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Are you really suggesting that email should just be for work, and that we should ignore personal use cases: photo and link sharing, for example, or just writing a thoughtful message to a seldom-seen friend? Lots of Gmail users do those things, and I reject the notion that email providers should just cede that ground to proprietary communication silos.

The point that I was trying to get across in that article was not that all messages should be shorter. Rather, that the form of the composition UI sets expectations for what the message itself should look like. The form of Gmail's old compose set the expectation that it was a formal medium; that writing something short might not be appropriate, and that writing an email should be like writing a memo in a word processor. That makes messages feel less immediate, less personal, and as a result raises the bar for sending shorter and/or personal messages.

The goal was not to prevent users from writing long messages, but rather to provide a better balance between the two. Ultimately, though, this isn't a personal vs work issue. Facilitating short messages is arguably even more important in work settings where everybody tends to be inundated by large amounts of legitimate work-related email. There is real value in having a UI that gives users signals that it is ok to write shorter messages.

At the same time, on a 1366x768 browser window I can fit more than 3 paragraphs of lorem ipsem from http://www.lipsum.com/ in the default Gmail compose window before it even starts to scroll. In full screen mode at the same resolution you can fit 5 paragraphs before it starts to scroll. The UI isn't preventing you from writing something longer if that's what you need to do.
I totally get that, and I respect that line of thinking. It's a psychological/motivational thing. But if you've got no other options, keep that in mind. You are playing at the table with a weaker hand, and you run the risk that the other side will call your bluff.

At the end of the day, whatever works best for someone works best for him. I would just caution against intentionally backing oneself into a corner. Sometimes we do our best with our backs against the wall, but that doesn't mean we should seek to put ourselves in that position.
I remember freshman year in college my roommates thought I was some sort of wizard just because I was comfortable cooking ground beef, throwing together hamburgers, or spaghetti and sauce or whatever. Easy stuff, and they could obviously manage it, but they weren't confident since it was something new to them. If nothing else, teaching your kids to at least not be utterly baffled by a kitchen is a good idea.
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Adulthood depends a lot on the economic circumstances around you. There are lots of 14 year old adults in developing countries.
>Those jobs never came back, and the ones that replaced them were never as numerous nor did they pay as well.

Really? I think software engineers in San Francisco c. 2013 make far more (in real terms) than Detroit autoworkers did c. 1973. Your view of the economy is too narrow. Yes, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, et. al. were hit hard by the closure of auto, steel and other heavy industry. But San Francisco, Seattle, Austin, Minneapolis are rising on the back of new industries.

>Finally, with regards to Japan specifically, Japan was and is a relatively closed society that didn't accept much foreign capital investment. That's totally different with China, India, and Brazil.

That's not true. In fact, China, India and Brazil all restrict foreign capital inflows to a much greater extent than Japan did. In fact, until very recently, it was illegal for a western firm to own an Indian subsidiary -- subsidiaries had to be at least 50%+1 Indian owned. China still has that restriction in many industries. Brazil has some of the highest import tariffs in the world. To this day, it's very difficult for a foreign firm to get started without a local partner in any of those countries.

Yes, their societies might be more open (though, w.r.t. to China, I find even that assertion to be dubious), but that doesn't mean that they're accepting of foreign capital investment. Capital investment is accepted very cautiously, because all these countries have learned the lesson that the "Asian tigers" were taught in 1997. Foreign capital is fickle, and if it is not properly controlled, it will go away at the worst possible moment.
In this environment you pay the folks keeping the lights on "just enough"
But how much actual downtime have you had, by comparison?
If you visit and internet cafe and someone's forgotten to log out of their bank account and you fiddle with it, that's probably a crime. Since in nearly all cases they probably didn't intend to do such a thing. We can surmise this by observing the banking website had a password to protect the account holder. This is evident by virtue of the "log out" link that's clearly visible and that the website is served over HTTPS and the normal convention that banking information is private.

Now imagine that you come upon a computer and that you click on one of the favorites. It's a banking website. No password, no HTTPS, no access controls at all. Who is responsible for the security breach? You or the bank?

I would argue that if there are no technological access controls in place, there is no such thing as "unauthorized access" You can't be unauthorized if there is no authorization. The default on the internet is "can access"

They're prosecuting him for the digital equivalent of walking down a street and taking pictures of houses which don't display numbers on their mailbox.
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To be fair, there is an important difference between wishing someone got hit by a bus and simply not caring if they did get hit by a bus. I, for one, would not want him dead, as death is rather an overly severe punishment for his actual crimes. I would probably even think it somewhat unfortunate if he actually did get hit by a bus, simply because humans dying in general is unfortunate. But, were it to happen, an honest evaluation of my feelings leads me to predict that I would not weep.
Konsole may support more than 8 colors but if your TERM environment is set wrong then the OS won't know it can. If you bypass the OS and print the color escape sequences directly (as the script is doing, naughtily[1]) then it might just work.

