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Do people join the "Feminist Software Foundation" when they've given up on actual software development and instead prefer to incite needless gender warfare?
No, that is a clone of Worms. This is a clone of Leiro which seems to also have an open source exact-clone: http://www.liero.be/.

The gameplay is totally different.
Or, they just didn't want you to accept any other offers while they considered whether they really wanted to hire you. In their small minds, it costs nothing to make a verbal promise and break it later, and it keeps you on their leash for at least a few days.
This repo is a collection of sensible SSL/TLS options for a variety of web servers, including Apache.

https://github.com/ioerror/duraconf
Just to let you know (in case OP has edit access): The screenshots on the Wiki Page give a 404 error.
I remember playing this a long long time ago. Cross-platform is the news? Pretty awesome game though. Movement mechanics is one of the best for 2d multiplayer shooter games.
Prices can rise without demand increasing, if there is a reduction in supply. This is exactly what is happening in many housing markets in the US, due to underwater homeowners not putting their houses up for sale when they otherwise would. This causes people who would otherwise move to stay put at lousy jobs, tying into the narrative of the article.

The numbers don't lie: there is a significantly decreased supply of houses for sale compared to previous years. This is the only thing propping the still-inflated housing prices up, courtesy of the bullshit government policy of obsessing over people acquiring huge amounts of debt for "the American dream" (whatever the fuck that is).

My twin brother and his wife recently bought into the wonderful northern Virginia (dc suburb) housing bubble. They are now paying a mortgage on a $500,000 duplex, ignoring the fact that they are paying more to borrow the money to own the house than they would have paid to just borrow the house (aka rent it). The difference is high enough that investing the savings of renting over mortgage in the stock market would far outstrip any value they will get from the home in even optimistic house price inflation scenarios.

Me? My family of 4 (i'm the sole breadwinner) are renting, and I'm now considering excellent job offers in other states and cities, with no concern of a bank-forged chain to prevent me from moving to a better life.
Despite how politically charged this topic is, as a female founder myself, I'm glad PG wrote this.

"[...]YC has slightly over 3x the venture industry average." Yes, 3 out of 12 female partners may be great compared to the industry average, but I'm disappointed that this is the first argument he makes for why he's not sexist. I'm not saying that PG is sexist, but all this argument proves is that gender discrepancies are still a problem (even if YC is above industry averages). 28% of US businesses are women-owned.

Everyone has biases (including myself)...it's a fact of human nature. It's no wonder VCs are somewhat biased considering in the past, the "successful" founders were almost always white males. I think PG so defensively saying that he and YC are NOT biased is problematic in itself. I wish he would have accepted that he (like every other human) is likely biased. It would have been nice to come away from reading this feeling that PG, personally, has a growth mindset.

It's great that PG and YC are trying to do more for female founders, but I'm a bit disappointed in the way his arguments were conveyed.
feature branches are awesome.
My problem is usually in early protoyping, where I want to push my stuff somewhere, but often switch paradigms.

I.e. I just started learning Rails, building a new app from scratch, and you can imagine it becoming messsy.
Before I get confident in a certain architecture, I would just push to master all the time with "some more blah" messages.

I think rebasing can be valuable in this sense, since it will destroy crappy history.
I'm more found of the git flow workflow in a team development effort, expecially if your thingy is already in a production pipeline.
I've found rebasing to be often very confusing and destructive, while merges are clear and easy to manage.
Horizon is great. Got the series on record along with Dispatches and Panorama.
I hope this provides a good introduction to the Clojure language, apart from concerns about building and running Clojure programs. I'd love any feedback :)
I like Clojact

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kojak
yepyep, this is also how i roll; stashing and popping!
I didnt say it be good, I say it probably be implemented since a state (or central bank) controlled crypto-currency could be used to obtain more power over citizenry.

Image the state knowing exactly where you get all your money from and where you spend it (since they would have the blockchain), likes of Revenue/IRS would love it!

