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> Demand has no direct relationship with profit.

This is false.

Profit = Revenue - Costs
Revenue = Demand * Price
Costs = Demand * Variable Costs + Fixed Costs

Thus,

Profit = Demand * Price - Demand * Variable Costs - Fixed Costs

As long as variable costs < price then profit goes down when demand goes down.
When I was 22 or so, my wife asked me what my biggest fear was. At the time, aside from concerns around her health and safety, it was "that nobody will know who I was after I die".

Time and perspective change our priorities.

It is possible to become great person without ever having a successful IPO. Without ever having a product in the first place. And certainly without giving up most of your life in the likely-to-fail attempt to become 'great' (ie, known and a financial success), at the opportunity cost of living your life.

Because lets face it - our success rate is pretty dismally low. Most of us - no matter how smart, no matter how driven - won't achieve "greatness" in the sense alluded to here. We will be neither the next Jobs nor the next Gates nor the next Zuckerburg.

We will write code. We will make products that may or may not make a difference in people's lives. We will earn salaries that are unreasonably out of proportion to what we actually do (take it while it lasts!).

Most of the people who will remember us are in this closed community of startups. And once we stop producing, most of them will forget us. Some of us will go on to something more - but not most.

Except for a select few of us, nobody will look back at you in 50 years and say "wow, this dude... this dude was an awesome coder/businessman/marketer/designer".

But your kid might look back at you in 50 years and say "he was an awesome dad". Your community might remember you for the assistance you gave. And many, many more might remember you for the difference you made in their lives through your interactions with them.

There's nothing wrong with trying for the 'greatness' discussed in the original post. But never lose sight of the fact that this kind of success is only one path. And, frankly, you have your whole life to get there -- the long path taken by most of the people who are successful in that way.

TL;DR:

There is greatness in things other than the work you do and the money you make.
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My point is that if there are less traffic jam, owning a car becomes interesting. I currently do not own a car because of traffic jams. Remove traffic jams and I'll buy one right away.

If you work in software it's important for you to understand these distinctions. That or you're just trolling. I can't decide.

You never know who is at the other end. In my case, I just felt it was inappropriate. But I could have been an insecure teenager and this comment could have hurt a lot.
This is untrue about Arch, but true about Gentoo and seemingly will be about Fedora. Your experience with "Py3 default distros" has a bit to do with what version `python` points to. You certainly can get by with virtualenv all over and / or setuptools rewriting shebang lines but it's less convenient.

From the two sections in here it appears that Fedora will stick with `python` pointing to Py2, so that's good news.
I was wondering why there was no mention of elite dangerous.
DON'T! Just don't.

Encrypting user credentials in JS is probably even worse than parsing HTML with regular expressions:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-...

Just send it in cleartext, but over properly verified https.
And thus furthering the internet's arms war for grabbing people's attention.

I see this playing out two ways:

1. The "productivity" apps will continue to grow as more people become less productive. (the tools aren't lacking, but their attention spans are) We'll continue to see to-do list apps, CRM apps, and project management tools rolled out week after week.

2. Internet based companies (everything from publishers to web apps) will have to increasingly find more ways to ensure user engagement. This means more email notifications, more smartphone notifications, more SMS's, and more ways of people trying to annoy you.
The MRI scanner requires more precautions and safeguards (being built around a 1+ tesla magnet), and acquiring images takes more time, thus more human resources.

Edit: to illustrate ris' point (the sibling comment), check this XKCD chart, linked in the article: http://xkcd.com/radiation/
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fortran really lets you start from any integer index, including negative ones, 1 is just a default if you omit the lower bound. But it's not half-open when you declare (or use slicing) i.e. it uses inclusive lower and upper bounds, so A(-17:-17, 10:10) has one element not none. It might or might not have been nicer if they'd been half-open. Or one could also imagine a start+length type declaration, but meh.

http://orion.math.iastate.edu/burkardt/papers/fortran_arrays...
DNF is a fork of Yum, so not that big news either.
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"But back then it seemed disturbingly complicated, perhaps a recipe for chaos, to have the plan for a game shared between two brains." :D
This game is kind of fun. I would feel bad cheating it.
It's always great to get some behind the scenes into how a great piece of software was built.

