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This IS a Facebook problem. Whether they are not doing their job properly or customers have problems understanding their platform. But whatever it is, it still affects FB directly, so of course it's their problem.
I seem to recall that it was a link in the middle of a slashdot story that someone had managed to obfuscate in some way. There really wasn't any valuable lesson to learn.
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You might want to take a look at our company PlayCanvas[1]

We've got the game-building stuff covered, with Javascript engine and designer tools.

And a few of our users are pushing the multiplayer part of it e.g.

http://apps.playcanvas.com/playcanvas/scifi/latest

http://boxes.moka.co/

[1]http://playcanvas.com/
> Sounds awesome if you can get a trip planner working in JS

It was really a horrible hack that took into account only lines and stops (no trip times, transfer times, schedule, etc.) but as a simple visual app, and in the context of a hackathon, it worked.

It was even featured as "Google Map of the week" on the Google Geo blog before it was even showed to RATP

http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.fr/2013/08/interactive-m...

But now we need to "muscle up" the routing part and so are leaving JS completely (however if the data can be reduced significantly it would be interesting to go back to it someday).

OTP is much too big to ever migrate on a mobile device; will definitely check out rrrr; what do you use yourself?
The last class I got to help teach in Grad School was The Nature and History of the English language. Leading undergrads to this epiphany is also very gratifying (that and being able to explain the weirdness that is English orthography).
Because Trello is a Basecamp product?
I used to complain loudly about the state of native desktop development with managed platforms, even doing some Qt prototypes instead.

Then I got to do some work in WPF and was quite impressed how far the XAML stack has become.

Now if Xamarin cared to support it, it would be great.
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Yep. And it's the interpretation preferred by a lot of us non-theologian-but-believing-and-thinking Christians too. Alas, not the vocal ones who get on TV. I find it more 'offensive' that politicians invoke God's name to promote nationalism and wars that if someone says 'goddamn' or 'oh my God' or whatever. (Don't even get me started on that evil bullshit from the "Westborro Baptist" cult - that is extremely offensive to me as a Christian. That is /seriously/ using God's name in vain.)

I was somewhat under the impression that a lot of the insane over-zealous legalism of 'modern' protestant Christianity was at least somewhat since the Victorian era. A lot of European countries (not the UK) have a much more realistic approach to 'cusswords' and 'swearwords' and so on.

Looking at many past theologians (Martin Luther, for obvious instance), you find that there was much less of an insistence of 'clean' language. We live in a dirty, messed up, stinking world. Sometimes it's appropriate to use words that reflect that. What we're called to do is help to make that world less filthy, and help heal the broken people. The words we use, although not irrelevant, are certainly of much less importance that contemporary religion seems to think.

The bible itself has a couple of instances of 'foul' language, actually. English translations normally tone it down for their audiences... Which is kind of ironic, since most of it was written originally for non-priggish earthy real people, who spoke in street language, not in high class ecclestiatical nonsense (the New Testement is in Koine (common) greek, not in formal classical Greek.).
Ideas are cheap.

Implementations count.

Implement your idea. Preferably, implement it and show the value of it.

Then pitch it.

I've had random stuff I've thrown together in a few minutes turn out to be highly valuable. One was a script I'd assembled for some datagathering on my own systems. Ended up showing it to the customer support team where I was working, got thanked a couple of years later by one of the team-members who'd remained post-acquisition who said that it had pretty much saved the asses of everyone there by making it trivially easy to gather forensic data from users' systems. Just as one example.

Other tools I'd created and shared which turned out to be useful in other contexts, with similar stories.
Indeed, outright discrimination isn't the only factor, I think that's reflected in the other comments in this thread. My response above was to the lack of qualitative studies as to why employers might pay women less -- in cases that they do.

The example from Sweden you site might be an example of the "glass ceiling" at work -- lack of promotion and recognition for women compared to men (I can't tell by your example if the differences are in similar positions, of if lack of promotion might be an issue).
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I think Ken nails the real issue when he mentions this isn't the first "Daily Double hunter" the show has seen. Realistically, excluding Chuck Forrest, who was bouncing around the board to keep his opponents off-balance as opposed to hunting for daily doubles, it's been going on for a few years now from more than a few players. So why is Arthur Chu getting the attention now?

