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Except the law is not ethical - if it were ethical we would never need to change it.

The term 'deserve' implies something ethical. Your statement here is so much horseshit - nothing is 'deserved' because of the law, it is only legal because of the law. It is their legal money, but it is not necessarily their deserved money.

Just because someone slips in a by-clause that lets them legally rob a bank every fortnight, doesn't make that money their deserved money, or the robbing of the bank ethical.
Dropbox is now worth two Ubers and a Snapchat
This reminds me of car ownership... When you ask people if they like their car, most will say yes they do; that is until they decide to get a new one. It's then that they quickly come up with a large con list to warrant an upgrade. Afterwards, they will almost always say that last car was never any good. After all look at the current car vs. the con list of the last. The thing is, they'll be doing this again with their new car until they outgrow it or find problems with it too.

And my point is: Hindsight is always 20/20 when your current perspective conveniently matches the narrative for your newly made situation.
rdar is very hit and miss - I've got bugs in there that are several years old.

Also unlike other companies all the bugs are hidden so you can't actually see whether other people have the issue, how they've solved it etc.

Apple is probably one of the most unfriendly companies to deal will as they seem obsessed with secrecy even when none is needed.
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London would probably be "get on that fucking tredmill so you can buy a house you can't afford in an area you don't want to live, with a job you hate, to pay for a lifestyle you don't agree with".
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> sine is actually how high above the ground you are when traveling around the circle.

That makes total sense, and I wish it would have been explained like that to me, too.

My math teacher in HS spent an hour and a half explaining how derivatives work by just working through stuff on the board after he insisted no one take notes, and it made everything so clear. And reading through the Tau Manifesto finally made me understand what was going on in trig at a basic level.

I totally agree with you about how artificial math education can feel, and I think if larger concepts were introduced more like that many more people would be able to get much better at it.

I read something a couple years ago about how some school was experimenting in a math program starting in 8th grade where they would teach algebra, geometry, and calculus concepts all at the same time. I guess the students were really picking things up fast, and understanding how everything fit together better.
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The attack was also discussed in details here: http://mixedbit.org/blog/2013/04/11/dos_attack_on_cdn_users....
> Does Canonical have the software engineering capability to maintain a bunch of stuff (an init system, a display server) that's really unrelated to their problem (making awesome products for users)...

Thats an odd statement. It implies that an init system and a display server are not building blocks of an awesome user experience.

For upstart, you have to note that it was Ubuntus contender to write a modern and fast init system when there were far less mature init systems. Its main competitor (systemd) is about 4 years younger that upstart.

Ignoring the whole problem about wayland, the display server is a central part for providing the user interface. So how is writing a new display server "unrelated" to providing an awesome product to the user?
Just a nitpick, but it's not exactly the same color - they're a few shades different. But yeah, both of them are yellow-ish according to my color picker, even though the left one looks gray... Interesting...
Opera 12 is the latest version on Linux.
China doesn't have a socialist/communist government, they have a technocratic oligarchy that rules via something that calls itself "the communist party".
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This article is so rad!

I love when something is explained in such an excellent simple way and was a good refresher for me. This is how things should be taught.
"This easy trick, known to every college student, led some to deride the Times as a technological tyro. People in the news industry, however, say the Times deliberately chose to make the paywall “leaky” so as not to alienate casual visitors."

http://paidcontent.org/2013/02/11/new-york-times-plugs-big-l...

"While critics say the gaps highlight flaws in the newspapers' new business model, the Times says the holes are deliberate and meant to encourage openness across the Internet."

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/paywall-york-times-readers-...

Also remember reading a couple quotes by NY Times execs/spokespeople that it was intentional.
Not necessarily: it seems that the poor quality of specifically the Java sandbox and its security maintenance are the main problem here.
Companies allocate money into a contra account (to the leave liability) each period (i.e. monthly) so that its all "accounting money". Otherwise companies would go bankrupt if too many staff took leave at a time.

That is while staff with large leave balances look bad, they don't effect the profitability of the organisation.
It's been a while since I studied category theory so maybe my brain is failing me here, but unless I'm super-confused (1) products are unique up to isomorphism and (2) the product in Vect is the tensor product.

The cartesian product is the categorical product in some other categories you can see vector spaces as belonging to -- sets, groups -- but there is only one product in the category of vector spaces and it's the tensor product.

What am I missing?
With "social network" i ment the "real" network, not the technology (which is the same as you point out). People in Germany talk less to people in Poland, for example, than people in neighboring US states. Citation missing.
I'd be happy to have one screen hooked up to the computer for display purposes and my real display to be an oculus-type VR device if they can get the resolution high enough. Just being able to develop software without being limited to the number of monitors or their dimensions would be a godsend. I'd get one for work and for home. Even better if they can eventually make it wireless so that I can use the one at home for work when I need it, and to watch movies when I don't. Being a sports fan, the ability to watch games without having parts of the screen obscured by scores and ticker stats would also be a plus.
Spend time with your kids, sure.

