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That doesn't make sense, since it would mean manufacturers would not be able to provide any kind of connector on their devices that provides more than just USB and charging, which I cannot imagine to be true.

If an adapter that goes from [whatever port is on the device] to micro-USB would be enough to be compliant with the proposed legislation, Apple is already in compliance, because not only do they sell such an adapter already, the charger end of their Lightning cable also has a standard USB connector (which means it effectively is a Lightning-to-USB adapter itself).

I know the EU already talked about standard chargers for mobile phones even before the iPhone existed, because back then every phone used to have a non-standard charger plus attached, non-removable cable. The whole idea behind the legislation was that the charger got useless the moment you lost or replaced your phone, so lots of them ended up on landfills. Mandating a common charger would allow selling phones without a charger, and re-using old chargers with different phones.

Unless you can quote the exact bits of the proposed rules that say 'any mobile device will have a micro-USB port' (or whatever port would be considered even more 'standard'), I'm going to assume everyone is just getting all worked up about nothing again, because "OMG iPhone does not have micro-USB, make them add it!".
Very odd. Seems like I might have a corrupt italic Constantia. Disabling the italic variants (forcing fake-italic rendering) immediately fixed this.
> It's a bit timid of them to start from C#

Microsoft is a timid company. Any company in their dominant position (they own the corporate desktop) will avoid making anything very disruptive unless they feel they are playing a losing game.

Also, corporate-level C# developers are cheap and abundant. Much like Java was designed to be C++ developer friendly (and C# itself was designed to be Java developer friendly), it makes sense to design a new language to be more amenable to a large number of developers, even if it implies sacrificing some power.
We use Skype to host phone numbers in the UK and Australia for our US-based company. We only get a few calls here and there due to the fact that our support hours are US business hours. But the amount of business those calls generate pays for the cost 10x or more.
Times like this, am very thankful for Readability[1]

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> isn't it the purpose of a conference to discuss a certain paper?

No. The purpose of a conference [1] is to have researchers present their results. The timing guidelines for a typical conference talk would look like: 15 minutes for the talk, 5 minutes for questions and comments, and 5 minutes for setting up the next talk. As you can imagine, this doesn't give much time for discussions; dissecting a paper is not part of the agenda. The questions and comments raised in the 5-minute period after the talk usually are along the lines of "Do you think your approach will work for this other problem?", rather than "Can you explain how this step in the argument works?". If you have a question of the latter kind, then you are supposed to discuss it with the author offline, so that the conference schedule is not affected. The conference does not provide you with a forum to discuss papers at any depth.

[1] All of this pertains to Theoretical Computer Science conferences; I suspect conferences in other fields are similar, but I don't know for sure.
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I dropped out of university in order to enter the seminary. I completed all of my seminary courses, then I was rejected for the priesthood because I was thought to be "better suited for research."

Since then, I worked some blue collar jobs, and am now learning web development.
> 5) The dangers of multiculturalism. Austrian Empire was a multicultural nightmare basically think conditions in modern Iraq, no majority and everyone hates everyone and the only thing holding it together is a strong empire.

Where in the world do you get this from? The core of the empire was built through negotiations, and functioned well. Austria-Hungary's problems, and the eventual assassination, came from areas the empire had forcibly occupied and/or annexed. The rise of Serbian resistance, for example, was to a large extent due to the empire eventually annexing Bosnia-Hercegovina after more than four decades of occupation.

Why you believe you can draw inferences about multiculturalism from either Iraq or Austria-Hungary is beyond me.
Thanks. I've updated the intro of the post to make this clearer.

The PhD applications problem is a different issue. We're churning out a million engineers every year, and a good fraction of them are convinced that getting into a Masters/PhD program in the US is the gateway to riches and a better life. A few of these students are smart enough to know where to apply and how to apply, but most of them are clueless enough to actually spam any faculty email addresses they can find from any US university. And yes, they're mass emails, in the sense that they send out these mails to 10s of people without bothering to customize them.

The important thing to remember is that India is a vast and varied country. We have the worst students, but we also have the best students - so don't completely ignore all emails from all Indian sounding names; one of them might just be from the next superstar at your school :-)
I am a college dropout and was recently a self-taught software developer in a mid-high position (earning in the six figures just four years after teaching myself my first line of PHP), but if you are looking for validation, you are committing the grave error of confirmation bias.

It is true that my professional life would be considered successful by many (I lead a very niche field of research now) and that I dropped out of undergraduate school (while on a full scholarship + stipend no less), but not a day goes by that I don't wish I had finished some of my classes and taken it a bit more seriously, even though I full well know I made the right decision to drop out for mental/psychological health reasons.

