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> Just accept that "px" is device-defined

Nope! "px" is defined by the CSS spec. The physical pixels are device-defined as is the exact anti-aliasing algorithm but the spec dictates the dimensions of a logical ("px") pixel in the real world. Devices are not free to make "px" whatever they want it to be, because "px" is a logical pixel not a physical one. (Though it is a physical length).

A classic example of why this matters is that Windows treats the screen as 96dpi but OS X treats it as 72dpi. If the CSS spec did not dictate the size of a "px" then all web pages on OS X would look 26% smaller than on Windows.
On a purely aesthetic side, the new input form does clash with the old menu. The ~carousel seems a bit "cpu consuming", maybe a simpler tile grid as in Windows Phone 8. That said I love the service, and the frontend is probably not the most important part of their system.
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So, the CEO leading the "strategic options" process had $56mm payout on the line. Amazing conflict of interest, under some interpretations of the term. And the bidder was a (ex) board member?
Attempted crimes are charged and convicted all the time. It isn't the thinking that's the crime; it's the attempt. The fact that they failed doesn't quite negate the fact that they were sincerely trying to get a real girl to do it.
It's [largely?] unmoderated UGC, it's NSFW.
Coming back into the hardware world after being away for several years, I find the ARM Cortexen pretty damn compelling for the possibility to do the high level programming in something besides C. And a STM32F4 Discovery board is only ~$15.

(And yeah, I feel dirty for blowing up a GreenArrays thread with a suggestion for a more traditional microcontroller, especially not having really studied the GA chip.)
Corporations don't make decisions, people do. In most jobs the people you work with and work for DO care about you.
I don't know that Android is a long term winning strategy for them but I could see them staying alive. Many people point to hardware features like the keyboard as things they love about Blackberry.

The conventional wisdom may be wrong in this case. Conventionally, if you wanted to save them you'd look at what they do best, look at their very core best capability and you'd go all in with that and maybe find a winning partner for the other stuff. As an outsider, and maybe because I'm just a computer dork and see the world this way, Blackberry is either a handset company or they're a bbOS company. So I'd say, put the people's platform on their handsets or put their OS on Samsung and other handsets.

The one thing about them putting Android on their handsets, it gives their fans access to their hardware and it gives their customers access to software. BB10 has the same problems Windows Phone has, it may be great but my favorite apps aren't on it. How much better does the platform have to be to get over the missing apps?

I hope they survive and come up with a plan. I don't see them ever being as big or profitable as they once were though.
I had to limit the room size to 300 people because my cheap 5€ VPS was hitting 100% CPU load. There are about 500 people on the page across all rooms now.
Here's Wikipedia's blurb on the subject, fwiw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources/Furth...
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While I think this is beyond dispute (gathering information for indexing), with some of their more recent moves, we may want to extend that to recognize that Google is also in the content production business.
Install the plugin "Live HTTP Headers" to see what is being sent and received.
Likewise, ive just realised that I dont make effective use of the desktop on windows but when you mention win+d to get to a screen worth of cherry picked shortcuts, it makes sense.

I never really put anything on my desktop, I do use the win7 taskbar a lot but I reckon ill start using the desktop too.

EDIT: meant to add for piping in windows, someone showed me something similarly useful, if you drag a bunch of selected files onto a program icon, the program can often make use of those files. E.g. drag some files onto the outlook icon and it'll compose a new email with them attached.
"Only when there was a parsing error would it answer incorrectly."

As if parsing Jeopardy questions is a trivial feat.
I question whether torture is widely recognized as a bad thing. I'm pretty sure I have seen US politicians openly acknowledge that we should torture for national security matters. But even if we assume that, the question remains: why should people believe that torture is less widespread than it was in the Middle Ages?
From the report:

"As of the publication of this report, state licensing and disciplinary boards in Alabama, California, Georgia, Louisiana, new York, Ohio, and Texas have received—and dismissed—complaints against health professionals for alleged mistreatment of detainees at Guantánamo and secret CIA detention centers. To the knowledge of the Task Force, none of these complaints has led to a formal hearing that then led to a decision holding the individual to account. Many of the complaints were dismissed on procedural grounds. The boards rarely explained the bases for these decisions, but together they suggest an unwillingness of state licensing bodies to address complaints of misconduct within national security agencies or a belief by the boards that they are unable to pursue them. They also reveal procedural and substantive deficiencies in the way state boards approach discipline of health professionals alleged to have been complicit in torture or other forms of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. These practices and procedures contribute to a lack of disciplinary accountability for unethical acts of severe harm on detainees."
I would consider that pessimistic. If that becomes true, the tremendous job security I have now would start to evaporate.
Here is a sample application note detailing an integration with the TI SensorTag:

http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/documents/greg/AN012-130...
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Coding is simply telling a computer what to do. Even to a certain degree, entering a term into Google's search engine is a type of coding. And maybe that will be the future, parsers and compilers that can turn plain language into computer instructions. We're not terribly far off with transpilers/compilers that turn Python and other high level languages into C or native code...

