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To those who help others on Apple, Google, or other big multinational business discussion groups / forums, why do you do so?

I understand helping others with a startup's product that you like. You want it to succeed and an increased customer base will most likely lead to product improvements. But billion dollar businesses have the resources to provide support themselves. Why would you do it for them for free?
"iOS does not, at this time, include the option to install a Gecko-based web browser" sounds fair, if you can't install one plug-in - Flash, you shouldn't be able to install some other plug-in - Gecko.
This is me. By day I write Javascript, Python, and PHP; by night, Rust is my vessel for teaching myself systems-level programming. It's something I've always wanted to learn, but I just don't have the time nor the energy to memorize the seemingly-inexhaustible trivia of C++.
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>We’re talking about a rough patch of 3 years.

Which is an eternity in the computer game.

Also, we're ignoring the price difference. A PC that could play Duke Nuke'em in 1996 cost less than the Mac you'd need for same performance.
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The 13" retina Pro is pretty darn small and light. It's only half a pound heavier and 0.03" thicker than the Air's thickest point.
Variations being comparatively small doesn't make them tiny.

Shortest day in SF is 9.5 hours. Longest day in SF is 14.75 hours.

That's a significant difference. In comparison to Stockholm (6/18.5) it doesn't appear significant - but it's in no way tiny.
I realize that. Writing that sentence gave me a cold chill. But I kept it in because I thought it was important to list some solutions, even if they were things Twitter would never do.

Still, I think there are ways a community tool could be designed to discourage angry arguments without becoming Facebook, which has its share of problems, too.
I've tried to get an Alpha Emulator working on OS X so I can try OpenGenera, but there really isn't anything that really works out there except for one paid piece of software. I believe the freeware emulator was the origin of the paid one and the freeware one is no longer maintained AFAICT.
> Whatever .com you can buy now will be much more expensive once the .com owner sees you have funding and a business model and a website.

This is why I buy the .com and .net along with something like an .io all at the same time.
You don't understand corruption then. High inflation and a low official exchange rate that no one can actually exchange at without insider connections are a way for those with control of the government and currency printing presses to slowly but steadily siphon the wealth of the masses directly to themselves.
I looked into those, but my preference for not ever leaving the home keys is trumping using the scroll wheel for now.
Well, seeing as how I like persistent data, as I'm sure this site does, SQL Server licenses would be a factor.

But I was more thinking of the shoestring startup shooting initially for ramen profitability, where every unnecessary, can't instantly scale dollar spent is one too many.

This is an effort with a serious budget, where today's back end costs of all sorts are I'm pretty a very small part of it all, probably even bandwidth.
Responding to that lack of delivery by abusing an unrelated legality, as a means to raise the stakes until a fix occurs, is. It's like screaming at someone until they do what you want, even if they think there's a good reason not to and you don't know what the reason is.
In case my server gets too sluggish, here's the important youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M7IINwTFVw&t=16m2s

Basically there's a speedrunner who is technically adept at the game, is a good communicator, and explains as he plays a complex exploit that facilitates skipping a large part of the game
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Well, I have noticed that Linux users tend to approach problems selfishly, i.e. "How can I solve this problem for myself?" and the solution is trivial in such case.

However, the question is actually "How can this problem be solved for all people, including my mom?", and when posed as such, the solution needs to be much simpler.
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Going to install OSX Mavericks soon and use this guide. Thanks for the tips.
I was totally expecting to see Talking Moose! lol.. Excellent work, totally took me back.
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If each Facebook user has at least 100 photos they are tagged in under a variety of scenarios, quality etc. I'd of thought that would be a pretty reliable way of training some vision algo.

Seems thats not the case.
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None of those are true.
I've been working for US companies from .br for the past 3yrs and:
– Sending money to .br is not a hassle for the employer... it's as simple as making a deposit. And it lands in any .br bank in less than 3hrs.
– Could be that they had bad experiences, but to rule out the whole country is idiotic to say the least.
– So are italians and they are still welcome. Stop being self prejudicial about your country.
– Yes, let's perpetrate the stereotype by adding another stereotype.

I assume you're Brazilian and you hate the fact that you are. You should think twice before posting bullshit like this on the internet.
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Fellatio by fruit bats prolongs copulation time. (PLoS One) [1]

Seriously? The greater issue here is modern day "scientists" or people who are interested in and consider themselves scientifically-minded, reading something like that and filing it away as new knowledge and not questioning the veracity of things.

As the other child to this comment noted, the problem that Feynman outlines is that no one is doing these tests over again to re-test hypothesis under new conditions or with new devices. The results get published and suddenly it's taken as Truth with a capital T.

