C Media in Windows, because that is the standard in my country. Because the US have other standards, my only option is using some half-baked korean crap receiver. I want to bet that the upcoming XBox One will not really work with TV in my country.

XBox Music is the new Music service from Microsoft. Guess how good the local music selection is in my country. How does Microsoft want to compete with Spotify here? Is this product even serious?

Bing is just no good outside the US. Yet it will be an important part of Windows 8.1, so I really wonder how this is gonna play out in my country when people start using it.
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I think it's interesting and I get that it's a simple data parser, but if I am using C I prefer performance over simplicity. The Tny structs and their string values are individually malloc'ed, worsening the performance, so allocation and deletion is a slow process. Of course he's not the only one to do this, yajl2 also makes liberal use of malloc and free when building its node tree. One good thing to say is at least his encoding format distinguishes floats from integers and accounts for NaN and Infinity values.

A first step to improving this library would be to add a SAX style parser so I could build my own representation.
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Great work
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The sad thing is that official games aren't allowed to support the pressure-sensitivity provided by the DS hardware, so it's only used in homebrew apps like the paint app you mentioned.
Remember this is a percentage market share chart, so it always adds up to 100%. The "slump" you see is a spike in Symbian share.

Related: it's important to realize when reading this chart that the absolute number of phone shipped in this period was exploding from year to year: it's quite possible that every single manufacturer on the chart (except maybe Palm) shipped more devices every single year; Android and Apple just grew faster than the others.
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