But don't be seen 'not to be contributing' because your partner works at home while you work at an office.
UK ADSL over copper: Most ISPs provide a modem/router when you first join, there is no ongoing monthly cost however. Some provide the box 'free' others show a one off charge.

I use my own modem/router, I simply declined the free box when subscribing (7 or 8 years ago now). No special set up, just standard ADSL stuff. Firmware is special to UK though.
Happened to me too. I got this freebsd server, I use ssh keys to login. But I hadn't login for a while, so I couldn't remember the user's password (which gave access to 'root' via sudo). After 37 tries, I hit nailed it! I was that close from re-installing the system. It had automated backups so, no big deal... Just two-three hours (maybe more) would be lost.
Parametric polymorphism is crucial in an API like jOOQ's:

http://www.jooq.org

In fact, it is one of the fundamental cornerstones of internal DSLs
It's maybe a trivial and often-held opinion but nonetheless: client-side Java should die.

Server-side, it's quite strong and capable, but client-side Java has proven itself to be a significant security threat. And as stated by 'hrjet' there is no significant reason to use Java in the browser anymore. Organisations still relying on legacy applications requiring old Java versions should really look into their priorities.

For companies it may be wise to only install Java on a few terminal servers / citrix servers (closely monitored, no internet access) and keep the user desktop clean from Java.
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> Random keyboards are needed because I might be bringing up new hardware and using whatever keyboard is supplied or debugging a user's problem and using their keyboard.

Ah, that sucks. If I did that often, I'd likely bring my own keyboard, and a software utility to temporarily change the layout from Qwerty to Bépo. It's a drag, but not as much as suffering Qwerty.

> Lots of people have a personal laptop, a personal desktop, and a work laptop or desktop.

I have too. It's just that since I control the keyboard I use on my desktop, so it doesn't really count. As for my laptop, I just put my Typematrix on top of the original keyboard (or on my lap). Ideally, though, I would have liked to have standard keyboard slots in laptops, so I can insert my favourite keyboard instead of the default one. It doesn't have to be ergonomic. Just a little more sensible: http://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/better-keyboards

> My wife has her own preferences in keyboards; so do my kids.

Looks that it strengthen one of my points: good keyboards aren't standard. They're adapted to their users. Hence my point about laptop keyboards. It would be sooo cool if users could change them.
original link: http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/vorab/merkel-handy-regierung-f...
Lately I've been thinking about whether you could simulate enough of the physicality of a keyboard by electrically twitching the muscles in your fingers to provide some back resistance.
My fridge has been working for the last 10 years, Happy user here.
Can you write an aphorism in max. 4 lines of code?
These aren't exclusive: he can pay attention to his children and keep his 'contributions' to the office.
A little bit off-topic: Aren't quantum computers similar to the 'proposed' PCMOS analog computers based on memristors and spin torque oscillators?

The programming model looks the same, and the machine code is 'complex', so it needs to be abstracted just like in proposed probabilistic computers like DARPA UPSIDE and Synapse?
Cyanogenmod is quite successful(10 million installs). It seems like a good model for creating alternatives in the os market(as long as google is happy and sharing it's apps and store). And they've inserted some interesting features to the os , for example strong encrypted text(TextSecure) as default.
I don't know. For example many rich people flee France right now, and in some respect it is also because of private property not being safe.

Kids: maybe I'm foolish, I want my kids to grow in China. The air is bad but they will respect their teacher and elders, they will be able to safely walk in any streets, they experience a fast changing and exciting environment, with friendly and welcoming neighbors, and maybe most importantly they will be well equipped mentally and culturally to understand the world all the kids of their generation will have to live in.

All of that is obviously weighting much more than air considerations.
LightTable is written in clojurescript and it's a first-class language for the IDE (The core devs prefering it I guess).

Id like to use LightTable but I'm more of a CoffeeScript guy and CS isn't built in yet. Apparently to add support you pretty much need to know ClojureScript to create a plugin, or something around that. I'll gladly write the CoffeeScript syntaxer, highlighter and a theme, as I run my own flavors in Sublime. Just need the integration to be there.

Someone help! (Please go learn ClojureScript and PR to LightTable immediately OP)

https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable/issues/458 :)
After reading your comment I went to the control panel of java and there you can at least disable the browser plugin. But removing it entirely would be better
> Coming home and relaxing, saying, "Hey, I'm paying the mortgage" is also saying, "Hey, the work my wife did today was worth nothing."

I think you have it precisely the wrong way around.

Assuming someone providing 'is not contributing to the house' assumes their providing has no value.