If you are having trouble in school due to life issues, find a professional who can help guide you. Doesn't have to be a psychiatrist; find a mentor. I wish I had done so earlier in my life.

Just because dropouts do succeed doesn't mean it's the right path for everyone. And this comes from someone who is very anti-academic.
Yup, some ARIN pages are a bit unclear about what is spent and what is not, I got a bit confused by it...
RIPE is pretty much out now, they only allocate a single /22 to new registrants, or a /24 to existing members, and that is it.

Working at a new startup ISP, and sort of seeing this from the inside, I think the whole process is a complete joke.

ANYONE who wants IPs can easily get them, average cost is about £10-£20 each, and a whole ip broker industry seems to have popped up over the last few years... Just google "Buy IP address", "IP Broker" or similar.

The guidelines state that when you are not using an IP, you simply hand it back - but - I don't think ANYONE does this, and why would they as they are both free, there is no verification/auditing, and they are now like gold dust.

Auditing is basically just a list of IPs and saying what you are using them for.

Companies approach all the time saying that they have xx IPs for sale, and the official line when you ask "why are they available" is usually, "we can reorganise our network so we no longer require them"... In reality, I am sure they apply entire ranges to bogus interfaces just to make them look in use.

It really annoys me that this side of the industry doesn't get more exposure!
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Yes, thanks! (I still haven't learned the English names for the various brackets, it seems... In my mind, the ones with the straight angles are the "angle" ones.)
If they can't afford to use SSDs properly they should not use SSDs.
What a word-soup of a title. For some reason I parsed "worry drug" as a single noun and wondered why their makers are poor...
You seemed to have missed the words "without a hint of irony" in my post. The use of "windoze" did not give me the impression is was used purely in jest (intentional irony or some other form of humour). It, like other such respellings such as "M$ Widnows", tends to scream BIAS HERE, ENGAGE LEVEL 2 SALT PINCH BEFORE READING FURTHER in most cases.
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"But the sad thing is, you could probably show stuff like this on a TV series as a "this is what research produces" and the majority of people wouldn't know any better."

It's not unlike what we have in France with the Bogdanov brothers [1]. They are pretty much scientific impostors but they are still quite popular and sell a lot of unintelligible books.

I don't blame people for being duped. But rather the medias and journalists that put them in the spotlight instead of competent and honest scientists.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdanov_affair
I guess that a list of college dropouts that are plain losers would be several orders longer. Don't forget about the survivorship bias (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias).
Well if it wasn't for all the heel-dragging with IPv6, this wouldn't be a problem.
People have names. I find that digit in the mail address that clearly consists of a name deeply degrading.

There are other ways to solve collisions: j.doe@, j_doe@, maybew one of those has a second given name, whatever.
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And ISPs in the US will do what ISPs did elsewhere; point to their IPv6 trial as "evidence" of their IPv6 rollout and continue to consume IPv4 address space until the disaster hits. Also more and more ISPs will prefer to roll out Carrier Grade NAT (CGNAT) than bother to update the firmware and configuration of their routers and more importantly due to substandard consumer home routers and other CPE; expect your games and P2P based software that doesn't support UPnP port forwarding to choke.
and thus was very likely not tested as committed

that is an argument that can be resolved - hereby yielding staging a nice way of creating clean commits. The developper should simply build/unittest at least the project(s) directly involved in the commit. Apart from that, the CI system should take care of the rest. es if you consider git as a standalone tool your argument makes sense, but how often is git used like that, and not as a part of a complete build/test system?
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So I just watched a Chewa voice-over translation of Fast Five. A Malawian pirate translation that is. It was as real as any perfectly done voice over can be. Starts off a bit off ofcourse coz there’s no way in the world Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and the others could really be conversing in Chichewa, but you quickly forget and settle into it comfortably
Remember the World IPv6 day ? In 2014 a few of us (about a hundred of folks around the world at the moment) are going to do a "World IPv6 only day" (turn off IPv4) on the 06/06/2014, for ourselves. If we can't work successfully during this day using IPv6 only - then we'll take a day off (Conveniently, it's Friday).

If you are someone doing computer networking professionally - why not join us ?

We're tracking the count of those who will turn the legacy IP off for a day via an Avaaz "petition to all the computer professionals".

http://preview.tinyurl.com/noipv4
I'm not talking down to you, I'm trying to get you to understand the opinion. The whole point of the legal analytical process is to cabin what would otherwise be total judicial discretion. It limits the analytical process by which judges can reach a conclusion. You can't understand opinions without keeping track of the context which limits the scope of every statement. Its like lexical scoping of variables in a program. When you take one paragraph addressing statutory standing and pretend that it says "secrecy is magic that makes due process go away" its like trying to understand a statement in a program while ignoring the lexical environment at that program point.

