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(My use: MBPr, Mavericks, Chrome Dev vs. Firefox 25.0.1)

I'll confirm there is a demonstrable difference between the two browsers, to my eye, being that in Chrome the odd numbers don't animate and in Firefox they do. However, I'd like to add that both are equally smooth and antialiased for me.

I'd also like to point out that Chrome font rendering can be smoothed/"crisped" by using in your CSS:

-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden;

for future reference. (Note: this CSS example does not hold any bearing on the OP's example. For whatever reason, both fonts are equally smooth for me.)

Further, yes there are also settings in OSX for font smoothing. In System Preferences > General > Last checkbox is to enable/disable font smoothing.
Blog down, clearly shouldn't have ditched AWS
As this post title says: "completely managed".

NLua still relies on native code.
Exactly, now we guarantee a pristine VM for every single test, something which was not possible with our setup on EC2.
The sky above the port was the color of a TV, switched to a dead channel.
Teaching you to care about permissions would ruin Android's ad supported business model.
Thought experiment:

Pretend it is 1 year go. Assume at that time that BTC was trading for 50 USD. (I pulled this out of thin air, somebody can look up the real historical rates at that time, if curious. But I know it was much much lower than present.) Pretend that BoA came out back then with a fancy serious official "expert judgment" report saying that the maximum fair market value of BTC would be 70 USD/BTC. Now let this digest in your mind.

And that this type of thing is happening all the time in the "serious" financial/business/entrepreneurial world. Nobody's an expert about the future. (Nor on the present.) It's an unknown country. It doesn't exist yet. I won't say that literally anything could happen in the future. But there are so many things that can, and so many variables and moving parts, and so many unknowns, that it's often effectively equivalent to that.

If a man steps out of a Time Machine from the Future, and tells me the maximum value is 1300 USD, then, maybe I'll believe him. But I'd still want some independent verification that his box can truly travel in time. And these BoA folks aren't even claiming they have that.
Yup. There's a reason for that. Spammers are trying to target idiots specifically. Normal intelligent people who would otherwise get tricked tend to be the type with the wherewithall to follow up with authorities. Idiots tend not to be.
Exactly, a key attribute of "The Cloud" has always been offloading the risk and costs of scaling. You get linear elasticity in scale without step functions in cost.

Once you plunk down all the money for networking and hardware yourself you've lost elasticity and will have a step function in cost the next time you want to scale. When you turn off VMs, you aren't saving anything at all. You just have expensive idle computing resources.
Worth noting that "cloud" was also used to describe private MPLS networks:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiprotocol_Label_Switching
Air pollution is one thing the leadership suffers as well. Everyone has to breathe. If the people are poor or suffering in some other way but the leadership is living large then they can ignore the issues. But everyone needs air. At some point they have to deal with it.
Ahhhh whew. I thought this was gonna be an article about people switching back to Heroku & my blood was gonna get all angried up.

On the other hand, people wanting to set up their own server clusters... VMs... Linux container stuff... that's heartwarming :)
What you've described looks just as messy to my eyes, and I've seen all different ways to do this.

You can nest under if(thing!=NULL) but then you end up with indentation creep.

You can use the goto pattern if you like but some folks will tell you that goto's are never, ever to be used.

Or you can do what's done above. When it comes down to it the logic is basically identical and it's just down to code formatting.
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> I realize that criticism may be somewhat muted given the nature of the PRC government

There's no shame in calling a spade a spade. You correctly perceive that the brutally authoritarian PRC government both suppresses criticism and whitewashes press coverage of environmental problems in the country.

As an aside, discussions with other westerners about China feels to me like having brunch with a couple where everyone knows the husband is cheating on the wife. The natural inclination is to engage in heroic effort to make things seem normal--to map the dysfunctional couple's relationship dynamics to that of a normal couple, all in order to preserve the all-important pretense.
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"* politicians helpless to make real reform"

s/helpless/not interested/
Back in 2009, Jesse Noller wrote about his experiences with PEP-370 and seems to have felt that it is an improvement on the status-quo and a complement to virtualenv but not a replacement:

http://jessenoller.com/blog/2009/07/19/pep-370-per-user-site...
Makes one wonder "why" and become very nihilistic. What's the point of anything? (Which obviously results in the answer of 'nothing'.)

