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It's a lovely place, and the people are great - warm, friendly, kind... and the skiing isn't bad either. Women are oppressed, in much the same fashion as you see elsewhere in the middle east, which is hard from ideal, but their cultural norms will only adjust through trade and the homogenisation it brings - not through military force or economic sanctions. Their government are a bunch of a-holes, although their foreign policies are readily understandable when you comprehend their geopolitical position.

No culture is any better than any other, indeed - merely different. We should revel in those differences while we still have them, rather than revile them, for, if we don't wipe ourselves out first, we will end up, most likely, for the most part, one people. I like qualifiers.

Oh, and if you really want to understand what the hell is going on in and around Iran right now, read all about a charming little hell-hole called Ashraf.
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Disagree about C#/.NET "doing better" than Java (by which I think you mean more widely deployed). Java is nearly ubiquitous in big corps from Cisco to LinkedIn and everything in between. On the desktop, C# obvious wins, however.

But your point still stands: MS went from a standing start to a credible competitor, overcoming their early embrace-and-extinguish failures like Visual J++.
> it's not as simple as abstaining from eating a particular substance.

Not eating fish is a pretty simple way to help prevent unsustainable fish depopulation. I'm a bit incredulous that anyone would argue this point. Anyone other than individuals who want to rationalize their current destructive habits.
Just as iTunes started cutting out record labels and making direct deals with artists, Amazon can do the same.

Interesting - I didn't realize iTunes had done this. Got any links/artists I can look up?
Then the physics version:

I took a couple of basic physics classes well before I went to university. The stuff they teach you is not especially useful. Elastic and inelastic collisions, deceleration from friction, F=ma. It's easy. Learning to model large systems is a lot more difficult, and that requires at least some experience that you aren't going to learn in a beginner's physics class.
Should be heavily discounted for those of us who bought the first edition
And shortly thereafter, this will transform into a debate about the horrors of farm bred fish, and the wonders of free range salmon. How their tiny pens stop them from being fully self-actualized prior to entering our bellies, and the awful quantities of antibiotics, waste feed, and disease that destroy the purity of their rainbow-like scales. We'll have PETA slicing fishery nets, and then weeping before Pike's Place as they decry the mingling of escaped fishery specimens with wild game. And lord knows, we'll have the same people, crying in the aisle of their supermarket as they look upon man's greatest mistake, a can of farm raised tuna, and the crushing weight of the world's despair comes rolling over them.
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I had the same reaction. I actually stopped reading after that. It was clear from that point that the article was pushing an agenda and would twist(probably from a lack of understanding) to support that agenda.
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>> Fewer than half of first-time home buyers can afford to purchase a median-priced home, and rents are increasing faster than incomes, especially for the middle class.

Dafuq? Isn't that the definition of the median?
A while back I tried to add some clarity to the discussion.

http://deliberate-software.com/quality-is-future-speed/
In other words, the woes in Silicon Valley are due to local government mismanagement than anything else.
I for one, would welcome a day where I can put install MS Office and VS on my Linux system without any hacks.

I think Microsoft would do very well to go the IBM route, and a FOSS Windows would really shake up the market.

Anyhow, the new MS CEO seems like a good guy, hopefully it's the beginning of a less evil, nicer Microsoft.
I'm in my early twenties and I have the same problem. But I don't see how this relates to blind people.
Do you think? I remeber doing flowcharts in school, in the 80's before computers were the norm. I don't remember anyone struggling with the concepts.
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Your typical 'successful' Asian student most likely had the stereotypical strict Asian parents who placed school success very highly. Obviously all the parents aren't like that and you get Asian kids who join gangs and such.
Who does the technology benefit more, the brokerage or the client?
Oh my. I remember reading this when it first came out in 2007. Does that make me an old fart?
No I mean that AWS provides a lot of this sort of automation internally, for example by configuring autoscale groups to respond to various cloudwatch metrics. I was wondering if finally.io is a UI layer on top of the existing AWS tools.
Nice idea, there is always humans.txt (which a surprising number of sites have, try google for example).

http://humanstxt.org/
The problem is the standards process exists to keep people from swinging their weight to force rushed/poorly thought-out technologies into a platform some already accuse of fragmentation and bloat. And to people who "But this is Google!" Throwing the process under the bus today because you think your favorite tech company can do no wrong screws everyone later when management changes. Management will change. The process is here to protect the web's interests regardless of whether any one actor's intent is good or not. If Google steamrolls everyone today, who will steamroll everyone tomorrow? The MPAA is on the W3C too.
from my replies, I think you have said what I wanted to say, but worded it better.
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That's an interesting point about temperatures, but I don't think that's the main concern we should have about global warming. People living in Arizona don't seem to be significantly worse off than people living in North Dakota. And a few degrees will not change much in terms of heating and A/C. I think the real worry of global warming is what it will do to ecosystems.
> I love my mother because she's objectively ranks as nearly the best mother I could have had

"Objective" and "parenting". That's cute.
Hey aridiculous, we really wanted the economics of the competitive format to be fair. We got to the point where our experienced experts were winning 30-50%, so for them it wasn't so bad. Customers sometimes complained about "only" getting 2 or 3 experts, but we quickly realized it was better for everyone, including the customer.