Judges aren't empowered to simply say "NSA is bad, ACLU wins!" In this case you wouldn't even like that, because the judge is clearly very sympathetic to the anti-terrorism backdrop of the whole case. You might think that warrantless pen registers are an "absurdity" but the judge isn't entitled to draw that conclusion. He is required to accept the premise of Smith v. Maryland, that collecting pen register data doesn't require a warrant because its third party information in the hands of the telephone company.
Amazon doesn't do SSD VMs for $5 a month... If you are beginner you are using the Web GUI which clearly states you need to click the box to securely wipe all the data (which has a cost associated with it) if you are using the API then you should RTFM (Read the F Manual) if you build a service on top of the API then it is the service's fault for not including (which is what the gist is about)
So you're saying, in the same response that 1) there was no "responsible disclosure" and 2) that this wasn't actually a security issue. You can't have it both ways.
People outside the US have much less choice (both in services and content)

I've had netflix for about 6 months (using unlock-us to access all regions) and have probably torrented only 10-20 movies in that time (down from a few a week)
> collage

Oh, the irony.
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I dropped out of MIT after a term (in 1999), raised venture capital for my first startup shortly after that, and went on to have a successful career.

I never recommend skipping college to anyone. If you have a unique opportunity that can't wait, you have a solid plan, AND you have unique skills, then it might make sense. Or maybe if you have a very strange combination of strengths and weaknesses such that you are mature enough to succeed on your own, but not capable of making school work for you. Or if you can't find a way to get to a school where you will be with a good set of intellectual peers.

I know quite a few people who have dropped out of or skipped college, and in all but one or two cases I think they're worse off for it, or at least, they spend many years struggling to replace or replicate the college experience.

There are three big things you have to replace if you skip college: The social experience (learning how to exist both socially and intellectually in a group of peers). The material (in some hypothetical sense you can learn it all on OpenCourseWare, but in practice, most people find this to be a serious grind). The intellectual discipline (learning to think clearly and maturely, filing down your rough edges).

Your best bet is to find a group of really smart people who will be absolutely merciless in instilling intellectual discipline in you (constantly challenging you be rigorous, to know your field, to fully back up your ideas), and that will also be your close friends and romantic interests, and then find a way to have lots of spare time to hunker down and work through OCW or your favorite MOOC or textbooks. I know several brilliant people who have created these situations for themselves, and I think they've all found that it takes a huge input of energy to even approximately replicate what is readily available at top colleges, even for people that are smart enough to breeze through or basically intuit/rederive the course material.

Logistically, dropping out will close some doors forever. People with degrees can switch fields later in life by going to grad school; it is harder to switch fields if you don't have a degree. Immigration situations are far more difficult without a degree. There are ways around the closed doors but you will have to fight very very hard for them and become the top in your field. On the other hand, you also have a huge advantage (at least if you skip college entirely) which is that you don't have student loans and that may significantly increase your freedom during a period of your life when freedom is critical. In my own life I think these logistical factors came out about even.

In the end, I think it was right for me to leave in '99 and dive into startups, but, like, I made that decision in Stockholm, at the Nobel prize ceremony, where the establishment sent me after winning the top prize at world science fair, so I had every possible advantage and it was still a very difficult road. Do it only if you really don't see a future for you at college.
Well, if you're someone who doesn't really know finance that well, who's probably never had a mortgage before and so doesn't know the ins and outs, and doesn't have a lot of friends/contacts who know finance or have mortgage experience...

...and you're getting pressure-talked by a mortgage agent who keeps telling you all about how this has a super-low interest rate for the first three years, and no income verification or down payment required, and that $150k house will be worth $175k, easy, maybe even $200k before the interest rate goes up, and it's a great market so you'll be guaranteed to flip the house in time and make a profit, and real estate always only goes up in value...

...and you give in to the relentless sales pitch and sign the papers, then sure, we can assign a percentage of the blame to you. But if you think it's a precise 50/50 split or anything close to that, I think you are a terrible judge of the situation.

(and that's without getting into the bits alluded to in my previous comment, like the fact that many of the lenders knew there was no chance these loans would be good, but were happy to do it anyway since they also knew they'd never be on the hook when the loans went bad, which is out-and-out undeniable fraud and has basically gone unquestioned and unpunished because of "well, everybody was to blame" narratives that try to sweep those inconvenient facts under the rug)
We always knew that the implementation of these devices incorporated a uC, simply because the way you interact with them (SPI or SDIO interface) involves a state machine that would take up lots of space or upgrade headaches to do in pure hardwired logic.