I'd hope it's for the fact that he has a bit of a grating buzzer practice (I'm surprised he isn't anchoring his hand against the lectern to reduce any windup and help with precision) and that he was flippant with some Daily Doubles early on (the $5 sports "I don't know" caught me off-guard), but I have a feeling it's more sinister than that.
In Spanish and French, hora or heure means hour, but it also means time. If you go north, to Germany, uhr means o'clock, and watch/clock. Further north, in Scandinavia, ur simply means watch/clock, whereas time means hour. It's quite fascinating and gives you a sense how information and knowledge spread in ancient times.
It's also the first time all the work that went into my doctoral exam in Proto-Indo-European Verbal Morphology has been relevant to, well, anything on HN. O.K., it's pronouns, but I had to study those too.
Wait, I definitely learned of the royal "we" in Latin. Specifically, this came up in Apollo and Daphne[1], with much of Apollo's first speech in the first-person plural referring exclusively to himself. We were taught in class that it was related to his arrogance to use a royal "we", which is a large theme of the story.

[1] http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Daphne_and_Apollo
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In addition to the reasons you've stated, an additional one is that there are fewer questions for your opponents to use to reach over half of your total. Hitting the two daily doubles with most of the board left in play in round two means you'll still likely need to outplay your opponents on the buzzer that round.
If they can't route almost all traffic in the fastest direction, then something is wrong with their network on a technical level. If IU has a massively superior route, then Comcast is negligent to nether peer nor lay their own line along a similar path.
No, it's not. This is as much of a Facebook problem as it is Google's problem that people send SPAM to people on the internet. This guy doesn't know how to market. People think that advertising is a magic button that you push and you get results. Hilarious.
White Hat SEO: unique title tags, unique meta descriptions, unique urls, correct use of headers and other HTML elements, fast loading pages, & content, content, content. The best way it was described to me is that its best to think of each page of content as a lottery ticket to the google front page. The more unique original content you have the better chance that one of your pages will get ranked for some keyword. Really as simple as that. I have articles from my app ranked on the 1st page of google in less than a week just following these guidelines and my app has a page rank of 0 since its new. (http://moz.com and http://www.kalzumeus.com are great resources)

Black Hat SEO: Compensate people to link to your website or find websites that pass link "juice" to your site. I don't recommend this path. (http://jmarbach.com/rapgenius-growth-hack-exposed)
Well, under-provisioned backhaul, peering, and/or transit would cause exactly this. And the blame trail could be quite complex. I'm not apologizing, but commentary by almost anyone other than the network architects and peering coordinators of these organizations are pretty baseless speculations.

Disclaimer: I work for a major CDN. Netflix is trying to ween off of us and our competitors, which has contributed to lesser experience. Their model of co-locating gear for free doesn't make much sense to ISPs in the grand scheme of things.
If your life relies on Facebook, then you have to social life and no friends ad all, you just have an illusion. If no one would call you for an event,what does this say about you?
Curiously, unlike Dutch, German uses informal. "Dein Wille geschehe..."
Inexplicable stack traces caused by mediocre tools?
I'm from the UK. The NHS is shambles and is spread very, very thin. Doctors are pissed off. Patients are pissed off. The government seems to be too. However I would prefer the 3 hour A&E (ER) waiting times, being spoken to like shit if it isn't as serious as originally thought and epic waiting lists for outpatient services than having companies profit from my health and the massive vulnerability that puts me in (on top of just bad health). Even for all the bad of the NHS, when things really to hit the fan, I can be sure I get seen to ASAP when it is deadly serious.

Just last month my pregnant fiancée was very ill with an infection and she was examined straight away at A&E, bypassing the 3 hour waiting time. It's for cases like here that the 3 hour wait is in place. There was no cost to me for any of that, perhaps except national insurance which is very small payments out of my pay packet each month a d the £7 for the course of anti-biotics

The real problem is how do we adequately reward doctors who spend such a massive amount of effort and time not just in school but in work? The NYS cannot do this, there are targets like "15 mins per patient on ward rounds". Each doctor needs to spend 10 years in the NHS before private practice. How is a system like this sustainable with a massive budget deficit to boot and government that would like to see its end?
I've looked up to Rich since I learnt PHP back in... what, 2004? I haven't seen his name around in a while, and I guess I know why.

I'm completely broke (dealing with my own circumstance, but it's got nothing on his) but I still kicked in $20AUD -- I'd rather it help Rich as a thanks, no matter how little.

You're right, Rich truly does deserve it.
He used the endorsement poorly. He does a way better job at putting on a show than providing a convincing argument.
Interesting. We'll have to see how it plays out.

I know you are deeply interested in social apps, and have invaluable insight into their workings from early days at Facebook and personal in-depth research. I'm pretty sure you were username n on an app I built too...

But in my experience, despite having very active and passionate users, the lowest form of interaction always wins out on a free social service. Lack of interactions means user churn - no matter how good or important the interactions that take place actually are.

