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>This makes me a bit cautious about the language. Scientific computing people are often very smart but they are not programmers or computer scientists and may do funny things that a computer scientist would not.

Most languages, from C and C++ to Python and Java were not created by "computer scientists".

Usually it's either programmers that studied math or came from some other profession (physicists, linguists like Larry Wall, even philosophers).

>Another example is the byte addressing of UTF-8 strings, which may give an error if you try to index strings in the middle of a UTF-8 sequence [1]. s = "\u2200 x \u2203 y"; s[2] is an error, instead of returning the second character of the string. I find this a little awkward.

That makes perfect sense if Julia cannot yet handle indexing strings on graphemes.

In essense, there is NO "second character" that you're getting when "byte indexing" a string. You might get one (if it's ascii all the way), or more possible you'll just get an invalid part of a character as a byte.

In other languages with similar limitations (like PHP) you get a broken result with no warning at all.
Searching in the App store is a disaster. If you search for "Twitter", you'll get the official app (which I expect was hardcoded) and... a bunch of garbage. No Tweetbot or Twitterific.

The fact that developers get to pick categories and that's not reviewed is a disaster. Let's look at the top board games:

3. Doodle Kingdom, some kind of puzzle game

8. Phase 10, a card game

9. Doodle God, another puzzle game

12. Skip-Bo, a card game

Other categories are worse. Minecraft (and it's clones) are near the top of most categories. It's basically impossible to find anything if you don't know the name ahead of time.
> Smartphones are powerful now, yet games that manage to match the quality and depth of an SNES-era game are basically non-existent.

'Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic' for iOS being a notable exception, of course.
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Except the incident occurred in New York state and they consulted someone about California state law? I'd guess most states have similar laws so it is a bit of a moot point.
+/u/dogetipbot 10 doge

there you go.

edited to add (and bring back on topic):
this might look spammy, and in fact it is -- some subreddits don't like all the tipping noise at all, but on /r/dogecoin it's the big thing that differentiates it from the other altcoins.
A few requests/cancellations to get the cell # would be scrappiness. 100+ is sleazy and if I were Travis or Ryan I would be removing the NYC GM if this story is accurate.
I'd recommend reading some SEO books or articles and then also producing more niche content before going mass market, which will require a lot more money and effort.

A List Apart has some good content strategy stuff and Moz has good SEO stuff.

Nice site!
Doge in particular has no property apart from the name and the hype around the meme.

There are more than 200 alt coins [1] and the vast majority of these don't contribute anything new to the field of crypto currencies but many succeed to win followers just because people keep calling the process that should be called "policing with a small compensation" "mining for profit". Read Satoshi's whitepaper[2]. Mining is meant to not be profitable for the masses and yet it is profitable in so many cases. Why is this? Because people are confused about the value of the minable goods. Mining is always connected with an up-front investment and the bigger the industry the more professional you have to be to do it profitably. Therefore loosers/scammers/lunatics/pump-and-dumpers (sorry) gravitate towards unprofessional coins where there is no professionalism celebrating the next big thing since bitcoin and once their coin of choice turns more mature they abandon ship as the very property they seek – easy minability – got lost.

Disclaimer: I own bitcoins and was sent 100 reddit-dogetipbot-dogecoins.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=134179.msg4701768
[2] http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
Its amazing to me how the later Apple platinum color and aluminum make the original Mac look sickly green. I wonder if that was the intent of the platinum change.
I was always taught that black holes were actually disks due to angular momentum and the speed of light. The matter at the end of the disk is being pulled in by gravity, but its speed is so close to C that its mass increases to the point where the equations balance out (trade gravitational potential energy for mass potential energy + kinematic potential energy).
>It used to be that people would get angry if you called their Apple Computer a PC

People still get angry if you call their Apple branded personal computer a PC and will argue with you forever about why it isn't one.

It makes as much sense as saying the iPhone isn't a phone and the iPad isn't a tablet.
Of course not silly! Cause free is a marketing euphemism for "You already paid for it with the purchase!" :)
Reflecting on the various Macs I've encountered over the years, it occurs to me that Apple does not get enough credit for the innovation they've done on the Mac platform. The current technology is so different from the original, I feel like they should be thought of ad two completely different platforms that just happen to share the same name.

The NextStep/OS X switch was a huge risk, but it has paid off huge. At the time the Unix heritage and shell was seen by most people as a step backward and liability. But it anticipated the rise of Linux and open source, and is probably the #1 reason Macs are so popular with tech influencers today.

It's also the reason they were able to move to Intel processors so easily. Not a chance that happens if they were still on Mac OS.
There are some SEO "best practices" that your site isn't following, such as a redirect from your site's home page to another URL (that changes every day?). I would take a look at Moz.com's SEO basics guide and look at incorporating some of the SEO best practices for building sites.