It's a bit like being a software consultant. Most clients don't pay enough for you to do your absolute best work. That's what happened in the contest format. The best experts didn't make enough to do their best work. With the current format, we see them really sinking their teeth into big trips and having fun.
Would it have really made a difference? Inter-company collaborations always end up with one company becoming dependent or the other buying them out, or both. Vaio would have become synonymous with Mac OS until Apple ditched them and left them to the same fate as they currently face.
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Great review. Thanks for that information. I'll keep that one in mind as well.
It's not explicitly said, but are they following Semantic Versioning? http://semver.org/
No. Unix/Linux and the command line IS easier for development, once you get over the initial learning phase. So many great command line tools and functions, you can get a language, or an environment up and running in seconds instead of dozens of minutes or hours...
There's a little page here that also links to the chrome extension:

http://www.humanheaders.org
as an African-American your comment rubs me the wrong way

Can you briefly expand on why/how your ethnicity factors into your displeasure with his comment?
I directly addressed the "no true Scotsman" issue, for example.

No, you didn't. You simply asserted that you weren't committing that fallacy.

Similarly, you simply asserted that when evaluating unexpected positive and negative consequences of an action, it is acceptable to dismiss nearly all of the positive ones while including nearly all of the negative ones. This is obvious nonsense, but you couldn't see the problem because you're blinded by your ideology.

And after that you engaged in the always fun sport of moving the goalposts. You switched your argument from 'there are no unintended positive consequences' to a completely unrelated set of complaints about public discourse.

You were intellectually dishonest. If you can't see this, it is only because you do not wish to see it. Your cognitive dissonance will not change reality.

I respond poorly to people accusing me of intellectual dishonesty without demonstrating in what way I'm being dishonest.

Grow up.
I think you answer your own question. He has more pleasure watching at 1.5x.
Here: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja211148a?journalCode=ja...
Good excuse ;)
"The public opposes most new construction, not realizing that it’s the key to keeping jobs"
Sadly, that's not free of problems either. At least with open-net farming, the disease and sea lice can cause decreases in wild populations as well. Some of the mortality rates are really depressing.

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?...
Hey Lucas, we need to add something like Jekyll-RSS-Feeds (https://github.com/snaptortoise/jekyll-rss-feeds) to our repo. I'm totally strapped for time, but will try - if you fancy submitting a PR though, the repo is here: https://github.com/tfrce/thedaywefightback
But it is fair to say, "you are assuming the kids had equal opportunities and environments, here is my story in which they clearly did not". Maybe the schools were of equal quality, but we can't assume that.
Why are you comparing S3 costs to "just" HDDs? HDD's aren't web enabled and require other hardware to run and keep running.
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In today's world the search technology benefits the client, and the efficiency technology (like CRMs) benefit the brokerage. The problem is, cost of brokerage fees haven't changed. There is clearly much more room for improvement.
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Also submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7185432
Sweet, I was hoping someone would make something like this!

The thing that inhibits me from using your site is that I don't understand 100% what it does / how it does it, and how much it costs.

I'd add A LOT more meat to your landing page.

I want to know

* What am I allowed to print? Show me examples of all the stuff I can do

* Can I create campaigns, where it is automatically scheduled to send X on Jan 1st, Y on Feb 1st, etc..

* Can I have trinkets / widgets delivered to you guys and you combine that into one mailing?

* I definitely want to be sure the printed thing looks like how I intended it to be. How will you do this? I would like it if I got the mail piece scanned or photographed (as a review copy, before it is scheduled to be sent) and emailed to me.

* What's the cost? You don't have to do all the stuff above for free. You can charge a fee for everything, e.g. $1-$5 per trinket that has to be processed, $10-$20 for a review copy photo / scan. What's the cost per print + mailing? Can I choose the mailing speed (e.g. FedEx overnight, UPS 3-day ground, etc.)?
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Apple's problem was the other clone manufacturers undercutting them. Sony is a company that is known for being willing to charge premium prices for their premium products. It may have worked out.