It would make it easier to implement welfare and stop tax fraud, this alone could be the argument used to push it thru' (tho I am not sure how politicians would get brown envelopes then) and most people would support it. Just like most people supported current UK censorship creep.

Hell call it "dysto-coin"!
SQLi really?
The subject might be interesting but the formatting of the article is horrible. Is it that difficult to remove the line terminators at the end of each line so that you get actual paragraphs?
I always found myself using site:xxxxxxxxxx on google in the same way bangs work on ddg.

That, and the convenient info boxes for most sites (it even supports arch packages and bulbapedia articles) solve 90% of my queries.
what about a torturer extracting information about a bomb placed in a school?

Thus philosophical debate has been going on for ages, like the medical advances made by horrific means by the nazis, or whether it's even ethical to listen to Wagner. Does good that comes from evil ever justify the evil? We wont solve that now or anytime, it's much the same debate as the one for the death penalty, because that's been shown time and time that it has no deterrent effect.
The mythical ticking timebomb situation is a nice twist on the philosophy discussion around the observer and runaway train.

From memory it goes something like this:

You're in a cabin with the track-switching equipment beside a railway. You can see in the distance a group of 5 people walking along the track. In the other direction you can see an out of control train. You can switch the tracks so the train will be diverted onto another track, avoiding the people and averting a catastrophe.

Most people switch the track.

But now you introduce a single person on the alternative track. If you do nothing 5 people will die. But if you switch tracks one person will die.

People find this a bit harder to think a out, and are hesitant to say that they'd switch the track.

It seems that if the single person is a TERRORIST that many people would switch the track. They might even switch the track if the single person was a taxi driver that someone else had said was a TERRORIST. They might even switch the track if the single person was an innocent relative of a supposed TERRORIST.
Yep; diversify if you have that luxury!
There's a neat Reddit sub that is fairly new, if you want to have a look at people coding for "retro" consoles and computers, but in the modern day[0]. It's quite awesome.

Slightly off topic: it's not retro, but I have written and am currently playing with again writing homebrew for the GameCube, which is awesome fun :)

[0]: http://www.reddit.com/r/retrogamedev
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Would that still work in modern keyboards without N-key rollover?
Bitcoin doesn't control you.

Bitcoin isn't absolute. Everything can coexist. Blabbering on about bitcoin's "deflationary" model is as purposeless as writing incessantly about gold, coffee, national currencies, tiddlywinks, real estate, oil, and crown jewels.

There will be no "bitcoin standard" written into law. Bitcoin isn't intending to be everything to everyone. Nothing is everything to everyone. No one thing is absolute. Until a day comes when we're all serving the same cyborg empire, one need not worry about being forced to have all chips in one basket. Until then, deflation and inflation of particular assets will continue to have little overall bearing. As for bitcoin, only the artificial appearance of deflation exists. It's artificial because choice is still possible. You place value into things. You decide. If you don't like or trust bitcoin (or gold) to maintain value, don't use them. If you don't like or trust national force-backed currencies to maintain value, then try not to use them. Diversify. Talking about deflation in bitcoin becomes as meaningless as talking about the deflationary aspects of dogecoin, computer parts at a point in time, or the current yield of corn.

In other words...

More options and competition do not contract or stifle an economy. It expands choice within a form of economic homeostasis. [Wait, but, doesn't bitcoin hurt bailed-out bankers and a debt-based society!?] Right. That's the point. That's one of its many strong competitive attributes. Every asset is predicated on faith. It's faith that it will exist tomorrow, or in ten years, and have your name on it. It's just that some people would rather not place their faith into 'US economics.' Many people like that status quo. Other people do not. Other people may, on principle, find the status quo violent and abysmal; person-to-person trade itself acts as a path to peace. It's a personal decision. Choice is important like that.
Thanks for Vagrant! wish I had that years ago.
Over the last 10 years, salaries have largely flattened out and while in increase in people in given area has meant demand didn't. Cost of living being high and getting higher and salaries aren't able to keep up means people don't move there.