Last night I finished the book about id Software.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222146.Masters_of_Doom

Any other great recommendations?
How exactly are ARM Holdings "an NPE"? They're definitely practicing - they're using their patents in their designs. They also attempt to shoot down any independent implementation of the ISA, for that matter.
I am hoping that war will become a thing of the past. Hopefully in the future we will have a better understanding of and when conflicts develop - and how to resolve them. Also communication between cultures will improve (more people speak English, machine translation, more direct communication though the internet) and cultures will become more similar.
Never give up on life.
Stay positive. Negative thoughts make you perform worse. You have to believe in yourself and tell yourself that it's okay if you miss something but fix it next time.
*Recognize what makes you unhappy and try to figure out why.
Beware of sappers, or people who don't like to see others get ahead. They are the people that come around in an attempt to assert control over you during one of these activities. For instance, let's say that someone sees you reading and then asks you to mow the lawn. Most people, to avoid argument, just go out and do what they are told, There are times however when that is a poor precedent to set. It says that whenever your task is enjoyment, anyone can come around and override that task. Not only can that lead to resentment, but it is also the beginning of habitual unhappiness.
"Believe in yourself", entire books can be summed up in those words... The "power of belief", or "power of prayer" or "placebo effect" are all words that have the same general meaning, and all can be scientifically demonstrated to have a real effect(positive or negative) on people's lives. Basically it is using one's imagination to manipulate oneself or the world around them, and the longer and more one believes something to be true the greater the effect and or likelihood. And also believe in others a little, allowing others to be free can sometimes free oneself.
Develop a non-defeatist attitude toward life, start looking at your life as you in control of everything, no matter how out of control your life truly is, pretend it's all up to you, use your imagination... no one is controlling your destiny you make your own destiny you are the master of you life, and everything depends on you to praise or blame. It is very common for people to unknowingly develop a defeatist attitude toward life and give up or say things like "it's all in god's hands", or it's genetics, or it's destiny, karma etc., or to have been belittled by others into believing there are things one can't do, it is easier to assume a defeatist attitude based on bad, unlucky, or inaccurate experiences and subconsciously and automatically assume we can do nothing so why try in the future, this is a good way to save needless effort that we would perceive to be wasted based on our experiences, it is learning, and it saves time and energy if this is the attitude one wants.
Just sent a test invoice, and I must say the workflow is very neat. Best of luck!
Maybe they used PHP to create the site. :)
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Wow. The memories. I ran the hub for a CAD/CAM and animation themed BBS network. We would switch to the latest, greatest (e.g. PKPAK) almost immediately to reduce phone bills.
I'm also curious as to how any period where we "Lost the fight against viruses" also includes the elimination of Rinderpest.
This whole thing is no _big_ news at at all. I wonder what they define with "scope". If they are talking about 21+22 thats around ~12 months ahead, so even less big news.
Kod had some great potential for sure. I was definitely disappointed when it stopped being actively developed.
Not just in USA, but in most "developed" countries. Robots are usually also more accurate and make fewer mistakes.
I don't think anyone thought making it G+ only would stop spammers (that would only be slightly less ridiculous than thinking G+ comments only would solve world hunger). They thought it would make it is easier to verify.
Timber: .NET logging facade with the Windows Event Log in mind
I played the C64 version a while ago and it really hasn't aged well. If you want to play it (again) you should go straight with the MSDOS (plus) version.
This occidental fascination with Japanese sex is embarrassing. Or perhaps I just feel that these "reports" don't lend enough academic gravitas to the subject and end up being weird, discomforting vouyeristic pieces that conflate several different phenomena without the rigour the topic deserves.
It's a pity you don't disclose which malware specifically the sites were distributing. As a user who may have been affected prior to google flagging it, it's frustrating to have no information on what to look for.
Can't say I actually use Sublime anymore, although I do know a few people who do, but when put in the perspective of a piece of software you use all day every day it doesn't seem that expensive. Even when many other editors are free.
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Does what you expect it to.
Even with only one public facing address there could be more than one server handling the content. It could be that only one had a bad file, or they all did but that one is yet to be cleaned. Or, as you say, the bad file could be cached at the ISP level (if this was only affected one ISP, whcih obviously it didn't, it could even have been injected at the point rather than at php.net's resources).
Wasn't there an awful ad from Samsung or some big company recently, and they had to pull it and apologize for it, because it was very offensive, and they had no idea what the ad would be prior to being on TV? (or at least that's what they claimed).

Either way, I don't think it's that hard to imagine. These companies, especially mediocre companies who like to "outsource" stuff and not care as much about the result, pay millions of dollars at a time, and don't look into all the details of the advertising campaigns.
A related story I found interesting at the time about Weird Al vs Lady Gaga: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110421/10431413988/weird-...
Maybe I'm a bit biased as a more seasoned iOS dev, but I think that the entire development experience for iOS is a lot more fun than Android. This runs the gamut from using Xcode and contributing to the community, to launching apps and talking to users. Android, although open source, isn't easier or a whole heck of a lot of fun to program for. Not every Android class is documented (just yesterday I had to read the source code file for AnimatorPath because no top level documentation was available). One step of the myriad of steps to get push notifications working is to copy a string of characters between two colons of the URL bar in the browser. C'mon Google. If you want to make it better for developers, start by making it easier.