This was a very well-written story. Let's remember, it's just a story, just a conjecture, just a spinning of a tale. Perhaps it's logical or perhaps it's not, but in the end humans have tenaciously clung to the idea it all has meaning, and I expect we will until the end, for better or worse.
Do strength estimators check a password against the contents of popular rainbow tables and dictionaries?

That seems like it would be a useful measure of strength.
Or, even worse, kickstarter could actually become more risky if more people use it to scam people out of money.
-drone industry
-p2p investments/brokerages/knowledge bases/etc. p2p is still not much developed area with many promising things it could provide
-fighting with corporations/governments spying
Mac users do bitch about the OS, there's forums where they have done so for decades. There's still folks calling for Apple to fix the fucking Finder. I used Mac OS back in the day and was one of the early users of OS X. But none of this was magically intuitive, people did and still bought how-to books and spend hours Googling tips.

And yes, Windows hasn't been that great over the years, but like most tools is manageable with effort. Windows 8.x has been a step backwards on the desktop but Windows Phone is surprising good.

As a pro I still think GUIs are one piece of the system, but CLIs still rule in my world.
Doesn't the actual Picasa software handle most of these use cases?

Or something like this random google search result https://apps.facebook.com/picasauploader/
Microsoft: US government is an 'advanced persistent threat'
Right, which is why they are reserved for situations where you are not trying to "jump somewhere", but just want to give up and crash, because further execution in the current context has failed. If some external calling context really does not want to crash, the implementation of failing function doesn't and shouldn't care.
Or CloudStack? Eucalyptus?
As opposed to the depth of your comment.
i could actually rant for hours. but it just frustrates me.

i loathe the app store to the deepest core of my being and actively resent any software I am forced to install with it.

snow leopard was a tragedy. most people I know had their machines developing weird quirks around then. supposedly osx only stays wonderful as long as you always have the latest and greatest.

i now avoid new mac releases as much as possible. last time it was xcode that forced me to upgrade. That is just the most ridiculously large installer for gcc ever.

Oh god yes, and even if you go 'theres cli-tools' (behind a registration wall that you have to know specifically to look for) ... last month, apple decided to booby-trap their gcc binary to force you to open up xcode and agree to a new license agreement before you were allowed to compile things on the command line.

if you didnt have xcode, you had to download it, to open it up, agree to the compulsory license agreement to unlock your cli binaries.
OTOH I enjoy reading Malcolm Gladwell, and he's been shown to be kind of wrong about most stuff.
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I thought that at first too, but then I realized that there is no explicit declaration that there weren't many glacial periods in-between. It just so happens that a million years from now, the earth is in a glacial period. Then again, I don't know what the "holocene interglacial" is, so your other points are probably well founded.
To be fair, the maker of the Z3 watch does brand themselves as an OEM...

Too bad the Kickstarter guy wasn't just a little more upfront about what clearly seems to be a rebranded watch...
I think the bigger problem with Windows 8 was a broader problem that I saw articulated in a thread on reddit.

The thread was about how it seems like next-gen game companies seem to treat releases like they are beta releases. Many of the games for the PS4 and Xbox One are riddle with bugs. Companies seem to have gotten to comfortable with the fact that they can easily release updates post-release, and it's gotten to the point where they are releasing unfinished software to customers who expect it to be a finished.

Major problems with Windows 8 that should never have made it past QA/UAT:

1. Missing start menu button. Extremely confusing jump from 7. Fixed in 8.1

2. Confusing full screen start menu. Remedied in 8.1 with tutorials and better UI cues (down arrow for unpinned applications, embedded search bar on all applications page)

3. On Desktop, files should not open in metro apps by default. (still not fixed)

There should have been a longer beta testing period, and Windows 8.1 should have been Windows 8.

So really, I think the more important point is the mentality of the release cycle. Windows 8 was teased long before it was finally released, so there was a "why is this thing they promised us taking so long just release it already" effect. Apple, on the other hand, tends to hold off on announcing their products until shortly before they're released. There's a "it's been a while since Apple released something new, I wonder when they will release the next thing" effect, which allows them to wait until products are more releasable before actually announcing them
It's really sad. I'm sure there are also people on Kickstarter who aren't scammers, just ordinary folks who don't appreciate the full extent of their commitment. You run into a few obstacles, or your mom gets sick, and suddenly you're on the hook for $50,000 and can't deliver what you promised.

On the other hand, you hear stories about projects who offer too much ("I'll paint a portrait of anyone who donates $7!"), and all their money goes to servicing those rewards.

