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So you can discover which of your friends are still on BBM, and get them to switch over to iMessage/whatsapp/facebook message ;)
Reading up on Simpson's Paradox again made me realize something: women retrieving custody more often than men appears to me to be a perfect example of Simpson's Paradox. Overall, women get custody more often than men, this is true, but if you consider only the cases where men actually asked for or attempted to retrieve custody, this is no longer true[0].

[0]: http://www.villainouscompany.com/vcblog/archives/2012/04/chi...
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This is made worse by the explosion in administrative staff at colleges and universities[1]. Universities in the US are more about running universities than they are about teaching students or doing research. Given administrators are sucking down huge gobs of money, the budget shortfall needs to be picked up somewhere, and that is where the rise of the adjunct professor comes in.

1. http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/28/study-school-administrativ...
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Woah, hold up there. I am a little before the OP poster (70's) and we most surely did not do what you said. It was the f'n generation before us (born in the 60's) that did the freak out and made everything "safe first". They started their crusade in the 80's and really got going in the 90's. The OP and even someone born in the 70's were a bit young for it.

Now, I do see this schedule-every-second-vibe from my generation and am not liking it one bit[1]. My younger brother is trying to find or build decent play equipment for his boy as he grows up.

1) some organized sports is fine, but this scheduling every waking minute of your child's time is psycho
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Excellent article, can't agree with it more.
What can we do about this? Home schooling them? Move to countryside and telecommute for job? I can accept either of the options, but the sad truth is that, we can not find the right communities for kids to do non-constructed play anymore, as everyone else is doing what the article describes no matter where we go and what we do. The only option is probably to have many kids so they play together within the family, while moving to countryside.
I use FreeAgent (as it doesn't feel like I'm using an accounts package).

The place I used to work used Xero, which is a bit more traditional in how it lays things out (for example, Xero uses ledgers, FreeAgent just has you categorise your income and outgoings).
"People used to be talking about having thousands of cores on one die because it keeps shrinking, and those people clearly have no idea about physics because we won't be shrinking for much longer."

When shrinking is over we'll start going up - i.e. 3D chips.
Intel already uses basic 3D in their FinFET process. 3D memory chips available commercially for some time.
Why would an Android or iPhone user install BBM? I don't get the value proposition here. I'm not being disingenuous.
Am I the only one seeing the obvious connection between this, Google's general business model and technologies and the recruitment of Ray Kurzweil as Director of Engineering? If and when we realize the singularity is a real possibility, Google will have the platform ready. For better or worse.
This turns me off to almost every extension I am curious in trying out.
Manufacturers do that, even in the face of evidence that they're terrible at it, because they really want to avoid ending up like PC manufacturers. Consumers treat PC makers as interchangeable suppliers of largely similar products, forcing them to compete on price, so they have very small margins.

Samsung is very keen for you to think of your phone as a Samsung phone, not as an Android phone made by Samsung. So to them it makes sense to reinvent standard components, even if it doesn't make the user experience any better. And Samsung does seem to be managing this, though I don't think any of the other Android OEMs have.
My impression, from following some tags like #ios7beta4 on Twitter, is that there's some unofficial way to obtain the images and install them.
If I could point out the one big reason that BBM was very popular at one point was because of the little "D" and "R" on outgoing messages. "D" meant delivered and "R" meant read. That, along with the reliability and performance of the messaging service and the fact that you didn't have to have to pay for a messaging plan to send messages/images/video, made it really great. I know Google Hangouts now has the "read" feature, and I believe iMessage does as well, but WhatsApp does not.

Beyond that, it just had a very intuitive UI and just worked as you expected it to. They steadily added new features like groups, voice and video calling which increased its value over time, but unfortunately, the user base got crushed.

I'm looking forward to trying it out on my N4 ... my wife uses a blackberry Z10, so I have at least one person to use it with.
>We don't know you to trust you.

then don't use my code. In the end, what you do is your choice, but I'd rather not get the state involved in my acts of sharing - and that should implicitly suggest that I'm not interested in leveraging the state to take from you. If you can't trust that, then fine. I'm sorry for you.
Meanwhile Microsoft gives $40B back to shareholders.
> An adjunct position isn't supposed to be a full-time long term position

Except that the common practice for colleges and universities now is to use them as full-time, long-term, lower-paid, reduced-benefit positions, and this trend is growing as adjunct positions are growing at a faster rate than tenured and tenure-track positions.
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There might be a trend, yes, but we are still almost entirely relying on government funded research. So much that it will stay this way for a very long time. Have you compared say the US health care budget with say the funding of the Gates foundation.
I am unable to actually find an sort of source for the statistic that "Adjuncts now make up well over 50 percent of the faculty at colleges and universities."

