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I like that idea, but I can see an immediate trade off between the large screen of my desktop and the lack of distractions of taking my laptop somewhere.
Worse than being deaf while in an emergency situation?

>FDA states that "the available scientific evidence does not demonstrate any adverse health effects associated with the use of mobile phones."

http://www.fda.gov/Radiation-EmittingProducts/RadiationEmitt...
> an authentic QWANTZ moment

Would you care to explain what that means?
Question: Why does any of this matter?

As someone for gay marriage, I really don't understand why the whole world is rioting, demanding for the resignation of the CEO.

Every article begins stating how he doesn't support gay marriage, and how that implies he's a terrible person, or Mozilla's eminent destruction. Yet, I've not heard anyone talk about why the board selected him, because I'm sure board saw many strong skills in the man, and thought he would do a fantastic job.

Why can't we see the good in people anymore? Why couldn't we work with the man to help him look at life in a different way?

I know we're fighting for a good cause, but people still matter. Remember: Honey before vinegar.

Update: why the down votes? Be constructive.
Well, then change those 1,138 statutory provisions. Just remove the word "marriage" from the mix and replace it with, eg. "registered union" or something, and be done with the discussion. Everyone would have the same right. The things would be much easier if we just stopped redefining common words with new meaning to suit someone's agenda. Marriage was always, at least in western culture a relation between a man and a woman. If you want that gay people have the same legal benefits as hetero couples, do it the right way, but don't try to force everyone that "marriage" should now have different meaning.

I have the same issue against FSF redefining the meaning of "free" in software world and pretending that they have right to force their meaning of the word to everyone else. They don't.

And, btw, about that "registered union" that should replace "marriage" in legal documents ... just don't limit the number of people in there. Better yet, don't limit it only to people. Why wouldn't someone be allowed to "marry" or "register" a goat, if he likes so? And please, also drop age limits. Why wouldn't 13 year old girl have a right to "marry" another 45 years old woman, 52 years old man and their 4 years old horse? We should all have the same right, without any restrictions? Right?
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Google it. It's all over the internet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_radiation_and_heal...
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Hi alexvr,
a bit out of topic question: How did you manage to get the background sound analysis approved? I have an app that does also sound analysis in the background for a different purpose and it gets constantly rejected because of that.

Thanks!
While I agree with you, my experience is that most businesses don't recognize your definition of sane. My office decided that providing ink pens was too high of an expense.
Actually it's a big deal, if your local bank allowed to do mass look-ups like that you would be receiving phisihing attempts that pretend to be that facility for the rest of your life.

And right now, an email is part of your security auth since it's email * password.

When email is known as a 'good user' that reduces that multiplication to just password.
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I have a project which includes a huge list of websites which must be scraped heavily. My question is...
Are these kind of tools suitable for 'heavy lifting', scraping hundreds of thousands of pages?
All true, if you read 'connection' to mean 'path'. Yes firewalls are an issue. Often HTTP tunneling is tried because 'HTTP will always work' but in practice HTTP has more pitfalls than UDP. There are 100 firewall settings about HTTP; you have to get them all right to stream HTTP thru a firewall (and proxies and ISP servers in the same path). Whereas UDP usually has exactly one setting: enable UDP.

We've been poking UDP holes in firewalls for 5 years; its the best (most frequently successful) option for enterprise by far.

Failures to communicate on the same subnet with UDP are the wellknown 'hairpin' issue, where some routers will not recognize their own outside IP address and short-circuit a packet back to another subnet inside their domain. Not a lot you can do about it, except use TURN or another UDP proxy.
Please tell me you have photos and documentation for this.
Certainly there is more than a small difference between it being rational for you to ignore a company and to call the company itself dormant and stale.
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Eich did not privately support anything, he publicly gave money to remove rights from people who already had them.

Your argument doesn't work at all for another, quite obvious, reason: If in, say, 2050, eating meat is widely seen as unacceptable, people who used to eat meat but now believed it to be wrong would be happy to say that.

Eich has refused to. At every turn he has instead avoided directly addressing the issue at all. He hasn't even so much as admitted it was wrong to try and enforce his religious beliefs in law. The only reason he would be unwilling to address the issue is if he still holds these beliefs, and will try to turn his religion into law again in the future.

It is also irrational to expect someone who wants to enforce their religion on an entire state of 37 million people with unconstitutional laws to not attempt to do so in a much more personal context like running a corporation -- where, it should be noted, both law and social custom hold individual rights to be significantly curtailed to begin with.
I wonder how you would calculate the real rate of productivity (because a lot of distractions are probably just the focus of that day, not additionally distracting).
Well, there's Wikivoyage:

http://www.wikivoyage.org/
>> If we find bugs during pre-release testing, we fix them on release, then immediately merge release back on to master

As a self diagnosed Aspie, I can't tell if this article or your comment are April 1st jokes. Which I guess is kind of the point of April 1st jokes.
> That's a bit misleading. At the time Proposition 8 was filed, gay marriage was not legal in California.