[1] The proper way is to use terminfo to output the escape sequences for you. See http://perldoc.perl.org/Term/Cap.html for how to do this with standard Perl. EDIT: I can't get this to work—Seems Perl has poor terminfo support. :-( "tput setaf 10" is the correct way from sh.
If you have a chance you should try out a touchscreen laptop some time. It is a much more compelling experience then gestures on a trackpad.
Yea but I feel that is a lack of pushing or pressure, rather than lack of long-term development.
The version I knew when I started using it had only ffdshow.
"Sony is building its CPU on what it's calling an extended DirectX 11.1+ feature set, including extra debugging support that is not available on PC platforms. This system will also give developers more direct access to the shader pipeline than they had on the PS3 or through DirectX itself. "This is access you're not used to getting on the PC, and as a result you can do a lot more cool things and have a lot more access to the power of the system," Norden said. A low-level API will also let coders talk directly with the hardware in a way that's "much lower-level than DirectX and OpenGL," but still not quite at the driver level."
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/03/sony-dives-deep-into-t...

Is what I was going on, but I can see that "DirectX feature set" is not the same as "DirectX", so I apologize for misleading.
I'd argue stealing a credit card is a much simpler one step process: Step 1. steal card. Done. Pretty easy too, lots of people leave their wallet or purse unattended in all sorts of scenarios, typically with their phone sitting underneath it. The home kitchen or the desk at work are typically places.

Creating fake print: Step 1. Either find a perfect print, or a number of imperfect prints. Step 2. photograph. Step 3. enhance. Step 4. print. Step 5. Use print on suitably encoded device (which probably means steeling their phone too).

Edit: Given the front of a phone is glass, there's probably going to be a print on the screen, though I wonder if any prints take from a phone screen would be clean? I don't know.
A valid objection, but is it really meaningful to talk about intelligence of toddlers in the same context as intelligence of other people? I mean, they're still figuring out that they have hands, and that they control them.
And I wish the Westboro Baptist Church and a variety of other people who do objectionable things could be thrown in jail, but not by abusing laws and setting terrible precedents for further abuse.
> Lots of times explaining what we weren't going to do for them because they were now old enough to do for themselves. For a while everyone cooked dinner for the whole family one night a week, we rotated nights. Wife would shop for the ingredients, they did the cooking. Everyone else would work on cleanup. Some nights we had sandwiches :-). Lots of "easy" recipes were learned, mac-n-cheese, pasta and marinara sauce, any vegetable boiled, or cooked in a skillet. And some not so easy things, like pot pies, rolls, spinach souffle.

Great on you for doing this. I was coddled till I was 15 and suddenly I had to live all alone in a foreign country (owing to shitty circumstances at home). Stressing out about homework whilst having to deal with laundry and cooking was not a fun thing to learn to do at the same time!
This was a legitimate white hat project until he collected more than enough evidence to prove his point.

But he didn't stop there. Not at ten. Not at a hundred. What purpose does collecting thousands serve that just a hundred don't, in terms of white hat campaign?
Weev's a right shithead, you're absolutely right.

I still bailed him out of jail for the time leading up to and during his trial. Why? Because UNPOPULAR SPEECH SHOULD NEVER BE CRIMINAL, no matter how revolting. Indeed, it is the unpopular and revolting stuff that needs the most defending:

"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." —H.L. Mencken
If you don't mind sharing, what school did she go to? Is she working for a firm practicing law or doing something related (but still requiring the degree)? I'm assuming she would not have accepted a job not requiring the degree before even graduating.
As is forgetfulness and senility as we get older. Doesn't mean we dumb down the definition of adulthood and continue to infantilize people so they can live in their parent's basement til age 30.
There is no "Linux Platform", unfortunately.