"Because there are no facts, there is no truth
Just a data to be manipulated
I can get any result you like" -- Don Henley [2]

If that makes you uncomfortable, I suggest you try out some form of theism. Because if tomorrow I fall through my floor when getting out of bed, all we can do is re-evaluate our knowledge based on new data. And there's probably going to be a lot of new data.

1: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal....
2: http://ntl.matrix.com.br/pfilho/html/lyrics/g/garden_of_alla...
I'm actually working on that right now. You can see a very early (and currently completely free) version at http://snoop.io - would love some feedback!
Good point. Hmm, so I am seeing great benefits in using HTML5 canvas for the UI, and I believe as people start expecting more and more from their web experience we will see more UIs moving to canvas. Are you aware of any efforts out there to merge HTML5 interfaces with some of the standards we have with traditional HTML interfaces?
Bah, when you said "Westerner", I assumed you were an Albertan. Dumb Canadian moment. I never realized that Americans don't get Good Friday off like we do in Canada.
I think everyone is affected by seasons - in my case, I feel down during seasons change, mostly May and October. I feel awesome during winter, I love it, summer not so much since I hate hot and humid weather (UK is pretty great during summer IMO :-D).
On a non-github platform, it would be trivial to serve different content if the user agent was curl or wget.
The worst part is no rollback on IOS without root combined with unstoppable upgrades. The only way I stop my devices updating is keeping them under 1GB free space so the update can't download. This is terrible for an enterprise environment where software stability is a key criteria.

If they allowed rollback this problem would solve itself until a fix was created and pushed out. Instead, they get angry users.
Please, I appreciated the comment and I've heard likewise elsewhere. KaiserPro didn't just say 'Apple is shit', there was examples given for the sentiment. I read more frustration in the statement than just the statement.

Guess what? For one, I appreciate hearing the negatives since in the Apple world all we get is 'how great it all is'. You may not feel the need to praise Apple but other's have gladly taken your place many times over.
Glad you saw this. Well I've had 2 for 2 success just sticking 'codecanyon jquery keyboard plugin' and 'codecanyon jquery scrollbar plugin' into Google so I suspect there'll be more.

I've emailed both of the above authors through CodeCanyon and pointed them to this thread. That's my good samaritan work done for the day but I think you should look for more! :)
Poorly executed centralization easily turns into communism, which fails spectacularly on anything but tribal scales.

Decentralization sure has its problems, but tends to beat the alternatives. Of course, where you end up in each system and how you benefit/suffer there may influence whether you agree.
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That ignores the back ends to the back end. E.g. an IRS system that might be able to handle a million people with query/response transactions would almost certainly need different strategies to scale up 100 times.
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Ah, I see. My apologies. Thanks for clearing that up.
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You are welcome! Let me know in comments if any link didn't work
Actually, that's a calculate-able thing, and Xkcd has already saved us the time: http://xkcd.com/1205/
Actually I don't but I have some ideas of my own that I'd like to test out at some point and see if they fit my model of what the education space in India needs.

There are some interesting articles online and a fair bit off buzz around Indian MOOCs, like [1].

[1] http://www.edukwest.com/first-indian-mooc-will-launch-in-oct...
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tl;dr -- all Flash.
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http://readstraightup.com

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> Sure, you can do it that way -- but isn't it ugly? Isn't it harder to read?

Its the old tradeoff between using long-winded existing constructs or paying a complexity cost and forcing the reader to learn a new abstraction or DSL.

But I like your example. I imagine the extra lambda or string-quoting noise starts getting significant when you have lots of tiny test cases.
There's no need to apologise for the sorry state of Britain. But I'm sorry
Here's a cached version:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...

The video is a clip from the Awesome Games Done Quick 2013 charity marathon[0]. It's fun to watch, and Cosmo in particular typically goes into detail on how the weird tricks and hacks he performs work.

I love looking at glitches in older games that had so little memory protection. You can learn a good deal about how a computer operates by dissecting them.

[0] http://marathon.speeddemosarchive.com/
Nicely put. Yes, programming is part art and we are not like machines that can work no matter in what state we are. But often we mask our procrastination/laziness blaming it on lot many things and waiting for a right moment to magically arrive get the work done.

I am reading 'Dune' now and I found this advice from Halleck to Paul so relevant :

'I guess I'm not in the mood for it today' Paul said.

'Mood ? Halleck's voice betrayed his outrage even through the shield's filtering.