I don't mean to excuse anyone. Obviously, not everyone is capable of running a business, and Kickstarter makes it really easy for those people to get themselves into hot water.
We have something similar in the Google Norway office:
http://www.tu.no/incoming/2012/03/30/1200003568.jpg/alternat...
(from http://www.tu.no/bygg/2012/03/31/se-googles-toffe-oslo-konto...)

The desks are made by http://www.biooffice.no
Plain black text on a white background is great now?
Sorry, maybe my post wasn't clear. In the sense of giving money over to someone else for the achievement of a goal, I would see 3 basic categories:

1) A donation, however phrased. In this sense, you are effectively giving money away with no expectations of any future returns of any sort. It would be for the most part "anonymous", or at the very least trackable only for the purpose of eventually allowing the recipient to say "thanks".

2) A pre-paid product purchase. In this case you're effectively combining the elements of the "group buy" concept that at least at one time was semi-popular on Internet forums (8 years ago a group of F-150 enthusiasts all got together to purchase Gaylord brand fiberglass bed covers. Standard price was $1600, IIRC, but by committing to purchase 25 units all at once, we were able to purchase them for $1200 shipped). In this case you realize that the product delivery will occur at some future date, and that you get your money back/don't have to pay if the goal is not reached. If this goal IS reached, you fully expect to receive the advertised product within a reasonable timeframe.

3) An investment. In this case you are not looking for a product, per se, but you believe the corporation has the potential to make money. Your investment buys you a share of the company, and therefore a share of future value as well. Investments carry risk, and your investment could also become worthless, or worth less than the investment amount.

Kickstarter seems to mostly attract people looking for #2 above, and most projects have some very low tier to accommodate people who only want #1 above. I'm not saying the project owner can't or shouldn't turn a profit, I was just saying that the project backers don't ever receive any part of that profit, so they are not "investors" (a term which Kickstarter seems to purposefully avoid".
I assume China is impossible for someone with a bad peanut allergy? (Gets sick just with a bowl of peanuts in the same room.)
yea i hear ya... i've always been wondering what fraction of current market volatility is due to speculation & how much is just the flaw of the deflationary nature exposing itself too soon
On the home page perhaps?

"Younited ... so you can ..."

One sentence and we might not hit the back button.
+1. Also applies to western countries riding their moral highhorse - pollution knows no borders. 1/3rd of pollution in LA comes from China.
Kind of unfortunate too -- move away, and leave the problem behind. Of course there's no problem with getting out of the polluted area, but there's a problem with just giving up and moving elsewhere, forgetting the pollution exists and not trying to solve it from abroad.
What would you say is the buggiest game of all time?
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Awesome thanks!

what i didnt see 1. filtering. eg: find in column x where string not equal to blah 2. Searching specific column rather than entire table.

See the "Year" and "Max Price" examples at the bottom of the "Querying" sub-section under "Operations", right before "Pagination". You would do that by adding your own query function:

$('#my-table')
.bind('dynatable:init', function(e, dynatable) {
dynatable.queries.functions['myQueryName'] = function(record, queryValue) {
return record.myAttribute != queryValue;
};
})
.dynatable();

Then, you'd invoke the query like this:

dynatable.queries.add('myQueryName', 'hello');
dynatable.process();

And that will execute your query function which finds all records for which `myAttribute` is not equal to "hello". Of course, you'd need to bind the above query execution to some user input, like the `change` event of a text field or something like that, and instead of 'hello', you could pass in the value of the input.

This is a common scenario, so dynatable provides a shortcut to this style of invocation of your custom query functions by passing dom elements to the `inputs` config option. So, you could replace both of the above with this:

var dynatable = $('#my-table')
.bind('dynatable:init', function(e, dynatable) {
dynatable.queries.functions['myQueryName'] = function(record, queryValue) {
return record.myAttribute != queryValue;
};
})
.dynatable({
inputs: {
queries: $('#my-input')
}
});

This will now cause the `myQueryName` function to be run on the dataset with the value of the `#my-input` dom element and process the results on the `blur` or `change` events of that dom element (the events that trigger the query processing can be changed via the `inputs.queryEvent` config option).