This is modern feminist reduction of the value men (who most often perform this role) provide, and it's shameful.
Explantion: x is a 0/1 matrix of live cells.

0+':x -> "sum each element with one to the left
(0 left of the first)"
1_x,0 -> "drop first, add zero at the end"

(0+':x)+1_x,0 -> "sum each element with the one
to the left and the one to the
right (sum of previous expressions)"

a:2{+...}/x -> "do that; transpose; do that;
transpose again, and assign to a.
2{}/ means 'do twice'"

At this point, "a" has the same shape of "x", but in every element is the sum of the elements of x from that location, one above, one below, one left, and one right.

4=a -> "1 where a=4, 0 otherwise"
x*4=a -> "1 where x is 1 and a=4, 0 otherwise"
a-x*4=a -> "decrease a from 4 to 3 if x=1 in the
that place"
3=a-x*4=a -> "1 where one has 3 neighbours"

So, if x is a 1/0 matrix "life x" does one iteration of Conway's game of life. And "1000 life/ x" would seek convergence or return to first state (but no more than 1000 iterations).

There is code golfing here; It would have been purely readable K code if it wasn't golfed. But it would also have been two to three times as long.
That is very interesting. I had no idea.
No they're "fleeing" because of a 70% upper marginal tax bracket on person income. And I question how many have actually left, as opposed to saying they totally will.

I seriously doubt France will really miss them, since it's unlikely they paid much of the previous bracket in the first place, and they won't very well stop doing business there.
Unfortunately, London and Berlin are national capitals. Silicon Vally (even if you extend it to San Francisco) isn't even a state capital.

National capitals have defence contracts and government IT, which so lucrative it sucks a lot of talent away from industry. London is also a financial centre, so that's even more competition.
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I haven't looked into this for a while, wasn't this quantum consciousness stuff widely considered a crackpot phase from an otherwise brilliant scientist (Penrose)?
Anyone that's covered enough maths or physics to be interested in the subject is unlikely to be put off by the use of the word jest. In order to get to this point you will already be well versed in such language.
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It's a pitty they do not show how client server communication is done. Eg how, after a click on a button, do i query a db and display its result in the page.
If they have access to the manufacturers, it would be the simplest, minimum-effort, minimum-risk approach. It is also what I would do, given the chance.

Taking into account what we have learned this year about the extent of the activities of the intelligence services, I think we have to assume that somebody (Whether the NSA, the FSB or somebody else) has compromised the manufacture of at least part of the electronics and/or software supply-chain.

I am not too sure what it would take to audit the software and hardware components in common use today?
Public wifi - how could it get so bad? (2007)
Yes, they flee because they feel their wealth is not safe in France.

And they do, a lot of them.

I do not think France would miss them for the loss in tax income. But I think France should be more welcoming with successful people, and accept that in our world wealth is a marker of success.
I'm a somewhat math-undereducated programmer obsessed with DSP. I've gotten very used to the feeling of being in way over my head reading up on math concepts.

As I stick with it, I learn more and more. Yeah, it's frustrating, but it doesn't make me feel stupid—if anything, there's a sense of pride and excitement when something finally does sink in. It's become a bit of an addiction.

I for one definitely support attempts to make math more accessible, even if "more accessible" still requires effort on my part, and even if the author's tone seems overly formal or jargon-laden.

I can only hope the rest of the author's audience has the same attitude. It seems impossible to get anywhere with math without it.
PG makes me want to move to Boston/Cambridge. And his summation of silicon valley sounds... almost sick. But then I review my own behavior, and perhaps I am motivated more by power than I like to think?

I've always thought of the will to power, beyond power over yourself, as an ugly thing. But looking back at choices I've made? Yeah. I've wanted to change things. Even change things for others. And I've chosen power over money at several junctions. So, maybe I'm in the right place after all.
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years by Peter Norvig: http://norvig.com/21-days.html
I don't quite see the problem this app is solving (beyond initial curiosity). Some wild ideas, not necessarily good ones:

* Everybody knows enough sleep is a good thing, but not everybody has a productivity chart to make its importance visceral.

* Provide early warning signs to rest before you get migraine. Common triggers are stress, hunger, fatigue, hormone levels (medication), indoor air quality and lighting. A common early warning sign is an unusual appetite. The facts are known, but their importance varies and not everybody is sufficiently self-aware.

* Automatic goal tracking for Beeminder, because that increases the chance you achieve your goals.