'What has mood to do with it? You fight when the need
arises - no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or
making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting'

-- Dune, Frank Herbert
ha. that is pretty fair. So at a high level, the way that we actually assure tutor's Skype reliability is tests around speed and reliability (stuff like speedtest and ping test) with reliability being more important. Then we also do a number of test full length lessons using students from different parts of the U.S. / the world at different times of day.

For us because online tutoring is so dependent on a connection, we also try to make sure there are solid contingencies in place in case something extreme like a power outage happens which is rare but more frequent in certain parts of the developing world than in the U.S..
I'm sure they are going to send a strongly worded letter to those Aliens just a few month after they have arrive. Just about in time as they are right now only a few month away from condemning the Obama administration for the NSA spy program.
Free.TV

I created the world's first DVR in 1998. I was so excited about it, I convinced my friends to join my startup. It was basically Tivo plus the Free PC and internet model.

I was able to raise some funds from friends and family, but we all agreed to take less salary and have stock instead. We all worked hard, but the dot com bomb came along and killed all advertising partnerships.

I was lucky enough that I was able to wind down gently - the company did not go bankrupt. It took years, but I was able to pay back all my friends that invested in Free.TV, but I personally lost hundereds of thousands of dollars.

I learned a lot, but this set me back 10 years in my career and retirement. However, it did help me get the next level working for other companies. It was very stressful and hurt my marriage, but my wife stood by me and I know she is the one for me.

I still love startups for today but now that I am older, I wonder if I am now in the famous "ageism" problem in SV. I still have great ideas and want to change the world - just need another VC to take another chance in me.
I was the one who submitted the link originally. Unfortunately, one cannot submit a link and a description. The intention was not to bash IFit (and that's why I submitted here and not to, say, Reddit).

IFit probably has a point, as brazilian labor laws sure are draconian. As someone who has worked with overseas companies, I know something about it:

A person cannot (legally) receive money from foreign companies. The way to get around this is to open a company (even if it consists of a single person). Also, a contract between the two companies is required - though in my experience, even a NDA will suffice.

It might be the case that IFit cannot legally say, in the US, that they are hiring someone from Brazil, as they would be actually dealing with a proxy company, even if it is the sole purpose of the company's existence.

I don't think there are any extra costs to the employer (maybe taxes?) and SWIFT transfers work fine.
Ottawa reporting in. Hell is about to come upon us, friend. Buckle down, I have a feeling this winter is going to be a rough one.
Especially when the first script installs Dropbox. I was sure I wasn't the only one who read that and thought "Seriously???"
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Thanks! High quality VoIP calls will work out of the box using our SDK. We are very excited to see what people will build using Layer.
I appreciate the strange terms being brought to my attention. I don't have time to worry about a company morally and subjectively policing the product I bought from them. The TOS is not a place to be clever and funny and this information has helped inform a decision for me. Just because you happen to not care doesn't mean other don't.
I think this is an understated problem. Vowel-stripping from names has become a part of today's bleeding edge tech culture, but it's really just a work around the crowded domains market.

Vowel-stripped names sound and look OK to me today, but I wonder how well they'll stand the test of time 10 years down the road, whether they'll feel reputable or whether we'll see a lot of successful businesses add back a few of their missing a-e-i-o-u's.
These kinds of things always remind me of everyone's favorite game exploit. Good ol MissingNo from pokemon and the rare candy trick.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MissingNo.#Characteristics

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Item_duplication_glit...
Keep in mind also that no matter how civilly you phrase things, your still talking about the "religion of tools" which may draw strong responses to otherwise nice questions.
Or maybe it happened because the CEO or somebody got burned out by the Brazilian Government. Unfortunately, that's about as likely as some random person getting a specific prejudice against us.
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I've done it casually on various games or forums simply because when you use the communities sometimes the effort it takes to make a quick helpful comment is worth it. If you're already participating in the community then often times the notoriety of helping others is enough to keep you going. Other times I feel a slight obligation to give back to users who helped me in the first place.
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The article was very different from what I expected, and as an American I agreed with pretty much all of it.
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I see the point you're making here, but I feel like the motivations you're pointing at for why people post on discussion groups and forums isn't correct in most cases. At least in my experience, people tend to post helpful advice because helping people out feels good. It also provides an ego boost when people view you as an expert at something.
Officially scared. Booking blood work appointment now...
Recently, though, with expanding market share in the mobile space and laptops, Apple is the new Microsoft.