I would also use social media when you can, as SEO really is overrated--if you get the social visitors then the search traffic will follow.

Think about doing a traditional PR (public relations) campaign to get your site noticed and some articles written about your site. That will help with some much-needed quality links to the site.
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But there is a lot of strategy also. It is possible to think 2 (some rare times 3) moves ahead. But sure, a lot of it is luck.

As I don't connected it to FB, I don't even use the social aspect of the game. So recognizing this is just to pass some time, and with no competition with friends, pay money to buy time doesn't make sense to me. I play it when I want to spend time (not buy it)

Also, with the reward feeling of passing a tough phase (the were phases which I played much more than a hundred times) being so big! Actually I would be paying to diminish my pleasure.
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Not for bitcoin you can't. Not really, anymore. The rise of ASICs has marginalized everyone but the ASIC producers. They will always have the edge going forward. Even if they rent you the equipment, you are sharecropping and paying them enough that your sole profit will be from an increase in the value of the currency, not in acquiring coins at the current rate. You may as well just buy the bitcoins. I'm still not sure if this is to the net benefit of the currency or not; I don't think anyone is, people argue both sides, but I tend to think it's a bit premature since productive mining will proceed for years to come at the hands of only a few.

One of the potential benefits of the scrypt algorithm used by Litecoin and Dogecoin (and others) is that even with scrypt ASICs being developed, the memory-intensive nature of the algorithm has so far prohibited a massive disparity in hashing ability. You can still buy a sub-$2000 mining rig that will basically pay for itself in a couple months.
Sadly I suppose this implies the impossibility of Malament-Hogarth hypercomputers.
I'm Android dev, and I think the "Want quick suggestions?" feature is a good addition to Google Play, because it encourages users to rate apps.

Yes, the average rating for my app has gone down since Google made this change. But rankings are relative, not absolute, and all apps are being treated equally, so it shouldn't make a difference in the rankings.

What wasn't mentioned is that the number of ratings has increased substantially. I get at least twice as many ratings as before.

In my opinion, more users giving ratings will result in more reliable rankings.
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No. OS X is a bastardisation of Mach, FreeBSD and OpenStep. A completely new Frankenstein's monster.
So DNSCurve then? Does it basically just allow me to encrypt my connection to a DNS server of my choice? If I run my own DNS server on my own network, and I resolve example.com will I know if the entire recursive resolution was done over a secure channel or just that the connection from my host to my DNS server was secure?

Also is there any chance of it actually becoming adopted widely?
It's one reason given for moving off the gold standard, and may even have been the actual reason for some to support that. The primary reason, however, was for governments to take control of the money supply and use it for political goals. Inflation is less visible than taxation.
If YOU think they are fine. But they can say whatever. Back to the original quesiton?
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Actually, these shared "JavaScript CDNs" actually slow down your site.

http://zoompf.com/blog/2010/01/should-you-use-javascript-lib...
http://statichtml.com/2011/google-ajax-libraries-caching.htm...

tl;dr: the URLs are too fragmented to get cache hits for commonly used shared libraries, so you end up having to do a DNS lookup and download them over a cold TCP/HTTP connection. This is slower than simply serving the 20-30KB of data directly from you own site.

Update even more recent stats from 2013. The Html5 boiler plate project decided against shared JavaScript CDNs: https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/pull/1327
There is one thing not relative in Einstein's universe: The universe centre of mass.
That's a bit naive. Consider writing a program that's mostly Objective-C but needs to build up some C data structures for performance. A lot of that code for building it up, and the representation, will be written in C. Interfacing between the two will require careful design, in order to maintain performance and safety. This is especially true in the days of ARC, where you can't just store Objective-C types in C structs.
The arXiv paper indicates he has no intention of submitting it to a peer-reviewed journal -- something that's becoming pretty common in some physics fields. On the contrary, I see the "yet to pass peer review" remark as a crass editorialization from the Nature journalists¹. This paper has already seen more, meaningful, peer review that most papers Nature publishes; informal review from people downloading the (free, open) paper from the arXiv, or listening to the talk at the Kavli conference. The institute Nature is defending is becoming an irrelevant middleman: what's the point of reviewers, if they barely read the papers, and then hide them behind paywalls from anyone who actually wants to read them, when there's whole social network of researchers who will read papers enthusiastically, for free, and share what they think of them?

http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5761

¹ You should question to what extent they're journalists, when their employer is a for-profit entity existentially threatened by the subject they're reporting on.
http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/11/the-billion-dollar-valuation...

I think this is a better list.
#13 should be even more generic: not just “Set default apps in iOS” but introducing something like the desktop OS X services, Android intents, etc. which would allow an app to start an operation with a type of data (i.e. a URL, an email address, a picture, etc.) and allow the user to send it to an arbitrary app.