In that sense, social apps themselves are just vessels for human interaction - and great human interaction happens all over the place whether an app exists or not. Your goal as a venture backed social app is to focus those interactions and try to monetize them.

Is Path going to be one of those handful of "lucky" networks where those interactions happen in large enough numbers to make it viable financially? Personally I wouldn't bet on it.
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Blank android 4.4 phone. 0 contacts. Not my phone.
Not possible to get it anywhere but google. It even had a YouTube avatar I have not used for 5 years or so. It was from there.
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Thank you for being one of the few logical people in this thread. People love to bring out their pitchforks, and report / downvote (or whatever it is they do here) when someone disrupts the "flow" of things.

The guy ran a poor ad. It's his fault, not Facebooks.
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Tactless. They must not be regulars, because they would know that the whole screen would be awash in green user names. The product actually _does_ look interesting, but after this, not touching it. I'll stick with etherpad and skype.
Very interesting. I'm currently still a bit enamored with Go as it allows me to be very productive and makes deployment, cross-compiling and concurrency such an absolute dream. The performance tradeoffs have been rather good to me I find, it's very speedy for the tasks I try to use it for (almost all of them web-based). But if Nimrod is better... well I can't be sad about that!
That's extremely interesting! So people speak in the third person ("did mother want me to get mother's groceries"), or is this a second person still?
I completely agree with the "7 was little different from Vista" claim. I had purchased Vista Ultimate (stupid me) and then my only upgrade path was 7 Ultimate, which was so little different from 7 Pro that I completely regretted buying Vista. Especially when I found that the XP -> 7 upgrade price was the same as Vista -> 7 upgrade price.
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It will =) Just some current problems.
does anyone know why? I dont see why it should be so.
Haven't worked much with PHP, but there doesn't seem to be that much in terms of a 'style guide' so it just seems easier to write uglier/wrong code - please correct me if I'm wrong. I usually think it's best newbies start with languages that, in a way, enforce right and wrong ways of doing things (i.e. Rails convention over configuration approach), it just takes a lot of the initial guess work and uncertainty out.
> Look at how feminists act, not at the definition in a random dictionary. That's in general good advice. For example, if somebody says they are your friend, look at how they act, not at what they say.

If someone says they are my friend, I assume they claim to be a friend according to the definition of the word "friend". If they're not my friend, then that doesn't change the definition of the word friend, it changes their classification from "being my friend" to something else.

I'm not sure what your point is: that many that claim to be feminists are not? Or that you've decided on a different use of the word, so those that claim the established definition are all wrong?

>> "An alternative is paid leave for either partner (or the single parent) for example for a year -- with freedom to choose who stays home."

> This is already case in many countries (for example Germany), but women still stay home most of the time.

I know, and I believe I've implied in one of my other comments, how the fact that stay at home pay is often reduced compared to full time pay -- and how if on average women make less -- many families cannot afford to have the man stay home as much as the women. For certain families the roles are reversed, and the woman cannot afford to stay home.

In either case, economic realities dictate who stays home and how long -- and that is an impediment to equal (parenting) rights.

As have been established in this thread, in general women make less than men, so in general such economic incentives works against men's right to stay home, or against women's right to work -- in effect the work as an incentive for "traditional" family values and gender roles.
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You are assuming that the best CS majors must obviously want to be commercial developers.

People go to grad school in other disciplines (sciences, stats, etc.) which can take advantage of computation, for one thing.
I'm afraid no.
This is a bit disingenuous to say these kind of reflection were not possible before. What happened in the old days was that your social life was much more localized : your street, your neighborhood, your village, your parish, etc. So rather that looking at pictures, you would be on your porch and you would be looking at your friend's kids playing in the street , wondering how all these years had gone so fast. Social platform allow to extend your social network beyond some (arbitrary) geographical limitations, but it does not really add anything to the human experience that was not there before, so to speak. I know that I am stating the obvious, but I think "some of these things did not exit before" was a bit too strong.
If you're not seeing how you're going to use these things iqwn your own code, you should have a think about why that is; these techniques are the basis of everything else that you're going to do. I've been learning for 6 months now, and I can say I'm definitely still using "boring" stuff that I learned when I was doing the first cocademy tutorials. I learned a bit of python, realised I wanted to put a lot of it on a web page and then went to Django from there. I'm still making a lot of mistakes, so you do need to be persistent, but smart? Not for the basics, not really, just willing to learn. There comes a point where you need to be smart, but it's further down the line than I am. I can get away with the clunky hacks and boilerplate code I often end up using but I pay a price for that in terms of speed of delivery and performance. It'll get better over time.
In German, the informal is used and I was told it's because it is "God the father."
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thanks! I thought people might like it
Non-root users can start their own Docker images, if you change the permissions on the UNIX socket.
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Ok, I've never opted in to has hangouts. Every example of the tick box i could find in images had a hangouts option. I understand if it is not related but it was worth mentioning.