Unfortunately Microsoft is still the old Microsoft.
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That's an interesting theory. Data about union votes to start/end strikes vs month of year vs latitude could show some correlation where union outdoor worker hotheads in June will strike till they win but in January some important percentage of them would be more likely to give up. I don't think the data shows a correlation but a more serious attempt at research might find something.
I wish there were an accurate way to measure this.
I just have one issue with this. It's a social engineering gold mine.
Single point of failure. E.g. subsidity calculations for everyone, including all state exchanges, and, perhaps one day, insurance companies (it's on the list but at a very low priority) must be done by the Federal site.

Why are we not surprised not even this part has any redundancy?
I'm using https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search

It emulates the Fish behavior (which is just awesome). I'm not sure if it requires oh-my-zsh, but I think it doesn't.
Oh, right, missed the "empty plane" in your original. I agree that would be far more difficult. "Spooks crashing plane by suicide" vs. "spooks crashing plane by remote" don't seem too radically different in likelihood. "There weren't actually planes full of people" is unlikely even compared to these.

None of these, I should note, seem terribly likely.
What's the output of 'bind' and 'bind --key-names' on your system ?
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His literary agent said that "He was as good an artist as one can possibly be". I think that just about sums it up.
5 killed, 38 hurt as jeep crashes and burns in TianAnMen Square.
why brew in favor of port (macports)? any particular reason -- just curious.
The first URL isn't https. A rogue router anywhere from your building or your ISP to the server's building could potentially tamper with a plain text http response, which would then be evaluated by your shell.
This is because you can pay to have humans resolve captchas. It is really sad, but worth it I guess to the spammers....
> It would make a lot of sense to simply require citizens to save or invest a certain portion of their annual income.

Not to serve the purpose of social security, which is to serve as a minimal fallback defined benefit pension to to mitigate the effects of old-age poverty in the event that personal retirement savings fail due to investment risk (either by failure of personal investment, failure of private pensions, etc.)

It would be a nice public subsidy to the financial services industry, which is why that industry and their political proxies keep recommending this, but it wouldn't actually serve the purpose social security is designed to serve.

> It would be quite a bit less draconian than the government simply confiscating the money.

Not really; either way the government is seizing the money and directing its use.
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Did you evaluate PCE against MESS [2]? Apparently some people involved with the MESS project have the Nextstep ROM images.

[2]: http://mess.org/faq
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Apple's obsession with quality should not include leaving user's in a lurch.

I find it surprising you are defending this forum behavior by Apple via their obsession with quality. I see it as the exact opposite.

If Apple was obsessed with quality they would not leave user's hanging dry in a forum. As I can imagine, the forum is a at resort for a lot of people. At a minimum Apple should have some type of escalation policy to help with issues that are not just single data points but seem systematic (as this WiFi issue seems to be).

Your statement basically boils down to if you cannot afford to get Apple's attention (via Apple Care) than don't bother. Also, having the inability to downgrade puts users in a unreasonable situation with no options. I am sure you are not suggesting that users with older phones and out of warranty just don't matter. At a minimum, when Apple offers iOS upgrades, don't dismantle functionality that is already there.
I love speedruns. There's a vibrant community of speedrunners and fans out there. With fast Internet connections, they can now stream their attempts live.

Some resources:

http://speedrunslive.com - who's playing right now?

http://twitch.tv - service for live streaming of games.

http://twitch.tv/cosmowright - Cosmo, the speedrunner in the article.
Funny to see this post here, since I'm in Buenos Aires for the week, for vacations.
I didn't know about that "blu dolar" rate before coming, so I didn't bring any cash with me; I literally had 50$usd, used to pay the taxi from the airport to my Airbnb when I arrived, and then had my friend become crazy when she saw me use my american VISA to pay for things. "You're crazy, it's almost twice as expensive this way!".

But it was too late, I didn't have any cash, and no way for me to get any USD - nor getting the black market rate through my credit card. (official rate is 5.88ars/usd, the blue dolar is ~10).

Luckily enough, I started to buy bitcoins a few weeks ago, and for the same reasons the "blu dolar" exists here, bitcoin transactions in person/cash are really valued here, because you can guess, it is also really hard/expensive for Argentinians to buy bitcoins online (because of the rate/price of doing bank transfers in USD).

So thanks to that, I was able today to arrange a cash transaction through localbitcoins.com - allowing me to sell a few bitcoins at the market price, in Argentinians Pesos, to the "blu rate"!
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I was thinking more like I have no idea what the holiday calendar looks like in China or India. Its a big world, some culture out there probably works opposite the west, tirelessly in the second half of the year and the first half of the year is full of their ethnic festivals.
There are lots of people who claim they can, under the heading of "technical analysis".
Sounds like your engineer friends just gave you a way to implement your business idea, why aren't you selling it?