You should be able to send a URL to Instapaper or send a picture in Dropbox/Facebook/etc. without making either one your default "browser", "photo viewer", etc.
I notice that this is changing (albeit very slowly) and people generally give up the argument when you point out to them that any Intel based PC can run OSX (and any mac can natively run windows) because Apple PCs are just Intel computers with different shells.
For reference: http://blog.uber.com/2014/01/01/statement-on-new-years-eve-a...
Objective-C is a wonderful language. Stop trying to start a flame war.
I've never heard DISTINCT described as imperative.

It still leaves room to determine how and when to achieve the DISTINCT property, perhaps even doing no work at all.

* It can do a sort+unique or a hash, depending on cardinality, availability of memory, and a few other factors.

* It can push down a distinct or pull up a distinct, resulting in a faster plan.

* If there is another part of the plan that already implies distinct, like a GROUP BY, then it doesn't need to do any work at all. (Or similarly, if you're doing a distinct on a primary key).
It's free as in, new updates will be available for no cost. This has no relation with the EULA.
Actually I don't really browse on my desktop or mobile. I always prefer to type something to search my computer or phone instead of having to browse for it. Unless it's on my home screen. I think it's pretty efficient.
that's my thinking also
>> is not that easy and straight forward

It's as easy as clicking "install" i think. The extension itself is not complex to implement at all and it could be done in a week or so. The backend is a different story.
Or better yet, provide a way to provide resolution-independent assets for app interfaces in a format like svg or pdf, instead of providing bitmaps for 7 zillion different sizes.

It sucks to have retina assets full stop and it's only going to get worse as screen sizes change gradually and we end up with a huge number of legacy sizes. Now that ios7 is all about flat design, they could look at moving developers away from producing bitmaps which fit the screen and towards using repeated patterns for grounds and resolution independent artwork on top.
Pong is a good game. It cost about $100 when it first came out.

Would you pay even half that for a mobile implementation?

As to the legality of roms, let's say I own a rather extensive SNES library (including every SE game available on Android). As far as I'm concerned, my conscience is clear. Nothing wrong with format shifting.
Reading the whitepaper. Sadly the hardness is not part of the pitch.

Few things got my attention - the data structure

>the general idea is to encode the data type and length in a single byte followed by the actual data
I probably just lack imagination, but I don't see the general model of a digital computer with a Harvard architecture going away for a very long time. Rather, our focuses will be on getting higher power and complexity on increasingly smaller sizes, while ubiquitously integrating them in virtually everything imaginable (in short: ubiquitous computing is the future).

Although we likely will see huge world-changing advancements that will be taken for granted in the future, much like the integrated circuit is now, the concept of a computer as we know it today probably won't disappear.
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I am not entirely sure that 'relative to other fields' is a useful metric in this case.

Maybe if we could restrict those fields to others in the middle of a boom or otherwise in a fierce competition for talent...petroleum and other engineers in the oil industry in the past few years, for example. (though I'd wonder if the big players in that industry have similar pacts in place).

I don't know. It would be difficult to hold enough variables constant to make any useful comparisons but there might be something in the broad strokes.
Objective-C isn't the worst thing about making ios apps, though I'd agree it'd be nice to be able to use other languages easily.
Do you provide a trail to the email addresses? In other words - if you give me ivan@kremlin.ru, can I see how you arrived at including it in the list?
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I have Final Fantasy 1 for my Nokia, and it's actually a port rather than an emulation. I haven't looked up the differences, but what I've found so far are:
The interface supports tapping on characters rather than selecting them with the 'directional-pad' which appears on the map when walking around.
There's at least one new area to explore.
The magic system is more like later games, using MP.
Graphics have been improved

I'm not sure how many of these are ports from the DS version, though. Possibly all of them.

Based on the screenshots of FF3 for Windows, it appears to be a port of the DS re-make rather than the Famicom original
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I think you've missed the point that I was making, so I'm a little puzzled as to why you're spending all the time to do a line by line takedown. My main point is that I think any money that we are thinking about spending to mitigate global warming now could probably be better used solving world hunger or malaria or something. I don't KNOW that for a fact, and I'm open to arguments one way or the other. Just, to me, real people dying today is just more urgent than hypothetical people dying in the future.
“light trucks” is a category that includes both things that are obviously “trucks” (F-150, Tacoma, Ram, etc) and things that no sane person would ever call a truck in casual conversation, but are classified as such by the manufacturer (Outback, CR-V, Odyssey, etc).
20 ways the Mac changed everything (other than the obvious ones).
You mean my hackintosh?
Dear Apple, my first Mac was a $600 Mac Mini.

Your salesman informed me that I needed to buy a $30 Mini-DVI to DVI cable, which I did, only to discover one already came in the box.