Why struggle, working 16 hour days to move up in a career so you can afford the $700k 2000 sq ft home on a postage stamp sized property in a so-so part of town when you can move to Arkansas, work at a remote development shop and afford a $350k 4000 sq ft home in a gated community with and acre and a half of wooded property with an in-ground pool?
>An analogy that comes to mind is how some people stop smoking cigarettes: cold turkey isn't for everyone, but for those who know it is, they go for it and they stop and they feel better for it.

While it's a bit tenuous to compare where you eat your lunch with a long term physical addiction, it's worth noting that the vast majority of people who quit "cold turkey" fail. Indeed, I'll broaden that and say more casually that when people make public pronouncements, using absolute words like never, their failure rate comes within a measurement error of 100%.

Cliffbean says in another post that such absolutism is "an attempt by many people to play against their own psychology.", and I absolutely agree with that, although my take tends to be much more cynical than theirs: It is an attempt to essentially shackle future you with the fickle and short-term observations of current you. Future you, most people eventually learn, doesn't really care much what current you thinks, and will reassess in the future based upon new information.

Which is how we see an unending stream of these disposable lifehack "one week in" observations, always presented as if it's profoundly revealing information that has changed the speaker forever. In a month you can write a "Why I was always eat at my desk", detailing the unhealthiness of take out food and the great financial savings you've enjoyed, the benefits of taking a moment to relax and unwind, and on and on.

Everyone is different. We all have different social patterns, different diets, different behaviors. Do what works best for you, and what works best for you will undoubtedly change over the years. Life is dynamic and is a constantly changing set of circumstances and situations.

But if I have one piece of advice for you, it's to never use the word never. Unless you're telling someone to never use the word never. The only result of making never declarations is that over time your word starts to lose any value.
Housing prices are still recovering from the crash as well. Lots of people are still underwater and/or their home would sell at a loss compared to 7-8 years ago. Moving means taking accepting that loss.
Nakamoto designed script to be non-Turing complete from the very beginning (it was mentioned in his white paper). I suspect it was for security reasons. You don't want arbitrary complex code running on miners machine. At the very least, it could obstruct the system.
What? You still believe in Hollywood-style good guys and bad guys? Do you think that the Japanese believed then that they were the bad guys?

What a boring, predictable response, that missed the whole point.

Of course I don't believe in Hollywood-style good guys vs bad guys.

But I used to believe that the US saw themselves as "good" and that self-image acted as a self-imposed limiter on deliberate policies that the US would enact.

For example, one could argue that internment of people of Japanese background during WW2 was evil. However, there possibly is an argument that some of them may have had mixed loyalties, and that acted as justification.

One might also argue that incidents like the deliberate infection of native Americans with smallpox were evil, but they localized incidents, and not something that was endorsed at the highest levels of government.

I don't agree with either of these excuses, but I see that there is an argument one could make.

But to stoop as low as a policy of deliberate torture and pretend that is justified is beyond my understanding. I cannot see how anyone can truly believe in their justifications for that - except if they believe those that are being tortured are less than human.
How Entrepreneurs Get Out Of Their Comfort Zone
Your patterns of behavior across multiple sites is not going change whether you're using DDG or Google. And presumably, if you are using TOR, you are not logged into Google, using an incognito window, have scripts to block Google Analytics, etc.

If the NSA is tracking you across the internet outside of Google's Search Box, you've got bigger problems than Search History. Searching for "Bomb Making 101" is the least of your problems if they see you actually visiting BombMaking.com as well as BombMaterialsShop.com

You're postulating a threat model in which anonymized and proxied browsing isn't good enough, because somehow they'll capture all your behavior anyway and then tie it to anonymous search history. My point is, if they can do that, frankly, the fact that they have your search history is the least of your troubles.