It seems to go back to the SEIU, a group that is attempting to unionize adjunct positions. I have seen it quoted in a number of ways, including "50% of part time faculty at universities are adjunct." and "50% of teaching positions at universities are adjunct."

I would like to see some sort of actual report that shows the source of that. My (very limited, anecdotal) experience seems to indicate much fewer than 50% of professors are adjunct. It all depends on how you count these things.
I had a BB 9800 and a BB 9900 before, and switched to Android phones for couples of years. From my own experience, BBM is still the most stable and comfortable IM app on mobile phones.

I still miss the feeling about using BBM. I guess the backend service part of RIM/Blackberry is still somehow ahead of other manufacturers.
As a Canadian I'm sad to hear. As a user it makes complete sense, they pure and simple drop the ball.
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I'm wondering the same thing. iMessage offers all of what they are stating as features.

But, I have never really used a Blackberry device before.

Additionally, I wonder if releasing this sooner would've saved them or changed history a little...
This is just PR for their Chromebook partnership.

Intel pushing Linux has nothing to do with Linux and everything to do with the fact that Intel long ago decided to focus on speed over energy efficiency and were caught with their pants down when the future of computing turned out to be low-power SOCs (systems-on-a-chip).

With both Microsoft and Sony choosing AMD x86 over Intel for the next generation of video game consoles and Microsoft and Apple clearly moving to ARM for all their digital appliances, what does Intel have left?
> If it was a huge deal, wouldn't epidemiologists be slobbering over the statistical power they would get from using it?

Why would you want to do that? You can build a nice career on publishing (spurious) associations. As long as relevant variables are omitted, no epidemiologist need ever be unemployed.
I don't use racket obviously, but looking through the docs on typed racket it certainly looks like it adds java-style static typing. Having crappy partial type inference doesn't make the type system powerful or expressive, C# has that too and it certainly falls into the java-style type system camp.
I still remember when they had all the market.
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You missed my personal favorite, 'thought shower' which sounds vaguely fetish like in an intellectual way.
The low budget open source version of this is going on over at longecity.org
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Part of the problem is that the race for college has been pushed earlier and earlier as admissions has gotten more competitive.

Admission rates for colleges have been dropping across the board, for top tier schools even more sharply. When success in life in large part is still defined by one's undergraduate institution you can see why parents would focus on that at the expense of everything else.

I'm not a parent yet, and am not planning to be in the near future, but I've been thinking a lot about parenting now that I'm fully out of my childhood and it basically seems to come down to a bunch of tough compromises.
Possibly.

One of my observations has been that kids today are less shitty than they used to be. More structure means that less is left to the Lord of the Flies-esque social mechanics that arise among children left to their own devices.
"The problem here is prices are not advertised tax-in." - and this can be trivially fixed; it's just a matter of requiring truth in advertising.
In EU (I believe all of it, but maybe not all), the airline prices (as others) are always advertised tax-in. I mean, otherwise it's just a bait and switch - if you advertise "Go to London for 50 EUR", then you'd better have an offer that does exactly that.
Oh man. The alt text. I want that so much now. When I think of how much more useful support forums would be if the first post in the thread were basically a wiki...
Lack of priority inbox support is a deal killer for me.

Is usage of Prio Inbox not common?
> Increasing existence and production of food hasn't tackled food insecurity and hunger, for example.

Um... what about the millions of lives saved by the green revolution and agricultural advances? Hunger hasn't been eliminated, but technology has increased the carrying capacity of the earth by a few billion.

Re. technological availability: see the falling price of mobile phones, personal computers, Internet connections.
Should we compare the percentage of macs running OSX 10.8.5 against the percentage PCs running windows 8? I think fragmentation is just the nature of a distributed hardware environment. I'm not sure what that means really, but there seems to be parallels here.
That doesn't imply anything about the most effective way to increase longevity.
Not sure to what degree we're talking. ARM + x86 has basically everything covered. Even -if- ARM support is bad now, completing it would be easier than creating exactly the custom toolchains that LLVM was designed to abstract away. Who runs browsers on PPC or whatever that isn't consciously taking responsibility for their access to portable software?
http://llvm.org/docs/HowToBuildOnARM.html
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Waiting so long means they now have severely diminished marketshare when it comes to hardware, and thusly, Android/iPhone users have no reason to pick it up. Maybe if they released this 4 years ago, people would use it and at least BlackBerry would still be relevant in the messenger space. Instead, now they get to compete with Kik, WhatsApp, and a myriad of other cross-platform messaging apps.