I'm not sure it would have made much of a difference though.
Selecting anything from yellow droplist yields gigantic "PLEASE SIGN-UP TO PROCEED" popup that cannot be dismissed. Selected item is not getting selected, all other droplists are either disabled or obscured by the POPUP.

This is how you drive people off your website, not get them interested enough to sign-up for a trial account :)
I went to see it live on a gigantic screen with the Philip Glass Ensemble about 8 years ago so yeah, I think I eventually got to see it how it was intended ;-)

But what does some minor quality issue matter? I could listen to an album of 128kbps MP3s and still deem it to be my favorite, because absolute precision isn't really important in (most) art. Heck, I listen to most music on my screen's speakers despite having proper headphones, just because it's easier. I'm not pretending to be a cinephile or an audiophile here ;-)
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Saying that a concrete type like Int is the identity monad is incorrect. Monads must have kind * -> *.
Thanks, Sina.
Exactly. The author cites a Christmas promotion as an example. Yes, those types of projects exist, but in my experience, they're a tiny minority. Almost every deadline I've ever faced was set artificially. The developers estimate how long the project will take, they negotiate with management, and one or more deadlines are established. Often these deadlines are missed (not due to the programmers, BTW), and there's no actual harm to the company or the project.

In my view, the reasons for such artificial deadlines are a) so all involved parties can plan their schedules, and b) because an undefined timeline has a tendency to become an infinite timeline. Rarely do these two needs imply dire consequences for a missed deadline (provided it's not missed by an excessive duration).
It isn't supposed to make you feel better at all; just to make you aware of the fact that the Earth will probably survive even if you, me and all of our descendents don't.
I don't know man. I have been buried under mountains of technical debt before. It's a pretty horrifying experience and makes me paranoid about writing bad code. It's kind of like how starvation makes you see food differently. Technical debt isn't a joke.
Also, I think a big problem with Microsoft's strategy is it's based on attempting to replicate the same level of success they enjoyed with Windows and Office. Microsoft's strategy isn't to become a strong competitor, Microsoft's strategy all too often is to attempt to become the overwhelming market share leader. They see that things like Windows and Office enjoy 90-95% market share in their respective market segments, so new products are designed with that goal in mind (achieving monopolies rather than trying to simply put great products on the market and having those products compete solely on their own merit). This is why everything they make tries to be everything to everyone, but such products usually end up appealing to no one.

I think a lot of Apple's success (one possible example of many) is due to the fact that they consciously don't try to please everyone. In fact, they make many decisions about such things knowing full well that those decisions will turn off many potential customers and put a ceiling on their potential market share. Their goal is to make what they think will be very desirable products for some target audience, as opposed to making something that they think will appeal to every customer in every segment of the market. IMO, Microsoft is constantly forcing itself to strive for an ambitious but impossible goal that tends to water down whatever the original product vision was.
Not exactly. The article says the first number is for major lifecycle events, ie 1.0 means "production ready". They'll be releasing monthly and the second number will be the release increment. The third number will be for patches and fixes.

So to me that doesn't fit in with the Semantic Versioning contract. I think the product is too young yet to use a version scheme that assumes relative API stability.
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>> While my ethnic background appears to have had no bearing on my life

Of course it has. You have to realize that everyone you encounter in your life is going to judge you differently based on your height, weight, clothes, skin color, hairstyle, and even your name.

When you go for a job interview or on a sales call, people are going to have pre-concieved notions and their judgement affected by the name on your email signature. If you're 'Tom Gomez' or 'Dave Johnson' you're going to have pretty good head start over someone named 'Alejandra DeJesus Valtierra' or 'Wumi Hassan Abdullah'.

If you're good and you can get past that, people don't care. You'll become 'my friend Hassan', or 'I know that guy with the dreads, I should introduce you'. But as unfair as it is, and it shouldn't be, it does affect first impressions. We're all guilty of it.
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Nope, you're wrong. I was pretty clear that those are two separate complaints. Paper is a form of DRM, and they specifically noted that as a primary reason why they were using it.

I would have (begrudgingly) paid for another electronic copy. However, had I known the first time that I'd just have to buy it again for a much-expanded 1.6 in a few months, I'd have waited and bought only the 1.6 version (assuming it wasn't paper only).

DRM is bad because it punishes your customers. I'm not giving up shelf space, ctrl-f ability, and loss of mobility because they chose this DRM.