Until a computer can program itself (which may never happen), there's going to be a person telling it what to do - and no matter whether it's a formula in a spreadsheet, a programming language, or something higher level, it'll still be code...
Then I would simply employ it as a means to get the names of those who deserve further investigation. The further investigation is putting a live person on the other side and then nailing the pervs.
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drunk people are easier to govern.

one hypothesis
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Real-time file sharing on a site that seems to have already become a real-time UI to 4chan....

Let me think about this. No, no I don't trust my virus protection enough to open anything here.
Can we please stop using "happiness" as some kind of value. It is such a loaded and slippery term. Happiness is a fluid and multi-dinensional state of being. It doesn't quantify well.
While both your statement and my response are gross oversimplifications, I would point out that when Elop took over, more people were buying Nokias than they are now.

Q3 2010 (when Elop took over): 110.4 million Nokias sold
Q3 2013: 64.4 million Nokias sold

Parsing your statement, if when you said "no one was buying Nokia phones" you means "no one [in developed economies] was buying [Nokia high end smartphones]" you'd then be correct.

Pedantic reply is pedantic :)
Yes, it's not a valid solution to the game of basketball, but it is a valid solution to the "get a ball in a hoop" game.

I don't think the Kobayashi Maru test rules said anything about "don't try to break the game". Success can result from relaxing an irrelevant requirement.
Wow, I never knew it existed, thanks for the link!
No known fungus does--though there are "radiotrophic" fungus, that use gamma radiation as an energy source.

However, fungus are found with photosynthetic symbionts. Lichen, for example, are a combination of fungus and algae (or similar). It's possible the Prototaxites were giant lichen, which would allow them to live in non-fungus-friendly locales, rather like a tree.
Ambiguity is quite frequently between several well-defined states. A significant difference between race conditions and natural language ambiguity is that in the latter we typically expect resolution to happen favorably when the interaction is cooperative - which is not a feature of race conditions in the general or typical case. I think it's still fair to say that this is not an essential feature of ambiguity, though, which is why I included it as an example. In the case of a race condition, the relevant pieces of the language do not uniquely define a single result - additional context may.
This is awesome. CSS is becoming very powerful. I was proud of myself when I made a simple css triangle
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>And randomizing data doesn't necessarily guarantee that you won't still land on a worst-case starting order (as is the nature of randomness).

This is the beauty of randomized analysis in the worst-cases.
The worst-case occurs if and only if the random generator spits out a sorted list. If all permutations are equally likely, a list of n elements has probability 1/n! of coming out sorted = O(n^2).

Even in practice, this is very pessimisstic as it only occurs with a probability of 1/n! and is therefore extremely rare.
It's like having a website inside a website.... Whhyyyyy? It's like a website full of iframes.
Maybe you should actually use something before forming an opinion on it. Your lack of knowledge with vim is pretty obvious given that you didn't know that you could use your mouse.
Ahh, thanks for reminding me of that term; I've desperately had it on the tip of my mind for a few days now!
the unlimited vacation, aside from being a perk, is an attempted way around California’s laws on vacation. It keeps companies from piling up liabilities -- which the company has to pay out when the employee leaves -- from all the vacation employees are accumulating and not being able to take because the hours are so arduous.

Any lawyers care to comment on this?
> The CSS px unit was carefully designed to embody as
> closely as possible the intuitive concept of a "monitor
> pixel", while retaining sufficient flexibility to allow
> implementors to accommodate a wide range of devices.

The closest match to the concept of a "monitor pixel" is a unit which represents one pixel. In other words, an element styled as "width: 100px" would be 100px wide regardless of the size of each individual pixel.

The issue with declaring that one csspixel is a monitor pixel is that it's only true for a very narrow range of monitors. It's not true for my phone, or my tablet, or my laptop, or my desktop. There is not a single machine I own for which 1 css pixel is 1 monitor pixel, and that situation is unlikely to change unless I decide to start building my machines with ancient 96-DPI LCDs.

> On a printer, where there is no "pixel" worth anchoring
> to, the units are typically anchored to physical units,
> and width: 1cm really does mean 1cm. The reason that on
> your monitor screen 1cm is not 1 real cm is because
> your browser is resizing everything - it's bending over
> backwards to make 1px match the screen pixel size!