Proposition 8 was an initiave constitutional amendment filed in response to court cases striking down Proposition 22, an initiative statute with the same language as Prop. 8. Its true that there will still appeals pending in those cases when it was filed (though they were finalized before they Prop 8 qualified for the ballot.)
I don't think the courts ever even considered the issue of whether same-sex marriage was incompatible with the state constitution. The issue was whether or not limiting marriage to same-sex couples was compatible with the state Constitution.

It was not at all clear where the courts were going when Proposition 8 was introduced. It was unclear pretty much up until the state supreme court made its 4 to 3 decision.

They way California got gay marriage is seriously fucked up. They got the right result (gay marriage allowed), but the process was terrible. It ultimately came down to a standing issue and a district court decision, and a serious subversion of the initiative process. Basically, after Proposition 8 passed, the State decided not to defend it in court, and higher courts ruled no one else had standing to defend it, so the challengers essentially won by default.

That was a bad thing. One of the main purposes of the initiative process is to allow the people to bypass the State. It makes the initiative process a joke if the State can effectively void an initiative by simply deciding not to defend it.

The right was is the way we did it here in Washington. The legislature passed it, the Governor signed it, and when opponents got it on the ballot, voters approved same-sex marriage 54%-46%.
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I think audio recording is one of the few things you're allowed to do in the background. I didn't do anything special. Did they give you any specific reasons?
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Reputation is sacred for these kinds of companies and this stuff isn't helping. I was just about to sign up for them, I had their tab open in my browser, but I sincerely thought something like this would happen and that I would "be on a list." Tab's closed, now.
What does going to the bathroom cost the tech industry? Why don't tech workers wear diapers so that roughly 15-20 mins per day is saved, translating to millions of dollars saved per year?

What does eating meals cost the tech industry? What if Google instead spent money investing in Soylent, would the ROI be higher if they simply fed their workers intravenously so that they could save 90 mins?

Not everything is measured in time and dollars and cents. That's the whole reason why the prevailing attitude in Silicon Valley isn't how much time you spend at the office, but that you get your work done. Asking stupid questions like this propagate that same old mentality that spending time on fun tasks "costs" the company.
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What exactly would the author be sued about? I can't see anything obviously inviting a user to sue.

EDIT: I think it would be a good idea to remove the language about fire alarms etc. and only mention alarm clocks and the like. It would be much harder to sue if the app didn't claim to respond to fire alarms.
And this isn't the only article that suggests that "re-inventing TCP" is what UDP network game code does.

Yes, you need to do some of the same things that TCP does, but not all of them and the ones you do should work differently.

Connection management is similar in TCP and UDP game protocols but you also need to keep track of ping and you probably don't need a fancy three way handshake either.

Reliability and in-order reception is something you don't need in UDP game code, especially reliability through retransmission. You need only semi-reliability, ie. knowing when a packet was lost. The way to handle a lost packet is application specific, but most likely you'd like to send the most up-to-date data instead of retransmitting the state from 100ms or one second ago.

Flow control needs to make sure that no more packets are sent than can be received but the goal is to minimize latency, not maximize throughput.

The whole idea of "implementing TCP over UDP" is just silly - why would you want to do that? There are very good reasons to use UDP and you should know when that is the case.
What if I told you I've experienced both and found your observations to be untrue. Is it possible that it depends on the context, nature of role and the team ?
Yep. It's just a GUI that generates scrapy (python) code.
What does javascript cost the tech industry?
There's no reason to argue against an inexpensive solution like a Pi + Armory in comparison to the massively risky "trust a third party to hold all my coins" approach.

Perhaps you're arguing so vehemently in support of Coinbase because you're keeping all of your coins there? If so, I would suggest you move them to a secure cold storage wallet immediately.
That's true and a good point: mass market familiarity is certainly an asset. I'm not sure I'd call it infrastructure though, more like an environmental factor. Infrastructure, to me, means internal.
We still use subversion for binary file tracking - specifically Altium files and the like. In thus case, we heavily use the locking feature. Git does not fit well when merging changes is nearly impossible. In addition, the local copy size for Git would be way too large.
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"penultimate"? What do you consider to be better?
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Because if it's all over the internet, it must be true?

The wiki page even says: The WHO added that "to date, no adverse health effects have been established as being caused by mobile phone use."