* Prevent procrastination: Is it possible to infer mood from your data, e.g. movement patterns, after some initial training? (The food industry can measure feelings amazingly well in their food design labs.) I know I'm much more likely to procrastinate when I'm low on energy. Right now, I'm trying to notice that earlier and take a break or fix the underlying problem.
I was looking for a good discussion of why public wifi is so bad (StackExchange or the like), and came across this article from nearly 7 years ago. Things are still just as bad. I usually use 3G where possible as at least in fixed locations it is reliable, unfortunately this isn't possible everywhere due to cost (e.g. here in the UAE it's around $30/GB).
I'm not completely familiar with the current state of affairs on how freely RMB can leave the country, but even when there were strict controls in the 80s and 90s (you had to have receipts of USD being changed into RMB to change any RMB back to USD, and couldn't exceed what you put in) it was relatively straightforward to get money out of the country.

Consider - an acquaintance started a western car dealership which he ran successfully for years, then sold. Flush with lots more RMB than he had invested in USD, he simply created a quality building supply exporting company which sold Chinese building supplies (like marble) in USD to US customers, while purchasing them in country with his RMB. He also built his house with these building supplies. In a year or so, all of his RMB was used up, and that was that.

This was a relatively "small business" owner compared to the kinds of tycoons we're talking about in Russia and China. Replicated this on a larger scale would be trivial, even if there were rules about it.
"Ambition is a big part of it, and European attitudes can be incomprehensible to Americans."

What attitude are you referring too? do you have any objective fact that would prove that europeans are less ambitious than americans?

If you go to any selective European school or university, students are certainly as ambitious as their american counterparts and aren't afraid of working hard to achieve their goals.

However, they are probably more interested in an executive position in the finance industry than founding a company, which doesn't sound unreasonable.
Hip.

Just sayin.
>> sine is actually how high above the ground you are when traveling around the circle.

I learned my trigonometry when trying to figure out how to rotate and move objects around in 2D space for a computer game. I learned then, that sin is responsible for y axis, and cos for x axis.

But I never ever phrased this as "how high above the ground you are when traveling around the circle". I like the elegance of that; things would probably have clicked for me immediately back then, had I heard a sentence like this (and ditto for cosine being "how far to the right are you").

Bottomline, I'm in agreement with both OP and GP here.
The HTTP protocol is designed to consume documents. I guess this is why it's so hard for people to get their head around web apps not being documents.
In that case there is something I don't understand. If the company has a debt and an offsetting asset pegged specifically to that use, why does it look bad?

If anything, that should look good: "we owe $X to employees at 0bps interest and we have $X in the bank at 40bps."
> Anything else I omitted?

* Meego, Maemo, Mer (or did you count them under SailfishOS or Tizen?)

* Openmoko
London does not have defence contracts, thats largely out west, Reading way. It does have a fair amount of government IT, but that is more dispersed too (uk.gov is a new exception, but historically things like tax collection were moved out of London back in the 1970s).
I have an impression that the goal of all these new iOS/Android challengers is to get Linux on the mobile phone at all costs. Whereas the goal should be to create user experience that would be at least as pleasant and smooth as that of iOS, plus openness and transparency of the platform. At least.

That may imply Linux due to the lack of viable alternatives, but really, it should be built with users in mind, rather than perceived as a technical challenge of putting Touch on top of Linux.

(And please, stay away from Java in your next mobile OS. Among other things, you will ward off those of us, developers, who let's say are not neutral wrt. to certain programming languages. Edit: make Java optional if you wish.)
There's an examples Folder on GitHub with a client/server chat demo. That really helps figuring the RPC part out
"And I believe it's a problem of the education system."

That's just a cop out. We all had teachers and subjects that didn't connect, for whatever reason. Ultimately, the responsibility to learn is personal.

I don't mean to be harsh, but basically every comment on this subthread is someone saying "I was a great math student, but I never understood what radians MEANT until now!" That's crap. If you do 10,000 practice problems and get high marks and still don't understand the concept, you haven't done anything. Good teacher or bad, your job as a student is always, forever, to figure it out on your own.
pi is 3.141...

so it's the .141... part
Yes, one of the problems with China seems not only to be that the party is corrupt, and encourages corruption, but that it is immune from investigation and punishment.

I read a book this summer about the Chinese Communist Party (http://www.amazon.com/The-Party-Secret-Chinas-Communist/dp/0...), and was rather surprised to find that the party exists outside of the Chinese legal system. So there's this entire apparatus that cannot, under Chinese law, be investigated, sued, or otherwise held accountable.

I think that it's somewhat inevitable that power without accountability will lead to massive corruption -- all the more so when you're dealing with a country as immense as China, which has accumulated such wealth in recent years.

I find it easy to believe that some wealthy Chinese, unsure of when the party (so to speak) will be over, and when they might be accused (rightfully or not) of corruption, just decide to leave.
Finally! I have always wanted to connect all my social media accounts to one freaking server, which is 100% hacker-proof ! How are they doing this? Probably some IT-ish complicated encryption algorithm! (Just like the Titanic)
Isn't this a cliche?