I think this answers both of your questions. If there's a different sort of syntax you had in mind for providing an easier or more straight forward way of doing this, please let me know!
If you're interested in this you might want to take a look at https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic
>If you have a central bank constantly messing with interest rates and money supply, it distorts the market. That's why they do what they do. Whether we are better off or not I do not know, but to assert that it is irrelevant is incorrect.

Not saying it's irrelevant. I'm just saying that the historical data does not support the assertion that fiat currencies result in markets that are less stable than commodity-based currencies.
I don't use wiki as a verb either. There's more than one wiki and if you want to find the right information you need to check the right one. If you want encylopedic knowledge about Star Trek you will check Memory Alpha. Star wars, Wookiepedia.

I don't quite remember the "origin story" behind other wikis but thought it was because Wikipedia didn't want the content which now fills these others.

Anyway, because these other wikis exist with, I presume, far more detail than Wikipedia contains is the reason Wikipedia won't become /The Wiki/.
London suffered from bad smogs almost century before they did anything to them. Great Smog was just one incident.
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Beijing is generally worse more often, partly because they get hit by dust carried from the increasingly large Gobi Desert in addition to all the man-made pollution.
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Weren't all those bombings carried out when Mandela was in jail? He was certainly responsible for a lot of industrial sabotage and preparations for armed revolt, but I'd put that in an entirely different category.
What I really wanted to share was Knuth's announcement on his own website, which is that (1) this first small chunk of TAOCP is available now in eBook form, and (2) much more of TAOCP will be released in eBook form next year. Linking to Knuth's news.html page seemed wrong, since it's not a static link to this topic, so I linked to the current product offering, and then posted a comment here with more details.

No misleading intended, but I apologize for it coming across that way.
They are only right wing if you subscribe to an extremely simplistic and binary view of politics.
Absolutely. He leaps from topic to topic, often with a weak link between each one.

For example:

"A hundred years ago, at a time very like ours, a small group of journalists did just that. And the person who takes you back to that time is Tamara Mellon's ex-husband - Matthew Mellon."

"At the end of the 19th century, Matthew Mellon's great great uncle - Andrew Mellon - was one of the most powerful and richest men in the world. He was part of a small group of bankers and industrialists who not only dominated America - but were using the power of money to undermine, corrupt and control politicians, judges and the whole system of democracy."

He goes from talking about hacking, spying and intrusive tabloid journalism in the modern era to the turn of the century Robber Barons, and the only link is a coincidental blood relationship between the characters that he flits between.

I feel the author has something important to say, even if it's difficult to grasp exactly what it is. He would perhaps benefit from splitting the article into several pieces (surprising to say, as so many online publications abuse this in order to artificially drive page views) in order to focus on one topic at a time, and then bringing the narrative together at the end.
I know few of them. I think that in beta stage you could downgrade.
Just create a setup.py and put your deps in there.
Now I'm interested in seeing the whole Harry Caudill documentary. I wonder what it's called...
Depends at what stage they're at in their Linux adventures...

Some will try a new distro with better defaults, others will just change their set-up themselves...
I don't think the accepted definition of "cloud" is just "group of VMs". Your two VMs does not constitute a cloud. You can set up ten thousand VMs on a thousand servers and not have anything that would reasonably be considered a cloud if you did it manually. "Cloud" generally implies simplicity and automation. You could build a cloud with physical machines instead of VMs so long as you have automatic ways to allocate and manage the machines' lifecycles.
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There is constant outcry especially since last year. And protest happens daily in China. It's just that normally people stay on particular issues at hand rather than nebular banners such as "small government" etc, for cultural reasons and the protestors' own safety.
Why Bitcoin and not any other crypto currency?
Big time reader (and contributor). Fell in love with it from the first day, couldn't wait to be invited. It's certainly gone downhill a bit since it opened up to everyone (spotted spam a few times), but still some great writers that choose it as a distribution platform. And thanks on Marshalls, lol.
Interesting theory, but I'm not sure the data backs it up. As with all things, though, do your own A/B tests.
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A big misconception I've noticed is that people think ASICs are just for Bitcoin, while the reality is that ASICs are Application Specific Integrated Circuits. While the current ASIC systems being used for Bitcoin mining serve no other purpose, the general concept of an ASIC miner existing for Litecoin mining, or anything really isn't a farfetched idea - you just need new hardware that handles the Litecoin mining and will be single purpose just like the Bitcoin ASICs are.
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Something completely possible with mounting a new EBS volume with a pristine image or simply instructing to replace the instances current volume...