And part of the reason that "upgrade discounts" aren't being considered is because it's impractical with a paper book. That makes sense, and is another reason not to use them exclusively. O'Reilly on the other hand, does provide upgrade discounts. This is always a better deal for both the vendor and the consumer, because the number of customers who buy every edition of a paper book they already have is incredibly small.
I found this exact same issue a few years ago after determining I had a reasonably-long-existing $75/day "leak" in my S3 expenses :/. (Seriously: $75/day, a number I am not exaggerating at all.)

> 09:00:04 < saurik> dls: I am performing millions of ListBucket request to this one amazon bucket every day

> 09:00:25 < dls> d'oh

> 09:00:28 < saurik> adding up to almost 1.5 gigabytes of data traffic in/out on just those requests

> 09:00:41 < saurik> I have NO CLUE what could POSSIBLY doing even a SINGLE ListBucket request on that bucket

> 09:00:49 < dls> LOL
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I'm considering downgrading my HD cable to standard to save $15/month. I mean I can see the difference but it's a bit of a meh difference to me. But then I did spend 20+ years with standard and the quality of the shows themselves was even higher back then ;-)
You have two ISPs for any business-critical service that matters, and you switch between them either using BGP in your router or using DNS if you have not implemented BGP.

With a single provider, it's a gamble, although the expectation for any reasonable provider is that they just let you saturate your link speed with no questions asked, and block the offending traffic in their router if you can identify it for them.
I feel it's unfortunate there's likely a lot of people newer to or unfamiliar with the bandwidth market that will not fully grok this comment.
What a tragedy :(
This idea was partially inspired by the humans.txt idea. Something that you could just install in your browser and leave on as your browse the web.

By configuring it at the header level, it makes it pretty easy to simply apply it to all HTTP requests.

This allows the info to be parsed whether it's coming from an API response, or a website response, or anything else.
Are you arguing that if you care about native app platforms you aren't interested in stuff like the Adobe CSS regions stuff?

One of the biggest changes to Cocoa in iOS 7 was TextKit. https://developer.apple.com/Library/ios/documentation/String...

This is concerned with the same sorts of things as regions (though it's more than that), and developers really, really wanted it.
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I wonder how much savings we're talking about. I always worry when engineers start talking about saving money.
You can use Docker + Makefiles (test, binary, etc) to really help you with this.
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This is the right answer. These licenses are all heavily vetted and can be safely used in almost any kind of project. The attribution requirements (when present) are straightforward and easy to resolve.

You don't want people to have to think or worry about anything before using this library. Because if they do they often won't bother. These licenses align with that philosophy.
http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1j7db9/why_are_m...

Answer from an individual that studies "handedness".
Then show me how to deploy to the store such APK, done in Go for example.
I remember seeing this when it first came out. As an aspiring classical musician at the time who was interested in the avant-garde, I was naturally curious about Glass's music, but I went in without any concept of what the movie was like/about. The thoughts that ran through my head, roughly:

1. "Just music and images so far... ok, this must be the intro."

2. "Hmm... when is this thing actually going to start?"

3. "WTH?"

4. "Ok, this is getting a little boring..."

5. "...."

Step 5 was where I fell into what I can only describe as a sort of hypnotic trance that lasted until the end. It was an impressive experience, but I'm hard pressed to say I "liked" it so much as it felt somehow deep and profound, like some sort of 60's acid trip but without the drugs.
Borders and territories are not random though, they confine the community and people. A country is combination of both.
I thought the issue was exactly that - that MS pushed for adoption of proto-standards before there was any sort of agreement on how they should actually be interpreted/implemented.
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I don't know. The whole ecosystem we live in (YC) seems to be about, "Your idea may be good, but mine exists."

Basically, the same thing as he's saying.
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"Nobody is calling spending weeks writing a caching layer for a 20-row database "elegant" or "best practice"

I don't disagree with your main points, but you might be surprised to hear some things that people will say and unnecessary optimizations they'll attempt...
Should be fixed now; sorry! Made the code that checks for geoip location more resilient.
i did what you said with cache but i can only found my friend's videos that i have seen!!
the problem is the web today is not what a proper application plateform should be. Developpers have waited long enough, we need more features and it takes way to long for the W3C to deliver.

At the same time, HTML5 was a coup orchestrated by the Whatwg on the future XHTML spec, It was a mistake in my opinion because the original W3C spec was way better as we would not have the discussion we are having today about web components and the shadow dom if the W3C spec had been chosen.

So I dont know. Is google way of doing things short-sided? or does it really solves some issues? Time will tell. but maybe the lean approach the Whatwg took wasnt that "future proof" after all.
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