It was not my phone, it was a friends who had started from a fresh android 4.4 install. There was no google contact sync. Even if the contact sync was in place, it would be unlikely that the other party would have used my 5 year old YouTube avatar and populated it with both my email and phone number and full name. If my contact on his google side was populated from my gmail; as I have emailed the other party before, it shouldn't contain my phone number either - unless google matched it and shared.

Something went wrong. I think my account is an edge case and I was opted into a service (you are dickheads. Opt out is always evil.) and because I had not consumed enough other services my account was not given the option to opt out.
Point remains, google matched my recovery number with my profile, which they said they wouldn't. I can't see any other explanation.
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Medical, wow. The same abbreviation is used within different sub specialities frequently. The fact that any patients leave any facility alive when their doctor sends them for a test, with a referral that spouts acronyms, abbreviations and generally aliterate scrawl is amazing. Eg. Phx COPD, Ca 10/12 Tx RT.
C+ CT ?PE. And assuming you can read it, this is a good one. Some specialists even invent their own abbreviations, diligently reusing existing ones. And then they are surprised when asking for an MRA gets an MR angiogram rather than an MR arthrogram. Medical abbreviations must die.
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This weekend I made text chat with video and no voice for hackathon. Demo is here: http://ss14-team-176.divshot.io
Also used webRTC like in faces.io
Some English dialects retain these distinctions leading to (somewhat forced) sayings like

"Don't thee tha me, tha them that tha's thee" - a Yorkshire admonishment against over familiarity.
NAT is a good "disallow everything by default" firewall. If my router's firewall had a "disallow all incoming connections by default, it would be great, although I guess I should manage it with iptables, which is machine-specific.
Maybe addressing God informally is a sign of trust and spiritual intimacy.

By the way in the Hungarian language the informal 'te' is used to address not just friends, family and God, but also the king/queen. (Well, was used when there was a Hungarian monarch.)

Apparently almost every language has its own way:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T–V_distinction
Seems to be blocked right now: http://www.blockedinchina.net/?siteurl=news.ycombinator.com
Feels like this is the beginning of a trend: Clojure, Hy and now Gisp.
I was always under the impression that it was meant to be the more personal/intimate form in the Lords Prayer to reflect the use of Abba for 'father'
Want one example? Fine. It's Fuck Ugly. There. There's your reason.

You said yourself you are fickle about your UI of choice. And yet you can't see how many people would be just like you but unlike you they can't stand Win8 UI? It's just like a car, the design matters about as much as the performance of the vehicle. Sure, some people look at cars as tools and don't care what they look like as long as they have 4 wheels and can get them from a to b.

But for many people, the car they buy has to have a great design. It is about as much about lifestyle as function. And the same goes for a desktop OS.

And I for one find the Metro Tile fest that is Windows 8 to be just that. Fuck Ugly. No other way to sugar coat it. And that isn't just the Metro side. Nope, also the desktop with its sharp 90 degree corners and flat 8 Bit color pallet window blinds looks horrible. Like a complete step backwards looking at how the desktop used to look under Win7. And on Win7 you could even change the themes if you wanted to something more to your liking. Good luck trying to do that on Win8.

So, add that to the fact that Win7 filled a need the consumers had and Win8 just filled a need that Microsoft had and you have ample reasons why Win8 is where it is today. Even if there are people like you who apparently can't imagine other people might have a different take on what a great UI should look like.
I didn't see an analysis of the structure of the Android software, only some low level statistics. Why should we care that the command line parsing code is all put in a single C function? The question is whether it is generated code or not? More than the size of files or of methods, the architecture of the classes and data structures, their coupling or lack of, etc,p is what matters for understanding and maintaing a big software system.
In Italian, the informal 'tu' is used. No idea why, or what the history of that is.
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An ISP can't send data through any networks at all without some kind of agreement. But that's what makes them an Internet Service Provider, the fact that they have those agreements. When they fail to even properly connect to all Tier 1 networks, that starts to be a misnomer.
Thanks for your original work! It was perfect to learn from, so thanks again!

I'll look at implementing your changes shortly, perhaps after a rewrite to circumvent the blocking behaviour experienced with the callbacks.