No, it's not. My browser is bending to make "width: 1px" match some arbitrary size defined in the CSS spec, which is nowhere near the size of a pixel on my machine.

The browser is entirely capable of rendering css pixels as screen pixels, obviously. It's also capable of rendering with real-world sizes, by querying the physical size of the display from the OS and dividing by the current display resolution. But it doesn't do any of those things, because someone on the CSS committee wrote the equivalent of "pi = 3".
To clarify, are you actually asking why should they, or why do they?
> You don't want a "px" on your phone to be the same as a
> "px" on your desktop, which also shouldn't be the same
> as a "px" on your projector.

Of course you do. How will you get pixel-correct rendering when the browser is reinterpreting the meaning of a pixel?
These sorts of generalizations do not end well. For example, if you really think that "There aren’t people who are A players and C players. Just people who are performing at an A level and at a C level." then fire your entire recruiting department and hire anyone who walks in through the door. After all, there are no bad people, only those who perform badly right? So if those strangers who walk in do not do well, it is the fault of your environment and management, right?
At least existing American legal standards define "thought crime" literally. You can't be convicted of a crime merely based on your intentions, but if you take a "substantial step" (or something similar, depending on the jurisdiction) towards committing the crime, then it's no longer just "thoughts" and you can be convicted for an attempt. At least some of these men completed every step that was under their control: engage the girl and pay the money. That's an attempt, not just a thought crime. It's like lining up and firing a shot at what turns out to be a mannequin cleverly dressed as your ex-wife. Still attempted murder.
> “This is not traffic you would encounter outside of Google's internal network,” said one of the experts. The slide shows data in a format that is “only used on and between Google machines.

So, the NSA had physical access to data on-the-fly (obviously, that would not be how you get data that was authorized by a court order). 2 possibilities:

a) They went ahead and broke in physically, or

b) Google installed a tap for them.
This is spot on, no one would actually follow that protocol.

Tangentially, the best side effect of HFT seems to be that a lot of technical people have become more sophisticated in understanding incentive structures and contracts. I wonder how that affects funding decisions for startups of the ex-HFT crowd.
I don't see email in the list of "what it does now" ... is that so basic of a arkOS function that it is presumed, and doesn't need to be mentioned ?

Or are you not providing what I would argue is the number one priority for self reliance, privacy and control on the Internet ?
Well, at a minimum, it saves the processing time required to format the text, which lessens the server cost of each page hit. It's a small optimization, but when the vast majority of the users are just coming to the site to read text, I'd imagine it would save a lot of CPU time.
> I'm familiar with Pandoc but haven't delved into it far enough to know if it's robust enough to do what I want.

:-) But thanks!
I know lots of people who do it with conference papers (including those published and nominally typeset and printed by Springer), and it's easy to spot. I haven't seen anyone get away with obvious tweaks in journal papers.

When my papers get too long, I take it as an opportunity to obsess over superfluous words and sentences.
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> we need a new unit to unambiguously describe angular measure.

That's a nonsense unit. You'd need to know where my eyeballs are and change the measure as I move my head around! What happens if two people are looking at the screen?

> we need to start demanding resolution independent units

That's what CSS pixels are. A pixel is 0.26 mm, period.
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NPM seems to be extremely slow this morning. Has anyone been experiencing this issue or have any insight as to what's going on?
Hi rsync -- Email capability is in the works, you can find that mentioned on the site under the "On the Agenda" "The true centre of your self-hosted Internet" sections.

Thanks!
While nobody in their right mind would ever use it as a secure PRNG, who knows how often it's being used to generate randomness in a place where being able to predict the randomness would open up a non-cryptographic security vulnerability.
I am assuming this was not PG. There are much better ways to contact a site owner. Also the user kept saying "DROP THE THE". Obviously there is no "the" in the site's name.
"you won't see any new players coming out of the woodwork with a new phone everybody wants"

Exactly. You WILL see new players coming out of the woordwork with a new, post-phone device everybody wants.

I'm not claiming I know what it is. But its emergence is a certainty.
The things Blackberry thought mattered most about their product were battery life, "security", email (keyboards, data backend for that) and minimising data usage (makes the carriers happy). The iPhone is a terrible product along those lines. Heck it runs a full blown Unix, compositing graphics, and is positively profligate with data consumption.