Nobody really talks too much about how much "fun" it is to develop for their platform of choice. I think this is a huge factor - one that outweighs most of the objective reasons for using one daily.
Honestly, at this point HAART treatments for HIV are giving folks a near natural lifespan, and the major threats to their health are becoming diseases of old age - cancer and the like. And the years they have are fully functional.

Compared to a chronic, wasting disease that will take years of opportunistic infections before you die, that's damned good.
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Even for the Tic-Tac-Toe?
I'm not a proper programmer but I started on the BBC micro's BASIC with:

10 PRINT 'I AM AWESOME '
20 GOTO 10

What's the current equivalent to that?
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As someone who used to work in the credit card industry, perhaps I'm more sensitive to the costs that my bank's protection of me incurs. Because you're right - I am covered. But someone is still paying.

And hey, who knows, they might be storing your card numbers behind the scenes anyway with your order, and therefore you're not at any advantage

Indeed. Frustrating as hell.
We both enjoy cooking more than we enjoy fast cars. Also, I did the fast car thing after the last sale I was a part of; never again.
They are not that separated. Some modern cars have the entertainment system take note of the speed of the engine and adjust the volume accordingly. Some flip the infotainment display to a backup camera when the transmission is indicated to be in reverse.

This is in addition to some cars adjusting the side mirrors when in reverse. I remember reading of an exploit that took advantage of the fact that the security system was on the same network in a particular car and thieves were able to crack off a side mirror and inject an "unlock" command. Does anybody have a reference for that?
I think many deep thinkers have previously been trust funded.
The list of inaptronyms at the bottom are particularly hilarious, including the "former Archbishop of Manila, Jaime L. Sin, known as Cardinal Sin."
As well as those (real) examples in the New Scientist, there's a long running fake correspondence section in Private Eye magazine, 'Pseudo Names'. Here's a typical, groanworthy example:

Sir,
In Germany, we see Pseudo Names as just a passing fancy.
HERR TODAY
GUNTER MORROW.

(Sent in by Brian Clifford)
You may well be right, but I think the key claim is this:

"Most metal stampings go through one or two die tools to produce the final shape. With the Mac Pro though, the challenge is to produce a massive amount of plastic deformation without tearing, rippling or deforming the perfect cylindrical surface."

and, below the figure:

"The results of the first (of between 4 and 5) deep draw stamping operations. Notice how the Mac Pro part is nowhere near the final length."

As I'm sure you know, there's a big difference between a single-use aluminium can, which is both small and thin, and a large part like this, which has to have both structural stability, very high dimensional tolerances, and a good surface finish. That said, you obviously know more about this than I do, so maybe you can comment on the quotes from the article?
Does an app having a lot of 5 star reviews help the application raise it's status in the store over the long run? Also in the Play Store, does Google cycle reviews on updates like Apple does?
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The sun doesn't mind the northerly location. It's only 0.01% extra distance from its point of view ;)

Seriously, you can get a terrible sunburn if you don't take care of your face. A couple of days of direct sun plus reflections via the snow surface, and boom.
Where is the irony? Or are we eschewing Oxford and Webster's definition and using Alanis Morrisette's?
I'm not so sure of that.

>Nurikan says he keeps Rinko (his virtual girlfriend) a secret from his wife, and hopes he never has to choose between them.

It may be a fear of rejection for many, but it seems there are other contributing factors to the phenomenon.
Did someone forget LHA / LZH?
I've altered the CSS so that the page displays even if you don't have JavaScript. Thanks for the bug report.
You may need to clear your cache etc to pick up the new stylesheet.
What about "maroi"?
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Yep, you're definitely right! I'm working on stopping that irritating process and adding in great logging and controlling it via a log level of some sort.
How is that amazing?
You can install both at the same time. "Default" here refers to what is installed by by default, and what the distro internal scripts are written in.

/usr/bin/python should remain symlinked to python2, and never python3: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/

But in any case, all scripts should reference the actual required version in the #! line.
Very cool. Just been testing the SMS and text-to-speech API (via their node.js helper libraries) and it's working well.
What did Richard Nixon, have to do with the value of Gold?
I wonder where Tuper Tario Tros[1] stands from a copyright standpoint, then. At what point would you say that a game violates copyright? Obviously Super Mario Bros was the inspiration for a whole generation of platformer games that came after it. What would be the minimal set of changes that will allow Full Screen Mario to exist without violating copyright?