I think that's what Steam is doing here. Creating a platform that doesn't exist yet, to bridge PC and console gaming.
I came away from today's presentation thinking that he was an unusually bad presenter. IMHO he failed to explain why the Surface Pro 2 was better at the things he was claiming it was better at, didn't give concrete details on basic specifications (saying "25% better battery life" is useless unless you know what his supposed base is), and made too many lame jokes.
Children don't need down payments at the expense of making their elderly parent work for minimum wage long after "retirement".
The show gets some interesting aspects of physics culture right. For example, there's the chauvinism of theorists over experimentalists. I was a bit surprised by this when I first encountered it, but I soon came to realize it's probably motivated by jealously and rejection. Experimentalists operate under the constraint of having to realize a test of one theory and stick with that same theory for months or years at a time, but they get all the cool toys plus the potential for real "Eureaka!" moments (even if those are exceedingly rare). Most theorists would never admit to being jealous of this but, at the same time, they cannot deny being jealous when their colleagues get to work with experimentalists. There are a lot more theorists out there creating material to test than there are labs able to test material! Theorists need to develop tough skin to handle all the times their theories are dismissed as "uninteresting" by experimentalists who define "interesting" as "something we can test". To make matters worse, many experimentalists are also damned good theorists. They're the physics-world equivalent of geniuses who are also first-class jocks!

It makes sense for Sheldon to be the ultimate theorist chauvinist since he works with string theory, which is, so far, not of much interest to experimentalists because its so impractical to test! Salzburg is definitely a theorist, and it shows. The whiteboards may be correct most of the time, but the lab scenes are just painfully bad! All they really amount to is, "Hey look! Lasers!". Having a consultant around to check your white-boards is fine, but they should send the writers to intern in an experimental lab for a bit if they ever want to move past seeing the world through Sheldon's eyes.

P.S. I specifically watched this show because, when you tell people you work in physics, BBT is the first thing they think of. If there's a TV show specifically about your profession it's surprisingly awkward to be completely ignorant of it!
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the one point i wanted to criticize was the lack of accounts page, not being able to view my billing information or the ability to cancel my account kind of scared me.

other than that your videos were high quality and course content was great.
I guess he's saying he won't save money until he has an excess, as though anyone ever has an excess of money. ("But I need my own 767!")
How will making friends with robots change society?
That sounds broken. If I want to spam someone, I just need to set up a website that allows you to message users and then register for it myself and keep requesting to send messages. That sounds like the sort of obvious loophole you catch early on.
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People invest in OTC BB and pink sheets stocks all the time - no access to books.

It will take a couple of spectacular failures for people to reevaluate current crowd funding model.
I am not going that far, but I will link to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6419901
Yes, clearly my correction of a factual claim means I support the opposing side to an absurd degree.
No, you don't really. You don't need to spend time considering and researching different load balancers to see which one is the best for your use-case, running through your company's purchase process (in itself a big project), lead time, physical install, configuration, and monitoring. If you want an AWS load balancer, click EC2 > Load Balancers and config one. From "Hey, I'd like a load balancer" to having a functioning, active load balancer in literally less than five minutes. No jaunt to the colo necessary. And that's just one item - rinse, repeat for a pile of other aspects as well.

It's not true that AWS gets rid of the need for sysadmins, but it's absolutely not true that you do all the same sysadmin tasks on a cloud service.
Apparently German system is also "pay as you go" :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensions_in_Germany
This is easily the most groundbreaking news I've heard as a gamer (and from the point of view of an engineer/business geek) in the past four years or so. This will be a really tough blow for the windows platform since the gamer demographic drives a lot of spending.
Also it points to a very deep strategic move by valve, vertically integrating the distribution channel and controlling a la Apple which and how games are experienced. I wouldn't be surprised if valve built strong partnerships with hardware providers to provide a fully vertically integrated, key-in-hand gaming platform experience.
It is worth mentioning that valve also sells other types of programs through steam... and that it seems this will eventually mutate into it's application store, centralizing the money management for steamOS in general and fully capturing the platform value.

A new apple but instead of "think different", the idea will be "play different"
There is a simple change Microsoft need to make to the Surface RT to make it viable.

Fix app compatibility.

Start by removing the artificial restriction on desktop apps. Currently desktop apps are restricted to those signed by Microsoft. If they were to remove this restriction there's a whole load of apps that could be recompiled to target ARM and work on the RT desktop. Companies and open source devs would be far more willing to spend a small amount of time porting existing code bases to ARM than re-writing whole apps for 'Metro style'.

On top of that, Microsoft already have a platform compatibility layer in .Net. And they clearly already have a ARM version of the .Net runtime as you can build Metro apps targeting .Net. It seems absolutely crazy that they don't make use of this already existing compatibility layer that could allow all existing .Net apps to run on RT desktop without change. This would make the surface RT a far more interesting proposition for companies looking to deploy their internal homegrown enterprise apps to windows tablets.