I kept it out in the open, with good ventilation on all sides, in a 70f room. It ran great for about six months before (most likely) overheating killed the hard drive, where I lost all my data. Opening the case with a putty knife was a fun treat. A CD was stuck in the drive, and none of the various methods and shortcuts to eject it were successful, so I had to physically pry the disc out once I swapped the hard drive to get the OS installation media in. The disc did not survive the extraction.

About three months later, I noticed my Linux VM was running ridiculously slow. Upon investigating, I learned that my RAM reported as 1GB instead of 2GB. One of the sticks had now (again, most likely) died from overheating. I tried replacing the RAM with new RAM, and the system refused to recognize it. I tried putting the original RAM back in, and the system still refused to recognize it. Tried every combination of all four sticks in both slots to no avail. The system never booted again.

And that was the story of my first Mac.
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Awesome extension - It would be nice if I could add a youtube mix. For example if I go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlcIKh6sBtc I see a mix starting from this song. I'd like to play that mix. I don't know if there's a way to do that.

Great job.
Does anyone else find it amusing that the author is trying to put an "income inequality" spin on an article about tech employees being forced to take low to mid six figure salaries?
Your question can't be answered like that.

"Overrated" and "enough" are opinions based on points of view of people you don't mention.
Isn't that 'just' for their server division?

I'm fairly certain IBM is up to much more than hardware sales at this point. Although for awhile they were the eponymous PC manufacturer.
Because it's not a new game. There is not $16 worth of value there. There is no new content. It is a straight port job with bad touch controls grafted on.

I could have a superior experience with a SNES emulator.

Further, depth of a game has nothing to do with price. False dichotomy. The choice isn't between cheap games with no depth and expensive games with depth, the choice is between high value and low value.

There isn't a $16 value in what SE is putting out. There's not even a $5 value.
Ah, I remember my first mac... The distinctive organ sound when i turned it on.. The extremely low framerate in SC2 even though I paid twice as much as my PC friends... Sigh, Oct 2012, those were the days...

Before the fanbois hate: I bought a MBA because I was sick of dealing with Linux driver issues on my IBM laptop and wanted a *nix like environment and something really light so I could travel.
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Well, I assume they only had a California lawyer handy and he could only speak to California's laws for reference.
I had access to a lab of 512k/512kE/Plus Macs at the "gifted and talented" program in my public school district in Pennsylvania in 1985-199x, officially one day every 5-10 days, but ended up skipping regular classes, staying late, etc. with the cooperation of a couple of the teachers to use the lab more. HyperCard! Some "choose your own adventure" style game creation toolkit. Some early Mac games. Pascal. early SimCity. Some kind of dialup to somewhere (probably local BBSes? I think Fido mail too).

The main schools at the time had c64, Commodore PET, and then in middle school, labs of Apple II with sometimes IIgs; much less worthwhile, and all in structured classes like "we will all learn to type".

I mowed a lot of lawns, etc to save up for a Mac Classic 1/0 for $899 in 1990. (I had a "colecovision adam" before that, with the tape drive, printer, etc., which was essentially a word processor and games machine even when I got it; a c64 or apple II would have been a vastly better choice for a kid back then). I did Mac stuff with it for a few more years (very simple programming, hacking around with ResEdit, keeping up with the prepress going to digital transition, desktop publishing, etc.), but once I got VMS and UNIX accounts, and various dial-ups, and a modem, it turned into a glorified terminal. I eventually got a 486sx25 and then a P90 to replace it, running early 386BSD, BSD/OS, and Linux, but didn't get back into Macs until 2007 at a startup.
I'm don't think that's particularly relevant. Einstein's objection was wrong, and what Hawking is saying is pretty much unrelated.
We do not right now, but it's not something that we couldn't work on getting rolled out this weekend.
Just this morning there was a story on NPR about how Uber has price-gouging built into their system: during a snowstorm you may pay something like 5x the normal fare.
In postgres, distinct aggregates are a blind spot in the planner.

DISTINCT itself is handled well, e.g. "SELECT DISTINCT x, y ...".

But the distinct aggregates are not really seen by the planner, and they are always implemented with a sort. So this is a peculiar case for postgres.

One reason is because distinct aggregates can be more complicated to plan when you have a case like: "SELECT COUNT(distinct x), COUNT(distinct y) ..." because you actually need two different distinct sets as input.

Some databases have solutions for that problem, but postgres does not.
Does Matt Cutts have investments or connections with RapGenious, or is that just a slur?
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Yup and in some cases, he spread the photos to other revenge sites after getting take down requests.
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You need to ask yourself what your replacement cost is, not how much value you are adding.

Sure, you're a drop out, but if you have an in-demand skill set replacing you is not going to be cheap.
To be fair, integrating the Ebay-style rating of sellers/drivers does stand out as an important distinction - making that a core part of their app is a bit disruptive. Not a huge deal and not all their competitors do it, but that's something you don't usually expect in that kind of car service.