This appears to be a threat model specifically designed to sell the DDG use case and fight the notion that using Google un-logged in via a privacy browser isn't "good enough". I'm not sure the case can be made that the DDG scenario is marginally better enough to justify worse search results.
"incidentally" means "not wittingly" in Canadianese.
another casualty here.
Yes. Sometimes, laptops with crappy keyboards have issues, but a standard keyboard should work just fine if the right player uses CTRL, SHIFT, ENTER and the arrow keys (those are usually connected with an extra wire, increasing the possible amount of keys pressed simultaneously.) Of course, it depends on the keyboard, I'm sure you can find one that's particularly bad and doesn't work well.
So if I understand this correctly, how much it outperforms Huffman greatly depends on the data being compressed. Which makes me wonder: what kind of real-life datasets would benefit the most from this new approach?
* There are gold standardS, there is not 1 gold standard

* Gold standards are to balance imbalances in trades between nations with each their own currency (Pound, Fran, Mark). They have little purpose on the national level.

* If deflation encourages to postpone spending, so must do interest; For the individual, the net effect (of currency becoming worth more or earning interest) is the same.

* When there is deflation, there is less need for credit. You save without the 'help' of banks. That means less friction, less wealth shaved off by banks.

* If you propagate credit whose value must be inflated away, you choose for the younger generation at the costs of pensioners who will see their life savings evaporate. The middle ground, pensions and mortgages keep their real value, seems the most fair. Ergo, Hard Money.

* Fractional lending is still possible under Bitcoin regime. Perhaps to a lesser extent, but don't we all agree there has been too much fractional lending? Also, there will be less need for credit, because of deflation.

* The author seems not to question the modern idea that everybody is entitled to large mortgages and live in (too big) houses for their economic performances. (True for UK, USA and Netherlands). In most other countries, people build their own houses over the stretch of multiple years, postponing vacations, and putting every earned penny in the new house. Result? at 35 yrs of age the house is fully owned, no banks involved. Much healthier, imho.

* In my view money and monetary policy must be designed to (only) optimally facilitate trade, production and commerce. Social justice and fair wealth re-distribution should be accomplished by taxes, and by taxes only. Using monetary policy to (also) accomplish social causes diminishes its usefulness in trade and commerce, and people will search for protection/workarounds.
Fair enough. I now see that speed limits are set differently in different parts of the US. My driving has been mostly in the western and southwestern states.
First Flight?
I am from neither the US or Japan, nor do I follow Islam.

So, no: "good guys" and "bad guys" were not meant as synonyms for "us" and "them" (unless you mean "us"="USA").
Perelman wasn't an academic nobody. He was a Miller fellow at Berkeley, and had visiting positions at the Courant Institute and Stony Brook. When he left the academic system, he had job offers at Princeton and Stanford.

TL;DR People who work on geometry knew Perelman pretty well.
You may prefer this version of the article which is better formatted but split across multiple pages:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/lock-free-multi-producer...
We had this too with one large hiring agency.
I think twitter is one of the most promising "social media" (are we still calling it that?) stocks out there. Where Facebook's main audience (teenagers) is jumping ship, I think Twitter has too many of celebrities and famous people "locked-in" to their platform for a comparable exodus to take place.

Added to that, media like Television have been integrating Twitter into their systems ( live tweeting, tweet voting etc. ).

Looks promising enough to me.
Don't discuss this.

I beg of you all.
Which companies help protect your data from the government?
How is this different from disruptor queues (http://lmax-exchange.github.io/disruptor/)?

(Here is a plug for our C version: https://github.com/redjack/varon-t).
Make it smarter: Would it make the decision harder if the single person was young Alexander Fleming and the other five just coal miners?
> Why struggle, working 16 hour days to move up in a career so you can afford the $700k 2000 sq ft home on a postage stamp sized property in a so-so part of town when you can move to Arkansas, work at a remote development shop and afford a $350k 4000 sq ft home in a gated community with and acre and a half of wooded property with an in-ground pool?