This change would re-position the RT from it's current state as a underwhelming curiosity who's main competitor is IPads and Android tablets which have a wider range of apps (and are significantly cheaper in the case of some Android brands) to a true low-mid end laptop alternative with decent app support at a similar price point. The Surface pro stays as it is as a high end laptop alternative.
Blippex says they're in Austria... so SV prices don't figure into this at all.
Why is the definition of adulthood "finish maturing"? If anything that should be middle age, i.e. in the middle of adulthood, not the start of it.

By your definition as soon as someone becomes an adult they start degrading in mental ability. The peak of mental ability should match the middle of the productive years.

But in any case the maturity of the brain is not just biologically controlled - it's environmentally controlled. The brain of someone treated like an adult will be more mature than that of someone teated like a child.

The brain responds to stimulus, it doesn't really have a pre-programmed makeup. It has basic abilities, but that ones that are expressed are the ones that it needs/uses.
Perhaps, I doubt the change was as dramatic though, considering it's not just the app itself that underwent transformation but also browsers and the web platform as a whole. But then again we're talking about spreadsheet software.
The lifestyle you describe in San Francisco is unsustainable over the long run for most people. This is one reason why that lifestyle is considered to be more adolescent: it is not realistic for the average middle class person to maintain that lifestyle while having a family and eventually retiring comfortably.

San Francisco the city is eternally adolescent, but the people there are not. There are few long-term residents, and most people who move into the city will eventually move out because it is outrageously expensive (and it's not a great environment for kids: it's very dirty, not particularly safe, the public schools are generally terrible, etc.). That six figure salary is not doing you much good when your small and cramped house is well over $1M, you're paying $1500/month in daycare, you eventually are paying $25k+/year for private schools (not college), and you're hit by high income taxes before you even start making all those payments.

South Carolina is a place where people are less constrained financially. If you want to settle down with a family and a house, you can probably afford to do so if you're middle class and up. You could also probably afford to party all the time. What's interesting to me is that in the presence of choice we see people tend towards the former rather than the latter.
> If you ever interview for a PhD program, you may notice that the people at the recruiting party are all first or second year students.

When I read this, it struck me that I had a very different experience. In my department, the SOP was to wine and dine both the recruits and the graduate students (free steak and all the booze you can drink in one night goes a long way when you're earning 20k/year). But the trick was that not everyone was invited, and, of course, it wasn't very hard to figure out that the best way to be invited back for another round was to forget to mention all things you didn't like about the university (and how long you'd been there).
This forced me to get over my "let's engineer this new feature today!" and caused me to multitask on sales better. You have a fair point about having a winning hand so I actually sat somewhere in the middle of: I have no choice but to do this OR fall back to this within x period of time.

I think there's an advantage to this though.
I prefer another saying I've heard - Big Bang Theory is a dumb show about smart people, and Arrested Development is a smart show about dumb people
> I would argue that if there are no technological access controls in place, there is no such thing as "unauthorized access" You can't be unauthorized if there is no authorization. The default on the internet is "can access"

Or is it like walking into someone's private home because they left the door open? Or merely unlocked?

The law likes to operate on analogies, because analogous situations are ones for which we have precedent, and precedent makes the law predictable. The sad thing is, precedent goes back to the pre-computer era, too, and isn't necessarily overturned just because new technology with new social expectations is involved. Maybe in a couple generations.
This forum http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2130 appears to be ground zero for that sort of thing. I don't have an RT handy to test it on.
I don't think it's a feasibility issue, because a fair bit of Win32 had already been ported to ARM from the Windows CE days. I had .NET apps that ran on Windows XP and Windows CE from the same binary. As long as you stuck to the .NET micro framework subset, it worked great and was actually quite performant.
I think the appeal of BBT is that some people like to see a reflection of their microcosm: they like to see people like them, situations like the ones they experience, references to things they like, etc.. It makes them feel relevant and part of an in-group.

It's the same appeal that xkcd has. It has been called "referential humor", but I don't think it should be classified as humor, although for some people it seems to be a completely satisfying humor surrogate. Indeed, BBT and xkcd are both full of nerd references, devoid of actual humor, and enormously popular.
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I noticed a number of startups are listed (and publicly raising) both on wefunder and angellist. How does it work if they raise >50% on each platform?

Also showing the % raised the way it is now is a bit misleading, it gives off the impression that that was the amount that went through the wefunder.

Try maybe different colours so we can see easily what has been raised via the platform.
The only thing I took from this article is that ASP.NET is expensive. The rest could apply to any other platform.
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What's interesting to me is that in the presence of choice we see people tend towards the former rather than the latter.

Partying all the time sounds awesome when you are 19, after which it begins to slowly lose its luster.