Employees of BB-centric companies may be happy, though.
I wouldn't think that breaking an arm or two while in elementary school would have much of an effect at all on college admissions. I mean, if anything, it should give the kid some more life experiences to draw upon while writing their admissions essay, right?
Controling for hidden variables (the general case of this paradox) is a big deal for all science areas.
Wow, adds a whole new dimension to the complaint "I've got a yeast infection" doesn't it?
I know a former coworker who is maintaining 3-4 different desktop accounting packages on independent VMs, each on a different application and windows versions because different clients are attached to their particular rev of the accounting software. He got to this point because he was sick of working out how to get multiple versions of the software to play nice with one another. On the one hand this locks in Windows pretty tightly - on the other, the OS in the VM is just acting as a fat compatibility layer waiting to be replaced. I think he's moving on to experimenting with Wine next (or maybe this is a use case for Docker).

This isn't some a large enterprise company either, just a small accounting consultancy trying to maintain client compatibility.
"Percentage of teaching hours" or "percentage of teaching budget" seem like more useful statistics than "percentage of names on payroll".
I prefer to read comment threads about articles discussing how to get things done. That's where the real insight is.
That statistic of 50% professors being adjunct is not cited, and from searching online appears to come from the SEIU, which is a group who's goal is to unionize adjunct faculty. The report it self is not available, and it has been quoted in articles as "part-time faculty held 50 percent of teaching jobs at colleges" [1] and "adjuncts held 50 percent of teaching jobs at colleges" [2]

Neither of those statements are the same as "Adjuncts now make up well over 50 percent of the faculty at colleges and universities." as stated in the article.

[1]http://www.boston.com/yourcampus/news/bentley/2013/06/as_ben...

[2] http://www.boston.com/yourcampus/news/tufts/2013/07/adjunct_...
Examples of speech that is not protected under the First Amendment would be incitement to riot, or everyone's favorite example of "shouting 'fire' in a crowded theater" (when there is no actual fire).
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I have owned a blackberry for years, used intensively. If they had done this way earlier, it could have saved them a bit. However, I think what they would have had to do is the other way around: a iMessage app on a blackberry. Obviously wasn't going to happen either.
Alright, first off let me say that I am not a lawyer which is part of why I asked the question, but the first amendment states:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech"

Belief in God is a pretty big establishment of many religions, and the free exercise of such an establishment includes the recitation of such prayers asking for his help. In as much, I believe there is a freedom of religion issue here and I do not understand the amendment to indicate that religious requirement to be necessary for protection under the first amendment.

My curiosity lies more with your 4th paragraph. Has anyone ever raised a constitutional argument for any use of a copyrighted work outside of the scope you have mentioned, which looks to be very clear that it only applies to religious gatherings, or has anyone questioned what constitutes a "place of worship" in our modern age? Is it completely beyond reason that someone could argue that the internet is their "place of worship"? Many people attend all sorts of religious ceremonies online. And their right to do that is I believe protected by the first amendment and I don't believe arguing peoples beliefs are really ever deserving of an argument.

[branching off to address the 3rd paragraph and question

To your other question that seems slightly off topic but seemed provoking, the reason these words became spiritually meaningful to me is that they describe a time in our nation's history when we were fighting a war that the American people had very little say in, in a foreign land and the best they could do was pray to God to see the country that they loved through.

There are a lot of things going on in and outside this country that most people can't do anything about more than pay attention to what's happening and hoping (/praying) for the best. So it seemed relatable to the situation we are in now.

And not that it's really any of your business but yes, my religion started after 1938, in fact it started around 2007 when I became disillusioned with the tenets of my religion, could not find a religion without the mandatory governance of law and ritual and cultivated my own belief system given my favorite teachings of many of the principle thinkers to create a system of belief for myself. Is that a problem?

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> Management speak is just a jargon.

Its mostly not. Jargon is specialized use of terms used to facilitate clear communication of ideas within a specific community/domain. Management speak -- at least the form that is often mocked -- is just using flowery language to conceal the absence of substance, and is pretty much the opposite of jargon.
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That's fine, as long as you choose it rather than having it thrust upon you. Currently, we lose this choice after less than a century.
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The article seems to state that he got $800 deduction out of the $3k pudding purchase - which matches that 20-30% expectation.
His philosophy seemed reactionary at the time,