That's a pretty big strawman. There are tons of other options for someone , and not all of us and our families need 4000 sq ft (or even 2000 sq ft) and 1.5 acres of property to be happy. I like living in densely populated areas rather than the equivalent of a personal ivory tower.

I think that American dream of owning a big house with a huge amount of property has done more harm than good.
Clay Mathematics Page still lists it as unsolved. I know of dozens of "solutions" that have not been accepted. Do we know if this is just submitted or actually accepted by the scientific community.
There's also an open source Liero: http://www.openlierox.net/
No need for a TV set, some (most?) computer monitors can display 30 Hz, it only needs to be enabled using "custom resolution" or similar setting in drivers.

I just tried:

- Dragging windows - not an issue, but maybe I am used to it from times when having window contents displayed during dragging lagged much more due to cpu/gpu power.

- Scrolling - it is slower, but with clickless scroll wheel and smooth scrolling it was not too noticeable.

But, oh god, the mouse cursor movement... It was like working through a high latency VNC.
> Loaning someone an asset at 0% is always worse than holding the asset.

Exactly. My previous reasoning was indeed a bit muddied, but what you're saying now clarifies it. I don't disagree with your math.

There are so many logical contradictions in the concept, which is why I end up making silly assertions that you correctly pointed out. Instead, the argument should simply be that the rate of return on bitcoin, due simply to built-in deflation, and expressed in dollars, may or may not be so high that it always makes sense to hold the asset rather than use it as currency to buy other assets. In which case it can't function as a currency: contradiction.

Of course, I do believe the BTC USD exchange rate will be the dominant factor in determining prices expressed in BTC in the long term, but I'm sure plenty of people would disagree. If that does happen, a lot of this becomes theoretical - the worsening exchange rate will take care of the deflation.

Note I'm not necessarily for or against bitcion. Thanks for the discussion.
"They" is plurals. It doesn't make sense to replace all he's and she's with they.
Can't hurt to mention Hedgewars as another really good open source game, though.
5 reasons why I'm not using Jelly
Check out Zizek's new one, The Pervert's Guide to Ideology. The structure of the stories we tell ourselves can be just as interesting as the content.
Isn't that a form of Stockholm syndrome?
War is an evil and terrible thing, period.

The true bad people are the fat and comfortable leaders and agitators at home who send men to war.
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I think "ticking time bomb" analogies break down here, because the US made a deliberate policy decision at the highest levels to torture.

To me, the analogy is more like this:

You are mayor of a town. There might be a ticking timebomb in a school somewhere in your town. Watches tell the time and are similar to what is used in timebombs.

Should you (a) torture everyone who looks at a watch, because they might know about a timebomb that might exist, or (b) NOT TORTURE PEOPLE.

To me there is zero justification for deciding (a) in that scenario.
That's a great point. I'm pretty sure the term of art for this would be an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_fallacy
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Very weak assumptions. It's Kazakhstan. You might find it surprising but not the whole world is US-centric. They mainly publish in Russian, he probably have strong connections with russian institutes and unless you can access/check/verify publications in russian, your opinion is quite out of place.
Yep totally understand. I meant this more as a general exercise perhaps more applicable to bootstrappers or even seed funded folks who had a single large cost that wasn't currently scaling.
This has become our go-to game for after work gaming/drinking sessions. It's very accessible to download in 5 minutes and start playing right away.
Kudos to Amazon then and thanks for sharing.
I'm reasonably certain you completely misunderstood my comment, because C definitely isn't an illustration of it.
Yes, I think this is pretty standard all across the board, in every industry. Don't throw the grade "B" fish back just yet. Smart candidates do the same thing--"You're my top choice" etc., even while busily interviewing elsewhere. It's all just a game everyone plays, really nothing new here.
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