Asymco covers this in detail, but what happened on the carrier side was they found that iPhone users were prepared to pay more for large data plans (by Blackberry standards) and hence the carrier could subsidise the iPhone price because of that. (Many carriers moved over to the handset subsidy model for the iPhone.) RIM thought carriers were trying to make maximum usage of their network, when in fact they were trying to maximize revenues. Consumers valued full blown Internet access highly and then apps. That led to the iPhone taking off.

Blackberry had a platform that was all about economy (use minimal memory, cpu, network etc). They did react hence the QNX acquisition. But Apple and Android both had a head start on them. RIM had to bootstrap a new platform, redevelop most apps, and try to catch up, all in a shorter amount of time than Apple and Android had, also while changing core values (minimalism/efficiency). It would be a rare organization indeed that could pull that off.

Globe and Mail have a good long article with the insider details http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/the-inside...
I was thinking more Super Mario. They were not far off at all
I don't know the full details, but what if these doctors were presented with the following:

> We're going to torture these suspects with or without you. However, with your assistance, we can 'maximize' the effectiveness of the interrogation while 'minimizing' actual physical damage.
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I might want to use LuaTex, if I knew what it was. It seems they can't be bothered to actually say what it is in their website, in any of their links, or in the introduction chapter of their manual.

I therefore take it that no-one who actually writes ever uses it.
Recent versions of Firefox have a much improved Browser Console (formerly known as the Error Console, and before that known as the JavaScript Console). It's like a browser-wide version of the per-page Web Console that showed up about a year ago. It shows HTTP requests (among many other things), and may be quite sufficient for diagnosing this problem.

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I dont get it. isn't being nice part of the whole "be awesome" thing. I mean why are males being discouraged from being nice and helpful? O.o i mean i understand it's extremely wrong to be nice for the sole purpose of getting into someone's pants (and equally wrong for people to take advantage of people for being nice to them), but why discourage being nice as a whole? i thought we all went thru HS and college and learned to recognize people who take advantage of our niceness. Just avoid them, and be nice to everyone else
This is not true - the probability of mining a block in the future is relative to the time spent mining (a Binomial).

The probability of finding a block does not change based on how long someone already has been mining.

Consider a fair coin - even if you get tails 20 times in a row, the probability of getting heads on the 21st try is still 50%.

In contrast, the probability of getting a heads at least once in 20 tries is 1-1/2^20.
I feel the same way. I frequetly use them, and find them a lot easier to use than Regexes. My site even uses regexes a lot. [ theexceptioncatcher.com ]
The px would look larger on a screen with the lower dpi
In Aurora, the tools now use Code Mirror as the editor. Along with that change, we now use Code Mirror's searching, so Cmd+G and Cmd+Shift+G will cycle through next/previous search results.

I filed a bug for a more discoverable UI: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=934624

Here is this bug for searching across all sheets: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=932093

It looks like it slipped under the radar, but I just talked with Heather who has worked on the Style Editor the most, and so it should be back on the radar now :)

Anything else? :)
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He appears to have removed links to the obviously offending plugins now, the 4 I spotted at least.

He still has the gall to leave that blog post up though.
I really doubt this will have much effect on any of the competing apps. Brushes was already downloadable for free (with an optional in-app purchase). Many other painting apps of various capability are available for free too.

Perhaps more damage will be done in the vector space, where there's not a lot of money to be made in the first place... but I'd still be surprised if it puts anybody out of business.

At any rate, I don't believe anyone is entitled to any particular business model. More people are better off with open-source software.
I like the idea of this post, but have a few qualms. For example, flipping "unexited portfolio companies" into "shots on goal" seems a little strange.
So instead of stumping up $4.7 billion in its own and others' money to buy BlackBerry, taking all of the equity upside and downside and controlling the company, Fairfax will stump up $1 billion of its own and others' money -- only $250 million of its own -- to take a lot of the equity upside, little or none of the downside, and basically control the company. That is a much better deal for Fairfax: It gets most of the benefit of buying BlackBerry, with considerably less of the risk.
You don't need to read books to get the gist of local politics. Peoples' motivations are simple and plain on the surface. Nobody is sitting around going "my god, we have no choice but to close this homeless shelter. Cursed ADA regulations!"
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I know 3 people in satanic cult, one of them even did criminal things. But I never met a pedophile.
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Surprised to see no f-bombs being dropped in Australia, it's a little quiet here, a little too quiet. Interesingly, seems a lot of people in the UK love to drop the f-bomb themselves, this is a little gem I discovered:

"I'm not an asshole I just don't give a fuck a lot"

Neat idea, I made something similar that generated fortune cookie messages based on Tweets, it wasn't as nice as your idea and execution, nice one.