Right. We can infer in 1990 that in the power structures of NYC, people were motivated to de-risk playgrounds. Agreed. The larger point is that the earlier post was written by someone who was ~10 in 1990, and still in middle school or so during this quote. The people "in the power structures" in NYC and the ~young kids (in the schools out in the country side), are non-intersecting sets in a venn diagram. As a point of history, The destruction of playgrounds was a byproduct of Urban politics, and then became a political/cultural issue that was a holy-cow of school administrators. Again, this is a venn-diagram (urban, teachers) that is not overlapping with the accused (rural, student).
I think the fact that they are releasing it now is an admission of defeat. I know a few people that kept their blackberry as long as they did only because of BBM, so I can understand them not releasing it sooner, but I agree, a couple of years ago you might have convinced someone that blackberry was a good platform because they liked the bbm service on the iphone. A long shot maybe, but at least a shot.
Or look at Lufthansa's investment in its first-class terminal at FRA, and in the 747-8. They like other things about that plane, but they especially like the fact that it has room for more premium seats, and Lufthansa's image right now is that of Europe's premium airline.

Not sure whether AA can match that for the US -- especially depending on the merger -- but they seem to be heading in that direction, certainly.
Our goal for this version was to get data synced and saved as quickly as possible. Having firebase as the data store working via websockets made sense.
In WhastApp, there are two little checkboxes next to every message -- one indicates the message has been received by the server (which is actually very useful!), two indicates the message has been delivered to the client. Coupled with the "Last seen at <this-time>" indicator for each chat partner, it's a decent heuristic for read messages.
MS and Intel have the same partnership as airlines and hotels. Each wants their partner to make as little profit as possible, as that leaves more client money for grabbing.

Intel has been among the top 5 Linux kernel contributors for many years.
This would be a case of "people doing things different don't know what they miss". Some kids (future violinists or pianists for instance) spend huge amount of their childhood training and training, but there's usually enough to enjoy and enough to learn to not fall into the article's problem.

Playing under supervision is not so different, as for any group of more than a few kids, the supervisor won't be there directing every minute thing the kid does. IMO the problem the article states is less a lack of freedom than the quality of what the child does. And I don't mean quality in some elitist sense, but just in how much the kid gets from what he is doing (i.e. building towers in lego or teasing the house cat is chalenging and satisfying)
So that you can communicate for free with other Blackberry users. I do not have unlimited SMS, so avoiding the racket that is pay-per-message is desirable in any form.
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If the article describes the subject adequately, what is the point of the graphic? I found the interactive graphic more confusing than the description.

Compare and contrast to the clarity of their central limit theorem demonstation [1] vs its wikipedia page [2].

[1] http://blog.vctr.me/posts/central-limit-theorem.html

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem
If you guys are storing this data in Firebase, then the next logical step is a native mobile app, likely iOS. What's the timeframe for such?
As far as I know, on whatsapp, one checkmark on a message means delivered, two means read. It depends on the device of the recipient though. Works best with iOS and Android devices in my experience.
HelloParking tried and folded, while ParkCirca is still going (http://www.parkcirca.com/) but has sparse listings. Tough space, apparently, or perhaps just still nascent due to lack of consumer mindshare.
Also, thank you for the response.
I don't think anyone's ignoring the decisions.

Apple prioritized getting updates into the hands of customers. Google did not, since as you say their design decisions make what apple has achieved impossible for them.
By the way, who is the market for the Chromebook Pixel?
While banning cars altogether might work fine in a city that has extensive and efficient public transportation, San Francisco's Muni is an unmitigated disaster, so getting rid of alternative modes of transport would make living here a nightmare.

It takes over an hour to go 3 or 4 miles on the trains. On a good day.

On a bad day, your train breaks down due to poor maintenance or otherwise randomly stops in the tunnel, with no explanation from the staff, for anywhere between 10 minutes and an hour. Bad days happen dismayingly often.

And this is not even mentioning the duct tape based repairs, not infrequent incidence of aggressive passengers, and the thick layer of filth on the vehicles.

Source: Having lived in other cities with good public transport, I thought it'd be great to not have a car when I moved to SF. Now I take Muni every day, unfortunately. I wish I could drive a car to work and back.

See also http://www.sfweekly.com/2012-06-13/news/muni-sfmta-buses-pub...
Maybe I spoke incautiously. I should have said, "Less relevant." And although I understand these other apps have big user-bases, none of them have anything like the penetration of unlimited SMS, if I had to guess.
I was thinking of filter controls a la gmail style where I can automatically put things into folders or archive/whatever. More control directly in the hands of the user but still allowing your algorithms to do the heavy lifting.
Love that it has a cat name... they're the ones with seven lives, right?
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Agreed, but one wonders if perhaps they did something like scrape Craigslist for it (which might make sense but totally be in violation of the ToS for a very litigious company)
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What a ploy! It's so that you will search more throughout your life time! Cunning buggers! :D