What a lot of us thought, however, is that the uC would be in the form of what's found in other single purpose devices with similar interfaces (e.g. temp/humidity sensors) : code exists in some ROM table whose mask is set in production.

Secondly, flash is a highly competitive product with narrow margins. Check out some other posts on his blog to get an idea, esp. the ones about the ghost runs.

It's only after you read up on the complexities of bad cell management in flash that you get a sense of this problem. And that it involves complex on-device logic. In the end, the devices (uC) become so high-spec that the firmware update feature is a no-brainer. Compare it to cell phones that increase in complexity until one day they're capable of running Linux, at which point a floodgate of possibilities opens up.
It has happaned earlier for other regions (RIPE & APNIC) and nobody really cared about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion#Exhaus...
Nothing to add, or ask, but that's an interesting turn of events in your life.
IPv6 just won't happen fully any time soon... People are just kidding themselves.

Too many "big" networks have admins who don't update their knowledge and are clueless about IPv6 - At some events where I see network admins, you can ask simple questions and judging by their body language, you know they are guessing/are clueless about IPv6.

On top of this, some really high end network equipment that is still available now from some (high end) vendors is not 100% IPv6 compliant or has weird bugs, and, if network admins have recommended this equipment, they feel uncomfortable telling people it isn't up to scratch after their companies have invested significant money... so... this just makes the whole process stall. (Personal experience, not from the current job!)

IPv6 is the future, but, being realistic, I don't see it happening any time soon.
[Edit]In Italy, from 1996 to 2004[/edit]

I chose Electronic Engineering at college, mostly because they said getting a job was easier.

After 4 years of Maths, and never ever having SEEN a lab, I kissed them goodbye and went to the freshly opened CS course.

After another 4 years of mostly bad teachers, I decided that my thirst for learning was better satisfied working.

And here I am, not (yet) successful, but knowing WAY more than any of my then college mates.
Meh. I can’t remember the last time I’ve actually read the education part in CVs of developers I’ve hired and I’m not regretting it.
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You need to state your definition of 'success' first. On a macro scale, the lifetime earning potential of a college graduate still far exceeds that of a non-graduate, and both of those are higher than someone who doesn't complete high school.

That said, I am not a proponent of the "college for everyone" theory. Some people aren't cut out for college, and that doesn't make them people of lesser intrinsic worth.

When I was pondering putting college on hold, my dad gave me this advice: Do the thing now that gives you the most opportunities later. Finishing my bachelor's would give me more opportunities than not doing so.

Over the years, I've added my own corollary to dad's advice: Do the hardest thing you're capable of. For example, if you can handle advanced math courses, you should take them, and get a "mathy" degree (engineering, comp sci, mathematics, etc.) If you really like Art History you can minor in it, but do the hard thing as your major.

Can you succeed as a dropout? Absolutely. Will it be harder? Yes it will. And the success rate is a lot lower, for most definitions of success.
I just figured why my laptop is transmitting on cellphone frequencies.
Why do companies have to pay for R&D? Other fields of science and medicine are paid for with grant money from the government. Let the government pay for pharma research and let a competitive market sell the products of that research without patents or other such nonsense.
It's cool to get a look at a piece of assembly code that seems oddly familiar from all those times when my app has crashed in objc_msgSend due to a prematurely released object... (I still write non-ARC code for compatibility reasons. Sigh.)

I find the following claim slightly misleading:

32-bit x86 was quickly overtaken by 64-bit, so this code received little attention after Tiger and many of those inefficiencies remain to this day.

There are still major 3rd party apps that run in 32-bit mode on the Mac. Google Chrome is probably the most popular.
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USAns like to pretend that social class doesn't exist, because meritocracy. That doesn't describe what we actually have, though. Meritocracy would require that everyone start at the same level - of wealth, of privilege, of safety and health and education and food.

Instead, we have meritocratic ideals, a few meritocratic policies, and a distinctly uneven playing field, which does not result in a meritocracy. Wealth buys political power which consolidates wealth, and we end up where we are, with a very clear distinction between the 1% and all the rest of us.
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We signed up to go to a industry related conference as a vendor.

Had low expectations and lost money but the conference was insanely valuable.

First because we had the chance to talk to customers for days straight. We refined our sales pitch, heard objections and concerns, learned about new features people cared about and more.

Second because everybody really rallied around the conference deadline and we got so much work done to prepare for the conference it really skyrocketed our momentum and productivity.
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