As far as I can tell there has, to date, not been a single proper study that actually showed any effects. Just a bunch of fearmongering and cases like this: http://retractionwatch.com/2012/03/26/rabbits-neednt-worry-a...
Same. It seems like it can't happen until it happens, and then you face the reality that it happened. It sucks, and there's absolutely no protection for consumers from it. There's not even any insurance policy that exchanges can purchase yet, which is pretty much the only hope at this point.
For what it's worth, I have a coinbase account linked to a gmail address in the form firstname.lastname, where both are common names. I'd expect it to be in a dictionary based list, and it's not on the pastebin.
This. i signed up for it too. I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do with it (between Chat and Email, what was it?)
> As someone for gay marriage, I really don't understand why the whole world is rioting, demanding for the resignation of the CEO.

Mozilla and Firefox are a brand, now associated why homophobia since its CEO is clearly homophobic.

So it's not difficult to understand how it could hurt (or not)Mozilla, and all it's employees.

Maybe it wont, Chick-fil-A did not go bankrupt with its homophobic CEO, but for a brand in the tech world, things may be different.
Maybe useful for some small-claims suits, but not so great for tort cases that have merit. If a negligent company continues to produce toys that hurt children, should the family have to pay 5% of the potential damages before getting a day in court?

I don't think suits against game manufacturers like this necessitate any kind of legislation. Why? Simple. Like my lawyer told me when I was building my first app- "Sure you COULD get sued, but you don't have two nickels to rub together. No attorney would take a case against you." In business getting sued is a good thing. It means you're successful.
This was the message after the appeal:
"We still found the app is inappropriately using background audio because it is recording audio in the background for an indefinite period of time, which is not appropriate."
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Stratification. Putting "regulars" into an open floor plan and leaving managers with offices is this concept on steroids (yes, I've actually seen that).

I believe that there is an unplanned unorchestrated ongoing attempt throughout the industry to prevent programmers from being seen as professionals. Reverse dress codes (you'll get odd looks and questions if you aren't dressed casually, but instead throw on a suit or even just a tie), cubicles, and open office space are all ways that this is done.
> His donations to prop 8 were not public in the first place, the donation lists (of both sides) were leaked.

This is incorrect. By law, donations in excess of $100 must be publicly listed. Proponents of prop 8 tried unsuccessfully to get courts to block operation of that law.
Because UI concerns don't always (or even usually) drive requirements.
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If it doesn't work and someone is injured or killed.
Agreed. I often have to change the channel if a scene on a show (that I otherwise like) is just too cringe-inducing. I wonder if there's something underlying some people's sensitivity to this? Heightened activity of mirror-neurons perhaps (e.g. feeling embarrassed for someone else)
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yeah, at an old job they were given out to every employee as standard workplace equipment. I found them really helpful so I bought a dozen of them and passed them around to other people that wanted them. They're pretty handy.
Moniker claims that they have never lost a domain. I've got several domains (over 50) registered with them and never had a problem in almost 8 years. Many of them belonged to high traffic sites that might be desirable to thieves.
I also have many with Name cheap right now and haven't had a problem them either.
I bet it's for firing the missiles.
> 1. Open plan makes it easier to ask questions. Those are "disruptions", yes, but what the Cornell study found is that in open plan it's actually easier to "read" a person and see if it's an OK time to ask a question, and to quickly reply or say ask me later, and so forth, to efficiently manage those disruptions.

So just for the off-chance that someone could ask me a question, I have force myself to wear headphones every day just to get any work done? What the fuck?
Maybe most people are not like me, and are not distracted by the moving, talking and noise making of other people around them -- but I am. I need as much silence as I can get.

What is absurd about this is that some companies make special "quiet zones" for people to go to and think, which means they implicitly admit that the actual work environment is not conductive to thinking.

You want to ask me a question? Send me an IM.
I work in digital forensics so information like an IP address can be just another piece of the puzzle. It's not something we would base our entire case around but I'm sure it would be helpful in some way.

I certainly understand that it is just an estimate though, thanks to the beauty of the btc network in general and other fun tools like tor and your own transaction relay.
I'm curious as to how the FBI helped, because it doesn't really say in the article
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The long tail is tough, but rules are useful when you only need to work with a small number of sites. And assuming, as you point out, less "modern" sites. (News sites tend to be mostly consistently manageable but, yes, smaller e-commerce players tend to adopt more modern techniques -- as befitting fashion-forward product lines, naturally).

Our (Diffbot) approach is to learn what news and product (and other) pages look like, and obviate the rules-management -- we also fully execute JS when rendering.

The web keeps evolving though, dang it. Tricky thing!