[1] http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/522276 (flash required)
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That story also shows what you can and cannot do without copyright holder's permission. If you don't have a permission, you cannot profit from your cover. If you have a permission, you have to pay royalties for your cover to the original author if you're exploiting your cover commercially.
Is there a reason I wouldn't want to fire up the original BBC version?

Also, surely there must be a js/canvas port by now.

EDIT: the author apparently recommends the NES version: http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/nes/index.htm
Erlang is 1 based. For those who know it, is this something from its Prolog heritage?
I'm tempted to say: they improve programmers.
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Though one recent study of drug development costs had an antibiotic against C. difficile as one of the cheapest to develop.

I've actual found there's a fair amount of interest in antibiotic development among drug companies.
Yeah. Just try to think a bit outside the box... :)
git checkout @{-2}

Checks out the branch you were on two checkouts ago.
We do block VPN on our corporate network, yes. A VPN is a tunnel that hides user activity from our monitoring and DLP tools and use of VPN from our network to the outside is against policy. Likewise, sharing your credentials with a third party is against policy.

The attacker is LinkedIn. The employee is the attack vector. LinkedIn is engaging in a phishing attack.
ahh.. im already addicted. No more work will be done today. ;/
If this is actually an accurate representation of the situation (the Otaku seem interested in "simple", unrealistic relationships, not necessarily uninterested in sex to me), the perspective of the female population would be very interesting. Do they share the lack of interest in sex? Are they still interested in it, but find the small remaining male population with similar interests sufficient, i.e. several of them date the same guy?

It's also good to keep in mind that sex is no longer required for reproduction, so the conclusion (dramatic population reduction until 2060) is overly dramatic.
Samsung have just received a large fine in South Korea for this sort of behaviour.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/t/story/taiwan-body-fines-s...

They hired a small army of commentators to trash HTC and talk up Samsung in blog comments etc.
why depressing? I've never understood this fascination some have with spending billions going on a fun trip to mars.

That sort of thing should be funded by rich people or corporations who see market value in doing it. Not paid for by taxes.

We have enough problems to solve here that will actually benefit people.
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So this would be a bad time to start talking about rates of community acquisition of MRSA and C. difficile, wouldn't it?
I give up, Apple will never understand dual screen as well as Linux
Thanks for posting this! I had read about this before, but had forgotten where. And whenever such a topic in a conversation came up, and I told people about this thing where "sometimes [there are] quite grotesque coincidence[s] between a man's name and his peculiarities" I couldn't come up with examples nor remember where I read about it.
This story might be a bit biased in favor of Katz. Read this take, too:

http://www.esva.net/~thom/baker.html

The team that owned ARC was even smaller than Katz's, and PKARC was based directly on ARC.
I always felt oddly cheated that some of the massive spaceships mentioned in the booklet that described the galaxy never appeared in the actual game.
Most if not all of the code runs on the client side, it's expected you can cheat pretty much anything in the game.
I don't know... sounds like they just shifted the 'single point of failure' to the Zookeeper cluster. Is it somehow sexier to have your SPOF be things running Zookeeper instead of things running loadbalancer or DNS software?:

"The achilles heel of SmartStack is Zookeeper. Currently, the failure of our Zookeeper cluster will take out our entire infrastructure. Also, because of edge cases in the zk library we use, we may not even be handling the failure of a single ZK node properly at the moment."
It's more prevalent, and has gone from a weird bug mostly in hospitals to something you can pick up in the community.

Beyond that, it's no longer just MRSA. There's all manner of resistance mechanisms, for a very, very wide set of diseases, including some dirt common ones.

"Resistant" isn't an on/off switch. How resistant? Where are the resistant bugs? How many of them are there compared to non-resistant competitors, etc.
My electric bicycle you can clearly see the huge hub (if you know what you are looking for).

But my model is like 5 years old.

I saw a modern electric bike the other day and you'd never know, except the person is going as fast as Armstrong on steroids without breaking a sweat.
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I'm talking trash about BB while using BB for testing.

Granted, it's not the most scintillating use of irony - but it fits the British definition quite adequately.

Of course, the ironic thing about Alanis Morrisette's song is that it contains no irony. Which makes it paradoxically ironic.
It is so hard to capture a 'light level' with photography. I wish they would have shown a photo without the reflected light, so as to give some contrast to the difference.
Reminds me of a neurosurgeon in Oregon named Dr. Hacker.
ARM does not reduce its inventions to practice. It is not the hardware description language files that are subject to patents but the chips that embody those files.

Another valuable example of this is a patent pool consortium, a corporation that exists to bring all patents in a field together for easy licensing.
I didn't know proxy servers were part of apple's approved apps.
I really love that part where a random div is selected for inserting the iframe...